Mermaid Island, a custom Stardew Valley location

Work In Progress

Introduction

This is a mod that adds a custom location to the game (...)

Install

• Install and configure the Stardew Valley mod loader: SMAPI - Stardew Modding API
• Install Content Patcher, needed to load the custom content into the game
• Install Train Station, the island will be added as a destination to the train station. Make sure that you install the SV 1.6 compatable version, this is not the default download on Nexus
• Download the latest build todo
• Unzip the downloaded file into your Stardew Valley\Mods folder

Build and run from source

• Install and configure the Stardew Valley mod loader: SMAPI - Stardew Modding API
• Install Content Patcher, needed to load the custom content into the game
• Install Train Station, the island will be added as a destination to the train station. Make sure that you install the SV 1.6 compatable version, this is not the default download on Nexus
• Install dotnet
• Run build.cmd in the project root. This scripts asumes you installed Stardew Valley from Steam in the default location.

Editing the map

• Make sure to have unpacked the games XNB files with StardewXnbHack
• Run reset_map_source.cmd, this will copy the tmx file to the unpacked content folder
• Open C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Stardew Valley\Content (unpacked)\Maps\mermaid-island.tmx in Tiled
• You can now edit the map, see Modding:Maps and Modding:Location_data
• When running build.cmd it will copy the tmx file from the unpacked content folder (when present) to the asset folder of the content pack