After spending 3 hours digging into the mechanics and details of SDV, I have sadly come to the conclusion that MoreAnimals is functionally obsolete.
1.6 provides a native system for adopting extra pets, and a simple ContentPatcher mod can add new breeds of pet, or completely new pets to this. While randomized animal skins are not in 1.6 as-such, it is possible to add new animal breeds where their look is the only difference, and thus custom animal skins are also possible to ContentPatcher in.
In light of this, I am making the hard choice to deprecate MoreAnimals. I had a blast working on it while it lasted, thank you everyone for your support!
First of all, I hope I speak for everyone when I thank you for all your work over the years!
Regarding your comment on randomized animal skins - is there any existing documentation on how to go about doing this? (I'm not asking you to try and explain it further, you're under no obligation to do so)>
Edit: Never mind! I just did some light digging and stumbled on Alternative Textures. All the best to you, from one internet stranger to another.
It'll be tough, but I know how heafty the legwork can be when having to completely overhaul can be, but I look forward to its release!!!! Good luck! <3
i dont know if im doing something wrong, but when using Elle's New Sprites, the animals seem to only still be using vanilla sprites. i have my sprites sorted into folders within the assets/skins folder, could that be causing the issue? do they all need to be taken out of their respective folders?
Go to the path to the right of your farm, where the bus stop is. Go aaaaaaaall the way to the upper left corner and you should find a box, then interact. Hopefully it helps. I don't blame you, it took me a bit to find too. ^^
That means you got unlucky, and there is no pet available for adopting that in-game day, you can try again the next day, or if you want, change the config file to make pets appear more to your preferences.
Wanted to know if there is anyway at all of taking out the vanilla options entirely when buying the farm animals? The skins I added do work, even though when running the 'list animal skins' command it shows them all at 0; but, after just buying and selling a few times, I was able to get all variations of the skins I have added. Was just curious if there is a way to lessen the hassle of it.
Hi, just a quick question: the mod seems to have loaded fine (no red text from the Smapi loading page, no errors in the Smapi log) and the box shows up at the bus stop, but there are no pets inside?
I'm on Spring 15 of Year 1 and I check every day. I have my default dog.
I know it says there's a 10% chance the box will be empty on a given day. Is it possible I'm just having bad luck? Is the box supposed to do something when I click on it? Is there a chance I'm clicking the wrong part of the box?
I cannot promise the mod works on mobile, SDV mobile has a separate codebase from SDV for PC, which results in mods sometimes just not being compatible.
Please provide a smapi.io/log of your session, specifically where you opened the box (Or tried) so I can have more clarity in what the exact issues are.
Hi! Quick question, how many pets does this mod allow me to have total? Also, is it possible to get rid of a pet I already adopted/rescued from the box?
There is no hardcoded limit, the default configuration makes it so you are unlikely to get more then 10, but even that does not prohibit going above this number, just makes it unlikely.
The only real limit is what your PC can handle, as the more pets you have, the greater their impact on game performance gets, since each pet is simulated individually by the game.
There is no in-game mechanic for abandoning pets, but you can do so using a out-of-context mechanic using console commands. The lack of a in-game mechanic is intentional, as abandoning pets goes against the game's design philosophy.
Hi. I really like this mod, I wanted two pets very badly. I'm not sure how to provide a smapi log :( But I am struggling with a small issue. I noticed after adopting a cat, that the game changed the pet shown in my inventory. Instead of the original dog I chose before creating my new save, it now shows a different dog portrait, with the name of my cat. I was okay with it just showing my original dog, but it's a little more annoying to see this random dog image. I don't know how to either change the portrait, or get it to go back. .. Maybe another mod could help with this? Sorry, i am ignorant.
This is a limitation due to how the game handles displaying the pet, and unfortunately is not something that can be easily fixed.
It would require a mod to extensively rewrite the code responsible for displaying your stats, which would make it incompatible with anything else that tries to change the same piece of code.
Thanks for the great mod! The first couple of days I started a new file, I adopted a dog with this mod. I'm currently on Spring 12 Y1 and Marnie still hasn't come to my farm to let me adopt the vanilla pet, which happens to be a cat. Is there any way this mod could be preventing Marnie from coming to the farm, maybe because the game thinks I already have a pet? Or do I just need to keep waiting?
There are conditions for the event to trigger, you can check the wiki if you want to know the conditions. What I can tell you though, is that if none of the conditions is met, then on day 20 the event is guaranteed to trigger if it hasn't already.
So, just keep playing, or if you do not mind spoilers, check the wiki (at https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Animals) for the requirements.
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1.6 provides a native system for adopting extra pets, and a simple ContentPatcher mod can add new breeds of pet, or completely new pets to this.
While randomized animal skins are not in 1.6 as-such, it is possible to add new animal breeds where their look is the only difference, and thus custom animal skins are also possible to ContentPatcher in.
In light of this, I am making the hard choice to deprecate MoreAnimals.
I had a blast working on it while it lasted, thank you everyone for your support!
Regarding your comment on randomized animal skins - is there any existing documentation on how to go about doing this? (I'm not asking you to try and explain it further, you're under no obligation to do so)>
Edit: Never mind! I just did some light digging and stumbled on Alternative Textures. All the best to you, from one internet stranger to another.
And MoreAnimals is unfortunately one of my more complex mods.
Hopefully it helps. I don't blame you, it took me a bit to find too. ^^
I'm on Spring 15 of Year 1 and I check every day. I have my default dog.
I know it says there's a 10% chance the box will be empty on a given day. Is it possible I'm just having bad luck? Is the box supposed to do something when I click on it? Is there a chance I'm clicking the wrong part of the box?
(I'm on Mobile, if it matters - Smapi 3.18.3)
Please provide a smapi.io/log of your session, specifically where you opened the box (Or tried) so I can have more clarity in what the exact issues are.
The only real limit is what your PC can handle, as the more pets you have, the greater their impact on game performance gets, since each pet is simulated individually by the game.
There is no in-game mechanic for abandoning pets, but you can do so using a out-of-context mechanic using console commands.
The lack of a in-game mechanic is intentional, as abandoning pets goes against the game's design philosophy.
It would require a mod to extensively rewrite the code responsible for displaying your stats, which would make it incompatible with anything else that tries to change the same piece of code.
What I can tell you though, is that if none of the conditions is met, then on day 20 the event is guaranteed to trigger if it hasn't already.
So, just keep playing, or if you do not mind spoilers, check the wiki (at https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Animals) for the requirements.