How to manually download nexus mods for stardew valley

However, to get most mods to work, you will also need to download the mod loader SMAPI; most mods will also require this mod loader to be installed to work. Related: Whe re to get strawberry seeds in Stardew Valley. Once at their website, click the button that says download and choose either download from nexus or direct download. When your file finishes downloading, you should see an installer called.

After this, head to the folder you extracted SMAP to and then click on a file labeled install on Windows; click it, and a console tab will open up as shown above. We also have a lot of guides on other games that you can find on the home page hub. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook to get updates on your favorite games! About the Author Howdy Folks! My name is Andrew, and I have been playing games for decades and only just started writing about them. If you're one of the many people who get too confused and frustrated at trying to manually install mods for video games, specifically your favorite farming game known as Stardew Valley , look no further.

There are only two small steps you need to make before directly downloading mods to ensure the mods work correctly with the game files and are supported. SMAPI does the work for you once you install it from here. This is a small program that allows mods to be loaded and managed into Stardew Valley. First you must extract the downloaded SMAPI file into any location you want that isn't the game's main folder.

Once you do that, double-click the file name for the operating system you use. From there a small, black square window will pop up doing the rest for you.

It will point you in the direction of where to put your future mods inside the game's folder. You can either directly click this within the game folder to load up modded Stardew Valley or you can redirect Steam's game launch to that file so that when you press play in Steam it opens the modded version.

This is the thing that will allow your mods to actually work within the game and not break anything. When you install the zip file , you'll want to move it to the Mods folder in your Stardew Valley folder and then extract it inside the Mods folder. The easiest way to move the file there would be to move the window that your Downloads folder is open in, or wherever you downloaded the zip folder, to one side of the screen.

Then open a new file window on the other side that has your Mods folder open.