RELEASED [SMAPI] Variable Grass Growth

WARNING: Been a major update to SMAPI which I don't have time to migrate to now. 0.36 was the last version I have tested on.

This was mainly written as a way for me just to muck around the SMAPI but in case for some reason someone wants this I've uploaded it anyway.

https://github.com/dantheman999301/StardewMods/releases/download/1.3/VariableGrass_1.3.zip

There are four files included any there are self explanatory. Some have more grass growth overall and one has less.

You can view the source code here

You can see the inner workings there, but essentially it picks a random number to determine how many times it should grow grass using the underlying method. Normal does it between 0 and 2 times.

INSTALLTION
Assuming you have SMAPI installed, just go to %appdata%\Stardew Valley\Mods and extract the DLL and ini file. You can edit the ini file to make it grow less or more grass.

If the folder is not there just go up one level and create the folder.

Any problems, let me know. Hope it's useful to someone!

CHANGE LOG

1.0 RELEASE
1.1 Bug fixes
1.2 Removed multiple DLLs -> Converted to ini file read
1.3 Changed event used

 

Nice! Added to modding list.

 

Updated to include INI File for easier changes for each user, so now you only need the one DLL file and you can edit the ini file.

Warning though, don't make too many iterations, you can crash the game!

 

Covered your mod in my latest video!

 

Thanks man, appreciate it!

 

Something's gone wrong, here...

[10:561] Loading Mod DLL...
[10:561] Failed to load mod 'C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\StardewValley\Mods\VariableGrass.dll'. Exception details:
System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'IntChanged' from assembly 'StardewModdingAPI, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.
at VariableGrass.VariableGrass.Entry()
at StardewModdingAPI.Program.LoadMods()

And here's the error I get after updating to the newest version of the the API:

[11:079] Failed to load mod 'C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\StardewValley\Mods\VariableGrass.dll'. Exception details:
System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.
at System.Number.StringToNumber(String str, NumberStyles options, NumberBuffer& number, NumberFormatInfo info, Boolean parseDecimal)
at System.Number.ParseInt32(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info)
at System.Int32.Parse(String s)
at VariableGrass.VariableGrass.Entry()
at StardewModdingAPI.Program.LoadMods()

 

I'll have a look in a moment.

Did you use the ini file provided?

EDIT: Just tested my latest release and it worked fine. Can you check the ini file please, sounds like it doesn't like one of the numbers.

 

My ini file looks like this straight out of the box:

MinIterations=0
MaxIterations=2

That's all that's in there, of which I changed it to

MinIterations=0
MaxIterations=5

If it makes any difference at all, I used Notepad+ to modify it.

 

Is the ini file with the DLL?

I literally can't think of why it's not working.

 

They're both together in the mods folder, yes.

What could possibly be causing this error about string values and whatnot? That makes it sound like I've entered some kind of invalid data, but it does it even if I haven't changed anything at all.

 

Here's an interesting tidbit that might mean nothing or everything...

It says that it failed to load... and then goes on to tell me that three mods have been loaded. The only three mods I've got in the folder are the default trainer that I don't use, the mod that makes time stop indoors, and this one here.

Now, this COULD mean that the mod is actually working despite the error... or it could mean that the API just doesn't 'scratch' it from the count of loaded mods after failing.

 

Btw what does the 0 and 2 mean? A chance that 0, 1 or 2 grass spawn a day?

 

I have the same error TheSilentObserver gets on newest API. Surprisingly the mod does work, I changed min/max values couple times (it isn't caused by min!=0), slept multiple days, grass grows. I hope it doesn't crash somewhere down the line, but so far it seems ok.

 

It might be that the it is trying to load the ini file, I'm not sure how it is loaded. Maybe that was the error caused?

 

It's how many times the grass grow function is called. So yes, 0 - 2 chance per day.

 

What is the the difference in growth speed overall though, using this mod, when compared to the growth speed normally?

 

I'm having the same error. I've tried it with the 2 latest versions of the Api. any chance that changes to the Api are why it doesn't want to work?

 

I hope I do not mind the author (then I remove it immediately), I edit the source code to fix the error

http://www.mediafire.com/download/xdud27jssflv9xl/VariableGrass_1.3b__source.zip

 

updated for smapi 0.37+
http://www.mediafire.com/download/j46hcpibiv94ep9/VariableGrass_SMAPI_0.37_.rar

 

are you gonna make a storm version?