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Open it, and you will see the main mods that shape the game. They are always required to run the game, and you can get glitches and bugs if you mess directly with their files.įor easier modding, turn on the file extensions on the windows explorer. For Windows 7, open the Control Panel and click on 'Appearance and Personalization'. Now, click on 'File Explorer Options' (can also appear as 'Folder Options'), and go to the 'View' tab. In this tab, under Advance Settings, you will see the option 'Hide extensions for known file types'. Uncheck this option, then click 'Apply' and 'OK'. For Windows 8/8.1/10, open any folder, select the 'View' tab at the top, and check 'File name extensions'. Now, select the stonehearth.smod file, and rename it so that the extension is. Then, unzip the stonehearth.zip with the built-in Windows option (right-click the file, select 'Extract here') or use any compression software of your liking (7-Zip, Winrar,etc). It might take a while to extract all the files. Advanced Modding : Scripting-heavy topics.Make sure that after uncompressing, you have a folder named stonehearth inside which there are the game files.Intermediate Modding : More complex modding topics.

#USING STONEHEARTH MODS HOW TO#

Basic Modding : How to make simple mods to get you started.Modding Essentials : The must-read topics for beginners.

So feel free to share your ideas or ask questions at our forums: Table of Contents Some of the best mods out there were started by teams of two or more modders. For example, some users know how to make nice models or animations, but have trouble with the programming side, and viceversa. If you feel overwhelmed by all that you want to do, you can get help from fellow modders. So take a moment to write your ideas down, express how do you want the game to behave, and once you've taken a look at the several systems of the modding API, think of different ways to achieve your goals, and split those into small tasks. It's always better to start small and expand onto that.Įverything begins by designing and planning.

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By planning your desired features and organizing them in small bits, you will have more chances to finish your mod successfully. Then, after some hours, days, or weeks, real life gets in the middle and you either lose interest, or don't have time anymore. Sometimes there are so many ideas that one wants to include, that it's hard to know where to start. Starting Adviceīefore delving into the particularities of modding, it is always a good idea to plan carefully what you want to add to your mod. ModdingĪs defined by Wikipedia, modding is 'the alteration of the program code of a video game in order to make it operate in a manner different from its original version.' Stonehearth was developed to support modding. In this guide we'll explain all the nuts and bolts of modding Stonehearth, how to make mods from scratch and how to speed up your modding using tools. It also includes explanations about the different types of scripts that we can find in the game. We've divided it in several groups, from more basic to more advanced. The modding guide is a 'how-to' approach to modding, step by step. Welcome to the Stonehearth modding guide! Stonehearth's Modding Guide Stonehearth's Modding Guide

Using stonehearth mods