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Campgrounds

Campgrounds is a Stardew Valley framework that lets mod authors add the following:

  • Campgrounds the player (and invited NPCs) can travel to
  • Tents that give buffs or allow players to eat additional meals
  • Campfire meals players can cook for buffs while camping
  • Visitors who appear at the Cindersap Forest Park on specific or random dates
  • Custom villager responses when camping, with custom dialogue for specific campsites

Everything in this documentation describes the content pack side of the framework: the JSON files you write, the properties they accept and the rules the framework enforces.

Start here

  • Getting Started

    Set up a Content Patcher pack and add your first campsite.

  • Content Packs

    The full property reference for campgrounds, tents, foods, villagers and visitors.

  • Reference

    Shared models, enums, validation errors and the framework's commands and tile actions.

What you can add

Content type What it does Reference
Campground A destination the player can travel to, with spawn tiles, travel cost and unlock rules. Campgrounds
Camping Tent The tent the player (or villager) uses. Has four directional sprites and can include various buffs. Tents
Campfire Food A unique meal cooked while camping. Made with Camp Rations and grant custom buffs. Campfire Foods
Villager Campsite specific dialogue, as well as customizable location preferences. Villagers
Visitor NPCs or custom map patches that apply to the Cindersap Forest Park on specific or random dates. Visitors

Concepts you'll meet everywhere

Unlock Conditions. Campgrounds, tents and foods all share the same three properties:

  • UnlockCondition
  • UnlockHint
  • HideUntilUnlocked

See Unlockable Content for more details.

Validation. Every model validates itself when it loads. If a required property is missing or out of range, the framework rejects that entry and logs the reason.

Tiles, not pixels. Positions like PlayerSpawnTile are given in tiles (16 pixels each). Sprite rectangles like DisplayRectangle are given in pixels on your texture.

Mixing these up is an easy mistake (see JSON Conventions).

Everything uses Content Patcher. There is no custom pack format.

You write EditData patches against five data assets and Content Patcher tokens, When conditions and patch reload all work as they normally do.