Spriteman

A Stardew Valley 1.6+ mod for players who want new crops, artisan processing, paper making, cigarette crafting, a modern vape crafting line, and a custom smoking action.

Spriteman adds a complete farm-to-craft loop: grow betel nut and tobacco, use a Dehydrator to make premium goods, press Fiber and Sap into Paper, roll Cigarettes, assemble Vape Juice Pods and E-Cigarettes, and smoke Cigarettes through a dedicated SMAPI-powered action.

Features

• Two seed-shop crops with custom growth sprites: renewable betel nut and scythe-harvested tobacco.
• Dehydrator recipes for Premium Betel Nut and Dried Tobacco.
• A craftable Paper Press that turns Fiber and Sap into Paper.
• A Paper + Dried Tobacco cigarette recipe.
• Vape Juice Pod and E-Cigarette recipes that use native Truffle Oil and Battery Packs.
• Apple, Blueberry, Melon, and Strawberry refill pods with distinct temporary buffs.
• Non-stackable E-Cigarettes, so every device keeps its loaded flavor and remaining uses independently.
• A custom smoking animation with sound, smoke puffs, energy recovery, a health cost, and a temporary buff for Cigarettes and E-Cigarettes.
• English and Simplified Chinese localization files.

Requirements

Dependency	Version	Purpose
Stardew Valley	1.6+	Base game targeted by the content pack
SMAPI	4.0.0+	Loads the smoking code mod
Content Patcher	No minimum version declared	Loads the crops, objects, recipes, shops, and machines
.NET SDK	6.0	Needed only when building the smoking module from source

Prebuilt Release

The ready-to-play package is available at release/Spriteman-v1.4.0.zip. It includes the compiled Content Patcher pack and SMAPI module, so end users do not need the .NET SDK.

Required dependencies:

• Stardew Valley 1.6+
• SMAPI 4.0+
• Content Patcher (2.9.1 was used for the release verification)

Console Commands and Save Backup are optional tools and are not included in the release package.

To install the release, close the game, extract the entire zip directly into the game's Mods folder, and launch Stardew Valley through SMAPI. The final layout should be:

Mods/
|-- [CP] Spriteman/
|   |-- assets/
|   |-- i18n/
|   |-- content.json
|   `-- manifest.json
`-- [SMAPI] Spriteman Smoking/
    |-- i18n/
    |-- manifest.json
    `-- Spriteman.Smoking.dll

See release/README.txt for the complete Chinese installation guide, folder placement rules, testing notes, and uninstall instructions.

Installation

The repository contains the content-pack source and smoking-module source. To install the current code directly:

1. Clone the repository and enter it.

   git clone https://github.com/JuhaoChen666/Spriteman.git
   cd Spriteman

2. Build the smoking module, overriding StardewValleyPath with the folder that contains the game DLLs.

   dotnet build smapi/Spriteman.Smoking/Spriteman.Smoking.csproj -c Release -p:StardewValleyPath="<path-to-Stardew-Valley>"

3. In the game's Mods directory, create [CP] Spriteman and copy these repository items into it: manifest.json, content.json, assets/, and i18n/.

4. Create Spriteman Smoking beside it. Copy smapi/Spriteman.Smoking/manifest.json and smapi/Spriteman.Smoking/bin/Release/net6.0/Spriteman.Smoking.dll into that folder, then launch Stardew Valley through SMAPI.

The two installed folders should look like this:

Mods/
|-- [CP] Spriteman/
|   |-- assets/
|   |-- i18n/
|   |-- content.json
|   `-- manifest.json
`-- Spriteman Smoking/
    |-- manifest.json
    `-- Spriteman.Smoking.dll

Quick Start

1. Buy Betel Nut Saplings or Tobacco Seeds from the Seed Shop for 80g each.
2. Grow and harvest the crop, then process the harvest in a Dehydrator if the recipe calls for it.
3. Craft a Paper Press, make Paper, and combine Paper with Dried Tobacco to craft a Cigarette.
4. Hold the Cigarette and press the action button to smoke it.

Crops

Crop	Seasons	Growth	Harvest	Regrowth	Seed price
Betel Nut	Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter	15 days (3 / 4 / 4 / 4 / 0 phases)	Grab; 1-2 nuts, with configured bonus-harvest chances	3 days	80g
Tobacco	Spring, Summer, Fall	11 days (3 / 4 / 4 / 0 phases)	Scythe; 2-4 Fresh Tobacco	None	80g

Processing and Recipes

Artisan Processing

Machine	Input	Output	Time
Dehydrator	5 Betel Nuts	1 Premium Betel Nut	5 days
Dehydrator	3 Fresh Tobacco	1 Dried Tobacco	2 days
Paper Press	5 Fiber + 1 Sap	5 Paper	1 day

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients	Output
Paper Press	50 Wood (388) + 2 Iron Bars (335) + 20 Fiber (771)	1 Paper Press
Cigarette	1 Paper + 1 Dried Tobacco	1 Cigarette
Vape Juice Pod	1 Fresh Tobacco + 1 Truffle Oil (432)	1 Vape Juice Pod
E-Cigarette	1 Vape Juice Pod + 1 Battery Pack (787)	1 E-Cigarette
Apple Vape Juice Pod	1 Vape Juice Pod + 1 Apple (613)	1 Apple Vape Juice Pod
Blueberry Vape Juice Pod	1 Vape Juice Pod + 1 Blueberry (258)	1 Blueberry Vape Juice Pod
Melon Vape Juice Pod	1 Vape Juice Pod + 1 Melon (254)	1 Melon Vape Juice Pod
Strawberry Vape Juice Pod	1 Vape Juice Pod + 1 Strawberry (400)	1 Strawberry Vape Juice Pod

All crafting recipes in the table are registered as default recipes by the content pack.

Items and Effects

Item	Sell price	Configured gameplay effect
Betel Nut	120g	Edibility 15; +1 Speed buff with duration value 180
Premium Betel Nut	1,440g	Edibility 90; +6 Speed buff with duration value 180
Fresh Tobacco	50g	Not edible; processed in a Dehydrator
Dried Tobacco	200g	Not edible; used to craft Cigarettes
Paper	20g	Not edible; used to craft Cigarettes
Cigarette	250g	Consumed by the custom smoking action
Vape Juice Pod	350g	Not edible; used to assemble E-Cigarettes
E-Cigarette	650g	Non-stackable; load a Vape Juice Pod for 20 uses
Apple Vape Juice Pod	450g	20 vape uses; +1 Farming and +1 Speed
Blueberry Vape Juice Pod	400g	20 vape uses; +1 Fishing and +1 Speed
Melon Vape Juice Pod	600g	20 vape uses; +1 Defense and +1 Speed
Strawberry Vape Juice Pod	470g	20 vape uses; +1 Luck and +1 Speed

Smoking a Cigarette

With a Cigarette selected, press the normal action button while the player is free. The smoking module then:

1. Consumes one Cigarette, stops movement, faces the farmer downward, and plays an eight-frame animation with a furnace sound.
2. Spawns smoke puffs during the 1,080 ms action.
3. Removes 5 Health without reducing health below 1.
4. Restores 50 Energy without exceeding maximum stamina.
5. Applies Nicotine Rush for 150 seconds, granting +2 Mining and +2 Speed.

Vaping an E-Cigarette

With an E-Cigarette selected, press the normal action button while the player is free. If the rod has no loaded pod, the mod consumes the first base or fruit-flavored Vape Juice Pod in the inventory and stores 20 uses plus its flavor in the item's persistent mod data. Press the action button again to vape. Each use replays the same animation and smoke puffs as a Cigarette, costs 2 Health, restores 50 Energy, and applies the loaded pod's 150-second buff. Applying a vape buff replaces any other active Spriteman vape buff. The E-Cigarette rod remains in the inventory when the pod reaches zero uses and can be refilled with another pod.

Project Structure

Spriteman/
|-- assets/                         # Crop, object, tobacco, and machine sprite sheets
|-- i18n/                           # English and Simplified Chinese text
|-- smapi/Spriteman.Smoking/
|   |-- ModEntry.cs                 # Cigarette and refillable E-Cigarette interactions
|   |-- i18n/                       # SMAPI HUD messages for loading and using pods
|   |-- Spriteman.Smoking.csproj    # .NET 6 build configuration and game references
|   `-- manifest.json               # SMAPI module metadata and dependency declaration
|-- content.json                    # Content Patcher objects, crops, shops, recipes, and machines
|-- manifest.json                   # Content pack metadata
`-- LICENSE                         # Apache License 2.0

Development and Testing

Build the code module with the Stardew Valley install path supplied explicitly:

dotnet build smapi/Spriteman.Smoking/Spriteman.Smoking.csproj -c Release -p:StardewValleyPath="<path-to-Stardew-Valley>"

There is currently no automated test project or checked-in CI workflow. Changes should be tested manually through SMAPI:

• Confirm both manifests load without SMAPI or Content Patcher errors.
• Check that both seed types appear in the Seed Shop at 80g.
• Verify crop seasons, growth, harvest method, yield, and betel regrowth.
• Run each Dehydrator and Paper Press recipe to completion.
• Craft a Cigarette, Vape Juice Pod, and E-Cigarette, verifying native Truffle Oil and Battery Pack inputs are consumed correctly.
• Use a Cigarette with the action button and verify item consumption, animation, health, energy, and buff behavior.
• Select an empty E-Cigarette, press the action button to load a pod, then press it again to vape; verify the pod starts at 20 uses, decreases once per animation, and the rod remains after the twentieth use.

When changing player-facing content, keep i18n/default.json and i18n/zh.json aligned with the values in content.json.

License

Spriteman is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.