Forage Pointers

• Forage Pointers
  • Short Description
  • Long Description
  • Installation
  • Dependencies
  • Conflicts
  • Configuration
  • Changelog
  • Special Thanks

Short Description

Adds little arrows over forage that is currently on screen.

Long Description

Makes forage more visible over the course of the playthrough. When within a certain distance of the forage an arrow will appear over the top of it. As the player levels up their foraging skill the radius of visibility will increase. If the player has the "Tracker" skill forage will always have an arrow above it. Normally the arrow goes away as the forage enters the screen area.

Installation

1. Install SMAPI
2. Download the latest release from the Github Release Page or Nexus (you can also use Nexus to download to their mod manager)
3. Unzip the Folder into your StardewValley/Mods folder
4. Run the game
5. After running the game once you can set the options config (see Configuration section below)

Dependencies

None beyond SMAPI

Conflicts

• NOT Compatible with Android at this time. This mod uses Utility.ModifyCoordinatesForUIScale which was added in SDV 1.5, and is thus unavailable on mobile ATM
• Will (somewhat ironically, given that Esca has been a huge help getting this going) conflict with Custom Tracker due to that mod blanking out the default arrow. It might work if you set the config option ReplaceTrackersWithForageIcons in that mod to false
  • Will still only track standard SDV forage, does not track any custom items from that mod.

Configuration

config.json contains several values, outlined below:

Name	Type	Default Value	Acceptable Values	Notes
ScaleEveryNLevels	int	2	1-10 (Inclusive)	How often the viewing distance increases, example 2 will increase the viewing distance after reaching levels 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10. Value is clamped to prevent divide by 0 errors.
ScalingRadius	int	1	0-50	How many tiles the viewing radius increases by when it scales, set this to 0 to never increase, values over about 10 are impractical if they start reaching outside the bounding box of the viewport.
MinimumViewDistance	int	3	0-100	The radius at which items will be marked at level 0.
AlwaysShow	bool	false	true, false	If set to true the mod will act as if you have the Tracker profession, even if you are level 0. Does not extend beyond the screen, but all forage on screen will be marked.
BlinkPointers	bool	true	true, false	If set to true, on screen pointers will blink occasionally as defined below.
NumFramesArrowsOn	uint	50	1-int.MaxValue	Approx. number of frames the arrows should be on before blinking off. Actually based on ticks, there is about 1 tick per frame, and 60 frames per second
NumFramesArrowsOff	uint	10	1-int.MaxValue	Approx. number of frames the arrows should be off before turning back on.
ShowArtifactSpots	bool	true	true, false	If set to true, on screen pointers will point at Artifact Spots (aka "Worms" or "Twigs").
ShowSeedSpots	bool	true	true, false	If set to true, on screen pointers will point to the new Seed Spots (i.e. carrots, broccoli, etc.).

View Distance is calculated as MinimumViewDistance + ((player.ForagingLevel/ScaleEveryNLevels) * ScalingRadius) this is done as integer math and will only increase in discrete steps.

All of these values can also be edited through use of Generic Mod Config Menu

Changelog

See Changelog

Special Thanks

• Esca, for Custom Tracker which helped with the sprite rendering for this project
• itsbenter, for suggesting the idea in the first place.