Lookup Anything is a Stardew Valley mod that shows live info about whatever's under your cursor when you press F1. Learn a villager's favourite gifts, when a crop will be ready to harvest, how long a fence will last, why your farm animals are unhappy, and more.

Compatible with Stardew Valley 1.11+ on Linux, Mac, and Windows.

Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Examples
• Configuration
• Versions
• Compiling the mod
• See also

Installation

1. Install the latest version of SMAPI.
2. Install this mod from Nexus mods.
3. Run the game using SMAPI.

Usage

Just point your cursor at something and press F1. The mod will show live info about that object. You can do this in the world, your inventory, the calendar, or a shop.

Examples

Here are some representative screenshots (layout and values will change dynamically as needed).

Items

item	screenshots
crop
seeds
inventory

Characters

character	screenshots
villager
pet
farm animal
monster
player

Map objects

object	screenshots
crafting object
cask
fence
fruit tree
wild tree

Mine objects

object	screenshots
gem
ore
stone
ice

Configuration

The mod will work fine out of the box, but you can tweak its settings by editing the config.json file if you want. These are the available settings:

setting	what it affects
Keyboard	Set keyboard bindings. The default values are F1 to lookup, and Up/Down to scroll. See valid keys.
Controller	Set controller bindings. No buttons configured by default. See valid buttons.
CheckForUpdates	Default true. Whether the mod should check for a newer version when you load the game. If a new version is available, you'll see a small message at the bottom of the screen for a few seconds. This doesn't affect the load time even if your connection is offline or slow, because it happens in the background.
HideOnKeyUp	Default false. If enabled, the lookup window will be shown while you hold F1 and disappear when you release it.

Versions

1.0:

• Initial version.
• Added support for NPCs (villagers, pets, farm animals, monsters, and players), items (crops and inventory), and map objects (crafting objects, fences, trees, and mine objects).
• Added controller support and configurable bindings.
• Added hidden debug mode.
• Added version check on load.
• Let players lookup a target from any visible part of its sprite.

1.1:

• On item lookup:
  • removed crafting recipe;
  • added crafting, cooking, and furnace recipes which use this item as an ingredient.
• Added error if game or SMAPI are out of date.

1.2:

• On item lookup:
  • added crop info for seeds;
  • added recipes for the charcoal kiln, cheese press, keg, loom, mayonnaise machine, oil maker, preserves jar, recycling machine, and slime egg-press;
  • merged recipe fields;
  • fixed an error when displaying certain recipes.
• Added optional mode which hides the lookup UI when you release the button.
• F1 now toggles the lookup UI (i.e. will close the lookup if it's already open).

1.3:

• Added possible drops and their probability to monster lookup.
• Added item icons to crafting output, farm animal produce, and monster drops.
• Fixed item gift tastes being wrong in some cases.
• Fixed monster drops showing 'error item' in rare cases.
• Fixed fields being shown for dead crops.
• Internal refactoring.

1.4:

• Updated for Stardew Valley 1.1:
  • added new fertile weeds (forest farm) and geode stones (hilltop farm);
  • added new recipes for coffee, mead, sugar, void mayonnaise, and wheat flour;
  • updated for Gold Clock preventing fence decay;
  • updated to latest binaries & increased minimum versions.
• Fixed a few missing stones & weeds.

1.5:

• You can now lookup a villager from the calendar.
• You can now lookup items from an open chest.
• Added cask aging schedule.
• Added better NPC friendship fields which account for dating and marriage.
• Added marriage stardrop to heart meter.
• Added support for new iridium quality.
• Added debug log.
• Added option to suppress SMAPI's F2 debug hotkey, which can have unintended consequences like skipping an entire season or teleporting into walls.
• Fixed gift tastes not handling precedence when NPCs are conflicted about how they feel.
• Fixed error when screen resolution is too small to display lookup UI.
• Fixed error when calculating a day offset that wraps into the next year.
• Fixed errors crashing the game in rare cases.

1.6:

• Added support for Linux and Mac.
• Added item 'needed for' field for community center bundles, full shipment achievement, and polyculture achievement.
• Added item 'sells to' field.
• Added item number owned field.
• Added fruit tree quality schedule.
• Added support for looking up shop items.
• Added data.json validation on startup.
• Disabled lookups when game rendering mode breaks Lookup Anything (only known to happen in the Stardew Valley Fair).
• Fixed sale price shown for unsellable items.
• Fixed update-check error on startup adding scary error text in console.
• Fixed incorrect gift tastes by deferring more to the game code (slower but more accurate).
• Fixed error when looking up a villager you haven't met.
• Fixed error when looking up certain NPCs with no social data.

1.7:

• You can now lookup a villager from the social page.
• You can now lookup an item from the toolbar.
• Console logs are now less verbose.
• Updated to SMAPI 1.1.
• Fixed some cases where the item 'number owned' field was inacurate.
• Fixed iridium prices being shown for items that can't have iridium quality.
• F2 debug mode is no longer suppressed (removed in latest version of SMAPI).

1.8:

• Added museum donations to item 'needed for' field.
• You can now lookup things behind trees when you're behind them.
• You can now close the lookup UI by clicking outside it.
• Updated to SMAPI 1.3.
• Fixed incorrect farmer luck message when the spirits are feeling neutral.
• Fixed social menu lookup sometimes showing the wrong villager.

1.9 (upcoming):

• Fixed a rare error caused by the game duplicating an NPC.
• Fixed fruit tree quality schedule being incorrect in some cases.

Compiling the mod

Installing a stable release from Nexus Mods is recommended for most users. If you really want to compile the mod yourself, read on.

This mod uses the crossplatform build config so it can be built on Linux, Mac, and Windows without changes. See its documentation for troubleshooting.

Compiling the mod for testing

To compile the mod and add it to the mods directory:

1. Rebuild the project in Visual Studio or MonoDevelop.
   This will compile the code and package it into the mod directory.
2. Launch the project with debugging.
   This will start the game through SMAPI and attach the Visual Studio debugger.

Compiling the mod for release

To package the mod for release:

1. Delete the game's Mods/LookupAnything directory.
   (This ensures the package is clean and has default configuration.)

2. Recompile the mod per the previous section.

3. Launch the game through SMAPI to generate the default config.json.

4. Create a zip file of the game's Mods/LookupAnything folder. The zip name should include the mod name and version. For example:

   LookupAnything-1.6.zip
      LookupAnything/
         LookupAnything.dll
         LookupAnything.pdb
         data.json
         config.json
         manifest.json
   

Useful tools

These may be useful when working on this mod:

• Windows:
  • dotPeek to decompile the game into a Visual Studio project.
  • ReSharper to analyse the game code (e.g. find usages).
  • XNB Extract to extract the game's assets and data.
• YAML Analyzer to help figure out data files.

See also

• Nexus mod
• Discussion thread
• My other Stardew Valley mods: Chests Anywhere, No Debug Mode, and Skip Intro