If you want to save the state of all your mods for your clean install - don't do any of the above. Just click Purge on the mods pane. After Purge, there will be no trace of any mods in your game directory. Now reinstall or whatever you want to do. Then fire up Vortex and click Deploy on the mods pane. Shut down the mods, then uninstall mod manager. Though I don't know how you could make such a mess of it all, my skyrim has hundreds of mods and everything is working fine! However if everything else fails, just delete the whole skyrim folder, remove the entry from the uninstall manager and reinstall everything all over again.
Contents.Install Option A: use SMAPI's installer See also. Part 1: install SMAPI.
Run the game without SMAPI at least once (so it can do first-time setup). Download the. Extract the.zip file somewhere (but not in your game folder! (nor the windows%TEMP% folder)). Double-click install on Windows.bat¹, and follow the on-screen instructions.The installer will detect your game and add SMAPI for you. If you use Steam, continue to the next section. Otherwise just run StardewModdingAPI.exe in to play with mods.Part 2: configure Steam You can use SMAPI through the Steam client to enable the overlay and achievements.
This requires a few more steps. Keep SMAPI's installer window open.(If you already closed it, just run it again. No need to uninstall first.). Copy the text in the installer window that looks like this :(Make sure you copy the entire line, including both quotes and the%command% part.). In the Steam client, right-click on Stardew Valley and choose Properties:. Click General Set Launch Options:.
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Replace anything in the textbox with the text you copied from the installer.To paste text, click in the box and press. V. Click OK to save your changes. From now on, just launch the game through Steam to run SMAPI with the Steam overlay and achievements.¹ To install manually instead, see instructions in the installer's readme.
Option B: use ModDropModDrop is a mod manager which supports SMAPI. It can install SMAPI, keep it updated, and simplify installing mods. and open the client. In the top-right corner, click Install SMAPI or Update Available. A window should appear that says something like 'A new version of SMAPI is available.' Click the Install button and follow the on-screen instructions.Update Option A: use SMAPI's installerJust install the new version; the installer will automatically clean up previous versions.
(You don't need to configure Steam again.)Option B: use ModDropIf you use the, click Update Available in the top-right if it appears and follow the on-screen instructions.Uninstall. Run install.exe and choose uninstall. Blank the Steam launch options (if you changed them).(If you want to play without mods temporarily, you can just launch Stardew Valley.exe directly instead.).