Adding your own pop-ups!

[TungstenFD]

For anyone who isn't good with anything code-related or who just don't know for any reason, it's really easy to add your own pop-ups for any of the many ways your farmer can go potty :)

Basically, the file en.json (Regression Mod>Regression>en.json) has this info as well as a bunch of other stuff. The bathroom related pop-ups are right after the hunger and thirst related ones.

With ANY of these pop-ups, you'll see all the things they can say in one context listed together right next to each other. The code that picks which one is shown is random and doesn't need there to be any specific number to choose from. You can add as many as you want to them! Here's a detailed explanation of how to make it work right:

1. Go to the end of the last line in the list of possible pop-ups for the thing you want. Like, if you want to add one for when your farmer pees in the toilet, make sure you're adding to the list under "Pee_Toilet" ant not "Pee_Toilet_Attempt"(that's trying but not having to go) "Pee_Voluntary"(that's peeing on the ground). You can figure out what each one is based on what is in it.
2. Put a comma on the last item in the list so the code knows to include the one after. Make sure the comma is after the quotation mark, or you'll just be adding an extra comma to the pop-up text.
3. Press Tab on your keyboard twice to move the position you start typing from to be lined up neatly with the others.
4. Start and end your new addition with quotation marks, and make sure you add a comma after for every new addition.

Also, keep an eye out for any of the times the pop-ups mention what kind of pants or underwear your farmer is wearing or mentions anything gender related at all. You'll see they all get certain codes to make sure that the pop-up stays correct about those things no matter what gender your farmer is or what they're wearing.

Looking at the other popups, you'll see what your farmer is wearing represented in this file as UNDERWEAR_NAME and PANTS_NAME but with a $ at the beginning and end. Trying to type that in this post $makes it look like this$ for some reason.. You'll also occasionally see UNDERWEAR_PREFIX or PANTS_PREFIX also with the $s which is there because some things are referred to like "a pair of (thing)"

Anything that is different for gender reasons is put like this: <boy/girl>. Make sure the boy version of what you want to say comes first and they're separated by a slash. No spaces or you'll get two spaces in a row.

When something refers to something as wet or messy (like everything under "Still_Soiled") it'll be put like this <wet&messy> and whichever one applies for the situation will be put there. You pretty much only see that written exactly like that or maybe <wet&poopy> because how wet or messy the thing is isn't designed to change the words. Make sure you use the & for this purpose.

Because some things are treated as a singular and some as plural, They're done with <singular#plural> with a #. Like <it's#they're> or <is#are>

What else can you add to? Well, the warnings you get for when you need to pee/poop as well as getting hungrier or thirstier work this way too. NPC reactions are also in the same file and work the same way. Some reactions are generic and some are character-specific. They don't seem to work any different from each other. Only some of the characters currently have specific reactions to the farmer's continence-related shenanigans. I have no idea if the way the mod works allows you add characters just by putting them in the en.json in the same style as everyone else and I'm afraid to try for no serious reason. Realistically the worst that can happen is a corrupted save and maybe having to reinstall the mod honestly, so maybe make a backup but also most likely it doesn't do anything. I'd love to hear if anyone knows more about how that works :)

Now there is a slight chance something may be different because I play with a fork of this mod, but I haven't seen anything suggesting anything about that part of the code has changed at all.
(various edits bc the post was lwk a disaster and I can only notice so much at one time lolll)

[GardensStarlit]

Great write-up!
I'm the writer for an alt fork of the mod (which is currently in a bit of limbo, our coder has been going through some major life shit for a while so the update has stalled out, but i'm holding out hope :P)

You can, in fact, add new NPC reactions by simply copying the format & listing the NPC's name -- and this does work for modded NPCs as well!
When writing NPC dialogue, here's some of the syntax to keep in mind:

• #$b# at the end of a line = Regular message break
  (Clicking will continue onto the next message)

• #$e# at the end of a line = End Break
  (Clicking will close dialogue window. Interacting with the NPC again will resume with the next line after the break)

• $1 / $2 / $3 (etc.) at the end of a line = Portrait sprites!!! How the NPC looks when saying the dialogue!
  (You can also use "$h" or "$s" etc. but i find numbers are easier to work with -- You can find the NPC's sprite sheets by unpacking the game's files, and just count them out left-to-right, top-to-bottom, starting at 0 or the default sprite (so the second sprite is $1, third is $2, etc.)

• % at the start of a line = Message with no portrait (Useful for internal thoughts, narration of an action, etc)

• Remember, the quotation marks and especially the commas afterwards are still important here. Don't forget them! <3

That'll get you started, and you can find the rest of the usable syntax here: https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Dialogue

Once you know how to do all that, adding actual dedicated NPC dialogue (the kind you get when speaking to an NPC via clicking them) is also not terribly difficult either! (Just use the wiki, and remember to add an entry to Content.json)

• The only caveat to that is that most of the modded syntax like <wet&messy>, UNDERWEAR_NAME, etc. don't work inside of normal NPC speaking dialogue; only in reaction dialogue from en.json

Hope all this inspired some of you to tinker around with the mod <3
Good luck, have fun!
-GardensStarlit