Stardew Valley - Detect and warn about CCCB save incompatibilities

[Pickysaurus]

User story

As a user

I want to be made aware of any saves that require a mod with Custom Community Center Bundles as a requirement that is missing.

So that I know if I load this save without that mod, it may corrupt my game.

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DOD

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[Pickysaurus]

CCCB does have uninstallation instructions these days for how to make it convert a save to use vanilla bundles, so it's not "if you uninstall it your bundles will DEFINITELY be messed up" - it involves using the CCCB config to Pure_Vanilla, then playing at least one day of every CCCB-affected save with any uncompleted bundles, then removing the mod

And its unique ID is alja.CCCB

• Wingheart in the App Discord

[erri120]

I'm not sure if I understand this issue. Using "Custom Community Center Bundles" and then removing it will result in corrupted saves?

[Pickysaurus]

Using a Content Pack for the CCCB mod, then removing it and continuing playing will cause save corruption. This can be mitigated by reinstalling the mod, seeing CCCB's settings back to "default" before removing the mod.

[erri120]

I mean, removing mods mid-playthrough can always cause save issues. That's not exclusive to this specific mod, or even to Stardew Valley. It might be better to change the focus of this issue from a specific mod to the general problem, which is potential save issues after removing mods. We can still have "Custom Community Center Bundles" as an example.

[Pickysaurus]

That's not strictly true for Stardew Valley (but counts for most games). A large percentage of SMAPI mods can be removed mid-save without breaking your save. It will convert invalid items to "blank" placeholder objects which turn back into mod items if you add the mod back in later.

This case the ticket was raised for is a case where this causes actual save corruption. (Akin to removing plugins mid-save from Bethesda games)

[erri120]

This case the ticket was raised for is a case where this causes actual save corruption. (Akin to removing plugins mid-save from Bethesda games)

Right, but we still want a generalized system for detecting save game issues and diagnostics to go along with it, instead of a hyper specific system for a single mod with not even 2k downloads 😅.

Anyways, we don't have anything for this. Since we stopped managing saves, we also don't have access to them anymore.

[Pickysaurus]

Renamed the ticket back, we can make a generic ticket for what you changed it to. This is a specific issue, not a general one.

[Pickysaurus]

I'm not saying we need to do this, but I've added this based on feedback from Discord to record it 👍