This mod adds an easy-to-use chess board setup to Stardew Valley.


Chess Boards

You must create a chess board in order to spawn chess pieces.

Chess boards must fulfill the following criteria:

• be made up of two different alternating flooring tiles
• be 8 tiles by 8 tiles in size
• not have either of the alternating flooring tiles surrounding them
• have no objects places on the board besides spawned chess pieces
  

You can have as many boards as you like on a map as long as they are not touching.


Chess Pieces

Chess pieces are modified objects, so they should stay persistent across saves and multiplayer (let me know how it works in MP).

The following hotkeys will work while the mouse cursor is over a chess board:

• SetupKey (default J) - sets up the board with a fresh set of chess pieces
• FlipKey (default K) - rotates the board 180 degrees
• ClearKey (default L) - removes all chess pieces from the board
  

To move a chess piece, click on its square using left mouse button.

You can create your own chess pieces using a Content Patcher Load action targeting the following path:

aedenthorn.ChessBoards/pieces


Free Mode
By default, piece movements are constrained to legal chess moves. Free mode allows you to setup the board as you like and move pieces without constraint.

To toggle free mode, press the ModeKey (default H) while hovering over a chess board.

During free mode, the following hotkeys become active:

• ChangeKey (default Tab) - cycles the piece at the hovered square through the available piece types, or adds a white pawn at the square if empty.
• ChangeModKey (default LeftShift) - if held while pressing ChangeKey, changes piece color instead
• RemoveKey (default Delete) - removes the piece at the hovered square
  

Sound Effects
You can change the sound effects in the config.

To remove a sound effect, leave the entry empty in GMCM or as "" in the config.json file.

Configuration

You can edit the config in Generic Mod Config Menu or by editing the mod's config.json file after starting the game once.


Technical

Requires SMAPI, uses Harmony.

Implements a Generic Mod Config Menu interface to change config settings in-game.

Compatible with Mod Updater for automatic updates.

Code is at https://github.com/aedenthorn/StardewValleyMods.

If you want to complain or ask for help or help me test my mods, you can visit my Discord server.

A list of all my mods for Stardew Valley is available at https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/articles/895.