Here's how to mod Stardew Valley on the Steam Deck

I hope Barone will embrace steam workshop for his next projects. Custom solutions are pretty much always cluncky and time consuming. Notable exception is Factorio mod portal. But Wube are the -positive- exception on pretty much everything. Even when they get review bombed is positive. Which is something I would never have thought I would say.

Open the Konsole terminal application, and drag the "install on Linux.sh" file into the Konsole window.

That works to run a .sh file in the terminal? You learn something new every day!

Open the Konsole terminal application, and drag the "install on Linux.sh" file into the Konsole window.

That works to run a .sh file in the terminal? You learn something new every day!

Just because it works on the current update of Konsole, do not count on it working for gnome terminal, LXTerminal, Terminator.. etc

I remember when I thought Cut and Paste into a terminal using the mouse right click felt like a luxury feature. Now get annoyed when it isn’t enabled by default..


Last edited by Craggles086 on 15 March 2022 at 2:50 am UTC

Open the Konsole terminal application, and drag the "install on Linux.sh" file into the Konsole window.

That works to run a .sh file in the terminal? You learn something new every day!

Just because it works on the current update of Konsole, do not count on it working for gnome terminal, LXTerminal, Terminator.. etc

I remember when I thought Cut and Paste into a terminal using the mouse right click felt like a luxury feature. Now get annoyed when it isn’t enabled by default..

Drag and drop has been a basic usability feature of Gnome's and Xfce4's default terminals for so long that I doubt they'll just remove it on a whim. Same goes for paste in the right-click menu. You can't even disable these features, because why would you want to?

I remember when I thought Cut and Paste into a terminal using the mouse right click felt like a luxury feature. Now get annoyed when it isn’t enabled by default..

No joke, the second middle-click clipboard is probably like at least 50% of why I originally switched to Linux at home after experiencing it at work. And after 8 years I now get irrationally enraged whenever I go to use it on another operating system and it's not there.

Just because it works on the current update of Konsole, do not count on it working for gnome terminal, LXTerminal, Terminator.. etc

I've never seen a modern console that doesn't work with drag and drop. If it doesn't, it should. A basic usability feature IMO.

My not Linux using spouse got a Steamdeck and had some trouble following the text description, though the video was much more helpful.

Users new to the steam deck might need some guidance on how to get to desktop mode and not have much familiarity with the Linux desktop tools.

Apparently this page is pretty high in the google rankings for "how to mod Stardew Valley on the steam deck" so might be getting people who are not regular gaming on Linux readers.

I jut get a permission denied. any ideas or help?
i already went and gave the stardew valley folder read and write permission for everyone. that didnt work.
i also get no other information. when i drag the sh file into the konsole and press enter it just says permission denied.
its so frustrating i just wanted to install some mods and enjoy my evening its been 4 hours and i've tried everything icould find on the internet. no wonder people like windows.

edit2: i "solved" it by downloading smapi again? idk why this works but apperently copying files from windows to a usb stick and then to the steamdeck is cursed.


Last edited by pverflow on 19 September 2022 at 6:04 pm UTC

I'm brand new to a lot of this, so thank you in advance for your help and patience if these are dumb questions. I followed your steps, but wanted to take a short cut. I have a lot of mods already on my pc (windows). Is it possible to transfer those over without any issues? I used winpinator to transfer the mods over to my steam deck. I then put them in my mods folder in my game. When running the game the load times are slow but the mods are showing up. Loading saves is about a min. Making a new character and starting a new game takes 5+ min. Is this due to another issue or because I didn't download the mods directly from nexus as you did?

I'm brand new to a lot of this, so thank you in advance for your help and patience if these are dumb questions. I followed your steps, but wanted to take a short cut. I have a lot of mods already on my pc (windows). Is it possible to transfer those over without any issues? I used winpinator to transfer the mods over to my steam deck. I then put them in my mods folder in my game. When running the game the load times are slow but the mods are showing up. Loading saves is about a min. Making a new character and starting a new game takes 5+ min. Is this due to another issue or because I didn't download the mods directly from nexus as you did?

Not a dumb question. Just to note, I haven't tried modding SV on my Deck myself, so this is just a general answer, but I wouldn't think the method of getting them on your Deck would make a difference. How many mods is "a lot"? If they're showing up in-game (and not crashing?) it sounds like it's working, but depending on the number (or specific mods, maybe, especially lots of graphics- or computation-heavy ones?) they might simply be slowing the game down from sheer numbers.

Hi this is my first time doing anything like this, and I was great up until it said open a terminal window, in the video you dragged the file to the bottom and something opened. I cant for the life of me figure out what it was, and unfortunately the text isn't much help either. I cant seem to find the konsole terminal window to drag and drop the needed file.