Better game menu
A mod that replaces the built-in pause menu, is more efficient and easier to use with other mods
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About this mod Machine translation
A mod that replaces the built-in pause menu, is more efficient and easier to use with other mods
Better game menu
🌟 **A built-in pause menu alternative focused on performance and scalability**
✨ New features
🎯 **Tab right-click menu**
- Other modules can register right-click menu options
- When multiple modules try to register for the same page, they can switch in real time through the right-click menu.
- If you use the general mod configuration menu, try right-clicking the Options tab
🛡️ **Error handling mechanism**
- If an error occurs on a certain page in the menu, it will not cause the entire menu to crash
- Provide a more stable gaming experience
⚡ Performance optimization
The built-in pause menu has serious performance issues:
- **Load all tabs at once**
- Every time you open the pause menu, all tabs are loaded immediately, even if you don't use them at all
- **Frequent reloading**
- Many events cause an open pause menu to completely close and reopen
- Including changing UI scaling, resizing the game window, viewing certain submenus, etc.
💡 **Solution**
- Only load pages when you actually use them
- Adopt a smarter API design to avoid repeated loading problems
- A large number of mod users reported a significant improvement in the pause menu opening time
🔧 Enhanced scalability
Built-in menu expansion is very difficult:
- Everything is hardcoded
- Adding custom pages requires a lot of extra work
- Compatibility between multiple mods is a big issue
🚀 **Better solution**
- Provide comprehensive API
- Add custom pages simplified from complex event handling and harmonic patching to a single function call
- Replacing the built-in menu page only requires a single function call
🔄 Compatibility information
✅ **Supported Platforms**
- PC version of Stardew Valley 1.6.15+
❌ **Platform not supported**
-Android version
📋 **Mod Compatibility Tracking**
- GitHub issue tracker
📝 Developer Resources
🔗 **Related Links**
- source code
- Update log
- C# API documentation
- Developer Implementation Guide
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🎮 **Experience a smoother and more powerful game menu system, taking your modding experience to the next level! **
Install & use Install: SMAPI mod (Stardew Valley standard)
- Install SMAPI first (Stardew Valley's mod loader): download it from smapi.io, run 'install on Windows.bat' and pick your game folder.
- Unzip the archive from playbuff and find the folder that contains manifest.json — that folder is the mod.
- Copy that whole folder into Stardew Valley/Mods/.
- Launch the game through SMAPI (run StardewModdingAPI.exe or set it as the launch option). The console before the title screen lists each mod's load result.
Cheat-style tools may not need SMAPI — unzip and run them as the readme describes. Back up your save before editing it; SMAPI lists failed mods in its console.