Fright - Stealing skill

Become a source of terror in Stardew Valley!

Scaring - Thieving Skill

🎮 **Introducing a new mechanism to Stardew Valley** - "Scare/Steal" skills, a new way to interact with the social system!

✨ Core Functions

**Scare villagers mechanism:**

• After talking to the gift-giving NPC once, press the scare/steal button (default: B button)
• Multiple factors affect your level of terror/stealth: the direction of you and the NPC, weather, outdoor darkness, daily luck, etc.
• Friendship with villagers will be reduced, but there is a chance to get items they like or love
• That counts as gift giving this week! Villagers can only be frightened twice a week
• The skill will enter the cooling time after use

**Scare Monster Options:**

• Don't want to scare the villagers? You can also scare/steal monsters
• Although only 1/3 of the experience points are gained, the monster will be knocked back and 1 point of damage will be caused when successful.
• Get extra loot at the same time!

🎭Dual theme selection

This mod was originally intended to scare villagers... but some people pointed out that the idea was closer to stealing. So I added a config option to repurpose the mod as a steal skill!

• **Scare Theme**: Have fun playing pranks
• **Stealing Theme**: A more immersive stealth gameplay
• Configuration options need to restart the game to take effect

📊 Skill level and specialization

**Level 5 Specialization Options:**

• 👻 **Ghost** / 🎯 **Pickpocket** - Orientation no longer affects dice chance
• 🧟 **Zombie** / 🏹 **Robin Hood** - Chance to not lower friendship when scaring/stealing

**Level 10 Specialization Branch:**

• 👻 Ghost Route:
• 👻 **Banshee** / 🦹 **Highwayman** - Affects all surrounding NPCs at the same time
• 👻 **Wraith** / 💪 **Robber** - Recover 25% of maximum health and stamina when frightened/stealing
• 🧟 Zombie route:
• 🧛 **Vampire** / 👻 **Phantom** - now has a chance to get universal favorite items
• 🧟 **Ghoul** / 🎭 **Rogue** - Get an additional 10% bonus on fright/steal dice and loot dice

⚙️ Configuration options

**Main Settings:**

• Removed horror elements: changed skills to stealing skills
• Thief skill page icon: Change the thief skill icon
• Monsters only: Fright/Steal can only be used on monsters
• Action keys: Customized scare/steal buttons
• Global experience modifier: adjusts the overall experience gained by skills
• Failure experience: experience gained when complete failure
• Successful experience at all levels: experience points gained when successful at levels 1-4

🔗 Compatibility information

**Fully Compatible:**

• All Professions: All custom skill specializations
• CJB Item Spawner: Items display correctly

-Original mastery system: Skill experience will be counted into the mastery level

**Experience display support:**

• Xp Display: Display custom skill experience
• Abilities - Experience Bars: Display skill experience bars
• Experience Bars: Compatible with all custom skills

💡 Future Plans

**Possible new features:**

• More items that affect fright effects
• Mechanical device that automatically scares/steals villagers

🛠️ Contributions and improvements

Welcome to help improve this skill! I'm looking for help with:

• Basic code improvements and optimizations
• Submit a pull request on GitHub

📥 Installation instructions

• Install the required front-end modules
• Download and unzip the SpookySkill folder
• Put it into the Stardew Valley Mod folder
• If you overwrite an existing file, the new specialization will take effect immediately

💡 **Compatibility Tips:**

• Compatible with most other mods
• Not compatible with Android version
• If you find incompatible modules, please share them

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🌟 **Special thanks to:** Stardew Valley Discord community, spacechase0’s magic module, DrBird, lcy1998666’s Chinese localization, Tea and Libraries’ artwork!