Machine input returns - get your items back

by Trapyy·v1.0.1·Updated 2025-11-03

Allows you to cancel the machine's production process and retrieve the items you put in. (either by right clicking or destroying the machine)

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Allows you to cancel the machine's production process and retrieve the items you put in. (either by right clicking or destroying the machine)

Machine input return

✨ **Easily retrieve misplaced items and say goodbye to regretful moments! **

🎯Mod Overview

Machine Input Returns is a useful Stardew Valley mod that allows you to retrieve ingredients you put in before the machine completes processing. Ever put a precious item into a machine and immediately regretted it? Now you can easily retrieve these items! Simply right-click or destroy the processing machine to cancel the operation and retrieve the input material.

🌟 Core functions

  • **📦 Retrieve Machine Input**: Right-click or destroy any processing machine (furnace, barrel, pickle jar, etc.) to cancel the process and retrieve the item
  • **⏰ Time Limit**: Configure when the input items can be retrieved based on the processing completion percentage
  • **⭐QUALITY PRESERVATION**: All retrieved items maintain their original quality level
  • **💥 Automatic recycling on destruction**: If the machine is destroyed during processing, your input items will automatically fall to the ground

🚀 How to use

  • **Install SMAPI**: Make sure you have the latest version of SMAPI installed
  • **Install universal module configuration menu (recommended)**: Convenient for in-game configuration
  • **Download Machine Input Return**: Get the latest version from the Files tab
  • **Install the module**: Unzip the downloaded file and place the `MachineInputReturn` folder into the `Stardew Valley/Mods` directory
  • **Start the Game**: Run Stardew Valley via SMAPI

⚙️ Operation Guide

**Using Mods:**

  • Simply right-click on the machine while it is working (or destroy it) to cancel the process and get back the input items
  • Items will be added directly to your inventory or dropped to the ground if the inventory is full

**Access Configuration:**

  • **Using GMCM**: Click the gear icon in the title screen or find the Settings button in the in-game options menu and look for "Machine Input Returns"
  • **Not using GMCM**: After running the game once, edit the `config.json` file in `Stardew Valley/Mods/MachineInputReturn`

**Configuration options:**

  • **Enable**: Switch the module on/off
  • **Retrieval Time**: Choose when the item can be retrieved:
  • **Anytime**: Items can be retrieved at any point during processing
  • **Remaining time is less than 50%**: Items can only be retrieved when the remaining processing time is less than 50%
  • **Remaining time is less than 30%**: Items can only be retrieved when the remaining processing time is less than 30%

🔧 Compatibility

  • **General Module Configuration Menu (GMCM)**: fully supported for easy in-game configuration
  • Works perfectly with the original machine and its processing rules
  • Compatible with any new machine module that uses the standard Stardew Valley machine system

📝 Support and Feedback

  • **Bug Report**: Please report any issues on the Errors tab
  • **Questions & Suggestions**: You can ask questions or make feature requests in the Posts tab

When reporting a bug please include:

  • Clear description of the problem
  • Steps to reproduce the problem
  • Your SMAPI logs

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💡 **Tips**: This mod is especially suitable for players who often misplace precious items or who want to manage the production process more flexibly!

Install & use Install: SMAPI mod (Stardew Valley standard)

  1. Install SMAPI first (Stardew Valley's mod loader): download it from smapi.io, run 'install on Windows.bat' and pick your game folder.
  2. Unzip the archive from playbuff and find the folder that contains manifest.json — that folder is the mod.
  3. Copy that whole folder into Stardew Valley/Mods/.
  4. 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.

File & checksum

Filename
MachineInputReturn_1.0.1
File size
8.6 KiB
SHA-256
e99538183f311e632a9b23a14af6fe1ecd3bcb92daa10d4af5a1e78c8e9e7043
Stored at
2026-10-10 00:20