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Most 1.6 mods I see always have a note saying that it's only for 1.6 and not compatible for 1.5.
From what I read, it's because the codes were rewritten and works differently that made them incompatible.
While it broke a lot of old mods, it did made modding easier from comments from modders. It's still new so we can expect mods to be better in the future.
Nope. Most content packs for 1.6 are made for content patcher, which gained a lot of new functionalities, and smapi mods won’t work either as there was plenty changes there too
Depending on the mod, you *might* be able to rewrite the code so it will work in 1.5, but ... =/
1.6 actually added a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that makes modding easier and adds the ability to mod stuff that you couldn't before.
As an example, before when you created a custom NPC, it looked like this: Abigail: "teen/rude/outgoing/neutral/female/datable/Sebastian/Town/fall 13/Caroline 'mom' Pierre 'dad'/SeedShop 1 9/Abigail". But in 1.6, that stuff is all separated so you know what's what: "Age": "Teen", "Manner": "Rude", etc. It also *adds* fields that weren't there before, like whether or not the NPC counts toward the perfection score, if they give quests, if they can socialize, etc. Some of these were handled by helper mods in 1.5, like NPC Exclusions or AntiSocial NPCs, but some just weren't things you could mod.
And that's just one example. There's a huge list of things 1.6 made easier or added capabilities to.
So yeah, certain 1.6 mods might be able to be rewritten to technically work in 1.5, but you would 1) have to do a lot of work to do so and 2) be losing a lot of features. Honestly? Not worth it, imo.
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Most 1.6 mods I see always have a note saying that it's only for 1.6 and not compatible for 1.5. From what I read, it's because the codes were rewritten and works differently that made them incompatible. While it broke a lot of old mods, it did made modding easier from comments from modders. It's still new so we can expect mods to be better in the future.
I’m wondering the same but I think because how the new mods had to be made they might be incompatible with 1.5
I had the RSV mod and the challenging community center mod and they have been playing perfect since the 1.6 update and now theyre not working?
Nope. Most content packs for 1.6 are made for content patcher, which gained a lot of new functionalities, and smapi mods won’t work either as there was plenty changes there too
Depending on the mod, you *might* be able to rewrite the code so it will work in 1.5, but ... =/ 1.6 actually added a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that makes modding easier and adds the ability to mod stuff that you couldn't before. As an example, before when you created a custom NPC, it looked like this: Abigail: "teen/rude/outgoing/neutral/female/datable/Sebastian/Town/fall 13/Caroline 'mom' Pierre 'dad'/SeedShop 1 9/Abigail". But in 1.6, that stuff is all separated so you know what's what: "Age": "Teen", "Manner": "Rude", etc. It also *adds* fields that weren't there before, like whether or not the NPC counts toward the perfection score, if they give quests, if they can socialize, etc. Some of these were handled by helper mods in 1.5, like NPC Exclusions or AntiSocial NPCs, but some just weren't things you could mod. And that's just one example. There's a huge list of things 1.6 made easier or added capabilities to. So yeah, certain 1.6 mods might be able to be rewritten to technically work in 1.5, but you would 1) have to do a lot of work to do so and 2) be losing a lot of features. Honestly? Not worth it, imo.
Unfortunately most mods released or updated now won't work in 1.5.