Automate is a Stardew Valley mod which lets you place a chest next to machines (like a furnace, cheese press, bee house, etc), and the machines will automatically pull raw items from the chest and push processed items into it.
- Install the latest version of SMAPI.
- Install this mod from Nexus mods.
- Run the game using SMAPI.
Place a chest next to a crafting machine (in any direction including diagonal) to connect it. Machines connected to a chest will push their output into it, and pull ingredients to process out of it.
This can be used to automate...
- bee houses;
- casks (including outside the cellar);
- charcoal kilns;
- cheese presses;
- crab pots;
- crystalariums;
- fruit trees;
- furnaces;
- hay hoppers;
- Junimo huts;
- garbage cans;
- incubators (for eggs);
- kegs;
- lightning rods;
- looms;
- mayonnaise machines;
- mills;
- mushroom boxes;
- oil makers;
- preserves jars;
- recycling machines;
- seed makers;
- shipping bin;
- silos;
- slime egg-presses;
- slime incubators;
- tappers;
- and worm bins.
Automated machines will give you the same XP, achievements, and items you'd get for using them directly.
A 'machine group' is any number of chests and machines connected together. Any chest or machine
placed adjacent to a chest or machine that's already in the group will be added to the group. You
can press U (configurable) to visualise machine groups.
If you add multiple chests to the same machine group, they'll all be used in the automation. Input will be taken from all the chests, and output will be saved to chests in this order:
- chests with 'output' in the name;
- chests which already contain an item of the same type;
- any chest.
A 'factory' is just a machine group which produces a certain output. Here are some example factories. You can increase production by just adding more machines.
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Automatic crab pots
A worm bin produces bait, which is fed into the crab pots, which harvest fish and recycle trash. The final products are stored in the chest.
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Automatic refined quartz factory
A crystalarium produces quartz, which is smelted into refined quartz, which is stored in the chest.
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Automatic iridium mead factory
A bee house produces honey, which is turned into mead, which is aged to iridium quality, which is stored in the chest.
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Automatic iridium bar factory
A statue of perfection produces iridium ore, which is smelted into bars, which are stored in the chest.
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Semi-automatic iridium cheese factory
Put your milk in the chest and it'll be turned into cheese, then aged to iridium quality, then put back in the chest.
The mod will work fine out of the box, but you can tweak its settings by editing the config.json
file if you want. These are the available settings:
| setting | what it affects |
|---|---|
Controls |
The configured controller, keyboard, and mouse buttons (see key bindings). You can separate multiple buttons with commas. The default value is U to toggle the automation overlay. |
AutomationInterval |
Default 60. The number of update ticks between each automation cycle (one second is ≈60 ticks). |
VerboseLogging |
Default false. Whether to write more detailed information about what the mod is doing to the log file. This is useful for troubleshooting, but may impact performance and should generally be disabled. |
See release notes.