Stardew Valley – Sync/Edit Game Achievement for Steam

Step By Step

1. First close Stardew Valley

2. For Windows, go to C:\Users\<ComputerUserName>\AppData\Roaming\StardewValley\Saves.
For Linux/Mac, go to ~/.config/StardewValley/Saves.
Each folder is for its own save character, and it’ll be named characterName_#########. Backup the folder you will be working on
for more info on saves, refer here:
https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Saves
https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Mobile_Saves
3. For the name of the character that you need Steam to sync achievement to, open that folder

4. For each characterName_######### and SaveGameInfo file you see, you will need to do the following:
a. Open the file in text editor. You'll see XML language codes in it b. ctrl+f search "<achievements>" c. Remove everything in between <achievements> and </achievements> *d. If you need Moving Up and Living Large unlocked:

5. Make sure Steam is running and online with Stardew Valley in its game library. Start Stardew Valley and load your character

Upon following the above steps, the game will attempt to reinitialize its achievement values. The game save will re-unlock the game achievements that it deems achieved and synchronize to Steam achievement.

6.*4.d. If you’ve additionally done this part, achievement Moving up will be unlocked, but not Living Large. Sleep on bed, and Living Large will be unlocked

6.**4.e. If you’ve additionally done this part, craft particular 1, 15, and/or 30 items to trigger that specific achievement

6.***4.f. If you’ve additionally done this part, go to location specific for its event (some require specific player interaction afterward), and achievement will be unlocked

6.****4.g. If you’ve additionally done this part, gift your spouse’s liked or loved gift and you’ll receive a Stardrop from your spouse, and achievement Mystery Of The Stardrops will be unlocked

If something goes wrong, gets broken, or wish to continue with save file you had, simply delete the folder you were working on and paste your backup folder in.
Enjoy.

Q&A

You likely have made a mistake somewhere. Restore your backup save folder and try the instructions again. I personally had to do it a few times to get it right.

If you have a very old game save file, you may see something different in the layout of the XML codes. Being the case, I can only suggest you look for similar XML code layout and make edit yourself to see if it will work.

For instruction step 4.g.c, old game save file instead shows something like this on the sixth entry of your spouse’s name:
<item><key><string>Sam</string></key><value><ArrayOfInt><int>3499</int><int>0</int><int>0</int><int>0</int><int>0</int><int>0</int></ArrayOfInt></value></item> Mentioned by: MountainWulf
Change ArrayOfInt value to 3375.
NEED VERIFICATION For the other two 0 that you need to make change to, I am not sure which two to change, but having it all to 0 will probably work.

The original max Energy is 508 when you have received all Stardrops.
But after my instructions, Energy will be 542.
If your Energy is not 542, then that means you have not in fact previously received all Stardrops you need to unlock the achievement. I suggest you go back and see which Stardrop you missed.

List of friendship achievements A New Friend Reach a 5-heart friend level with someone. Best Friends Reach a 10-heart friend level with someone. The Beloved Farmer Reach a 10-heart friend level with 8 people. Cliques Reach a 5-heart friend level with 4 people. Networking Reach a 5-heart friend level with 10 people. Popular Reach a 5-heart friend level with 20 people.
Here’s my previous response to achievement ‘A New Friend’
Now I do not remember if this unlocked A New Friend achievement (I think I personally created a new game save and played to unlock regularly). If the instruction steps don't work, you can do something similar with step 4g, not on spouse element (since spouse heart is way beyond 5-heart). You'll have to edit all NPC friendship value down below 5-heart I believe for this achievement. So rather than doing such tedious editing, you could just make a new game save and simply edit one NPC. Pick the NPC that like/love spring forage item, as it'll be quickest to get. Leah like/love Daffodil, Leek and Dandelion, so she may be a good pick. Ctrl+f search for Leah, edit the friendship value down to less than 5 heart. 250 friendship points per heart, so change to 1245 and then give a gift. If Leah friendship element is not found, it'll just mean XML have not persisted the data set to savefile as it is a new save slate. You can probably just give a gift to persist it, so in such instance give a gift, end the day to save, go edit friendship value, give a gift.

As I mention in Q4, I may have unlocked on regular replay, as it wasn’t so hard to do before I even started to edit game savefile. Since I already have the achievements prior, I cannot test it to be 100% sure that it will sync with Steam, though I have some confidence. Nevertheless, you’ve read enough, you know how it works now. If you’ve found the solution by editing savefile, I’m sure many other would like to know as well. If you’d like to share, please do so.

Either you’ve made error in following the instructions or the game itself may be failing to connect online to Steam. Try the instructions again carefully. And if still not working, it may be your game network connection. I won’t write you complete guide for it as it is easy find search result for it. Try the following one at a time:
1. Validate integrity of game files for Steam 2. Uninstall the game and all its related game files other than the saves (to remove left behind settings), then try again with fresh install 3. Allow the app (the game) through firewall (this generally is not needed as it is resolved on game install. However may be required if your computer has certain strict permissions setting)

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