The best Stardew Valley mods
04.05.2024 - 18:11
/ digitaltrends.com
/ Jesse Lennox
After so many years of support, it might feel like there’s nothing left that needs to be added or changed in Stardew Valley. This farming sim lets you live your best life in the quiet countryside with your own farm, NPCs to meet and date, Easter eggs to find, and quests to complete.
Multiple updates have only expanded the number of things to do in a game you could already spend hundreds of hours in. But the developer behind this game is just one person, and even an entire team couldn’t match the output of the entire modding community. Given the meteoric success this game has had and sustained for so many years, there have been hundreds of mods created by passionate fans. These mods can make your humble little farm life feel completely fresh, as well as smooth out a couple of lingering rough edges in the game. We’ve farmed up the absolute best Stardew Valley mods you should try for yourself.
Stardew Valley Expanded
Each major update to Stardew Valley adds a host of new features, but one fan just couldn’t wait and decided to make their own unofficial expansion called Stardew Valley Expanded. Just looking at the feature list of this mod, you could be forgiven for thinking it was a true expansion, or maybe even a sequel. It adds 27 new NPCs, 50 more locations, 27 fish, two new farms, and even updates a couple of existing things. That’s not even mentioning the new music, quests, objects, festivals, and more. The entire thing was made to feel as seamless with the base game as possible, and is intended to give that same feeling of wonder and joy players had when playing the game for the first time.
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NPC Map Locations
The world map in Stardew Valley isn’t super big, but it is complex enough to make wandering around stressful if you’re looking for a specific NPC before a certain time. Each character follows a different schedule, and if you haven’t learned them all, you might spend all day looking for someone. If that doesn’t sound fun to you, NPC Map Locations adds a friendly little icon for each NPC on your map so you know exactly where they are at all times. To accomplish this, the map had to be remade to be more accurate, which is just an added bonus. The map constantly updates as characters move, and you can highlight them to see their names as well.
CJB Item Spawner
Stardew Valley is more than just a farming sim — it also has a lot of crafting elements as well. To that end, the entire design is meant to have you slowly accumulate more and better materials to make better things. Of course, some of us are a little impatient or have already done the grind