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Make sure to always read the mod descriptions, requirements, AND the “Posts” tab of nexus mods!

Some of the links are to the chucklefish forums, which you have to have an account on to download the files.

Some of these may not work with the 1.5 update. To use them, you can move assets around, merge them with other mods, etc. The DIYCP Suite mod can possibly help if there’s a mod you want to use that no longer works! You can message me if you’re having trouble or check in with the page of the mod (linked above). Can’t promise I can help but I do like to problem-solve lol.

I will likely continue to edit and add to this post for my own benefit so the links may change from time-to-time <3

happy modding!

If this is your first time using mods and you’ve stumbled across this post, have no fear! Here’s a handy little guide for modding!

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Modding Necessities

SMAPI (must have this installed to mod - see instructions page linked above about modding stardew)

Content Patcher

Json Assets (I know that there have been some recent bugs with the 1.5 update so I am currently using an older version - 1.7.1 - that seems to work just fine)

PYTK

TMXL Map Toolkit

Spacecore

Some mods might also require Content Patcher Animations & Mail Framework Mod

General Utility (and some cheats)

Chests Anywhere

Tidy Crafting Menu

CJB Item Spawner (not recommended if you haven’t finished most things in the game before - it’s mostly something I use if I create a new save in lieu of not being able to continue another one so that I can catch up to where I was, or if I want to spawn furniture bc #aesthetic)

NPC Map Locations

Generic Mod Config Menu (I have never used this but I know a lot of mods suggest you do - it comes down to whether or not you want to configure your mods in-game or whether you’re content with doing your configuring outside of playing, using the config files!)

Recolors & Town Buildings

A Toned Down Stardew Valley (edits the interiors only if you configure it to do so)

A Wittily Named Recolor

Flower Valley (changes town buildings, too)

Starblue Valley

Eemie’s Just a New Map Recolor

Stardew Foliage Redone - original (changes town buildings, too; my personal favorite - I love the trees)

Stardew Foliage Redone - foliage only (if you just want the trees to use with another map recolor)

Vibrant Pastoral Recolor

DaisyNiko’s Earthy Recolor

Dreamy Valley

A Way Back Pelican Town (medieval town buildings)

Stardew Enhanced - The Town

Interface

Vintage Interface Multipack

Overgrown Flowery Interface

Farm Maps

White Water Farm

Rolling Hills Farm

Strawberry Fields Farm

Capitalist Dream Farm

Capitalist Dream Farm 2

Riverbend Farm

Waterfall Farm

Puffin Cove Farm

Forest Meadow Farm

Sycamore Farm

Mountain Goat Farm

Meadowlark Farm

Reimagined Standard Farm

Skull Island Farm

Craftables & Tools & Resources & Items

Gwen’s Medieval Craftables

Pastel Floral Tools

Yellog’s Wood Craftables (read the “Posts” tab)

Vintage Beehouses

Seasonal Path & Flooring

Shardust’s Fences Gates Flooring

Crystal Battery & Lightning Rod

Iridium Recolors

Better Artisan Goods

Better Resources

Better Gems and Minerals

Better Fish and Beach Foraging

Better Crops and Foraging

Ancient Crops

Blossom Trees

Seasonal Wildflowers

Witchy Decorations

Owl Scarecrows (plus deluxe scarecrow)

Ran’s Farm Decor

Misc Recolor Pack (for use with industrial furniture)

Witch Valley (cauldron & craftable potions)

PFM Cider Press & Ciders

Valley Herbalist

Animals & Pets

Elle’s Old Barn Animals

Elle’s New Barn Animals

Elle’s Old Coop Animals

Elle’s New Coop Animals

Elle’s Cat Replacements

Elle’s Dog Replacements

Elle’s New Horses

Elle’s Town Animals

NPCs

Seasonal Outfits

Diverse Stardew Valley - Seasonal

Diverse Mermaid Show

Shane’s New Job

Harvey Personality Mod

Penny Expanded

Many Dialogue Overhauls for NPCs

Farmhouse & Farm Buildings (my favorite part)

*Quick note: If you use one of these mods and the greenhouse is still vanilla, I might be able to help you, so just let me know! I’ve fixed that issue for myself with multiple mods and it is very easy to do!

Eemie’s Seasonal Victorian Buildings

Seasonal Witchy-Gothic Buildings

Yellog’s Wood Buildings

Enchanted Garden Buildings

Overgrown Fairy Buildings (there is a recolor also available)

Medieval Buildings

Spanish Revival Buildings

Wizard Style House and Greenhouse

Fairy Farmhouse

Seasonal Dutch Farm Buildings (you’ll need to use DIYCP Suite to use these buildings)

Hudson Valley Buildings

Seasonal Foresty Farm Buildings

Seasonal Japanese Buildings

Elle’s Seasonal Buildings

Flowery Pink Houses

Ali’s Modern Farm Buildings

Misc Individual Farm Buildings

Gwen’s Nexus Page - you can download individual buildings

Seasonal Dutch Farm Cabins

Gold Clock Sundial

MIDI’s Marchen Obelisk

Victorian Mailbox

Victorian Cabins

Shane’s White Coop and White Mailbox

Flowery Shipping Bin

Zen Garden Obelisk Earth and Water (to kind of match the Fairy buildings or the Wizard style house)

Interiors & Furniture

Cuter Coops and Better Barns

Seasonal Winery (replaces interior of Slime Hutch)

Seasonal Garden Farmhouse V2

F-SV Flumme Farmhouse Rooms Indoor (beautiful, needs a lil update for 1.5, though)

Rustic Country Town Interiors (for spouse rooms)

Industrial Kitchen & Interior

Industrial Furniture

Yellog’s Dark Brown & Cream Furniture

Prophet’s Bed Replacement

Boho Home Interior

Chic Cute Kitchen

CCS Kitchen Station Set (read “Posts” tab)

Arhen’s Beige Wood Tone Interior Set

Mi’s & Magimatica Country Furniture

Shardust’s Dynamic Interior 1.5 Update

Modern Gothic Interior

Eemie’s Classy New Interior - unofficial update

Mi’s Elegant Victorian Interior

Hot Spring Farm Cave

Oasis Greenhouse

Wren’s Expanded Greenhouse

Farmer Clothes, Hair, Hats, etc.

Witch Hats

Hairstyles Recolored

New Shirts & New Skirts

Coii’s All Hats Pack

Flower Crowns

Pretty Grass!

More Grass

Winter Grass

Wildflower Grass Field

Ali’s Flower Grass

Misc Mods

Mermaids Replace Old Mariner

Overgrown Mailbox

ok so!! with 1.5 out, i have “pared down” my list of mods, and i wanted to share some recs!! as always, check for updates here before installing, but most of these are updated for the new game~

ESSENTIALS/QOL Changes DIVERSE STARDEW VALLEY (see nexus for previews) Karmylla’s Immersive Maps Chests Anywhere Combat Controls CustomDeathPenaltyPlus Festival End Time Tweak TimeSpeed WalkthroughTrellis Lore Friendly Joja Prices ToDew Joys of Efficiency SkullCavernElevator Rock Crab Recolors Crop Transplant TreeTransplant WearMoreRings AdoptSkin - update BetterJunimos UI Info - update Lookup Anything SkipIntro CJB Cheats & Item Spawn

ADDITIONS MoreGrass CustomCritters - update Deluxe Hats Immersive Shane Immersive Festival Dialogue Nice Messages Giftable Artifacts Fertilizer Anytime BetterBeachForage StrongerYou DIYCP Suite Colored Seeds FishPreview HomeSewingKit SitforStamina Get Glam Stardew Valley Reimagined 2 - not fully updated but mostly working, just disable town/railroad! recommended for a second playthrough Gender Neutrality Mod No More Dialogue Differences Tolerable Demetrius & Tomato Dilemma - requires a small edit to use both but i prefer the latter’s take on the tomato discussion!

AESTHETIC Sailor Styles Yellog Flower Dialogue Bath House Hotspring Mermaid Replaces Mariner Flowery Straw Hat Animated Mining Pack Elle’s Seasonal Buildings BetterArtisanGoodIcons

- Lookup Anything: This is probably my favorite mod. It basically eliminates the need to have to keep consulting the Stardew Valley wiki while you play. The title says it all: this mod lets you look up anything. Need to know what’s a good present for Shane? You can pull up a list of all his loved and liked gifts, with items you have on hand highlighted for ease, plus his birthday, how many hearts he has with you and how many points you need to get to the next heart. Need to know if you should hoard that pine sap or sell it? You can pull up all the uses for it, items that can be crafted with it, anyone who might like it, community center bundles it’s used for, and how much you make by selling. How many days until your melons are ready to harvest? What items can drop from that stone in the mines? What are all the items you can make with the furnace? It’s such a fantastically handy mod and I refuse to play without it!

- NPC Map Locations: One of the most frustrating things in the game is trying to remember everyone’s schedule and then not being able to find someone to give them a birthday present or turn in a quest item. This mod shows exactly where everyone is on your map and solves that problem for good!

- Automate: This mod automatically pulls items from nearby chests into machines, so you don’t have to keep running back and forth to your furnace to pick up the finished metal bars and toss more ore in there...it just spits the finished item back into the nearby chest, pulls in whatever available items you’ve got in the chest and starts running again without you having to do a thing! Just be careful of where you place your chests and machines or you might end up processing items you didn’t want to. Luckily, you can set individual chests to not have items pulled from them.

- Fishing Made Easy Suite: I suck at fishing. I almost never bother with fishing if I don’t have a mod to make it bearable. I like this one because it has different levels of easy-ness, so you can make fishing just 25% easier, or 50%, or 75%, or 99%! And there are some other fun perks too. You want to catch all fish regardless of weather or season? Want to catch legendary fish multiple times? Want to catch prismatic shards? Go nuts.

- Stardew Valley Expanded: This mod is absurdly huge and adds SO MUCH CONTENT. New areas! New characters! New events! I was a little hesitant to start it just because I knew there was so much to the mod and was a little concerned of how well it would mesh with the rest of the game, but the characters and story and style fit in perfectly with the vanilla content. I could almost forget Andy and Sophia weren’t there all along! The purpose of the mod was to make the game feel fresh and new for people who had already played the game and that’s exactly what it does. I love it.

- Artisan Valley/Project Populate JsonAssets/Starbrew Valley: I’m lumping these together but this is a collection of mods that add a TON of new items, crops, trees, flowers, machines and recipes to the game. You don’t have to download them all! You can pick and choose the ones you want, or download the PPJA content pack to get the bulk of these mods all in one go! I personally really love Artisan Valley because it lets me make floral candles and soaps. And an espresso machine so I can make fancy coffee. And Starbrew Valley so there’s actually a fun variety of alcohol in the game.

I’m putting the rest under a cut because this is getting too long.

1. Don't cut your grass until you get a silo

2. Potatoes are a good spring crop

3. Spring onions are located on the bottom left map.

4. Upgrade your watering can the day before it rains, so that you can retrieve it the day after

5. The bag is a good, early investment. It cost 2000 for the first upgrade.

6. Hoard things. Hoard everything. Keep at least 1 of most things

7. Give villagers birthday gifts. Most will accept foraged items. Others will take crops.

8. Fishing is a good source of income (yes, it gets easier)

9. Save money for the Egg Festival and buy a ton of Strawberries. Save some for next spring, plant the rest

Stardew Valley: Fish Guide (places, seasons, weather, and times)

Just in case you don’t feel like constantly bringing the wiki up or you’re unable to (i.e. in a place with no wifi u can just save the pics to ur phone!)

I honestly probably wouldn't have gotten so into SDV if it weren't for this wiki, it's a lifesaver. There's no shame in looking something up! I've played nearly 1000 hours and I still look things up on the wiki every single time I play lol

https://stardewcommunitywiki.com/Stardew_Valley_Wiki

I honestly probably wouldn't have gotten so into SDV if it weren't for this wiki, it's a lifesaver. There's no shame in looking something up! I've played nearly 1000 hours and I still look things up on the wiki every single time I play lol

https://stardewcommunitywiki.com/Stardew_Valley_Wiki

Scenery/Background Study

“studio ghibli romances be like “what if we didn’t kiss, but instead both spiritually matured as people because we met each other.”

Like, I’m bad with words. Terrible at them. I never shut the hell up on here because I have time to properly read over what I type so that I know my point gets across, but in most online games, I just can’t think of what to say or type fast enough. I stumble over words verbally a lot because my brain moves faster than my mouth, and my hands are just an even slower version of that. It’s dreadful. If you have ever met me in a chatroom, I am so sorry.

I mean, mantas are usually seen as big, kind and gentle creatures, mostly with smaller creatures.

But let’s not forget they’re strong as heck and could drop a building if they wanted to.

And now that I think of it, a big manta could drop not one, but three big rocks full of darkness! And more than three times it’s own size

And the whale we see in orbit could drop a building as big as those rocks. Even a little bit bigger if I remember correctly.

It means that, for the whale, that building was just a little thing compared with everything they could smash with the strength they have.

So remember kids, light creatures are strong and could destroy entire mountains if they feel endangered or angry.