stardew valley

my farmers
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my farmers

I have multiple saves for playtesting different mod combinations, but there’s really only two farmers I’m ever paying attention to: my original vanilla save, and my current modded playthrough.

lilith (vanilla)

farm type: forest farm
likes:
dislikes:
girlfriend:
friendships:
pets: Miso (orange cat), Cleo (horse)

pixie (modded)

farm type: Wildfour's Romantic Farm
likes:
dislikes:
girlfriend:
friendships:
pets: Chamomile (grey tabby cat)

modlist

this is a list of mods I’m using in my current modded playthrough.

quality of life

Automate
been debating getting rid of this one since they introduced hoppers in 1.5.
Automatic Gates
you can probably guess that this auto-opens and closes gates behind you so you don’t end up getting off your horse by accident (a massive source of frustration in late-game).
Better Crafting
a must-have for any mods that add craftables, it just tidies up the crafting menu & divides craftable items into categories.
Better Sort
I am lazy and absolutely loathe having to manually sort my weapons/items/tools in my toolbar; this lets me set an order & forget about it. Not compatible with GMCM, so you have to edit the config manually.
Better Truffles
adds a bubble above truffles that have been dug up so you can see them through tall grass. ;w;
Chests Anywhere
I am disorganized and don’t know where anything is, this prevents me from wandering from building to building trying to organize my inventory (an actual nightmare).
CJB Cheats Menu
I only use this for freezing time indoors and very rarely warping back to my house when I’ve stayed out too late…>.>;;
Crop Watering Bubbles Continued
adds a bubble above crops that have yet to be watered; useful for trellis crops/thicker crops that you may not be able to see the color of the dirt through. never re-water the same area 20 times bc of your ADHD again!
Furniture Adjustment
do you hate the furniture grid system and wish you could adjust where your decor sits better? me too, so did the creator of this mod, enough to program this.
Happy Home Designer
a makeover of the in-game catalogue interface (and also adds some more complete catalogues) that has alternative texture integration (so you can select and view alternative textures as well when picking out an item from the catalogue).
Item Extensions
a framework allowing modders to add custom resources, clumps, drops (from the train, treasures, panning), custom eating animations, and more.
Let Me Shop
allows you to still process geodes and buy things from Clint when getting your tools upgraded.
Noclip Mode
great for modded maps (for example, mods that change the farmhouse); sometimes your furniture becomes lost in the void when upgrading your house, or an item spawns out of bounds: go get that rogue peach! If you’re not familiar with the concept of noclipping, it allows you to pass through areas that are out of bounds.
Non-Destructive NPCs
makes npcs react to objects in their path the same way they would to a player character being in their path (stopping, getting a ? above their head, then passing through quickly) rather than destroying it.
PNG Retex Helper
great for any loose assets you have that you’d like patched into the game; saves you from having to write individually-tailored mods for each thing. instead, you can just drop any .pngs you have into the subfolders and they will be magically patched into the game! very nifty. :3
Spouse Room Renovation
allows you to completely redecorate your partner’s room, including changing the flooring/wallpaper.
Tree Transplant (fix)
Allows you to move any trees you’ve planted (modded or otherwise) from Robin’s shop. Useful for remodeling/deciding where you want your orchard to be. Sometimes you just plant something and it grows way differently than you imagined; this is for that. >w<
UI Info Suite 2
allows you to skip the game’s intro with the esc key, shows your luck, tomorrow’s weather (if it’s not sunny), reminds you to visit the traveling merchant & watch the Queen of Sauce; shows villagers’ locations on the map, renders heart levels with npcs more accurately, displays icons over animals that need petting, shows crop type and days until harvest on mouseover, shows a bubble over animals with item yields (ready to be milked/shorn), displays an icon reminding you your tool is done being upgraded, displays an icon letting you know how long robin will be working on a building, shows an icon by items which haven’t been shipped yet, and much more!
World Maps Anywhere
allows you to check modded areas’ maps from anywhere (a prerequisite for mount vapius).

mental health QoL

No More Flies
for my fellow entomophobes out there, this replaces that awful buzzing sound the cave flies make with a short list of provided alternatives and also changes the sprites for flies and grubs to be fairy slimes. also removes the buzzing ambient sound from summer leaving only birdsongs. there are plans to implement arachnophobia-friendly retextures as well.
Ilucie’s Spider Replacement
for my fellow arachnopobes, this replaces the icky arachnids with cute angery junimos.
Pumpkin Junimos Replace Spirit’s Eve Maze Spiders
replaces the spirit’s eve spiders inside the maze with pumpkins carved into junimos.

prerequisites

Alternative Textures
allows you to install texture packs for just about anything in-game (pets, children, buildings, craftables, etc.)
Bush Bloom Mod
enables modders to add custom bush harvestables (similar to salmonberries and blackberries in base game).
Calcifer
supports custom object categories among other things, a requirement for many modded crops.
Cauldron
This mod does nothing on its own, but makes managing Wildflour’s mod suite much easier! You can ignore this if you don’t end up using her mods.
Content Patcher
if you install anything, you’ll probably want to install this; allows the game code to be patched easily using .json files. Nearly everything uses this as a prerequisite these days.
DaisyNiko’s Tilesheets
a requirement for many custom maps.
Esca’s Modding Plugins
mostly a tool for modders, but also allows players to place mini-fridges and beds anywhere and allow yourself to pass out from staying up too late without receiving any fines.
Event Repeater
often an unlisted requirement for mods that alter events.
Extra Animal Config
a framework allowing mods to allow for animals that can be sheared and also milked, and changing custom animals’ diets (this is a requirement for Chicken Feed)
Farm Type Manager
allows modders to set custom spawnable items in any location, not just the farm!
Fashion Sense
if you remember Kisekae or Get Dressed from back in the day (pre-1.5), this is the modern successor. allows for installable packs containing nearly any kind of wearable (hats, sleeves, shirts, bottoms, shoes, etc.).
Furniture Framework
a framework allowing modders to make furniture with custom descriptions, sizes, collisions, rotations, layers, seats, table slots, etc.
Generic Mod Configuration Menu
an in-game UI that allows for the edit of compatible mods on the fly.
GMCM Options
allows for more complex options to be available within generic mod configuration menu.
HxW Tilesheets
a requirement for many of the maps by Wildflour.
Lumisteria Tilesheets Indoor
another commonly required tileset for modded maps; this one is for indoors.
Lumisteria Tilesheets Outdoor
same as above but for outdoor maps.
Mail Framework Mod
allows modders to send custom mail to the player
SpaceCore
a framework for modders enabling more npc interactions, adding colored lights, new tile/touch/trigger actions, custom event commands, and more.
Unlockable Bundles
allows modders to add their own custom bundles.

immersion

Chicken Feed
a complete rework of how chickens are fed, they now eat chicken feed, which is craftable or purchaseable from marnie (since birds don’t eat hay).
Fall 28 Snow Day
makes it snow on the last day of fall, explaining why on winter 1 it is always covered in snow. x3
Folk Music Pack
a really nice music pack of folk instrument covers of stardew valley game songs.
Golden Hour
changes the window lighting indoors throughout the day
Pregnancy & Birth Events
when applicable, enables either the player or their partner to have an event/cutscene in which they find out they’re pregnant and another for the birth of their child (the way this is handled in vanilla is weird imo so this is a minor immersion fix). The author has plans to add adoption events as well.
Romantic Love Letters
adds more in-depth letters for each npc in town based on your friendship (or romantic involvement) with them.

map changes

added content

Lumisteria’s Serene Meadow
This adds crops & giant crops, a tree, and some new gift lines (for when you gift the items from this mod to npcs). It integrates with Visit Mount Vapius, and it features mostly flowers - what’s not to love?
Lnh’s Community Center Expanded
This adds some post-finishing the vanilla community center bundles and expands the community center further to include a greenhouse and some other rooms. There are custom rewards for the added bundles as well! Not compatible with a Joja playthrough.
Quaint Living - Artisan Goods
Adds a bunch of artisan goods you can make from the Flower Garden 2 items: candied flowers, extracts, floral wine, and bouquets. There’s versions for each added flower and adds npc gift tastes as well!
Quaint Living - Flower Garden 2
Adds about 18 crops (all flowers) and 4 flower trees to the game. It’s a remake of the modder’s previous Flower Garden mod for Stardew 1.6.
Visit Mount Vapius
As a rule I am not super fond of mods adding new areas to the game, since there are usually a ton of dependencies, but I already follow Lumisteria, the author of this mod, pretty closely, and the dependency list isn’t too convoluted (and requires a lot of dependencies I already use). The story/characters from this area in interests me. This adds not only an entirely new area to explore with NPCs and all, there’s a forest, it has its own bundles to complete, there’s new constructed items, recipes, forage, and even special orders! I’m really enjoying it so far, so it’s the one area-extension mod I recommend currently. It even has its own warp totem!

Wildflour

Wildflour is a very prolific Stardew Valley Modder who has an entire suite of mods she’s released that I very much enjoy playing with. I had begun to lose interest in Stardew but her sudden arrival on the scene beginning in 2022 or so really rekindled my interest in the game! Her mods are heavily inspired by the Atelier series of games and feature witchy/alchemy-themed items and concoctions and add a lot of foraging and hidden areas to the game. If I were to recommend one modder to you ever it’d be her. These are her mods I’m using in my current playthrough!

Atelier Bundles - Boutique Edition
this alters the community center bundles to require items from Wildflour’s Atelier Goods - Cosmetologist and Florist. I don’t super love the cosmetologist stuff, so I may edit this myself to include some stuff from gourmand instead, but right now I am too lazy… >w<
Atelier Goods - Barista (cold)
allows you to craft beverages like juice, lemonade, iced tea, boba, and smoothies.
Atelier Goods - Barista (hot)
lets you craft hot teas, lattes, and coffee.
Atelier Goods - Brewer
adds two new craftables for making artisinal meads and ales.
Atelier Goods - Canner
adds a bunch of new fancy jams, jellies, marmalades, etc. using the crops added by Wilflour’s mods.
Atelier Goods - Confectioner (frozen)
adds a bunch of frozen confections like milkshakes, frozen yogurt, ice cream, etc.
Atelier Goods - Confectioner (sweet)
adds three new machines that allow you to craft lollipops, marshmallows, cotton candy, gumballs, and more.
Atelier Goods - Cosmetologist
adds a machine that lets you turn gems, herbs, etc. into lotions, perfumes, nail polish, etc.
Atelier Goods - Florist
allows you to craft bouquets, dried flowers, incense, soap, candles, etc.
Atelier Goods - Forager
adds two modules: faerie garden (magic fruits & herbs) and wild food (wild berries, herbs, etc.); there are crops, forageables, and craftables for each.
Atelier Goods - Gourmand
adds a bunch of gourmet recipes: fancy syrups, flours, yogurt, and other baking ingredients.
Atelier Goods - Pickler
adds a bunch of fancy pickle & salsa recipes.
Atelier Goods - Special Orders
this just allows the items from the Atelier Goods series to be items that can be requested by npcs on the special orders board.
The Bee’s Knees
adds a new custom animal building: the apiary, and new honeybee animals that provide honey, beesewax, and sometimes rare flowers.
Forager’s Nooks and Crannies
adds 10 new maps that can appear randomly each day based on your skill levels, friendship with certain npcs, and more! The successor to their old Faerie Foraging mod.
Garden Variety Mixed Seeds
adds four types of mixed seeds for flowers, herbs, veggies, and fruits. Includes stuff added by wildflour forager.
HxW Freshly Baked
adds a bunch of bakery recipes: gourmet donuts, cakes, petit fours, muffins, breads, etc.
The Witch’s Familiars
adds several new animals to the coop and barn that are traditionally seen as witch’s familiars/friends in folklore. compatible with wildflour: forager to add more animals & animal goods.

aesthetic changes

farmer

animals

buildings

craftables

furniture

walls & floors

recommended modders

these are modders whose work I like so much I can safely endorse anything they release; they’re mentioned & linked here by name rather than individually linking their entire library of content. bolded names are personal favorites.

Aimon
mostly map retextures.
Asta
maker of very cute outfits.
BogWyytch
really interesting dark & witchy aesthetic.
Collingbee
a lot of retextures and map edits; really good stuff! I love their aesthetic.
DaisyNiko
a lot of really great map edits.
Delaney
craftables, buildings, tools, and weapons.
Delotti
a little bit of everything, also an excellent pixel artist.
Doxepins
furniture, wallpapers, and flooring.
Dugongkebalik
the creator of simple foliage/simple resources.
DSHi
item retextures.
ElfinLibelle
a prolific German modder with a unique aesthetic; I love their farm maps and added content mods!
FengAyi aka Auntie Feng fun fact: 阿姨 (āyí) is mandarin for “auntie.”
mostly farmer clothing/accessories, has some other mods as well.
Gweniaczek
known for their Way Back Pelican Town mod and medieval style retextures.
HimeTarts
frequent collaborator with Wildflour, makes mostly furniture, but also is known for their mod Always Raining in the Valley (a set of custom npcs for East Scarp).
HisameArtwork
really cute aesthetic, makes some Studio Ghibli-themed mods.
IdaIda
lots of buildings, craftables, also has some walls & floors & farmer shirts.
Itsannette
authored two cute sweets recipes: roll cakes and caramel pudding.
Junimods aka Elle
makes a bunch of building & animal retextures, close to vanilla style, so won’t disrupt your aesthetic too much if you’re sticking to mostly vanilla.
KateStardew
reminds me a lot of a modder who left the community some years back, Yoseiri, whose style I adored so I was very pleased to see someone with a similar aesthetic begin sharing their mods!
KatyDTK
has a very cute aesthetic that I love; their furniture mod is a must-have for me, and I also love their muted seeds, boosts, and saplings mods.
Kyuya
A really talented Chinese modder probably best known for their Candy Valley retexture set, but I love their furniture and farmer clothing retextures.
Letteas
A very talented pixel artist known for their retextures.
LiuNianHui
A very prolific Chinese modder whose map edits I adore.
LuoLi
prolific Chinese modder known for their cute outfits.
Lynnea
great dark/witchy aesthetic.
Mila
makes a lot of aesthetic mods, most recently a foliage makeover.
MildKewy
lots of very cute recipes!
Miru
creator of forest amber, also has some very cute retextures of Krobus and the Dwarf.
MolaMole
love their aesthetic; I frequently use their mailbox & shipping bin retextures.
Muski
has only released recolors so far, but I still love their sense of color and wait warmly for any new releases from them. :3
NanoIsNotRobot
very talented Chinese pixel artist with great furnitures & craftables.
OrangeBlossom
really talented pixel artist & mod author; had a bunch of cute furniture mods that are currently set to private.
Otohime
really cutesy aesthetic modder with lots of sanrio-themed mods: desserts, furniture, etc. also loves axolotls and has lots of mods containing them. has a really cute sweet lolita fashion set for fashion sense.
PathosChild
the person who made the Stardew Valley Modding API (SMAPI) and content patcher; has a lot of widely used mods and dependencies.
Peachitto
love this modder’s aesthetic, another one that reminds me of Yoseiri’s work. Big fan of their fall set and objects mod.
PlatinumCats
author of the Quaint Living series of floral mods, also has some cute furniture mods out.
QueenAcademe
love their Interiors of Pelican Town series of map retextures for buildings.
RiceHit
maker of some really cute custom furniture.
Shyziie
mod author with a good aesthetic, has made a bunch of mods with a similar aesthetic to Gweniaczek. I absolutely love their string lights mod.
SpaceSheepCaptain
love their artstyle; their dog mod is one of my favorites.
Tanga
Korean modder with a really unique aesthetic; I love their forest series.
TT
newer Chinese modder whose aesthetic I absolutely adore.
Twinkle
author of the opulence mod; I love their pixel work and their aesthetic is very cute!
Wabi
adorable aesthetic; I love their furniture & fashion mods!
Wildflour
easily my favorite modder on this list; maker of the massive atelier series of mods. I love their aesthetic and creativity, if they ever quit modding I will probably cry.
Yomi
maker of very cute dresses and furniture
YriKuru
maker of the “Project Yellog” town building retexture and also Retro Recolor.

inactive modders

Ali
one of the first modders whose work I ever fell in love with; her maps and flower grass were some of the first mods I ever downloaded and used.
Campanulamis
no longer active, but has a really nice aesthetic; mostly interior retextures.
CatCattyCat
a lot of small annoyance fixes, some mods can be “cheaty.”
Catmao
really cute retexture maker; I love their custom furnitures especially.
Coii
cute farmer accessories/outfits.
DustBeauty aka Hesper
lovely aesthetic, all-rounder. best known for their seasonal garden farmhouse and for foliage redone.
Horangwa
has a lot of lovely dialogue mods; I especially like their dialogue expansion for Harvey and their wedding anniversary letters mod.
Identitypollution
the cutest, fattest farm animals you’ve ever seen.
IYAHO
unfortunately this Korean modder has removed a bunch of their older stuff due to being bullied out of the community by some people in the English-speaking stardew modding community. Always really sad to see, but I love their mods and wish them well.
KAYA
currently taking a break from modding, so her stuff may not be compatible as of right now, but a prolific Korean modder who was famous a few years back for their Flower Valley town mod. LOTS of crops, buildings, etc.
Loro21s
has two amazing map edits released, really looking forward to seeing more from them, but since there’s been no new releases in two years, it’s probably unlikely… ;w;
Maraluna
known for their Overgrown Flowery Interface; currently on indefinite hiatus. their mods are extremely cute; I love their aesthetic.
Medinaquirin
modder with a great aesthetic, left the community in 2019.
Mycenia
a really nice modder with a great aesthetic.
Naeldus
really cute building and craftable retextures.
ParadigmNomad
very prolific author that is now retired from modding; author of the very popular PPJA mod series.
Ranfuu
inactive modder, but wrote one of my favorite NPCs, the Harvest Goddess. Also had a really cute farmer retexture and made a mod giving Shane a part time job after Joja closes (Junimo route).
RoseDryad
really cutesy-style aesthetic modder with some great retextures. currently on hiatus.
Sonreirblah
hasn’t released any new mods in 5 years, but has a suite of very cute rural Japanese-aesthetic buildings.
StrangelyLiteral
creator of Starblue Valley.
TaintedWheat
maker of the famous 2cute farmcave and greenhouse; hasn’t been active for over 8 years but one of the first modders I followed.
Walpi
maker of the starry sky interface.
Who_M
mod author who has stopped redistribution of many of their mods; but I love their work.
Yellog
had a bunch of cute furniture that used to be available, but you can still get their buildings mod. really loved their aesthetic, gonna miss them from the scene for sure.
Yoseiri
left the community/stopped releasing mods toward the end of 2017. really cute aesthetic, I was obsessed with their work. it’s unfortunate to see they seem to have lost interest, but their work is/was great and they will be missed.

recommended mods

Some of these may be old & outdated, and therefore incompatible with Stardew Valley 1.6; my apologies.

quality of life

immersion

map changes

added content

aesthetic changes

farmer edits

furniture

my mods

I’ve made a bunch of personal edits of other mods (mostly merging textures from other packs) just for my own personal use, but I’ve only released the one mod officially on Nexus. Here it is!

DIY Pets for Content Patcher
allows you to place .png files into the assets folder and uses content patcher to replace the vanilla pets (including the horse) with any assets you’ve downloaded.