stardew valley

my farmers

I have multiple saves for playtesting different mod combinations, but there’s really two farmers I’m paying attention to ever; 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:
• 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.
• 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
• Skip Intro
  I love your vibe SDV and forcing me to chill out and wait for the game to load all the way but I am an impatient bitch sometimes, forgive me.
• 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
  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, render 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! (also allows you to skip the intro using escape key…guess that’s one more mod I can get rid of @w@;)
• 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 in 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

• Aimon’s More Lively Farm Cave
• Aimon’s More Lively Sewer Overhaul
• Comfortable Slime Hutch
• Cozy Hut House
• Cute and Tidy Coops & Barns
• Ginger Island Beach House
• Lnh’s Stardew Shed
• Sea Breeze Cellar
• Sea Breeze Farmhouse
• Wildflour’s Romantic Garden Farm Map
• Wildflour’s Witchy Greenhouse

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

• Arkneru’s Retexture of NPCs
• Altar of Yoba Replacement
• Better Water
• Bookseller Replacement
• Cute Bobbers
• Cute Prize Ticket
• Cuter Artisan Goods
• Delotti’s Flower Retexture
• Elegant Town Interior
• Kitty Channels
• Letteas Combat Trinkets Retexture
• Letteas Concession Snack Icons
• Letteas Desert Festival Dishes Retexture
• Letteas Quest Items Retexture
• Luny’s Cuter Companions Recolor
• Magical Valley Cursors
• Magical Valley Interface
• Magical Valley Tools & Weapons
• Mermaid Show Retexture
• Moonlight Jellies Retexture
• More Cute Bouquets & Pendants
• Naya’s Mermaid Collection v2
• Nyapu-style Clara
• Oh-so-Cute! Kitchen
• Precious Krobus
• Script Font
• SD’S Mushroom Dig Spot
• SD’s Totoro Cannoli
• Seasonal and Overgrown Construction
• Seasonal Outdoor Fences
• Seasonal Traditional Korean Warp Statues
• Sherry’s cuter giftbox
• Soffy’s Better Museum Display Cases
• Soft Slow Seasons
• StarDust’s Maps Retexture

farmer

• GH’s Peach Body Type (female)
• Arkneru’s Cutie Hats
• Churpy’s Vivid Hair - Flower Garden
• Churpy’s Vivid Hair - Herb Garden
• Cosmiccats Hairstyles
• Cozyyrose’s Hairs
• Dawn’s Florist Gown
• DL Hats Set
• Aunt Feng’s Little Skirt
• Izzy’s Hairstyles for Fashion Sense
• Jiaojiao’s Clothes
• Kyuya’s Hats Pack
• Kyuya’s Clothes Pack
• Luny’s Farm Dress
• Luny’s Salon
• Luny’s Witch Hats
• Luo Li’s Clothes are Converted to FS
• Coffee Cafe Clothes
• Matcha Cafe Clothes
• Rural Outfitters
• Spring Series
• Wabi’s Wardrobe
• Yako’s 26 Accessories
• Yeon Yi’s Hair Bows
• Yomi’s Candy Colored Dress
• Yomi’s Cute Dress 3
• Yomi’s Cute Dress 4
• Yomi’s Cute Facial Makeup
• Yomi’s Cute Princess Dress
• Yomi’s Retro Colored Dress
• Zhu Zai’s Dress

animals

• Cute Triceratops Dinosaur
• Elle’s Cuter Barn Animals
• Elle’s Cuter Cats
• Elle’s Cuter Coop Animals
• Elle’s Cuter Dogs
• Elle’s Cuter Horses
• Elle’s Town Animals
• Yet Another Dog Mod

buildings

• Colonial Revival Farm Buildings
• Delaney’s Energetic Buildings
• DustBeauty Pond Recolor
• Elle’s Town Buildings
• Forest Fairy Farm Buildings
• H&W Fairy Garden Junimo Huts
• H&W Fairy Garden Obelisks
• H&W Fairy Garden Silos
• IdaIda’s Fairy Buildings
• Italian Countryside Farmhouse
• Kari’s Delivery Service
• Tanga Forest Building

craftables

• Chest Deco
• Bog’s Moth Tappers
• Candle Torch Replacer
• Delaney’s Energetic Craftables
• Elegant Craftables
• Flower Crab Pot
• Gwen’s Craftables
• H&W Fairy Garden Craftable Retexture
• H&W Fairy Garden Gnome Scarecrows
• H&W Farmer’s Market Bakery Storage Pack
• H&W Farmer’s Market Core Storage Pack
• H&W Farmers Market Fisher Butcher Storage Pack
• HxW Farmers Market Craftables Pack
• IdaIda Craftables
• Nano’s Garden Style Craftables
• Soft Craftables
• Some Scarecrow Replacements
• Windmill Sprinkler

furniture

• Old Timey Cottagecore Furniture Pack
• BarfyScorpion’s Furniture
• Basic Dining Set
• Better Furniture Catalogue
• Bitna Beige Interior
• Belight’s Furniture Pack 1
• Bog’s Krobus Retro Recolor
• Bog’s Wizard Catalogue Recolor
• Bog’s Krobus Retro Catalogue - Lynnea’s Recolor
• Bog’s Seasonal Junimo Catalogue - Lynnea’s Recolor
• Bog’s Wizard Catalogue - Lynnea’s Recolor
• Calcifer Fireplaces
• Casual Furniture Set
• Cottagecore Beds
• Cozy Chocolate Furniture
• Cute Cottagecore Furniture by Luny
• Doors that aren’t doors and Windows that aren’t windows
• Industrial Furniture
• Eemie’s Hanging Dried Flowers
• Fantasy Lamp-posts
• Florist Furniture
• Furniture Redone
• Greenhouse Set
• H&W Bakery Furniture
• H&W Decorative Plants Furniture
• H&W Fairy Fountains
• H&W Fairy Garden Furniture
• H&W Fairy Garden Furniture Recolor
• H&W Fairy Garden Retextures for Vanilla Furniture
• H&W Farmer’s Market
• H&W Farmer’s Market - Bakery Set
• H&W Farmer’s Market - Wildflour Set
• H&W Greenhouse Furniture
• H&W Greenhouse Retextures for Vanilla Furniture
• H&W Everything Catalogue
• H&W Outdoor Furniture
• H&W Plant Lover’s Furniture
• HxW Fairy Fountains - Muski’s Recolor
• HxW Outdoor Furniture Pack - Muski’s Recolor
• HxW Greenhouse Furniture - Muski’s Recolor
• JiaoJiao’s Garden
• JiaoJiao’s Pet Room
• Kana’s Furniture 2 Recolor
• Lacey Rugs 1
• Lively Table Decor
• Lovely Bed
• Maximalism
• Mint Kisses Furniture
• Nano’s Decorative Tree Furniture
• Nano’s Retro Style Furniture
• Nostalgic Old Furniture Collection
• Orangeblossom’s 500 kudos milestone Gift
• Orangeblossom’s Basic Bedroom Furniture
• Orangeblossom’s Basic Dining Set
• Orangeblossom’s Basic Windows
• Orangeblossom’s Functional Suitcase Dressers
• Orangeblossom’s Furniture Catalogue
• Orangeblossom’s Furniture Catalogue Recolor
• Pastel Junimo Catalogue
• Peachy Seasonal Set
• PlatinumCats’ Rattan Furniture
• PlatinumCats’ Painting
• Playroom and Nursery Furniture
• Qiaozisang’s Newly Added Furniture
• Ria’s Scandinavian Livin’ Pack
• Seasonal French Doors & Windows
• Seasonal Modern Tall Windows
• Seasonal Open Windows
• Smaller Furniture Catalogue
• Tanga Dressing Room Furniture
• Too Many Swatches II
• TT’s Feather Lamp
• West Elm Furniture by Atlas
• Dynamic Window
• Yomi’s Customized Furniture Sharing
• Yomi’s Cute Furniture
• Yomi’s Romantic Tricolor Flower Furniture

walls & floors

• Cottagecore Walls & Floors
• Rustic Country Walls & Floors
• Opulence Wallpapers
• Pretty Pink Wallpapers
• Pretty Wallpapers
• Yet Another Wallpaper Mod
• Vintage Candy’s Walls and Floors

recommended

Some of these may be old & outdated, so they may not all be compatible with Stardew Valley 1.6; my apologies.

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
• 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
  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.

modders (inactive)

• 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.

quality of life

• After Midnight Speed Buff
• Better Farm Cave Forage
• Better Rarecrows
• Cheap Catalogues
• Farm Rearranger
• Greenhouse Sprinklers
• Joys of Efficiency
• Scarecrows as Sprinklers
• Skull Cavern Elevator

immersion

• Cooperative Egg Hunt
• Greenhouse Entry Begone
• Immersive Scarecrows
• Immersive Sprinklers
• Like a Duck to Water

map changes

• Ace’s Expanded Cellars
• Attractive Standard Farm
• Flumme’s Farmhouse
• Hippo’s Cliffside Falls Farm
• Hippo’s Cliffside Falls Farm Cave
• Hippo’s Floral Foothill Farm
• Witchy Crystal Farm

added content

• Chichi’s Realistic Flowers
• The Flower Calendar
• The Love of Cooking
• Prospurrity
• Strawberry Blossom

aesthetic changes

• Adarin’s Girl Mod
• Bathhouse Hot Spring
• Beach Sounds
• Chichi’s Mint Bike
• Custom Summer Sounds
• Cute Junimos for all Chests
• Doll Totem
• Korea Retro
• Less Ugly Town Interiors
• Miowee’s Portraits
• Overgrown Skeletons and Pink Monsters

farmer edits

• Ghostyteas cute hats
• Witchy Rustic Looks

furniture

• Cute Rabbit Furniture
• Gedian’s Swing
  only for 1.5
• Moon Lamp 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.