Must have mods?

[Scyris]

Anyone got a list of reccomended mods to use with the game?

[Wacope]

Depends on your preferences. Some people use SMAPI to add extra content, and others just use .xnb mods to change visuals.It's up to you what you want.

[Scyris]

Well, Make fishing lest pure rng is one, and maybe one to make the bacholoettes cuter/anime styled. Does the game have infinite time? or does it "end" at a point where you can no longer play? Also can a female+female "have" kids? via adoption or something?

[anotherxerox]

A Good Few Mods That I Handpicked Are:Harvest With The Scythe Mod(The Name Says It All)
ONLY If You Know Everything About The Game(It'll Ruin The Experience For You)Is The CJB Item Spawner, And also a good one is the Villager Location Mod,Which REALLY Helps When You're Trying To Find That One Person On Their Birthday.Hope I Helped A little Bit,Happy Modding!

[Wacope]

Same sex marriages adopt kids, yes. You can play infinately, the game never technically ends, even though the questlines do (ie. community center, wizard's magic ink). There are a TON of portrait mods on nexus forums, or chucklefish forums to change the way your characters look. And there are fishing mods that also change the difficulty, but I don't know about the RNG of it.

[Pixel Peeper]

I do use various aesthetic mods. I restored one of Maru's earlier portraits, made Pam hot, made Leah and Penny more busty, turned the Wizard into a woman, and turned my horse into a Leah centauress. These are nice because they don't require SMAPI and they don't mess with game balance at all.

Fishing is mostly skill-based. There are a few fish that are heavily RNG-based, though only four or five (three or four of which you can only catch once), and you can usually get those in just a few tries with +3 Fishing food and a Cork Bobber.

The game has limited time per day, but unlimited time overall. You could play fifty years and none of the villagers would change one bit. There is no ending or fail state.

Female/female couples can adopt.

[Bun]

Skip Intro[www.nexusmods.com] is a must-have.
Show Item Sell Price[www.nexusmods.com] is recommended.

If you dislike the default NPC portraits, take a look at the list here.[www.nexusmods.com]
For example, this one[www.nexusmods.com] turn everyone into chibi!

[Cudlestrugle]

SMAPI MODS:
Carry Chest
Cooking Skill
Expanded Fridge
Look Up Anything
NPC Map Locations
Plant On Grass
Pony Weightloss Program
Shop Expander (999x stack mod)
Better Quality more Seeds (SB_BQMS) (Higher quality fruits/veg give more seeds from seed maker)

These dont mess with the game too much it just increases its playability and enables a few things like F1 giving info on items, a much needed and missing cooking skill, a bigger fridge (I use the one that expands as you level your house), pony weightloss allows your horse to go nort south through single tile spaces.

Plant on Grass is really the big one that changes gameplay allowing you to plant anything on grass. I use an extended farm map that gives a large grass area for buildings. I used that area for barns and coops so I needed grass to grow on the grass to make it viable.

I also use an extended farm xnb file and a xnb file for mushroom trees so you can see a mushroom tree as a mushroom tree sapling vs looking like a normal tree.