Best Mods?

[SmugsterPete]

So I'm not new to Stardew and would like to try some mods to make my playthrough a bit more fun. Any suggestions?

If its Aesthetic Mods or Life Improvement, I don't mind, anything goes tbh. Just want to experience the game in a new way

[Yggdrasil Burnes]

Well, right off the bat? Elle's Seasonal Buildings, Seasonal Villager Outfits, and Elle's Barn and Coop Animals and Pet mods for visual vanilla mods.

After that, No Fence Decay, No Friendship Decay, NPC Map Locations, Loved Labels (for pets and animals), Tractor, Gift Taste Helper, and Lookup Anything are pretty good vanilla mechanical mods that don't change too much, and make the game a touch more easier to manage if you don't feel like learning everything the hard way.

In short, if you go to the Stardew Valley Mod Nexus, pretty much everything in the first three pages of Most Download (of) All Time is up there for a reason. If your mod has any prerequisites like Content Patcher, you can download those alongside other mods as needed.

GL, HF.

[redheadelfwithwalletfullofwater]

Stardew Valley Expanded

[Yggdrasil Burnes]

Originally posted by 丂Ҝ丨ㄥㄥ山乇几ㄒ卂千:

Stardew Valley Expanded

Not for a new player, no. Best stick to the vanilla content for now, OP. It's easy to go overboard modding a game.

[SmugsterPete]

Originally posted by Yggdrasil Burnes:

Originally posted by 丂Ҝ丨ㄥㄥ山乇几ㄒ卂千:

Stardew Valley Expanded

Not for a new player, no. Best stick to the vanilla content for now, OP. It's easy to go overboard modding a game.

No, not at all. I already played the game in PS4 and my PS Vita. I just want to finally try modding the game. I already did the vanilla version a couple of times there. So yeah whatever it helps! :D

[BCD]

SVE's probably worth a shot. It sure will change your experience.

[Yggdrasil Burnes]

Originally posted by TheLonelyAstronaut:

Originally posted by Yggdrasil Burnes:

Not for a new player, no. Best stick to the vanilla content for now, OP. It's easy to go overboard modding a game.

No, not at all. I already played the game in PS4 and my PS Vita. I just want to finally try modding the game. I already did the vanilla version a couple of times there. So yeah whatever it helps! :D

Oh, then, by all means, go nuts. In hindsight seems my brain missed the "NOT" in "NOT NEW."

[peterthegamer14]

SVE and Ridgeside Village expands the story a whole lot if that's what you wanna try out. I also have the majority of PPJA (note when you're gonna download this don't panic if you suddenly have 30 tabs open just by clicking at the required mods for every single one of them) which expands the game item-wise and is pretty cool. Pair it with seasonal skins for sve and vanilla, better artisan goods icon + ppja version. Then the items will look better than the generic icons we normally have.

For quality of life stuff, I suggest CJB cheats and show item sell price (just be disciplined about the cheats) which adds the no fence decay, no friendship decay into one. There's LookUp anything which is by far my favorite of the QoL mods, because it literally shows you all the information you'll need and basically halved my 100 wiki tabs curse. GiftTaste helper is also handy for... well... gifts. NPC map locations is great to know where all the people are specially if you're going stalker mode on your target romance without having to memorize their schedules (Imma admit I did memorize abigail's sched when I first played). There's also Automate which helps a TON for multitasking different workstations but some may feel it's OP since you can just go do something else instead of being hands on all the artisan making and stuff...

There's a lot more cool ones out there, i suggest browsing through nexusmods to see things for yourself and that nexus, for me at least, has the more understandable ui of all the places you can get mods for this game.

[funewchie]

Automate is also a fun mod, that automates so many things.

Such as crab pots.
Pop a chest next to a row of crab pots, have a Worm bin next to it... then just come back every few days and collect the goods from the chest.

(The mod takes the bait the worm bins creates, and moves them into the chest, then into the crab pots as needed. It then takes the items collected by the crab pots and stores them in the chest for you.
More pots, more items.)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2289811446

For my convenience, I even have a chest next to a row of furnaces, kilns, and recycling machines.
I can dump my ore, wood, and trash in the chest, and it'll take care of the rest for me. It'll feed the furnaces as needed, and retrieve the ingots when ready.
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If you want to keep it vanilla for early game, no problem.
Just don't put a chest next to a processor. (Or a crystal path)

[abbi]

SVE

[abbi]

Its massive and so much to do. start a new game

[CloudSeeker]

Tractor mod

[SmugsterPete]

Originally posted by peterthegamer14:

SVE and Ridgeside Village expands the story a whole lot if that's what you wanna try out. I also have the majority of PPJA (note when you're gonna download this don't panic if you suddenly have 30 tabs open just by clicking at the required mods for every single one of them) which expands the game item-wise and is pretty cool. Pair it with seasonal skins for sve and vanilla, better artisan goods icon + ppja version. Then the items will look better than the generic icons we normally have.

For quality of life stuff, I suggest CJB cheats and show item sell price (just be disciplined about the cheats) which adds the no fence decay, no friendship decay into one. There's LookUp anything which is by far my favorite of the QoL mods, because it literally shows you all the information you'll need and basically halved my 100 wiki tabs curse. GiftTaste helper is also handy for... well... gifts. NPC map locations is great to know where all the people are specially if you're going stalker mode on your target romance without having to memorize their schedules (Imma admit I did memorize abigail's sched when I first played). There's also Automate which helps a TON for multitasking different workstations but some may feel it's OP since you can just go do something else instead of being hands on all the artisan making and stuff...

There's a lot more cool ones out there, i suggest browsing through nexusmods to see things for yourself and that nexus, for me at least, has the more understandable ui of all the places you can get mods for this game.

I downloaded Expanded Stardew, is Ridgeside compatible or I need to set them separately?

[BCD]

Ridgeside's description states that it is compatible. I find it kind of baffling and feel like using both would make the world way too big for me, but you can do it if you want.

[arti_llery]

Automate is a good one.

Any new maps has been fun, or expanding your greenhouse or sheds is useful, also. Benny's greenhouse is massive.

Cjb's cheat is handy. You can give yourself a boost at the start, and handle a few other odds and ends. Want more time in the first day of the season, roll back time! I think I mainly use the no friendship loss and fence decay the most. Also has teleport options if you just want to get home faster.

[Amberbaum]

DeepWoods for endgame content.

CatCattyCat, Pathoschild, Platonymous, Entoarox and Spacechase's mods on Nexus for QoL and framework related stuff.