Workshop

[Sn3aky Viking]

Why does this game not have a workshop section for mods like most other games?

[Dummy Thicc Doug Dimmadome]

Most of the mods for Stardew started out on Nexus mods like most mods have and so I think the main modders who started making them on Nexus mods probably just kept them there as far as putting it on steam could be due to trying to keep the family friendly aspect true to the steam page so no one can put questionable mods with NSFW or somewhat NSFW mods and or pictures of NSFW stuff where as Nexus mods is in no way related to the games presence on steam itself.

[Sn3aky Viking]

ive never modded with that so what would i need and how do i do it?

[BCD]

There's a wiki page to help new users.[stardewvalleywiki.com]
The reason there's no workshop is different though. You gotta jump through some hoops to mod SDV, and making the game workshop-compatible would require the dev to rewrite much of the game's code. As it stands, modders arrange things themselves using a specific program.

[Shamanalah]

I'll be honest, the craze for mods was there early and then the game kept getting developed.

Someone made a multiplayer mod because the dev wasn't "quick" enough to make one for the community. I think the thirst for modding Stardew Valley kinda died down when ConcernedApe finished console version with multiplayer and started developing the game. The most popular mods are still old ones from 2016 and 2018 that are getting updated to works on modern version. The fact it's getting constant update kinda halts other content because they are going in the game. I remember hoppers being a mod back a few months ago and now they are in the game with 1.5

There wasn't really a reason to create steamworkshop since modders already were/are working with NexusMods so they would have to relaunch every mods into steam version.