Recommended Mods?

[SHORP]

Hello hello ! ! !

I've never used mods on games before, & I've been hearing a lot of good immersive character mods that make me want to give it a try. Does anyone have any mod in particular they can recommend ?? Spouse wise I always pick either Sebastian or Shane, so mods that include either of them, that also work on mac, would be amazing ! Also if anyone have any tutorials on how to use mods, that'd be great too shiegurdfjkmvc

Thanks in advance y'all <3

[Faith]

Try SVE (Stardew Valley Expanded). This mod creates new characters and stories. Also expands the stories of the many Vanilla characters. But there is also Invatorzen's Dialogue mod for SVE. It might help you at that point.

First, download the SMAPI (smapi.io) and install it inside the game folder. When you click the .bat file, it finds game folder automatically.

After SMAPI installation, you can just download SVE and its required mods from Nexusmods. Just paste their folder into the Mods(SMAPI creates this in the game dir.) folder.
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You can also try 'Mal's Sebastian expansion mod' but it might be outdated right now. I used it so many years ago. Just apply the same path that I texted above.

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Rhapsie's Shane mod. https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/1061
I never used it, but looks current. Give it a try.


P.S: You can ask me anything if you have a problem with installing mods.

[ChrillBill]

If you are new to modding I would first check out this guide: Modding/Getting Started[stardewvalleywiki.com]

You will find most of the mods for Stardew Valley at Nexus[www.nexusmods.com].

I don't have any particular recommendations for Shane and Seb, but there
are plenty of nice visual and QoL mods if that would be interesting? :)

[Obliviate]

I will recommend you a mod about Seb, it includes 18+ dialogue and story expansion focusing around Sebastian, you can download it at https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/8105
if you like Seb and you are enough 18 years old, you will love this mod, i promise.

[Axolotl]

Alright... SO! I would recommend Stardew Valley Expanded (Here's the mod page link: https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/3753?tab=description ) and I would reccomend Ridgeside Village (Mod page link: https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/7286 ) both add a lot to the game, NPCs, places, crops, etc.

[hallaloth]

Heh >.> I have something 100+ mods downloaded presently.

Stardew Valley Expanded, Ridgeside Village, and East Scarp are all fairly larger expansions (some of them have a list of supporting mods).

I also personally recommend

Automate - Makes it so you don't have to personally load machines, it loads from the chest next to them.

UI Info Suite 2 - Gives various information directly on the UI such as sell price of things in your inventory (+stacks)

A lot of them are added Crops/Trees/Machines/Recipes, some of which requires supporting mods. Json Assets has a compiled mod pack of a bunch of these.

Winter Grass - Grass exists in Winter! Great for refilling a silo if you are more of a rancher than a farmer

There are also plenty of aestic mods out there if you just want to change up the look of the town/buildings. I like the Medieval buildings personally for my farms.

[Rallianto]

Personally I only use "UI Info Suite 2", and to make it work with 1.5, you need to download it from their GitHub page, the version on Nexus is out dated.
I have not fully completed the vanilla game yet, so I hold on with other mods.
But UI Info Suite is really great, it shows your luck, if you can learn receipe from TV, who's birthday it is, there is a count down on kegs and plants so you can see when they are done, you can see people on the map so you know where they are, it's really useful without changing the base game