Stardew Valley - Mods for Quality of Life

This guide aims to show you a carefully selected range of mods that will increase the quality of life and experience in the game.

Welcome!

Hi hi!

Welcome to my Stardew Valley guide! This time we'll be going over mods to increase the quality of life, without changing things too abruptly, we want it to be a Vanilla Friendly.

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As mentioned above, this selection of mods contemplates and aims to make Vanilla more user-friendly, without changing broad things, so Stardew Valley Expanded and related mods will not be included in this guide.

This guide assumes that you have SMAPI updated to the latest version, so that you don't have compatibility problems with mods.

If you enjoyed this guide, a feedback is always welcome! ^-^

SMAPI - Links

Below are the official and enabled links to download, update, or verify if everything is correct (plus how to set some parameters), courtesy of Pathoschild.

Official Websites:
Official SMAPI website, along with release notes and other stuff.[smapi.io]

NexusMods Website - SMAPI Page[www.nexusmods.com]

Installing SMAPI and how to enable Steam Parameters - Official Wiki

Stardew Valley Wiki - Modding SMAPI[stardewvalleywiki.com]

Aesthetic Mods

These mods are intended to make the world of Stardew Valley a much more lively and dynamic place - each one has been tested!
🔨 Content Patcher
First of all, a mod that makes life much easier to load images, maps, weather, whatever you imagine, without changing a single XNB file in the game. We need it to change game!

Download ContentPatcher on NexusMods![www.nexusmods.com]

👕 Seasonal Outfits - Slightly Cuter Aesthethic

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Did it always seem unnatural for villagers to wear the same clothes every day, every season?

Well, this mod solves the problem, now all villagers will have different outfits depending on the season and time of year.

Download Seasonal Outfits on NexusMods![www.nexusmods.com]

🌾 Starblue Valley World Recolor

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Do you feel eyestrain from playing Stardew for so long? Its colours are so vibrant that they can be a bit distracting, so why not change it for a while? Here is Starblue Valley World Recolor for you!

Mental Note: At the time of writing, the Island has not yet been re-textured.

Download Starblue Valley World Recolor on NexusMods![www.nexusmods.com]

🌿 DaisyNiko's Earthy Recolour

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Want to combine Starblue Valley with a fresh facelift of Stardew Valley's textures? The result is DaisyNiko's Earthy Recolour. It desaturates the vibrant colours, while adding new textures, in which they are most visibly manifested in trees or grass.

Download Earthy Recolour from DaisyNiko on NexusMods![www.nexusmods.com]

🐟 Visible Fish

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Do you want the lakes and the sea to look more alive? This mod makes sea creatures more visible, and can also be used as a reference point for where a specific fish is located.

Download Visible Fish on NexusMods![www.nexusmods.com]

Information and Utilities Mods

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The Junimos have been trying to figure out for hours where the Starfruit came from and what it does, but you don't have to! With these mods you can have information about anything in an instant.

🧭 NPC Map Locations
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"Where is Marnie now? Screams"

Has that ever happened to you? Tired of Robin not being at his carpentry station at the time she was supposed to be there? Gift you can't send because you don't know where the birthday person is?

Well, with this mod these situations will never happen again! Villagers will be on the minimap at all times, in all situations.

Download NPC Map Locations on NexusMods![www.nexusmods.com]

💸 CJB Show Item Sell Price
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Tired of using Excel or waiting until the end of the day to see how much you earned?

This mod will allow you to see the selling prices of each item, both as a single item price and as a stack of the same item.

Download CJB Show Item Sell Price on NexusMods![www.nexusmods.com]

🐮 Better Ranching
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"Did I pet my pigs today? When I had to milk my cows and goats? I wish there was a mod for that..."

You're in luck, there's a mod for exactly what you're looking for, it's none other than Better Ranching. This simple mod will indicate if you have petted your animals, if it's time to milk them, and a couple of other things.

Download Better Ranching on NexusMods![www.nexusmods.com]

🔎 Lookup Anything
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The first time I played Stardew Valley it was not uncommon for me to have 10 tabs open on the game's Wiki. This is the reality for many players, I'm sure.

But with this mod you don't have to, it gives you data on every single thing in the game, a pocket-sized Wiki.

Download Lookup Anything on NexusMods![www.nexusmods.com]

Quality of Life Mods

Mods that will make your life as a farmer much easier and dynamic, make Stardew Valley more alive!

👥 Part of the Community
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This mod will make interaction and friendship much more dynamic, for example, if you chat with a villager while they are near a group of villagers, they will all increase friendship points with you.

Download Part of the Community on NexusMods![www.nexusmods.com]

📦 Carry Chest
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Tired of taking things out of a chest, moving it and finally putting the items back in? You won't do it anymore! With Carry Chest the problem is solved

Download Carry Chest on NexusMods![www.nexusmods.com]

🐶 Pet Interaction
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Normally, pets don't play a major role in the player's daily life, you give them water and pet them, but... How about giving them more interactions like walking with you or playing fetch?

Pet Interaction takes care of exactly these things, so that your pets can have more active lives.

Download Pet Interaction on NexusMods![www.nexusmods.com]

💬 Canon-Friendly Dialogue Expansion for All Friend-able Characters
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As you play more and have maximum hearts with the villagers, they become more and more limited in terms of dialogue, making them repetitive and "almost" memorisable.

Well, with this mod you will have many more dialogues, namely approximately 2500 new lines of dialogue between the 34 villagers, starting from the first heart. The valley becomes less monotonous!

Download Canon-Friendly Dialogue Expansion for All Friend-able Characters on NexusMods![www.nexusmods.com]

🌿 Winter Grass
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Have you decorated an area and don't want to lose those thousands of gold invested in grass? This mod will make the grass stay in winter.

Download Winter Grass on NexusMods![www.nexusmods.com]

📚 Stack Everything
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You know that moment when you're decorating and you can't stack the multiple repeated cabinets or decorations?

Well, that's over thanks to Stack Everything, it allows up to 999 stackable objects!

Download Stack Everything on NexusMods![www.nexusmods.com]

Farewell

And here we say goodbye, dear modder farmer, I personally hope that this guide has served you well and that you have enjoyed it as much as I did.

If you liked it and you feel a little push, give me some feedback, I'll receive it with love.

[xXHowlett_FangXx]

Okay, so I am not a mod user on SDV, I enjoy playing this game as vanilla. So these small improvements will make life so much better and not change the game to much off base of vanilla. I can get behind this and I am going to reference this page as I start adding mods to my gameplay so I can cherry pick the mods I think I want the most. Thanks so much for doing this!

[Hellraizer]

@samo_gamer i checked again how it looks on my end, the game just takes a hot second to load, at least on my end. results may vary on your end, just give it some time!

[Yobi]

Hi samo_gamer!

I can't locate the problem you say, everything seems to be working correctly. If you're hesitating because of the "Error Handler", it's a file that fixes some common errors in the base game to give more useful info or prevent the game from corrupting.

Nothing wrong with that!

[SteelPenny]

I have this issue after running the game it opens SMAPI and says this:
[SMAPI] SMAPI 3.14.5 with Stardew Valley 1.5.6 (build 22018) on Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
[SMAPI] Mods go here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Stardew Valley\Mods
[SMAPI] Waiting for game to launch...
[SMAPI] Loading mod metadata...
[SMAPI] Loading mods...
[SMAPI] Loaded 4 mods:
[SMAPI] CJB Show Item Sell Price 1.9.15 by CJBok and Pathoschild | Show item sell price in your inventory!
[SMAPI] Console Commands 3.14.5 by SMAPI | Adds SMAPI console commands that let you manipulate the game.
[SMAPI] Error Handler 3.14.5 by SMAPI | Handles some common vanilla errors to log more useful info or avoid breaking the game.
[SMAPI] Save Backup 3.14.5 by SMAPI | Automatically backs up all your saves once per day into its folder.

[SMAPI] Launching mods...
[SMAPI] Mods loaded and ready!


Is there an additional thing I have to do to get the actual game to run?

[Hellraizer]

@The Hunter when installing SMAPI, it tells you what to do, it still triggers achivements , no matter which mod you are using :D

[Mew Mew]

@The Hunter: Achievements should work fine with these mods. I don't have most of these ones specifically, but I do have several mods I use, and have been able to earn new achievements with no issue while using them.

[Dream Chaser]

Does achivments will still trigger normally even when playing with those mods?

[Mr. Snoopy]

Lowkey Emily is the only good looking one and nobody els will beat her when it come to getting my heart.

[Yobi]

The mods mentioned here should work without problem in multiplayer Grubbyjoe!

Thanks Krith for taking the time to write me this comment, I have seen that there was indeed a wrong link, I have corrected it immediately, Thanks for the points!

[Krith]

Just decided to get back into this game, and your guide is fantastic. I'm grabbing them all because I never modded it before and I KNOW these will add to it. Take some points! (also, the link to the earthy one points to another, at least it did for me;))