Item Bags
Best Stardew Valley Mods
If you’re tired of managing your inventory in physical chests left around your farm, this new mod offers a smart alternative.
It places item bags within the game, with different types that allow you to carry greater amounts of certain items within them. This increases inventory size while also allowing you to organize all your items easier into their specifically labeled bags.
For example, there is a mining bag that holds only ores, geodes, and gems, as well as an animal products bag that only holds things like milk, wool, and eggs.
There are small, medium, and large bags, with the only difference (besides the sprites) being the size that correlates to how much of the category type it can hold within one inventory space.
More Grass
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This mod allows you to add new types of grass to your Stardew Valley game through the use of PNG files.
Besides adding custom grass options, the mod also adds new winter grass as a default.
Adding new grass to your game adds a touch more realism to a farm’s appearance, as usually a farm in real life has more than one color of grass growing all over the place.
Industrial Kitchen and Interior
Best Stardew Valley Mods
This mod offers a ton of new items you can place in your Stardew Valley home featuring a distinct industrial look.
It was one of the most popular in February, along with another mod out last month from the same creator that also adds generic furniture in the same industrial design.
Both mods together allow you to decorate your entire house all in the same theme.
Better Artisan Goods
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Artisan goods in Stardew Valley are special items that can be made only through the use of Artisan Equipment tools. Once you place the base item within the tool, it can take anywhere between a few hours or days for the finished artisan product to be complete.
This mod offers some new sprites for those goods that aim to make them look a bit more realistic and toned down in color.
You can see some comparisons above, with the old sprites underneath the new ones to show how much more detail the mod has to offer.
There was also a mod out last month that offers new and better sprites for gems and minerals as well from the same mod creator cometkins, as well as a better crop and foraging sprites mod from December 2019.
Custom Chores/Help for Hire
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This new Help for Hire mod adds a whole new element of gameplay to Stardew Valley.
It allows you to subscribe to chores for a daily cost so that they’ll automatically be done every morning.
The chores included are:
- Feeding the animals.
- Filling the pet water bowl.
- Petting the animals for bonding.
- Repairing fences.
- Watering hoed dirt.
- Filling water troughs in slime hutches.
The Help for Hire mod is also necessary for the Custom Chores mod from the same creator to work properly. The Custom Chores mod actually adds the chores to the game, and makes them customizable in Content Packs with additional chores being added by other mods.
The built-in chores for Custom Chores include all the ones offered in Help for Hire, as well as two additional ones where your spouse will give you a breakfast item in the morning or your spouse will give you a gift that an NPC will like or love on their birthday.
Expanded Greenhouse
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This mod offers an expanded greenhhouse with a ton of new features.
The new greenhouse is highly customizable and has a slightly expanded size. It includes a seasonal back window that changes depending on what time of year it is, a swimming pond, and more space for crops and trees.
You can also choose which color of glass you prefer for the window, and everything is compatible with all recolors and retextures.
Babysitter
Best Stardew Valley Mods
Tired of your kids in Stardew Valley just being lumps that lay around the house?
This mod adds some new features to your kids like new dialog, likes, and a default schedule. The best inclusion though is the option for babysitters to take care of them while you are out running your farm.
Seven different NPCs can act as a babysitter, including Alex, Sebastian, Maru, Abigail, Shane, Emily, and Linus. They each looks after one child at a time, and take them to hang out with while during their set NPC schedule.
Wildflower Grass Field
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Another mod out this month that focuses on grass sprites, this one adds a whopping 52 new grass and flower variations for all four seasons in Stardew Valley.
Each season comes with 13 different grass types, including winter grasses.
You can see some of the examples above, adding rich orange and brown colors alongside new wildflowers like sunflowers and cardinal flowers.
Cuter Seasonal Outfits
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NPCs in Stardew Valley change their clothing depending on the season. This mod completely overhauls those outfits to give them a cuter aesthetic.
There are new outfits for every NPC for all four seasons, as well as specific outfits for when NPCs are inside as opposed to outside in the winter.
It also includes new wedding and flower dance outfits for bachelors/bachelorettes, and all the new outfits are reflected in the NPC’s portraits as well.
There was also another mod out last month that changed up NPC seasonal outfits, but it just changes the portraits instead of the sprites too.
Chocolatier
Best Stardew Valley Mods
Have some fun making new chocolate creations with this mod that adds new chocolatier artisan goods to Stardew Valley.
There are 37 new items in total, all centered around chocolaty treats. The mod also comes with a new custom machine to make them with.
For more new Stardew Valley mods, check out some of the best from the previous month of January 2020.
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