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I also love the mod "They deserve it too" that adds portraits to vendor that usually don't have any. I also appreciate that they add support to mods that change the appearence of some vendors. It just makes them feels more alive
Oh, yes, big agreement for this one! It's a small thing but it's very worth it for immersion. And there's cross-compatibility for various other mods, too, like Hat Mouse and Friends and the seasonal mermaids and stormy mermaid mods that replace the old mariner.
@@scarletmoon9054 I recommend looking for modding on the wiki or some tutorial videos, its not difficult but its hard to explain and takes a little effort to get started. The Wiki has a page to help you get started but a tutorial video can help better than a text page about installing Smapi.
Hey! I just got SVE for the first time because a coworker said I HAD to great job on all the art it fits the feel seamlessly. It definitely feels like CA update rather than mod content (I mean this in the most complementary way possible)
Ive seen it on YT and had great reviews from my son who plays with SVE. I wish it were available for mobile or PlayStation, I would definitely use it. Great job 🤩
Ridgeside is a very huge expansion too! With over 50+ npcs, new festivals, 22 marriage candidates, over 400 new events and a lot more. I personally play with expanded.
@@honestlywhatever it was made by a small group! Dont worry they all have quests, and heart events, some npc’s are even locked for marriage and can only be unlocked be picking certain answers in their heart events (I believe). Everyone feels different, and their is a whole major story line in the mod as well, it somewhat focus on your grandma instead of your grandpa. It is a lot but so fun!
Its funny how you use the Serve Yourself mod specifically for Marnie, because now there's a book she sells herself that allows you to use her services when shes not working lol
If you're looking for expansion mod, East Scarp is not really talked about but it's my favourite from them all. It's not overwhelming and you can download add-up mods (like npcs and locations) which is very cool for people who like customization
My new play through (post 1.6 perfection) is SDE, Ridge side village, and East Scarp. Plus Cornicopia and challenge bundles. I've also got Lagacy Farm, Greenhouse, and Cave. I'm in spring year 2 and have only finished the vault and boiler room. It's been a great challenge and full of enjoyable new content.
Its very buggy and not even close to as finished as the others. However apart from that its great. I really hope they finish it. But from what i saw last time I checked; its not looking good. Cause it does exploring so well
My problem with East Scarp is, at least the last time I was playing (which was some years ago), that a lot of the mods for it aren't supported/updated and they don't work anymore, not to mention the entire things just doesn't seem to get much love from its creators, so it's like the black sheep of the 'expansion' family.
@@vexywexypoolove those!!! Have you tried the recolor mod it’s so good. I think there are several but the one I’m thinking of changes the seasons to these really beautiful muted textures and adds pink trees in the spring!!
For anyone who likes cats I’d suggest adding Jorts and Jean the Helper Cats. It’s based on the famous internet cats and beyond adding an adorable pair of cat NPCs it also adds new cut scenes with vanilla NPCs that give some great depth to their characters.
Jorts and Jean is easily my favorite NPC mod. The writing is amazing, and the characters are genuinely thoughtful and sweet. The Year 2 event (the one next to the river) moved me to the point where I had to send a note of appreciation to the author. And it also gave us "Pam, don't butter the cat." 10/10
For those, who are playing SVE and always wanted to marry a wizard, I highly recommend Romanceable Rasdmodius Revamped. This mod is so amazing and it completely changes your point of view on Stardew marriage. It adds sooooo much dialogue, events and so. You'll not regret it 😉
"This is, by far, the biggest mod you can include in your new 1.6 Stardew Valley playthrough." True, Stardew Valley Expanded is great, but I do think of the Ridgeside Valley mod. I feel like it's worth mentioning 23:44
If anyone's looking for more big expansion mods (like the last one shown in the video), I would suggest getting the Zuzu City mod. It's still in beta, but from what I've seen it's amazing. It adds new locations, new NPCs, new marriage candidates (including the CEO of Joja if you're into that haha), an apartment, and more!
I was hesitant to try automate, but it's so enjoyable and really just reduces the passive upkeep facet of the game without removing anything that felt fundamental about it
I just saw a neat alternative as well to automate where it utilizes junimos! They can only work so fast and are stuck to paths. I personally find it to be more balanced if you still want to work for the automation. But with how much requires maintenance proper automate is 1000% understandable and respected! Either way it's in the fun 😊
Really love the video but I noticed a super sudden and super loud piercing noise at around 20:07 when you were talking about spouse schedules, with Haley on the pier. It really caught me by surprise (I'm using headphones) and nearly had a heart attack even tho I didn't have my volume up that loud and had to turn the volume waaay down for the rest of it cuz I was scared of another 😭 But yeah! Great vid! I've been in a big mood to get back into Stardew and this update seems like the perfect opportunity! (and of course with mods too lol) I love your Stardew videos you're so fun, please keep up the good work and take care!
wtf sorry about that it wasnt in the edit timeline so mustve been an issue with the export. Thank you for watching and enjoying the video despite that!
I have been modding Stardew for a while now and even created some of my own mods. I really think that 1.6 did get rid of some good mods but it might as well as it pretty much added those mods in the base game itself. This is really cool how Eric acknowledged mods that got outdated and recreated them in his game and I feel good because of that
Brand new player here, starting on the latest 1.6... and the mods I've found essential are: TimeSpeed, MovementSpeed, AutoFishing, and BiggerBackpack. Because they save so much time. But now I'm going to have to check out a few more, because they seem really nice.
One word Nino: FENCEPOSTS! Everyone needs the mod that extends the life of gates and fences. I have no idea how people can play when their farm looks like its decaying every 10 minutes
In the CJB cheats menu can fix it, but a lot of people think of it as cheating, which it is lol it's on the name, but I don't care, I am playing for the aesthetics
@@bunny-9201 i actually started using the cheats menu once in a while for things like energy in early game and fishing and i used to feel rlly guilty cuz it is basically just cheating, but at the end of the day if it makes the game less tedious and more fun for me i dont really care
My new play through (post 1.6 perfection) is SDE, Ridge side village, and East Scarp. Plus Cornicopia and challenge bundles. I've also got Lagacy Farm, Greenhouse, and Cave. I'm in spring year 2 and have only finished the vault and boiler room. It's been a great challenge and full of enjoyable new content.
I also have same set up with expansions and challenging bundles 😂 but I picked mini farm 2, bigger greenhouse and cave by LNH . Also I added adventures guild expanded. I’m in fall year one with no bundles completed yet 😂
When I finished my first run in SV with perfection I started with mods because of you, and now i'm adding more mods. Friendship mods are my favorites, and for my farm I have Idalda's Goth Buildings, it's like living like a witch in the forest haha. I'm currently playing with SVE and I love all the new content you bring to us. Thank you so much for the video 🥰 (sorry if my english is bad, I'm from Spain haha)
If Megamind Demitrius DIDNT get carried over to 1.6, I don't know what I'm gonna do with myself... Honorable mention is the Heeleys mod. Which Nino is constantly using in the video if you pay close enough attention.
One of my favorite visual mods is the visible fish mods. I like being able to see the fish and it's helpful if you forget which times a fish is able to be caught. However I think there's a bug that causes floating things like trash or qi beans through the map sometimes. It's funny seeing them float by even if there's no water lol. I've only noticed it on modded tile sheets though like a mod that expands the farm or in cut scenes. I forgot to add the mod Part of the Community to the list of favorites. It's a mod that lets you gain friendship points by talking to NPCs near other NPCs and other interactions. It's really helpful if you're not able to remember to give gifts or trying to earn friendship points with someone like Pierre who's only favorite gift is calamari.
for a less saturate and bright screen, I personally think Faedew is a bit too extreme, I like Starblue Valley (Unnoficial) for a more blueish whimsical tone, OR the Earthy mods, that actually have compatibility with many expansion mods like Ridgeside Village and East Scarp
I feel like I find most of my fav mods through your channel, looking forward to checking some of these out It's been a rough week this week, thanks for posting. Your vids have been a good distraction
Two mods I absolutely adore and would recommend to people wanting to get into modding stardew would have to be Nyapu's Portraits and Ridgeside Village! Nyapu's Portraits are a adorable set of portraits that give villagers a Harvestmoon-esc chibi look! Whats great is that there are numerous addons for other modded NPCs such as for Stardew Valley Expanded and Ridgeside Village! Ridgeside Village, similar to Stardew Valley Expanded, is a mod which adds a whole new slew of characters, regions to visit, quest to go on, food, ores, and much more to collect! There are a ton of diverse and lovable characters (and potential love intrests!) And the mod is still being activly worked on! Its also compatible with Stardew Valley Expanded and makes the whole valley feel so so much bigger! Happy Modding! 🎉
11:26 oh GOD I just got a flashback to childhood 😂😂😂 I totally forgot about that. I wanted one sooooooo bad after watching that episode! I think that's why I love ring pops still lol Every now and then I'll catch myself singing the rainbow monkeys theme song too 😂
I will add my favorite mods to the list! I really think you should've added Seasonal Cute Outfits, it basically gives more outfits for the villagers, and they change with season and festivals too. If you're looking for something more inclusive, Diverse Stardew Valley basically does the same but changes the ethnicity and culture of the characters, making the town more diverse and inclusive with POCs, disabled people and trans people as well (all very configurable). Ridgeside Village is a HUGE expansion mod (dare I say, bigger than SVE), and it's honestly pretty cool with all the characters and the storylines. If you find it too overwhelming, East Scarp has a similar approach but it's smaller and much more customizable, since you can use it by itself, which is pretty small, or add NPC's to live there. If you use More Grass I also recommend using a content pack for it, to give your grass more "personality". Please, Remember My Marriage is a must, and it does exactly what it says. There's also Happy Birthday, which adds the farmer's birthday to the game and you receive gifts from your friends in town. Cornucopia adds a lot of crops and flowers to the game, but there's also Wildflour's mods of you want something more whimsical. there are so many more, I love my modded playthroughs
@@scarletmoon9054 oh, and if you ever want to play the vanilla game without any mods, you don't need to delete them, simply start the game from steam and it will be the vanilla version. just be careful with mods that alter the gameplay, bc if you play vanilla on a save that has mods, the save might become corrupted or you might lose stuff. I recommend just having different saves, at least one for vanilla and one for mods
if anyone has any thirst for angst like i do, you can add the "Spouse react to player death" mod where if you die in the mines there will be unique dialouge depending on what happened, i haven't died yet to experience the mod but knowing its there and that your spouse will react to you exhausting yourself out is really neat.
Love all the mods recommended here except for one. I honest to the Gods don't think SVE needs to be suggested anymore, you can't miss it whenever you go on Nexus alongside everybody and their Mother suggesting it. I would offer up Ridgeside with it's far more diverse town and story that somewhat slides alongside Pelican Town's without outright stating itself as canon. Adding on bits not told in game like your Grandmother, or your Grandfather's reputation, things like that! It's incredibly well done and deserves as much hype as SVE, if not, in my opinion, more. As for portrait mods, cannot recommend Diverse Stardew Valley enough! Even just using the vanilla portraits and addons adds so much to the game, like shoe racks for a lil insight to people's personalities. Oh, also try East Scarp and the people addons. Mateo and Sen are some of my favorites :D
@@Vinance790 I love BBBoong's portraits. Especially the marriage photos. And yeah vanilla style portraits usually look awkward. My favorite just has to be Talkohlooey's portraits. I wish one for Ridgeside comes out.
I haven't played any of the expansions, yet. tbh, Ridgeside & East Scarp interest me more than SVE. I'm sad I'm too late for Yri the Architect. It seems like portrait mods don't tend to include East Scarp A New Dream, though
The Diverse Portraits mod is so good. It's super customizable and most characters have at least two options, usually more. It also has seasonal outfits for every season and adds dialogue pertaining to the portrait changes, like Vincent commenting on how Haley has a hearing aid just like his dad and things like that. Cannot recommend enough
I'm totally over SVE at this point, both because I learned about the mod's sketchy history and because most of the additions are either bland, totally out of place, or both. (The only thing SVE adds that vanilla was truly missing is a villager who starts off disliking you for valid reasons and needs to be won over. I wish I could get Andy as a standalone NPC.) Also, I'm so glad to learn about Bbboong's Ridgeside portraits! I'm on my first playthrough with RSV and the inconsistent (and kinda janky) art style had really been undercutting the experience for me, so smoothing that out will help a lot.
For expansions: I can also highly recommend Ridgeside, Passerby Cemetary and Visit Mt Vapius - new locations and NPCs. Walk of Life - skill overhaul. Wildflours' and Cornucopia mods - new crops, machines, artisan products. Better Things mod - a bit of everything, but I mostly use it for shop overhaul and some new machine rules. Life Cycle - rival heart events for vanilla NPCs, but only a few pairs yet. Automate - well, a mod to automate your machines, artisan production and stuff.
in terms of aesthetics mods i'd like to suggest adding "Visible Fish", "Wind Effects" and "Dynamic Reflections" to your pack. and instead of that massive Machine Progression System Mod, just add "Automate" and you're saving plenty of time already on your regular schedule.
The mod that has saved my life is Item Bags, and there's a way to make extra bags to extend it for Extensions of the Valley like Wildflour Atelier and Mt Vapius, Geology Mod, etc. It makes organizing inventory and collecting the items needed for the Community Center Bundles so much easier (there's a bag specifically for collecting the items for the bundles) and an Omni bag, to hold all the other bags so you only have to have one space taken up by the extra bags (although I do usually have an extra Rucksack or two, just to have enough room for random stuff)
THANK YOU for the skull cave elevator mod. was gonna search for one but no need to now! i'm reallllly bad at combat in this game so the elevator really helps for the pesky "reach level 100 in the skull caverns" quest and such
Yes thank you! I ended up getting overwhelmed bc I got too into the modded stuff and ended up giving up bc I kept downloading so many. Hopefully this'll help organize my mod choices a lot better tho~
i have a mod that i use all the time and is my absolute favorite, its called "seasonal farmer portrait mod" u can make your character portrait in the game! i find it rly fun and cool. u can use the item spawner mod to give yourself outfits for every season and festival. i can send both links from nexus
Mono’s portraits is one of the only portrait mods rn that I can find that’s updated for 1.6 while still keeping the pixel art style. Woomewong’s mod isn’t updated yet, but once it is, I’ll definitely head back to that one.
I heard some weird electric sound and it happens over and over when I rewind this second 20:05 tell me that it's not my phone breaking down from not able to withstand a specific moment of sound frequency pls. Oh, the video is fun by the way.
a mod to make silos hold at least 10x as much hay just makes them make more sense. i don't want to take up over 50 tiles for silos just to run four barns. one silo should be all i need, ever
I am in for game altering mods, and I combined the Automate mod and the chests anywhere mod. Just put a chest next to your machines and you can load your machines from everywhere, no hoppers needed
Hey Nino! Ive been watching since 2k (i think im not sure) and i just wanted to say thanks for puttting all the effort into streaming and pumping out videos!🎉
i love that if you took the elevator to skull cavern floor 100, Qi would compliment you for doing it ''the honorable way''. (prob because it only checks if you used staircases, but still funny)
Just got into a modded playthrough, and I am excited to try out some of these mods. SVE will be waiting until I actually achieve perfection for the first time.
One of my more favorite mods is ItsStardewTime. Time has an annoying tendency to slip past way too quickly. That mod helps a lot with the time and is adjustable, even to the point of making time move too fast.
Favorite portrait mod personally is Anime Portraits (CP), which keeps the shading/pixelated vibe of the portraits while making them cuter. I never liked how Emily, Maru, and Robin were drawn, it just wasn't my taste, but it's done so well imo to not feel out of place, while being right up your alley if you do like anime art style as a whole.
Automatic gates is SO NICE!! Idk if it's easier on PC, but I play on Steam Deck and can't tell you how many times I've accidentally knocked my gates off of the fence when trying to get through. I've even had animals escape - they make their way back at night as long as you leave the gate open, but it's just annoying. The mod just opens the gate as you walk through and closes it behind you. Absolute godsend. (AutoAnimalDoors automatically opens and clooses the barn and coop doors in the morning and evening, respectively. It doesn't really affect gameplay, it's just easier to pet all the animals while they're all together indoors) The bigger backpack mod is great for hoarders like me. Definitely a bit cheaty but I don't even care. Upgrade sprinklers is what it sounds like - it lets you upgrade sprinklers you already have. It's just neater, I think. I also really like the faster animations mod. Also a bit cheaty when it comes to combat, but at the same time it's another one that can really help if you're struggling to the point of frustration rather than fun. There are tons of little quality of life mods that I really like, some do more than others. I needed more of them when I was newer (longer days were pretty crucial for my earliest Stardew Valley Expanded days), I used a lot of "training wheels" then for sure.
Another mod that i can't play without is "Fast Animations", this mod speeds up all animations that don't take in game time like geode cracking, eating, picking up forage and crops, all those actions pause the game therefore i wouldn't consider that cheating in any way. Also this mod is fully configurable, so if you don't like that your bus animation is sped up you can return it to normal speed
I would highly recommend for quality of life: "Automate" and "Fast Animations". For expanded content: "Ridgeside Village" and most of the content for "East Scarp".
Honestly I was skeptical of the elevator mod bc I’m still getting used to the skull caverns and I didn’t want to get it for the longest time but I love it now
ive been playing stardew for a week at most and the amount of times that marnie just WANDERS away during business hours makes me NEED the mod to serve myself
I decided to play SDV modded again after a long hiatus, first time I installed every single recommendation on a list. Thank you for the list and to the devs!
Mono’s portraits are just so good. It’s the first mod I downloaded, not long after getting the game too. I’ll prob disable it for the expansion mods that add new characters after I “complete” my first mostly vanilla playthrough
personally im a really big fan of daysinikos's and junimods' mods! they focus on aesthetics and redesigning certain parts of the game and everything looks so pretty! elle (junimods) also makes some of their mods compatible with other aesthetic mods!
Hmmm, the machine progression mod looks interesting - thanks for the list 😊 Personally I don’t like the skull caverns elevator mod (but I like that it exists for other people! Like the simplified fishing mod). The “cheat” mod that I like is the extra rings mod - I only run it at 4, but its default is 8 and you can choose any number of ring slots - I just like that it doesn’t make me choose between napalm, slime charmer, hot java or burglar to go with my iridium bands and lucky rings 😆
The one mod that i cannot live without is automate. In later stages in the game you dont love time to put things into machines you just automate it. Also it makes crab pots a finally a machine that make sence.
Hi quick question: if I want to add these mods all in my game, will they break eachother or even the game itself? And when mods update , does it affect my game even if its a version back? All these mods r awesome I js cant-
i was hoping to hear about ridgeside village its another great and detail expansion mod that nobody talks about so it can get hard some time when you get stuck in the story, but great video found some new mods to use
Just a heads up, I saw that the Child Age Up mod has been having some glitches with the 1.6 update and the creator said they are no longer supporting the mod. Not sure if there is another creator who is going to keep updating it, but there's a potential that this version will corrupt your save if you have several kids in the game
Yeah, I know it is possible to mod the Steam Deck but I chose to mod my computer version of SV and just used a wireless controller as I was used to the controller
You might want to dock with kbm, since you'll be getting into desktop mode, but there are tutorials on YT for Nexus Mods Vortex. The modding is basically the same as windows. The steps are easy
@@gbpakgirl26 Ik its possible, and i even downloaded SMAPI, but i just couldn’t get cursed forge to run correctly. It kept saying something abt not being able to do basically anything (logging in, downloading mods, etc.)
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Nino the Faedew mod had .exe in the name you sure its safe???
Nino I have a video recommendation if I may. Dead Plate is an excellent free to download game for the pc. I think you’d enjoy it
@@Soph_onpawz I installed it and it's safe. it just has an offsite requirement if it's on nexus, which is a little bit confusing.
Child age up doesn't work it's all outdated...
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I also love the mod "They deserve it too" that adds portraits to vendor that usually don't have any. I also appreciate that they add support to mods that change the appearence of some vendors. It just makes them feels more alive
Oh, yes, big agreement for this one! It's a small thing but it's very worth it for immersion. And there's cross-compatibility for various other mods, too, like Hat Mouse and Friends and the seasonal mermaids and stormy mermaid mods that replace the old mariner.
thanks im downloading it rn :D
How to apply mods on stardew valley?
that's really sweet, thanks for introducing us to it
@@scarletmoon9054 I recommend looking for modding on the wiki or some tutorial videos, its not difficult but its hard to explain and takes a little effort to get started. The Wiki has a page to help you get started but a tutorial video can help better than a text page about installing Smapi.
Pixel artist on SDV Expanded here. Thanks for the mention!! :D
eeeee i love your work!!! 🫶🫶
Patreon supporter of FS here. Really enjoying your work on the new beta!
Hey! I just got SVE for the first time because a coworker said I HAD to great job on all the art it fits the feel seamlessly. It definitely feels like CA update rather than mod content (I mean this in the most complementary way possible)
Yall are great. Its so good it feels like it came with the game
Ive seen it on YT and had great reviews from my son who plays with SVE. I wish it were available for mobile or PlayStation, I would definitely use it. Great job 🤩
Ridgeside is a very huge expansion too! With over 50+ npcs, new festivals, 22 marriage candidates, over 400 new events and a lot more. I personally play with expanded.
East Scarp is also a really good expansion mod together with Ridgeside and Stardew valley Expanded!
@@idakristin4 it is a great mod, though you do have download various other mods (for villagers) to make the town complete, other than that it’s fun.
How’s many people worked on that then jeez. So they all have quests or are there a lot of nothing happening about?
@@honestlywhatever it was made by a small group! Dont worry they all have quests, and heart events, some npc’s are even locked for marriage and can only be unlocked be picking certain answers in their heart events (I believe). Everyone feels different, and their is a whole major story line in the mod as well, it somewhat focus on your grandma instead of your grandpa. It is a lot but so fun!
How to apply mods on stardew valley?
Its funny how you use the Serve Yourself mod specifically for Marnie, because now there's a book she sells herself that allows you to use her services when shes not working lol
Thank you for featuring my mod, Canon-Friendly Dialogue Expansion! (Gizzymo aka Ben)
I didn't know about it, but I'm installing it because of this video. It looks great!
@@helloofthebeach thank you, hope you enjoy!
I'm adding it to my list too! thank you for such a great work
@@gavgavland thank you! Enjoy!
I’ve been using that one for a few months! It’s so good! Well done!
my heart STOPPED when i saw hayleys portrait... have mercy
She’s just so pretty
haleys just that girl ☺️!!
so real and true guys, i NEED to be her
Unfortunately, the creator of that mod said won't let it be compatible with other major mods
@@sugarpink_1122 we must stay focused bothers we must stay focused
If you're looking for expansion mod, East Scarp is not really talked about but it's my favourite from them all. It's not overwhelming and you can download add-up mods (like npcs and locations) which is very cool for people who like customization
I wish East Scarp had more support, like portrait mods. I'm bummed I missed out on Yri the Architect, because I didn't mod 1.5
My new play through (post 1.6 perfection) is SDE, Ridge side village, and East Scarp. Plus Cornicopia and challenge bundles.
I've also got Lagacy Farm, Greenhouse, and Cave.
I'm in spring year 2 and have only finished the vault and boiler room. It's been a great challenge and full of enjoyable new content.
Jorts, Jean and Mr. Ginger have my whole heart ❤
Its very buggy and not even close to as finished as the others. However apart from that its great. I really hope they finish it. But from what i saw last time I checked; its not looking good.
Cause it does exploring so well
My problem with East Scarp is, at least the last time I was playing (which was some years ago), that a lot of the mods for it aren't supported/updated and they don't work anymore, not to mention the entire things just doesn't seem to get much love from its creators, so it's like the black sheep of the 'expansion' family.
It just occured to me that Nino has the personality of Sam and the emo catboy aesthetic of Sebastian
He is the lovechild of Sam and Seb
@@juliaboskamp9666 For real
Yes and yes
@@juliaboskamp9666 facts
@@juliaboskamp9666 And Abigail is his aunt
For all the creators of aesthetics mods that make Stardew valley less bright/saturated: you all have my neurodivergent heart ❤️
I WISH I COULD DOWNLOAD MODS LIKE THJS, BUT I PLAY ON MOBILE. *APPLE* MOBILE.
In 1.5 I've used the vintage interface and some of Elles redesign mods. Blessing my eyes when I play at 3am.
@@mynameisvincent. I understand you, before I got a notebook I used to play with Nintendo Switch and Apple Mobile too 😭😭😭
@@vexywexypoolove those!!! Have you tried the recolor mod it’s so good. I think there are several but the one I’m thinking of changes the seasons to these really beautiful muted textures and adds pink trees in the spring!!
For anyone who likes cats I’d suggest adding Jorts and Jean the Helper Cats. It’s based on the famous internet cats and beyond adding an adorable pair of cat NPCs it also adds new cut scenes with vanilla NPCs that give some great depth to their characters.
Jorts and Jean is easily my favorite NPC mod. The writing is amazing, and the characters are genuinely thoughtful and sweet. The Year 2 event (the one next to the river) moved me to the point where I had to send a note of appreciation to the author.
And it also gave us "Pam, don't butter the cat." 10/10
Timestamps:
3:13 - UI Info Suite 2
4:35 - Look Up Anything
5:37 - Self Serve 1.6
5:58 - Becoming Familiar
6:34 - Better Friendship
6:58 - It's time to wake up
7:33 - Immersive Scarecrows
8:10 - Skull Cave Elevator
9:29 - Mono's Portraits
10:33 - Vanilla Tweaks Mods (Covers 4 mods)
11:23 - Blurple Berry Supreme 😂
12:04 - Simple Foliage
12:55 - Chest Deco
14:02 - Faedew
14:40 - Wayback Pelican Town
14:49 - Medieval Buildings
17:07 - MORE GRASS
17:36 - Canon-Friendly Dialogue Expansion
19:03 - Immersive Spouses Schedules
20:21 - Child Age Up
20:58 - Machine Progression System
22:39 - Stardew Valley Expanded
For those, who are playing SVE and always wanted to marry a wizard, I highly recommend Romanceable Rasdmodius Revamped. This mod is so amazing and it completely changes your point of view on Stardew marriage. It adds sooooo much dialogue, events and so. You'll not regret it 😉
for those who like buildings close to vanilla but still different, I recommend “Elle's Seasonal Buildings”, it's my favorite buildings mod!!
"This is, by far, the biggest mod you can include in your new 1.6 Stardew Valley playthrough." True, Stardew Valley Expanded is great, but I do think of the Ridgeside Valley mod. I feel like it's worth mentioning 23:44
If anyone's looking for more big expansion mods (like the last one shown in the video), I would suggest getting the Zuzu City mod. It's still in beta, but from what I've seen it's amazing. It adds new locations, new NPCs, new marriage candidates (including the CEO of Joja if you're into that haha), an apartment, and more!
Automate is a must have to, makes the game so much better
I was hesitant to try automate, but it's so enjoyable and really just reduces the passive upkeep facet of the game without removing anything that felt fundamental about it
I just saw a neat alternative as well to automate where it utilizes junimos! They can only work so fast and are stuck to paths. I personally find it to be more balanced if you still want to work for the automation. But with how much requires maintenance proper automate is 1000% understandable and respected! Either way it's in the fun 😊
im pretty sure you need automate for the Machine Progretion System, maybe that whay he didnt talk about it
Really love the video but I noticed a super sudden and super loud piercing noise at around 20:07 when you were talking about spouse schedules, with Haley on the pier. It really caught me by surprise (I'm using headphones) and nearly had a heart attack even tho I didn't have my volume up that loud and had to turn the volume waaay down for the rest of it cuz I was scared of another 😭
But yeah! Great vid! I've been in a big mood to get back into Stardew and this update seems like the perfect opportunity! (and of course with mods too lol) I love your Stardew videos you're so fun, please keep up the good work and take care!
wtf sorry about that it wasnt in the edit timeline so mustve been an issue with the export. Thank you for watching and enjoying the video despite that!
i was looking for this comment because it scared me so bad 😭
I have been modding Stardew for a while now and even created some of my own mods. I really think that 1.6 did get rid of some good mods but it might as well as it pretty much added those mods in the base game itself. This is really cool how Eric acknowledged mods that got outdated and recreated them in his game and I feel good because of that
Brand new player here, starting on the latest 1.6... and the mods I've found essential are: TimeSpeed, MovementSpeed, AutoFishing, and BiggerBackpack. Because they save so much time. But now I'm going to have to check out a few more, because they seem really nice.
One word Nino: FENCEPOSTS!
Everyone needs the mod that extends the life of gates and fences. I have no idea how people can play when their farm looks like its decaying every 10 minutes
In the CJB cheats menu can fix it, but a lot of people think of it as cheating, which it is lol it's on the name, but I don't care, I am playing for the aesthetics
@@bunny-9201 It's not like it makes the game less challenging, just less tedious
@@bunny-9201 i actually started using the cheats menu once in a while for things like energy in early game and fishing and i used to feel rlly guilty cuz it is basically just cheating, but at the end of the day if it makes the game less tedious and more fun for me i dont really care
That Sebastian portrait with a scarf though.
My new play through (post 1.6 perfection) is SDE, Ridge side village, and East Scarp. Plus Cornicopia and challenge bundles.
I've also got Lagacy Farm, Greenhouse, and Cave.
I'm in spring year 2 and have only finished the vault and boiler room. It's been a great challenge and full of enjoyable new content.
I also have same set up with expansions and challenging bundles 😂 but I picked mini farm 2, bigger greenhouse and cave by LNH . Also I added adventures guild expanded. I’m in fall year one with no bundles completed yet 😂
So glad the Vanilla Tweaks mods are getting more recognition!
When I finished my first run in SV with perfection I started with mods because of you, and now i'm adding more mods. Friendship mods are my favorites, and for my farm I have Idalda's Goth Buildings, it's like living like a witch in the forest haha. I'm currently playing with SVE and I love all the new content you bring to us. Thank you so much for the video 🥰 (sorry if my english is bad, I'm from Spain haha)
If Megamind Demitrius DIDNT get carried over to 1.6, I don't know what I'm gonna do with myself...
Honorable mention is the Heeleys mod. Which Nino is constantly using in the video if you pay close enough attention.
One of my favorite visual mods is the visible fish mods. I like being able to see the fish and it's helpful if you forget which times a fish is able to be caught. However I think there's a bug that causes floating things like trash or qi beans through the map sometimes. It's funny seeing them float by even if there's no water lol. I've only noticed it on modded tile sheets though like a mod that expands the farm or in cut scenes.
I forgot to add the mod Part of the Community to the list of favorites. It's a mod that lets you gain friendship points by talking to NPCs near other NPCs and other interactions. It's really helpful if you're not able to remember to give gifts or trying to earn friendship points with someone like Pierre who's only favorite gift is calamari.
for a less saturate and bright screen, I personally think Faedew is a bit too extreme, I like Starblue Valley (Unnoficial) for a more blueish whimsical tone, OR the Earthy mods, that actually have compatibility with many expansion mods like Ridgeside Village and East Scarp
I feel like I find most of my fav mods through your channel, looking forward to checking some of these out
It's been a rough week this week, thanks for posting. Your vids have been a good distraction
"if you've spoken to a villager that day. If you've given a villager a gift."
That's been vanilla for a while lol
Two mods I absolutely adore and would recommend to people wanting to get into modding stardew would have to be Nyapu's Portraits and Ridgeside Village!
Nyapu's Portraits are a adorable set of portraits that give villagers a Harvestmoon-esc chibi look! Whats great is that there are numerous addons for other modded NPCs such as for Stardew Valley Expanded and Ridgeside Village!
Ridgeside Village, similar to Stardew Valley Expanded, is a mod which adds a whole new slew of characters, regions to visit, quest to go on, food, ores, and much more to collect! There are a ton of diverse and lovable characters (and potential love intrests!) And the mod is still being activly worked on! Its also compatible with Stardew Valley Expanded and makes the whole valley feel so so much bigger!
Happy Modding! 🎉
And East Scarp is compatible with Ridgeside, expanded etc. I really reccommend this mod (I married Aideen)
Devastatingly, I have stardew on the nintendo, which can't mod AND hasn't received the 1.6 update yet. 😭
Me too T^T
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I feel you from the PS4 side
Why not try playing on mobile?
@@pancake8180 not everyone has space or the money (could be a gift or saved up)
i love playing with mods, they make stardew valley much better
11:26 oh GOD I just got a flashback to childhood 😂😂😂 I totally forgot about that. I wanted one sooooooo bad after watching that episode! I think that's why I love ring pops still lol Every now and then I'll catch myself singing the rainbow monkeys theme song too 😂
I will add my favorite mods to the list!
I really think you should've added Seasonal Cute Outfits, it basically gives more outfits for the villagers, and they change with season and festivals too. If you're looking for something more inclusive, Diverse Stardew Valley basically does the same but changes the ethnicity and culture of the characters, making the town more diverse and inclusive with POCs, disabled people and trans people as well (all very configurable).
Ridgeside Village is a HUGE expansion mod (dare I say, bigger than SVE), and it's honestly pretty cool with all the characters and the storylines. If you find it too overwhelming, East Scarp has a similar approach but it's smaller and much more customizable, since you can use it by itself, which is pretty small, or add NPC's to live there.
If you use More Grass I also recommend using a content pack for it, to give your grass more "personality".
Please, Remember My Marriage is a must, and it does exactly what it says. There's also Happy Birthday, which adds the farmer's birthday to the game and you receive gifts from your friends in town.
Cornucopia adds a lot of crops and flowers to the game, but there's also Wildflour's mods of you want something more whimsical.
there are so many more, I love my modded playthroughs
How to apply mods on stardew valley? I'm having a hard time
@@scarletmoon9054 oh, and if you ever want to play the vanilla game without any mods, you don't need to delete them, simply start the game from steam and it will be the vanilla version. just be careful with mods that alter the gameplay, bc if you play vanilla on a save that has mods, the save might become corrupted or you might lose stuff. I recommend just having different saves, at least one for vanilla and one for mods
I love ur videos nino kiti when ever u realest a video it all ways make my day so much better😊
"canon friendly dialogue that won't startle you with something out of character!"
hailey: 😈
if anyone has any thirst for angst like i do, you can add the "Spouse react to player death" mod where if you die in the mines there will be unique dialouge depending on what happened, i haven't died yet to experience the mod but knowing its there and that your spouse will react to you exhausting yourself out is really neat.
20:23 Did I just witness child murder?
Calls the kid creepy, while doing that!
My idea for balancing the skeleton caverns mod is to make it so that the levels reset every season so that it doesn't become too OP
Love all the mods recommended here except for one. I honest to the Gods don't think SVE needs to be suggested anymore, you can't miss it whenever you go on Nexus alongside everybody and their Mother suggesting it.
I would offer up Ridgeside with it's far more diverse town and story that somewhat slides alongside Pelican Town's without outright stating itself as canon. Adding on bits not told in game like your Grandmother, or your Grandfather's reputation, things like that! It's incredibly well done and deserves as much hype as SVE, if not, in my opinion, more.
As for portrait mods, cannot recommend Diverse Stardew Valley enough! Even just using the vanilla portraits and addons adds so much to the game, like shoe racks for a lil insight to people's personalities.
Oh, also try East Scarp and the people addons. Mateo and Sen are some of my favorites :D
@@Vinance790 I love BBBoong's portraits. Especially the marriage photos.
And yeah vanilla style portraits usually look awkward.
My favorite just has to be Talkohlooey's portraits. I wish one for Ridgeside comes out.
I haven't played any of the expansions, yet. tbh, Ridgeside & East Scarp interest me more than SVE. I'm sad I'm too late for Yri the Architect. It seems like portrait mods don't tend to include East Scarp A New Dream, though
The Diverse Portraits mod is so good. It's super customizable and most characters have at least two options, usually more. It also has seasonal outfits for every season and adds dialogue pertaining to the portrait changes, like Vincent commenting on how Haley has a hearing aid just like his dad and things like that. Cannot recommend enough
@@washuaiI'm playing with all three and it's been fun!
I'm totally over SVE at this point, both because I learned about the mod's sketchy history and because most of the additions are either bland, totally out of place, or both. (The only thing SVE adds that vanilla was truly missing is a villager who starts off disliking you for valid reasons and needs to be won over. I wish I could get Andy as a standalone NPC.)
Also, I'm so glad to learn about Bbboong's Ridgeside portraits! I'm on my first playthrough with RSV and the inconsistent (and kinda janky) art style had really been undercutting the experience for me, so smoothing that out will help a lot.
I didn’t see a cjb mention there its like the love of my life at this point (T^T)
CJB on the honourable mention categories, as well as chestsanywhere, tractormod and automate.
For expansions:
I can also highly recommend Ridgeside, Passerby Cemetary and Visit Mt Vapius - new locations and NPCs.
Walk of Life - skill overhaul.
Wildflours' and Cornucopia mods - new crops, machines, artisan products.
Better Things mod - a bit of everything, but I mostly use it for shop overhaul and some new machine rules.
Life Cycle - rival heart events for vanilla NPCs, but only a few pairs yet.
Automate - well, a mod to automate your machines, artisan production and stuff.
I already have fifty mods installed and now I need more
I already used a few of those mods, but there are some on this list I'll definitely give a try, especially the aesthetic ones!
in terms of aesthetics mods i'd like to suggest adding "Visible Fish", "Wind Effects" and "Dynamic Reflections" to your pack. and instead of that massive Machine Progression System Mod, just add "Automate" and you're saving plenty of time already on your regular schedule.
The mod that has saved my life is Item Bags, and there's a way to make extra bags to extend it for Extensions of the Valley like Wildflour Atelier and Mt Vapius, Geology Mod, etc. It makes organizing inventory and collecting the items needed for the Community Center Bundles so much easier (there's a bag specifically for collecting the items for the bundles) and an Omni bag, to hold all the other bags so you only have to have one space taken up by the extra bags (although I do usually have an extra Rucksack or two, just to have enough room for random stuff)
i took a super long break from sdv before the update came out and i was SOO excited by all the mods i've found after
THANK YOU for the skull cave elevator mod. was gonna search for one but no need to now! i'm reallllly bad at combat in this game so the elevator really helps for the pesky "reach level 100 in the skull caverns" quest and such
Yes thank you! I ended up getting overwhelmed bc I got too into the modded stuff and ended up giving up bc I kept downloading so many. Hopefully this'll help organize my mod choices a lot better tho~
i have a mod that i use all the time and is my absolute favorite, its called "seasonal farmer portrait mod" u can make your character portrait in the game! i find it rly fun and cool. u can use the item spawner mod to give yourself outfits for every season and festival. i can send both links from nexus
3:45 And if I recall correctly, if you seen the cooking show on that Sunday.
i think it shows that icon if you don’t have the recipe that’s on that day’s queen of sauce! one of my favourite features of that mod fs
Mono’s portraits is one of the only portrait mods rn that I can find that’s updated for 1.6 while still keeping the pixel art style. Woomewong’s mod isn’t updated yet, but once it is, I’ll definitely head back to that one.
I heard some weird electric sound and it happens over and over when I rewind this second 20:05 tell me that it's not my phone breaking down from not able to withstand a specific moment of sound frequency pls. Oh, the video is fun by the way.
@@nott1039 I heard that too xd
a mod to make silos hold at least 10x as much hay just makes them make more sense. i don't want to take up over 50 tiles for silos just to run four barns. one silo should be all i need, ever
Sweet Yoba fighiting Yoda, you hit me hard with the nostalgia on that Blurpelberry supreme
I am in for game altering mods, and I combined the Automate mod and the chests anywhere mod. Just put a chest next to your machines and you can load your machines from everywhere, no hoppers needed
Hey Nino! Ive been watching since 2k (i think im not sure) and i just wanted to say thanks for puttting all the effort into streaming and pumping out videos!🎉
Thank you for watching :3
4:48 how did i not knew that Look up anything has a built in search bar wtff
i love that if you took the elevator to skull cavern floor 100, Qi would compliment you for doing it ''the honorable way''. (prob because it only checks if you used staircases, but still funny)
Just got into a modded playthrough, and I am excited to try out some of these mods. SVE will be waiting until I actually achieve perfection for the first time.
One of my more favorite mods is ItsStardewTime. Time has an annoying tendency to slip past way too quickly. That mod helps a lot with the time and is adjustable, even to the point of making time move too fast.
I watch your videos in the background when im doing something but then I get distracted and i don’t end up finishing what i’m doing
part of the community is huge if you go to saloon at night and talk to everybody
That Sebastian portrait thou. Black haired Cloud Strife.
Favorite portrait mod personally is Anime Portraits (CP), which keeps the shading/pixelated vibe of the portraits while making them cuter. I never liked how Emily, Maru, and Robin were drawn, it just wasn't my taste, but it's done so well imo to not feel out of place, while being right up your alley if you do like anime art style as a whole.
Automatic gates is SO NICE!! Idk if it's easier on PC, but I play on Steam Deck and can't tell you how many times I've accidentally knocked my gates off of the fence when trying to get through. I've even had animals escape - they make their way back at night as long as you leave the gate open, but it's just annoying. The mod just opens the gate as you walk through and closes it behind you. Absolute godsend. (AutoAnimalDoors automatically opens and clooses the barn and coop doors in the morning and evening, respectively. It doesn't really affect gameplay, it's just easier to pet all the animals while they're all together indoors)
The bigger backpack mod is great for hoarders like me. Definitely a bit cheaty but I don't even care.
Upgrade sprinklers is what it sounds like - it lets you upgrade sprinklers you already have. It's just neater, I think.
I also really like the faster animations mod. Also a bit cheaty when it comes to combat, but at the same time it's another one that can really help if you're struggling to the point of frustration rather than fun.
There are tons of little quality of life mods that I really like, some do more than others. I needed more of them when I was newer (longer days were pretty crucial for my earliest Stardew Valley Expanded days), I used a lot of "training wheels" then for sure.
Another mod that i can't play without is "Fast Animations", this mod speeds up all animations that don't take in game time like geode cracking, eating, picking up forage and crops, all those actions pause the game therefore i wouldn't consider that cheating in any way. Also this mod is fully configurable, so if you don't like that your bus animation is sped up you can return it to normal speed
Automate has made my playthrough far more enjoyable! Never need to manually fill your machines again!
that noise at 20:08 made me think my speakers were going 😭
13:53 not me feeling called out by the yellow chest read 🤭
I would highly recommend for quality of life: "Automate" and "Fast Animations".
For expanded content: "Ridgeside Village" and most of the content for "East Scarp".
Automate is a godsend. I refuse to play without it.
Honestly I was skeptical of the elevator mod bc I’m still getting used to the skull caverns and I didn’t want to get it for the longest time but I love it now
ive been playing stardew for a week at most and the amount of times that marnie just WANDERS away during business hours makes me NEED the mod to serve myself
I decided to play SDV modded again after a long hiatus, first time I installed every single recommendation on a list. Thank you for the list and to the devs!
this video is a godsend, I've BEEN looking for aesthetic mods bc the vanilla colours r just too garish and hurt my eyes after a while
Thank you for this video! The skull cavern elevator has helped me so much :)
I absolutely love your mod videos, they are a life saver and this made me finally decide to update so thank yeeeeee
20:08 that noise scared the hell out of me lol
Mono’s portraits are just so good. It’s the first mod I downloaded, not long after getting the game too. I’ll prob disable it for the expansion mods that add new characters after I “complete” my first mostly vanilla playthrough
personally im a really big fan of daysinikos's and junimods' mods! they focus on aesthetics and redesigning certain parts of the game and everything looks so pretty! elle (junimods) also makes some of their mods compatible with other aesthetic mods!
Hmmm, the machine progression mod looks interesting - thanks for the list 😊
Personally I don’t like the skull caverns elevator mod (but I like that it exists for other people! Like the simplified fishing mod). The “cheat” mod that I like is the extra rings mod - I only run it at 4, but its default is 8 and you can choose any number of ring slots - I just like that it doesn’t make me choose between napalm, slime charmer, hot java or burglar to go with my iridium bands and lucky rings 😆
Holy cow this is an amazing list...time to go home and download so many more mods 😅
Watching this makes me realize the SDV modding scene is way bigger than I thought. The only mods I ever added were to help with my love of Shane TvT
Wow! Chest deco, never heard of that one!
The one mod that i cannot live without is automate. In later stages in the game you dont love time to put things into machines you just automate it. Also it makes crab pots a finally a machine that make sence.
As soon as I see any reference to Sophia I need to add 'that's my WIFE' to any conversation I'm in.
The Ridgeside village mod is amazing! Id highly recommend it
I can’t live without UI info, Skull elevator, and automate.
Hi quick question: if I want to add these mods all in my game, will they break eachother or even the game itself? And when mods update , does it affect my game even if its a version back? All these mods r awesome I js cant-
Stardew expanded and ui info suit 2 single handedly made stardew so much better for me because my ADHD makes me forget everything
@@Akira_of_the_Fae does sv expanded mod work in 1.6 version?
ui info suite 2 needs to be vanilla bc it just makes the game that much better. the game literally feels like a chore without it
i was hoping to hear about ridgeside village its another great and detail expansion mod that nobody talks about so it can get hard some time when you get stuck in the story, but great video found some new mods to use
Just a heads up, I saw that the Child Age Up mod has been having some glitches with the 1.6 update and the creator said they are no longer supporting the mod. Not sure if there is another creator who is going to keep updating it, but there's a potential that this version will corrupt your save if you have several kids in the game
The Farmer's Children looks like its currently being updated to be 1.6 compatible!
You can use staircase in caves!? omg I didn't know that, thanks a bunch!
ConcernedApe, the only developer of stardew: i will restructure the backend for the mods
Meanwhile Bethesda: updating Fallout 4 just to screw up mods
The best mod is obviously "Line Sprinklers" because it makes the starting sprinkler actually viable.
Damn this video makes me wish i could mod
Edit:
it makes me wish i knew HOW to mod. Im a dumbass and i play on steam deck lol
REAL
Yeah, I know it is possible to mod the Steam Deck but I chose to mod my computer version of SV and just used a wireless controller as I was used to the controller
You might want to dock with kbm, since you'll be getting into desktop mode, but there are tutorials on YT for Nexus Mods Vortex. The modding is basically the same as windows. The steps are easy
@@gbpakgirl26 Ik its possible, and i even downloaded SMAPI, but i just couldn’t get cursed forge to run correctly. It kept saying something abt not being able to do basically anything (logging in, downloading mods, etc.)
@@washuai Actually, i might try that. It would be amazing if u could tell me which yt vids u suggest? Thx in advance
Omg the way back mod is so CUTE!!! I’m a mod virgin but I think I might give some of these a go!!
I just started playing a
The stardew expanded mod! There’s just so much more content! This is a great video thanks for the recommendations!
MY FAV STARDEW RUclipsR POSTED!!!