13 Mods that I Love in Stardew Valley

up to now when I'm introducing mods in various videos I tend to keep a theme about them all aesthetic mods mods to get started stuff like that I've realized that I've never just shown off mods that I personally love I've got some absolute bangers for you today as always I'm going to avoid covering mods I've already covered in previous videos so these should all be new to you so me personally I'm pretty picky when it comes to my portrait mods ideally it's not too much of a departure from the original style and it changes most if not all of the portraits to minimize inconsistencies I've got yappu's portraits turned on these are inspired by dongs portrait mod which in turn was inspired by Harvest Moon and I'm absolutely in love with these look at this that it pretty much fits the art style of the game other than maybe like the outline but other than that it's I love it I love it so much uh let's see I love oh my gosh look at that oh it made some could say maybe it changes some of the characters a bit too much but me personally I I'm sold just absolutely sold look at that now I would like to see perhaps an angry face oh that doesn't that doesn't give you a face let me see if I can catch someone next to a trash can here we go yeah so every single portrait in the game has been changed yes all of the different emotions yes even the maple syrup there but not only that it also covers stardew Valley expanded ridgeside Village and a couple of one-off character mods like Mr Ginger it's pretty much got everything you could ask for so this is definitely a portrait mod that I'm a fan of for this next mod I skipped ahead a couple of days because it has a special effect the day of and after it rains this is the dynamic Reflections mod and on days that it rains it'll add puddles all around the valley not only that you can see your Reflections in the water and this doesn't just hold true for puddles if we come on over here to the mountain lake you can see that my reflection is in any body of water and I I just want to point this out because I played around with it quite a bit this is a extremely customizable mod see it is dynamic Reflections so if I go to water settings I can set how far away from me my reflection is so it's a bit farther away I like putting it at one because it looks the most natural to me me personally I've turned the alpha layer and that's how transparent it is a lot down it starts out like full and I also like brought all of these sliders down a bit to dull the reflection a bit because you can see if I don't have the alpha layer down it's very vibrant and I just feel like it wouldn't be that clear but probably my favorite part about this mod as it gets darker here you're going to notice that the sky starts to reflect in the water but as it gets later in the night it starts to become more and more clear I absolutely love this mod in fact it reminds me of one of my favorite points of a Pokemon game I played Pokemon Omega Ruby there's a specific route where if you walk across a bridge at night you can see the reflection of the Starry Sky in the water and it's an absolutely magical moment and this just reminds me of that coming off of that mod we have a pretty simple one cuter coops and better barns all it does is redesign the inside of coops a bit and it also increases the amount of space you have just a little bit just in case you know if you have your Cooper Barn completely filled up then it won't be as much of a hassle there's permanent decorations added all around the place and you can change the color of this wall if you don't want to be blue you want to be green it is completely customizable and of course this applies to every version of oh the luau started this applies to every version of the coupe and the barn respectively let's go check out the barn real quick here's the barn oh it adds a whole table with sittable seats yeah I just the barn in the coop is always an area that I forget is decoratable and even though you could technically do a lot of this on your own if you wanted I just like it being here it's a good mod for that it makes it pretty you know it's usually one of those spots that's completely uncustomized for most people so it adds a little bit of Personality which I can appreciate I feel like the only reason that we ever remember to go to the festivals is because you get this notification at the bottom of the screen whenever it starts it's impossible to miss this mod called stardew notification does the same thing for many other missable events so today's the 12th of Summer tomorrow is Alex's birthday if we go to sleep on the next day we get a notice that it is Alex's birthday also weeds have damaged my farm and there's seashells on the seashore I believe that's because it's crab season also if you have a bunch of Machines working on your farm exiting your house it'll show you everything you have to do cave mushrooms are ready and fish ponds are ready if I had these crystallariums filled up it would give me notifications for that if I had the crab pots filled up and give me notifications for that if I had crops ready to harvest pretty much anything you need to do you can show a notification for you that was very loud another one of my favorite features is if it is someone's birthday and you forget to give them a gift until 5 PM it'll give you a reminder to give them a birthday gift if I were to use this mod on my own I'd probably it's completely customizable you can add the notifications or remove them for whatever you want I would probably just have the notifications for people's birthday because I am awful at remembering that this next mod is an ABS that God sent for me so you know the whole rigmarole you go through every single time you come back from a bit of exploring maybe you had a mind strip maybe you went foraging out in the forest and you just have a full inventory that you need to sort all through before you can end your day because no one likes a messy inventory right and normally you have to go through all of your chats you're like oh add to the existing Stacks add to existing stack over and over again right guess what convenient inventory one button it automatically gets sorted to all of the chests that it can be sorted to and you'll notice that basic fertilizer wasn't sorted out because it just wasn't in any of my chests not only that but if you really don't want something to be sorted out if you hold the alt button you can favorite an item and it won't get sorted so you can keep it in your inventory if you'd like so this next mod is a thinker I'm gonna outright say it is called combine machines this allows you in your inventory to basically combine any amount of the same type of machine to get them to work better so I can take these eight furnaces stack them onto this other furnace and that's a stack of nine of the same furnace what exactly does that do well there's two different modes personally I like setting it to increase speed mode so basically speaking of increased speed mode this is going to work almost nine times as fast as a regular furnace now there is a penalty that you get every time you combine more and more so it's not quite nine times the speed however it should still be a lot faster yeah yeah so it's just a way to save space when you really think about it with a little bit of penalty so I I really feel like I'm saying this for every single mod this next one's crazy this one is called skillful clothes this mod you so okay you know how normally the only things that have stats are rings and Boots this adds stats to not all but many pieces of clothing you can start off with the farmer pants I never changed my pants this is the pair of pants that you start the game with plus one farming just offreat and then there's all of these other clothing items you can craft with cloth at Emily's you can buy them from various places and a lot of them have very unique effects such as all of the breastplates which you get whenever you tailor cloth and one of the material bars so copper bar iron bar gold bar iridium bar all of these give you increasing defenses and then there's a couple of random items and Lewis's lucky shorts that I really like studded vest plus to attack Happy shirt slightly increases your popularity which means anytime you talk to someone or give someone a gift you get more friendship than usual the crab cake shirt which is made from tailoring crab cakes gives you the effect of crab cakes plus one speed and plus one defense Prismatic shirt which of course you need a prismatic Shard to make gives you a permanent plus 25 Max Energy Star shirt emits a constant light so it's basically like having a light ring trimmed lucky purple shorts gives you plus one luck which is very powerful however if you talk to Lewis while wearing them he will lose friendship with you which is a fun like actual effect I love that and then all of the cowboy hats if you just walk by your cow you'll pet them automatically a lot of really neat effects here that aren't in the original game and this isn't even close to all of the effects there's one shirt that is like a reference to link from Legend of Zelda and that gives you a discount in the adventures Guild so many different effects I couldn't possibly go over all of them but it's a mod that makes collecting all of the clothes actually fun and worth it because I don't know about y'all that's nothing I've ever really done in stardew Valley but with this mod I just might so one thing I'm absolutely going to do whenever I do a modded playthrough is I'm going to add new festivals new holidays just to liven things up a bit in between the already existing holidays this one's a bit interesting it's called Festival of the mundane and it actually happens the same day that Spirits Eve starts which a lot of people would consider one of the more boring holidays of the game and to access it you need to go into the sewers oh my God this is pretty oh honey I didn't think it'd be like this so it's essentially a celebration of the shadow people as I understand it I'm just gonna explore a little bit here well Hi friend welcome to the Festival of the mundane all right hat Mouse is here with a couple of special hats now as I understand if you wear any of these masks that look like a shadow person including the shamanic Mass it kind of works like the Slime ring does where when you wear them you're not going to be attacked by any Shadow People Style enemy so the shamans the shadow brutes The Archers things like that and there's a lot of them too it's really cool you know what just in the spirit of the holiday why not look at that oh and it's got the band and everything that's cute I like that I'm kind of curious about all these big oh can I go swimming oh okay let's talk to the people in here that's a little icky I don't care what everyone says taking a bath is my favorite part of the Festival of Monday well this is the sewers I can't help but notice that they recolored the green water to Blue don't tell anyone but okay all right buddy okay as the season comes to a close and the weather gets colder it sure is nice to take a dip in this nice warm pool okay I accidentally swallowed some water oh that's off that's gonna you're dead dude you're gone just swapping back before I forget too oh oh I wonder if I could sneak back in and get the disguise from the Hat now wait what do you mean [Music] wait what do you mean wait do they kick you out if you're not wearing the mask interesting I didn't know that that was a requirement well now that I know let's get another one the imposing mask of course how could I not as I understand there's also a mini game to play okay henchmen step right up how'd you like to play a game of pin the nose on the goblin prizes include a golden pumpkin and a void egg one only one of each prize for customer I'm you're blindfolded and will automatically go right I'm going right this is cool smelly fish far to the left wrong way move left okay I penned the nose 4.5 inches on the center oh okay so it's kind of a timed thing and I'm assuming the second best reward is a void egg and the best would be the golden golden pumpkin that's really cool who's this big bad boy hello there stranger I sent something different about you yeah I'm a dude that's the problem I like this a little bit of fun added functionality to one of the more boring holidays although I do gotta say I'm surprised they didn't use some of the unused Sprites like the Shadow King which I went over in my cut content video If you haven't seen that now to close this video out I'm gonna go through five really small Sprite replacement mods that you can just install really quickly all of them pretty much just need content Patcher Animal Crossing dig spots replaces the worms with the Animal Crossing style digging spots if you've ever played an animal crossing game overgrown mailbox just adds a little bit of Ivy to the mailbox this pairs really nicely if you have the medieval building style mod and the color of the leaves changes with the season as well terracotta Garden pots now I don't know if you're familiar with the way the guard pots normally look in the game they're a little chunky is the word I would use and this kind of makes them look a bit more like a regular garden pot it's it's just a lot cleaner Haystack Silo replacement this is a silo hold your pieces of hay this this can mix a lot more with just your general decorations like it looks nice next to that Coop whereas with the regular Silo I feel like we're always hiding it way in the corner so that no one ever sees it because it's really just one hulking giant ugly building I don't know that's my thoughts this looks like an actual decoration that you could like weave into your the rest of your farm and finally pepper wreck Source I don't know it fits so well doesn't it like it makes sense to have a dinosaur horse I don't know looks nice nothing looks wrong with it that's a horse thank you all for watching if you happen to need a guide on how to install mods I do have a guide for that which I'll link in the top right corner of the screen in a card if you're on console cope thank you all for watching as always if there's a mod that you would like me to cover please tell me in the comments or maybe I could add it onto my list of mods that I'm going to add when I eventually do a modded playthrough which I still do want to do I think it'll come soon just off the top of my head see you all in the next one and good night foreign [Music]

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Published: Thu Mar 16 2023