Some ideas I thought of for a stardew update (updated!) ♪(๑ᴖ◡ᴖ๑)♪
Birthday parties for Jas, Vincent, and Lewis. For Jas and Vincent they’d get a hired clown *it’s one of the villagers dressed up cause they’re low on cash* there’s also stick the tail to the donkey, Pierre would set up that game where you throw a ball to let someone fall into the water, and Abigail convinced him to sit inside cause she told him she rigged it so no one wins but she actually made the target really sensitive, just because. Lewis would ask all the townies to bring fancy gifts including you cause he’s just so oh important. The parties would all happen inside and outside each person’s house, but if you unlock the community center, then they all happen there.
A story line of Clint getting into fishing as a hobby to get around his loneliness, and Willy finds him late at night hopelessly trying to catch at least one fish. Willy becomes good friends with Clint and teaches him the value of life. This story is shortly continued if you get with Emily
Adding more intractability to Gunther and giving him a house. The house is either an extra floor in the library/museum or add a new small area right to the museum/library. He’d also have a small veggie garden and his house would be STACKED with books, loads of em.
Also a side quest for Gunther where he asks you to collect memorabilia from each family/person in the valley to preserve its culture/history. Some might give you stuff easily, others…not so easy.
Giving the cart lady some character. I thought she might’ve had a failed relationship with Sandy and one day you’d see them interacting together. Once or twice a year she’d go to the bar and get extremely drunk and blabber things about something but nobody knows what she’s talking about. Also talking about where she gets her wares. (Maybe she also has some business with the wizard?)
I think there should be NPCs who get in a relationship together and get married, preferably new characters. Maybe a couple who also move into stardew valley and of course as you’re new here and doing so well, you’re the one helping them settle in! As you build their house because one of them is pregnant/newly birthed and their spouse gotta take care of them, they stay in the bar as tenants. Their house could also be grouped with Gunther’s new house!! After finally settling in, they make you the godparent of their child.
The wizard gets an apprentice that may or may not be their niece/nephew. They adore the wizard and try hard to impress him and they get this badly constructed tower. One day while experimenting, they’d turn one of the villagers that’s totally not Shane into a chicken and ask you to help them before anyone notices.
Other townies going to the spa cause no one ever goes there. One time Jas would try to sneak Vincent inside the woman’s side and you’d catch them. You can either scold them or let them go their way. Who is sneaking who inside depends on what side you go, they’d go the opposite side.
A cowboy living west of the desert. He’d have a little ranch where he sells expensive horses and homemade brews. He’s also an old friend of Elliot, who visits him from time to time.
Townies using the bus. Elliot would visit the cowboy, and Gunther would go on an excavation to unearth some artifacts from the desert. Lewis and Pierre may or may not have access to the underground club.
We get to see where the mouse hat seller lives. Maybe they go to a little underground cheese land and you accidentally fall in. All the mice would push a giant cheese wheel on your head and knock you down. You’d wake up in your house with a note saying it was all a dream with a cheese hat. The hat prices then skyrocket.
If you get the movie theater, Elliot will ask you to help him direct a movie he wrote. You’d get to cast the characters from town and choose to make some story changes. Then there will be a movie premiere and Corbus would attend anonymously.
A mighty warrior lady visits the guild in the mountain and introduces herself as the skeleton deconstructor, as she slayed a butt load of em. If you kill and bring her a bunch of monster ingredients, she will cook you up a super serum that does something cool, idk. If you finish the guild quests and killed all the monsters she would give you the recipe, and teach you advanced combat and tell you stories and stuff. She’s also good friends with the guild members, so now you’re a member, she’s your friend too.
The mountain range should be expanded so that the spa is not directly in the first bit, but an area to the left or right. The first mountain area should contain a proper train station with a postal office. The conductor lady is good friends with Evelyn. She can take mail and send it to your irl friends and you can buy a train ticket to visit them. Outside the train station is a bulletin board where you and your friends can leave messages and drawings.
You can do stuff with your kids! You can carry them in your hands and on your back and once they’re older hold their hand while walking. You can play with them, feed them, and take them with you. I think the parameters of where you can take them is the main town, so no desert or mine. Maybe they also can get a lil birthday party and the townies would either attend or send you gifts for them. They also go the playground and the beach to play and make sand castles and collect sea shells and give them to you. Your spouse can also take them around and would ask for you all to go together on picnics in the woods, the mountain, or the beach.
Raccoons that ravage the trash cans late at night. Linus would one time get attacked by one, bad day for him, almost left a scar.
You randomly get a black sheep, you can’t buy them, they are randomly born from white sheep you already have. If you get two black sheep and put them in a separate barn, they will get you more black sheep that give you expensive black wool.
More tv channels. I thought about entertainment channel, where concerned ape actually puts fan mail as people commenting about the valley itself, with a tv host reading them and commenting about them.
New animal, hedgehogs. They dig up worms (bait!) for you. I think they are fit to be pets as well and not barn animals.
More bachelor/ettes, we can never have enough. What I’m thinking of is a strong, flowing hair with abs Asian lady who’s into fencing and lives with her little sister, and a pair of black twins who live together and one is into botany and the other is into crocheting.
More grandpa content. Where is grandma? Do we have any other relatives? Where’s mom & dad?
Not talking to someone for a while will make your hearts with them drop, so you have to regularly interact with them. To make this easier more dialogue variety would be nice, dialogue for each location and time of the day or year.
I wish we could hold our pets and take them from place to place. We should also be able to move their water bowl (and food bowl pls) indoors if we wish too. Some pet furniture like a bed or a toy tower would be nice, some toys too.
The secret forest needs an expansion. Maybe so that it barely reaches above the southwest party area. It could have a junimo shrine, a kid living alone in hut for some reason, or maybe that’s where all the mice live!
What you write as your favorite thing at the beginning of the game should have some impact inside the game, even if it’s a small mention or something.
