Diverse Stardew Valley

official blog of the Diverse Stardew Valley team

[diversestardewvalley]

DSV 5.0 is Out!

Thank you for your patience and support, everyone! DSV 5.0 is now available, making DSV compatible with the new SDV 1.6 update.

Here's the changelog:

⭐ CONTENT CHANGES: ⭐ - Significant code overhaul which updates DSV to use 1.6's new Appearances system for more flexibility and better performance - Updated portraits & sprites to match 1.6 changes - Added 1.6's vanilla winter outfits as new Festival of Ice outfits with some recolouring and minor edits to match DSV's style guide. - Updated Penny's outfits and added new Spirits' Eve costumes - Updated Linus's outfits - Added new additional Spirits' Eve costumes for Robin and Demetrius - Added code so that DSV's darker-skinned variants are now correctly recognised as such for the purpose of determining the farmer's children's skintone. - Added assorted new dialogue lines - Edited new 1.6 dialogue to match DSV's variants as necessary - Expanded regular dialogue and gift taste dialogue to account for Jodi and/or Kent being Muslim depending on the player's choice of variants - Fixed map patches to account for 1.6's updated map interiors - Updated DSV's PPAF compatibility to match the new PPAF Core (not yet available, coming soon) - Updated DSV's RSV compatibility to match the updated Seasonal Outfits for Ridgeside Village - Assorted bug fixes

⭐ CONFIG CHANGES: ⭐ - Removed individual beachwear configs and replaced them with a single Vanilla Beach Style config, which can be set to DSV Style, Vanilla Style, or Random Beachwear - Added new Kent variants, Omani and Omani Disabled, and changed the previous Modded variant to Vanilla Disabled - Added new Maru Black Hair config, which changes Maru's ModdedLavender variant to have black hair instead of a pink ombre dye - Removed Seb Helmet config. Sebastian will now automatically wear a helmet and motorbike gear during his 10 heart event, matching DSV's other event-specific outfits. - Changed Willy's Disabled config to Vanilla Disabled, for consistency with Kent's new variants ⭐ DEPENDENCIES: ⭐ - Removed Antisocial NPCs and Custom NPC Exclusions as dependencies for Marigold / Linus's Modded variant. Sprites in Detail is still required for Marigold's sprites.

Here's a preview of Kent's new variant:

We hope you enjoy the update! Have fun! [Image id: a portrait and sprite of Kent from Stardew Valley, depicted as an Arab man with brown skin, dark brown hair, and facial hair. He is wearing his Fall Rain outfit, a blue zip sweater with a grey neck gaiter and grey jeans.]

[diversestardewvalley]

DSV 6.0!

I'm a few weeks late with this post so hopefully most people have already seen the update, but for anyone who hasn't, Diverse Stardew Valley is now updated to version 6.0! (technically 6.0.2, but shhhh 🤫)

Why the big version jump? This is because DSV underwent a big internal overhaul in order to streamline a lot of the code, condense down repeated code between characters, improve my workflow, and most importantly, integrate changes between DSV Seasonal and Non-Seasonal. DSV Non-Seasonal now includes all major content from DSV Seasonal except non-vanilla outfits.

We've also got some exciting new content in this update! First up: three new variants by hadalsnailfish - Chinese Pam, Chinese Cleft Palate Pam, and Whasian Penny! They include new variant-specific dialogue, along with bonus dialogue if Chinese/Chinese Cleft Palate Pam is enabled alongside Chinese Pierre.

[image id: two variants of Pam where she is depicted as a Chinese woman with black permed hair, tanned skin, a wide nose, and narrow eyes. In the right variant, she also has scars across her lip and philtrum from a repaired cleft palate.]

[image id: a variant of Penny where she is depicted as a biracial white and Chinese woman with wavy brown hair, lightly tanned skin, a wide nose, and dark brown eyes.]

It also includes a brand-new passive festival for Lunar New Year! If their appropriate variants are enabled, Pierre, Pam, Robin, and their families will celebrate Lunar New Year from Spring 8-10, including special map edits, dialogue, and schedule changes. These have been designed to be as compatible as possible, but if you have major clashes with anything, there's a config option to turn off the festival.

Other content updates include new dialogue for HoH Haley and Kent, a few new outfits for Krobus and art touch-ups for his existing outfits, and improved recolour compatibility for DSV's map edit furniture via a new manual config option.

For compatibility, 6.0 updates its compat for Star Crossed by kcspace to add visual variants for three of Star Crossed's adorable children, Chelsea, Cody, and Fable, along with bonus map edit content for all of its couples. It also adds compat with Vanilla NPCs Family and Group Portraits by Acc9000!

As always, thank you for your support and we hope you enjoy the new update! If you'd like to come hang out, chat about DSV, and see previews of upcoming content, you can also join our Discord server! 💖

[malarkey42]

you'll have to take chubby abi from my cold dead hands . i loveher

[frienduccine]

Quilluary: Day 11 - Talk

A collaboration with @visionofthebees's fic Talk

“Elliott is my boyfriend,” Clint said, his ears turning pink.  Shane almost had to take a step backwards. “Your boyfriend?” he asked, looking back and forth between the two of them. He supposed Clint wasn’t the ugliest motherfucker he had ever met, but his looks were the least of his problems. Elliott was, to put it lightly, devastatingly good looking. The idea that the two could be together felt borderline wrong.  “We met online,” Clint began. “I post my work on some different forums and Elliott contacted me because he’s a collector of handmade jewelry.” “I wanted more information on how he continues to work despite being blind,” Elliott added. “I was fascinated with the idea the moment I saw him. At first it was just authorial fascination, but we arranged a video call to talk, and then we just sort of kept talking,” he said, looking at Clint with an affection in his eyes that made Shane’s heart feel soft. 

Prompt list by Astellus

[acidicstomach]

Too pokemon-pilled to continue my stardew valley gameplay but I miss DSV!Elliott

[warmer-gaze]

stardew npcs <3 including my beloved butch leah from diverse sdv, i love you butch leah from diverse sdv

[love-rats]

penny!!!! sdv

[pelicantownie]

Carmela & Harvey yay <3

...and 'they don't have a name yet, oops' new-ish OC & Sam

[coolcoolglasses]

GUESS WHAT TIME IT IS FRANDZ

Operation: Get Marnie a New Man Chapter 71

Me and @floopthecooper worked really hard on this one I HOPE IT MAKES YOU ALL HAPPY

TIME FOR A MILLION TAGS that's what

[diversestardewvalley]

Diverse Stardew Valley 5.3.0 is here!

This ended up being a pretty big update! Here's a preview of all the new costumes, with highlights from the changelog underneath (for the full changelog, see the Changelog tab in the mod description).

All friendable townspeople except the Wizard, Linus, Krobus, Dwarf, and Leo now have three different costumes that change each year, with most characters having pair and group costumes with their friends and family. The update also added options for costume-specific dialogue and for characters to move their festival positions so that people doing pair & group costumes will stand together!

The first three images show the main three rotations of costumes. The Extras page has characters that only have one costume (Marlon, the Wizard, Gunther, Krobus, and Linus), a few bonus costumes that also rotate at random (Sam & Vincent, Haley, and Alex), three bonus outfits for Jas, Vincent, and Penny that are enabled if Jas and Vincent Trick-Or-Treat Event is installed, and Shane's dynamic outfits. If the "Shane Self-Care" dynamic option is enabled, Shane will use the three Extras costumes before his 6 heart event and switch to the three main costumes after he's started his recovery.

Other changelog highlights:

Added code so that add-on packs can be selected as a variant in DSV Core, to make it easier to switch between add-ons and main pack variants

Added new PennyGlasses option, which gives her cute glasses all the time or only when reading & teaching

Added code so that Sandy attends the Flower Dance and Spirit's Eve

Expanded the Flower Queen's Crown dialogue for the Flower Queen's friends, family, and Haley

Added a ton of new dialogue for various characters

Added compatibility with a number of different character mods

Hope everyone has fun with the new content! <3

[just-rhys-things]

My submission for @creatingblackcharacters 's Challenge today! Also happy b-day!

Character is Maru from Stardew Valley, but specifically rubyquester's Maru With Twists version in my fav Diverse Stardew Valley outfit combo 😊 (both beautiful mods!)

[uericho]

Totally canon-accurate brown butch Leah interpretation (largely inspired by @diversestardewvalley).

[diversestardewvalley]

Sneak preview of new Spirit's Eve costumes in DSV 5.3.0!

Along with a bunch of new dialogue lines, a new option to give Penny some adorable reading glasses (designed by Kailey!), and a slew of compat content, DSV 5.3.0 will include a huge update to everyone's costumes for Spirit's Eve! Here's a little preview of some of my favourites:

(image ID at the end)

Every character except the Wizard and Krobus will have three different costumes (with a handful having four!), many of which are pair or group costumes with their friends and family. All costumes will be available no matter what lightweight settings you use!

As another exciting feature, all DSV add-on packs are being updated to match DSV 5.3.0 and any installed add-ons will be able to be both toggled as a variant option and previewed in DSV Core! This means for players who like to switch up their character looks between saves, you won't have to remove any DSV add-on packs when switching.

If you're interested in seeing more previews and sneak peeks of upcoming content, come check out the DSV Discord server!

[image ID: a selection of 20 portraits of Stardew Valley characters featuring their Diverse Stardew Valley variants wearing Spirits' Eve costumes. In the top row, Alex and Haley are dressed as a viking and a valkyrie, Maru and Demetrius are dressed as a steampunk mechanic and mad scientist, and Shane is dressed as the Grim Reaper. In the second row, George and Evelyn are dressed as a bee and a beekeeper, Haley and Emily are dressed as Glinda and Elphaba from Wicked, and Elliott is dressed as Howl from Howl's Moving Castle. In the third row, Caroline, Jodi, Robin, and Marnie are dressed as artistic representations of the four seasons and Krobus is dressed as a farmer. In the fourth row, Vincent, Jas, Abigail, Sam, and Sebastian are dressed respectively as Aang, Katara, Toph, Sokka, and Zuko from Avatar: the Last Airbender.]

[viola-sdv]

Okay, technically this isn't only a Viola blog, I post other stardew art too. Here's Penny reading, with the DSV design because I adore it.

[angelicxboi]

thank yoba for the diverse stardew valley mod pt 2.

[eilarae]

i will Not be finishing this but i need to post more of my silly drawings so have my husband :]

additional stuff under the cut

i was kicking my feet so hard making this you GUYSI LOVE HIM SM

and yes it's the diverse sdv version bc i have been reading this fic and it's changing my life

[skellady]

SUNBERRY VILLAGE IS OUT!

You can finally download our mod on Nexus RIGHT NOW! https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/11111

[diversestardewvalley]

Anyone who's interested in a beautiful, cosy, heartfelt new expansion, check out Sunberry Village by the amazing @skellady and @sophiesalacia! It features a diverse cast with 15+ new friendable characters (with lots of queer & PoC rep!) and over 80 new events, new items, crops, and special orders, its own unique museum, mines, and festival, and plenty of charming areas to explore! For DSV players in particular, Sunberry includes built-in compatibility with DSV's Flower Queen's Crown feature and if both Sunberry and Ridgeside Village are installed, DSV's nonbinary characters will feature in a special Sunberry/Ridgeside crossover! Crossover events between DSV's and Sunberry's trans characters are also planned for future updates. If you're on Discord, Sunberry has its own Discord server (linked in its mod description) which has character bios, info about upcoming add-on characters (the first of which, Wren by tiakall, was released today), and previews of what you can expect. So much love and care has gone into the creation of Sunberry and I can't recommend it enough 🌈💖