#sdv modding

[timemind]

working on a mod and started with my husband

[batmanshole]

IT'S FINALLY DONE!!!! my first ever published stardew valley mod!!

some cute cafe themed clothes for fashion sense!! this is my first mod so pleeease lmk if anything doesn't work.

NEXUSMODS LINK

other mods visible are: GH's peach body type, churpy's vivid hairs

[bunniemoth]

Extremely silly and surprisingly time-consuming modding experiment number MMXXVI: adding a wax seal to the mail notification that hovers over the mailbox.

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It currently has eight colour variations and I'm probably going to try to make an animated prismatic option before I ship it, just to say I tried.

[leeksoupforstardew]

For those who mod your game, what mods are your go tos

ambiance/nature mods (like earthly recolors)

Fashion/decoration mods

Small quality of life mods (villagers on map, automatic gates)

NPC mods (adds new dialogues, more singular npcs, new portraits)

Major mods (stardew valley expanded)

cursed mods (pam horse, thicc juminos)

Major quality of life mods (skull cavern elevator, tractor)

Skill overhauls (cooking mod, removing fishing entirely)

Animal/pet overhauls (cuter fatter pigs)

ui mods

Something else (tags)

vanilla/console player (i feel you guys, used to be a switch player)

Voting ended onJan 13, 2025

[the-magpie-collective]

Same Withers, same

[bunniemothwrites]

Happy Thirteen Month Anniversary, little blog

Just a quick head's up, so you know what's happening here:

@bunniemoth > @bunniemothwrites, firstly. The latter was a sideblog initially, attached to a star wars blog, which was a pain to deal with because I'd interact with my main, and people would follow it, and get inundated with Darth Maul content. So the first change was making @bunniemoth my main to keep everything under it exclusively Stardew.

I've separated my main @bunniemoth out as a dev log because I'm starting the prep work on an NPC mod of my own, and I want a place to collect my studies and experiments.

I've made @bunniemothwrites it's own space for my fic and fic updates and saucy fanart (probably other fanart as well, we'll see what happens) but it's the 18+/Adults only/MDNI blog because I write some salacious stuff, and I thought it might be wise to make sure the people showing up looking for mod recs and aesthetic screenshots... not... be subjected to hardcore SDV x Reader smut? At the beginning when I first set up a SDV blog, I figured the overall viewing demographic would be mostly adults, but there were quite a few ageless blogs showing up for gameplay screens, and it sucked having to block them. Which has led to the creation of...

@bunniemothsdv for gameplay screens, mod recs, gifs and animations, sfw fanart.

It's definitely early days yet, so I appreciate your patience as I restructure things. I also haven't touched my main save in a week because I've been in my draft.

As always, asks are open, but it might take me a bit to answer.

TY! 🧡

[mister-qi]

Mr. Qi Friendship and Romance Mod: 4/19 Progress Update

It's a working title, I'm trying to come up with something less wordy that still will pop up in Nexus searches.

I wanted to be able to track my progress, mainly for myself, but if you're curious, this is the state of the mod right now:

Writing:

Heart Events - the 2 heart event is fully written (with blocking directions), and the 6, 8, and 10 heart events are outlined. The 4 heart cutscene currently has me a bit stumped; I have ideas, but nothing concrete yet. I definitely now understand why Sam's 4 heart cutscene is him dropping an egg. 14 hearts is on the back-burner as a little treat to myself once I get further into things.

Generic Daily Dialogues - about 1/3 done, probably the highest priority for writing. I'm leaving his vanilla casino dialogue as the two heart dialogue, and the vanilla Walnut Room dialogue as his four heart dialogue, with a few small changes. And, since it's me, I have more marriage dialogue written than anything else...

Day-Specific Dialogues - very few written, lower priority. Hoping to have a lot of these made eventually, and I have plenty of ideas, but they aren't necessary for the core of the mod so they're on the back-burner for now.

Gift Dialogues - all 5 generic gift response dialogues are written, with an additional 22 dialogue lines for specific items/groups of items. I'm also up to around item 530 in figuring out what item corresponds to which dialogue/whether or not he likes it. Certain item groups, like cooked food, still need more lines, however. This is definitely something that should be low priority, but also something I'm really enjoying working on. Some personal favorites so far are-

[if given a fish (hated)]: "Eugh, it's all slimy..."

[if given a legendary fish (disliked)]: "If you must give me one of the rarest fish in the valley, can you at least wrap it so I don't have to touch it with my bare hands?"

And I think that's pretty funny.

Art

Portraits - 3 new portraits finished: "deep frown" "glint" and "glasses-less". I'll probably be messing with "glasses-less" for a looong while; it's first shown at a dramatic moment so it needs to look good. Blushing portraits are next on the docket.

Here's "glint" btw, with a background thrown on so I can have a custom icon. You know I gotta make him do the anime glasses thing a few times.

Sprites - no progress yet. Walk cycle is up next after I finish the blushing portraits. Did you know he doesn't have a walk cycle at all? [1.6 spoilers] in the cheated Summit cutscene where he attacks(?) you, he literally just slides at you very fast. Anyways, I may also change his map sprite a bit as well, since it was drawn to match his old portrait and doesn't actually have the same color scheme as his sprites. Note to self: is it possible to make the sparkles on his outfit prismatic?

Maps - no progress yet. The 6 heart and 10 heart cutscenes both require custom maps, with the 6 heart one being a fully custom asset. 10 heart recycles some existing assets but will still need some custom stuff done as well.

Misc Sprites - in my head, there's a dream version of the 8 heart cutscene that has so, so many unique sprites. Like an incredible amount of stuff. I think it'll kick ass, but also that sequence could be done with a few lines of text. So, for now, it's low priority. But maybe in a few months I'll put out a request for help.

Implementation

Not totally sure how to split this into sections yet, as I'm very much still in the preliminary stages so far. To say that I'm feeling overwhelmed is an understatement; documentation on the wiki swings wildly between "an asset is a file in a video game" and "this is an advanced tutorial. Read these 4 other pages first before continuing."

I've started using Ms. Coriel's NPC Creator which has been good for setting up the basic file structure, but ultimately doesn't cover some of the more complex stuff I want to do. EDIT: Turns out it's completely outdated for 1.6! Had to throw out a bit of work, but I still learned from it so it's fiiine.

I think setting up his "schedule" will be a challenge, in that I don't actually want him to have a real schedule like most NPCs. Not to pull back the curtain too much here, but I want him to "exist" in both the Casino and the Walnut Room simultaneously, which is to say, he does not exist in two places at once in the narrative, just in the code. This will change after marriage, however.

My next goal is to set up placeholder cutscenes for each of the heart events, and then to implement the generic daily dialogues once those are finished.

Final Notes

God, this will be a work in progress for a while, but I'm enjoying it! Definitely enjoying the writing more than anything else, but hey, that's how it be. I've got around 70 lines of dialogue written, a bit of art done, and I've started learning how to actually get stuff in game. I've always been more of a designer than a coder, but it's getting there!

ADDITIONALLY I've decided that if I abandon this project for more than 8 months, anyone is welcome to request my work so far and use it for their own mod. If this blog hasn't posted in a long while, feel free to send me an ask or message! I may say no, however.

Ultimately, I want this mod to exist in some fashion. While there is an existing one, I have a pretty different take on the character and I want to share it with you all! Every line of dialogue, every heart event, every little detail needs to share something interesting about a character and their world. Yet, Mr. Qi is a mysterious guy, and I think some things should be left up to player interpretation. And I think it's crucial to be able to match his tone and voice to the vanilla game, while also expanding on his characterization. It's a fun challenge to write, and I hope the finished product, uh, well I hope it gets finished mostly, but I think it'll be pretty good.

Thanks for reading all this. This is largely just a stream of consciousness for myself, but I hope it's...interesting, or something?

[fairy-farmer]

was looking through nexus if there's any new cute mods and some people have been making ai art portrait mods...

like bruh what the fuck is wrong with you?