The Perks of being Married mod , by creator Trent XV on Nexus Mods, adds a fun and useful new feature to the farming RPG – you can earn perks for getting married, which vary depending on who you enter into matrimonial bliss with in the game. It’s a massively useful tool that makes laying out your farm that little bit easier. By starting up the Stardew Valley map editor mode, which is assigned to the F10 key by default, you can click on an existing tile, before copying and pasting to your desired location.Īny changes are easily reverted as long as you don’t exit the editor mode beforehand, and you can even play around with custom tile changes. Enjoy!Ĭourtesy of modder Adenthorn, the Map Editor allows you to tinker around and “easily make edits to a map in-game by copying and pasting any tile to another location on the map”. There’s a huge selection for you to browse through below, adding elements as diverse as Japanese buildings, Grumpy Cat, and, well, diversity itself. Right then, let’s get onto the good stuff – the mods themselves. Its best feature is giving you the ability to turn mods on or off without deleting the files, which is useful if you, like us, are incredibly indecisive or have half a dozen different grass mods that you are looking to try out. This allows you to keep track of all your mods and manage SMAPI. If you like to keep your mods neat and organised, modder Yuuki has made a fantastic tool called the Stardew Valley Mod Manager, or SDVMM for short. Once you have installed SMAPI, all you have to do is place your files into the SMAPI mod folder, and you should be good to go.
It is an open source piece of software that is maintained by the Stardew Valley modding community that allows for the installation of DLL files SMAPI can also help to manage your files by checking when your mods have received a new update, as well as rewrite any installed mods when an official Stardew Valley update changes any part of the game that affects your mods. SMAPIįor mods that make larger changes to the game, such as altering events, SMAPI is required for installation. Most XNB file mods have content pack equivalents. This is a much more reliable way of installing mods than replacing XNB files, as they can be automatically updated, installed, and uninstalled through SMAPI.
Content PatcherĬontent Patcher is a mod for SMAPI that allows you to download content packs, which can change the game’s visuals or assets like XNB mods, but without requiring you to manually alter the XNB files. With our new ‘cat.XNB’ file, you will need to go into the ‘Animals’ subfolder and replace the existing ‘cat.xnb’ file with our new modded file, which will then show up in game the next time it is booted.Īs a reminder, we recommend that you keep any unmodded files backed up, should you ever wish to uninstall a mod. There are several subfolders in the content folder, with most of the important assets, including animals and villagers, having their own, making them easy to find.
By default, the Stardew Valley content folder is located here: C:/Steam/steamapps/common/Stardew Valley/Content.
Once you’ve downloaded your XNB mod file, which, for example, may be named ‘cat.XNB’, you will need to find the corresponding XNB file in the Stardew Valley content folder. To install, these require you to replace the existing XNB file with a new, modified version. Most Stardew Valley mods make small changes to the game such as altering visuals and reskinning assets. There are two primary types of mods in Stardew Valley: mods that replace existing XNB files in the content folder, and mods that require the ‘Stardew Modding API’, or SMAPI for short, to install. Adding mods to Stardew Valley isn’t too taxing even without Steam Workshop.