Grandpa’s Trust is a lore-friendly inheritance and farm benefit system for Stardew Valley.
After taking over Grandpa’s farm, you receive a formal approval letter from the Ferngill Agricultural Benefits Office and choose how you want the farm’s benefit paid: weekly, biweekly, or seasonally. Every schedule pays the same value over time, just in different-sized deposits.
The goal is to make the support feel like something that could actually exist in the Stardew world instead of simply handing the player free money.
Features
- Weekly, biweekly, or seasonal payment schedules
- Payment amounts that increase as the farm gets older
- Benefits Office letters and annual reviews
- A permanent claim number for each farm
- Detailed Benefits Ledger with payment history, yearly totals, lifetime totals, transaction references, and schedule history
- Optional in-game configuration through Generic Mod Config Menu
- Multiplayer and split-screen support without duplicate payouts
- Shared-wallet and separate-wallet co-op support
- Host-controlled enrollment and payments
- No payments before the farm has officially enrolled
Year 1
- 500g weekly
- 1,000g biweekly
- 2,000g seasonally
- 750g weekly
- 1,500g biweekly
- 3,000g seasonally
- 1,000g weekly
- 2,000g biweekly
- 4,000g seasonally
Multiplayer
Grandpa’s Trust belongs to the farm, not every individual player.
Shared-money farms receive one payment into the shared wallet. Farms using separate money send the payment to the farm owner instead. Farmhands joining, reconnecting, or using split-screen will never create duplicate claims or additional payments.
Only the host needs Grandpa’s Trust installed for the payment system to function.
Requirements
- Stardew Valley 1.6+
- SMAPI 4.0+
- Generic Mod Config Menu — optional, but recommended for in-game settings and the graphical Benefits Ledger
Install SMAPI, then extract the compiled GrandpasTrust folder into:
Stardew Valley/Mods
Launch the game through SMAPI and Grandpa’s Trust will handle the rest.
Current version: 0.8.0 Beta
Feedback, bug reports, and ideas are absolutely welcome while I continue building toward future releases.
