୨♥୧ Strawberrisui ୨♥୧
Cowpoke
My favorite mods are the ones that make the game much more lively and beautiful. Along with the ones that bring new NPC's and experiences into the game, such a stardew valley expanded.
Just noticed I forgot NPC Map Locations. I did without this one until like February this year and once I had it, it became "where have you been all my life?". I wouldn't add it on a first run but once you kind of know the characters it makes great sense.I'm about to go from a fairly heavily modded game to one with minimal mods to test an attempt to make my own mod. Aside from the stuff needed to test my own modding, these are the ones I'm keeping because I think I would go nuts without them:
Automatic gates - such a small dumb change and yet I really don't want to go back.
Diverse Stardew Valley - While I do leave some characters vanilla, and the Asian looks often aren't quite as well done as I'd like, there are some that I've imprinted on. And it does some nice seasonal outfits for villagers, too.
Better ranching - Tells me when my animals need love (or milking).
Most of my other faves are things like new NPCs or the dialogue expansions that try to respect canon. My current favourite new NPC is "Jorts and Jean the Helper Cats" which I thought would mostly be a joke mod but is better done than I expected. Though it does introduce talking cats, which some people find too much magic.