Installing a mod to a game can increase its playability by introducing changes to the game. This article shows you how to mod Stardew Valley step by step.
How to Download Stardew Valley Mods
Stardew Valley is a simulation role-playing video game available on Windows, macOS, Linux, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PS Vista, iOS and Android.
This game supports modes. With mods, players can add features (like showing NPCs on the map), change game mechanics (like making fences rot slower), make cosmetic changes (like making your house look like a hobbit house), and more.
How to download Stardew Valley mods? Before modding Stardew Valley, you need to get the Stardew Valley mods you like. The biggest source of Stardew Valley mods right now Nexus Mods'type. You can find and download Stardew Valley mods from this Nexus Mods page.
If you don't know which Stardew Valley mods to use, you can try the following:
- SF Daphne's buildable ice cream truck
- The Perks of Being Married
- Ali's Overgrown Fairy Buildings
- Balanced Valley – Mining
- Stardew Valley Expanded
- Mod Tractor
- NPC Map Locations
- Multiple Spouses
- To download for free from the Nexus Mods website, you must first create an account.
- When you click on the Manual button to download a mod, it sometimes tells you that this mod requires additional files/mods. This means that if you want to install and run this mod, you need to install these additional mods first.
- If there are many versions of this mod, please choose the newest one because old mods may crash your game.
How to Mod Stardew Valley on PC
How to install Stardew Valley mods on PC? You can ask this question. Here is our guide:
- Click on this Stardew Valley page to learn how to mod Stardew Valley on an Android device.
- Before you start modding Stardew Valley, back up game files because installing mods has some risks.
Step 1: Make sure you run Stardew Valley at least once.
Step 2: Download and install SMAPI (Stardew Modding API). Many Stardew Valley mods will require you to install SMAPI first.
- Go to the Nexus Mods website to search and download the SMAPI installer file.
- Open the SMAPI installer file.
- In the unzipped folder, click the install on Windows.bat file. If you are using a Linux or macOS PC, click the other two files.
- A window will open. It will ask you where to add or remove SMAPI. You must select the Stardew Valley installation folder. If you installed the game under the Steam folder, type “1” and press Enter. If not, type “2” and press Enter. Next, you need to manually type the Stardew Valley installation path.
- Now, it will ask you what you want to do. Type “1” and press Enter to install SMAPI.
- Wait until the installation is completed. It will tell you the SMAPI installation location. This will be used in the next step.
If your game client is an Xbox app, the SMAPI install location should be XboxGame\Stardew Valley\Content.
Step 3: Configure the game client. Stardew Valley's game clients can be Steam, GOG Galaxy or the Xbox app. Follow the guides below to configure them.
For Steam:
- Copy the SMAPI installation location displayed in SMAPI's installer window. The copied content should be “C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Stardew Valley\StardewModdingAPI.exe” %command%. Quotation marks should also be copied.
- In the Steam client, right-click Stardew Valley and select Properties.
- Go to General > Launch Options and paste the content you copied into the text box.
For GOG Galaxy:
- Open Notepad and paste the following: start “” “C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\Games\Stardew Valley\StardewModdingAPI.exe”. The SMAPI installation location must be changed accordingly.
- Click File and then Save As.
- In the Save As window, change the save location to your Stardew Valley game folder, change the Save As type to All Files, change the File name to start.bat, and click Save.
- In the GOG Galaxy client, click Stardew Valley > settings icon > Manage installation > Configure.
- In the menu that appears, enable the Custom executables/arguments checkbox.
- Click Add another executable/argument. Then, select the start.bat file in the window that opens and click Open.
- Enable the Default Executable radio button under the File 2 section you just added and click OK.
For Xbox app:
- Open the Stardew Valley folder and rename Stardew Valley.exe to another name, such as Stardew Valley original.exe.
- Copy the exe file to the game folder and rename it to Stardew Valley.exe. Note that you will need to repeat these two steps when the game is updated.
Step 4: Add mods to Stardew Valley.
- Open the Mods folder under the Stardew Valley installation folder.
- Unzip the downloaded mod files and drag the uncompressed folders into the Mods folder.
- Then you can launch Stardew Valley to enjoy the mods.
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