#sdv modding

[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

[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?

[posypocketful]

baby's first janky ass mod

[moonlight-farm]

Mod List

Alternative Textures Mods

Animal Scarecrows Animated

Animated Scarecrow Critters

Aster and Nari's Japanese Wallpaper and Flooring

Aster's Chests and Minifridges as Japanese-ish Bamboo Baskets

AT Fence Pack by Kaya

Aster's Big Furniture Pack for Alternative Textures

Aster's Painting Display Signs

Elegant Craftables

Equine Explosion - Horse Retextures

Flipping Flamingos

Frog Decorations

Gwen's Craftables for Alternative Textures

Hanging Flower Baskets

IdaIda's Furniture Recolor

IdaIda's Craftables

Magical Furniture

Medieval Buildings for Alternative Textures

Midori's Camping Set

MSaturn Floaties - Alternative Textures for Crab Pots

Mushroom Paths

Nano's Garden Style Craftables

Nano's Retro Style Furniture

Nyang Cat Scarecrows

Out-and-About Storage

Rosy Picket Fences

Shyzie's Rugs

Suitcase Record Player

Wall Basket Retexture

Warm Cozy Fireplace

West Elm Furniture by Atlas

Windmill Sprinkler

Custom Furniture Mods

Catmao Picnic Furniture

Gedian's Swing

Oriental Rugs and Tatami Set

Ornamental Garden Furniture

SinceWayLastMay's Orchid Pack

Who_M_Furniture - Happy New Year

Xiaoyang's White Flower Wedding Furniture

Yellog's Furniture

Content Patcher Mods

A Wittily Named Recolor

Arcades into Consoles

Cometkins Better... Mods

Cottagecore Fences

Everlasting Flowers

Fall Leaves

Farm Animal Facelift

Fresher Food

Global Warming - Mountain River with Water

Gopher Dig Spot

Grass for Summit

Gwen's Paths

Hat Mouse and Friends

Hippo's Cliffside Falls Farm

Industrial Furniture Set

Industrial Kitchen and Interior

Medieval DNT

Medieval Fish Well

Mi's and Magimatica Country Furniture

Movie Posters

No More Stumps in Town

Oasis Greenhouse

Owlie's Better Lilypads

Plantable Palm Trees

PPJA More Trees Retextured

Ran's Farm Decor

Redesigned Shed Layout

Rustic Country Town Interiors

Rustic Country Walls and Floors

Rustic Traveling Cart

Seasonal Garden Farmhouse V2 (Unofficial Update)

Secret Garden Frog Terrarium

Secret Woods Totoro

Simple Foliage

Simple Special Orders Board Retexture

Slime Hutch into Greenhouse

Solarium (Rooftop Spa House)

StarAmys Random Furniture Reskin

Trinkets

Visible Fish

Void Cat

Way Back Pelican Town

Zyr's Multipurpose Shed

DGA Mods

Animated Koinobori

Better Gemstones and Minerals Animated

Flower Power Furniture

Junimo and Bird Animation Lamp

Kedi's Pets Furniture

Koi Ponds and Tide Pools

Minakie's Custom Furniture

RoseDryad's Fairydew Decorations

StarAmy's Fairytale Furniture

StarAmy's Wild Greenhouse Furniture

Tenthousandcats' Firefly Lamps

JA Mods

Aquatic Plants

Cute Sweets and Desserts

Korea Blossom

Lumisteria Flowers and Crops

Neo's Succulent Farm

PPJA - More Trees

Quaint Living - Flower Garden

Succulents

Solid Foundations Mods

Shyzie's String Lights

Wildflour's Witchy Gardening Sheds

[mackrelkart]

almost there joe... almost there

[bitepixel]

Got new program for pixel art...

And slowly drawing stuff for sdv mod update...

For some time I wanted to draw the hat that made of lilypod… I drew it… Not sure that I drew it well…

[sugarmaplez]

Current and future SDV mod projects

if you'd like to suggest something, please let me know! I'd love to hear your ideas.

published:

Coffee Cafe Clothes for FS (completed, published)

Matcha Cafe Clothes for FS (completed, published)

work in progress:

Summer Soda Dresses for FS (development)

Flowery Dresses for FS (planned)

Seasonal Rainy Outfits for FS (planned)

Wintery Boba Cafe Clothes for FS (development, backburner)

Seasonal Adorable Sandy Portraits (concept phase)

potential future endeavors:

masculine versions of my clothes

content patcher versions of my clothes

more poses for existing clothes

[drawwithsajiri]

[bearofohu]

i love dialogue mods. i walk into the grocery store to buy some cooking oil and abigail calls me a faggot

[batmanshole]

who likes my house :-)

[mister-qi]

does anyone have any recommendations for mod-creation discords? I'm in the official sdv one but that has. 220k people in it. so every single post ever gets completely buried. I'm really just looking for a community that's good answering questions in a somewhat timely manner, and ideally pretty friendly

[closedrop]

Guys I modded my SDV today :D

Happy because I did it all on my own without help, didn’t mess up beyond repair, AND am now confident that I could probably add other mods if I wanted :)

I can also play modded or unmodded depending on what I want so yippee :>

[posypocketful]

do i have any experiencing making mods? no. do i have any experience making art? besides one college intro to drawing course... no. do i even have any experience coding? absolutely not. but i have been possessed by a deep, deep urge to make a stardew valley npc. and so.... i must.

... i just wept reading the modding guide wiki.

[vilochkaaa]

the boys🐶