Stardew Valley News

This Stardew Valley mod lets you sit to restore stamina

There are plenty of big new features in Stardew Valley's 1.5 update, but the biggest one of all? Sitting. Okay, well, maybe that's not as major as a new endgame region and everything, but the ability to sit on chairs does offer a nice spot of role-playing - if not much else. However, one mod aims to make relaxing a little more, er, relaxing.

Sit for Stamina is a simple little mod which, as the name suggests, allows you to sit for stamina. So while you're resting on a bench or chair, you'll passively regenerate energy. The mod is customisable via a config file, so you can determine exactly how much regeneration you get. You can either turn it into a game-breaking cheat with a never-ending font of stamina, or a smaller boost for whenever you take a rest.

You can grab Sit for Stamina over on Nexus Mods, courtesy of modder Entoarox. Just sit back, relax, and watch the stamina roll in.

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The Stardew Valley Expanded mod has gotten a big update and new farm too

You may have heard that Stardew Valley had had another huge update in December bringing a new farm map and some cool endgame secrets. It’s not the just the main game though, some of Stardew’s biggest mods were updated on the same day, including one of my personal favorites, Stardew Valley Expanded. This giant mod has also gotten its share of new characters, content, and a new farm map too.

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This Stardew Valley mod adds a whole region, 24 NPCs, new romances, and more

Stardew Valley has a thriving modding scene, with ways to tweak, tinker with, and add to the farming game in abundant supply. Some of the best Stardew Valley mods are those that add entire new places to visit, people to meet, and things to do - and one impressive new creation has all of those, and more.

Rafseazz's Ridgeside Village mod adds a "small town located on the west side of Stardew Valley", as its creator explains. "Meet new interesting people with immersive backstories, engaging dialogue, and exciting events! Discover new forage, stories, secrets, maybe even fall in love? Who knows? A lot can happen in Ridgeside Village!" Looking at the breakdown of what the mod includes, this certainly seems to be the case.

There's a whole new - and very pretty map - peppered with features like cherry blossom trees, waterfalls, and windmills among the scattered houses, farms, and the mod's new shops. Plus, there are new festivals included complete with dialogue, and "over 200 locational messages" in the mod overall.

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This Stardew Valley mod overhauls the cooking so you can become a master chef

The cooking in Stardew Valley isn't entirely conducive to really stretching your culinary skills. This mod aims to fix that, giving you more options and features in the kitchen, and adding a little depth to way the farming game uses food.

In The Love of Cooking, you get a revamped cookbook, more opportunities for progression and friendships, extra ingredients, and the power to burn your meals or create leftovers. In creator Blueberry's cooking menu, you can search for foods using a number of criteria, including filtering out what you currently can't make, and you can craft up to nine recipes at a time.

The Community Centre has an extra challenge, requiring you to fetch food for the resident forest spirits to upgrade the kitchen there. Onions, cabbages, and carrots are among the new crops, and oils are no longer an ingredient, but a way to upgrade the quality of the meals you make. Cooking has another specific layer of progression, with rewards that unlock the more you cook, and you can use other people's kitchens, to entice you to be a little more sociable.

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Stardew Valley just hit a new player count record

Stardew Valley is one of the loveliest indie success stories of the past decade, and it seems that tale isn't over just yet. Players got a Christmas gift in the form of the long-awaited 1.5 update, and this update has brought the game's biggest player count record of all time. Clearly, everyone's been waiting for all that new endgame content.

Stardew Valley reached a new concurrent Steam player record of 89.807 on December 27, the first Sunday after the 1.5 update landed. As SteamDB shows, the previous record of 64,427 was set shortly after launch in 2016. Giant player peaks similar to the one we've seen this week previously hit alongside the multiplayer beta in April 2018 and the 1.4 update in November 2019, but this is far, far bigger than either of those.

It's not as massive as the player count record Terraria set earlier this year following its Journey's End update, but it's a similar effect, as loads of people who've picked up the game over the years suddenly have a reason to jump in all at once.

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