Stardew Valley’s greatest mod launched a brand new model this week with a trailer that “marks the conclusion of over three years of my life,” its creator says. “My preliminary imaginative and prescient for the mod is full,” FlashShifter says of model 1.14, however he is not completed. “I’ll start engaged on SVE 2.0 quickly, utilizing the entire abilities I’ve realized since beginning this challenge.”
I first performed Stardew Valley Expanded again in 2020 and it felt like a proper expansion even then. It is grown since, now with one other farm map, extra characters, and new places in Pelican City. One of many issues I loved most about Stardew Valley Expanded was how naturally it slot in with the bottom sport–from the map modifications to new characters to the brand new JojaMart storyline. SVE’s new 1.14 trailer right here exhibits how true that also is.
SVE has at all times nestled so nicely into the bottom sport that it is tough to inform the place Stardew ends and Expanded begins. Native JojaMart supervisor Morris will get his personal storyline and home. Claire, who was previously an unnamed Joja cashier, turns into a wedding candidate along with her personal story. It provides new farms owned by different characters with their very own tales so that you just’re not the one farmer on the town.
As for what’s new in SVE 1.14, FlashShifter says a brand new space referred to as the Highlands has been added. It additionally turns SVE’s journey guild character Lance into a wedding candidate. There are tons of different modifications too—new crops, fish, decorations, and extra—on prime of what SVE had already added in its earlier variations.
“The one factor I am most enthusiastic about is definitely a personality occasion,” FlashShifter tells me—one which takes place when the participant reaches a 14 coronary heart relationship degree with SVE’s added character Sophia. “I spent a full month creating it. I constructed a whole metropolis only for it, which takes gamers to the Zuzu Metropolis Comedian Con. Going to conventions and cosplaying are a few of my favourite hobbies on the planet and I wished to provide gamers that have.”
He is nonetheless planning to develop Stardew even additional although. FlashShifter says he is been impressed by The Legend of Zelda: A Hyperlink to the Previous and needs the gameplay loop in SVE 2.0 to contain fixing dungeons, beating bosses, and gaining new talents and equipment.
“I need to use the entire abilities I’ve realized over the previous three years to construct a brand new metropolis referred to as Fort Village. It is situated in Galdora, a distant magical area crammed with unknowns, beauties, and risks,” FlashShifter says, whereas maintaining the social components of Stardew Valley.
It feels like FlashShifter’s ambitions are leaning in the direction of whole overhaul territory just like Skyrim mods like Enderal or the unique Forgotten Metropolis mod. Having performed an earlier model of SVE, and now trying ahead to attempting 1.14, I am wanting to see what he comes up with.
Within the meantime, when you’ve already planted your fair proportion of Stardew farms, you must actually begin your subsequent one with the finished model of Stardew Valley Expanded. “There’s only a sure magic about this sport, and I wished to provide gamers that magic once more by way of my mod,” FlashShifter says. “I am blissful to say it is lastly in a state I am proud of.” You will discover Stardew Valley Expanded over on Nexus Mods.
