Stardew Valley character mods

Here are 25 mods for Stardew Valley characters: new dialogue for the villagers, heart events, different romances and weddings, children who grow up and talk, spouses with lives of their own and new NPCs, like two talking cats or neighbors who live in East Scarp and Sunberry Village. They're for 1.6 on PC with SMAPI, and on each mod page we list the dependencies and whether they work in multiplayer.

The best Stardew Valley character mods to start with

• Canon-Friendly Dialogue Expansion: about 4,400 new lines of dialogue for the 34 villagers with hearts, true to the game's tone and configurable per character.
• Platonic Relationships: reach 10 hearts with the singles without having to date them. Version 1.5.2.
• Immersive Spouses for 1.6: your spouse gets their life back after the wedding and goes out about four days a week to their usual hobbies and places.
• Immersive Family - A Children's Events Expansion: 35 events with your children and your spouse and over 340 lines of dialogue from the neighbors about your family. Includes Spanish.
• Unique Children: your children look like your spouse, with sprites for every partner in the base game, SVE and Ridgeside.
• Life Cycle - Rival Heart Events: couples among the villagers, like Penny and Sam or Maru and Harvey, with heart events, schedules and an optional wedding.
• Events Expansion: 24 heart events showing how the villagers relate to each other at the beach, the Saloon, the museum or the clinic.
• Jorts and Jean the Helper Cats: two talking, pro-union, anti-Joja cats as new neighbors with schedules, gifts and events.

Compatibility between character mods

• Expansion NPCs: Nora The Herpetologist and Lurking in the Dark (Sen) live in East Scarp, and Always Raining in the Valley adds three NPCs to Sunberry Village. You need the expansion installed.
• Children: LittleNPCs turns your children into NPCs with schedules through content packs, Unique Children changes their appearance and Unique Children Talk gives them dialogue; the last one doesn't need Unique Children.
• Several mods for the same villager: if you combine mods that rewrite the same character, like Immersive Characters - Shane and another dialogue or romance mod, check its official page to see which ones it's compatible with.
• Multiplayer: some only work in single-player saves, like Immersive Family. The ones that add NPCs or events must be installed by all players.

If you want whole towns with dozens of NPCs, check out the best Stardew Valley expansions. To install them, follow the guide to install mods in Stardew Valley, and for more ideas, the best Stardew Valley mods.

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