A brand new Stardew Valley mod permits for NPC companions to randomly drop by and hang around at your farmhouse, including a characteristic that followers have lengthy needed to see included, and bringing the agricultural journey a bit of nearer to Nintendo’s Animal Crossing.
Stardew Valley is a lovely world, however particularly whenever you’re again at house, on the brink of put your toes up after an extended day toiling the sector, it may be a lonely one, with solely your self and the occasional scarecrow for firm. Farmhouse Visits, created by mistyspring, and accessible at no cost on Nexus Mods, goals to unravel that downside. Professionally made and surprisingly detailed (there’s nothing worse than downloading new character and socialising mods, solely to search out the dialogue textual content stuffed with spelling errors), it’s a welcome addition to Stardew Valley’s already spectacular mod roster, making your homestead, and by extension the entire of the sport, really feel that little extra alive.
With Farmhouse Visits put in, NPCs will randomly cease by at your own home, carry you items, and remark in your constructing work and decor. How typically they go to will rely on the closeness of your relationship – extra hearts, extra visits – however there’s additionally a full customisation menu that means that you can set what number of visits you need per day, what time they need to begin and finish, and even how “verbose” your guests might be. And in the event that they’re coming spherical too typically or beginning to get in your nerves, you’ll be able to blacklist them, and by no means see them once more. Hopefully it gained’t come to that, however even within the idyllic world of Stardew Valley, you’ve obtained to have boundaries.
Animal Crossing, Nintendo’s open-world farming journey, accommodates an analogous characteristic already – your neighbours will sometimes drop spherical, and you may stroll them round your own home, displaying off your prized gadgets and ornaments. Stardew followers have lengthy needed to see one thing comparable, and now, due to Farmhouse Visits and mistyspring, they’ve obtained it.