[Top 15] Stardew Valley Best Building Mods

Updated:

11 Mar 2023

Top 15 Stardew Valley Best Building Mods

Building modifications are among the most downloaded and playable variations of the Stardew Valley game. With the help of these modifications, users can add a wide variety of buildings to their farms, from entirely new structures and rooms to vanilla building upgrades and exterior skins! If you want attractive and practical builds, take a peek at the mods we've listed below.

15-IdaIda's Fishy Buildings for CP

The Farmhouse is the player's permanent residence in Stardew Valley, and no matter what map you choose, the exterior stays the same. That may be fine for most of the map choices as it seems to fit better, but for the Beach Farm, it isn’t quite beachy enough. The Beach Farm offers extra items and encourages fishing and foraging, so what better way to showcase that than with the farmhouse design?

This mod replaces the exterior of the farmhouse and cabin options with a Fishing hut aesthetic- perfect for the beach farm! It requires Content Patcher.

What's Fun About IdaIda's Fishy Buildings for CP:

It’s great to use for a Beach Farm gameplay.
All 3 buildable cabin types are also retextured.
With a lifebuoy and various fish hanging around the entrance, it has a similar appearance to Willy's Fish Shop.

IdaIda's Fishy Buildings for CP details here.

14-Natural Tone House and Multiplayer Cabins

Stardew Valley is full of amazing artwork, with great building designs, such as the farmhouse and accompanying cabins. However, the colors and hues may be a little too warm for some. This mod is a simple hue recolor for the vanilla farmhouse and multiplayer cabins. There are some custom pixel placement changes that are taken from other vanilla assets, which are a great addition. This mod uses the vanilla game without any extra requirements.

What's Fun About Natural Tone House:

Following the name, the colors used are of a more natural hue and cool-toned.
With the bits of green on the buildings, this mod would work well in the Forest Farm.
The vine details are similar to the ones seen on the run-down Community Center roof.
One of the cabins has a fun detail included, which is a lightning rod.

Natural Tone House details here.

13-Ancestral Trees - Obelisk Replacement for Content Patcher

One of the late-game items players can get are obelisks, which are permanent teleporters. Named Desert, Water, Earth, and Island, these are purchasable farm buildings that can be built and placed anywhere on your farm. This mod replaces the original obelisk design with thematic trees from the area they teleport you to.

This mod requires Content Patcher and SMAPI - Stardew Modding API

What's Fun About Ancestral Trees:

The mod comes in three versions: simple with only the tree, a version with slightly more details on the trees, and a version with birds from the area it teleports to.
These obelisks don’t take up as much vertical visual space as the regular version.
They are aesthetically pleasing decorative builds to have on your farm.

Ancestral Trees details here.

12-Serene Greenhouse

If you ever wanted to be able to integrate the Secret Woods as part of your farm, look no further than this greenhouse mod with a strong focus on the “green”. Transforming your vanilla greenhouse, this mod turns it into a serene forest-themed area that appears to be inspired by the Secret Woods.

It requires Content Patcher and SMAPI - Stardew Modding API

What's Fun About Serene Greenhouse:

It includes a large farming area with spaces for fruit trees. As well, a Junimo hut is placed centered in the pond, with Junimos who will water and harvest your crops so long as they are well stocked with food.
The greenhouse is expandable through in-game mechanics. There are 3 upgrades in total with each becoming available after the next one is unlocked.
There are some extra features included such as butterflies and fireflies spawning during the day and at night.
This mod is compatible with Stardew Valley Expanded, which will only add to the already fun gameplay.

Serene Greenhouse details here.

11-Spanish Revival Buildings (WIP)

This mod adds textural changes to the main farm buildings inspired by the Spanish Colonial Revival architectural style, which is found in Latin America and the US. The style features earthy colors and terracotta tiles, as well as dark wooden beams and lots of vines and flowers. The mod creator also incorporated a blurring technique to the colors and shapes to imitate the feeling of traditional paintings of the architectural style.

The mod requires Content Patcher and SMAPI - Stardew Modding API.

What's Fun About Spanish Revival Buildings:

Included are seasonal and clean building options. It’s recommended to use this mod with most recolor mods, especially the desaturated/less yellow ones as it's also compatible with reshades and vanilla.
The buildings with both clean and seasonal style options include all farmhouse sizes and paint masks, the mailbox, all barn sizes, with a deluxe barn paint mask, and all coop sizes, also with a deluxe coop paint mask.
Clean versions only include Greenhouse, Stable, Slime Hutch, Gold Clock, Sheds, Well, Island House, Mill, and Silo.

Spanish Revival Buildings details here.

10-Joseph's Seed Shop

Part of a larger in-progress mod called “The Grampleton Maker’s Market”, Joseph's Seed Shop mod features a bi-monthly temporary seed shop where players can purchase a variety of traditional and modern Native North American seeds, crops, and recipes. It features items that are always available for purchase as well as seeds and recipes that only become available as players advance their farming, fishing, mining, combat, and foraging skills.

This mod is compatible with both Vanilla and Stardew Valley Expanded maps. In order for this mod to function properly several mods must be installed, most importantly [MFM] Grampleton Maker's Market.

What's Fun About Joseph's Seed Shop:

Includes 15 new tilling crops, 3 new millable crops, 2 new paddy crops, and 1 new rare crop with a corresponding artisan good.
There are 19 new recipes with varying stat increases and 1 new milk alternative, oat milk, which can be used in all dairy recipes.
It also includes a few traditional crops and recipes from Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Joseph's Seed Shop details here.

9-Louvier Fromagerie (GMM)

Like the previous mod, Louvier Fromagerie is part of a larger in-progress mod called “The Grampleton Maker’s Market”. It adds a temporary cheese shop, or fromagerie in French, for players to purchase a variety of traditional French and Western European cheeses, producers, and recipes. It features some base dairy products and recipes that are always available for purchase, as well as unique cheeses and recipes that become available as players advance their farming, fishing, mining, combat, and foraging skills.

This mod is compatible with both Vanilla and Stardew Valley Expanded maps. In order for this mod to function properly several mods must be installed, most importantly [MFM] Grampleton Maker's Market.

What's Fun About Louvier Fromagerie (GMM):

Meet two new vendors that work at the Fromagerie. Amelie is the primary vendor, and she manages the “front of house” with her father Augustin. Patrice is a part-time employee who comes on Sundays to manage the shop while the Louvier family is away.
Louvier Fromagerie introduces 7 new crafting recipes for traditional cheese presses and butter churns. Each producer can produce two types of cheese or butter: cow’s milk and goat’s milk.
There are 2 new artisanal butters, 11 new artisanal cow cheeses, and 11 new artisanal goat cheeses.
There are 12 new and unlockable producer crafting recipes, 40 new unlockable seasonal recipes, and 2 new recipes that unlock with the Joseph’s Seed Shop mod.

Louvier Fromagerie (GMM) details here.

8-StarAmy's Flora and Fauna Animated Cabin Skins

While the cabins are generally used as homes for friends during multiplayer, they have other uses both in a single-player farm and a multiplayer farm! Use the cabins as extra storage, or, getting inspiration from this mod, display items such as your fish in one of these cabins with an animated exterior! Each of the different available cabin types now has a different animated exterior, which looks really awesome and will go great with a themed interior.

The mod requires Content Patcher and Content Patcher Animations.

What's Fun About Flora and Fauna Animated Cabin Skins:

The Log cabin has a fish theme, with coral and seagrass set in the background.
The Plank cabin has a plant theme, with a variety of plants featured and a small waterfall.
The Stone cabin has a pet theme, with what appears to be a kind of monkey and a toucan.
It also has seasonal and day and night variations.

Flora and Fauna Animated Cabin Skins details here.

7-Buildable Bathhouse

Get your own mini spa with this mod that adds a new buildable bathhouse. Now you can go for a nice, relaxing soak without ever leaving your farm! Build yourself a heated indoor pool just like the spa in the mountains to help you recover your energy from all the hard work you've done on your farm.

The mod requires Solid Foundations.

What's Fun About Buildable Bathhouse:

This reduces the need to eat up any of your food just to replenish your lost energy.
It is also perfect for those cold rainy or snowy days when you need a warm pick-me-up with some relaxing self-care.
It is compatible with the Fashion Sense mod as there is a mirror inside and when you interact with it, it will open the Fashion Sense UI.

Buildable Bathhouse details here.

6-Cave of Memories

If you ever wanted to replay certain heart events this mod will help with that. Say you missed some information that was stated in a particular scene, and you wanted to find out what it was. Create a Cave of Memories with a mirror inside. When you right-click it, you'll be prompted with a menu to choose which character and memory you want to replay.

This mod requires Dynamic Reflections and Solid Foundations.

What's Fun About Cave of Memories:

Buy this building from the Wizard’s Tower. Only one can be built at a time but it is rebuildable if it gets deconstructed.
Characters you still need to meet will be blanked out, while characters you have met but don't have any events for will be greyed out. This can prompt you to seek out those characters and events.
This mod works for most modded NPC heart events.

Cave of Memories details here.

5-Tiny Greenhouse for Solid Foundations

This cute mod gives players the ability to have a tiny greenhouse before the main greenhouse gets unlocked once they reach level 4 Farming. Bought from Robin, it is pretty tiny with a 3x2 footprint, and it holds 30 crops. Not only is it great to have as a sort of starter greenhouse, but it is also perfect for challenge runs and smaller farm maps like Riverland.

The mod requires Solid Foundations.

What's Fun About Tiny Greenhouse for Solid Foundations:

There is space for 8 fruit trees to grow inside.
Choose between over 10 exterior and interior skins in different styles and colors.
It is compatible with a few mods that improve gameplay such as Flexible Sprinklers and Better Beehouses.

Tiny Greenhouse for Solid Foundations details here.

4-Mystical Buildings

Using the Solid Foundations framework, this Mystical Buildings mod includes a bundle of strange but useful custom buildings that can be built by the Wizard. These six builds provide players with rewards for interacting with them, which can be used daily. Each Mystical Building can only be built once per player, but if it is deconstructed, it may be built again. The building's cooldown can be changed by editing the mod’s configuration. Each building by default uses a cooldown of one game day.

This mod requires Generic Mod Config Menu and Solid Foundations.

What's Fun About Mystical Buildings:

Quizzical Statue- This statue will ask you daily questions about the bachelors and bachelorettes and what items they love and hate. Answer it correctly and you'll be rewarded generously!
Statue of Greed- This hungry statue will offer to double any given items, though it may just end up eating what you give it!
Crumbling Mineshaft-This not-so-stable mineshaft will lead you into a cavern with a vast wealth of ores. However, you will only have a small amount of time before the mineshaft starts to collapse! Be careful not to drop important items before the timer runs out otherwise they will be lost. Check out the rest of the buildings!

Mystical Buildings details here.

3-More Clocks

The Gold Clock is a special type of building that is purchasable from the Wizard after finishing the quest Goblin Problem. A late-game building and the most expensive building, costing 10 million gold, it has several effects for your farm and Ginger Island farm, such as preventing debris from ever appearing again, with fences no longer decaying, and also functioning as a regular clock. This mod adds two different types of clocks with their own custom effects, the Iridium Clock and the Radioactive Clock, as well as giving the Gold Clock a new effect. All Clock options are editable via the config.json file or the Generic Mod Config Menu.

This mod requires SMAPI - Stardew Modding API.

What's Fun About More Clocks:

This mod works both in single-player and multiplayer, with all players needing to have the mod installed. It is also compatible with most other mods.
The Gold Clock now gives you an additional percent more gold for selling items through the Shipping Bin. This works the same as the Profit Margin modifier when you start a new Multiplayer game.
The Iridium Clock allows you to plant any seeds in any season on your farm. It also gives a percent chance at the end of each day of Speeding Up all of the machines currently running, meaning their time to finish producing an item is reduced by a set percentage.
The Radioactive Clock gives a percent chance to any crop on your farm, excluding the Greenhouse and Ginger Island, to "mutate" and become Fully Grown overnight or to grow by one "growth phase". It also increases the chance of getting Giant Crops (Vanilla Crops only) to a set percentage.

More Clocks details here.

2-(CP) Buildings Fully Configurable - Gold Clock

The Gold Clock is a really expensive building, costing 10 million gold, and it will take some time to get that kind of money! If you want to be able to get the clock without breaking the bank, this mod will do that for you. It makes the clock fully configurable, meaning you can choose when and how you are able to acquire the clock.

This mod requires Content Patcher and SMAPI - Stardew Modding API. It is available in Portuguese and English.

What's Fun About Fully Configurable - Gold Clock

You can configure the items needed to build the clock and how many items.
The amount of money needed to buy the clock is configurable.
Configure whether Robin will build the clock and how long it takes to build.
It is compatible with mods that recolor and replaces the Gold Clock.

Fully Configurable - Gold Clock details here.

1-GreenhouseUpgrades

As stated in the name, this mod allows you to upgrade your Greenhouse for more growing space and even auto-watering. Once you unlock the Greenhouse, either by following the Community Center route or the Joja Mart route, you can go to Robin for two upgrades. Each upgrade takes 2 days to complete like normal builds.

The mod requires Content Patcher and SMAPI - Stardew Modding API. It is available translated into Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish.

What's Fun About GreenhouseUpgrades:

The first upgrade is called the Big Greenhouse and it features a 15x15 growing space, meaning 105 new tiles.
The second upgrade is called the Deluxe Greenhouse and it features a 21x21 growing space, giving the greenhouse 321 new tiles vanilla greenhouse, and an auto-watering system.
There even is a panel outside the Deluxe greenhouse that turns green when crops inside are ready for harvest, no matter if they are planted in the soil or a garden pot.
This mod works both in single-player and multiplayer so all players can benefit from the upgrades.

GreenhouseUpgrades details here.

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