Top 15 Stardew Valley Best Crafting Mods That Are Fun
Crafting is a term used to describe the process of creating an item from scratch in video games, and Stardew Valley uses the same idea. Each crafting recipe includes a list of the items that are used as ingredients in the creation process. Every player only has access to ten crafting recipes at first; the remaining ones must be acquired through skill advancement, friendship with other players, and shop purchases. After spending some time with the game, you could find that there are several crafting-related features missing from it. When that occurs, mods are there to help! Here are some suggested mods for you that might work if you want to improve the crafting experience or repair something that annoys you in the game.
15-Zosa and Bonster's Recipes
Bonster and Zosa’s mod adds 20 new recipes that use vanilla ingredients that are less commonly used as well as a new ingredient.
As the recipes can be purchased in years 1 through 3, they can be collected alongside the rest of the vanilla recipes to have some variety in the food options.
What's Fun About Zosa and Bonster's Recipes:
- All of these recipes are 100% lore-friendly and use ingredients like rice, cheese, mayo, truffle oil, and different flowers.
- You can purchase the recipes from characters such as Robin, Pierre, Willie, Sandy, Krobus, and of course, Gus who sells the most recipes.
- Some of the recipes you can purchase are Apple n’ Cheese Handpie, Rose Tea, and Cockle Risotto
Mod features:
- Requires only the base game
Get this mod here.
14-Tidy Crafting Menu
Just as the name goes, this mod neatly organizes the Stardew Valley Vanilla crafting menu. Choose between organizing with the small craftables first or the big craftables. You can also customize some of the in-game features and recipes with an additional mod or by editing the config file.
For gamers like me who prefer having their game's objects arranged in chronological size, this mod is fantastic.
What's Fun About Tidy Crafting Menu:
- One recipe change is the Quality Fertilizer. It now uses 2 sap and 1 slime instead of two sap and one any fish, making it easier to craft. Choose between crafting 1 or 5 fertilizers.
- Grass Starter now costs 2 or 3 Fiber instead of 10. This is great because fiber isn’t the easiest to obtain.
- The Burglar's Ring recipe is a new one. You can craft it with 1 Gold Bar and 50 Void Essence. It unlocks at Combat Level 8, which can be reached faster than killing 500 Dust Sprites.
Mod features:
- Required: SMAPI- Stardew Modding API and Content Patcher.
- Recommended optional mod: Generic Mod Config Menu
- Available in these supported Languages: English, Deutsch, Espanol, Portugues, Francais, Italiano, Magyar, Türk, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese
Get this mod here.
13-Flow Hive
The Flow Hive mod adds a hive that produces functional honey created from Vanilla flowers. There are two types of producible honey: a "Flow Honey" that may be utilized as a special ingredient and "Honey" from the Vanilla game.
In order to make honey more of a unique item from each flower type, this mod currently only adds honey resources for flowers in the Vanilla game. For example, Tulips produce Tulip honey and other products, and so on.
What's Fun About Flow Hive:
- Flow Hive is a craftable machine, which produces honey when flowers are placed into it. The recipe unlocks at Level 5 Foraging.
- Create unique honey, honey jelly, and meads with Vanilla flowers. Honeycomb is randomly produced which can be turned into Royal Jelly.
- Also included is a craftable Glass Pane, made in a Furnace with Glass Shards.
Mod features:
- Required: SMAPI - Stardew Modding API, Json Assets, Producer Framework Mod
- Optional Mods: Mail Framework Mod, Shop Tile Framework
- Compatible with other Raffadax mods
Get this mod here.
12-Craftable Incubator
The incubator is one of the best farming tools which allows players to hatch chickens, ducks, and dinosaur eggs. Normally you can only get it by building a Big Coop and a Deluxe Coop and you only get one. With this mod, you can now craft the incubator so you can hatch more than one egg at a time.
Using this mod can save you moneyby not requiring you to build multiple Coops in order to have multiple incubators. Now you can have the largest chicken, duck, or dinosaur farm of your dreams.
What's Fun About Craftable Incubator:
- You can unlock this recipe at Farming Level 4 which doesn't take long to reach
- The recipe uses 100 hay and 50 hardwood but this can be changed in the config file.
- While the incubators can be broken and placed anywhere, they only work in different coops.
Mod features:
- Required Content Patcher and SMAPI - Stardew Modding API
Get this mod here.
11-Manure Industries
Manure Industries is a mod consisting of machines that adds manure compost bins that produce different kinds of fertilizers. The bins work when placed in Coops and Barns, collecting the invisible manure the animals create.
Animals create manure, but it’s not something included in the game. Still, this mod makes use of it to create fertilizer, just as manure is used in real life.
What's Fun About Manure Industries:
- The Manure Compost Bins are 9 machines that create Fertilizers, Retaining Soils, and Speed-Gros
- The Bins will only produce when their Quality corresponds to the Coop or Barn Upgrade Level they are in. So for example, this means that the Starter Coop can hold the Basic Fertilizer, Basic Retaining Soil, and Speed-Gro Compost Bins.
- The Bins crafting recipes become available when the farming skill advances and are unlocked at levels 4, 6, and 8.
Mod features:
- Required Json Assets, PFMAutomate, Producer Framework Mod
Get this mod here.
10-Animated Villagers Craftables
This amusing mod adds the NCP villagers as animated characters that you can place on your farm. Your villagers can be seen dancing, playing instruments, and more by using retextured craftable goods.
Want to make your farm lively with more than just your animals? Add these animated villagers and you can pretend they are visiting your farm or even living on it too.
What's Fun About Animated Villagers Craftables:
- Add Harvey, Abigail, Shane, Mr. Qi, and others to your farm.
- The NPC villagers can be placed anywhere on your farm.
- If you want to change any of the retextures for specific craftable items you can change the true/false in the config file.
Mod features:
Get this mod here.
9-T's Big-Craftables Pack
T’s Big Craftables Pack adds 6 new craft machines that can convert or create materials that aren’t easy to get a lot of in a short amount of time. The machines that come with this pack are unlocked as recipes:
- Artifact Trove Creation Equipment
- Bug Meat Generating Apparatus
- Clay Generating Millstone
- Sap Product Generating Tapper
- Seaweed Generating Bowl
- Material Converter
If anything, the Artifact Trove Creation Equipment is the best part of this mod because it reduces the hassle of having to look for or purchase artifact troves, which are a wonderful source of the necessary artifacts if you're aiming to complete the museum collection.
What's Fun About T's Big-Craftables Pack:
- Unlock the machine recipes after reaching Friendship Levels with different Villagers like Evelyn, and Skill Levels in different areas like Combat.
- All of the machines have animations for visual enjoyment.
- Material Converter is a little harder to unlock since you have to have Friendship level 5 with the Pelican Town Villagers, all Skill Levels are 7 or higher, and the other craft recipes are unlocked.
Mod features:
- Required: Json Assets, Mail Framework Mod, Producer Framework Mod, SMAPI - Stardew Modding API
- Available in these Supported Languages: English and Japanese
Get this mod here.
8-Craftable Auto-Petter
Similar to the incubator mod above, this mod adds a crafting recipe for the Auto-Petter to the crafting menu. This is a tool that automatically pets your animals every day to prevent them from losing Friendship or Mood due to lack of petting. It can be placed anywhere but only works in Barns and Coops.
Normally Auto-Petters can be bought from JojaMart after taking the Jojo Community Development route, found in treasure chests in the Skull Cavern, or dropped by monsters or crates and barrels in The Mines during certain quests. This means it can be hard to obtain but with this mod, not anymore!
What's Fun About Craftable Auto-Petter:
- Somehow Marine was able to her hands on the Auto-Petter blueprints which she mails to you after reaching Farming Level 7
- As shown in the picture, it only needs fiber, wood, a battery back, and an iron bar to create one Auto-Petter. How affordable!
Mod features:
Get this mod here.
7-Slime Sauce
This mod makes use of petrified slime that is produced in the Slime Hutch and found in Geodes and turns it into something useful with a practical effect, like a useful food item!
This is yet another mod that takes an otherwise useless item and turns it into something that players can use and enjoy.
What's Fun About Slime Sauce:
- Use Mayonnaise Machines to make the Slime Sauce with the petrified slime.
- Slime eggs can also be put in the Mayonnaise Machine to create a different kind of Slime sauce. If you have extra Prismatic Shards, you can add them too!
- You can buy a recipe from Gus that creates 4 kinds of slime soft candy that have the same buff only with a shorter lasting time.
Mod features:
Get this mod here.
6-Fruit Tree Honey
This mod is similar to the Flow Hive mod above but now bee houses are modified to make honey from fruit trees as well as flowers.
In addition to jelly and wine, fruit tree honey is an additional artisanal good that your fruit trees produce, giving you access to yet another revenue stream from the trees.
What's Fun About Fruit Tree Honey:
- With the base flower or fruit value taken into account, the value of the honey remains constant. The price of the honey will also depend on how expensive the flower or fruit is.
- Vegetables and forage items can be checked for in an optional version of the mod, as well as rocks. However, only one version may be used at once.
Mod features:
- Requires: Producer Framework Mod, SMAPI - Stardew Modding API
- The mod works with any modded trees that have the Fruit category tag
- Recommended to use with Fruit Tree Tweaks and PPJA More Trees
Get this mod here.
5-Seed Maker - Better quality more seeds
A piece of refining machinery called the Seed Maker creates seeds from harvested crops or forgeable items. It usually produces 1 to 3 seeds of the same kind of input crop, with a random chance for Ancient Seeds (0.5%) or Mixed Seeds (1.99%).
This mod improves the base calculation for the number of seeds that fall from the Seed Maker based on the grade of the crop or fruit utilized, allowing you to produce more seeds without having to purchase more.
What's Fun About Seed Maker - Better quality more seeds
- Normal quality crops produce between 1 to 4 seeds, Silver quality crops produce between 2 to 5 seeds, Gold quality crops produce 3 to 6 seeds, and Iridium quality crops produce 5 to 8 seeds
- The mod doesn’t alter what crops or fruit is allowed to become seeds.
- There still is a random chance for "Ancient Seed" or "Mixed Seeds"
Mod features:
- Requires: SMAPI - Stardew Modding API
- Supports Automate and custom crops
Get this mod here.
4-Blast Furnace
Thisjcgn created a mod that adds a Blast Furnace that works twice as fast as a regular furnace.
With the basic Furnace, smelting ores can take anything from 30 minutes to 10 in-game hours, depending on the item. That period of time is split in half while using the blast furnace.
What's Fun About Blast Furnace:
- The recipe blueprint will be unlocked once you reach Mining Level 5 and have at least 8 hearts with Clint.
- Metal bars can be produced in half the time with blast furnaces so you can smelt more items in a short amount of time.
Mod features:
Get this mod here.
3-Raffadax Teas
With the inclusion of different artisanal goods, the Raffadax Teas Mod introduces new crops, trees, and a machine to create 28 additional Teas for manufacture. The machine is called an Oxidizer, which will process tea leaves and dry fruits.
Once players have finished Caroline's 2-heart event and have obtained Tea Leaves from the Tea Sapling, they can make green tea using the one tea recipe that is included in the original game. Tea enthusiasts can now appreciate the addition of these new recipes thanks to this mod.
What's Fun About Raffadax Teas:
- Teas and new crops can be made using the new Oxidizer machine, Charcoal Kilns, Kegs, and Preserves Jars. This gives Charcoal Kilns another purpose too.
- The teas can be bought from Krobus and Sandy, some of which can only be purchased during a Year 2.
- Some of the teas you will get are Hibiscus, Oolong, Chamomile, and Earl Grey, while the new crops are prunes, raisins, and puffed rice.
Mod features:
- Required mods: Json Assets, Producer Framework Mod, Shop Tile Framework
- There is already built-in compatibility for other mods that introduce the same crops.
- The mod is compatible with the Flow Hive mod featured above
Get this mod here.
2-Recipes And Crafting Coexistence
The crafting system has been improved by the mod by user Pinguimbozo, which also adds additional tools, production lines, materials, and more. You can now employ new equipment to convert common materials into more complex materials that will be used to create your products.
This mod stands out because it offers commands that may be bought after mastering a recipe. By inserting the command and the ingredients from the standard recipe into an Auto-Crafter, these commands assist the automatic crafting mechanism. In case you don't want to use up all of your materials, it also helps you to manage how many objects are made.
What's Fun About Recipes And Crafting Coexistence:
- Purchase new machines from Robin such as Auto-Crafter, Liquid Extractor, Material Converter, Energy Accumulator, Excavator Machine, and Paper Maker.
- On the computer, new recipes can be learned, and they are uploaded based on skill level. The recipe for Explosive Ammo, for instance, won't be displayed on the computer until Combat 8 is completed.
- A tiny first shed is provided by a new structure that is meant to be the location where you will learn to craft, learn recipes, and automate jobs.
- Recipe components have been altered, turning formerly infrequently used items into necessary ones, especially early on in the game.
Mod features:
- Required mods: Custom Crafting Stations, Json Assets, Mail Framework Mod, Producer Framework Mod, Shop Tile Framework, Solid Foundations
- Recommended mods: Automate
- The mod removes the Recycling Machine and Transmute recipes because they become obsolete
Get this mod here.
1-Better Crafting
This is a brand-new crafting User Interface (UI) with support for categories and favorites that can be customized, simple mass crafting, and improved Workbench functionality. Furthermore, with an additional mod, you can optionally create buildings directly from the crafting menu.
This mod is great to use when playing in multiplayer because it can be shared and functions with all the players.
What's Fun About Better Crafting:
- With the list of required materials presented, you can choose your favorite recipes and select the quantity of something you want to produce. Favorited items have a silver star on them
- You can personalize the category listing so that you can put the items in the order of which category you use them most frequently.
- The crafting and cooking menus are combined in one location by this mod, which may be turned off if you prefer them to remain separate.
Mod features:
- Requires SMAPI - Stardew Modding API
- Compatible with Generic Mod Config Menu
- Works for multiplayer mode
Get this mod here.
