Top 15 Stardew Valley Best Crop Mods That Are Fun
Players in the Stardew Valley game can cultivate a variety of seasonal crops on their farm all year long, some of which are multi-seasonal. Typically, crops are produced to be collected for sale, utilized as food in dishes or as snacks, or given as gifts to NPCs and the residents of Pelican Town.
As a result, players will want to maximize the use of their mods, cultivate the greatest crops, discover new crops, and earn a lot of cash. Mods can help in this situation. We've highlighted mods that bring new and distinctive crops, enhance the existing crops, and even provide new recipes to use the new crops. See them down below!
15-6480's Giant Crops
A 3x3 field of melons, pumpkins, or cauliflower plants in Stardew Valley has a small possibility of developing into a Giant Crop. These Giant Crops may be harvested with an axe, yield twice as much as usual, and have the added benefit of not dying when the seasons change.
The mod includes a retexture picture of the vanilla giant melon and cauliflower along with giant versions of 21 vanilla crops. Both single-harvest and multiple-harvest crops are included. Now you may grow enormous versions of your favorite crops and decide whether to harvest them for sale or leave them in the ground for aesthetic purposes.
What's Fun About 6480's Giant Crops:
- The single harvest crops included are potato, starfruit, beets, yam, taro, red cabbage, sweet gem berry, parsnip, radish, garlic, artichoke
- The multi-harvest crops included are: cranberry, blueberry, strawberry, coffee, corn, pineapple, eggplant, pepper, tomato, and ancient fruit
- Bonus: This mod doesn’t include giant flowers, so Neos Giant Flowers helps with that. With the exception of foraging flowers, it includes huge crop versions of each of the six vanilla flowers: tulip, blue jazz, poppy, sunflower, and fairy rose.
Mod features:
- Required: More Giant Crops, SMAPI - Stardew Modding API
- Optional: Content Patcher for the cauliflower and melon textures
Get this mod here.
14-Hybrid Flowers
This mod adds cross-bred versions of every cultivable vanilla flower, making a total of 36 hybrids that also have gift tastes, in case you've ever wanted additional flower kinds. By beginning the breeding process with vanilla blooms, you can obtain them all without purchasing hybrid seeds. However, Sandy's Shop sells the seeds if you'd like to buy them, and cost the same as the vanilla seeds.
What's Fun About Hybrid Flowers:
- “Original” flowers, a new kind of flower, are created by breeding two of the same vanilla flower together. These flowers can be used to create hybrid flowers, such as an Original Fairy Rose combined with a Vanilla Poppy to create Fairy Poppy.
- The selling price and honey are depending on the flower that the hybrid flower is shaped like, so for example, the Jazz Rose, which has the color of the blue jazz and the shape of the fairy rose, has the same sell price and honey value as the Vanilla Fairy Rose.
- Bonus: The same developer also created a mod that produces Hybrid Fruit Trees, which does the same function by combining each vanilla fruit tree with another vanilla fruit tree to produce 28 new hybrid trees.
Mod features:
- Required mods: Hybrid Crop Engine to breed the flowers, Json Assets, Multi Yield Crops is needed to make the sunflowers drop seeds
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13-Floral Megamix
This massive patch adds over 180 new flower crops and products that draw inspiration from both fiction and reality, including the video game Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. You'll definitely recognize some of the crops if you're an Animal Crossing fan!
What's Fun About Floral Megamix:
- There are 296 products, 189 crops, several of which are multi-yielding, 7 new fruit trees, and 189. Only two of the crops can be collected from the Casino Club, while one crop can be collected from Qi's Walnut Room.
- In the town square, there are 5 market day stalls where you can display and sell your best artisanal goods, produce, and crafts with the Market Day mod.
- 2 new gems are included: Sapphire and Full-Moon Jewel
Mod features:
- Required mods: Json Assets, Farm Type Manager (FTM), Hybrid Crop Engine, Market Day - Sell Your Items, Multi Yield Crops, Producer Framework Mod, Shop Tile Framework
- Recommended mod: Mineral and Gem Crops
- Available translated: Mandarin
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12-English Country Garden - Herbal Teas
Six seasonal herbs are provided in this mod, along with herbal tea recipes and the associated buffs to give you a classic English countryside garden. Pierre sells the tea seeds and recipes; the recipes become available once your friendship with Caroline has grown to a certain level. Keep an eye out for this mod's updates since new plants, flowers, and recipes are on the horizon.
What's Fun About English Country Garden - Herbal Teas:
- The Herbal Teas are Mint, Sage, Lavender, Echinacea, Chamomile, and Rosemary.
- After reaching 10 heart levels with Caroline you will receive a tea set in the mail.
- You can buy Fish and Chips, a classic English recipe, from Gus
Mod features:
- Required mods: Json Assets, Mail Framework Mod, SMAPI - Stardew Modding API
- Available translated: Simplified Chinese
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11-Buffs Crops
In this mod, the unique crops provide strong benefits when consumed. The buffs function similarly to vanilla buffs in that you cannot combine them, and if you consume an item that has a different buff, they are replaced. After you enter Qi's Walnut Room, Pierre will let you purchase the seeds.
What's Fun About Buffs Crops:
- Examples of some of the crops with their buffs: Energy Root gives you maximum energy, Magnetic Fruit gives magnetism, Radioactive Parsnip gives +10 farming skill, Pick-axe Flower gives foraging and mining skills, and Ocean Starfruit gives + fishing skill.
- After harvest, crops including ocean starfruit, four-leaf clover, speedy bean, and magnetic fruit regrow. The fact that most crops sell well and fetch a lot of gold is an added bonus.
- When you have activities to do the next day, some of the buffs you may obtain from these crops are enjoyable and useful because they can last the entire day or even longer.
Mod features:
- Required mods: Json Assets, SMAPI - Stardew Modding API
Get this mod here.
10-Feel Brazil - Crops
This mod, developed by DuduBertol, was made to display the most popular crops grown in the Brazilian region and add them to players' Stardew Valley farms in an original and entertaining way. Discover Brazilian culture through its agricultural products! The crops are typically grown in the summer, spring, and fall, while some are able to grow in all four seasons or more than one.
What's Fun About Feel Brazil - Crops:
- The Brazilian crops are: Acai, Barley, Carrot, Cotton, Guarana, Peanut, Soy Bean, Mate Herb, and Sugarcane.
- The crops vary between those that regrow and those that don’t.
- The crops can be sold for a nice profit when a lot is harvested. The sell price ranges from 20 gold to 250 gold
Mod features:
- Required mods: Json Assets, SMAPI - Stardew Modding API
Get this mod here.
9-Cocoa Plant and Chocolate Cooking (JA)
The Vanilla base game includes recipes for chocolate cake and cookies that resemble chocolate chip cookies but don't actually contain any chocolate as an ingredient. It's a little unclear how that operates. But this new mod changes everything!
What's Fun About Cocoa Plant and Chocolate Cooking (JA):
- In the greenhouse or on the island farm, the cocoa plant will grow year-round, including in the spring and summer on your regular farm. While Gus sells the recipes, with different ones being available for each season and in Years 2 and 3, Pierre's shop sells the seeds beginning in the spring of Year 2.
- There are 9 chocolate recipes: Brownies, Chocolate covered Strawberries, Cocoa Powder, Chocolate Bar, Chocolate Mousse, Chocolate Milkshake, Chocolate Macaroons, Hot Chocolate, and Mocha.
- Different recipes provide buffs to farming, mining, luck, speed & more! Plus, all of the recipes are giftable, and every NPC loves at least one of the new items.
Mod features:
- Required mods: Json Assets, SMAPI - Stardew Modding API
- Available Translated: German, Korean, Chinese, and Portuguese
Get this mod here.
8-Hardy Grass
If you’re like me, you have a hard time having enough grass to be able to harvest wheat from it for your animals, especially when you’re low on food for your animals. With this mod, instead of completely getting destroyed when you cut grass or when your farm animals eat it, short stems will be left, giving it a chance to regrow. The roots are still removable, which you can do with an axe, pickaxe, or hoe. The roots can still be removed with a Hoe, Axe, or Pickaxe.
What's Fun About Hardy Grass:
- It offers a Quick Grass Starter formula for grass that grows and spreads more quickly so that your animals may survive on a smaller patch. You can buy the recipe from Pierre.
- Additionally, strolling across the freshly cut grass will no longer slow you down.
- The optional Generic Mod Config Menu mod makes it simple to configure settings.
Mod features:
- Required mods: Json Assets
- Optional mods: Generic Mod Config Menu
- The mod works in multiplayer
Get this mod here.
7-Silkworm Mulberry
This mod adds a Silkworm Mulberry tree and a silk production line to the game, which was inspired by Harvest Town. Silkworms that can be housed in the Silk Rack machine are attracted to the Mulberry tree. The raw silk can be collected and used to weave silk fabric after a two-day cocooning phase. How stylish your clothing will be once you get this mod!
What's Fun About Silkworm Mulberry:
- You can buy the Silk Rack and Mulberry tree at Pierre's during year 3 of the game.
- Despite the absence of moths as a critter, the mod works well with the Silkworms, who are active in the summer.
- Ten silk cocoons are required to produce one silk cloth, and each rack can contain five worms.
Mod features:
- Required mods: Content Patcher, Json Assets, Producer Framework Mod, SMAPI - Stardew Modding API
- Available translated: Chinese
Get this mod here.
6-Make Curry - (JA)
With this mod, you can grow the ingredients needed to produce recipes for naan bread and curry powder. The curry powder is utilized in five new recipes and is produced using three different crops. If you're unfamiliar, curry powder is a multi-ingredient spice mixture that is popular in many countries, including India and Japan. Naan is a sort of flatbread that is baked in a clay oven and is excellent with curries,and that's what these new recipes let you do!
What's Fun About Make Curry - (JA):
- Grow the three new crops—turmeric, cumin, and coriander—to make curry powder. Next, you can prepare curry!
- Once the curry is prepared, you can make various dishes such as curried rice, soup, and udon.
- There is even a recipe that blends naan and curry to create curried bread, and for me, that is the best combination.
Mod features:
- Required mods: Json Assets
Get this mod here.
5-Kimchi - Traditional Korean Food
"Kimchi" is a traditional Korean food that is made out of vegetables that have been salted and fermented. If you enjoy eating Korean food, you've probably heard of and eaten this meal, despite the fact that it could be an acquired taste. In this patch, there are over 19 different varieties of kimchi that can be made using 9 new crops.
What's Fun About Kimchi - Traditional Korean Food:
- One of the new recipes is Geot-Jeori, or Fresh Kimchi, which is kimchi that isn’t meant to be fermented.
- Of the different kinds of artisanal Kimchi, you can make White, Radish, Abalone, Cucumber, and Spring Onion Kimchi.
- Bonus: The mod creator has another Korean crop mod Korean style big jar - Jangdok that includes various Korean food that uses Korean-style paste-like salted seafood.
Mod features:
- Required mods: Animal Husbandry Mod (former ButcherMod), Json Assets, Ksoul's Ingredient and Machine, SMAPI - Stardew Modding API
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4-High Purity Ore Node Tree
A mod with a name like High Purity Ore Node Tree is unique, as it includes some peculiar new crops in addition to objects and processing equipment. The leaves and stem of this peculiar Ore Node tree are composed entirely of stone. It generates High Purity Ore Nodes that must be processed with the brand-new, original equipment.
What's Fun About High Purity Ore Node Tree:
- The tree species are Iridium, Copper, Iron, and Gold. The four different kinds of fruit trees each produce fruit during the appropriate season. Even some types produce fruit in the winter.
- Regular Node Trees and High Purity Node Trees are both available. The standard Node Trees are available right away. Once the terms of friendship and selling have been fulfilled, the High Purity trees can be purchased at Pierre’s store.
- Once the requirements for friendship and selling are met, the High Purity Ore Node Processing Machine and Special High Purity Ore Node Processing Machine become available. Compared to standard blast furnaces, these machines operate faster and use less fuel. One Node generates two bars.
Mod features:
- Required mods: Content Patcher, Json Assets, Mail Framework Mod, Producer Framework Mod, Shop Tile Framework, SMAPI - Stardew Modding API
- Available translated: Japanese
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3-Walk Through Trellis
The green bean, grape, and hop crops in Stardew Valley contain trellises, which are wooden support beams that you cannot walk through like you can with other crops. This forces you to plan out your planting strategy, yet occasionally trying to cross over quickly might still get you trapped. With the help of this mod, you can now stroll through any crop, even trellis-supported crops.
What's Fun About Walk Through Trellis:
- With this mod, you can place trellis-supported plants wherever you choose. Additionally, it saves you time if you wish to skip over some sections.
- The mod integrates with other trellis plant-changing mods.
- Any crops you plant before installation will now acquire the setting after installation because it fully integrates with previous saves.
Mod features:
- Required mods: SMAPI - Stardew Modding API
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2-Winter Crops
You typically can't produce any crops in the winter, and you can run out of food or be unable to make any money from crops unless you've unlocked the greenhouse. By including 2 flowers, 7 new crops, and 2 fruit trees that can grow in the winter, this mod modifies this problem. Additionally, 10 new cooking recipes that use the crops' produce are included, along with three new artisanal products.
What's Fun About Winter Crops:
- The Fruit Trees are Asian Persimmon and Ponderosa Lemon
- Some of the crops are Brussel Sprouts, Winter Spinach, Winter Onion, Nettles (Trellis), and Christmas Rose (Flower)
- Artisan Goods are Mahonia Tea, Christmas Rose Tea, and Nettle Tea
- Cooking recipes are unlocked in the first two days of Winter Year 1, where Gus sends you recipe notes: Winter Salad, Spinach and Onion Quiche, Sauteed Sprouts, Winter Brew, Squash Noodles, Nettle-ade, Coconut and Carrot Soup, and Lemon and Persimmon Cake
Mod features:
- Required mods: Json Assets, Mail Framework Mod, Producer Framework Mod, SMAPI - Stardew Modding API, SpaceCore
- Available translated: Chinese
- Compatible with PPJA Fruits and Veggies
Get this mod here.
1-Farming Made Easy Suite
This mod offers a wide range of settings to improve your farming experience. Crops can be made to mature and/or generate items more quickly, grow in all seasons (except for winter), and regrow after harvest. Then you have the opportunity to collect prismatic seeds and turn them into prismatic shards.
What's Fun About Farming Made Easy Suite:
- Crop growth speed: Crops will grow faster ranging from a speed of 25% to 90%
- With the Accessibility setting: all crops can grow in all seasons except Winter, and you can harvest all crops with a Scythe.
- Auto regrow crops and flowers (except sunflowers): All crops and flowers can regrow without replanting but flowers only grow in one color.
- You can grow and harvest prismatic shards with Prismatic seeds. The seeds can be found by foraging, spawned from dig spots, and produced by animals. Prismatic Seeds can be found by foraging and planting for Prismatic Shards. The seeds are also rare to find.
Mod features:
- Required: Content Patcher, Generic Mod Config Menu, SMAPI - Stardew Modding API
- Mod only affects Vanilla crops
Get this mod here.
