Abbreviations

The modding community is a fan of acronyms and abbreviations. See a table below for some of the more common ones.

Abbreviation	What it is
AHM	Animal Husbandry Mod
ARV	Always Raining in the Valley
AT	Alternative Textures
BAGI	Better Artisan Good Icons
BC	Better Crafting
BETAS	Button's Extra Trigger Action Stuff
CC	Custom Companions
CCCB	Challenging Community Center Bundles
CMCT	Cross Mod Compatibility Tokens
CP	Content Patcher
CS	Cloudy Skies
CT	Conversation Topic, a mechanic of the game
DSV	Diverse Stardew Valley
DTZ	Downtown Zuzu
EMC	Extra Machine Configs
ES	East Scarp
FS	Fashion Sense
FTM	Farm Type Manager
GMCM	Generic Mod Config Menu
GNM	Gender Neutrality Mod
GSQ	Game State Query, a modding functionality
HCE	Hybrid Crop Engine
IE	Item Extensions
MNE	More Nightly Events
MNF	More New Fish
MPS	Machine Progression System
PDW	Project Danger Weather
PPAF	Platonic Partners and Friendships
RSV	Ridgeside Village
SBV	Sunberry Village
SCA	Slightly Cuter Aesthetic
SiD	Sprites in Detail
SMAPI	Stardew Modding API
SVE	Stardew Valley Expanded
SDV/SV	Stardew Valley
TMX	Tiled Map XML (preferred file format for map files)
VMV	Visit Mount Vapius
VPP	Vanilla Plus Professions
VPR	Vibrant Pastoral Recolor
UB	Unlockable Bundles
WAG	Wildflour's Atelier Goods
WW	Weather Wonders
XNB	XNA Game Studio Binary Package, the format the game stores files in, also refers to file-replacing mods
XS	Expanded Storage

1.5 Abbreviations: Mods that are obsoleted or no longer actively developed, but may come up in conversation

Abbreviation	What it is
A&S / AnS	Adopt & Skin / Adopt 'n' Skin (broken in 1.6)
BFAV	Better Farm Animal Variety (broken in 1.6)
BC	Bigger Craftables
BH	Boarding House and Bus Stop Extension
CC	Custom Critters (broken in 1.6)
CCM	Custom Cask Mod
CCS	Custom Crafting Stations
CF	Custom Furniture (broken in 1.6)
CM	Custom Music (broken in 1.6)
CON	Custom Ore Nodes (broken in 1.6, succeeded by Item Extensions)
CP-A / CPA	Content Patcher Animations
CRC	Custom Resource Clumps (broken in 1.6, succeeded by Item Extensions)
CWF	Custom Walls And Floors (broken in 1.6)
DGA	Dynamic Game Assets (broken in 1.6)
JA	Json Assets (legacy framework)
ME	Museum Expansion
MFM	Mail Framework Mod (legacy framework)
MT	Miller Time
NA / NPCA	NPC Adventures (broken in 1.6)
PFM	Producer Framework Mod (legacy framework)
PPJA	Project Populate JSON Assets (a collection of mods, succeeded by Cornucopia)
PYTK	Platonymous Toolkit (broken in 1.6)
QF	Quest Framework (broken in 1.6)
SM	Spritemaster (broken in 1.6, succeeded by Clear Glasses)
STF	[Shop Tile Framework https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/5005] (legacy framework)
TMXL	TMXL Map Toolkit/TMX Loader (broken in 1.6)