Utility Starter Mods
Last edited by Abagaianye on 2025-09-13 05:10:09
This page contains useful starter mods whose functions do not affect gameplay too much, but provide user-friendly information for beginners and veteran modders alike.
The single-button press command in most of these mods is configurable. That means you can change it into any other button of your liking.
Happy modding!
General Utility
Lookup Anything
Author: Pathoschild (Nexus)
See live info about whatever is under your cursor when you press F1! For example:
- Learn this villager's favourite gifts
- When this particular crop will be ready to harvest
- How long this fence will last
- Why your farm animals are unhappy
- What mod is this item from?
- What item does this new machine process?
- And more!
UI Info Suite 2
Author: Abs0rbed (Nexus)
This mod boasts a lot of automatic built-in features, such as:
- Display an icon that represents the current day's luck
- Display experience point gains, and dynamic experience bar that changes based on your current tool
- View calendar and quest billboard anywhere
- Display icons over animals that need petting
- Sprinkler, scarecrow, beehive and Junimo hut ranges
- Display NPC locations on the map
- Display an icon for Queen of Sauce when she is airing a recipe you don't already know
- Display an icon when Clint is upgrading one of your tools. Icon will tell you how long until the tool is finished and shows you which tool you are upgrading.
- Display an icon for items that can be donated to the museum for the Complete Collection achievement
- Display an icon for items that can be shipped for the Full Shipment achievement
- Display an icon for the next day's weather conditions
- ... and also a new tab in options menu that allows turning each individual mod on or off whenever you want!
Event Lookup
Author: Shekurika (Nexus)
By pressing N, you can:
- Access a list of all heart events that you can trigger today
- See some information when/how to trigger them.
- Look up heart events of all characters in the game (from their heart/social menu).
No more missing heart events!
Visible Fish
Author: Shekurika (Nexus)
This mod shows you what fish are currently catchable in the water. For example, in rainy days, you'll see frogs chilling in the mountain lake.
It also works with modded locations that have modded fish sprites!
Seeing aquatic creatures swim about in the clear water is beautiful. Also greatly adds immersion.
Generic Mod Config Menu
Author: spacechase0 (Nexus)
This very useful mod adds an in-game UI to edit other mods' settings/options.
For example, you want to edit Lookup Anything's button command to be F2. This mod helps you do that with user-friendly interface!
Self-Reminders
You can choose one from these two mods. Makes task organization in Stardew Valley much easier!
To-Dew
Author: jtaylor1 (Nexus)
This mod allows you to have an in-game "to-do list notes" for Stardew Valley.
It works like a journal you can write in! Jot down your reminders, items to buy, places to visit.
No more forgetting stuff!
Deluxe Journal
Author: MolsonCAD (Nexus)
This mod upgrades the in-game base journal!
It features Task Page and Notes Page, all grouped and costumizable to be automatically removed after a certain period of your liking (daily, weekly, monthly, annual, etc).
Be highly organized with this mod!
Monster Health Display
You can choose just one mod from this list. Check out their linked mod page, and decide which one suits your liking!
Display Monster Health
Author: Atesba (Nexus)
This mod shows you monster health by numbers, so it's very useful when you have a good idea of your damage output.
You can configure the size, color, background of HP text!
There are also options to show health as absolute value or percentage.
Mob Health Bar
Author: alpeerkaraca (Nexus)
This mod shows enemies HP with a bar.
The color change from green to red according to the ratio current life against max life!
The indicator will only display the health of enemies depending on the number of them have killed and your combat level.
Mini Bar
Author: Coldopa (Nexus)
This mod displays custom healthbars.
This means there is different healthbar style to each monster!
Highly customizable with a lot of options to show healthbars if the monsters aren't full health, or commands to change the values inside the game.
Fishing Tracker
These mods do not impact fishing gameplay itself, but show you helpful information to aid your fishing perfection.
You can also choose just one mod from this list. Check out their linked mod page, and decide which one suits your visual taste!
Fishing Info Overlay
Author: barteke22 (Nexus)
This mod displays:
- Information about the fish (and fishable items) available in your area.
- Also shows a preview during the fishing minigame!Compatible with other fish-related mods as possible.
Fish UI Helper
Author: LetsTussleBoiz (Nexus)
This mods adds:
- A Fishpedia (pressing the config-assigned keybind (G by default), you will see every fish you can catch, both vanilla and modded, in an organized list.
- Fish helper HUD (automatically displays whilst you're holding a fishing rod. It will show you what fish can be caught in the current area, including what fish you've already caught).
Fishing Perfection Helper
Author: ForgetfulDoryFish (Nexus)
With this mod, you can press the V key to open a list of the currently catchable fish that you haven't caught yet.
The list is sorted by difficulty (easiest to hardest) and gives you the names and generalized information about the locations at which to catch the fish!
Other Utility
Gold per Energy Tooltip
Author: Tony Schneider (Nexus)
Adds a tooltip to food which displays its ratio of gold to energy.
This allows you to choose the most gold-efficient food to eat!
Farmer Helper - Updated
Author: Fiorbeth (originally by aedenthorn) (Nexus)
This mod provides the following functionality (each may be turned off in the config):
- Label seeds that are too late in the season to plant and prevent late planting
- Warn about plants that need watering/harvesting before sleep
- Warn about animals outside before sleep
- Warn about animals that need petting/milking/shearing before sleep
No more miscalculating crop days, or missing any tasks before ending the day!
Author: pneuma163 (Nexus)
World Navigator is like if you took the navigator or map app on your phone or from any GPS device and adapted it to Stardew Valley.
How do you get to... that location, that NPC, that quest dropbox, that event, (modded or vanilla) and more? World Navigator's active guidance can help with that!
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This list was compiled by Aragorn on Stardew Valley Discord. Feel free to ping suggest more, and/or adding new mods.