Recommendations: Quality of Life
Note
Feel free to add any mods as you see fit. If any mods don't have a description, it's because the name should be enough.
Gameplay
Activate Sprinklers
Automate
Connect machines and chests together and automate processing.
Automated Doors
Barns and coops open and close automatically. Configurable time.
Automatic Gates
Better Junimos
Allows Junimos to harvest crops, trees, fertilize, water, and work in the greenhouse. Configurable.
Better Shipping Bin
Gives the shipping bin storage, meaning you can put items in and take it back out. Shows total sell amount at the top of bin. Compatible with Chests Anywhere.
Better Sprinklers
Configure range and shape of sprinklers.
Better Mixed Seeds
Mixed seeds can grow different crops. Configurable and can disable crops that aren't wanted.
Better Hay
Allows the collection of hay without a silo. Can collect hay from hoppers even when all animal feeds are full.
Better Chests
Carry chests, auto organize, categorize chests, etc... Read description of mod page for more details.
Bigger Backpack
Adds another backpack upgrade for a total of 48 slots.
Chests Anywhere
Reach chests from anywhere. Configurable to only let player pick from the map they're currently on or from any place.
Community Center Helper
Gives tips on where to find items needed for bundles. Supports remixed and custom bundles added by other mods.
Destroyable Bushes
Deluxe Journal & To-Dew
Both mods allow players to write a list.
Deluxe Journal allows the player to set tasks, write in a journal, and has a checklist. Tracks progress of set tasks.
To-Dew lets the player write a list that displays onto the screen. Can write tasks with weather and/or day specific conditions.
Move when using tools/weapons, face where you click instead of last-used direction. Configurable.
Event Lookup
See conditions for events from social menu. Find what events you can currently see.
Make animations(eating, mining, drinking, etc...) faster. Configurable.
Fix Animal Tool Animations
Stops the farmer from using animal tools with no animals nearby.
Fruit Tree Tweaks
Configure how many fruit a tree can bare, growing speed, seasonal limits, and tree space conditions.
Grass Growth & More Grass
Grass Growth has configuration for grass spread, grass growth chance, disable grass growth, daily grass, monthly/seasonal grass.
More Grass has seasonal configuration, allowing grass in winter, disable animals eating grass, blacklisted grass growing locations.
Recommend using both together.
Integrated Minecarts
Adds more minecart locations. Compatibility with East Scarp, Ridgeside Village, and Stardew Valley Expanded.
Adds functions to make gameplay more efficient. Edit config to disable features that may conflict with other mods (eg: Auto fishing treasure/AFK fishing may conflict with Teh's Fishing Overhaul).
Lookup Anything
Configurable key(default F1) to pull up information on NPCs, animals, players, items, machines, clothes, crops.
Find recipes, craftable items, gift tastes,
Multi Yield Crops
Change how many crops are gained when harvesting.
Mail Services Mod
Send and receive upgraded tools, quest items, recovered items, and gifts through mail.
Makes your horse 1 tile wide rather than 2.
UI Info Suite 2
It does a lot, a must have for every player. It is fully configurable to turn off any features.
Press a configurable keybind(controller-friendly) to zoom out on the current map. Zoom levels are also configurable.
Rented Tools OR Instant Tool Upgrades
Rented tools allows the player to rent tools while Clint upgrades your current ones.
Buy from shops even when the shopkeeper isn't there.
Sit and Rest OR Super Sleeper
Sit and Rest allows you to sit and rest. Recovers stamina and health.
Super Sleeper allows the player(single player) to go into bed and recover stamina and health. Configurable.
Skull Cavern Elevator
Smart Building
Easier placement of furniture, seed, kegs, fences, paths. Config options for lax placement, allowing you to put paths under fences, cliffs, force furniture into spots they usually wouldn't be able to(no more 1 tile gaps between walls!)
Pair with Extended Reach.
Timespeed OR Casual Life
Timespeed is fully configurable, can make time faster or slower in mines, skull cavern, indoors, outdoors, ability to freeze time.
Casual life makes days 28% longer, makes clock show each individual minute rather than ten minute intervals. Each minute is a second. If you prefer timespeed's configuration, use Running Late to show individual minutes.
Walk through Trellis
Wear More Rings
Visual and Sound
Event Sound Adjuster
Unmute sound and music when watching events.
Furniture Adjustment
NPC Map Locations
Show the location of NPCs on the map, supports custom NPCs. Recommend Yagisan's NPC map locations pack if using custom npcs.
Stops ConcernedApe's logo and the pan up to tile from playing on startup.
Show Birthdays
If multiple NPCs share the same birthday, this mod will allow the player to see more than 1 NPC on the calendar.
Sounds Patcher
Allows players to mute certain sounds(like those annoying seagulls). It adds an in game menu in which you can preview the sounds and music.
No Transitions
No fade to black when changing maps.