Cape Stardew
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 0.5% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #11 of 71 Expansions mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Cape Stardew is a work-in-progress expansion focused on exploration, hidden treasures, dangerous sea caverns, and adventure.
Cape Stardew: The Ocean's Secret invites you to uncover the mysteries hidden beneath the waves. Explore a forgotten coastal region filled with dangerous caverns, powerful treasures, hidden lore, unique encounters, and secrets waiting to be discovered.
Features At A Glance
✓ 38+ New Maps
✓ 29+ New Items
✓ 5 Stronger Monsters
✓ 2 New NPCs
✓ Sea Cavern Dungeon
✓ Hidden Treasures & Secrets
✓ Multiplayer Compatible
✓ Stardew Valley Expanded Compatible
Helpful Links
Cape Stardew Discord
Support Development on Ko-fi
The Sea Cavern contains stronger enemies, valuable ores, rare gems, and dangerous encounters for adventurous players willing to explore deeper.
Encounter Annetta, a talented musician investigating the mysteries surrounding Cape Stardew. Follow her story as development continues and discover another mysterious character hidden beneath the waves.
Cape Stardew includes configurable compatibility options designed to work alongside other popular expansion and map mods. Toggle alternate map versions and optional boat placement settings to customize your experience.
Compatible Recolors
Cape Stardew is a fan-made expansion for Stardew Valley that adds a mysterious coastal region with sea caverns, hidden treasures, and dangerous encounters. It introduces a living underground system, rare discoveries, and new characters like Annetta, offering a fresh area to explore for players seeking more content.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Huge community trust with 1,682 endorsements and over 314k downloads.
- Adds a whole new region to explore—perfect for players who've exhausted the base game.
- New characters like Annetta give you fresh social content, not just new areas.
⚠️ Cons
- Last updated in August 2026—check if it's compatible with the latest Stardew version.
- Expansion mods can conflict with other map mods—test with your current setup.
For Stardew Valley veterans who've completed the main story and crave new areas to explore. Also great for players who love discovering secrets and building relationships with new NPCs. Skip if you prefer vanilla-only or are wary of mod complexity.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Use a mod manager like SMAPI to install and manage this mod—it's the standard for Stardew mods.
- Back up your save file before adding the mod, just in case the new region causes issues.
- Check the mod's page for any required dependencies like Content Patcher—if they're missing, the mod won't work.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Stardew Valley Mods
- Author
- dreamygloom
- Version
- 7.2.7
- Downloads
- 327,001
- Endorsements
- 1,697
- Category
- Expansions
- Created
- 11/29/2022
- Updated
- 8/24/2026
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