farmerjack's Dialogue Expansions
⚪ Last updated 2021⚠️ Install Order · 3 steps
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 0.9% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #62 of 143 Dialogue mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
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farmerjack's Dialogue Expansions!
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DISCLAIMER: Other than some very minor edits and formatting, the content of these individual works wasn't changed. That is to say, there may have been additional lines or changes, in both the syntax and narrative, that have happened to each NPC's characterization since I originally published these in 2018. Hence the 0. 1 version number :-X
An extensive dialogue expansion for Abigail, Emily, Leah, Penny, Harvey, Haley, Shane, and Elliott, unmarried dialogue only (with exceptions for festivals in which characters had no spouse dialogue), which expands on their characterizations by taking into account vanilla dialogue narratives, gift likes and dislikes, and some events!
Adds 1200+ lines of dialogue
Everyone now has something different to say for every day of the week, for each season, for every two heart levels in normal "around the town" play (including when it's raining!). Additionally, updated locational schedule messages (visits to Pierre's or Harvey's, or the Night Market, for example) and festival dialogue now occurs at 4, 8, and 10 hearts!
Each character is individually configurable if you want to mix and match with other dialogue mods; as far as compatibility is concerned, I personally play with gizzymo's fantastic Canon-Friendly Dialogue Expansion for All Friend-able Characters and allow my changes to overwrite the duplicated characters from their mod, but you can ensure other mods' changes overwrite my changes by adding my mod as a dependency to that mod's manifest if you would prefer!
What about the character changes?!
Abigail
Abby was the most-developed of all of the vanilla characters. What I mean by "most-developed" is that she literally had the most vanilla dialogue lines, but I was still able to add 113 lines to flesh out all of her normal "around the town" dialogue.
Abigail is a very well-liked bachelorette, so I did whatever I could to maintain her vanilla characterization by focusing on her love of gaming and video games, her love of autumn and dislike for summer, and her desire to follow the farmer into the caves and follow her own dreams.
Her relationship with her parents is strained because they're so old-fashioned, but I was sure to throw in some dialogue at later heart levels where she actively tries to better things between everyone...even if Pierre is still an ass. Things move slowly sometimes, Abigail.
An all-in-one, configurable dialogue expansion mod for Stardew Valley, adding over 1200 new lines for eight bachelor and bachelorette characters. Combines previous expansions into a single package, with 573 endorsements and frequent updates as of October 2021.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Massive content boost—over 1200 new lines means your favorite bachelors and bachelorettes will never repeat the same old lines.
- Community-approved with 573 endorsements and 62k downloads, so you know it's been tested by plenty of players.
- Configurable setup lets you pick and choose which characters get expanded dialogue, so you can tailor it to your playthrough.
⚠️ Cons
- Last updated in October 2021—might not be fully compatible with the latest Stardew Valley patches, so check for updates.
- Only covers eight characters; if you're hoping for dialogue expansions for other NPCs like Maru or Alex, you'll need to look elsewhere.
- Requires a mod manager like SMAPI to install and configure, which might be a hurdle for new modders.
For Stardew Valley players who've memorized every line of dialogue and want fresh interactions with the marriage candidates. Perfect for those who love deep character immersion and have already exhausted vanilla content. Skip if you're fine with the original dialogue or only play casually.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Use a mod manager like Vortex or Stardew Mod Manager to install and manage this mod easily.
- After installing, run the game once with SMAPI to generate the config file, then edit it to enable or disable specific characters' expansions.
- If you're playing on a multiplayer server, make sure all players have the mod installed to avoid desync issues.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Stardew Valley Mods
- Author
- farmerjack
- Version
- 0.1.0
- Downloads
- 62,953
- Endorsements
- 573
- Category
- Dialogue
- Created
- 10/27/2021
- Updated
- 10/27/2021
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