SmallBeachFarm

Small Beach Farm is a Stardew Valley mod which adds a fertile pocket beach farm suitable for slower/challenge runs, and lets you catch both river and ocean fish. You can optionally enable islands and beach sounds.

Contents

• Install
• Usage
  • Enable the farm type
  • Highlights
• Configure
  • In-game settings
  • config.json file
• FAQs
• Compiling from source
• See also

Install

1. Install the latest version of SMAPI.
2. Install this mod from Nexus Mods.
3. Run the game using SMAPI.

Usage

Enable the farm type

For a new save:

1. On the character creation screen, click the arrow next to the farm type list:

   

2. Choose Small Beach Farm in the list:

   

For an existing save:

You can convert your save to the small beach farm like this:

1. Load your save.
2. Enter this command in the SMAPI console window:

   set_farm_type Pathoschild.SmallBeachFarm
   

Highlights

A few highlights:

• The beach is fertile, so you can plant crops in the grass and sand too:

  

• You can catch riverlands fish in the river and ocean fish in the ocean (for both fishing and crab pots):

  

• The exit to Marnie's ranch is on the right:

  

• The beach has a functional campfire you can use (pairs well with Limited Campfire Cooking):

  

• Forage and supply crates can occasionally spawn along the shore:

  

Tips:

• Fish quality depends on how far from shore the bobber is. The bottom-left area of the river mouth is wide enough to catch max-quality river fish:

  

• If you need more space, you can enable ocean islands for extra land area:

  

• If you use Automate, you can connect chests to crab pots all along the beach:

  

Configure

In-game settings

If you have Generic Mod Config Menu installed, you can click the cog button (⚙) on the title screen to configure the mod. Hover the cursor over a field for details, or see the next section.

config.json file

The mod creates a config.json file in its mod folder the first time you run it. You can open that file in a text editor to configure the mod.

Here's what you can change:

farm options:

setting	default	what it affects
UseBeachMusic	false	Whether to use the beach's background music (i.e. wave sounds) on the beach farm.
DefaultSpawnMonstersAtNight	false	The default value for the 'spawn monsters at night' option when creating a new save.

farm layout:

setting	default	what it affects
AddCampfire	true	Whether to add a functional campfire in front of the farmhouse.
AddFishingPier	false	Whether to add a pier at the water's edge where you can fish.
EnableIslands	false	Whether to add ocean islands with extra land area.
ShippingBinPath	true	Whether to place the stone path tiles in front of the default shipping bin position.

farm positions:

setting	default	what it affects
CustomFishingPierPosition	0, 0	The tile position where the fishing pier should be added, if enabled. Set to 0, 0 to position it automatically.

FAQs

Compatibility

This is compatible with Stardew Valley 1.5+ on Linux/Mac/Windows, both single-player and multiplayer. It can't be combined with other mods that replace the same farm.

The farm map will recolor automatically if you have one of these installed:

• A Wittily Named Recolor;
• Eemie's Just Another Map Recolor;
• Starblue Valley.

Can I add compatibility with a recolor mod?

Yep! There are two main approaches:

Option A (recommended):
Other mods can patch Small Beach Farm's tilesheets directly. For example, in a Content Patcher pack:

{
   "Action": "EditImage",
   "Target": "Mods/Pathoschild.SmallBeachFarm/{{season}}_smallBeachFarm",
   "FromFile": "assets/your-image.png",
   "PatchMode": "Overlay"
}

Option B:
Compatibility files can be added to the Small Beach Farm folder instead.

1. Create a subfolder in assets/tilesheets whose name is the recolor mod's ID (from its manifest.json).
2. Add the modified {season}_smallBeachFarm.png files to the subfolder.
3. If the player has multiple mods with a matching folder, only the first one alphabetically will be used.

Compiling from source

Installing stable releases from Nexus Mods is recommended for most users. If you really want to compile the mod yourself, see the repository readme for the main instructions.

Special instructions for Small Beach Farm:

1. Unpack your game's Content folder.
2. Copy Maps/paths.png, Maps/spring_beach.png, and Maps/spring_town.png directly into the assets folder (without the Map folder).
3. Compile as usual. See Modding:Maps for help editing the map file.

See also

• Initial farm maps commissioned from Opalie!
• release notes
• Nexus mod