Aquaculture - fish pond overhaul

by Arleau·v2.2.3·Updated 2025-09-23

Adds persistent fish quality, scalable roe production, naturally growing algae and radioactive enrichment to your fish pond.

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About this mod Machine translation

Adds persistent fish quality, scalable roe production, naturally growing algae and radioactive enrichment to your fish pond.

Aquarism - Fish pond overhaul

🎣 **A mechanical remake module that makes fish ponds truly a viable source of income and significantly improves the game experience! **

Main functions

  • **✨ Lasting quality**
  • Fish ponds will retain the quality of the fish they put in
  • New fry will randomly inherit the qualities of their parents
  • When fishing from fish ponds always remove the lowest quality fish first
  • **📦 Expanded item production**
  • The fish pond will try to produce all possible items in the fish drop table
  • Possibility to produce many different items every day
  • Items are stored in the 10-slot inventory of the bait bucket, sorted by value
  • **🐟 Expandable fish roe production**
  • Caviar production is inversely proportional to fish value: the higher the value, the lower the chance of producing roe.
  • Check the probability of seed production for each fish every day, and the production will increase as the size of the fish group increases.
  • Sturgeons have special conditions to obtain extra roe, squids produce ink, and corals produce algae.
  • **🌿 Naturally growing algae**
  • After being left vacant for 3 days, the fish pond will randomly start to grow algae or seaweed.
  • New algae is generated every 2 days and added to the bait bucket according to the number of fish schools every day
  • Seagrass, green algae and white algae can grow at the same time in the same fish pond
  • **☢️ Radioactive Enrichment**
  • Fish ponds containing radioactive or mutated fish can enrich ores
  • Converts normal ore into radioactive ore after a few days
  • Enrichment time varies with ore value and fish population
  • **👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Sharing**
  • Compatible with the Fish Farming Expert profession from the "Path of Life" module
  • Legendary fish can be raised in the same fish pond with extended family members
  • After installing the "More New Fish" module, Tui and La can be paired as a family

Compatibility Notes

  • ✅ Compatible with content patch modules that visually modify fish ponds or edit fish pond data
  • ❌ Not compatible with the "Legendary Fish Pond" module

🌟 **Usage Suggestions**: This module is especially suitable for players who like farming gameplay, turning fish ponds from simple decorations into real economic sources and interesting game mechanics!

Install & use Install: SMAPI mod (Stardew Valley standard)

  1. Install SMAPI first (Stardew Valley's mod loader): download it from smapi.io, run 'install on Windows.bat' and pick your game folder.
  2. Unzip the archive from playbuff and find the folder that contains manifest.json — that folder is the mod.
  3. Copy that whole folder into Stardew Valley/Mods/.
  4. Launch the game through SMAPI (run StardewModdingAPI.exe or set it as the launch option). The console before the title screen lists each mod's load result.

Cheat-style tools may not need SMAPI — unzip and run them as the readme describes. Back up your save before editing it; SMAPI lists failed mods in its console.

File & checksum

Filename
Aquarism
File size
54.0 KiB
SHA-256
75bee0d9cfbbb5e77cc6bf3532c9492668a7eeb81f3a7581c72d0725a959d213
Stored at
2026-10-10 12:06