Crops need light

Prevent crops from growing in low-light areas (such as caves) unless there is a light source nearby.

Crops need light 🌱

💡 **Mod Inspiration**

I originally made this mod because I was designing a farm map with a large cave area. I feel like being able to have a large greenhouse-like space early in the game seems a bit too powerful! Wouldn’t it be cuter and fairer if growing crops in a cave required installing some grow lights first?

✨ Core Functions

Lighting demand system

• **Indoor Area Restrictions**: Indoor areas other than greenhouses require grow lights or ordinary lamps to allow crops to grow normally.
• **Custom Low Light Area**: Map makers can manually set other locations as low light areas
• **Smart Detection**: Automatically identify indoor and outdoor environments and lighting conditions

🛠️ New content

🔦 Craftable grow lights

• **Basic Grow Light**: Unlocked at **Farming Level 2**
• **Deluxe Grow Light**: Unlocked at **Farming Level 7**
• **Custom Appearance**: Basic lamp available in **7 wood colors**, Deluxe lamp available in **3 style options**

🍄 Brand new crop: Cave Puffs

• **Unique growth conditions**: Can only grow in places with **no** light!
• **Rare delicacy**: Cave Puff is a rare delicacy, the seeds cannot be bought in the store
• **Seed Acquisition**: Put the Cave Puff into the Seed Making Machine to get seeds

🔍 **Tips for finding cave puffs**

They can only spawn in the Secret Forest during summer rains, but you need to unlock the Skull Cave before they start appearing!

🌟 Compatibility and Notes

Multiplayer

While I haven't tested this mod in multiplayer yet, it should theoretically work fine if all players have the same configuration installed. Feedback on your experience is welcome!

Known situation

• **Shrubs and Tea Trees**: Currently not affected by this module, they still grow according to the original rules.
• **Trees and Fruit Trees**: Should prevent players from planting non-low light trees in low light areas
• **Planted Trees**: Does not prevent already planted trees from growing or bearing fruit

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🎮 **Game experience improved**

This mod adds a more realistic farm management experience to the game! Now you need to carefully plan your farm layout to provide adequate light for your indoor growing areas. The addition of Cave Puff also brings new fun and challenges to exploration!

💫 Make the planting system in Stardew Valley more abundant and strategic, and enjoy a more realistic farm life!