Fishpond Musings - Smaller Fishponds

by mushymato·v0.4.0·Updated 2025-11-05

To make the fish pond smaller, you can choose between 4x4 and 3x3 sizes.

Screenshots 5 screenshots

About this mod Machine translation

To make the fish pond smaller, you can choose between 4x4 and 3x3 sizes.

Fish Pondering - Smaller Fish Ponds

✨ Main functions

🌟 **Strong Compatibility**: Fully compatible with all fish pond replacement mods

🎯 **Size adjustment**: After installation, all fish ponds will become 4x4 size, and after uninstallation, they will return to the original 5x5 size.

⚡ **No gameplay changes**: only changes the appearance size of the fish pond, and will not conflict with modules that modify the game mechanics of the fish pond

📝 **KEEP AS IS**: The size of the fish pond sign remains unchanged

🤔 Why choose this mod?

✅ **Supports the latest version**: Perfectly compatible with version 1.6.14+

🎮 **Optimized Multiplayer Game**: Developed based on version 1.6 build features to reduce bugs in multiplayer games/split-screen mode

⚙️ Configuration options

**Pond Size**: Set the pond size in units of tile width, the recommended value is 4

💡 **Custom Tip**: In addition to 3 and 4, you can also modify the "PondSize" value directly in config.json, but please note that other sizes may look weird

🌍 Language support

📚 Currently supports the following languages:

  • English
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Spanish (translated by Hayato2236)
  • Turkish (translated by Airbench)
  • French (translated by DollyGethFR)

More translation contributions are welcome!

🔮 Future Plans

🎨 **Balanced 3x3 fish pond**: Develop a specialized 3x3 fish pond building to balance the output of this size (legendary fish are not supported, and the output is lower)

🐠 **Exquisite 2x2 Fish Pond**: Develop 2x2 small fish pond to only support specific small fish and encourage fish diversity

💫 These functions need to find art resources and design balance, and may be released as independent modules

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📖 **Source code**: GitHub repository

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
Fish Pondering
File size
21.8 KiB
SHA-256
d1c821a98c718e807fefd3580473f2879cdf824367389c809b92a8ebcc7922d0
Stored at
2026-10-10 10:51