Quality of Life Adjustments and Balance Mod for Vegas

by VegasOctober·v2.5.0·Updated 2025-11-03

Provides minor quality of life adjustments and balance updates for Stardew Valley

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About this mod Machine translation

Provides minor quality of life adjustments and balance updates for Stardew Valley

Quality of Life Adjustments and Balance Mod for #Vegas

🌟 **A collection of small tweaks to make Stardew Valley more fun and balanced**

Module introduction

There are some small tweaks in the game that I feel would make Stardew Valley more interesting that haven't been touched upon in other mods. So I made this mod to fill that gap.

This is actually a collection of 9 small tweaks, each of which can be individually turned on or off.

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🎯 Main functions

1. Balanced fertilizer formula

  • Set the yield of all 9 crop fertilizer recipes (basic/premium/luxury fertilizer, water-retaining soil, quick-growing agent) to 4
  • Tree fertilizer output is set to 2
  • Solve the problem of unbalanced fertilizer production in the original version

2. Bomb recipe optimization

  • Adjusted the synthesis recipe of Cherry Bomb/Bomb/Super Bomb
  • Now requires 3 copper ore/iron ore/gold ore and 1 coal
  • Make bomb production more reasonable and economical

3. Get Tropical Curry Recipe

  • Offers multiple ways to get tropical curry recipes
  • Unlock conditions: After visiting Ginger Island
  • Can be purchased at the tavern (with Gus's heart filled) or at the Luau (with Pierre's heart filled)

4. Immunity Ring Recipe

  • Added the synthesis recipe of immunity ring
  • Unlocking conditions: Combat level 9
  • Providing possibilities for non-lucky acquisition methods

5. Basic ring recipe

  • Added synthesis recipes for small glowing rings and small magnetic rings
  • Requires combat/mining level 1 respectively
  • Use basic materials to create an entry-level ring

6. Weapon knockback limit

  • Limit the knockback value of weapons in Ridgeside Village mod
  • Each weapon type has up to +1 more knockback than default
  • Avoid ridiculous situations where enemies are knocked back multiple times off the screen

7. Mushroom box improvements

  • Added the synthesis recipe of mushroom box (unlocked at foraging level 9)
  • Increase the mushroom generation rate (about 1% for rare mushrooms, about 5% for common mushrooms)
  • Supports mushroom types from multiple modules
  • Produces Iridium quality mushrooms when holding the Botanist profession

8. Charcoal Kiln Balance

  • Updated charcoal kiln inputs and outputs
  • Now makes 1 charcoal using 4 wood, 2 driftwood, 1 hardwood or 1 torch

9. Optimization of bone meal machine

  • The bone meal machine now has an equal 10% chance of producing any of the 10 types of fertilizers
  • Randomly produce 1-9 fertilizers
  • Provides a controlled way to obtain advanced fertilizers

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🔧 Installation requirements

  • Latest version of SMAPI
  • Latest version of Content Patcher
  • Download and extract to Mods folder
  • Run the game using SMAPI

⚙️ Configuration options

Each submodule can be enabled or disabled independently, providing a fully customized experience.

✅ Compatibility

Compatible with Stardew Valley version 1.6 and well compatible with most mainstream mods.

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✨ **Make your Stardew Valley experience smoother and more balanced! **

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
QoL Tweaks and Balance
File size
8.3 KiB
SHA-256
8425869287f91f381c61a3a851804675a2f37adda268607eeba539d84fe0c9da
Stored at
2026-10-10 00:04