Sydney - Custom NPC
This mod adds a new, fully customizable and dateable NPC character, Sydney. The mod also builds her a new home on Pelican Town Beach, and adds new heart events, dialogue, and more!
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About this mod Machine translation
This mod adds a new, fully customizable and dateable NPC character, Sydney. The mod also builds her a new home on Pelican Town Beach, and adds new heart events, dialogue, and more!
Sydney
🌊 **Welcome to Pelican Town’s new resident – Sydney! **
🧬 Character background
Sydney is a marine biologist who loves science and environmental protection. She lives on the west shore of Pelican Town Beach. After moving from her hometown, she came here to assist Demetrius in studying the local wildlife of the valley.
Sydney is kind, compassionate, and conscientious, determined to make the Valley a better place for everyone, human and otherwise. And yet...behind the smiles and good wishes, a deep melancholy also accompanies her.
*Who is she? *
📋 Basic information
- **Gender Identity**: Trans woman, using she/her pronouns
- **Age**: 24 years old
- **Birthday**: Summer 27th
💖 Heart Event
- **2心**: 7:00 AM - 2:00 PM | Beach
- **4 Hearts**: After reaching 4 hearts, you will receive the email and enter Sydney's house
- **6 Hearts**: 8:00 pm - 12:00 midnight | Mountain
- **8心**: 11:00 am - 6:00 pm, after receiving the email | Mountain
- **10 Hearts**: After reaching 10 hearts, you will receive an email informing you of the location.
⚠️ Content reminder
Contains transphobic remarks about Sydney, a drowning scene and the death of a family member
🔧 Compatibility
✅ **Fully Compatible**:
- Stardew Valley Expanded (SVE)
- DaisyNiko's Eearthy Recolour (automatically detects and patches files accordingly)
⚠️ **Partially compatible**:
- Ridgeside Village (RSV) - Certain characters may awkwardly stare at Sydney's house during the Moon Jellyfish event
❌ **Possible conflict**:
- A mod that modifies the beach map (especially the west area below the beach shortcut)
- Festival NPC locations may conflict
🎯 Future plans
🔮 **Planned content**:
- 14 heart events
- Seasonal clothing
- Polygamy support
🙏 Acknowledgments
Special thanks to the following communities and individuals for their help:
- SDV official Discord server
- SDV East Scarp Community Discord Server
- My friends and relatives
- AhmetSalih - Turkish Translator
- Herienseo - Chinese Mandarin Translator
- Pixew - Portuguese Translator
- AegislahSupreme - Spanish Translation
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*Thanks to the Stardew Valley modding community for their guidance and support in making this one-player project possible! *
Install & use Install: SMAPI mod (Stardew Valley standard)
- Install SMAPI first (Stardew Valley's mod loader): download it from smapi.io, run 'install on Windows.bat' and pick your game folder.
- Unzip the archive from playbuff and find the folder that contains manifest.json — that folder is the mod.
- Copy that whole folder into Stardew Valley/Mods/.
- 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.