The Path of Life - Career System Overhaul
An overhaul of Stardew Valley's career tree and skill progression system, replacing the relatively "boring" original skills with more unique, interesting, and far-reaching choices.
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About this mod Machine translation
An overhaul of Stardew Valley's career tree and skill progression system, replacing the relatively "boring" original skills with more unique, interesting, and far-reaching choices.
Walk Of Life - Profession Overhaul
🌟Module introduction
This is a completely overhauled mod for Stardew Valley's skill progression and career tree systems. It replaces the unbalanced and rather *boring* classes of vanilla with more unique and far-reaching options. The goal is not to re-optimize the earning potential, but to expand the gameplay and encourage new experiences to play with.
Optionally, this mod also introduces "classic" game progression settings such as **Prestige Classes**, **Class Change Level Reset** and **Extreme Breakthrough**. These features are enabled by default but can be disabled.
🎯 Design Concept
- Each career branch offers unique and impactful options
-Introducing an RPG-style career progression system
- Add depth while maintaining game balance
- Inspired by legendary modules such as Ordinator from "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" and W3EE from "The Witcher 3"
🌾Agricultural Careers
Reaper (Lv5)
- 10% chance to gain additional yield from harvested crops
Agriculturist (Lv10)
- Crops grow 10% faster
- For each additional crop type planted in the same plot and season, the growth speed will be increased by an additional 5%.
- Harvest the highest quality crops without fertilizers
Craftsman (Lv10)
- Craftsman machine work efficiency increased by 10%
- The output quality of the machine can reach the quality level of the input raw materials
🌳 Collection profession
Collector (Lv5)
- 20% chance of getting double collection items
Ecologist (Lv10)
- The health and energy restored by collecting items is increased by 50%
- As new species are discovered, the quality of collected items will improve
Scavenger (Lv10)
- Shows the location of collectible items
- Occasionally detect buried treasure
⛏️ Mining Career
Miner (Lv5)
- +1 ore per vein
Cave Explorer (Lv10)
- The chance of finding ladders and shafts increases as you mine deeper without returning to the surface
- Restore some health and energy when reaching the safe room
Prospector (Lv10)
- Shows the location of ladders and mining nodes
- Occasionally detected mineral treasures
🎣 Fishing profession
Fisherman (Lv5)
- Bait effect doubled when fishing
Fishing Master (Lv10)
- The value of the fish increases by 1% for each unique fish species of the largest size caught
- After the bait is completely consumed, its effect will continue to remain on the fishing rod.
Aqualogist (Lv10)
- Maximum capacity of fish pond +2
- Each unique fish species raised in the fish pond will cause the fishing rod to fall slower
⚔️ Combat Profession
Warrior (Lv5)
- Damage +10%
- +15 health
Barbarian Warrior | Amazon (Lv10)
- When receiving damage, you will become angry and gradually increase your damage and attack speed.
- +25 health
Ambusher (Lv10)
- Critical hit chance +50%
- Each attack has a chance to steal items from the enemy
🎮Advanced system
Career change skill reset
- Replaced Uncertain Statue with **Beyond Statue**
- Level 10 skills can be reset back to level 0, but all acquired professions will be retained
- Through multiple resets, you can eventually obtain all professions with this skill
Prestigious profession
- Unlock after mastering skills and progress to level 20
- You can choose a prestige career at level 15 and 20
- Only one prestige career can be selected for each skill
Limit Breakthrough
- Unlock powerful special abilities after mastering combat skills
- Each combat profession has unique limit breakthroughs
- Requires recharging through specific actions in combat
🔧 Compatibility
- Compatible with all SpaceCore based custom skills
- Support Stardew Valley Expanded
- Partially compatible with Automate mod
- Does not support Android platform
💡 Usage suggestions
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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.