unique child

With this mod, all children of online players will have different appearances depending on their spouse. Of course, you can use it in single player as well.

Unique Children

🎮 **Make every child unique! ** This mod brings a new child appearance system to "Stardew Valley", making your family life more colorful!

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✨ Core Functions

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 **Personalized child appearance**:

• In online mode, all players' children will have different appearances based on their spouse (or ex-spouse)
• Single player also works, making your family more realistic
• Compatible with large expansion modules such as **Ridgeside Village** and **Stardew Valley Expanded**

🎯 Instructions for use

Single player game

The mod will automatically identify the correct spouse to assign an appearance to the child. If you feel that the allocation is incorrect, you can edit the `children.json` file to make manual adjustments (you need to load the archive once before generating this file).

Online games

All players must have the same mods and sprite files installed, otherwise the game may crash. When acting as a client, the game will use the host's children.json file.

👶Appearance Rules

• **Heterosexual couple**: The child looks similar to the spouse
• **Same-Sex Couples**: The child's appearance differs depending on the spouse
• **Divorce Situation**: The child remains similar in appearance to the ex-spouse

🛠️ Configuration file

The `children.json` file contains the following fields:

```json

{

"Child_Name": "Child name",

"Child_Gender": "Gender",

"Child_DarkSkin": "Dark Skin",

"Child_Adopted": "Whether to adopt",

"Child_Sprites": "The sprite folder used",

"Spouse_Name": "Spouse's name",

"Spouse_Married": "Whether you are married"

}

```

🌟 Features

• ✅ Contains sprites from the original, SVE and Ridgeside Village
• ✅ Supports existing and subsequent children
• ✅ Show relevant information in social menu
• ✅ Possibility to rename children (right click on the child icon in the social menu)
• ✅ Fixed baby and child animations
• ✅ Bed Sleep Elf
• ✅ Babies are separated by gender and have independent sprites
• ✅ Easy to add new child sprites for custom spouses

👕 Seasonal clothing optional

Want to create seasonal outfits for toddlers? Just follow these naming rules:

• `Clothes_Spring.png` (spring)
• `Clothes_Summer.png` (summer)
• `Clothes_Fall.png` (Fall)
• `Clothes_Winter.png` (Winter)
• `Costume.png` (Autumn 27th Soul Night)

🎨 Creator Guide

Creating child sprites for custom NPCs/spouses is easy! Just use Content Patcher to create a module containing sprite resources.

**Target path example:**

• `Characters/Natural/SPOUSENAME/Baby`
• `Characters/Natural/SPOUSENAME/Toddler`
• `Characters/Adopted/SPOUSENAME/Baby`

💬 Recommended combination

Want to have a conversation with your kids? Recommended to use with my other mod: Unique Children Talk!

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🎉 **Special thanks** to the Stardew Valley Expanded and Ridgeside Village teams for allowing the use of their hair elves!

Make your Stardew Valley family life more colorful and make each child a unique being!