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New cactus mod for Stardew Valley has saved my chickens from a life of miseryTread gently, for you tread on my cactus
Tread gently, for you tread on my cactus
Fear not, readers: I am still planning to turn myStardew Valleyfarminto a battery chicken farmbut progress has been slow on that front. Partly because I want to make it into a column called “Mother Cluckers” (which I, like your embarrassing uncle at every Sunday roast dinner, think is an extremely funny pun), but mostly because there are too many mods. And nothing has given me (and my chickens) more joy recently than the ability to grow lovely cacti and tiny succulents.
Stardew Valleyis very easy to mod, you see. Most mods are practical and sensible, as collected in ourBest Stardew Valley mods list, but my tastes run more to the whimsical and charming (similar to thenew swimming modthat made Alice0 very happy last week). I have addedmanyto my game. Notably, the kind of terrifying one thatturns the horse into the male NPCs.
But now I’ve found two more mods for my game that add succulents and cacti to your little farm, both from this year, and I’m surprised it took me this long, to be honest.Succulents For Json Assetsadds two crops and 10 craftable succulents, so it’s a bit more decorative in function, but the little starter pots are so cute!
The design on these is great, obviously. They’re really detailed little critters, and manage to convey spikiness without the capacity for spikes. I especially love the bright pink and green succulents. But they still fit perfectly with the look of the base game which is great if, like me, you don’t tend to go in for mods that change the game’s colour palette or art style.
I don’t know what it is, but no mod for any game ever has provoked such an emotional response in me. Succulents have, of course, become very popular over the last few years, because they are small enough to live on a desk and their demands are few and simple enough that even the most hapless office drone would be hard pressed to fuck up having a succulent. Plus, they are aesthetically pleasing and sometimes will put out a giant flower when you least expect it.
They are the perfect plant for the tired millennial, I suppose, especially because you can come up with names for succulents and cacti like “angery cucumber” or “my son, the goth pumpkin” or whatever (the Zoomers' mockery of us is fair and just).
Other fun mods that arrived for Stardew Valley this week includeButterfly Hutchesto attract them all the time (you can even place on in town), one that turns your doginto a blue chicken, and another that turns your cat intoPunchy from Animal Crossing. Because yes, another one of my great passions ismodding Stardew Valley to make it feel like Animal Crossing.
