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About this mod
Adds ethnic, cultural, body type, ability, and gender diversity to Pelican Town. This is the non-seasonal version.
- Requirements
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- Changelogs
Welcome to Diverse Stardew Valley!
Diverse Stardew Valley edits the villagers of Pelican Town to add ethnic, cultural, gender identity and body type diversity. This version is non-seasonal - for the seasonal version, see Diverse Stardew Valley - Seasonal Outfits.
DSV was originally created by notsnufffie and has since expanded into its own project, bolstered by a large community of artists and sensitivity checkers: a full spreadsheet of artist credits is located here. The Content Patcher coding has been done by Airyn, based on work by tenthousandcats, minervamaga, cel10e, corrin, and Isi.
A complete visual readme and configuration guide can be found on the Diverse Stardew Valley website.
Diverse Stardew Valley edits the villagers of Pelican Town to add ethnic, cultural, gender identity and body type diversity. This version is non-seasonal - for the seasonal version, see Diverse Stardew Valley - Seasonal Outfits.
DSV was originally created by notsnufffie and has since expanded into its own project, bolstered by a large community of artists and sensitivity checkers: a full spreadsheet of artist credits is located here. The Content Patcher coding has been done by Airyn, based on work by tenthousandcats, minervamaga, cel10e, corrin, and Isi.
A complete visual readme and configuration guide can be found on the Diverse Stardew Valley website.
- Modded and vanilla character variants
- Tweaked & improved beach portraits & sprites
- Options for custom wedding and Flower Dance outfits
- Dialogue related to character variants
- Compatibility with a wide variety of mods
This mod requires the SMAPI modding framework; if you have not installed SMAPI before, see the Stardew Valley Wiki's guide for instructions.
This mod also requires Content Patcher, a mod framework that allows sprites and portraits to be changed in-game without actually replacing game files, and Cross-Mod Compatibility Tokens, a framework that allows Content Patcher mods to access the configuration files of other mods.
Once those two dependency mods are installed, download the file for this mod, extract it, and move the "Diverse Stardew Valley (Non-Seasonal)" folder to the Mods folder in your game files to install it. There will be a number of folders inside this folder: make sure you don't remove or delete any of them!
If you are using Linus's modded variant which adds a service dog, Marigold, you will also need to install additional dependency mods: she requires Sprites in Detail. Please make sure you have installed this mod before you enable Marigold!
To uninstall the mod, simply delete it or move it out of the Mods folder in your game files.
If you are updating DSV, delete all previous files from your Mods folder before moving the new files.
Note: We do not recommend using Vortex to install Diverse Stardew Valley or other SDV mods. Vortex sometimes fails to correctly remove old files when updating or removing mods, which can cause issues. Thanks to SMAPI and Content Patcher, SDV mods are easy to install or uninstall manually.
By default, DSV will load the vanilla versions of all characters (the "off" setting). However, if you would like to use any modded variants of characters, the vanilla versions with touched-up art for some characters, or any of DSV's additional options, you will need to configure the mod.
If you would like to select particular character options, the easiest way to do this is with the Generic Mod Config Menu (GMCM) mod. GMCM adds a small cog-shaped button to the lower-left corner of the Stardew Valley title screen, which allows you to edit config options
in-game via an easy-to-use interface with either check boxes or scrollable drop-down menus. Once GMCM is downloaded and installed, DSV will automatically detect it and become available for configuration from the title screen. Please refer to the Diverse Stardew Valley website for a visual guide to the various options available.
Note: We don't recommend changing DSV's config options from the options menu in-game. Some options can cause minor errors if changed while playing.
All of the character variant options ("[CharacterName]Variant", etc) have at least two options: off and either modded or the name of the modded option (for characters with multiple modded variants).
- "Modded" or the variant name: This will show the Diverse Stardew Valley alternate character design for the NPC.
- "Off": This will turn off this mod's function entirely for the NPC. This option allows you to use the vanilla design or other NPC mods (for example, if you prefer another mod for one character) without conflicts.
Note: If you would like to use one of the DSV-compatible character add-on packs, choose “off” for that character.
Diverse Stardew Valley has added visual and dialogue compatibility with an extensive number of mods: for a full list, see the Compatibility page of the DSV website. Please note that not all compatibilities are included in this version.
Note: Diverse Stardew Valley is partially incompatible with Stardew Valley Expanded and some characters will automatically be turned off if SVE is installed. SVE compatibility will not be added. For more details, see the SVE section on the Compatibility page.
Translations for the Diverse Stardew Valley seasonal version can be used for this version as well! All i18n keys are matched between versions, so simply drop the translated i18n file for your language into DSV Non-Seasonal's i18n folder.
If you are a translator and would like to translate DSV or the DSV website, please see the Translations section of the website.
DSV has a Discord server! Feel free to join & say hi, get help with DSV, see previews of upcoming content, or ask questions about the mod.