This mod adds a series of five events to the Saloon to open the Saloon earlier in a lore-friendly way - by opening it up for breakfast! There are also a few supplementary events to account for scheduling issues, a Wizard sidequest, special orders with variable difficulty (you can make one incredibly hard, if you'd prefer!), schedules including extra marriage schedules designed to be vanilla friendly and incredibly customizable, and some useful rewards for finishing the events, with mod compatiblity designed for all of them.

Interested in any of these? Read on!




Sometime at or after the Winter of your first year in a Valley, Gus has found himself in a bit of a pickle. 

By his own admission (in his Thursday vanilla dialogue at no hearts), Pam and Clint provide most of the business to the Saloon - with Shane most likely helping out with that in his early hearts. Without them, the Saloon would be in danger of going out of business. Outside of Fridays, they're some of his only regulars, and the ones keeping the Saloon afloat.

Yet as the player can see, Shane can seek help and stop drinking with help. Clint might eventually get over Emily (or not have any romantic intentions toward her at all). And Pam's already in financial trouble, so Gus can see the writing on the wall - without the alcohol sales, the Saloon's in trouble. So he's starting to plan for a future without the Saloon.

That's where you come in! In a series of five events and two special orders, one with customizable difficulty, you can help open the Saloon earlier and open a bustling breakfast business! And to take the pressure off Gus, once it opens in full, a few extra events can open up which can allow Gus to get some extra help running Stardrop Breakfast. Opening it up may also allow you to go on a date - or just hangout, if you have Platonic Partners and Friendships installed - with your spouse or housemate to the new offering!

In an optional sidequest you can enable as well, the magic of the Valley that allows you to keep resources without them rotting or spoiling is starting to decay. The Wizard (or Witch, if you have Rasmodia) needs your help to help the Junimo restore the protection of your resources before it's too late! (As a miniquest, it involves only two events and one special order, although it requires fairly difficult to get resources! Keep this in mind when going through this optional sidequest.)

That's it for the overview. If you'd like specifics, a mostly non-spoilery overview of the quests and their rewards are contained in the spoiler text below. Please do not enable the "serious" Event Dialogue configuration option without reading the sum up of the first event.






Thanks to the success of Stardrop Breakfast, villagers are all visiting the Saloon, whether as a meeting spot before spending time together, a tense family breakfast, or a treat out. After all, it wouldn't quite be a successful venture without people visiting!

Part of a Saloon Breakfast gives new schedules to every vanilla villager (with notable exceptions of Linus, Krobus, Dwarf, and Leo), with matching schedule dialogues if they're following a breakfast schedule. This ranges from simple schedule edits for characters like Harvey to full-blown new schedules some characters like Leah (who now sculpts or draws depending on season) or Abigail, Sebastian, and Sam (the full gang spends a whole day together!). This includes marriage schedules, so your spouses can now head out to meet up with other villagers and get some Stardrop Breakfast, and then go about their day - and have matching leaving and returning dialogues for doing so!

Obviously, however, new schedules can be contentious. Perhaps you prefer their original schedules, or the new schedules overrides something from another mod you prefer. No problem! Part of a Saloon Breakfast comes with several modular options - you can disable every schedule at once, or on a case by case basis - with matching dialogues if someone's missing! (Haley can visit Stardrop Breakfast on her own if Emily is disabled, and her dialogue will not mention Emily! Similar cases apply to every villager who visits.)

There are a couple exceptions to this rule, but even those exceptions can be disabled - you will simply need to disable "Immersion Mode" in those cases.

A full list of who and when are contained in the spoiler text below. 






Part of a Saloon Breakfast tries to keep the player immersed in its choices and the state of their game as it's completed. This includes different mails and repeatable special orders based on choices in its events (and different rewards for completing them!), conversation topics which range from few comments to every villager having something to say, and alternate dialogue based on certain plot events being completed or not (Gus will recognize Shane has begun to seek help and tries not to drink alcohol after his 6 heart, the Wizard will correctly respond if you've already completed a special order of theirs, and more!). If there's something that seems odd, let me know! I'll do my best to account for the situation.

In addition, the breakfast shop contains an all-new offering - some Fresh Orange Juice! You can learn the recipe yourself from Gus after completing one of the repeatable special orders. It also contains items from other mods (used with permissions only - if I don't have the permissions, I can't add them!). If there's sufficient interest, I can contact people to create more sprites to create more items for the breakfast menu - feel free to suggest ideas for foods to add, preferably things that are not added by other mods already.

Finally, there are a few choice additions to this particular mod that are done for compatibility reasons, scheduling reasons, or just additions to the breakfast itself. A patch is included allowing Harvey to attend to his patients on rainy days, Night Market and a few doctor visits are optionally patched back in depending on configuration, and dates with your spouses can be activated (including variants compatible with Platonic Partners and Friendships). There's a lot to uncover simply by playing through the plotline (or just setting all schedules to always enabled!).




This mod has several configurations which will affect how this mod performs. The majority concerns the breakfast schedules, but there are a few others that can be applied. You can check out the full list in the spoiler tag below.






Part of a Saloon Breakfast is meant to be compatible with as many mods as possible, and even have extra features based on mods you have installed! Compatibility includes expansion mods such as Stardew Valley Expanded, Ridgeside Village, and East Scarp, as well as several other mods. A list of compatible mods are in the spoiler description below.

• Is this mod compatible with Stardew Valley Expanded/Ridgeside Village/East Scarp/<insert expansion mod here>?: Yes. See the compatibility section for more information, but the short answer is yes (since it just affects vanilla people).
• Is this mod compatible with Android? This mod only uses Content Patcher, Json Assets, Mail Framework Mod, and Shop Tile Framework for the 1.5.6 version. As long as all four of them work properly on Android, this mod will work properly on Android.
• Is this mod compatible with multiplayer? Yes, but with some important caveats. Any schedule changes are determined by the host - I've included schedule string compatibility for those who have different relationships, but the schedules are forcibly determined by the host. So if you don't want someone to go, the host will need to deactivate the character in question (or all patches, if desired). Additionally, the patched in shop is determined by the person who is farthest along in the plot - if someone has seen the end event, they will be the only person to be able to access the breakfast shop until the rest complete the plotline themselves. [The plot is progressed via special orders, though, which should be credited to everyone!] Finally, the Saloon (and a couple other buildings) will have their hours changed after the first person sees an event, so the Saloon may end up open at 8am even if you haven't seen the second event.
• Why is Stardrop Breakfast offering a chocolate bar? If you have Love of Cooking installed, eventually Stardrop Breakfast will offer chocolate for breakfast. This apparently happens with all JA shops, so it's beyond my ability to fix, plus it's relatively benign. For those of you with a sweet tooth, enjoy!
  

There's a lot of credits to go through here! It takes a lot of people, permissions, and advice to make a mod of this modularity, and the following I couldn't have done without:

• For compat with PPJA, the Avocado Toast was created by MizuJakkaru, while the Autumn Muffin and Waffles were both sprited by Paradigmnomad. They are credited for their creation and allowing - via their permissions - to use them in this mod.
• Airyn for helping me debug Gus's schedule on Tuesdays and contributing the logo of Stardrop Breakfast. (It's a lot more professional than I would have done - it likely would have been just an image of the front of the Saloon without his contribution!)
• Rafseazz for allowing me to add the relevant Ridgeside foods to the menu with RSV installed.
• Violetlizbeth for creating the sprite of Fresh Orange Juice! I would not have been able to add anything to the breakfast menu without her contribution. (She also helped with figuring out how to code several bits of this mod, and I am incredibly grateful for that as well.)
• Atravita for contributing the Good Doctor Harvey patch and for helping me debug the final event in the main plot (so that the proper reward can be chosen during it!), plus helping me figure out multiplayer compatibility (why, capitalization, why??). [Also for the team that the Tunnelers are facing in a specific event.]
• beyondrecovery for allowing me to add compatibility to Immersive Sandy
• Tiakall for allowing compat to Immersive Saloon
• Zoedoll for allowing compat with Sam/Alissa and Alex/Jeric Rival Hearts
• SitheGreat1 for allowing compat with Adventurer Abigail
• FlashShifter for allowing the extra SVE Compatibility
• Pathoschild for contributing the initial Render Token idea for conditions before I swapped to dynamic tokens due to the render token bug, help on coding a few parts of this that will transfer to 1.6, and for creating Content Patcher
• ConcernedApe for creating the game.
• And everyone in the Stardew Valley Discord and Krobus Discord for their help in coding mods and helping inspire new dialogue lines. It was incredibly helpful, especially during the final date phase of the project.
  

The mods used in the images above are Seasonal Cuter Aesthetic, Stardew Valley Expanded and Shiko - New Custom NPC. The extra Saloon room is a personal mod I coded and is not a released mod.