The Slime Hutch costs a lot and, before 1.6 the building had a huge footprint, but the sad truth is that raising slimes has never been very profitable and the interior space is small.

This mod changes the Slime Hutch interior into a larger, completely configurable space. It can be a Greenhouse, Shed, Cellar, or larger version of the Slime Hutch. All flooring types, crop layouts, and slime hutch feeders are available in all types of the building. The Greenhouse background even has an additional option for decorating the area outside the window. This can also be turned into a 'secret' space for extra cask or keg storage. (The far left and right sides are a 'secret' entrance that lets you pass through it!)

There are a huge amount of configuration options, so you'll definitely want to download the Generic Mod Config Menu mod so you can change things in-game. I wrote a long article about all the config options, and also a FAQ, so please go to the Articles tab if you want to explore the different options!

If you already have furniture or other items in an existing slime hutch, best practice is to remove everything before adding this mod. I think living slimes should be okay, but they might possibly get stuck in a wall. ^^; If something isn't working, you can always remove my mod and get your original slime hutch back. Just make sure not to save your game until you're sure it worked okay. Make sure that you don't put your incubator in a zone where slimes can't go, or they may get stuck when they are hatched.

Also, please note: while Slime Hutch Water Spots has now been updated to work with 1.6 (thank you, junimos!) sometimes the water spots may still act as blocked spaces if the Better Slime Hutch mod is added to a save with an existing slime hutch. I don't know of any way to fix this other than to demolish and rebuild the slime hutch with Better Slime Hutch already installed. :/

PLEASE let me know if you find any bugs! This is a complicated mod. I tried to test all the features, but I may have missed one or two!

And if you enjoy the mod, pretty please endorse it? It would mean a lot to me. <3



Please check out my other mods!

Greenhouse-style Wood Floor Border for Alternative Textures by glymr: https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/19311Adds a wood floor texture that matches the border in the vanilla greenhouse. Particularly useful with my Better Slime Hutch mod!

Place Furniture Outside (Furniture Anywhere Redux): Allows you to place all vanilla furniture outside. 1.6 and 1.5 versions available! Includes new furniture from 1.6! https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/21147

Animal Aging: Change how fast or slow your animals grow from babies into adults. Keep baby ducks around longer! Have a full gaggle of chicks and ducks
following their mothers around! Or have piglets turn into pigs overnight: it's your choice! https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/16751

DustBeauty's Seasonal Path and Flooring for Alternative Textures: A conversion of DustBeauty's Seasonal Path and Flooring mod to work with Alternative Textures. https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/19106

Miizuki's Foresty Farm Buildings for Alternative Textures: A port of the lovely foresty, overgrown building textures by Miizuki, created with permission: https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/17432

Ali's Enchanted Garden Buildings for Alternative Textures: A port of Ali's Enchanted Garden Buildings, open permissions: https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/18645

Jorts and Jean Stardew Valley Expanded Compatibility Patch (Removes plank from SVE mountain path): Do you have Jorts and Jean installed? Do you have Stardew Valley Expanded installed? Do you have an annoying board that shows up on your Mountain Path? This simple mod will make that plank disappear! https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/18324

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SPECIAL THANKS TO:

junimos, who updated Slime Hutch Water Spots to work with 1.6.

The creator of Wren's Expanded Greenhouse (my favorite greenhouse mod!) who generously gave me permission to use the glass and frame assets with this mod, as well as to use the code and design as inspiration. I have taken my version in some new directions, but the original inspiration came from Wren's Expanded Greenhouse. I highly recommend it! They also did Better Beehouses, which is a particularly good match for this mod.

The creator of CF AT Ornamental Garden Furniture who kindly allowed me to use their animated fountain as an optional water source in this mod. They have beautiful mods! Please check them out!

adenthorn, who created the Extra Map Layers and the Slime Hutch Water Spot mods, both of which are crucial to making this mod work properly.

ConcernedApe, Pathoschild, and all the other wonderful creators and modders who blazed the trails I followed when creating this mod.


Mods in the screenshots:

The fantastic mushroom trees are from Wildflour's Faerie Garden, and some of the mushrooms are from Wild Food.
The funky monster crops are from Stardew Valley Expanded.
There are a couple of mushrooms from PPJA Fruits and Veggies.
The trellis crop is from the Distant Lands mod.
There's one mushroom crop from Circle of Thorns.
The pretty flower planters are from Flower Power Furniture.
The adorable gnome village is from Fairy Garden Furniture.
You can see spring textures on some of the fruit trees due to an as-yet unreleased mod by Shockah, which allows one to change the season of fruit trees in greenhouses (instead of the normal summer skin).
Let me know what I forgot and I'll add it to the list!



What's next?

If there's interest, I might make a half-sized version of this mod suitable for use with the Slimmed Down Slime Hutch skin. If this is something you'd like to see, please endorse this mod and leave a comment!

I'm also considering a huge version of this mod with room for tons of trees or crops. If this is something you'd like to see, please endorse this mod and leave a comment! How many trees and crops would you want it to be able to hold?

Got other ideas for this mod? You know what to do! (Endorse this mod and leave a comment!)