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Adds new custom chocobo livestock and items including custom crops, forage, ore, and more!

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Chocobo Valley adds the titular feathery beasts into Stardew as custom livestock! Currently it features the following:

  • Seven breeds of chocobos, based on their different iterations throughout the Final Fantasy series.
  • Tons of color variations to collect, with a rarity system tied with animal friendship. The variants also reference the actual colors found within each respective FF title (plus some extras)
  • Your birds produce different items depending on breed and rarity, many of which include...
  •  ...Custom items that Final Fantasy fans may recognize! Gysahl green crops, orichalcum ore, tomestones, and more!
  • And last but not least, an adorable moogle shopkeep that you can invite to set up shop on your farm!
  

First, here are some instructions on how to install:

(To uninstall, simply delete the Chocobo Valley from your mods folder. Any existing chocobos, CV items, or CV buildings on your farm should be replaced with placeholders that you can then sell or demolish safely.)

NOTE: Most custom items in this mod can only be obtained through raising chocobos, you won't find the new seeds, ores, or other items without them! And, very importantly, Marnie doesn't sell chocobos in her shop! In order to obtain your chocobos, you'll need help from Buckwheat the moogle. He sends you a letter very early in the game letting you know what to do, but in case something glitches or you miss it, here's some backup instructions:
  • In Robin's construction menu/shop, you can have her build a spot for Buckwheat to set up shop on your farm. This will require some gold and hay.
  • After his space is built, talk to Buckwheat and he'll sell you chocobo eggs! You'll need an upgraded coop with an incubator next to start raising your flock.
    NOTE: Only the two small breeds (Ferngill and Jylland) can be incubated in the coop. I recommend starting with the Ferngill breed (tiny eggs) so you can work toward earning an ostrich incubator, which is what you'll need for the other (large) chocobo breeds.
  • Buckwheat only sells common chocobo eggs. However, if you raise the friendship of your common colored chocobo, it'll begin to lay uncommon eggs! Incubate and raise the friendship of the chocobos that hatch from those, and you'll eventually get rare chocobo eggs!
  • Buckwheat will exchange 5 rare tiny chocobo eggs of any quality for an ostrich incubator! From there, you'll gain access to the remaining (large) chocobo breeds! 

  

This lists everything in the mod outright in case you want to check something, or to just see what the mod has to offer. Anything hidden by spoilers contains... mod spoilers! So don't click those if you want to discover everything yourself! 

Some general (non-spoilery) notes:

  • Each breed comes in three rarities: common, uncommon, and rare. Each rarity tier also has multiple colors.
  • They will have different item producing behaviors depending on breed. Ones that drop their items overnight (like a chicken) are: Ferngill, Jylland, and Eorzean. Ones that need to be sheared (like a sheep) are: Lucian. Ones that need to be let outside to dig up their items (like a pig) are: Ivalician, Vana'delian, and Puslian. I know it may seem odd at first for you to get eggs from shearing or after digging... think of it this way, Lucian chocobos need to feel comfortable and pampered in order to lay, and the breeds who dig simply prefer to nest in dirt.
  • Chocobos come in two size categories: small and large. Small chocobos are incubated in coops, while large ones must be incubated in barns. A baby chocobo will look different depending on its size category (e.g. all large chocobos share the same baby sprite, which is different from the one the small breeds have)
  • The tips of a baby chocobos head feathers show the color they will grow into
  • Any chocobo egg can be turned into chocobo mayo by placing it in a mayonnaise machine, the type of mayo you get is determined by the rarity of egg you put in (rare egg = top-tier mayonnaise) The eggs can also be used in recipes that call for 'any egg'. All custom crops can be processed in preserve jars and kegs as well, and all custom ores can be smelted into bars.
  • Aside from the processing functionality mentioned above, custom items don't otherwise have any use beyond selling them. Some feathers can be traded to Buckwheat. I DO plan to make optional add-on mods that add further functionality to the custom items, such as new recipes. Tomestones in particular are planned to act as a type of currency for another shopkeeper.
  • Buckwheat has a TON of different dialogue whenever you enter his shop! He'll tell you about himself and the chocobos, giving info and tips for what each breed does (if you don't want to be spoiled by the spoiler sections below, he is a great alternate source of information!) NOTE: If Buckwheat's dialogue and/or portrait doesn't show up in his shop page for you, try reducing your UI scaling or increasing your game window size. 

Speaking of Buckwheat, this is what he currently sells in his shop:
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  • Common chocobo eggs for each breed
  • A custom hat (based on the chocobo mask from FFXIV) in exchange for x5 uncommon chocobo feathers
  • Ostrich incubators for x5 rare tiny chocobo eggs
  • A horse flute (or chocobo whistle, if you have my other mod CV Mounts installed) for x5 rare chocobo feathers


Without further ado, below is the specific information for each breed:

Ferngill Mini Chocobos
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These chocobos look like the babies of larger breeds, but are actually fully grown! They hatch from tiny chocobo eggs, and produce various custom forage items. They're a drop item overnight breed, so you'll find their produce items inside their coop after sleeping.


Common colors: Buttercup (yellow), Foxglove (brown)
Items produced: (regular) wyrmtwig, common tiny chocobo eggs, (deluxe) pepio nuts, uncommon tiny chocobo eggs.


Uncommon colors: Aloe (green), Bluebell (blue), Lilac (purple)
Items produced: (regular) flutegrass, uncommon tiny chocobo eggs (deluxe) whisperweed, rare tiny chocobo eggs.


Rare colors: Hibiscus (red), Petunia (black), Dandelion (white)
Items produced: (regular) sylleblossom, rare tiny chocobo eggs (deluxe) goldcap. Goldcaps can be put in the dehydrator for dried goldcap.


Jylland Dwarf Chocobos
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These chocobos are based on the ones from FF Tactics Advance 2, where they were ridden by moogle knights. They hatch from diminutive chocobo eggs and produce various seeds for custom crops. They're a drop item overnight breed, so you'll find their produce items inside their coop after sleeping.


Common colors: Targ Wood Yellow, Muskmallow Field Yellow
Items produced: (regular) gysahl seeds, common diminutive chocobo eggs, (deluxe) krakka seeds, uncommon diminutive chocobo eggs.


Uncommon colors: Aldanna Range Brown, Redclay Pass Brown, Rupie Mountains Blue, Zedlei Forest Green
Items produced: (regular) curiel seeds, uncommon diminutive chocobo eggs, (deluxe) tantal seeds, rare diminutive chocobo eggs.


Rare colors: Galleria Deep Black, Sealed Reach Black, Kthili Sands Red, Whitehearth White
Items produced: (regular) sylkis seeds, rare diminutive chocobo eggs, (deluxe) mimett seeds


Eorzean Destrier Chocobos
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These chocobos are based on the ones in FF14. They hatch from durable chocobo eggs, and will find various fish while you're sleeping (from the vanilla game, no custom fish atm) You can also ride them as a horse replacement in my CV Mounts mod. They're a drop item overnight breed, so you'll find their produce items inside their barn after sleeping. 


Common colors: Honey Yellow, Cream Yellow
Items produced: (regular) ghostfish, sandfish, woodskip, common durable chocobo eggs, (deluxe) slimejack, scorpion carp, stonefish, uncommon durable chocobo eggs


Uncommon colors: Celeste Green, Deepwood Green, Lavender Purple
Items produced: (regular) rainbow trout, salmon, pike, uncommon durable chocobo eggs, (deluxe) tiger trout, catfish, ice pip, rare durable chocobo eggs


Rare colors: Ishgardian Black, Blood Red, Rose Pink, Sugar White
Items produced: (regular) red mullet, halibut, eel, rare durable chocobo eggs, (deluxe) octopus, pufferfish, lava eel


Lucian Palfrey Chocobos
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These chocobos are based on the ones in FF15. They hatch from velvety chocobo eggs and produce excess feathers, which you can harvest with shears (just like a sheep!) You can visibly tell when they have extra feathers ready to harvest. These feathers can be traded to Buckwheat for special goodies, including an early horse flute (or chocobo whistle, if you're using my CV Mounts mod)


Common colors: Duscae Yellow, Wiz Post Yellow
Items produced: (regular) common chocobo feathers, common velvety chocobo eggs, (deluxe) uncommon velvety chocobo eggs


Uncommon colors: Galdin Quay Blue, Malmalam Thicket Green
Items produced: (regular) uncommon chocobo feathers, uncommon velvety chocobo eggs, (deluxe) rare velvety chocobo eggs


Rare colors: Longwythe Peak White, Ravatogh Red, Vesperpool Black, Myrlwood Black
Items produced: (regular) rare chocobo feathers, rare velvety chocobo eggs, (deluxe) same as regular


Ivalician Draft Chocobos
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These chocobos are based on the ones in FF 12. They hatch from stinky chocobo eggs and dig up custom ores, which can be smelted into bars. Since they're a digging breed, you'll need to let them outside to produce items.


Common colors: Wild Gold, Common Pale, Domestic Pale
Items produced: (regular) tomestones of lore, common stinky chocobo eggs, (deluxe) mythril ore, uncommon stinky chocobo eggs.


Uncommon colors: Dalmasca Estersand Brown, Ogir-Yensa Sandsea Bull, Salikawood Green
Items produced: (regular) tomestones of lore, uncommon stinky chocobo eggs, (deluxe) orichalcum ore, rare stinky chocobo eggs.


Rare colors: Dagan Flats Black, Ozmone Plain Red, Phon Coast White, Hakawea Shore White
Items produced: (regular) tomestones of lore, rare stinky chocobo eggs, (deluxe) adamantite ore


Vana'delian Courser Chocobos
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These chocobos are based on the ones in FF11. They hatch from shiny chocobo eggs and can dig up custom treasure items. Since they're a digging breed, you'll need to let them outside to produce items.


Common colors: Jeuno Yellow, Ru'Lude Gardens Yellow
Items produced: (regular) tomestones of poetics, common shiny chocobo eggs, (deluxe) aetheryte shards, uncommon shiny chocobo eggs


Uncommon colors: Southern Mithra Green, Zepwell Island Blue
Items produced: (regular) tomestones of poetics, uncommon shiny chocobo eggs, (deluxe) nethicite, rare shiny chocobo eggs


Rare colors: Chateau d'Oraguille Red, San d'Oria Black, Aht Urhgan White
Items produced: (regular) tomestones of poetics, rare shiny chocobo eggs, (deluxe) auracite


Pulsian Steppe Chocobos
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These chocobos are based on the ones in FF13. They hatch from gigantic chocobo eggs and can find totems for you! To pick up a totem, you'll need to whack it with your pickaxe. Since they're a digging breed, you'll need to let them outside to produce items.


Common colors: Archylte Steppe Yellow, Cocoon Yellow
Items produced: (regular) common gigantic chocobo eggs, (deluxe) farm warp totem, mountains warp totem, uncommon gigantic chocobo eggs


Uncommon colors: Clearwater Marsh Blue, Yaschas Massif Green, Bresha Ruins Purple
Items produced: (regular) uncommon gigantic chocobo eggs, (deluxe) beach warp totem, rain totem, rare gigantic chocobo eggs


Rare colors: Oerba white, Grave Ridge Red, Vile Peaks Black
Items produced: (regular) rare gigantic chocobo eggs, (deluxe) desert warp totem, island warp totem



This mod should be compatible with anything that plays nice with Content Patcher and Mail Framework mod. 

Alternative Textures works to change a chocobo's color to a different one within the same breed/rarity!
(note, I did find a minor visual bug. After placing custom items within an alternately textured machine, it will display grass when it's done processing instead of the proper item art. Machines that aren't alternatively textured display the image correctly)

Compatible with Better Ranching. There is a minor visual bug, Lucian chocobos will display grass above their head when ready to shear. If it bothers you, it can be hidden by disabling "DisplayProduce" in the BR config.

NEW! Is now compatible with Machine Progression System as of MPS 1.4.0!

I've created an optional compatibility add-on for Animal Husbandry Mod that allows chocobos to be fed with the custom crops in this mod (gysahl, krakka, curiel, tantel, mimett, and sylkis greens) and allows chocobos to be exchanged for chicken meat. HOWEVER it has not been thoroughly tested and does have the following known issues:
- custom items will display as grass when fed using the basket
- chocobos are invisible during the contest



  • Legendary colored variants for each breed, with special methods for obtaining them. They will reference special chocobos from the series, like Trickster from FF11 (Buckwheat's chocobo Daisy is actually this color), rambunctious chocobos from FF13-2, and more.
  • New goodies to trade from Buckwheat, like the ability to build a fat chocobo who acts as a storage container (possibly).
  • Optional new color expansions (naturalistic color pack, etc.)
  • Maybe new breeds. I'm tempted to make ones for the chocobos in FF7 (remake) and FF16.
  • Optional expansions that introduce new moogle shopkeepers, and provide new functionality/uses for items in the base mod. One in particular I'm planning is a cooking themed expansion that provides recipes for all the chocobo greens/forage, along with some new crops/fruit.
  • Carbuncle pets. I already had the sprites for replacing cats in a private mod I made last year. Ideally, they would either function as a fully new pet species, or a summon-able companion via trinkets if possible.



Chocobo Valley - Mounts
Want to ride chocobos too? This mod provides my Eorzean chocobos as replacements for the horse through content patcher and/or alternative textures!


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