Professor Jasper Thomas is a shy and polite geologist/anthropologist, recently returned to Pelican Town to further pursue his studies of the smoluanu. Obsessed with his work, and his pursuit for knowledge, can you help him realize that there is more to life?

He currently resides in a newly-added second storey above the Archaeology House - which is also home to a collection of archives (See below for more details)!

Note: Portrait image in header is courtesy of Airyn.

For a list of compatible mods (and to answer THAT question everyone asks, please click the Articles tag).

If you run into any problems with Jasper, please make a comment in the "Bugs" or "Comments" section and I'll endeavor to address them. Logs appreciated!

Jasper's 6-heart event involves multiple events and sprite/schedule changes. It has been re-written for multiplayer, and contains two Broadcast events.
Only the host can trigger the 6-heart event.

(I have not yet been able to test the co-op mode, and thus it is considered in beta.)

Jasper's six-heart event takes at least one ingame month to play through. During this time he something very dramatic happens. If you have any concerns about this, please let me know and I shall endeavor to address them.

A couple of things to note:

•  Dwarf won't appear in game until you've either seen Jasper's 6-heart event through fully OR you have the translation guide.
This has been disabled and is now configurable, should you want a more immersive experience.If adding into a save where you have already befriended Dwarf, you will get a bonus cut scene.
• Added gift tastes, a birthday and dialogue for Gunther. You can befriend him now (he doesn't leave the counter though). He will also always end the conversation by commenting on your lack of donation. NOT ACTIVATED WITH SVE/BGAM/ME.
• Added gift tastes and dialogue for Marlon (conditional/configurable) NOT ACTIVATED WITH SVE/BGAM
• Changes made to Dwarf: Dwarf cave interior changed pre-meeting them for story-related reasons.
• Additional dialogue and lore added for Dwarf.
• Makes adjustments to your farm cave. This Defaults to "false" change it to "true" for a slightly altered farm cave with hot pool and mine shortcut
(must be friends with Dwarf before you can use shortcut).




The archives of the Archaeology House  contain many new aspects of SDV lore.


GIFT TASTES:


Heart Events:


WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO:
- Airyn for his absolutely gorgeous portraits of Jasper, and his lovely spritework (portraits are configurable, sprites are now standard).
- Nin and Archer for their likewise gorgeous portraits (especially Nin, who captured my original concept of Jasper beautifully).
- Bo for the beautiful RSV-compatible Marriage/Anniversary portrait (I'm not going to show it here, so people have added incentive to marry him, just know it's gorgeous).
- Hesper for cleaning up my original portraits.
- Kdau for his overall awesomeness, plus support, advice and coding skills.
- Mouse for their TMXL expertise and answering endless questions on "how do I do this?"
- Jonqora for fixing the marriage dialogue conflict with Jas. (no longer an issue since 1.5.5, but very much appreciated!)
- And the dozens of other people on the Discord channel that have helped me bring Jasper to life. You folks are awesome.  <3

TRANSLATIONS:
Included: Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, (translations may not be up-to-date) and Chinese (but see link below for up-to-date)
Separate Install:
- Chinese by KatherineC4


FUTURE PLANS:
- Further develop Dwarf's lore/storyline with more dialogue and heart events. < Done in the mod "The Last Smoluanu"
- Adding Jasper's children (with farmer) as a pack for Little NPCs.