The best Stardew Valley mods start with SMAPI and Content Patcher, then branch into huge fan expansions like Stardew Valley Expanded, quality-of-life tools that cut the daily chores, and recolors that make Pelican Town look new again. The 100 below are the most loved mods in the community, grouped by what they change. We checked the first 50 against their creators’ own Nexus Mods pages on September 21, 2026, and all 100 on October 21, 2026: every one is free and still downloadable. The current PC version of the game is Stardew Valley 1.6.15, the latest patch ConcernedApe has released, and where a mod’s page was written for an older patch, or an update broke it, its entry says so.
Two setup facts matter before you start. Nearly every mod here runs through SMAPI, the Stardew Modding API (4.5.2 at the time of writing, which needs Stardew Valley 1.6.14 or later), so install that first and always launch the game through it. Most content mods, from new villages to new outfits, are built on Content Patcher, so it belongs in every Mods folder too. If you would rather not unzip files by hand, Stardrop (entry 8), a free open-source mod manager by PeacefulEnd, handles profiles and update checks. The 1.6 update in March 2024 broke a large share of older mods, which is why several classics you may remember appear as their updated 1.6 versions or carry a compatibility warning. ConcernedApe confirmed in a Steam post for the game’s 10th anniversary that a 1.7 update is in development, with no release date yet, so expect another round of mod updates when it arrives.
Essentials and Frameworks
These are the mods almost everything else depends on, plus the information tools that nearly every modded save runs.
1. SMAPI
SMAPI is the mod loader for Stardew Valley and the first thing to install. Its page notes that it works with Steam and GOG achievements, runs on Windows, macOS, Linux and Steam Deck, and can be uninstalled at any time. Version 4.5 added in-game settings for SMAPI itself, performance gains and malicious file detection. With more than 30 million downloads on Nexus Mods, it is the most downloaded mod on this list. Creator: Pathoschild. Download: SMAPI on Nexus Mods.
2. Content Patcher
Content Patcher loads content packs that change the game’s data, images and maps without replacing any game files. That makes packs easy to install and remove, less likely to conflict, and far less likely to break when the game updates. It does nothing on its own, but it is the framework behind most mods on this list, and it is the most endorsed Stardew mod on Nexus. Creator: Pathoschild. Download: Content Patcher on Nexus Mods.
3. Generic Mod Config Menu
Generic Mod Config Menu adds an in-game settings screen for your other mods, reachable from a cog button on the title screen or the bottom of the in-game options menu. Changes apply as soon as you save, with no restart. Content Patcher packs get a settings page automatically, so for most players this replaces editing config files by hand. Creator: spacechase0. Download: Generic Mod Config Menu on Nexus Mods.
4. SpaceCore
SpaceCore is a framework that many of Stardew’s biggest mods are built on, including Ridgeside Village, East Scarp, Walk of Life and Archaeology Skill on this list. On its own it changes nothing you can see: install it once and it works for every mod that asks for it. Its page says it supports Stardew Valley 1.6.15 or later in single-player and multiplayer, as long as every player has it installed. With more than 235,000 endorsements, it is one of the most endorsed mods on Nexus Mods. Creator: spacechase0. Download: SpaceCore on Nexus Mods.
5. Farm Type Manager
Despite the name, Farm Type Manager is a framework that lets other mods spawn forage, ore, monsters and other objects anywhere in the game, on schedules they control. Stardew Valley Expanded, Ridgeside Village, East Scarp, Sunberry Village and Visit Mount Vapius all need it. Its page says every player in a multiplayer group should install it, and that only the host’s spawn settings are used. A few global options, like a cap on monsters per area, can be changed in Generic Mod Config Menu. Creator: Esca-MMC. Needs: Content Patcher. Download: Farm Type Manager on Nexus Mods.
6. Custom Companions
Custom Companions is the framework behind the creatures and followers in many content mods: it lets content packs spawn custom entities on maps or have them follow you around. Ridgeside Village, Sunberry Village and Stardew Aquarium on this list need it, and its page notes that it supports multiplayer and Content Patcher. Like SpaceCore, it does nothing on its own. Creator: PeacefulEnd. Download: Custom Companions on Nexus Mods.
7. StardewHack
StardewHack is the shared library behind bcmpinc’s mods, including Yet Another Harvest With Scythe Mod, Wear More Rings, Bigger Backpack and Movement Speed on this list. Its page explains why it is a separate download: keeping a single copy stops mismatched versions from causing strange bugs. It does nothing without one of those mods. As of October 21, 2026, its latest release is version 7.4 from November 2024, and SMAPI’s compatibility list marks it as working. Creator: bcmpinc. Needs: Generic Mod Config Menu. Download: StardewHack on Nexus Mods.
8. Stardrop
Stardrop is a free, open-source mod manager built for Stardew Valley, for anyone who would rather not manage the Mods folder by hand. It sorts mods into profiles, so you can keep a separate set for a multiplayer group, checks for updates through SMAPI, and on Windows and macOS can install a mod from its Nexus Mods page in one click. Builds are available for Windows, macOS and Linux. Its page notes that because the program is unsigned, antivirus tools may flag it as a false positive, and that its source code is public for anyone to check. Creator: PeacefulEnd. Download: Stardrop on Nexus Mods.
9. Lookup Anything
Press F1 over almost anything and Lookup Anything shows live information about it: a villager’s favorite gifts, when a crop will be ready, how long a fence will last, or why your farm animals are unhappy. It works in the world, your inventory, the calendar, shops and menus, and Shift plus F1 opens a search. It replaces a lot of tabbing out to look things up. Creator: Pathoschild. Download: Lookup Anything on Nexus Mods.
10. NPC Map Locations
NPC Map Locations shows every villager and player on the world map in real time, with an optional minimap. It turns hunting down a birthday recipient into a glance at the map. In multiplayer, its page says the host must install it, plus any farmhand who wants to see villagers on the map. If Stardew is your group’s regular co-op game, our list of the best PC co-op games of 2026 has more for the same crew. Creator: Bouhm and Pathoschild. Download: NPC Map Locations on Nexus Mods.
11. UI Info Suite 2
UI Info Suite 2 adds small, helpful readouts to the interface: an icon for the day’s luck, experience gains and a dynamic experience bar, more accurate heart levels, tooltips that flag items still needed for bundles, and icons over animals that need petting. Its goal, per its page, is keeping you informed without feeling like cheating. It continues an older mod that was abandoned in 2019. Creator: Abs0rbed, tqdv and Annosz. Download: UI Info Suite 2 on Nexus Mods.
12. Data Layers
Data Layers overlays the world with visual data when you press F2: sprinkler, scarecrow, bee house and Junimo hut coverage, hidden paths, warps and more. Point at a sprinkler and it outlines that one’s range. It is the easiest way to plan an efficient farm layout, and it picks up data from other mods automatically. Creator: Pathoschild. Download: Data Layers on Nexus Mods.
Interface and Information
Small overlays and menus that put the numbers, names and dates the game keeps to itself right on screen.
13. CJB Show Item Sell Price
Point at an item in your inventory and CJB Show Item Sell Price shows what it sells for, per item and for the whole stack, right next to the cursor. Its page says it works alongside the price catalogue added in 1.6.15, which shows only the stack total. It is the quickest way to decide what to ship and what to keep, and our guide to making money fast covers what is worth growing in the first place. Creator: CJBok and Pathoschild. Download: CJB Show Item Sell Price on Nexus Mods.
14. Experience Bars
Experience Bars adds a bar for each skill, so you can see exactly how close you are to the next level instead of guessing. Press X to show or hide the display and Shift plus X to move it. It pairs well with our guide to leveling up farming fast. Its page lists compatibility with Stardew Valley 1.5.5 and later, and it was last updated in October 2025. Creator: spacechase0. Download: Experience Bars on Nexus Mods.
15. Event Lookup
Press N and Event Lookup lists every heart event you can trigger today, with hints on when and where to trigger each one, and you can look up any character’s heart events too. Its page says it works with custom NPCs, including those from Stardew Valley Expanded and Ridgeside Village, and supports controllers. The page still calls it a beta; as of October 21, 2026, its last update was in April 2024, and SMAPI’s compatibility list marks it as working. Creator: shekurika. Download: Event Lookup on Nexus Mods.
16. Simple Crop Label
Simple Crop Label names the crop or fruit tree under your cursor when you hold the right mouse button (or A on a controller), and can optionally show growth and harvest information or show the label on hover instead. Its page says it supports split-screen and Stardew Valley Expanded’s crops. As of October 21, 2026, its page lists version 6.0.2 for Stardew Valley 1.6.13, needing SMAPI 4.1.6 or later. Creator: TheMusketeer. Download: Simple Crop Label on Nexus Mods.
17. To-Dew
To-Dew is an in-game to-do list, with the pun, per its page, included at no extra charge. Press L to open it and type your tasks, and they appear as an overlay in the corner while you play; finished items disappear at the end of the day, and repeating items reset. The list is stored in your save file, and if you use Mobile Phone (entry 45) it adds an app there too. Creator: Jamie Taylor. Needs: Generic Mod Config Menu, GMCM Options. Download: To-Dew on Nexus Mods.
18. Zoom Level
Zoom Level adds hotkeys to zoom the camera and scale the interface past the game’s own limits, which helps on very large or very small screens and when planning a big farm. The zoom steps and caps are set in a simple config file, and a newer option moves the camera position. Its page describes it as an updated, more configurable version of the older Zoom Level Keybind mod. Creator: thespbgamer. Download: Zoom Level on Nexus Mods.
19. Show Birthdays
Once expansion mods add dozens of villagers, several can share a birthday, and per its page the calendar only shows one of them. Show Birthdays lists every name in the hover text and cycles through their sprites, and also fixes birthdays that land on a festival day. As of October 21, 2026, its page was last updated in May 2022 and lists Stardew Valley 1.5, and SMAPI’s compatibility list marks it as broken on 1.6 and points to an unofficial community update, so check there before installing. Creator: Traktori. Needs: Generic Mod Config Menu. Download: Show Birthdays on Nexus Mods.
20. Better Artisan Good Icons
Better Artisan Good Icons gives jelly, pickles, wine, juice and honey icons that match the fruit, vegetable or flower they came from, so blueberry jelly is blue and starfruit wine is yellow, and you can tell them apart in your inventory at a glance. It has more than 42,000 endorsements on Nexus Mods. As of October 21, 2026, its page was last updated in 2019, and SMAPI’s compatibility list says it needs a workaround on 1.6: use Even Better Artisan Good Icons, a continuation the list links, which can also convert the original’s content packs. Creator: Cat. Download: Better Artisan Good Icons on Nexus Mods.
21. Loved Labels
Loved Labels adds a tooltip when you hover over a pet or farm animal that tells you whether you have petted it today, with label text you can change in the config. With more than 22,000 endorsements, it was one of the first must-have ranching mods. As of October 21, 2026, its page was last updated in May 2018 and asks for SMAPI 0.40.1.1 or later, and SMAPI’s compatibility list marks it as broken since Stardew Valley 1.3.29 and names no unofficial update, so it may not work until someone updates it. Better Ranching (entry 51) shows a similar petting indicator and works on 1.6. Creator: Advize and Jinxiewinxie. Download: Loved Labels on Nexus Mods.
22. Mod Update Menu
Mod Update Menu adds a button to the title screen that lists every mod you have installed and whether it is up to date, with SMAPI’s own status alongside. Hover over a mod to see why it is out of date, and click its link to open the download page. As of October 21, 2026, its page was last updated in August 2020, and SMAPI’s compatibility list marks it as broken since 1.5 and links an unofficial update posted on the official Stardew Valley forums, which the mod’s own page links too. Stardrop (entry 8) does the same update checking as a separate program. Creator: Cat. Download: Mod Update Menu on Nexus Mods.
23. Enemy Health Bars
Enemy Health Bars draws a health bar over monsters, placed by hand for each enemy type. Its page says it is deliberately not a cheat: the more combat skill you have, or the more of a monster type you kill, the more precise the information gets, and it can show numeric health in a choice of color schemes. As of October 21, 2026, its page was last updated in December 2019, and SMAPI’s compatibility list marks it as broken since 1.5 and links an unofficial update posted on the official Stardew Valley forums. Creator: Speeder. Download: Enemy Health Bars on Nexus Mods.
Quality of Life
These cut the busywork out of farm life without changing what the game is about.
24. Chests Anywhere
Chests Anywhere lets you open your chests, dressers, fridge, shipping bin and Junimo huts from anywhere by pressing B, grouped into categories you can name and sort. You can move items from your bed or the bottom of the mines. It comes in two versions: unlimited, or a balanced one that only reaches chests in your current area. Creator: Pathoschild. Download: Chests Anywhere on Nexus Mods.
25. Automate
Put a chest next to machines like furnaces, kegs or crystalariums and Automate has them pull raw items from the chest and push finished goods back in. Connect machines with chests and you have a factory. Press U for an overlay of what is linked. One warning from its page: the shipping bin counts as a connected container, so keep chests away from it or turn that off. Creator: Pathoschild. Download: Automate on Nexus Mods.
26. Tractor Mod
Tractor Mod lets you buy a tractor garage from Robin, then drive a tractor that uses whatever tool, seeds or fertilizer you have selected across a wide area. The axe setting clears twigs, weeds and dead crops, and you can summon the tractor to your position with a key. It is the big time-saver for large farms, and its page lists balance add-ons if it feels too strong. Creator: Pathoschild. Download: Tractor Mod on Nexus Mods.
27. Better Crafting
Better Crafting replaces the crafting and cooking menus with a cleaner grid that supports categories, favorites (press F on a recipe) and easy bulk crafting. It also lets a workbench pull from more than the chests directly beside it and stops workbenches locking chests in multiplayer. Anyone crafting sprinklers by the dozen will notice the difference. Creator: Khloe Leclair. Download: Better Crafting on Nexus Mods.
28. Convenient Inventory
Convenient Inventory adds a Quick Stack to Nearby Chests button that sends everything in your backpack into chests that already hold the same items, plus favorite slots that keep your tools from being stowed. The end-of-day open chest, deposit, close chest routine becomes one click. Range and matching rules are configurable. Creator: gaussfire. Download: Convenient Inventory on Nexus Mods.
29. Skull Cavern Elevator
The regular mines have an elevator; the Skull Cavern does not. Skull Cavern Elevator adds one, unlocking a new stop every five floors by default, so a good run is no longer lost the next morning. A config setting changes how often elevator floors appear if you want it harder. Creator: Lestoph. Download: Skull Cavern Elevator on Nexus Mods.
30. Yet Another Harvest With Scythe Mod
This mod lets the scythe harvest every crop and forage item, not just a few, while hand-picking still works too. It does not touch your save, so removing it simply returns the normal behavior, and settings control options like harvesting with a sword. Creator: bcmpinc. Needs: StardewHack, Generic Mod Config Menu. Download: Yet Another Harvest With Scythe Mod on Nexus Mods.
31. Passable Crops
Passable Crops lets you walk through crops the way Junimos do, including trellis crops like hops and grapes, which shake as you pass. Optional settings extend it to scarecrows, sprinklers, forage, saplings, tea bushes and weeds. No more walking the long way around your own field. Creator: ncarigon. Needs: Generic Mod Config Menu. Download: Passable Crops on Nexus Mods.
32. Fast Animations
Fast Animations speeds up the slow bits to under a second each: breaking geodes, eating and drinking, milking, harvesting, mounting your horse, the casino slots and more. Each animation’s speed can be tuned in Generic Mod Config Menu, and a speed of 1 leaves it at normal. Opening a stack of geodes at Clint’s is where it pays off. Creator: Pathoschild. Download: Fast Animations on Nexus Mods.
33. TimeSpeed
TimeSpeed controls the clock: speed it up, slow it down, or freeze it, either automatically by location or with a key press. By default time runs a little slower indoors. It is the go-to mod for players who feel the days end before the to-do list does. Creator: cantorsdust and Pathoschild. Download: TimeSpeed on Nexus Mods.
34. Gift Taste Helper Continued x2
Hover over a villager’s birthday on the calendar, or on the social page, and this mod shows their favorite gifts. An optional Progression mode only shows loved gifts you have already given, so you still get to discover them. It is the maintained continuation of the original Gift Taste Helper, which no longer works on 1.6. Creator: JoXW. Download: Gift Taste Helper Continued x2 on Nexus Mods.
35. Automatic Gates
Automatic Gates does exactly what it says: gates open as you approach and close behind you. It works for players only, not animals, so your livestock stays put. Options exist for delays or excluding certain gates, but its page is clear you can ignore them. Creator: Rakiin (ScheKaa). Download: Automatic Gates on Nexus Mods.
36. Visible Fish
Visible Fish shows the fish that are currently catchable swimming in the water, using the game’s fish tank sprites, so you can see what is biting before you cast. It changes nothing about fishing itself and works with modded locations and fish. Its last update was in 2024, and SMAPI’s compatibility list marks it as working. Creator: shekurika. Download: Visible Fish on Nexus Mods.
37. Wear More Rings
Wear More Rings raises your ring slots from two to six by default, configurable up to 20, and can give you a second trinket slot. Stacking Iridium Bands and Lucky Rings becomes a real build choice. Its page warns against pairing it with the Multiplayer Time mod, which can corrupt saves. Creator: bcmpinc. Needs: StardewHack, Generic Mod Config Menu. Download: Wear More Rings on Nexus Mods.
38. Ladder Locator
Ladder Locator marks the rocks hiding a ladder or shaft on each mine floor. If nothing is marked, no rock on that floor will drop one yet. It can also force shafts instead of ladders in the Skull Cavern and list the ores on the current floor, which makes deep runs much faster. Creator: ChaosEnergy. Download: Ladder Locator on Nexus Mods.
39. Bigger Backpack
Bigger Backpack adds one more backpack upgrade to Pierre’s shop: 48 slots, for 50,000g by default, and the price is configurable. If you are still on the vanilla upgrades, our guide to increasing inventory space covers those first. Its page notes that the fourth row does not show in the museum menu, that Android is not supported, and that you should shrink the backpack back to 36 slots with a console command before uninstalling. Creator: spacechase0 and bcmpinc. Needs: StardewHack. Download: Bigger Backpack on Nexus Mods.
40. Movement Speed
Movement Speed makes the farmer 50% faster by default and cuts the charge time of the hoe and watering can by the same amount, both adjustable. Because it uses a flat multiplier, its page says, it stacks properly with coffee, horses and other speed effects, and it switches off during cutscenes to avoid softlocks. On big modded maps, the time it saves adds up fast. Creator: bcmpinc. Needs: StardewHack, Generic Mod Config Menu. Download: Movement Speed on Nexus Mods.
41. Destroyable Bushes
Destroyable Bushes lets you chop down bushes with an axe. By default they drop a little wood and regrow after three days, and its settings change how much damage they take, how fast they come back and where they can be cut. The bush that ruins your perfect farm layout can finally go. In multiplayer, its page says each player sets their own options, but regrowth follows the host’s. Creator: Esca-MMC. Download: Destroyable Bushes on Nexus Mods.
42. Customize Anywhere
Customize Anywhere opens the character customization screen and a clothing catalogue that holds every piece of clothing, modded clothing included, from anywhere. Press Left Shift plus 1 to 4, or craft a Customization Mirror and Clothing Catalogue from recipes Robin sells for 50,000g each. Its page says it supports 1.6.15 or later in single-player and multiplayer, and that you can safely remove it at any time. Creator: Cherry. Download: Customize Anywhere on Nexus Mods.
43. Let’s Move It
Let’s Move It lets you pick up and move almost anything: trees, crops, tilled soil, bushes, stumps, boulders, placed machines, farm animals, villagers and even farm buildings. Hold Left Alt and click to pick something up, then click again to set it down. Its page asks you to back up your save before using it and warns against moving buildings that another mod changes. As of October 21, 2026, it is at version 0.7.0, released October 1. Creator: Exblosis. Needs: Generic Mod Config Menu. Download: Let’s Move It on Nexus Mods.
44. Happy Home Designer
Happy Home Designer overhauls the furniture and wallpaper catalogues: walk around and place furniture straight from the open catalogue, search furniture, walls and floors together, wallpaper a whole room in one click, and save layouts in a blueprint book. It also shows Alternative Textures skins, with favorites and undo. Anyone who has rotated furniture one piece at a time across a whole house will feel the difference. Creator: tlitookilakin. Download: Happy Home Designer on Nexus Mods.
45. Mobile Phone
Mobile Phone gives you a smartphone with a phone app for calling villagers who like you: chat, replay old events with them, or, with an add-on, invite them out, and they can call you too. By default only villagers at four hearts or more appear in your contacts. Other mods add their own apps, which its page notes is handy when hotkeys start to clash. Press End to open it. Creator: aedenthorn. Download: Mobile Phone on Nexus Mods.
46. Stack Everything
Stack Everything lets furniture, wallpaper and fishing tackle stack up to 999 like every other item, so a cellar’s worth of casks moves in one trip. Tools, hats, rings, boots and weapons still cannot stack, and its page warns that oversized stacks reset to one if you uninstall it. As of October 21, 2026, its page was last updated in January 2020, and SMAPI’s compatibility list says it needs a workaround since 1.5: use Stack Everything Redux, a continuation on Nexus Mods updated in September 2025. Creator: Cat. Download: Stack Everything on Nexus Mods.
47. Carry Chest
Carry Chest lets you pick up a chest without emptying it first: interact with it while an empty toolbar slot is selected, and the chest comes with everything inside. Its page cautions that placing a full chest without the mod installed loses its contents. As of October 21, 2026, its page lists Stardew Valley 1.5.5 or later and was last updated in December 2021, and SMAPI’s compatibility list says it needs a workaround on 1.6: use Carry Chests, a separate mod by LeFauxMatt, updated in February 2025. Creator: spacechase0. Download: Carry Chest on Nexus Mods.
Farming, Animals and Fishing
Help with the work of the farm itself, from Junimos that plant for you and fences that never rot to animals that show when they need you, plus fishing help for the trickiest skill to learn. Our guide to how to fish covers the unmodded basics.
48. Better Junimos
Better Junimos makes Junimo huts worth building. Put seeds and fertilizer in a hut’s chest and its Junimos will fertilize and plant any open tilled soil, water crops, harvest forage, clear dead crops, and work in the greenhouse and through winter. Each ability unlocks with a small item request, which you can switch off, and you can optionally pay them a small fee. Left-click a hut to see what its Junimos are doing. Creator: hawkfalcon and ceruleandeep. Needs: Content Patcher, Generic Mod Config Menu. Download: Better Junimos on Nexus Mods.
49. Better Sprinklers Mod
Better Sprinklers Mod reshapes sprinkler coverage so you can lay out your farm the way you want: press K to draw any watering shape for each sprinkler type, and crafting costs rebalance automatically as coverage grows. It also highlights the area scarecrows and sprinklers cover. As of October 21, 2026, its page was last updated in December 2019, and SMAPI’s compatibility list marks it as broken since 1.6 and names no unofficial update, so it may not work until someone updates it. A fork, Better Sprinklers Plus, was updated for 1.6 in November 2024, and SMAPI’s list marks that one as working. Creator: Speeder. Download: Better Sprinklers Mod on Nexus Mods.
50. No Fence Decay
No Fence Decay makes every fence and gate last forever by repairing them to full health each morning, on any fence type and wherever they are placed. Fence upkeep is one of the game’s most tedious chores, which helps explain its more than 27,000 endorsements. As of October 21, 2026, its page was last updated in March 2019 and asks for SMAPI 2.9 or later, and SMAPI’s compatibility list says it needs a workaround on 1.6: use No Fence Decay Redux, a successor made for 1.6 and updated in June 2024. Creator: Cat. Download: No Fence Decay on Nexus Mods.
51. Better Ranching
Better Ranching stops failed milking and shearing attempts and puts an indicator over any animal or pet that can be petted, milked or sheared, so one glance across the barn tells you who still needs attention. Its page lists Stardew Valley 1.6.0 or later and notes a display bug when the UI scale is not 100%, which setting zoom slightly off 100% works around. New to animals? Our guide to keeping chickens happy covers the basics. Creator: Urbanyeti. Download: Better Ranching on Nexus Mods.
52. AutoAnimalDoors
AutoAnimalDoors opens every barn and coop door in the morning and closes them at night once all the animals are inside, wherever you are, at times you set in the config. By default the doors stay shut in winter and on rainy days. It removes one of the most forgotten chores in the game. As of October 21, 2026, its last update was in April 2024, and SMAPI’s compatibility list marks it as working. Creator: Aaron Taggart. Download: AutoAnimalDoors on Nexus Mods.
53. Horse Overhaul
Horse Overhaul aims to be the only horse mod you need: a true one-tile hitbox so your horse fits through gaps, saddle bags for storage, and a friendship system where petting, watering and feeding it makes it faster. You can also pick up forage without dismounting, and a menu shows your horse’s (and pet’s) friendship. As of October 21, 2026, its page lists compatibility with Stardew Valley 1.6.7 and SMAPI 4.0.8, its last update was in May 2024, and in multiplayer the host must install it. Creator: Goldenrevolver. Download: Horse Overhaul on Nexus Mods.
54. Pony Weight Loss Program
Pony Weight Loss Program lets your horse, and Tractor Mod’s tractor, squeeze vertically through any one-tile opening, like a gate or a gap in a fence. It is a tiny mod that ends the most common horse frustration. Its page warns that moving diagonally can let the horse clip through objects. Horse Overhaul (entry 53) says it includes its own version of this feature, so most players pick one or the other. Creator: BadNetCode. Download: Pony Weight Loss Program on Nexus Mods.
55. Fishing Assistant 3
Fishing Assistant 3 is a complete rewrite of a long-running fishing automation and accessibility mod. It can run the whole loop for you, from casting and hooking to playing or skipping the minigame and looting treasure, or help with only the parts you choose, like previewing which fish is on the line. Every part is configurable in its in-game menu, and its page says it supports single-player, local co-op, multiplayer and the fishing festivals. It was updated in September 2026. Creator: I3lanketGhost. Needs: Generic Mod Config Menu. Download: Fishing Assistant 3 on Nexus Mods.
56. Yet Another Fishing Mod
Yet Another Fishing Mod tunes fishing to your taste: skip the minigame once you have caught a fish a set number of times, raise or lower the difficulty, adjust experience, cast automatically and, per its page, put bait on the bamboo pole. It suits players who want fishing easier, not fully automated. Generic Mod Config Menu is optional but recommended on its page. Our bait and tackle guide explains what bait does in the base game. Creator: NeverToxic. Download: Yet Another Fishing Mod on Nexus Mods.
Cheats and Accessibility
For fixing a broken save, skipping a grind, or making fishing playable.
57. CJB Cheats Menu
Press P and CJB Cheats Menu opens a full cheat panel: a speed boost, instant buildings, fast machines, durable fences, auto-feed and auto-pet for animals, tomorrow’s weather, the time and more. It is the standard tool for repairing a save or skipping a tedious stretch, and its page confirms it works in single-player and multiplayer, though some cheats affect every player. Creator: CJBok and Pathoschild. Download: CJB Cheats Menu on Nexus Mods.
58. CJB Item Spawner
CJB Item Spawner opens a searchable menu of every item in the game when you press I, with a button to choose quality. It is handy for replacing something lost to a bug, testing a build, or decorating without farming every piece. Creator: CJBok and Pathoschild. Download: CJB Item Spawner on Nexus Mods.
59. Skip Fishing Minigame
Skip Fishing Minigame removes the bar-balancing minigame: pull your line when a fish bites and you catch it. An optional auto-fish setting hooks the fish for you, and another setting only skips the minigame after you have caught a species a set number of times. For players who find fishing frustrating or physically hard, it opens up the whole skill. Creator: DewMods. Download: Skip Fishing Minigame on Nexus Mods.
Expansions and New Areas
The big fan-made content mods, several of which rival an official expansion in size. Most are designed to work alongside each other.
60. Stardew Valley Expanded
Stardew Valley Expanded is the most famous Stardew mod. Its page lists 28 new NPCs, 58 locations, 278 character events, 43 fish, three new farm maps and reimagined vanilla areas, all kept close to the original’s tone. The author recommends finishing the base game first, and a new save file is required. Creator: FlashShifter. Needs: Content Patcher, Farm Type Manager. Download: Stardew Valley Expanded on Nexus Mods.
61. Ridgeside Village
Ridgeside Village adds a mountain village reached by cable car from the bus stop, with over 50 NPCs, 22 new marriage candidates, over 400 events, new festivals, custom music and more than 50 quests and special orders. Its page is upfront that the stories are not canon, but it aims to match the vanilla look and feel. Creator: Rafseazz and mamaesh, with the Ridgeside Village Council. Needs: Content Patcher, Custom Companions, Farm Type Manager, SpaceCore. Download: Ridgeside Village on Nexus Mods.
62. East Scarp
East Scarp is a seaside suburb next to Pelican Town, built as a community project. The 3.0 version includes 23 NPCs by default, plus critters to befriend, new farm animals, crops, recipes and fish, and it hosts more than 15 extra characters from other authors. Its page says it works with Stardew Valley Expanded, Ridgeside Village and Sunberry Village. Creator: LemurKat and collaborators. Needs: Content Patcher, Farm Type Manager, SpaceCore and several tilesheet mods listed on its page. Download: East Scarp on Nexus Mods.
63. Sunberry Village
Sunberry Village adds a new town south of Pelican Town with 17 NPCs, over 80 events, a cat cafe, a blacksmith, its own museum and special order board, and farm space to unlock. New crops, fish, machines and artisan goods fill out the economy. Its page notes it needs version 1.6.15 and does not run on mobile. Creator: skellady, sophiesalacia and the Sunberry Team. Needs: Content Patcher, Custom Companions, Farm Type Manager, Item Extensions and tilesheet mods listed on its page. Download: Sunberry Village on Nexus Mods.
64. Visit Mount Vapius
Visit Mount Vapius adds a mountain region centered on Glimsap, a hamlet with a market twice a week, plus a forest to fight through, exclusive bundles, a nature reserve and new villagers with their own stories. The art is drawn to match the base game closely. Its 2.0 update added new dependencies, so check the list before updating an existing save. Creator: Lumisteria. Needs: Content Patcher, SpaceCore, Farm Type Manager and several frameworks listed on its page. Download: Visit Mount Vapius on Nexus Mods.
65. Adventurer’s Guild Expanded for 1.6
This is the 1.6 update of LiveOnSUPERT’s Adventurer’s Guild Expanded, converted with the original author’s permission to run on Content Patcher alone. It adds new quests, over 30 story events, new romanceable NPCs, and a friendly monster you can recruit to live on your farm. It starts after 15 in-game days once you have joined the Guild. Creator: SUPERT, updated by laureic. Needs: Content Patcher, Generic Mod Config Menu, Gender Neutrality Mod Tokens. Download: Adventurer’s Guild Expanded for 1.6 on Nexus Mods.
66. DeepWoods
DeepWoods adds an infinite, procedurally generated forest, entered through a hidden exit in the Secret Woods, a mine-like dungeon where wood is the main resource. It is built for the late game, and its page warns that deep levels can kill you in one hit. Hidden goals include a legendary sword that requires maxed skills to pull. The current release, 4.3.1, is labeled a beta. Creator: Max Makes Mods. Download: DeepWoods on Nexus Mods.
67. Train Station
Train Station makes the railroad’s ticket machine work: buy a ticket and travel to stations that other mods add, plus boat destinations from Willy’s boat once you have repaired it. Expansions such as Downtown Zuzu use it for travel. Its page says it supports 1.6.15 or later in single-player and multiplayer. The author now marks it as deprecated in favor of a newer framework, Central Station, but keeps it updated for the content packs that still use it, so install it whenever a mod asks for it. Creator: Cherry. Download: Train Station on Nexus Mods.
Characters and Relationships
Mods that deepen the villagers you already know, add new faces, and change how friendship, romance and family work.
68. Canon-Friendly Dialogue Expansion
Canon-Friendly Dialogue Expansion adds over 4,400 new lines across all 34 characters with heart levels, without removing any vanilla dialogue. Villagers open up as your friendship grows, but nobody’s personality changes, and the tone stays family friendly. It fixes the most common complaint of long-time players: hearing the same lines over and over. Creator: Ben and WitchWeed. Needs: Content Patcher, Gender Neutrality Mod Tokens, Generic Mod Config Menu. Download: Canon-Friendly Dialogue Expansion on Nexus Mods.
69. Part of the Community
Part of the Community makes friendship grow in more natural ways: villagers nearby notice when you talk to or gift someone, shopkeepers warm up when you visit, festivals raise friendship with everyone, and finishing bundles or bulletin board quests helps too. Friendships stop feeling like a gift-a-day checklist. Creator: Space Baby. Download: Part of the Community on Nexus Mods.
70. Hat Mouse Lacey
Hat Mouse Lacey turns the hat mouse from the corner of Cindersap Forest into Lacey, a full villager with dialogue, a set of heart events, and comments on every vanilla hat you wear. She is also marriageable. It is a small, polished mod that fits neatly into the base game. Creator: ichortower. Needs: Content Patcher, Secret Note Framework. Download: Hat Mouse Lacey on Nexus Mods.
71. Mister Ginger
Mister Ginger is a ginger cat who follows Jas around town and visits the other villagers, some of whom like him more than others. Per its page, it expands a little on the lore around him and works with almost everything, including Stardew Valley Expanded. Creator: LemurKat. Needs: Content Patcher, Lumisteria Tilesheets Outdoor. Download: Mister Ginger on Nexus Mods.
72. Friends Forever
Friends Forever stops friendship from decaying on days you do not talk to a villager or pet an animal, so a busy week in the mines no longer costs you hearts. By default your spouse is not covered, but the config can include spouses, dating partners, other villagers and animals separately; other ways to lose friendship, like digging through trash, still apply. With more than 46,000 endorsements, it is one of the best-loved mods on Nexus. As of October 21, 2026, its page was last updated in June 2019, and SMAPI’s compatibility list says it needs a workaround on 1.6: use Friends Forever (1.6), a recompiled version on Nexus Mods updated in June 2026, whose uploader also points out that CJB Cheats Menu (entry 57) has the same option. Creator: Isaac S. Download: Friends Forever on Nexus Mods.
73. Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday gives the farmer a birthday. Pick a day, and on it your parents send letters while villagers wish you well and hand over gifts that change with your friendship. It has more than 44,000 endorsements on Nexus Mods. You also need a language content pack, such as the separate English pack its page links. Creator: Omegasis. Needs: Happy Birthday English Content Pack (or another language pack), Stardust Core, Content Patcher. Download: Happy Birthday on Nexus Mods.
74. Miss Coriel’s Unique Courtship Response CORE
This framework lets villagers, modded ones included, react to dating and birthday moments, like receiving a bouquet, with their own custom lines supplied by content packs. Its page says it is now a requirement for many of the more immersive NPC mods, and later versions added responses to jealousy, pregnancy and adoption. The author promises the mods will always be free. Creator: MissCoriel. Download: Miss Coriel’s Unique Courtship Response CORE on Nexus Mods.
75. PolyamorySweet
PolyamorySweet lets you marry more than one villager or take several roommates, with every spouse at the wedding and a custom room for each, and you pick a primary spouse by giving them a flower sold at Pierre’s. Its page says it works with Stardew Valley Expanded, Ridgeside Village, East Scarp and other expansions with datable NPCs. In multiplayer, the page warns, the host should marry other players before any villagers to avoid a bug. Our guide to getting married covers the vanilla rules. Creator: ApryllForever. Needs: Content Patcher, SpaceCore. Download: PolyamorySweet on Nexus Mods.
76. Romanceable Rasmodius (SVE Compatible)
This mod makes the Wizard a full marriage candidate, with 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 14-heart events, more than 70 lines of post-marriage dialogue and new festival appearances. It is the Stardew Valley Expanded version of WerewolfMaster’s original Romanceable Rasmodius, adjusted to fit SVE’s story, and its page is clear it will not work without SVE. As of October 21, 2026, its page lists compatibility with SVE 1.14 and Stardew Valley 1.6, and its last update was in June 2024. Creator: PaintedParrot. Needs: Stardew Valley Expanded, Content Patcher (Custom Kissing Mod is optional). Download: Romanceable Rasmodius on Nexus Mods.
77. The Farmer’s Children
In the base game your children stop growing at the toddler stage. The Farmer’s Children turns your two kids into older children who go to school with Jas and Vincent and roam Pelican Town with their own schedules, gift tastes, dialogue and interests. It comes in two parts, the main mod plus one of three art styles, and runs on the LittleNPCs framework. As of October 21, 2026, its latest release, from September 2026, is a beta. Our guide on how to have kids covers the vanilla steps. Creator: xiddav. Needs: LittleNPCs, Content Patcher. Download: The Farmer’s Children on Nexus Mods.
New Skills and Gameplay
For veterans who have mastered the base game and want new systems to chew on.
78. Walk of Life
Walk of Life overhauls every profession tree, replacing the flat vanilla perks with choices that add real gameplay features. Optional systems borrowed from classic RPGs, including Prestige professions, skill resets and Limit Breaks, are on by default and can be turned off. Its authors cite Skyrim’s Ordinator as an inspiration. The current version is a beta. If you like class-based life sims, our Fantasy Life i guides cover another. Creator: Arleau. Needs: DaLionheart, SpaceCore. Download: Walk of Life on Nexus Mods.
79. Vanilla Plus Professions
Vanilla Plus Professions keeps the vanilla professions and adds 50 more: eight new choices per skill at level 15 and ten combo professions at level 20 that cross two skills, like tapping giant crops or using gems as fishing tackle. It suits players who want more depth without a total rework. Creator: KediDili and Airyn. Needs: Content Patcher, SpaceCore, Esca’s Modding Plugins. Download: Vanilla Plus Professions on Nexus Mods.
80. Stardew Druid
Stardew Druid adds a myth-themed questline with new locations, companions and lore, and teaches you to cast wild growth, lightning, meteors and gravity wells, and even to shapeshift into a dragon. It needs only SMAPI. The Nexus release is version 4.0.4, and its author posts newer beta builds on the official Stardew Valley forums. Creator: Neosinf. Download: Stardew Druid on Nexus Mods.
81. Archaeology Skill
Archaeology Skill adds a new skill you level by digging artifact spots, panning, cracking geodes and donating to the museum. Levels unlock displays that raise artifact prices, a grinder that turns rusty artifacts into ore, and soil and water sifters. It gives the museum a reason to matter after you finish the collection. Creator: MoonSlime. Needs: SpaceCore, Content Patcher, Birb Core, Machine Terrain Framework. Download: Archaeology Skill on Nexus Mods.
82. The Love of Cooking
The Love of Cooking adds a new cooking menu, a Cooking skill with its own upgrades, unique buffs, seasonings that improve dish quality, and new recipes. Every feature can be switched on or off. Its page notes that in multiplayer, every player needs it installed. Creator: blueberry. Needs: Content Patcher, SpaceCore. Download: The Love of Cooking on Nexus Mods.
83. Cornucopia More Crops
Cornucopia More Crops rebuilds the classic More Crops mod for 1.6 on Content Patcher, adding vanilla-style crops, fruit trees and growable bushes that behave like tea bushes. It is highly configurable and the core of a series that also covers flowers, artisan machines and cooking recipes. Creator: Cornucopia team. Needs: Content Patcher, Custom Bush, Item Extensions, SpaceCore. Download: Cornucopia More Crops on Nexus Mods.
84. Stardew Aquarium
Stardew Aquarium adds an aquarium, reached from the train station, where fish you donate appear in animated tanks. Donations unlock stock in a submarine shop, and a large new beach has its own shops and a secret legendary fish. It is a natural goal for players who already filled the museum. Creator: Project Stardew Aquarium. Needs: Content Patcher, SpaceCore, Custom Companions and several other frameworks listed on its page. Download: Stardew Aquarium on Nexus Mods.
Visuals and Customization
Recolors, portraits, buildings, cuter villagers and animals, and the frameworks behind thousands of outfit and furniture packs.
85. Seasonal Outfits: Slightly Cuter Aesthetic
This overhaul redraws every villager’s sprites and portraits in a slightly cuter style and gives each one an outfit for every season, plus festival costumes. The farmer can change seasonally too. Matching versions exist for Stardew Valley Expanded and East Scarp. Creator: Poltergeister and various artists. Needs: Content Patcher. Download: Seasonal Outfits: Slightly Cuter Aesthetic on Nexus Mods.
86. DaisyNiko’s Earthy Recolour
Earthy Recolour gives the whole valley a warm, earth-toned palette that its creator describes as easy on the eyes. It covers all outdoor tilesheets, adds new trees, grass and dig spots, and reworks town buildings to match. Companion mods recolor interiors and the interface. Creator: DaisyNiko. Needs: Content Patcher. Download: DaisyNiko’s Earthy Recolour on Nexus Mods.
87. Vibrant Pastoral Redrawn
Vibrant Pastoral Redrawn recolors indoor and outdoor tilesheets and the mines with brighter palettes, more flowers and holiday decor, and redraws some assets outright. Options include a green or orange fall and snow on bushes, fences and roofs in winter. Creator: Vibrant Pastoral Team. Needs: Content Patcher, Generic Mod Config Menu, MixedBag’s Tilesheets. Download: Vibrant Pastoral Redrawn on Nexus Mods.
88. Elle’s Cuter Barn Animals
Elle’s Cuter Barn Animals uses the animal skins feature added in 1.6 to give cows, goats, sheep, pigs and ostriches dozens of new looks each, including alpacas and mini pigs, plus void variants. Each new animal has a chance to roll any skin you install. Elle has matching packs for coop animals, cats, dogs and horses. Creator: Elle. Needs: Content Patcher. Download: Elle’s Cuter Barn Animals on Nexus Mods.
89. Fashion Sense
Fashion Sense is the framework behind most modern clothing mods. It allows hairstyles, hats, shirts, pants, shoes and accessories bigger than vanilla limits, supports animation, and saves full outfits. You need Fashion Sense content packs to see anything, and its page warns to trash the Hand Mirror before uninstalling. Creator: PeacefulEnd. Download: Fashion Sense on Nexus Mods.
90. Alternative Textures
Alternative Textures lets you pick different looks for placed objects, buildings, furniture and animals, including seasonal variants and animated furniture. Multiple packs work together even when they change the same object. Like Fashion Sense, it needs content packs to do anything. Creator: PeacefulEnd. Download: Alternative Textures on Nexus Mods.
91. Dynamic Reflections
Dynamic Reflections adds water reflections for players, villagers and buildings, splashy puddles during and after rain, stars and comets shimmering in the water when it is not raining, and working mirrors through furniture mods. It is a small visual touch that makes the valley feel alive. Creator: PeacefulEnd. Download: Dynamic Reflections on Nexus Mods.
92. Portraiture
Portraiture is the framework for high-resolution portrait packs: it loads larger, more detailed portraits and lets you switch between installed portrait sets by pressing P while a dialogue box is open. It includes no portraits of its own. As of October 21, 2026, its page offers an alpha build from March 2024, and SMAPI’s compatibility list marks it as working. Creator: Platonymous. Download: Portraiture on Nexus Mods.
93. OhoDavi’s Anime Portraits
OhoDavi’s portraits redraw the bachelors, bachelorettes and other villagers in a soft anime style, with seasonal outfits added over time; its latest changelog adds new winter outfits for several villagers. With more than 97,000 endorsements and 7 million downloads, it is one of the most popular mods on Nexus. The page offers an XNB version that replaces the game’s own files (back them up first, it says) and a Content Patcher version, which we prefer because it leaves game files alone. Creator: OhoDavi. Needs: Content Patcher (for the Content Patcher version). Download: OhoDavi’s anime portraits on Nexus Mods.
94. Elle’s Seasonal Buildings
Elle’s Seasonal Buildings retextures every farm building with seasonal versions, in seven palettes that include matches for DaisyNiko’s Earthy Recolour (entry 86) and Starblue Valley. Choose from eight farmhouse styles, from rustic to manor to stained glass, three building themes and optional holiday decor. As of October 21, 2026, its last update was in March 2024. Creator: Elle. Needs: Content Patcher. Download: Elle’s Seasonal Buildings on Nexus Mods.
95. Medieval Buildings
Medieval Buildings redraws the full set of farm buildings in a seasonal, medieval style, with several options for each and color matching for popular recolors like Earthy Recolour, Starblue Valley and Vibrant Pastoral. The same author’s Way Back Pelican Town retextures the town buildings to match. As of October 21, 2026, its last update was in March 2024, right after 1.6 launched. Creator: Gweniaczek. Needs: Content Patcher. Download: Medieval Buildings on Nexus Mods.
96. Overgrown Flowery Interface
Overgrown Flowery Interface redecorates the menus, title screen and cursor with vines and flower petals, with options for the title card, the farmer portrait and the heart icons. It covers the menus of many popular mods, including Bigger Backpack, Better Crafting and Animal Husbandry Mod. Its page says it was updated for 1.6, and a separate mobile version is on the files tab. Creator: SugarSugarRuin. Needs: Content Patcher. Download: Overgrown Flowery Interface on Nexus Mods.
97. Oasis Greenhouse
Oasis Greenhouse turns the greenhouse interior into a garden oasis: a 15 by 10 field that fits six iridium sprinklers and 144 crops, room for 16 fruit trees, a wine cellar for kegs and casks, a spa that restores energy, and a hidden basement with a minecart link. A non-alcoholic version without the cellar is in the config. It comes from DaisyNiko, creator of Earthy Recolour. Creator: DaisyNiko. Needs: Content Patcher. Download: Oasis Greenhouse on Nexus Mods.
98. More Grass
More Grass lets content packs add new grass sprites, and its own settings decide which seasons grass can live and spread in, winter included, and whether animals use up the grass they eat. That last option is popular with players who keep grass for looks. You will want a grass content pack to see new sprites. Creator: Sonozuki. Download: More Grass on Nexus Mods.
99. Dynamic Night Time
Dynamic Night Time replaces the fixed dusk with a real daylight cycle: a dawn period, sunrise and sunset effects, and night falling earlier or later with the seasons, which you can tune to a latitude. It does not change when you wake up. Its page says every player in multiplayer needs it, and not to pair it with Ambient Light. As of October 21, 2026, its page lists Stardew Valley 1.4 or later, its last update was in May 2024, and SMAPI’s compatibility list marks it as working. Creator: KNakamura. Download: Dynamic Night Time on Nexus Mods.
100. Wind Effects
Wind Effects sends breezes through the valley that set crops, grass, trees, fruit trees and bushes swaying. Wind blows on half of all days by default, which is configurable, and always on the game’s own windy days, when it blows harder; it changes direction now and then. In multiplayer it only affects your own screen. As of October 21, 2026, its page was last updated in August 2020, and SMAPI’s compatibility list marks it as broken since 1.5 and links an unofficial update posted on the official Stardew Valley forums. Creator: Cat. Download: Wind Effects on Nexus Mods.
How We Chose These Mods
We started from the most endorsed and most downloaded Stardew Valley mods on Nexus Mods, then checked each one on its creator’s own page for three things: that it is free and still downloadable, whether it works on Stardew Valley 1.6 (we cross-checked code mods against SMAPI’s own compatibility list), and that the download comes from its creator. We checked the original 50 on September 21, 2026, and all 100 on October 21, 2026, when we expanded the list using Nexus Mods’ own endorsement and download counts. Where a maintained version of a broken classic is already an entry, like Gift Taste Helper Continued x2 or Adventurer’s Guild Expanded for 1.6, we list only that version. Other much-loved mods that an update broke, like Friends Forever, Loved Labels and Show Birthdays, stay on the list, and each entry says what its page supports, whether it may not work until someone updates it, and what SMAPI’s list recommends instead. SMAPI’s compatibility list now carries a notice that it is no longer comprehensively updated each month, so we treat it as a guide and date every compatibility note.
We left out adult mods, translations, near-duplicate variants of mods already listed, mods SMAPI’s list calls obsolete because the base game now does the same job (like Winter Grass), and pure modding libraries that nothing here needs, such as Json Assets and Expanded Preconditions Utility, which are hugely endorsed mainly because other mods require them. It is the same standard we used for our best Sims 4 mods and our Valheim mods picks. For help with the unmodded game, our Stardew Valley guides hub collects every guide we have written.
Only download from the creator pages linked above. Re-upload sites and bundled mod packs are the most common way players end up with outdated or malicious files, and SMAPI’s update checks only work with files from the original pages. Many mods need a small framework or two, and each mod’s page lists exactly which ones.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the most popular Stardew Valley mod? SMAPI has the most downloads of any mod on this list, more than 30 million on Nexus Mods, because almost every other mod needs it. Content Patcher is the most endorsed, and Stardew Valley Expanded is the most popular content mod.
Are Stardew Valley mods safe? Mods downloaded from the creator’s own Nexus Mods page are the safest option, and SMAPI 4.5 added malicious file detection. Avoid re-upload sites and mod bundles.
Why did my mods stop working after an update? Game patches can change code that mods depend on, and the 1.6 update broke many older mods. After an update, install the latest SMAPI first, then check each creator’s page or the SMAPI compatibility list at smapi.io for new versions. ConcernedApe has said a 1.7 update is in development, so expect to do the same check when it arrives.
Do Stardew Valley mods work in multiplayer? Many do, but usually every player needs the same mods. Frameworks like SpaceCore and Farm Type Manager say all players must install them, while a few mods, like NPC Map Locations, only need the host plus anyone who wants the feature. Check each mod’s page before a session, and see our co-op guide for how hosting works.
Can you use Stardew Valley mods on console? No. SMAPI mods work on the PC versions of the game, including Windows, macOS, Linux and Steam Deck. The SMAPI page points Android players to a separate setup guide, and some mods, like Sunberry Village, state they do not support mobile.
Are these mods free? Yes. Every mod on this list is free to download from Nexus Mods. Some creators accept donations, but none of these picks are paywalled.