The Living Valley
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The Living Valley makes Stardew Valley feel alive: talk freely with AI-powered villagers who remember you, and watch the town react through shifting market prices, daily news, town requests, hireable farmhands and more.
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Description
Download: The Living Valley
What if Pelican Town felt a little more alive every day?
The Living Valley keeps the cozy vanilla feeling but adds a living world layer. Villagers react more naturally, requests change over time, market prices move with town activity, and the newspaper reflects what is happening around you.
The Living Valley 1.1.0 is out.
The big one this time is a menu. Click the brain button in the corner of the screen and every part of the mod is there as a tile: the Market, today's paper, the request board, your farmhands, the AI settings and a new Settings page. You no longer need to remember H, J, K and L, which also means the mod is finally playable on a phone or a controller. A red dot on a tile tells you there's an unread paper or open requests waiting. If you'd rather keep the screen clear, hide the button and it moves into the game's Esc menu instead.
Settings now live inside the game too. Every option has a short explanation, changes apply when you press Save, and you can rebind hotkeys by clicking them. Generic Mod Config Menu still works for this release, but you don't need it anymore.
Pick your own AI. Player2 is still the default. You can now switch to OpenRouter with your own API key, or run villagers on a model on your own PC through LM Studio or Ollama. The Test button checks the connection before you commit: it validates an OpenRouter key, or finds the models on your local server and fills in the name for you. With OpenRouter or a local model the whole newspaper is AI-written now, not just the headline.
Download it here
NEW FEATURES!
FARMHANDS
Press H to open the farmhand board and hire a worker to water, harvest and care for your animals while you’re in the mines or around town. You can choose shy crop specialist Rowan, gruff animal handler Thora from the mountains, or cheerful all-rounder Piper.
CHICKEN RACE
Talk to Morrow and choose “Play chicken race” to visit the new fairground track. Bet on your favorite racer, and each chicken’s odds show how big a win could pay.
SOCIAL ENCOUNTERS
Watch the valley come alive as NPCs stop to chat, catch up, and interact in real-time as they go about their day.
MORROW THE TOWN MAGICIAN
Added a new guessing game in the Town Square. You can talk to the town magician NPC to play daily riddles and earn items as rewards when you win!
Features
Living NPC Conversations
AI-Powered Dialogue with MemoryDynamic Economy (Press K)
NPC-to-NPC Ambient Chatter
- Context-aware responses that reference recent town events, your farm activities, and relationship history
- NPCs remember past conversations, promises, and shared experiences
- Relationship level shapes tone: reserved at low hearts, warm and personal at high hearts
- In-chat portrait and heart display for quick relationship read
- NPCs talk to each other about town events, spreading knowledge organically
- Overhear snippets as you walk through town; what NPCs say depends on what they know
- Public events spread town-wide; local events stay between involved parties
Supply & Demand PricingTown Memory & Awareness
Market Board
- Crop prices shift based on what you and the town have been selling
- Rolling 7-day volume tracking with saturating supply pressure
- Seasonal demand modifiers (pumpkins premium in fall, parsnips in spring)
- Town economic sentiment influences prices (-8% to +8%)
- Scarcity bonuses for under-sold crops
- Safety rails: price floors, ceilings, and daily change caps
- Clean diegetic notice-board design
- Top 8 goods by economic relevance
- Trend arrows with 7-day mini charts
- Cause tooltips explain why prices changed
- Includes crops, fruits, eggs, milk, and more
Shared Town EventsPelican Times Newspaper (Press J)
NPC Knowledge Building
- Events are recorded with severity, location, and tags
- NPCs learn about events through propagation (Lewis knows everything)
- Knowledge spreads based on visibility and severity
- Prevents duplicate events via semantic deduplication
- Builds memory blocks for AI grounding
- Temporal labels ("Yesterday", "Last Tuesday")
- Mention budgets prevent NPCs from repeating the same stories
Daily Town PaperTown Request Board (Press L)
- AI-written headlines and articles from world events
- Community stories, market news, social gossip, and nature updates
- Market outlook section with predictive hints
- Article rewriting converts raw events into journalistic pieces
- Expires old articles automatically
Living Quest SystemSocial Systems
Quest Lifecycle
- AI-generated requests from NPCs using validated templates:
- Gather Crop—Collect specified quantities
- Deliver Item—Support town demand
- Mine Resource—Gather from the mines
- Social Visit—Check in on townsfolk
- Urgency tiers with scaling rewards (2-4 day deadlines)
- Smart target selection based on scarcity and recent events
- HUD toast notifications for new postings
- Accept and complete directly from the board
- Max 4 available, 4 active at once
- Auto-expiration with consequences for missed deadlines
- Dynamic gold rewards based on item value and urgency
NPC RelationshipsTLV Custom NPC Framework
AI Command Schema
- Reputation tracking (-100 to +100) with stance and trust
- Town interest groups: Farmers' Circle, Shopkeepers' Guild, Adventurers' Club, Nature Keepers
- Influence tracking per group affects world state
- Three town sentiment axes: Economy, Community, Environment
NPCs can propose safe, bounded world changes:
- Propose quests, adjust reputation, shift interest influence
- Apply temporary market modifiers (-15% to +15%)
- Publish rumors and newspaper articles
- Record memories and town events
- All changes validated with daily caps and cooldowns
Content Patcher NPC BridgeAnchor Events
- Integrates CP NPCs directly into TLV systems
- Enables rumors, town memory, targeting awareness, and dialogue continuity for custom NPCs
- Lore-based validation with canon-safe integration
- Per-NPC personas, speech patterns, boundaries, and relationship ties
- Location lore for contextual flavor text
Triggered Town CrisesPlayer Family Tracking
- Emergency events fire when conditions are met (e.g., economy crashes)
- Spawns urgent quests with community consequences
- Market recovery events and cooldown systems
- Example: Emergency Town Hall when economy sentiment drops too low
- Spouse detection with relationship awareness
- Child tracking with age stages (infant, crawler, toddler)
- Family-aware dialogue grounding
Requirements
- Stardew Valley 1.6+
- SMAPI 4.0+
- Player2 connection (FREE using the gpt-oss-120b AI model)
Installation
Option 1: Web Sign-in (Recommended, no app needed)
- Install SMAPI.
- Download The Living Valley.
- Extract the StardewLivingRPG folder into your Stardew Valley/Mods folder.
- Launch the game through SMAPI and load your save.
- A small “Sign-in” window appears with a code. Press Open Browser (or go to player2.game/approve), sign in to Player2, and enter the code.
- Once you approve it, the window closes by itself and you’re connected.
- The mod remembers your sign-in, so you won’t be asked again next time.
The code is only valid for about 2 minutes. If it runs out, or you closed the window by accident, open the Living Valley menu (the button in the top-left corner) > AI Provider and press Connect. You can also use Connect Player2 under Settings > AI & Chat.
Option 2: Player2 Desktop App
- Install SMAPI.
- Download this mod.
- Extract the StardewLivingRPG folder into your Stardew Valley/Mods folder.
- Download and install the Player2 app, run it, and sign in.
- Launch the game through SMAPI and load your save.
- Open the Living Valley menu > Settings > AI & Chat, set Player2 Connection to Player2 App, and press Save.
From then on, keep the Player2 app open and signed in before you load your save, and the mod connects through it automatically.
Player2 includes a free amount of energy, which can be replenished daily using a spinner.
First-Time Quick Start
- Press K to open the Market Board.
- Press J to read today's newspaper.
- Press L to check town requests.
- Talk to villagers and choose the follow-up chat option after vanilla dialogue.
Compatibility
The Living Valley is designed to be additive, preserving the core tone and pacing of vanilla Stardew Valley while layering on new systems.
While the mod is compatible with most popular expansions and custom NPCs, please keep the following in mind:
- Broad Support: The mod functions alongside major expansions (like Stardew Valley Expanded) and most custom NPC additions.
- NPC Lore & Dialogue: Custom NPC lore is not guaranteed to be automatically recognized by the living conversation system.
- Portrait Emotion Sync: Live portrait emotion synchronization may not work out-of-the-box for non-vanilla characters.
- Manual Patching: To ensure full lore integration and portrait syncing for custom content, users or authors will need to apply patches manually.
Compatibility Patches
- The Living Valley - SVE Compatibility Patch
- The Living Valley - Daulton and Maple NPC Pack
- The Living Valley - Downhill Patch and New NPCs
Create Your Own: Want to add your favorite NPCs or expansions?
[ Follow our Custom Compatibility Guide here! ]
The Living Valley Team
