This is the main version of the Wild Animals mod, which means it does contain content for the main game as well as for Stardew Valley Expanded and provides compatibility for Lnh's Ginger Island Overhaul, Piber20's Explorable West Forest. Please download Wild Animals Lite m od if you do not plan to play with any map-altering mods such as Stardew Valley Expanded.
Here is a mod that I was thinking about last year, but I had no idea how to implement it until today. ^_^ I love Stardew Valley's critters, but I was a little sad by how I don't see them often (aside from butterflies and the occasional birds) and how they usually run off to hide in a bush/tree (it is rather realistic though). So, here comes my Wild Animals mod to fill that animal-shaped void in my heart!
This mod adds numerous animals to multiple places in-game, depending on the time, weather, and season. You are pretty much guaranteed to see at least some of the animals as long as you have access to the areas they spawn in. They tend to wander so you may or may not lose sight of some of them, especially if they wander behind the trees or in the grass.
Your first year in-game might not have many wild animals though, maybe the occasional squirrel and the friendly ducks that like to sit in the forest's pond. But the further you progress in-game, the more animals you may encounter! Maybe some of them would learn not to run away if you get too close to them...
!!! NOTE !!!: This mod will add extra load for your game to process because of the number of animals and their settings that determine whether they should appear or not on the current in-game day. This mod may cause lag! However, I personally have not experienced lag during its testing phase with minimal other mods.
Below is the list of animals currently included in the mod:
- Armadillos
- Axolotls (5 color variants)
- Badgers
- Bears + Bear cubs
- Bearded Dragons
- Beavers
- Beetles (9 color variants)
- Boars
- Bobcats
- Chinchilla
- Chipmunks
- Coyote
- Crabs (6 colors variants)
- Crayfishes (3 color variants)
- Crows
- Deers + Fawns
- Ducks + Ducklings
- Fennec Foxes
- Foxes (1 color variant + 1 seasonal variant) + Fox kits
- Frogs (5 color variants)
- Echidnas
- Eels (7 color variants)
- Geese + Goslings
- Gem birds
- Grasshoppers (3 color variants)
- Hedgehogs (3 color variants)
- Horses (5 color variants)
- Iguanas
- Jellyfishes (9 color variants)
- Jerboas
- Kiwis
- Lemurs
- Lizards (5 color variants)
- Lobsters (4 color variants)
- Meerkats
- Monkeys
- Moonlight Jellies
- Opossums + Joeys
- Ostriches + Ostrich chicks
- Owls (2 variants + 1 winter variant)
- Peafowls + Peafowl chicks
- Pelicans (2 variants)
- Pine Martens
- Platypus
- Quails + Quail chicks
- Rabbits (4 color variant + 1 seasonal variant)
- Raccoons
- Rats (4 color variants)
- River otters
- Roaches
- Roadrunners
- Salamanders (4 color variants)
- Seagulls
- Seahorses (8 color variants)
- Sea otters + Sea otter pups
- Sea urchins (3 color variants)
- Snails (5 color variants)
- Skunks
- Squirrels (4 color variants + 1 seasonal variant)
- Starfishes (8 color variants)
- Swan (2 color variants) + Swan cygnets
- Toads (5 color variants)
- Tortoises
- Turtles + Turtle Hatchlings + Island variant
- Weasels (1 variant + 1 seasonal variant)
- Wolves + Wolf pups (2 color variants)
- Wolverines
- Wombats
... and several more bonus creatures that you might be lucky enough to see!
Instructions
- Download and extract the zip file you downloaded from this mod page.
- Place the extracted folder/s into your Stardew Valley's mod folder.
Requirements
Optional Requirements
SH's Wild Animals
If you don't play with any map-altering mods (such as SVE), use lite version instead
