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Since the game\u2019s release in 2016, the items you sell in <\/span>Stardew Valley <\/span>have always just\u2026been sent into a void. Sure, Lewis <\/span>technically<\/span> picks them up every night, but you never actually see him collecting or using the items you harvest, cook, and gather, so they can feel a bit pointless at times<\/span>. Over the past six months, however, a modder has been working to change that with an ambitious new project.<\/span><\/p>\n On Saturday, Nexus Mods user bubuge12 uploaded <\/span>a mod titled Farmers Store<\/span>, which lets players manage their own supermarket. Per the game\u2019s description, it includes \u201can <\/span>Overcooked<\/span>-style kitchen\u201d alongside stock management, employee hiring, advertising, and compatibility with several of <\/span>Stardew\u2019s <\/span>most popular mods, with multiplayer support currently on its way. Best of all, though, the Valley\u2019s villagers actually come to your store to buy your items!<\/span><\/p>\n That\u2019s a lot to put together in just six months! And, according to comments on Nexus Mods, it all works pretty well.<\/span><\/p>\n There are, unfortunately, a few caveats here. The mod is only partially available in English, as text in assets is limited to Chinese. But there\u2019s already a Russian fan translation available, and commenters on bubuge12\u2019s Reddit post are practically clawing at the modder\u2019s door and begging them to localize it in English (or offering to do it themselves).<\/span><\/p>\n One more thing: some of the mod\u2019s dialogue was generated by AI. It at least seems like there aren\u2019t any new storylines or characters\u2014just flavor text for things like villagers\u2019 reactions. And bubuge12 did state that<\/span> \u201conly about 20% of the text is AI-generated\u201d and that they\u2019re planning to replace it with their own work in the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I was initially super jazzed about this mod, but it\u2019s hard for me to feel good about playing anything with AI-generated text, so I\u2019m holding off for now. In the meantime, at least I have the eerily similar management sim Chef RPG\u00a0<\/em>to tide me over.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since the game\u2019s release in 2016, the items you sell in Stardew Valley have always just\u2026been sent into a void. Sure, Lewis technically picks them up every night, but you never actually see him collecting or using the items you harvest, cook, and gather, so they can feel a bit pointless at times. Over the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[271,4168,4170,9620,1834,894,8697,8848],"class_list":{"0":"post-10645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-releases","8":"tag-hit","9":"tag-latest","10":"tag-lets","11":"tag-manage","12":"tag-mod","13":"tag-stardew","14":"tag-supermarket","15":"tag-valleys"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}