Stardew Valley’s mutliplayer launched a couple of weeks ago, letting farm homeowners roll round within the grime with as much as three friends. But the landowning “host” participant have to be current if associates are to plant tomatoes, and that head participant additionally has the ultimate say over selections reminiscent of whenever you all go to mattress. Landlords, eh?
But what’s this? It’s a helpful mod that lets farmhand underlings get on with their each day routine with out the host. Well, type of. There are some massive drawbacks. The host nonetheless has to go away the sport operating on their PC, as an illustration. But as a stopgap for these wanting a extra conventional server-ish muckabout, it may very well be helpful.
The mod is known as Always On Server by NexusMods consumer “funnysnek”. You can get it on NexusMods or learn extra about it in this Reddit post by the creator. Basically it sends the host right into a coma, and lets any visitor serfs proceed enjoying whereas their boss lies in mattress. Farmhands can determine their very own bedtime and work away at their chores with out worry of the landed gentry. If everybody leaves or will get disconnected, the sport will pause, and if a peasant comes again it’ll resume. “This prevents the farm from falling into disrepair and years of game time passing with no one around,” says the modder.
Aside from the host leaving their PC operating, there are different downsides. The relationships the host is constructing will deteriorate whereas they’re gone, as an illustration. Normally, you gotta preserve throwing pastries and smelly shellfish at your friends and romantic pursuits, filling up coronary heart containers till you’re subtextually shagging everybody within the village. But with this mod, the host clearly received’t be capable to keep these relationships with extra items, as a result of they’re in a coma.
It’s not an enormous drawback should you solely plan to Rumpelstiltskin your self for a short while, which appears to be the thought. And the creator of the mod is planning to repair this by “freezing” the extent of NPC hearts on behalf of the host. They’re additionally planning to let farmhands participate in holidays with out the host. Currently, the farmmaster must be there to kick off events and festivals by chatting with the suitable individuals.
So sure, it isn’t excellent and it’s doubtless impractical to go away your PC on for days simply so Chad and Helen can develop a whole lot of turnips. But as an AFK measure it fills a gap. If you’re gonna be the one within the coma, you’ll want the mod loader SMAPI to make use of it. It’s additionally appropriate with the Chat Commands mod, which helps you to sort helpful instructions from the chat window, such because the command “/server” (the magic phrase you’ll have to sort to make your self black out for days).
Other Stardew Valley multiplayer mods are round for the farm ‘em up. Two such mods lift the cap on the amount of players who can be part of your world, letting you create a big farm filled with employees. It doesn’t look like appropriate with this mod although, in order that excellent turnip commune with no leaders could have to attend.
