With the loss of a few significant NPCs, a well-liked new Stardew Valley mod allows you to make some significant adjustments for your convenience. It also represents how large and intricate the Stardew Valley mod community has grown in the less than ten years since the PC version of the life simulation game was published. Although you won’t have much use for it in a game that hasn’t been modified, the mod’s creator, atravita, calls it Holiday Sales and it keeps shops open in Pelican Town while festivals are happening in other towns.
“Other towns?” you say in surprise. Some mods, including the Ridgeside and Durin’s Rest mods, have included other towns adjacent to the valley itself or situated further away, and some of these settlements have festivals of their own. The trouble is that Stardew Valley’s own shops tend to shut down when these non-Stardew festivals take place.
Holiday Sales fixes that and keeps the shops open during outside festivals. Or every festival, if you’re like me and don’t mind destroying the private lives of your valley neighbors purely for the sake of buying a few extra doodads. I’m also the type who kept shops open as late as possible in Animal Crossing and invaded villager spaces to get things from them at ungodly hours, though, so this kind of mod really is tailor-made for me.
And it’s just plain sensible. Planning your schedule around the local shops’ normal schedules is often difficult enough, but when you have to factor in multiple schedules, it’s easy to accidentally wreck your planting calendar and fall behind in production.
It won’t change Robin’s work schedule or Clint’s. They still remain off site or closed for business, respectively, though atravita is working on a mod to have Clint at least crack open geodes for you on festival days, which would be very handy indeed.
You can grab Holiday Sales for yourself at NexusMods. If you’re after some more nifty Stardew mods, check out some of the Solid Foundations creations, including one that lets you mass produce goods.