Who doesn’t love a good festival? If you’ve been hoping for some local excitement near your farm on Stardew Valley, the Red Panda Bazaar is here to provide. The sprawling new mod offers several additions to put some sparkle into your spring, or any other time of year for that matter.
It’s been nine years since Stardew Valley released, but it remains one of the best farming games – if not the best – ever made. Frequent updates from developer ConcernedApe and the modding community’s myriad creations have taken the game in all sorts of directions, allowing you to easily enhance your experience and make your farm feel truly unique.
The Red Panda Bazaar is named after the mod’s eponymous new shop, the directions for which are on a sign near the bus. The centerpiece is the Spring Fair, where you can pick up custom items and play some minigames. The mod adds a whole slew of new content, from food to decorations, as well as two new romanceable NPCs if you’re looking to settle down, each with eight branching sets of dialog.
It’s a well-rounded addition to the game’s ever-growing addon roster, and is the brainchild of ‘Lilaoliu,’ who’s released various Stardew creations. One brings another marriageable NPC, another adds a couple of Van Gogh paintings, and the remaining ones add decorations.
In other words, this is their most expansive project yet, and the community has responded well, downloading it over 6,700 times since it launched on Friday January 24, placing it cleanly towards the top of the most popular list for the last 30 days. An early candidate for one of the best Stardew Valley mods of the year, you can find the Red Panda Bazaar on Nexus Mods now.
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