Stardew Valley mod Farmer's Store lets you run your own shop — think Overcooked meets business sim

A new Stardew Valley mod called Farmer's Store lets you ditch the shipping bin and run your own full-blown business in Pelican Town. Creator bubuge12 calls it "one of the most ambitious business management mods ever made" for the game, and based on the feature list, that's not much of an exaggeration.

The mod turns Stardew Valley into a hybrid shop sim and time-management game. You can open a grocery store, a museum, or a restaurant — hire employees, order stock from suppliers, restock shelves, and run marketing campaigns. The restaurant side looks especially hectic: the trailer shows the player sprinting between the kitchen and the floor, cooking and serving customers against the clock, and even feeding their own staff family-meal style. Villagers from Pelican Town will drop in as customers, and their experiences feed into a review system for your store. The mod's trailer teases the whole thing with the line "Become Pelican Town's worst boss."

Farmer's Store has been built with compatibility in mind — it works with major overhaul mods like Stardew Valley Expanded out of the box. Multiplayer support is promised soon. One caveat worth knowing: the mod originates in Chinese, and while it can be played in English, the translation is machine-generated, so some text reads rough and parts of the UI aren't fully translated yet. NPC dialogue is also AI-generated. bubuge12 is working with other Nexus users to improve localization across more languages.

Despite the translation roughness, Nexus Mods users are overwhelmingly positive about Farmer's Store — some praising it even while admitting they couldn't read all the text. The mod page closes with "This is only the beginning," suggesting bubuge12 has more content planned.