Stardew Valley Free Fan Expansion Adds Enormous New Open-World

Stardew Valley players can now enjoy a brand new fan-made expansion, and it adds an enormous open world.

Between the farming, fishing, mining, exploring, and relationship-building, Stardew Valley is one of the biggest indies of all time. Even nearly a decade later, it’s proven to be the game that keeps on giving.

Still, for those who manage to exhaust all of the game’s content, there are always mods which can add extra hours to that long playtime.

A new fan-made expansion titled 'Stardew Open World' does exactly as it says on the tin, adding a “vast, procedurally-generated open world location to Stardew Valley, accessible via the quarry cave”.

Of course, Stardew Valley’s world is already quite big for what you need it for. Pelican Town has plenty to do and see, without being overtly obtuse that you constantly get lost all the time.

However, this new expansion should be decent for players who are looking to find specific items and materials in Stardew Valley.

The world added in this expansion is “100,000,000 tiles in size”, and essentially functions as a place for random biomes spawn, where you can collect materials and find rare items.

The world includes biomes such as mixed forests, lakes, and mineral outcrops. There are also treasure chests and monsters, which are also procedurally generated.

It should add a degree of randomness to the game, as every time you explore the open world you’ll be met with new and different things.

As you travel north, you also get harder monsters and better loot too, so there’s also a sense of progression as you venture further into the open world.

Still, there are some issues you might want to try and avoid if you check the mod out. Taking map screenshots of the world will crash the game, for example. The procedural generation can also result in some bugs, as most games with that type of feature often do.

If you’d like to try out the mod for yourself, you can download it from Nexus Mods.