Stardew Valley Expanded: Farm Layouts

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Stardew Valley Expanded is one of the most popular mods for Stardew Valley, massively expanding the content in ConcernedApe's hit farming-sim RPG. The Expanded mod adds new villagers, crops, locations, and even farm layouts.

Stardew Valley Expanded offers two new farm layouts for players to try, Grandpa's Farm and Immersive Farm 2 Remastered. Both of these options come with more features than the vanilla Stardew Valley farms, and players may have a hard time picking between them.

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Of the two farm layouts in Stardew Valley Expanded, Grandpa's Farm is the closest to the farms in vanilla Stardew Valley. Despite being considerably larger than either, Grandpa's Farm combines elements of the Original and Forest farm map, with a good-sized area for crops in front of the farmhouse and a large area of forest to the southeast. The Farm also features a river as well as a small pond, allowing players to catch a greater variety of Stardew Valley's fish.

There are a couple of fenced-in areas on Grandpa's Farm, which will make it easier for players to start raising animals in Stardew Valley once they've unlocked Barns and Coops. Finally, Grandpa's Farm has a new area called Grandpa's Shed, which players will be able to reach once they've acquired a Gold Pickaxe. Grandpa's Shed appears in all the Stardew Valley Expanded maps, and features a quest to restore and rebuild the shed, making it usable as a second greenhouse and cellar.

Players who are looking for a vanilla-improved experience from Stardew Valley Expanded should choose to start at Grandpa's Farm. The small changes that the layout makes only enhance the Stardew Valley experience, and the farm is neither too big nor too small to cause