{"id":381377,"date":"2026-04-04T08:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/381377\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T08:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:59:10","slug":"stardew-valleys-quaint-free-expansion-will-start-your-next-playthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/381377\/","title":{"rendered":"Stardew Valley&#8217;s &#8216;Quaint&#8217; Free Expansion Will Start Your Next Playthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Stardew Valley players can now pick up a new free mod that is perfect for a fresh playthrough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Modder PlatinumCats has released a new expansion for Quaint Living, refreshing some architectural designs that appear in <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingbible.com\/stardew-valley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stardew Valley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">This one focuses specifically on buildings, and complements their previous Quaint Living addon which featured a fresh fence redesign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cI&#8217;ve always loved the idea of an English cottage-inspired farmhouse, with overgrown roofs and semi-wild flowers climbing the walls (those poor bricks!),\u201d reads the description from PlatinumCats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cIt&#8217;s utterly beautiful. I tried to recreate that enchanting feeling, and I hope it comes through. This initial release includes a seasonal farmhouse, silo, and shipping bin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"article-image_image__XvzgU\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/aHR0cHM6Ly9ldS1pbWFnZXMuY29udGVudHN0YWNrLmNvbS92My9hc3NldHMvYmx0YmMxODc2MTUyZmNkOWYwNy9ibHQ5MjQ0NzAz.webp\"\/>PlatinumCatsStardew Valley Mods Are Giving The Game A Fresh Look<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">It sounds like PlatinumCats plans on expanding the mod further in the future, adding new buildings and designs to fit with the Quaint Living theme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cI plan to create retextures for most &#8211; if not all &#8211; buildings eventually, so keep an eye out for updates,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The mod also has some alternative textures for the winter, adding a touch of frost to the new building designs which fit with the snowy vibe that Pelican Town receives during the winter month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">If you\u2019d like to download Quaint Living &#8211; Buildings, <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusmods.com\/stardewvalley\/mods\/44109\">you can do so<\/a> now by grabbing it from the Stardew Valley page on Nexus Mods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Meanwhile, if you\u2019re after more ways to change up how you approach the game, be sure to keep an eye on our list of the <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingbible.com\/list\/news\/stardew-valley-best-mods-311134-20260226\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">best Stardew Valley mods<\/a>, which features many fun ways to tweak your experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Having recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, Stardew Valley has got a new free update <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingbible.com\/news\/stardew-valley-major-update-announced-444422-20250831\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a> to be in the works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">While the exact contents of this update is still largely unknown, we do know that it\u2019ll feature <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingbible.com\/news\/stardew-valley-1-7-update-marriage-candidates-024535-20260226\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two new marriage candidates<\/a>, Clint and Sandy. It\u2019ll likely also feature a new starting farm type, as is tradition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stardew Valley players can now pick up a new free mod that is perfect for a fresh playthrough.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,57378,15979,27425,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-381377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-mods","11":"tag-pc","12":"tag-stardew-valley","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}