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A heart-warming Custom NPC mini expanson that adds Sterling, Mia and Henry, events and over 1000+ lines of dialogue. Does not add more rain to the valley. For Sunberry Village!

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Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass… It’s about learning to enjoy dancing in the rain.
TW // Alcoholism / Drug Addiction / Suicide Ideation / Minor Cursing


Have you ever felt lost? Adrift? It's okay not knowing what the next stage of your life will have in store for you. After all, we're all often so lost in our own heads that we forget to connect with the people that surround us. ARV is a mod about growing through those who surround us, learning to live with ourselves when we can't love ourselves, and what has to be an obscene amount of puns.

🍂Enjoy my work? Please support me on Patreon! No mod content will ever be paywalled, but your support helps me to continue development.🍂

Come spend awhile with the Cooper Family!
At the moment, only Sterling is marriageable, while Mia and Henry are antisocial NPCs.
 
Meet Sterling, a 27-year old man who just moved back to the Valley after a disastrous streak at Zuzu City. He is briefly
         back home and living with his cousin Henry in hopes of turning over a new life and starting back up clean. A challenge
   when letting go of a beer bottle is tougher than ever...
Meet Henry, Sterling's slightly younger cousin who works on a farm in Grampleton. While he moved away from home to 
   live with Mia, and more recently Sterling, he still wakes up bright and early every day to work the family farm. He's a bit of                             a workaholic, so good luck finding him at home.
Meet Mia, the 26-year-old Agronomist from Gallus City working a contract in Grampleton with a knack for gardening,
    intricately shaped food and being the certified single brain cell of the entire Cooper House. A young woman with a 
    straight head on her shoulders trying to navigate the complexities of her own gender identity.


 Always Raining in the Valley will feature stories from it's 3 title characters. This first release consists of Sterling's
 story and currently features +20 heart events (ranging from 0-14 hearts), 16 repeatable mini dates, over
 60 outfits, letters, 100 locational messages and more!

Credit to Crooks for writing Sterling and Shane's make-up event!



       Enjoy the delight of the Cooper family with Mia's adorable cooking, Sterling's drinks and Henry's family recipes! Please note
that some of these are sent by Mia and Henry, and can thus not all be obtained until their marriageable releases.



ARV Kids
 — Download the kids expansion that turns your children with the ARV crew into full NPCs! Comes with expanded
     marriage content, and a lot of fun surprises!
Stardew Valley Expanded, East Scarp, Ridgeside Village, Zuzu City, etc
 — ARV is indeed, SVE compatible! As well as with every other expansion mod. Please report any incompatibility.

Immersive Shane & Dynamic Shane
— Because of how ARV handles its story, Sterling's story only works when you max out his hearts first, followed by 
Shane's. To befriend them both regardless of order, be sure to get Dynamic Shane & Sterling which fixes the issue and 
adds an optional Rival Hearts between Shane and Sterling!

Diverse Stardew Valley recommended!
— ARV uses a over 60 outfits for its characters during festivals and seasons. And thus looks best when used alongside 
DSV for which it has built-in compatibility with!

DSV Flower Queen's Crown recommended!
— Allows the ARV crew to be randomly selected into the DSV's flower crown pool each year! Being selected comes
 with brand new dialogue and interactions.

Lavril & Void recommended!
— Features a major storyline with it, including new quests, events and items when both mods are installed!

Compatibility & Other FAQ
— Please read my Compatibility & FAQ section for any additional questions. Otherwise, leave a post on the mod page.
Questions asked in posts will be added to the page above!




 2.0 Release:
— Mia's marriageable release! Make Mia a friendable, dateable NPC. New full schedule, new full dialogue, new recipes, new items, new heart events and new seasonal outfits! 




It Really Took a Village to Make a Mod!

— First of all, thank you to Lemurkat who housed ARV and has held my hand through modding since day one. Despite the fact I was a totally new to modding when I began working on ARV.
— Thank you to my mod partner and Henry's writer, Jiggs. Who helped me pull this mod off indefinite hiatus and inspired me to continue every day!
— Thank you to Arknir, who held my hand through every single one of ARV's events, edited, tested and debugged a lot of them too. As well as for becoming my best friend in this messy, modding scene in the process.
— Thank you to Clara, who gave me another reason to love ARV by allowing me to meet her through it. For the hours of laughs and sitting on call debating just how corny Sterling is so I could lock in on this update. The world really gave her to me when I needed her most. I do not intend to let go.
— Thank you to Max, who opened the doors to Sunberry to me and gave the crew a new home. For being a loving friend and an all around amazing person. It's hard to believe I taught you how to format your first NPC, and you went and became a modding expert. Thank you for your tireless help teaching me new things, debugging with me, and accommodating my little mod. 
— Thank you to Soph, who was endlessly supportive, and always a calm lake through my frustrations and struggles. She has done much for me, HxW and this mod without my even having to ask, and it proved to be a lifeboat when I felt I was drowning.
— Thank you to Flour, the W to my H. My modding other half! Who so kindly converted the objects to CP, and always lent a helping hand.
— Thank you to Lani, who i18n'ed the initial bulk of the mod and helped me beat the silly fear I had of it.
— Thank you to Erin, who was my cheerleader and n1 supporter before ARV was more than Sterling's portraits, let alone popular at all! To Airyn who helped me navigate Mia, grow confident in my love for her and compatibility, to Cal who was always so critical but it always helped me through so much, to Tia and Lani and Sheku and Lumi and Jay and Kedi and Lenne and Tai and the entire SMC community for being there for this mod every step of the way!
— Thank you to Yeraclya, my beta tester. Who had all the non-fun jobs to make sure everything worked and always scrambled to aid me even to the last minute before this mod was even posted!
— To Blueberry who allowed me to take inspiration from her beautiful, gorgeous mod pages!
— Thank you to Shark Senpai, who was the first person to tell me to go ahead and make this happen.
— Thank you to the entire Stardew Valley modding community, who shine bright in their love and help.
— Thank you to Yoms, who helped me make the wonderful graphics in this mod page!





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You can also find updates and ARV art!