I feel I’ve used the Reese’s peanut butter cup analogy manner too many occasions for mod tales, so let’s simply say Baldur’s Village, an expansive Stardew Valley mod uploaded to NexusMods on March 8, seems to be the right mixture for people who love each Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone’s seemingly infinite farming sim and Baldur’s Gate 3.
“A brand new village has lately been constructed north of Pelican City, and its new residents appear… somewhat uncommon,” the mod’s description reads. “You will discover the doorway to Baldur’s Village on the high of the southern mountain map, proper subsequent to Linus’ tent.”
Because the identify implies, Baldur’s Village provides a very new city to Stardew Valley teeming with characters, places, and occasions primarily based on the Baldur’s Gate 3 setting. Not solely does the mod enable your Stardew Valley farmer to work together with folks like Karlach, Wyll, and Alfira, nevertheless it additionally features a full romance storyline with Astarion that culminates in marriage. In line with the mountain of Astarion fanfiction on the market, that needs to be an enormous promoting level for lots of gamers.
Deliberate updates to Baldur’s Village embody a romanceable Halsin in addition to further world-building and background tales. The creators do say, nonetheless, that quite a lot of this relies on elements like downloads, endorsements, and crowdfunding help, so let’s hope the mod is standard sufficient for additional growth.
Since launch, Baldur’s Village has acquired ringing endorsements, not solely from followers but in addition from Swen Vincke, co-founder and CEO of Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian Studios. “A lot love went into this,” Vincke stated on X (previously Twitter), “wonderful work!”
