Requirements

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Content Patcher | SMAPI | Spouse Room Renovation (optional) | The Stardew Squad (optional) | Overgrown Flowery Interface (optional) | SVE (required only for SVE Compatibility).

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Changelog

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Things to Note

▶ 1st & 2nd heart event dialogue is kinda like Shane's but less mean

▶Talk to him daily at each heart level. Go up in hearts too fast, you'll miss his development & story
▶No Heart Event Cutscenes (working on it)
▶ No wings because I can't draw them

▶ No seasonal outfits (They're drawn but I'm having trouble making it load)

Features

▶ A custom Roommate NPC 

▶ Easily switch between Vanilla & SVE without removing this mod

▶ Alternate Vanilla Portrait (Instructions here:)

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In the mod folder go assets/Images/ and you will see 2 images titled Ren_Portraits and VanillaRen_Portraits.

Delete the original Ren_Portraits and remove the word "Vanilla" from the VanillaRen_Portraits image name.

Then close the folder and start your game!

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▶ A LOT of dialogue. Speak to him until you can't anymore.
▶ All Festivals: except passive festivals Night Market and Desert 
▶ Mailbox Quests & letters

▶ Idle Animations

▶ Socializes with npcs sometimes

▶ Has a chance to say unique thoughts when he enters specific places

▶Explore Ren's room in the Wizard Tower

▶Never lose friendship points for being a trash gremlin around Ren

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Compatibility

▶ This has only been tested on a Windows 11 pc, no other device.

▶ SVE ✅️ Ridgeside Village❌ East Scarp ❌ Sunberry Village ❌ 

Wildroot Chronicles ✅️ Lumisteria Visit Mount Vapius  ❌ Crystal Island  ✅️ Downtown Zuzu ❌

Romanceable Rasmodius (Vanilla)  ✅️ Romanceable Rasmodius (SVE)  ✅️

▶ SVE Changes:​​

▶ Ren goes to Marnie's Ranch to shop, not Pierre's
▶ New dialogue locations. Some old ones removed.
▶ Ren never goes near Pierre's because of pathing & tile issues
▶ Ren starts his day at 6:10am instead of 8:00am for more time to get places
▶Ren takes some rests to allow correct pathing to his main destination
▶Ren doesn't go around town doing errands as much anymore because of SVE changes
▶ Ren no longer goes to the Bathhouse because of the time it takes to get there
▶ Tile coordinate changes for 2 missing item quests 
▶ 1 letter item quest text change

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▶ Non-SVE npcs: I tested Marigold ✅️ Euguene ✅️ Fleurine ✅️ Ivaras ✅️ & Minu ✅️ (Minu replaces Ren's spouse room once added to the game if you have Ren as a roommate)
▶ SVE npcs: Most will probably work. None tested yet

▶ Ren's room will conflict a bit with the Rustic Country Town Interior mod. It makes one of his chairs try to turn into the new chair the mod adds. It's not game breaking.

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Install Guide​

Vortex: 
Have the Vortex app installed and select Vortex download. The app does the rest for you.
Manual:
1. Open Steam and go to your Library
2. Select Stardew Valley
3. Right Click Stardew Valley and select "Manage" from the drop-down menu
4. Select "Browse Local Files"
5. In the folder that opened, select the folder named Mods and add [CP] NPC Ren

You can also just go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Stardew Valley on Windows for a manual download

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Getting Ren to Work Properly

▶ SLEEP on existing save for 1 day

▶ Check that all mods in mod folder are up to date. Any outdated or incorrect files can mess with stuff like mail for Ren.

▶ Do not play any save that has SVE in the save file if it is not enabled in Vortex or is in your mods folder (if you don't use Vortex) 

▶ Do not play any save that is vanilla (base game) in the save file if SVE is enabled in Vortex or is in your mods folder (if you don't use Vortex)

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Making Ren Your Roommate

Make sure you have at least gotten the 2nd house upgrade.

▶ Be at 10 hearts with him 
▶ Give him his required object:

         ▶A Fairy Rose
▶ After 3 in-game days he should move in, and you should see a new room added to your house next to the base game bedroom location. Ren will probably be outside when he first moves in (he was for me when I tested the mod).

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Ren's Gift Tastes

▶ Has universal loves, likes, hates and neutrals that other villagers have with certain exceptions

Loves:

Pink Cake, Melon, Honey, Poi, Peach, Ice Cream

Likes:

Wild Horseradish, Leek, Dandelion, Milk, Bread, Grape, Common Mushroom, Tulip, Green Tea, Maple Syrup, Daffodil, Sunflower, Poppy, Summer Spangle, Blue Jazz, Crocus, Sweet Pea, Rainbow Shell, Strawberry, Mango, Salmonberry,

Dislikes:

Joja Cola, Spice Berry, Ginger, Coconut, Garlic, Hot Pepper, Pepper Poppers, Coffee, Broccoli, Beer

Hate:

Holly, Iron Bar, Fairy Stone, Fairy Box, Fairy Dust, Bug Stake, 

Neutral:

Tea Leaves, Cactus Fruit, Wood, Stone, Weeds, Parsnip, 

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Permissions​

▶ Make a translation of my mod 

▶ Make a Portrait or Sprite Mod with your interpretation of Ren. NO AI USE ALLOWED OF MY ART. 

▶ Make a Romance mod. Little to no spice please. He should fit with vanilla npcs.

▶ Make a Yandere mod. Ex. Toma from the otome game Amnesia Memories, meaning little to no spice
▶ Maintain my mod IF I leave for whatever reason. Read more details here:
 

While I'm alive, I don't plan to abandon this mod, but anything can happen. My feelings can change or I end up dying. I am aware of authors who abandon their work for whatever reason and players wanting to still enjoy the mod, so I think it's only right to allow players to still have access to the mod in the future.  Please check when I was last active before taking over this mod (It shows this on my Profile) since I may still be active but not prioritizing this mod. I'd appreciate it if you would leave a message on the mod page if you see that I am still active but the mod needs updating. You can also reach out on my Wix site if necessary.

 

Please credit me for making the original mod if you upload your mod online. 

Always upload to Nexus so your mod can show up under this mod's page.

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Credit:

▶ Credit to WanNe777 here on Nexusmods for their code found in their Male Servant Zee mod. It was used as a base to start with for me before I added the Roommate option, Mail and Festivals code.

▶Credit to Leviatic for making Ren's Vanilla Portraits

▶ Credit to lybell-art for their xnb file unpacker on Github. Without it I could never have made Ren into a Roommate. It let me look into the base game's code and files to see where Krobus's pendant was stored.

▶ Credit to Stardew Valley Ids and Mateus Aquino's Ids for helping me find all game Ids for Ren's gift taste and Roommate object

▶ Credit to the Stardew Mod Wiki and Stardew mod Wiki on Fandom for teaching me how to code 

▶ Credit to Abagaianye for their free to use festival template code

▶ Credit to Himetarts for their tile spreadsheet and to PathosChild for their debug mode mod which helped with more tile coordinates and location names (and all other mods in general to help mod Stardew)

▶ Credit to Kathleen Mary Easmon Simango for the use of her poetry from her Fairy Roses Ballad

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Thank You

I cannot thank everyone enough for their part in allowing me to even be able to make Ren. I made him for myself since I don't care too much for romance in-game (I do like romance, but I want friends right now) and wanted more than just Krobus as a roommate. This was a huge passion project and took longer than my last two mods (took over 2 weeks of just failing to code the roommate part because there was no template for it when I was making the mod and encountering countless SMAPI errors with other parts of the mod), so I'm pretty happy Ren exists in the game now.

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Disclaimer

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This mod will not be monetized in any way due to the use of various free/non-commercial assets and WanNe777's code (without permission. I requested permission but idk if they are ever coming back to Nexus so I told them I'd take this mod down if they request it).

All dialogue belongs to me, the character Ren belongs to me, and his animated sprite art, portrait art and header art belongs to me (those are hand drawn). The only code I "own" (used loosely since it was taken from the base game files) is the code for the Roommate loader and dialogue as well as the code used to edit the roommate object that is used for the proposal.