Imagine a scenario where this is the main game and once you restore the community centre everything becomes lively and colorful like the actual game. 🤔
Idea: Turn all the monsters in the mines into regular people you typically wouldn't want to defeat, say the normal baby/toddler sprites with different hats. Not demon possessed or zombified things, just normal toddlers that hurt you and you must beat into submission.
I don't understand how that fits the theme at all unless you give it narrative meaning (IE there's something to actually read into beyond "we are beating up children for no reason, oh the horror, we are truly the monster here"), like how the cursed stuff with Dove'ing your childred works. It'd also be really confusing telling all the monsters apart.
"The song still sounded a bit too cheery for me as they have the same melodies" Oh so you're gonna change the melodies? *My Justice For You starts* Oh so you've taken the absolutely terrifying route Edit: Adding the fog too? Jeez you really are turning this into Silent Hill
Honestly, I took a lot of inspiration from Subnautica, since it’s one of the only horror game I’ve played. Obscuring vision and having more ambient groan music is a big part of that game too!
Some other ways to make it more horror is find ways to add tension one of the worst (best) things in horror is when you know something is wrong and gonna happen but you cant tell when basically jump scares, you hit a tree and instead of butterflys its crows or bats or sometimes when your walking theres a % chance of a bunch of crows flying by while screaming in the mines for ambience there coulf be whispers or screams to catch you off guard
I long for the day that there will be a mod where you can actually permanently die in the game. It's not 100%, but there's still a fraction where everytime you die, Harvey is unable to revive you and you die for good. Gives that thrill when a serpent brings your health bar just enough for you to panic.
I'm a huge horror nerd but also enjoy Stardew so this hits so good. I love it all. Thanks for showcasing all of this and I look forward to seeing/hearing the finished soundtrack/ambient noises that you add! Your content has been spectacular and I am glad that I stumbled across your channel. Keep up the great work.
This really does feel like a horror game! And I feel like a mod pack that really covers the sounds & music, in addition to all the scary stories, could be a REALLY different game!
I was going to try to somehow change the gameplay to better match a horror game, but with current mods there's not really much to work with there, other than changing a few enemy behaviors.
I want someone to mod this to where you get characters getting possessed and chase after you as the dark atmosphere gets even more intense. And a completely different story. Some new rules to be safe from demonic possessions. Putting salt circles around your crops and barn while demons everyday chip away at the salt. You could easily expand on ideas. I wish I had the ability to mod games. It would be so fun!
do you think it would be creepy to remove critters altogether? i think theres something incredibly eerie about places where even animals refuse to pass through. it has a special flavor of unsettling to it. you could even remove enemies from the mines completely, or do something similar to dont starve, where darkness inflicts damage. the mines could get darker the lower you go, and youd be dealt more and more damage as you went down more levels. and you could have something like the mining helmet from terraria so darkness doesnt hurt you? something about a foggy, entirely desolate map seems way scarier than any monster or critter or ghost or redesign. idk. the only redesign i can think of that would really really scare me is if you turned the villagers into stalker game-type characters that chase you and insta-kill you or do configurable amounts of damage. that has the potential to be terrifying. like, stardew changes genres to become a stalker thriller and there is no longer any focus on horror, your only objective is to survive
I can’t even think of what to say. Gave me the creeps. It’s very creative and your cheerful voice helped. Thank you for the warnings. I like what you did, don’t get me wrong on that. Just very dark and creepy. I admire your creativity. 😊 I think I like the cozy version better though. Just me. Good job on the dark factor! This would be so fun playing in a group on a fall night. 🎃
This is an awesome idea! I feel like the gameplay needs to be changed in a way that makes it fit the horror genre, such as: * Monsters spawning on the farm frequently enough to interrupt your farming work * Farm and crops can be destroyed like through lightning * Emphasis on foraging, new foraging rewards
Okay, I may sound like a psychopath, but I can't be the only one curious about how they all died? Like wouldn't it be, on some level, cool to see, like, Gus caught in his machine at the blacksmith?
I think it would be neat for their heart events to involve their deaths. Learning about how they lost their lives and helping them come to terms with it.
I have some ideas regarding an ambience track Night sds. Crickets, howling wind, things like that. I've done the same thing with audio only games I've designed and I feel like they seem to work everytime!
ANOTHER BANGER VIDEO 😭😭 Other great PS2 horror games would be some songs from Silent Hill 3 and Rule of Rose. Also Fatal Frame 1, 2, and 3 could be very good for ambient noises as that's most of the sound design for that game
ACTIVATE THE WAY PEOPLE DIE!!!!! I saw another youtuber use that mod and its so funny seeing like pierres body floating in the river and mayor lewis's head on his own garden (im not a psycopaty but if its a horror game you have to go all out cmon)
As someone who lives in Ireland, anyone who says the fog in the climates mod is too hard to see in and should be reduced has clearly never actually been in fog
The Gallery of Time and Kings Curse tracks from the PS2 game Dark Cloud would be great Caves tracks, or something similar. I've only gotten to the bottom of the mines so far in Stardew, so I have no idea what Skull Cavern or any other dungeons are like. (I only found out that the Vault unlocks the bus stop recently.)
I feel like what would make it creepier is just giving it a darker undertone like maybe strange events at night happening. Like maybe one night your awoken by some light falling from the sky. And some kind of creepy aliens are encountered but never mentioned again and one of your animals dies and the rest are all terrified. it just need to be unexplainable and not the main focus. Or maybe a murder happens and somebody can't be trusted. Making everything dark and scary doesn't really make it horror.
So, for your music mod, I have 1 suggestion: make it so something is replaced by the resident evil 1 basement theme. Definitely think it’d be funny to hear it over the flower dance
Dayum, I only started to play this game a few days ago... Well, now i know this game can be horror game too :D Ngl, after seeing this I'm kinda excited to see the other mod-videos but i dont wanna spoil the games ending for myself. Its soooo hard to resist tho😂
That's brilliant. I believed that urban legend as a kid and was terrified to listen to the music. I also think some music from red space in Omori would be good
Wow it looks realy great, with so many moods that make so much diferent things to the game, and since I'm new to the game, is there some kind of mod manager? like something that allows you to choose wich mods to load when starting the game, so you can chose diferent sets of mods for diferent save files?
This is my favorite stardew video of all time, but can you try making a video of maybe completing on bundle just to see how it would look like to play for a little bit.
I have a hard enough time seeing with vanilla fog, I'd gotten ferngill on a previous recommendation of yours, and almost immediately turned it off because the fog made it completely unplayable.
You're kind of jumping the gun on Halloween, aren't you, Salmence? The rest of us are trying to savor as much summer as we can, and here you are, already shoulder-deep into Halloween. I mean, this is good, I like it, but in June? It's like putting a Winter Star tree in your grange display at the fair. Also, for the music, have you tried a minor key? ua-cam.com/video/ghBhEWZ6rDc/v-deo.html
Oh? Try playing super mario 64... but different. It's not finished, but what we have is absolutely terrifying. I'm blind, So I'm going off of what I've had described to me. I also played it audio only.
Whelp, I now have a list of mods to avoid. No hate against you or any of the other mod creators, I just don't respond well to horror, to the point my parents actually banned me from reading any horror when I was in high school, just because I would have panic attacks at night and would then get physically ill to the point where if we followed school rules, I'd have to miss a day.
Imagine a scenario where this is the main game and once you restore the community centre everything becomes lively and colorful like the actual game. 🤔
I want a mod that does that, and as you complete bundles it gets a bit less and less creepy
Idea: Turn all the monsters in the mines into regular people you typically wouldn't want to defeat, say the normal baby/toddler sprites with different hats. Not demon possessed or zombified things, just normal toddlers that hurt you and you must beat into submission.
Ah, so the opposite of this where the only monster is you lmao
@@salmence100 If anything, slaughtering them for essences only makes you more of a monster.
I don't understand how that fits the theme at all unless you give it narrative meaning (IE there's something to actually read into beyond "we are beating up children for no reason, oh the horror, we are truly the monster here"), like how the cursed stuff with Dove'ing your childred works.
It'd also be really confusing telling all the monsters apart.
Oh hell yeah I would go out of my way to kill them😎
Mm yessss child abuse.
Custom mod packs like this are always so interesting to check out! Thanks for the spooky mods!
Wow I'm so proud of you for making your own mod!! it's a great idea and I can't wait for a public release
I’m happy that my first experience in modding is music, because it’s honestly super easy!
"The song still sounded a bit too cheery for me as they have the same melodies"
Oh so you're gonna change the melodies?
*My Justice For You starts*
Oh so you've taken the absolutely terrifying route
Edit: Adding the fog too? Jeez you really are turning this into Silent Hill
Honestly, I took a lot of inspiration from Subnautica, since it’s one of the only horror game I’ve played. Obscuring vision and having more ambient groan music is a big part of that game too!
@@salmence100subnautica sounds in this game would be terrifying.
now we need the opposite to un-spook ourselves. some cutness overload
time to be overrun by 48 bunnies running amok!
duck swimming in lake
Ooh Silent Hill is a good choice to use music from. I highly recommend playing Silent Hill 2 if you ever get the chance!
I don't have the stomach for actual horror games, which is why I'm out here making fake ones
@@salmence100 One of these days I will have you experience Silent Hill 2.
@@salmence100🥲 same. Tried phasmophobia once and didn’t sleep that night.
The game is already a horror game but this is ridiculous
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What was horror about it
@MaxerV19 how much of a copy of harvest moon it is 💀
@@moppycat2669 bruh
I love it
Man, I know it's not PS1 era, but now you have me imagining the main menu with Amnesia's theme.
"I try to keep it family friendly - I say as I stare at a floating eyeball in a sea of blood."
Amazing.
😂
Some other ways to make it more horror is find ways to add tension one of the worst (best) things in horror is when you know something is wrong and gonna happen but you cant tell when basically jump scares, you hit a tree and instead of butterflys its crows or bats or sometimes when your walking theres a % chance of a bunch of crows flying by while screaming in the mines for ambience there coulf be whispers or screams to catch you off guard
I long for the day that there will be a mod where you can actually permanently die in the game. It's not 100%, but there's still a fraction where everytime you die, Harvey is unable to revive you and you die for good. Gives that thrill when a serpent brings your health bar just enough for you to panic.
"The Long Dark" mod?
I would reset if I died. Too used to death meaning I have to reload from my last save, can't parse anything else.
I'm a huge horror nerd but also enjoy Stardew so this hits so good. I love it all. Thanks for showcasing all of this and I look forward to seeing/hearing the finished soundtrack/ambient noises that you add!
Your content has been spectacular and I am glad that I stumbled across your channel. Keep up the great work.
This really does feel like a horror game! And I feel like a mod pack that really covers the sounds & music, in addition to all the scary stories, could be a REALLY different game!
Almost skipped on this video because i figured it was an overhaul type of modset. But this looks amazing, and worth using when in a haunted mood
I was going to try to somehow change the gameplay to better match a horror game, but with current mods there's not really much to work with there, other than changing a few enemy behaviors.
I am three days into summer and already ready for Halloween, thank you for releasing this
I want someone to mod this to where you get characters getting possessed and chase after you as the dark atmosphere gets even more intense. And a completely different story. Some new rules to be safe from demonic possessions. Putting salt circles around your crops and barn while demons everyday chip away at the salt. You could easily expand on ideas. I wish I had the ability to mod games. It would be so fun!
do you think it would be creepy to remove critters altogether? i think theres something incredibly eerie about places where even animals refuse to pass through. it has a special flavor of unsettling to it.
you could even remove enemies from the mines completely, or do something similar to dont starve, where darkness inflicts damage. the mines could get darker the lower you go, and youd be dealt more and more damage as you went down more levels. and you could have something like the mining helmet from terraria so darkness doesnt hurt you?
something about a foggy, entirely desolate map seems way scarier than any monster or critter or ghost or redesign. idk.
the only redesign i can think of that would really really scare me is if you turned the villagers into stalker game-type characters that chase you and insta-kill you or do configurable amounts of damage. that has the potential to be terrifying. like, stardew changes genres to become a stalker thriller and there is no longer any focus on horror, your only objective is to survive
something that would be cool would be to have each debuff give some sort of full-screen visual effect, just to add a bit of urgency to it
I can’t even think of what to say. Gave me the creeps. It’s very creative and your cheerful voice helped. Thank you for the warnings. I like what you did, don’t get me wrong on that. Just very dark and creepy. I admire your creativity. 😊 I think I like the cozy version better though. Just me. Good job on the dark factor! This would be so fun playing in a group on a fall night. 🎃
oh yes, this was very nice to see as a video, would not have the guts to install anything myself
Why did the Lavander Town theme from Pokemon play in my head when you went into town?
This is an awesome idea! I feel like the gameplay needs to be changed in a way that makes it fit the horror genre, such as:
* Monsters spawning on the farm frequently enough to interrupt your farming work
* Farm and crops can be destroyed like through lightning
* Emphasis on foraging, new foraging rewards
Yeah I need this for future playthroughs. The Silent Hill and PS1 horror music is a great addition.
Okay, I may sound like a psychopath, but I can't be the only one curious about how they all died? Like wouldn't it be, on some level, cool to see, like, Gus caught in his machine at the blacksmith?
I think it would be neat for their heart events to involve their deaths. Learning about how they lost their lives and helping them come to terms with it.
@spectredan2066 Omg YES!!!!!!!
I have some ideas regarding an ambience track
Night sds.
Crickets, howling wind, things like that.
I've done the same thing with audio only games I've designed and I feel like they seem to work everytime!
Graveyard Keeper is starting to look more and more like Stardew.
ANOTHER BANGER VIDEO 😭😭 Other great PS2 horror games would be some songs from Silent Hill 3 and Rule of Rose. Also Fatal Frame 1, 2, and 3 could be very good for ambient noises as that's most of the sound design for that game
You can add zombie moans or have them as background events, like trapped behind fences or something maybe
Salmence uploaded? Let’s go!
i like that they still kept the flower petals floating though the air
The Music does add to it a whole lot, i find myself more unerved with it than the visual mods
It's giving Don't Starve vibes and I love it lmao
Yay a fellow don’t starve player 😄
ACTIVATE THE WAY PEOPLE DIE!!!!! I saw another youtuber use that mod and its so funny seeing like pierres body floating in the river and mayor lewis's head on his own garden (im not a psycopaty but if its a horror game you have to go all out cmon)
Oh I love discovering the bodies on my own! But it’s still not something I’d show on the channel lol
I would watch a horror movie about how everyone in Stardew dies and become ghosts. 👍
The sewer just being labelled with "PAIN" made me laugh so hard
Wow that is so much custom art! Amazing.
Salmence - you make really good videos! Very talented.
im happy every time you upload sal
As someone who lives in Ireland, anyone who says the fog in the climates mod is too hard to see in and should be reduced has clearly never actually been in fog
I love halloween vibes all year round so this is very welcome :)
The Gallery of Time and Kings Curse tracks from the PS2 game Dark Cloud would be great Caves tracks, or something similar.
I've only gotten to the bottom of the mines so far in Stardew, so I have no idea what Skull Cavern or any other dungeons are like.
(I only found out that the Vault unlocks the bus stop recently.)
I feel like what would make it creepier is just giving it a darker undertone like maybe strange events at night happening. Like maybe one night your awoken by some light falling from the sky. And some kind of creepy aliens are encountered but never mentioned again and one of your animals dies and the rest are all terrified. it just need to be unexplainable and not the main focus. Or maybe a murder happens and somebody can't be trusted. Making everything dark and scary doesn't really make it horror.
I feel like occasional Minecraft cave sounds would be a perfect addition to the mines.
So, for your music mod, I have 1 suggestion: make it so something is replaced by the resident evil 1 basement theme. Definitely think it’d be funny to hear it over the flower dance
1:22 you could add some music from blood and bacon that would make it bit more unerving
I really would like to see a full playthrew. From you good sir.. lol. Great vid.
Congratulations on making your own mod ❤
That turned out awesome!
Dayum, I only started to play this game a few days ago...
Well, now i know this game can be horror game too :D
Ngl, after seeing this I'm kinda excited to see the other mod-videos but i dont wanna spoil the games ending for myself.
Its soooo hard to resist tho😂
Ok that is awesome and you modding more would be interesting
I feel like some tracks from VTMB would mesh excellently here.
Krobus looks horrifying, and yet I still wanna marry him lmao
Put the Lavender town from the first Pokemon series in your mod, dude.
That's brilliant. I believed that urban legend as a kid and was terrified to listen to the music.
I also think some music from red space in Omori would be good
most people: "oh no spooky halloween"
tumblr: "IT'S GAY CHRISTMAS ALL YEAR ROUND, BABYEEEEE"
I would have been done just by raising Harvey’s medical bills
I would love to hear the SV music switched to minor key
Wow it looks realy great, with so many moods that make so much diferent things to the game, and since I'm new to the game, is there some kind of mod manager? like something that allows you to choose wich mods to load when starting the game, so you can chose diferent sets of mods for diferent save files?
They did my main man Linus dirty.
This is my favorite stardew video of all time, but can you try making a video of maybe completing on bundle just to see how it would look like to play for a little bit.
I have a hard enough time seeing with vanilla fog, I'd gotten ferngill on a previous recommendation of yours, and almost immediately turned it off because the fog made it completely unplayable.
fantastic video!!
Do you know any youtuber that did have the dead bodies in the ghost village mod
I would change the shaman monster skin to that of a wendigo
Kent PTSD mods right here
I NEED THE SILENT HILL MUSIC MOD NOW >:)
You've gotta add Outlast 2 Ambience, that ambience horrifies me
Would be good to replace the flower petals with something... not sure what 🤔
Quick i’m too scawed to actually play but wanna know how everyone dies in ghost town lol
Replace bird noises with a lone crow/raven noises ... Cawww.... cawwww....
This is amazing
stupid question but is the music mod out jet lol?
You're kind of jumping the gun on Halloween, aren't you, Salmence? The rest of us are trying to savor as much summer as we can, and here you are, already shoulder-deep into Halloween. I mean, this is good, I like it, but in June? It's like putting a Winter Star tree in your grange display at the fair.
Also, for the music, have you tried a minor key? ua-cam.com/video/ghBhEWZ6rDc/v-deo.html
No Eyes Mod would’ve also been good
Mmmm Silent Hill Valley
has sal uploaded the silent hill music mod?
What’s your outro music?
Spooky sal time let’s go
Are we gonna get the soundtrack from.. resident evil 1, directors cut... the basement theme... 👀 pretty please 😂
I’ll have to add in some re songs eventually, Stardew has a lot of songs
Is it hyper realistic blood?
Can u pls make a slime hutch guide
omg i love this
Oh?
Try playing super mario 64... but different.
It's not finished, but what we have is absolutely terrifying.
I'm blind, So I'm going off of what I've had described to me.
I also played it audio only.
It would be a good touch to change the names of some crops and items, like change salmonberries to boisenberries, red cabbage to blood cabbage, etc
I'd reccomend taking 1 or 2 tracks from Yume Nikki!
outro song tho?
That’s mine! It’s called Pixel Star, and was made by joek_punos on Twitter
@@salmence100 yooo it’s fire!! It kinda gives me a vibe of wii shop channel song ;)
u got this shit looking like space funeral
Scary
Whelp, I now have a list of mods to avoid.
No hate against you or any of the other mod creators, I just don't respond well to horror, to the point my parents actually banned me from reading any horror when I was in high school, just because I would have panic attacks at night and would then get physically ill to the point where if we followed school rules, I'd have to miss a day.
Thank God for the trigger warning. I almost saw a skeleton and shit all over my floor out of pure terror.
Last time i checked it was june?
You above getting spooky in June? We got a non-spookster here? Lobbying against free spooking?
IT'S ONLY 129 DAYS UNTIL HALLOWEEN
@@DanteTornnow its 128
I'm happy to report that it is now only 99 days until Halloween
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First comment nice
I WOULD PLAY THAT BAHAAH
I only found your channel a few days ago and have been binge watching your videos, and I need to know, have you released your mod? 🥲
This is so f*ckin cool 🫶🏽🫶🏽 I cant wait I love halloween
It’s my favorite aesthetic for any holiday!!