Since the gameâs release in 2016, the items you sell in Stardew Valley have always justâ¦been sent into a void. Sure, Lewis technically picks them up every night, but you never actually see him collecting or using the items you harvest, cook, and gather, so they can feel a bit pointless at times. Over the past six months, however, a modder has been working to change that with an ambitious new project.

On Saturday, Nexus Mods user bubuge12 uploaded a mod titled Farmers Store, which lets players manage their own supermarket. Per the gameâs description, it includes âan Overcooked-style kitchenâ alongside stock management, employee hiring, advertising, and compatibility with several of Stardewâs most popular mods, with multiplayer support currently on its way. Best of all, though, the Valleyâs villagers actually come to your store to buy your items!

Thatâs a lot to put together in just six months! And, according to comments on Nexus Mods, it all works pretty well.

There are, unfortunately, a few caveats here. The mod is only partially available in English, as text in assets is limited to Chinese. But thereâs already a Russian fan translation available, and commenters on bubuge12’s Reddit post are practically clawing at the modderâs door and begging them to localize it in English (or offering to do it themselves).

One more thing: some of the modâs dialogue was generated by AI. It at least seems like there arenât any new storylines or charactersâjust flavor text for things like villagersâ reactions. And bubuge12 did state that âonly about 20% of the text is AI-generatedâ and that theyâre planning to replace it with their own work in the future.Â

I was initially super jazzed about this mod, but itâs hard for me to feel good about playing anything with AI-generated text, so Iâm holding off for now. In the meantime, at least I have the eerily similar management sim Chef RPG to tide me over.