Simple Pleasures

🌱 Simple Pleasures

A cozy Minecraft experience inspired by Stardew Valley

Build a little farm, make some friends, explore the world, and enjoy the simple pleasures of life.

Simple Pleasures is a cozy, progression-focused Minecraft modpack inspired by Stardew Valley. Farming, fishing, mining, exploring, and building relationships all have a purpose, with rewarding milestones that give you something to work toward at your own pace.

Rather than changing what makes Minecraft special, Simple Pleasures brings its many activities together into a more connected experience. Whether you’re tending crops, caring for animals, completing collections, or getting to know the people in a nearby village, there’s always something meaningful to do.

🌱 Grow Your Skills

Progress through five distinct skills, each with 10 levels, equipment unlocks, and useful abilities.

• Farming: Grow better crops, unlock automatic replanting, harvest entire patches at once, and become a more efficient farmer.
• Mining: Improve your efficiency, discover bonus ore drops, and unlock vein mining to quickly gather connected ores.
• Foraging: Gather resources from nature, discover extra wild goods, and learn to fell entire trees with a single swing.
• Fishing: Upgrade your equipment, improve your catching abilities, occasionally catch two fish at once, and eventually discover the secrets of lava fishing.
• Combat: Unlock stronger equipment, improve your damage, and gain useful abilities to help you survive.

Your equipment progresses alongside your skills. Better tools and armor must be earned through experience, making each upgrade feel like a genuine achievement.

As you develop your Mining and Foraging skills, resource gathering becomes more convenient. Once unlocked, vein mining and tree felling activate automatically, while sneaking lets you break individual blocks whenever you prefer. Diminishing experience rewards keep these powerful abilities balanced without discouraging their use.

📦 Complete Bundles, Expand Your Inventory

Inspired by Stardew Valley’s Community Center, Simple Pleasures features collections to complete throughout your adventure.

Gather seasonal crops, discover fish from different environments, explore distant biomes, mine valuable resources, and collect trophies from dangerous creatures.

Every completed bundle permanently unlocks an additional inventory slot!

Your backpack gradually grows as you explore everything the game has to offer, rewarding curiosity and encouraging you to try activities you might otherwise overlook.

There are five collection categories: Farming, Mining, Foraging, Fishing, and Combat. Each contains several themed bundles, ranging from simple early-game collections to challenging late-game goals.

Some bundles offer alternative requirements, allowing you to complete them in different ways rather than hunting down every single item.

Complete any three bundles within a category to earn a special bonus reward!

These milestones reward you with useful equipment and accessories, including farming clothing, magical rings, and a special fishing rod. You don’t need to finish an entire collection to earn something worthwhile.

📖 Learn as You Play

Not sure where to begin? Simple Pleasures includes introductory quests that teach you the most important changes from vanilla Minecraft.

Learn how to care for animals, grow crops through the seasons, prepare meals, upgrade your fishing gear, make friends with villagers, and much more.

These quests introduce new mechanics naturally, with useful rewards that help you get started, rather than overwhelming you with everything at once.

❤️ Make Friends in the Village

Villagers are more than just trading stations!

Get to know individual villagers through a friendship system inspired by Stardew Valley. Give gifts, discover their likes and dislikes, fulfill requests, and build lasting relationships with the people in your community.

Villagers have names, individual personalities, and their own preferences. They greet you, share stories, gossip, and even have conversations with each other. They can also react to their surroundings and remember things that have happened.

Your actions matter, too. Villagers may notice when you take their belongings or disturb their homes, and news of your behavior can spread through the village. But trusted friends are more forgiving, even allowing you to use their beds and storage without making a fuss.

As your friendships grow, villagers begin treating you differently:

• 5 Hearts: Unlock a 10% trading discount.
• 10 Hearts: Increase your trading discount to 20%, and receive a daily gift when your friend sees you.

Friendship discounts even stack with other bonuses, including Hero of the Village!

Villagers also have requests you can fulfill, rewarding you with friendship and giving you more reasons to visit town and interact with its residents.

Friendship doesn’t decay over time, so there’s no pressure to visit everyone every day. Get to know your neighbors whenever you feel like it.

🐄 Care for Your Animals

Raising livestock is now about more than feeding two animals some wheat.

Domesticate wild animals, provide food and water, keep them clean, and pay attention to their happiness and health.

Animals have individual traits and genetics, breeding takes time, and well-cared-for livestock can produce better results. Raise chickens, collect eggs from nests, and build a thriving little farm.

Your animals become something to care for, not just another resource to collect.

🌻 Experience the Changing Seasons

Spring, summer, autumn, and winter bring a new rhythm to your farm.

Different crops thrive during different seasons, encouraging you to plan your harvests and adapt throughout the year.

Expand your farm with sprinklers, fertilizer, greenhouses, and new farming tools. Grow higher-quality crops, experiment with different foods, and turn your harvest into delicious meals using an expanded cooking system and a helpful in-game Cookbook.

As your Farming skill grows, you’ll unlock convenient abilities like automatic replanting and harvesting larger areas, making an expanding farm easier to manage.

You can even sell your produce through a shipping bin!

🎣 Discover a Whole New World of Fishing

Fishing is now an adventure of its own.

Inspired by Stardew Valley, fishing features an interactive catching minigame, fish of different rarities and difficulties, and an extensive collection of species to discover.

Explore rivers, oceans, caves, and unusual fishing locations. Upgrade your rods, experiment with bait and tackle, discover legendary fish, and fill out your fishing journal.

Fishing also has its own collection challenges, taking you from familiar freshwater catches to rare ocean creatures, fish that live in lava, and elusive legendary and mythical fish.

As you improve your Fishing skill, catching difficult fish becomes easier, new equipment becomes available, and better treasure rewards gradually unlock. Eventually, you can even discover valuable Golden Treasure Chests.

Fishing is no longer just something to do while waiting for your crops to grow.

💍 Find Helpful Rings & Accessories

Discover and equip rings that provide useful passive bonuses.

From attracting nearby items and lighting up your surroundings to providing helpful effects during exploration and combat, accessories give you additional ways to improve your character.

Some of these accessories can be earned by completing collection milestones, giving you even more reasons to explore different activities.

🍃 A World Worth Slowing Down For

Simple Pleasures also includes a collection of atmospheric and quality-of-life improvements to make the world feel more inviting.

Enjoy lively animal animations, ambient sounds, falling leaves, improved footsteps, beautiful visual effects, and an enhanced natural environment.

Explore with useful additions like Waystones, Quark, improved storage interactions, and other carefully selected features that complement the experience without overshadowing it.

⭐ Go Beyond with Mastery

Reaching level 10 in every skill is just the beginning!

Once you’ve mastered all five skills, you’ll unlock a new Mastery progression system, allowing you to continue earning experience and develop your character beyond the normal level cap.

Spend Mastery points to unlock 15 powerful talents across five skill trees, each offering new ways to improve your abilities.

Become an expert farmer with 5×5 harvesting, travel faster on horseback, climb natural surfaces, improve your combat abilities, or even gain a second chance when facing a deadly blow.

Mastery rewards players who continue exploring and developing their skills, giving you long-term goals without forcing you to rush toward them.

🌿 Your World, Your Pace

Simple Pleasures isn’t about rushing to the End or building the most efficient farm possible.

It’s about finding enjoyment in the little things. Watching your farm grow, catching a rare fish, finally completing a bundle, unlocking a new skill perk, or discovering the perfect gift for a villager.

Take your time. Build a home. Find your own simple pleasures.

A Note on Development

Simple Pleasures is a personal project built upon the work of many talented Minecraft mod creators. I’ve also used AI tools to assist with coding, writing, and some visual assets. The overall concept, mod selection, integrations, and balancing are my own.

Minecraft 1.21.1 • NeoForge