I really feel this. I hate the mines and skull caverns so much and have mods on my Steamdeck to make them a bit easier (one that shows you where the ladders are and an elevator for the skull caverns). If I play on my Switch, I miss these soon much. The other one I love is 'look up anything', which gives you so much more extra info about items and crops.
That's exactly the mods I went for, I hate trying find ladders in the mines so went for the ladder locate an also the skull caverns elevator, I don't think I could go back to the old way now
So I've just started a game on PC after only playing on iPad previously. I forgot how tedious it can be at the start when you have no money or anything
Anyone have any mod recommendations?
I got a market day mod, you can pick either Fri/sat/sun to hold it an after you raise so much money you grow the market to more stalls, I have mine on a Sunday an keep all my crops to sell for that week as they sell for slightly more at the market
Another was more fish mod, can catch like 3x the amount of different types of fish an some sell for quite good
Also got the expanded stardew an two villages, ones called ridge view I think an I forget the other, both add new shops, events an ncps etc but one of them also offers a service where you can hire them to water your crops, helped me a ton at the beginning as I could buy a ton of crops, have them watered for me while I saved my energy to go fish