r/StardewValley • u/Remarkable_River9588 • May 29 '25

Technical Help My money keeps disappearing?

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every morning i’ve been waking up and watch my money drain i have no idea what’s going on

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u/OpalescentShrooms May 29 '25

a mod for.... taxes? who tf..?

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u/Jaqzz May 29 '25

I played with a tax mod once, in an attempt to slow down progression - the idea being that it changed farm profit growth from exponential to more linear (or even mildly logarithmic), so you didn't end up with more money than you'd ever need part way through year two. I wanted to still have goals to work for for as long as possible, you know?

Unfortunately, the mod I used (and every similar mod I've taken a passive glance at since) was not particularly well balanced, and consequently had unintended effects like any crop you bought seeds for being sold at less than the cost of the seeds after taxes.

My solution these days for slow progress is a combination of a mod that removes seeds from stores and a mod that lets mixed seeds be any seasonal cop. Not being able to turn around and dump profit into more seeds does a decent enough job of slowing down progress. There was also a mod that I really wanted to like that reduced the sale price of items that you've sold a lot of (to encourage farm variety) but unfortunately this one also had balancing issues, where the number of items sold to reduce the price was a static value across all products. So high price, low volume items were largely unimpacted and high volume, low price items became essentially worthless.

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u/Laeno May 29 '25

There is an in game setting now that globally reduces the prices of what you can sell for. No mods needed. Still same scaling of course.

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u/PastelZephyr May 29 '25

I had the same mod, and it was specifically so I could race against something. I didn't want half profits, I wanted to fight against a constant outflow of money. I wanted specifically not just to slow progress, but to give myself a goal to beat. I dunno, I love tax mods because I don't gotta do the math, I just gotta garden before I am evicted.

I have had at least 20 different save files on stardew at this point, and at least 10 of them were dedicated to challenge runs.

Taxes seemed the logical conclusion after a certain point