Stardew Valley players won't stop making increasingly unhinged Grandpa death mods

Authored by pcgamer.com and submitted by DaveOJ12

As is written in the farm life sim bylaws, Stardew Valley begins the way so many do: with your character inheriting a plot of land from their dear, deceased relative. In Stardew, your kind, old grandpa gets a quick farewell scene on a rather shabby-looking deathbed where he's conveying his final wishes for you to take over the family farm. Enter the modders, who years ago took pity on Grandpa and gave him a better bed . Suddenly the community is instead obsessed with giving Grandpa the most inglorious death possible.

As spotted by Gamesradar , one Stardew modder on the game's subreddit rounded up several new mods in the self-declared "dying grandpa renaissance". There sure have been an influx of new Grandpa death scenes, but if I'm not sure renaissance is the artistic nomenclature I'd choose. These Grandpa sendoffs are somewhere between surrealism and postmodernism.

Here are all the dying grandpa mods, ordered chronologically and by increasing measures of depravity:

In which Grandpa has fallen and doesn't get up.

Grandpa's bed is nigh imperceptibly worse than the original.

Undeniably worse than the original, Grandpa is dead, surrounded by flies, with no bed in sight.

Are we sure Grandpa is actually dead in this one?

In which the cause of death was a violent backhand drive by Evelyn.

"I've enclosed the deed to that placeā€¦" and his own body.

In which Joja Cola is apparently not just a soda. You know, like in the old days when they used to make it with real Joja.

How dare Grandpa leave town and leave Robin without any clients?

At least in the last one, Grandpa isn't actually dead. Presumably he's still dead in the rest of the game, with his grave being on the farm plot and all. It's but a moment's reprieve for the old man.

Modder Beepsignal (of the Family Guy death pose Grandpa) has also kindly provided a Grandpa-less intro download so that other modders can use it as a template for their own geriatric shenanigans. Get out there and make Grandpa experience even greater levels of ignominy as he shuffles into the afterlife, kids.

ohdearitsrichardiii on May 1st, 2022 at 06:55 UTC »

I love that game but I had to leave the sub because there's a lot of fans that are unhinged, period. People develop really strong attachments to characters, or dislikes. One person posted torture fantasies about a character they disliked! There's also some sexual innuendo in the game, one of the goals for your character is to hook up with and marry a NPC. So people make new avatars for their hook-up to make them look like children. I thought that was gross but lots of people think it's just cute.

dkyguy1995 on May 1st, 2022 at 02:13 UTC »

Some of those are fucking hilarious. This is the new "so you're finally awake"