Overview
Grandpa's Trust adds a farm-owned recurring benefit administered through the Ferngill Agricultural Benefits Office. Enrollment, payment schedules, annual reviews, claim records, and a benefits ledger are presented as part of the world instead of as a detached settings screen.
The benefit belongs to the farm rather than multiplying per player, and multiplayer prompts are host-controlled so co-op behavior remains predictable.
Features
- Enrollment letter and in-world response flow
- Weekly, biweekly, or seasonal payment schedules with equivalent long-term value
- Permanent farm claim number and benefits ledger
- Itemized deposit records with recipient and wallet information
- Annual reviews beginning in year 2 with optional schedule changes
- Host-controlled multiplayer prompts and farm-owned benefits
- Configuration support through optional GMCM integration
- Designed to work when installed into an existing save
Installation
- Install SMAPI if it is not already installed.
- Extract Grandpa's Trust into the Stardew Valley Mods folder.
- Launch the game through SMAPI and load the farm you want to use.
- GMCM is optional; install it only if you want in-game configuration controls.
Multiplayer
- The trust is owned by the farm, not duplicated for each connected player.
- Enrollment and review prompts are host-controlled.
- Deposit records track the recipient and wallet behavior used by the current multiplayer configuration.
Changelog
0.8.0 Public beta
- Added the enrollment letter and response flow with weekly, biweekly, and seasonal schedules.
- Balanced schedule choices so the long-term value remains equivalent.
- Added enrollment confirmation with payment amount and first deposit date.
- Added annual reviews beginning in year 2 with optional schedule changes.
- Added a permanent farm claim number, claim file, schedule-election history, and itemized deposit records.
- Added multiplayer-safe farm ownership and host-only prompts so benefits are not multiplied per player.
- Added the Benefits Ledger and optional GMCM settings.
- Validated installation on existing saves during pre-release testing.