Ashen Valley

Farm by bonfire light. Ashen Valley opens a path from Stardew Valley's Backwoods into four new maps inspired by Dark Souls III, with Lothric's weapons, bosses, music and rules read straight from your own copy of Dark Souls III.

What you get

• Four new areas: Cemetery of Ash, Firelink Shrine, High Wall of Lothric and Undead Settlement, drawn in Stardew's pixel style.
• Dark Souls III weapons (Dagger, Shortsword, Broadsword, Lothric Knight Sword, Estoc, Uchigatana, Claymore, Hand Axe, Mace, Spear) with their real names, descriptions and stats.
• Two bosses: Iudex Gundyr and Vordt of the Boreal Valley, with their DS3 names and health (scaled for Stardew).
• Souls rules: a stamina bar, a dodge roll with invincibility frames (Space), souls from every kill, and "YOU DIED" — your souls stay where you fell until you get back to them.
• Bonfires: light them, rest to heal and respawn enemies, travel between lit bonfires.
• Bonfire gardens: plant Stardew crops beside every bonfire; each rest grows them a day. Cook the harvest into Stardew dishes that heal over time.
• Shrine Handmaid: buys your souls for seeds and weapons; new stock after each boss. Enemies drop seeds too.
• Dark Souls III music and sounds, decoded once from your own install.

How to start: walk north from your farm into the Backwoods and touch the Coiled Sword in the ash.

Needs Stardew Valley 1.6.15+ and Dark Souls III, installed. Solo. Includes SMAPI 4.5.2 (runs with its own mods folder, so your other Stardew mods are untouched) and vgmstream. Nothing from Dark Souls III is shipped: every DS3 name, stat, song and sound comes from the copy on your PC.

Unofficial fan mashup, not affiliated with FromSoftware, Bandai Namco or ConcernedApe.

Credits: SMAPI by Pathoschild (LGPL-3.0); vgmstream by the vgmstream contributors (ISC); DS3 file-format knowledge from the UXM, SoulsFormats and Paramdex community projects.