Essential Mods for Stardew Valley

UI InfoSuite 2 - Display useful UI info like daily luck, villagers birthdays, if you need to pet your animals, sprinkler range and other handy things to make your life easier. The Nexus Mods version has now been UPDATED!
Lookup Anything - Another popular one. This gives you a mini wiki inside your game. You can lookup how to craft items and info about villagers. You can see how much items cost and what items can be used for. The list of info with this is endless
Better Shipping Bin - Give yourself a bigger shipping bin. You also have the ability to pull items out easily should you bin something by accident
To-Dew - This is a to-do list which can be added to the screen. Add single items or recurring items to remind you what you need to do
No Fence Decay Redux - This game is already hard, if you want to remove the annoying fence decay then this will do it!
Horse Squeeze - This let the horse get through smaller gaps on the map to make navigation easier
Stardew Progress - Adds a more detailed look at what is needed for perfection. This is broken down by category and goes in to great detail

Vibrant Pastoral Recolor - Make things look prettier and less orange. There are many other nice mods that change the look and feel and you can find them here

Visible Fish - Gives you a look at all the cute fish in the water!
Chests Anywhere - Lets you access your chests and other storage places from anywhere
Friends Forever - Did you know that if you don’t speak to villagers regularly you will slowly lose your friendship points (hearts). Add this mod to prevent that for happening
Pam as a Horse - Do I need to say anything else? Give Pam a new job
Thicc Junimos - It’s not as bad as it sounds OK!!

ESSENTIAL MODS FOR Stardew Valley