Ginger Island Extra Locations – Redux Guide (Stardew Valley Mod): Installation, Events, and Perfection

This page covers how to install the Stardew Valley mod “Ginger Island Extra Locations – Redux” and everything you need to clear it, all on one page.

Story events are not spoiled. Only the information you need to progress is included.

Everything here is based on what I verified by actually clearing the mod.

What is GI Extra Locations Redux?

An expansion mod that adds new areas, a new character, bundles, fish, and farm animals to Ginger Island.

It is made by mistyspring and is a remake of the older mod “Ginger Island Extra Locations”.

The story takes about 2 hours.

Perfection is, in my opinion, impossible through normal play because of the number of bugs.

If you use the commands on this page, you can finish everything in about 5 hours.

The mod’s dishes, animal products (shipping), and Javi are added to the Perfection tracker, so installing it on a save that already has Perfection will lower your completion rate.

What counts toward Perfection

1. Items shipped
2. Artifacts
3. Crafting
4. Cooking

The mod’s fish were not added to the fishing collection.

You can also exclude these from the tracker in the config (see below).

How to install GI Extra Locations Redux

https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/42648

Installation works the same as most other mods.

Install the main mod and all of its requirements.

• The download contains three folders ([CP], the C# part, and [FTM]). Install all three.

Quick walkthrough

This mod is almost entirely contained within Ginger Island.

The only time-consuming part, if you want to complete everything, is transforming a lot of farm animals.

1. Complete the bundles. The temple is in the lower right of the jungle (below the entrance to the gem bird shrine)
2. Get Javi to 10 hearts and watch the events
3. Collect everything

That’s it.

Progression chart

New character “Javi”: schedule, events, and gifts

Javi’s gift preferences

Rabbit’s Foot also works, so giving high-quality Rabbit’s Feet is the fastest way to raise friendship.

Javi’s schedule

Heart event triggers

• The 2- and 6-heart events need an even-numbered day, at night, and sunny weather. They are easy to miss
• If you choose “No” to “Read it?” in the 4-heart event, you can still read the rest later at the desk in Javi’s hut

Choice guide (no story spoilers)

The ending branches based on your choices in the 8- and 10-heart events.

There are three choices in the 8-heart event. The second one has no effect.

If you choose “You should do it.” in the 10-heart event, you get the good ending regardless of your 8-heart choices.

Unfortunately, bugs stop you from seeing it to the end

On the bad route, the event freezes in the middle of the conversation with Javi.

Everything stops the moment the music stops, which is a little creepy.

Even on the good route, the 10-heart event freezes partway through the scene with Birdie (around “You should leave.”).

Type

debug ee

into the SMAPI console to end the event.

The next day, going to the shipwreck room (where the golden walnut was) showed the rest of the event, so this seems to be fine.

Sadly, you never get to see the most important part of what Javi says.

1. After the good ending, ghosts no longer appear in the sunken ship and underwater, and the underwater monsters change to crabs and squid
2. According to the mod data, the “pirate tales” at Pirate Cove (they change by day of the week) also disappear, so read them first if you want to
3. If the event freezes, you can quit without saving to retry the day from the morning, but you will just get stuck again, so debug ee is the only real option

New areas

Until you finish the bundles, the new areas don’t offer much.

Prioritize the bundles first.

There are many areas on the list, but none of them is large.

Roughly: lower right of the jungle, upper left of the farm area, floor 999 of the volcano, right of the Field Office, and beyond the sunken ship.

Temple altars (5 bundles)

These are the requirements on normal difficulty.

• The event after completing all altars gives you the furniture “Island Trophy”.
• After that, inspect the inscription in the temple to get a Prismatic Shard (once only).

Aquarium bundles

Completing them adds fish tanks to this area.

That’s all.

You donate fish to the five statues in the island aquarium.

On normal difficulty, the fish must be silver quality or better.

• Each completed statue places a fish tank on the spot (it can’t be picked up)
• Completing all five gives no extra reward or event.

Deep sea fish

All the deep sea fish for this bundle are caught underwater.

Dive from the sunken ship and go to the lower area (with the bridge and the eel). You can catch all five around the bridge.

Underwater area and how to catch deep sea fish

How to dive

Who would have thought you could go through here…

1. Complete the fishing altar (you get the diving helmet)
2. Go through the back of the shipwreck in Island West to reach the new area (you can now go right from the golden walnut spot)
3. Inspect the water in the lower right of the sunken ship area to dive
4. Go to the lower underwater layer from the south edge

How to catch deep sea fish

Deep sea fish can only be caught with this mod’s special items.

Use either one:

1. Luminous tackle
2. Luminous rod

Luminous bait alone does not work.

With the tackle or the rod, any bait (or no bait) works.

With the Luminous rod, Deluxe Bait seemed to be the fastest.

• Luminous shard: break the glowing rocks in the lower underwater layer with a steel pickaxe or better.
• Shards are hard to collect (only a few per week). If you are in a hurry, type debug item (O)GiEXredux_LumiShard 100 into the SMAPI console to get 100.

Giant eel and the mermaid houses

There is a large eel in the lower underwater layer.

Hold a fish and talk to it, then give it one. That’s all.

If you talk to it empty-handed or refuse to give a fish, it bites you.

By the way, the houses this unlocks only give you hints about the underwater area.

Main items found underwater

1. Artifacts (worm-like objects are the artifact spots)
2. Luminous shards
3. From fishing: Void shard, Omniscient clam

Artifacts are covered below.

The underwater area has an upper and a lower layer, and the artifacts you can dig up are different in each.

Sunken ship hidden room (Ancient key)

The door at the back of the sunken ship opens if you have an Ancient key.

The key breaks after one use.

Inside there is only a treasure chest. Boo.

Even after opening it once, you need another key to open it again.

The Ancient key can also be donated to the museum, so you need two if you want both, though donating alone is arguably enough.

Extinct dragon’s lair

After completing the mining altar, the elevator added to the Volcano Dungeon entrance floor starts working.

Go to floor 999 to reach the dragon’s lair.

1. Get the Fire Ring and its recipe from the chest at the back.
2. Step on the three floor switches to proceed.
3. Magma sprites and lava bats drop Fire essence.
4. The dragon-looking monsters drop Lava dragon eggs.
5. Dragon Teeth and various ores spawn here.

Mystery shop and crafted items

Completing the farming altar opens a shop in Island Northwest.

Follow the path from above the slime area to the west.

Golden Eggs can be bought at Marnie’s shop.

Most items here transform your farm animals so they produce “golden” or “void” animal products.

You need these to complete the shipping collection.

Crafted items and tools

• Growing dust and Revival dust only work on crops that are in season.

Bug: dust recipes can’t be learned (and the fix)

Buying the dust recipes at the mystery shop does not add them to your crafting menu.

Their descriptions are also the same as the Torch.

This is a bug in Ver.1.5.1 caused by a mismatch in the recipe names.

Type the following into the SMAPI console (the black window that opens with the game) and press Enter to learn the recipes.

debug craftingrecipe GiEXredux_GoldPlaceholder
debug craftingrecipe GiEXredux_VoidPlaceholder
debug craftingrecipe GiEXredux_PurifyPlaceholder
debug craftingrecipe GiEXredux_RevivalPlaceholder
debug craftingrecipe GiEXredux_GrowPlaceholder

The recipes are saved once you save the game (sleep).

New farm animals and animal products

The mod’s animals are created by giving items to your existing animals, such as cows, to transform them.

Using the dusts

Hold the dust and left-click on the animal.

A screen comparing the animal before and after appears. Choose “Yes” to transform it.

Using the huge fruits

Hold the item, left-click on a cow, and choose “Yes” to feed it.

Feed the same cow the same item 3 times and it transforms.

Large milk depends on friendship

Transformation seems to keep the original animal’s friendship, so if you transform an animal at max friendship, you won’t get the regular-size milk and so on.

Using new animals is less error-prone, but their friendship rose very slowly.

Transformation table

• Chickens and pigs can’t be transformed
• Purifying dust turns them back

Fruit cows

Huge banana, Huge coconut, Huge mango

Feed the same one 3 times in a row and the cow transforms.

Check the mystery shop for how to get them (stock changes by day of the week).

Others

The Iridium chicken and the Lava dragon don’t need artisan goods and don’t produce large eggs, so if you’re going for Perfection, shipping one product each is enough.

Both hatch in an Incubator.

Animals and their products

• The higher the Lava dragon’s friendship, the better its drops: Fire Quartz → Obsidian → Ruby → Fire Opal
• Void ostrich and Void dinosaur lay golden eggs because of a bug
• Each animal type can be turned off in the config

New fish

They didn’t show up in the collections tab.

The island is always summer, so you can catch them in any season.

• The lower underwater layer requires the Luminous tackle or the Luminous rod mentioned above.
• Atolla Jellyfish and Vampire squid are easier to catch far from the shore, in deep water
• Dragonfish is rare and hard to catch

Cooking

A House Plant…?

Completing the cooking altar teaches you 18 recipes at once.

There are 19 dishes in total (18 from the altar + Gingerbread man).

The Gingerbread man recipe doesn’t arrive in this mod either

I never received the Gingerbread man recipe.

It is supposed to be learned at 5 hearts with Evelyn,

but if Evelyn was already at 5+ hearts before you installed the mod, it seems you can’t learn it because of a bug.

In that case, type this into the SMAPI console to learn it:

debug cookingrecipe GiEXredux_GingerbreadMan

The same thing happened with Gingerbread man in SVE…

Artifacts and the museum

You get tons of artifacts from the underwater artifact spots (the worm objects) and the glowing rocks.

• You can’t use a Treasure Totem underwater. You can only dig the spots that spawn naturally
• The Fish flute dropped right away when I used a Treasure Totem in Island West
• They are not used in bundles, cooking, or crafting

Config options

With Generic Mod Config Menu, you can change these in-game.

Bugs and notes (Ver.1.5.1)

Commands to save time and work around bugs

Type these into the SMAPI console (the black window that opens with the game) and press Enter. All of them were tested in-game.

Required to progress

Things you can’t progress through or obtain normally because of bugs.

Things that take forever to collect

You can get these normally, but it takes an extremely long time.

Luminous shards in particular come at about 5 per week, so collecting 99 would take about 20 weeks (a year and a season)…

• If you don’t know an item ID, search with list_items <English name> (e.g. list_items milk)
• Huge fruits count as tools, so their IDs start with (T) instead of (O).

My impressions

Sorry to the author, but I can’t recommend this mod.

There are so many bugs that playing it felt unpleasant.

Having to rely on SMAPI cheat commands to progress was very stressful.

On top of that, the only story event couldn’t be watched to the end because of a bug.

Turning animals golden, void, or fruity didn’t feel rewarding either.

I would have preferred the dragon’s lair to be a proper dungeon with more enemies.

A dragon spawns every few minutes, you press three switches, and that’s it? Come on.

All that work on the aquarium bundles just gives you fish tanks…

Well, it’s fine, I guess.

What this mod made me feel most was how polished SVE and RSV are. Bravo!

Summary

The mod is still in development, so I’ll update this page if things change in future versions.

See you.