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ᑖᓂᓯ! Join me as I try and put irl plants into Stardew Valley, with Cree

I,
- want to learn nêhiyawêwin (Cree) better,
- know too much about Stardew Valley plants
- want to know about real plants
- am a nerd,
- use he/him pronouns
(I’m Wyatt)

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nehiyawrim.bsky.social
Can you spot the differences?
Screenshot of the video game, Stardew Valley. The playable character, a farmer in a red long sleeve and blue overalls, stands in a yard and looks towards the right of the screen at a large patch of grass cast in shadow. Three narrow shrubs pepper the field around them. Behind them, another patch of shadowy grass and a fenced-in garden. The garden contains a tree (only the trunk is visible), one pink flower, the top of a green bush with red berries, and a silver-blue bush with white berries. Screenshot of the video game, Stardew Valley. The playable character, a farmer in a red long sleeve and blue overalls, stands in a yard and looks towards the top of the screen at a large patch of grass. Three narrow shrubs pepper the field around them and two large shrubs stand to either side. To the farmer's left there is a fenced-in garden. The garden contains a tree (only the trunk is visible), one pink flower, and a green bush with small red berries.
September 28, 2025 at 3:12 AM
nehiyawrim.bsky.social
ᒥᐢᑕᐦᐃᔨᓂᒥᐣ - mistahiyinimin - "Great Person-Berry"

Huckleberries! There are so many varieties of huckleberries. According to Pojar and MacKinnon (*Plants of Coastal British Columbia*, 2004), "huckleberry" is often used as a catchall term for plants of the Vaccinium family that aren't blue.
Pixel art of two bushes next to one another. The bushes are angled such that the viewer can see the top of the bushes as well as the front-face of them. The bushes are green with dark green outlines and light red dots spaced randomly over the leaves. The rightmost bush has three black berries poking out from underneath the leaves, which are difficult to see as the berries nearly blend into the dark green outline of the leaves.
August 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
nehiyawrim.bsky.social
Many hours did I put into this, today, and it sure paid off!
A screenshot from the video game Stardew Valley. Two light blue/green bushes stand in the centre of the picture, next to one another. The rightmost bush is a little lower than the other and has three white berries. A farmer stands on the left side of the screen, looking directly at the bush with the berries. A screenshot from the video game Stardew Valley. Two light blue/green bushes stand in the centre of the picture, next to one another. The rightmost bush is a little lower than the other. A farmer stands to the right of the rightmost bush, holding a large, white and light-green berry above his head.
July 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
nehiyawrim.bsky.social
Forgot to add alt text to this one!
Mod update: Because of some unforeseen difficulties I had with making assets for Skyrim, I have chosen to switch to modding Stardew Valley!

It's a big shift, but I am excited, I already made a sprite! This is a berry-less silver berry bush, mahihkaniminânâhtik
Close-up view of a pixelated bush over a light, lime-green background. The bush has dense, silvery-green leaves at the top and fade into darker greens and browns near the base. Orange bark peaks out from the leaves.
July 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Wolf berry bushes, in game!!
A screenshot from the game Stardew Valley showing a pixelated, grassy field bordered by a river at the bottom and bottom-right corner of the screen. A human character is standing mid frame with their back to the river, looking left at three silvery blue bushes.
July 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
nehiyawrim.bsky.social
Mod update: Because of some unforeseen difficulties I had with making assets for Skyrim, I have chosen to switch to modding Stardew Valley, instead!

It's a big shift, but I am excited, I already made a sprite! This is a berry-less silver berry bush, mahihkaniminânâhtik
July 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
nehiyawrim.bsky.social
Doughnuts progress!
Screenshot of two computer rendered donuts on a white marble surface, diagonal from the bottom left to upper right, the donuts are sitting side-by-side. Both donuts are yellow with pink frosting and lavender, teal, and red sprinkles. The leftmost doughnut has long, cheeto shaped sprinkles in different sizes, some are metallic while most are matte. The rightmost doughnut has similarly coloured sprinkles but all are spherical and of equal size.
June 17, 2025 at 4:34 AM
nehiyawrim.bsky.social
Process pics, adding sprinkles (low-poly spheres)
A computer render of a tan doughnut with pink frosting sitting on a marble surface, sprinkled with grey sprinkles the shape of beach balls. A computer render of two tan doughnuts with pink frosting sitting on a marble surface, both are sprinkled with grey sprinkles the shape of beach balls. One doughnut takes up the majority of the frame, while the second is to the right and behind the first, extending past the the top-right corner of the frame.
May 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
nehiyawrim.bsky.social
and now in a *bolder* colour-way
Close-up of a computer modeled doughnut with dramatic lighting from above and to the right, casting dark shadows on the bottom half of the doughnut. The pastry is a rich purple and the icing is sky-blue with a semi-gloss finish. The whole doughnut looks smooth to the touch.
April 30, 2025 at 2:44 AM
nehiyawrim.bsky.social
BLENDER DOUGHNUT
Close-up of a computer modeled doughnut with dramatic lighting from above and to the right, casting dark shadows on the bottom half of the doughnut. The pastry is a dark tan colour and the icing is a light lavender colour with a semi-gloss finish. The whole doughnut looks smooth to the touch.
April 30, 2025 at 2:44 AM
nehiyawrim.bsky.social
BLENDER DOUGHNUT
April 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
nehiyawrim.bsky.social
Ok, new method? I installed the Bethesda Archive Extractor tool and NIFSkope. Both seem to be working, here is a model for lavender from the game files,
Screenshot of a Nifskope window with three sections: First, across the top are a series of menu buttons that read "File," "View," "Render," "Spells," "Options," "Help." There are also a series of editing tools demarcated by different icons. Below this bar of icons are two sections of the screenshot sorted as a column on the left and an image on the right. The image shows a teal background with a floor made of a grid of light teal lines fading off into the distance. Sitting on top of the floor is an image of a lavender bush with green stems and purple flowers, as if the camera was lying on the ground looking straight at the plant. To the left of the image is a column with a series of file data for editing the lavender model and its interactions.
March 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
nehiyawrim.bsky.social
Taking a break from changing names to making nêhiyawêwin-masinahikana, Cree books! I'm toying with the idea of having some kind of lore for the people writing these books that'll explain how nêhiyawêwin just kind of "appears" in Skyrim and why they spend so much time studying it.
A screenshot from the video game Skyrim. The playable-character stands in the centre of the screen, facing away from the camera in a simple yellow tunic with a blue undershirt, standing in a timber-frame building with off-white walls and an ornate exterior door. The character is looking at a book resting on a square wooden table. A bow and quiver of arrows is slung across his back and two cat ears on his head indicate he is Khajiit. Overlaid this scene is an interaction option in white text, it reads, "[E] Read, nêhiyawêwin - Pluralization. Weight 1 Value 8." Screenshot of an open book from the game Skyrim. The books first letter is drawn as an stylized brown and red reindeer over a black semi-circle, a red and tan letter-"T" is visible over-top of the reindeer. Much of the text is visible, but cuts off part way. The text of the book reads, "Thanks to my friend, Mina. She tells me that, 'When talking about multiples of a thing, add (at the end of the word) 'ak' if it's animate, 'a' if it's inanimate.' But there's more... Some words seem to have hidden 'w's --- those'll show up as 'wak' or 'wa'. Some words will have the 'ak' or 'a' replace the last letter. And the animacy can be tricky, she says it's best to just remember what is animate and what isn't. Animals are always animate. Meat is inanimate while hide is animate. Pants are". ~ At this point the text cuts off.
March 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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I couldn't find what race deer are actually placed in until I looked at all of the Elk files. it turns out that the mule deer don't actually have their own race but are simply the female-elk in the Creation Kit. I'm might need to make them a new race altogether...
Actor-Edit window in the Skyrim Creation Kit. There are a lot of fields with lots of information such as height, weight, and whether it respawns. There is a picture of a mule deer for this actor, but it's ID field says "Enc Elk" and its race field is also set to "Elk race", there is another field labeled "Female" and a checked check-box.
February 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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The Moose actor window has both ID and race fields set to "Elk," I'll change this to "môswa", moose.
Actor-Edit window in the Skyrim Creation Kit. There are a lot of fields with lots of information such as height, weight, and whether the actor respawns. There is a picture of a moose for this actor, but it's ID field says "Enc Elk" and its race field is also set to "Elk Race"
February 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
nehiyawrim.bsky.social
Omg, ok, here is the details for this reindeer in the Creation Kit. The body is that of a reindeer, but its ID and race are "Deer". I'll try and just rename the Deer ID/race "wâwâskêsiw", reindeer/elk.
Actor-Edit window in the Skyrim Creation Kit. There are a lot of fields with lots of information such as height, weight, and whether it respawns. There is a picture of a reindeer for this actor, but it's ID field says "Enc Deer" and its race field is also set to "Deer Race"
February 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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I guessed this day would come: this reindeer (wâwâskêsiw) is being labeled as a deer-deer (apisimôsos) and I don't know how to fix that, yet.
A screenshot from a video-game, looking down at the body of a reindeer that has been hunted in-game, with the prompt, "Search apisimôsos" (translating to, "Search deer"). Screenshot of an edit window of the Skyrim Creation Kit mod program, two text fields sit one on top of the other. The top-most field, labeled "ID", reads "Enc Deer", while the bottom-most field, labeled "Name", reads "apisimôsos".
February 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
nehiyawrim.bsky.social
Okay... I'm calling this a Mule Deer, apisimôsos? The antlers kinda look right, and the tail is small, but it's *all* brown.
Close up of a deer in skyrim, running in tall grass, facing to the right and angled somewhat downwards. All brown with longer hair covering the neck and chest. The antlers point forward from the head, with 5 (2X3) tines visible, all pointing upwards. Close up of a deer in skyrim, running in tall grass, facing away from the camera, slightly to the left and upwards. The deer is all brown, with no obvious markings and a small, brown tail. The antlers point forward from the head, away from the camera, with 5 (2X3) tines visible, all pointing upwards.
February 12, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Now i’m just having fun with it!

Thinking about maybe doing one mod where i just replace the names of things i can with cree names? Then another that’s a whole overhaul with irl plants?
Screenshot of a skyrim inventory menu with two sections: the leftmost section, a column with a list of items in the inventory; fly amonita, lavendar, salt pile, tundra cotton, mihko-sîpihkwâpikwaniy, mihkowâpikwaniy, okâminakasiy, sîpihkwâpakwaniy, âhâsiwimina. The rightmost section has an image of a purple flower above a smalle square menu that reads, “mihkosîpihkwâpikwaniy, weight 0.1, value 2, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown”
February 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Testing the rough mod file with just a couple plants, âhâsiwimina (Juniper berries) and wâpikwaniy (flower, 'purple mountain flower' in game), and IT WORKS, LET'S GOOOOOO
Screenshot from Skyrim items menu, with two main sections; on the left is a narrow list of plants in an inventory; blue mountain flower, fly amanita, lavender, red mountain flower, salt pile, thistle branch, and finally, circled in teal, wapikwaniy, and âhâsiwimina. On the right, a detailed image of juniper berries over-top a small window that reads âhâsiwimina (2), weight 0.1, value 100, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown.
February 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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It IS a feature! You just select the data you want from the file tab!
Four application windows on a computer screen. The leftmost window takes up one half of the entire screenshot and has two columns, the first with many options, including; Actors, Characters, Audio, and Items. The second column has eight columns; Editor ID, Count, Users, Model, Size, Name, Papyrus, Keyword. The next two application windows sit one on-top of the other and make up the rightmost half of the screenshot. The top of these windows is blank, a white background, and is labeled "Render Window." The bottom of these windows is labeled "Cell View" and has two columns each with tables, but only the leftmost table has information (Editor ID, Name, L..., Coords, Location). At the very top of the screenshot are two series of tabs squished above the other three windows: The first, topmost series, says; File, edit, view, world, navmesh, character, gameplay, help. The second series is a long list of icons, some of which are common (open file, save, undo, redo), and some of which are more unique to the program (for example, a simple outline of a cube with what looks like a capital-case "T" nestled on the front-facing side).
February 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Aaaaaand, DONE! after letting it repeat 110 times, I just had it print to a csv (comma-separated value) file, and had it do the same for the Creation Club files. Now all the info on extant items is readily available to help decide how the new plants I'll add will be introduced to the game
Screenshot of a file showing 63 items' names, id numbers, four Skyrim apothecary effects, monetary value, weight, and acquisition method. For example, the first item reads, "Abecean Longfin,00106e1b,Weakness to Frost,Fortify Sneak,Weakness to Poison,Fortify Restoration,15,0.5,Common"
February 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Looking good for the blue-circle info, the scraper can now read the apothecary effects for one item! Now I just need it to repeat that 110 times for the first table
Terminal output that reads, "Abecean Longfin, 00106e1b,Weakness to Frost,Fortify Sneak,Weakness to Poison,Fortify Restoration,15,0.5,Common". Screenshot of python code, a function called 'get_effects'. I'll copy and paste it, here, def get_effect(table_row): ''' Gets effects information, as well as value, weight, and rareity.''' table_row = table_row.next_sibling table_row = table_row.next_sibling tilde = table_row.td # 't' for 'tilde' # Gets effects for i in range(0,4): apple = tilde.a # 'a' for 'apple' apple = apple.next_sibling apple = apple.next_sibling print(apple.string, end=',') # move to next td with an effect in the string tilde = tilde.next_sibling tilde = tilde.next_sibling # Gets value, weight for i in range(0,2): print(tilde.string,end=',') tilde = tilde.next_sibling tilde = tilde.next_sibling # Gets rareity print(tilde.string) print('')
February 3, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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In a nut-shell, the python code (main and get_name_id functions) is trying to find the bits of information in the circles (which are strings) using the info in the squares.

The blue circles are the bits of info I'll be tackling later!
html code for a row in a table. Yellow and blue squares and circles highlight certain bits of information in the html file: The yellow squares say, in order, td, td, a. Then a yellow circle saying 'Abecean Longfin.' then three more yellow squares that all say 'span', with two yellow circles containing '00' and '106e1b', respectively. Four blue circles come next and say, "weakness to frost," "fortify sneak," "weakness to poison," and "fortify restoration."
February 2, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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I'm getting sleepy and sloppy now, but everything is working great so far. Here is the output of these functions, just the first object's name and its ID.
A screenshot of output printed to the terminal, it reads, "searching for html file on desktop. Abecean Longfin, 00106e1b."
February 2, 2025 at 12:37 AM