The favored farming sim and final cozy recreation, Stardew Valley, dropped a serious replace on Tuesday after months of anticipation. Stardew’s 1.6 replace has an insane quantity of recent content material that touches each space of the sport, from new menus and DIYs, to a brand new farm structure, new crops, and the flexibility to have a number of pets and play with seven pals directly. It’s sufficient updates to make the sport really feel recent, however isn’t so new that you would be able to’t ease again right into a beloved farm and toil away.
It is essential to notice right here that the free replace is at the moment solely accessible for PC gamers. The replace will come to cell and consoles just like the Nintendo Swap in a while. When you’re not a PC participant, the 1.6 information has not modified gameplay, and you can play usually whilst you await it to point out up. If you do not have the sport but on PC, you may buy it on Steam for $15, and it really works on PC, Linus, and Mac computer systems.
As quickly because the PC replace arrived, I opened up Stardew Valley and began a file with the brand-new farm structure (which has me very broke) to dive proper in. The replace additionally works in your present Stardew information, and I’ve been bouncing forwards and backwards between my brand-new file and a later-game file to see what’s new in several seasons. In all places I look, I see one thing new. Moss to forage off bushes! New reactionary dialog from NPCs! A prize machine within the mayor’s home!
When you hate spoilers, I’m truthfully unsure why you learn this far, however you need to undoubtedly cease studying. I’m about to inform you about a number of the greatest modifications I’ve noticed since taking part in the up to date recreation.
Ranch Mode
The largest change to see instantly is the brand new farm structure. Stardew’s 1.6 replace provides the Meadowlands Farm, a grass- and animal-focused design for my fellow animal ranchers. This farm grows a particular blue grass that recreation creator Eric Barone says animals will love. It will probably elevate animal’s hearts quicker, bettering the eggs and milk they provide you. There’s much less farming land accessible, and some modifications to preliminary quests. I’m having fun with the Meadowlands Farm to this point—I instantly created one when the sport dropped–though beginning with two chickens and no parsnip seeds is unquestionably a slower path to the infinite wealth I am in search of. However though I am broke, it’s nonetheless been enjoyable to have such a unique begin to the sport.
Recent Crops
The primary query my sister requested me once I began taking part in: “Are there new crops?” At first, I informed her no. I didn’t see something new to buy within the store. However there are new crops with the replace–you simply received’t discover them in any shops.
As a substitute, you discover 4 new crops (one for every season!) in a number of other ways—primarily, digging them up from the bottom within the recreation’s well-known Artifact Spots, though spots with these new crops have a barely totally different type you’ll have the ability to spot. You can too win them within the brand-new Prize Machine within the mayor’s home, when you get your hand on a prize ticket. The brand new crops are carrots for spring, summer time squash for (shocker) summer time, broccoli for fall, and powdermelon in winter. These new crops can be utilized within the recreation’s most important quest, too. Simply select Remixed Bundles for the Group Heart in your beginning settings.