Stardew Valley’s 1.6 Update Is Out Everywhere (2024) Leave a comment

Up to date November 2024: This story has been up to date with the brand new availability of Stardew’s 1.6 replace.

The favored farming sim and supreme cozy sport 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 without delay. It’s sufficient updates to make the sport really feel recent, nevertheless it isn’t so new that you simply can’t ease again right into a beloved farm and toil away.

As of November 4, 2024, the free replace is offered for gamers on all platforms. The replace was initially solely accessible for PC gamers utilizing Steam, nevertheless it’s now accessible for console and cell gamers too. If you do not have the sport but, you should buy it on Steam for $15 for PC, Linus, and Mac computer systems, or the store on your console of alternative, just like the Nintendo Retailer ($15) or Xbox Retailer ($15). You can too buy it for cell within the Apple Retailer ($5) or Google Play Retailer ($5) to play in your cell gadgets. There are not any cross-saves, so every platform can have its personal information and farms.

As quickly because the PC replace arrived again in March, 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 current 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 every single place 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!

In the event you hate spoilers, I’m actually unsure why you learn this far, however you must positively cease studying. I’m about to let you know about among the largest modifications I’ve noticed since enjoying the up to date sport.

Ranch Mode

The largest change to see straight away 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 sport creator Eric Barone says animals will love. It might increase animal’s hearts sooner, enhancing 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 so far—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 distinct begin to the sport.

Screenshot courtesy of Nena Farrell

Recent Crops

The primary query my sister requested me once I began enjoying: “Are there new crops?” At first, I instructed her no. I didn’t see something new to buy within the store. However there are new crops with the update–you simply won’t discover them in any shops.

As an alternative, you discover 4 new crops (one for every season!) in a number of completely different ways—primarily, digging them up from the bottom within the game’s well-known Artifact Spots, though spots with these new crops have a barely completely different type you’ll be capable 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 game’s major quest, too. Simply select Remixed Bundles for the Neighborhood Middle in your beginning settings.