The favored farming sim and ultimate cozy game, Stardew Valley, dropped a significant replace on Tuesday after months of anticipation. Stardew’s 1.6 replace has an insane quantity of latest content material that touches each space of the sport, from new menus and DIYs, to a brand new farm structure, new crops, and the power to have a number of pets and play with seven mates without delay. 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 necessary to notice right here that the free replace is at present solely obtainable 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’ll play usually whilst you await it to point out up. If you do not have the sport but on PC, you’ll be able to purchase 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 recordsdata, and I’ve been bouncing backwards and forwards between my brand-new file and a later-game file to see what’s new in numerous seasons. In all places I look, I see one thing new. Moss to forage off timber! New reactionary dialog from NPCs! A prize machine within the mayor’s home!
When you hate spoilers, I’m actually undecided why you learn this far, however you must undoubtedly cease studying. I’m about to inform you about among the greatest modifications I’ve noticed since taking part in the up to date recreation.
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Ranch Mode
The most important 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 special blue grass that recreation creator Eric Barone says animals will love. It could actually elevate animal’s hearts quicker, enhancing the eggs and milk they offer you. There’s much less farming land obtainable, 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–regardless that beginning with two chickens and no parsnip seeds is unquestionably a slower path to the infinite wealth I am in search of. However regardless that I am broke, it’s nonetheless been enjoyable to have such a special begin to the sport.
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Contemporary Crops
The primary query my sister requested me once I began taking part in: “Are there new crops?” At first, I advised her no. I didn’t see something new to buy within the store. However there are new crops with the replace–you simply gained’t discover them in any shops.
As a substitute, you discover 4 new crops (one for every season!) in a number of alternative 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 completely different type you’ll be capable to spot. You too can 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 principal quest, too. Simply select Remixed Bundles for the Group Middle in your beginning settings.
