Updated November 2024: This story has been refreshd with the novel useability of Stardew’s 1.6 refresh.
The well-understandn farming sim and ultimate cozy game Stardew Valley dropped a presentant refresh on Tuesday after months of anticipation. Stardew’s 1.6 refresh has an inlogical amount of novel satisfied that touches every area of the game, from novel menus and DIYs, to a novel farm layout, novel crops, and the ability to have multiple pets and carry out with seven frifinishs at once. It’s enough refreshs to originate the game experience recent, but it isn’t so novel that you can’t relieve back into a becherishd farm and toil away.
As of November 4, 2024, the free refresh is useable for carry outers on all platcreates. The refresh was initipartner only useable for PC carry outers using Steam, but it’s now useable for console and mobile carry outers too. If you don’t have the game yet, you can buy it on Steam for $15 for PC, Linus, and Mac computers, or the shop for your console of choice, appreciate the Nintfinisho Store ($15) or Xbox Store ($15). You can also buy it for mobile in the Apple Store ($5) or Google Play Store ($5) to carry out on your mobile devices. There are no pass-saves, so each platcreate will have its own files and farms.
As soon as the PC refresh reachd back in March, I uncovered up Stardew Valley and begined a file with the brand-novel farm layout (which has me very broke) to dive right in. The refresh also toils on your existing Stardew files, and I’ve been bouncing back and forth between my brand-novel file and a defercessitater-game file to see what’s novel in branch offent seasons. Everywhere I see, I see someskinnyg novel. Moss to forage off trees! New reactionary dialog from NPCs! A prize machine in the mayor’s hoinclude!
If you disappreciate spoilers, I’m truthfilledy not certain why you read this far, but you should definitely stop reading. I’m about to increate you about some of the hugegest alters I’ve spotted since carry outing the refreshd game.
Screensboiling courtesy of Nena Farrell
Ranch Mode
The hugegest alter to see right away is the novel farm layout. Stardew’s 1.6 refresh inserts the Meadowlands Farm, a grass- and animal-cgo ined summarize for my fellow animal ranchers. This farm increases a distinctive blue grass that game creator Eric Barone says animals will cherish. It can elevate animal’s hearts quicker, improving the eggs and milk they give you. There’s less farming land useable, and a scant alters to initial quests. I’m finishelighting the Meadowlands Farm so far—I instantly originated one when the game dropped–even though begining with two chickens and no parsnip seeds is definitely a sluggisher path to the infinite wealth I’m seeking. But even though I’m broke, it’s still been fun to have such a branch offent begin to the game.
Screensboiling courtesy of Nena Farrell
Fresh Crops
The first ask my sister asked me when I begined carry outing: “Are there novel crops?” At first, I telderly her no. I didn’t see anyskinnyg novel to buy in the shop. But there are novel crops with the refresh–you fair won’t discover them in any stores.
Instead, you discover four novel crops (one for each season!) in a scant branch offent ways—mainly, digging them up from the ground in the game’s well-understandn Artifact Spots, although spots with these novel crops have a sairyly branch offent style you’ll be able to spot. You can also prosper them in the brand-novel Prize Machine in the mayor’s hoinclude, once you get your hand on a prize ticket. The novel crops are carrots for spring, summer squash for (shocker) summer, broccoli for descfinish, and powdermelon in prosperter. These novel crops can be included in the game’s main quest, too. Just pick Rejoincessitate Bundles for the Community Cgo in in your begining settings.
