The favored farming sim and ultimate cozy game, 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 format, new crops, and the flexibility to have a number of pets and play with seven buddies directly. It’s sufficient updates to make the sport really feel contemporary, however isn’t so new which you could’t ease again right into a beloved farm and toil away.
It is vital to notice right here that the free replace is at the moment solely out there for PC gamers. The replace will come to cell and consoles just like the Nintendo Change afterward. In case you’re not a PC participant, the 1.6 information has not modified gameplay, and you’ll play usually whilst you look ahead to it to indicate up. If you do not have the sport but on PC, you may 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 format (which has me very broke) to dive proper in. The replace additionally works in your current Stardew recordsdata, 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 timber! New reactionary dialog from NPCs! A prize machine within the mayor’s home!
In case you hate spoilers, I’m actually unsure why you learn this far, however you need to positively cease studying. I’m about to let you know about a few of the greatest adjustments I’ve noticed since taking part in the up to date sport.
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Ranch Mode
The largest change to see immediately is the brand new farm format. 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 sport creator Eric Barone says animals will love. It could actually increase animal’s hearts sooner, enhancing the eggs and milk they offer you. There’s much less farming land out there, and some adjustments 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 looking for. However regardless that I am broke, it’s nonetheless been enjoyable to have such a distinct begin to the sport.
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Contemporary Crops
The primary query my sister requested me after I began taking part in: “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 replace–you simply gained’t discover them in any shops.
As an alternative, you discover 4 new crops (one for every season!) in a number of alternative ways—primarily, digging them up from the bottom within the sport’s well-known Artifact Spots, though spots with these new crops have a barely totally different type you’ll be capable to spot. You may also 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 sport’s most important quest, too. Simply select Remixed Bundles for the Group Middle in your beginning settings.
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