Stardew Valley 1.6 Secretly Added Multiplayer to the Mobile Version — and You Unlock It With the Konami Code – IGN

Stardew Valley 1.6 added a hidden experimental multiplayer function to the cellular model of the sport, developer Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone has revealed.

In a weblog submit, Barone mentioned the function is hidden as a result of it could have some bugs or points, and the character of the cellular platform “might make a multiplayer session irritating.”

“Cell multiplayer works just about the identical as on different platforms, besides there isn’t a farm ‘discovery’ functionality,” Barone defined. “You possibly can solely join through IP. You possibly can, nevertheless, be part of a PC-hosted farm from a cellular system through IP.”

The perfect “cellular multiplayer” state of affairs, Barone added, can be to connect with a PC-hosted farm from a high-end cellular system on a neighborhood community (utilizing wi-fi, until you will have some approach to join your cellular system to ethernet). “This might be the best-case state of affairs,” Barone mentioned, earlier than warning towards attempting to attach or host utilizing a cellular phone community.

“The worst case state of affairs can be if somebody have been to host a recreation from a low-performance telephone, on a cell community (you’ll most likely must create a cellular wi-fi hotspot for others to connect with domestically), and so they have been on a prepare or one thing, going by means of tunnels,” Barone went on.

“After which the host can also be getting calls, inflicting the app to be interrupted repeatedly. This might end in a doubtlessly irritating multiplayer expertise.

“Nevertheless, if you wish to strive these items out, there’s nothing stopping you… Simply remember that there are inherent connectivity points that may come up when making an attempt to host a multiplayer recreation from a cellular system.”

Stardew Valley 1.6 lastly launched on console and cellular this week, eight months after the replace launched on PC. It did so alongside one other massive replace that modified the massively common farm and life sim additional.

Unlocking the cellular model’s hidden multiplayer function requires inputting a riff on the Konami Code (the well-known sequence of inputs used to unlock cheats in Konami video games).

As Barone defined within the weblog submit, on the title display screen, gamers will discover that the Stardew Valley brand has 4 teams of leaves connected to it. Faucet the leaves on this order: ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → then press the ? button within the bottom-right nook of the display screen. Exit the ? menu and also you’ll have a co-op button on the title display screen.

The free 1.6 replace, which sparked a recent 10/10 Stardew Valley evaluate from IGN, launched on PC in March. Barone initially anticipated the console and cellular ports of 1.6 can be launched a month later.

Barone has apologized to disgruntled followers and promised to not return to work on his subsequent recreation, Haunted Chocolatier, till Stardew 1.6 is finalized. Haunted Chocolatier, revealed in 2021, doesn’t have a launch window.

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