Stardew Valley’s 1.6 Update Is Out Everywhere—Here Are Some of the Biggest Changes

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 recreation Stardew Valley dropped a significant 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 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, but it surely isn’t so new which you could’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, but it surely’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 selection, 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 aren’t 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 present 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 numerous 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!

When you hate spoilers, I’m actually unsure why you learn this far, however it’s best to undoubtedly cease studying. I’m about to inform you about a number of the greatest modifications I’ve noticed since enjoying the up to date recreation.

Ranch Mode

The largest 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 particular blue grass that recreation creator Eric Barone says animals will love. It may possibly elevate animal’s hearts sooner, bettering the eggs and milk they offer you. There’s much less farming land accessible, and some modifications to preliminary quests. I’m having fun with the Meadowlands Farm thus far—I instantly created one when the sport dropped–despite the fact that beginning with two chickens and no parsnip seeds is certainly a slower path to the infinite wealth I am searching for. However despite the fact that I am broke, it’s nonetheless been enjoyable to have such a unique begin to the sport.

Contemporary 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 replace–you simply received’t discover them in any shops.

As an alternative, you discover 4 new crops (one for every season!) in a couple 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 model you’ll have the ability 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 recreation’s important quest, too. Simply select Remixed Bundles for the Group Middle in your beginning settings.