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Stardew Valley “thriving more than ever” as new mod-centric 1.6 update gets a March release dateThe farming sim is eight years old and has 30 million copies sold
The farming sim is eight years old and has 30 million copies sold
Image credit:ConcernedApe
Image credit:ConcernedApe
At that time, Barone also confirmed that 1.6 brings new game content but “much less” than 2020’s hefty 1.5 update (whichbrought the beach farm to Stardew Valley, along with some pretty wild endgame content). Ina later tease, Barone Xeeted that new content including new items, a new festival, more secrets and “???” would be included in 1.6, as well as8 person co-opon PC. It sounds a bit like 1.6 grew beyond Barone’s initial intentions, because he recommended you play it with a fresh save “to experience everything in context”. Given some of the stuff that arrived in 1.5, I would expect the unexpected, but we’ll know more when the patch comes out in a few weeks.
Still, now might be the time. As Barone points outin his Xitter thread, Stardew Valley has a live concert tour, an official cookbook coming soon and over 30 million copies sold - it is, he says, “thriving more than ever”, and if you’ve never played it before I do sincerely suggest checking it out. Barone could probably spend the rest of his life doing updates for it. Although now that 1.6 is out of the way, we can probably expect him to get back toHaunted Chocolatier, which is his next (and typically mysterious) game.
