Again in January, Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone promised that the long-awaited 1.6 replace will “completely” be out someday in 2024. And he wasn’t kidding: Barone revealed in the present day—the eighth anniversary of Stardew Valley’s launch, by the way in which—that the replace will arrive on PC on March 19.
“It is the eighth anniversary of Stardew Valley,” Barone tweeted. “Thanks for all of the help through the years! Right this moment I’m saying the PC launch date for the 1.6 replace: –March Nineteenth–. Console & Cellular will comply with as quickly as potential.”
It has been a very long time coming, to place it mildly. Barone revealed the 1.6 replace in November 2022 with a warning that it was principally for the good thing about modders and “will not be large,” however then it obtained large anyway: New content material will embody three new in-game festivals, a brand new sort of farm, new gadgets and crafting recipes, greater than 100 new traces of dialogue, help for eight-person multiplayer on PC, “new late-game content material, which expands on every of the ability areas,” and extra—plus all of the stuff for modders that this replace was alleged to be about within the first place.
In idea not less than, the completion of the 1.6 replace ought to sign that work on Barone’s subsequent sport, Haunted Chocolatier, will resume in earnest: He introduced in April 2023 that he was taking a break from that mission (though he is nonetheless dropping teasers from time to time) to give attention to the Stardew Valley replace, after which it could be “again to HC.” However it feels like Stardew might proceed to occupy his time for a very good whereas but.
“With a brand new replace on the horizon, a worldwide live performance tour underway, an official cookbook coming quickly, and now over 30 million copies bought, Stardew Valley is prospering greater than ever,” Barone tweeted. “As all the time, I am eternally grateful to the gamers (you!) for making all of this potential.
“Now, again to the grind. See you in 3 weeks.”
(That off-the-cuff remark about Stardew Valley having now bought greater than 30 million copies is notable in its personal proper. When final we checked, in November 2022, Stardew had bought 20 million copies: One other 10 million bought in a little bit over a 12 months since then is nothing in need of astonishing for a sport that is now eight years outdated.)
The total patch notes for the Stardew Valley 1.6 replace have not been shared but. I’ve reached out to Barone to see if we will get an up-close take a look at what’s coming, and can replace if he says sure.
