In a flip flop for the ages, Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone has revealed that mayonnaise will change into a drinkable merchandise for gamers as soon as the extremely anticipated 1.6 replace lands for PC on March 19.
“I like pickles, however mayo… I plead the fifth,” mentioned Barone to a fan in a 2021 Twitter/X put up discussing why the digital variations of the foodstuffs could not be slurped down in Stardew Valley. “But when I bear in mind proper, the true cause you possibly can’t eat them within the sport is as a result of they’re in a glass jar and I did not wish to have to attract a particular animation for fishing out the pickles, and no means would I permit consuming mayonnaise.”
I like pickles, however mayo… I plead the fifth. but when I bear in mind proper, the true cause you possibly can’t eat them within the sport is as a result of they’re in a glass jar and I did not wish to have to attract a particular animation for fishing out the pickles, and no means would I permit consuming mayonnaise.
— ConcernedApe (@ConcernedApe) October 12, 2021
Nicely, time makes liars of us all, and in his newest each day patch notice Barone introduced that the approaching 1.6 replace will in actual fact make a participant’s artisanal mayonnaise a drinkable merchandise, although why you’d wish to chug the white stuff, and what advantages it could confer, stay a thriller.
— ConcernedApe (@ConcernedApe) March 17, 2024
On the time of writing the put up has already banked over 120,000 likes, with many Stardew Valley followers taking to the feedback to specific a variety of feelings working the gamut from horrified to elated. “I want it was ‘eat’ as an alternative of ‘drink’, I believe I’m going to be sick lol,” mentioned Reddit consumer Whaim on a put up discussing the patch notice. “Your scientists have been so preoccupied with whether or not or not they might, they didn’t cease to assume if they need to,” mentioned consumer gammongaming11.
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— Rinqueen 👑 (@rinqueen6) March 18, 2024
Lastly.
— girl_dm_ (@Girl_Dm_) March 17, 2024
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HOLY SHIT THIS IS HUGE.
— RubberRoss (@RubberNinja) March 18, 2024
Barone introduced earlier this month that he intends to put up a brief, spoiler free patch notice detailing new content material and tweaks coming to sport each day working as much as the discharge of the 1.6 replace for PC on March 19. To date, the tidbits have revealed numerous new aesthetic and high quality of life modifications coming to the sport, together with the implementation of a seven day “honeymoon” interval for NPCs after getting married to the participant, which prevents them from staying in mattress all day as a result of they’re upset.
The replace may also cut back the period of time it takes gamers to nudge their well past obstructing pets down from 1.5 to 0.7 seconds, and can make jars of preserves and bottles of wine the right color based mostly on the components used to make them. Barone additionally assured gamers final week that the patch will repair a harvesting bug that made it slower to reap crops whereas transferring from proper to left, and in his newest X put up revealed {that a} new Meadowlands Farm kind shall be added in 1.6, which can see gamers begin the sport with a coop and two chickens, in a map with “chewy blue grass that animals love”.
— ConcernedApe (@ConcernedApe) March 18, 2024
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