As PC Gamer’s BaroneWatch enters its ninth day, Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone has shared what is anticipated to be the ultimate particular person patch observe for the Stardew Valley 1.6 replace earlier than it goes reside. And folk, it is a large one: The replace will embrace an all-new farm kind known as Meadowlands Farm.
Stardew Valley at the moment has seven farm varieties—commonplace, Riverland, Forest, Hilltop, Wilderness, 4 Corners, and Seaside—every with their very own distinctive advantages, bonuses, and limitations. The addition of an eighth is a really large deal, as a result of it offers gamers a possibility (or excuse) to start out over again in a model new setting. It is also the primary new farm kind to be added to the sport because the Seaside farm in 2020.Â
- Added a brand new farm kind: Meadowlands Farm. It has a chewy blue grass that animals love. You additionally begin with a coop and two chickens.
This is not fully out of the blue: Barone mentioned in September 2023 {that a} new farm kind can be one of many large content material additions within the 1.6 replace. However that is the primary time Barone has shared something about what precisely gamers must stay up for, and followers are predictably very enthusiastic about it.Â
Maybe rather less predictably, there’s additionally widespread eagerness to eat the blue grass:
I am gonna smash me some blue grass pic.twitter.com/bEErS0U4VCMarch 18, 2024
Barone has been sharing particular person patch notes from the Stardew Valley 1.6 replace because the center of final week, and most of them have been comparatively minor issues: A change in harvesting animations, for example, or the addition of a one-week honeymoon interval for newly-married {couples}. In the present day’s patch observe, by comparability, is a giant one, though it is missing intimately: With the 1.6 replace set to go reside tomorrow, March 19, Barone clearly saved one of the best for final.
(That mentioned, “now you can drink mayonnaise” is well my favourite of the bunch, and may be one of the best patch observe ever.)
Stardew Valley gamers are clamoring greater than ever to know precisely when the 1.6 replace will go reside. To this point Barone hasn’t mentioned, however he did point out final week that, barring any last-minute issues, he plans to get up, slam a espresso, and “push the button.” I am not conversant in Barone’s sleep schedule, however a lot of the patch notes he is been dropping have appeared on Twitter round 1 pm ET, so I would not be shocked to see the replace arrive at roughly the identical time. We’ll let you recognize when it occurs.