With the discharge of Stardew Valley 1.6, the patch notes have been revealed, and it’s protected to say that Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has been one very busy man over the previous couple of months. There’s a really, very lengthy checklist of modifications and additions to the sport, so let’s have a look.

Fairly than going into completely all the pieces, I’m going to concentrate on a very powerful facet of 1.6 – the brand new options, objects, and content material we get to take pleasure in. For all the pieces else, you possibly can test the patch notes themselves and browse them at your leisure.

New content material and options in Stadew Valley 1.6

• New festivals and occasions have been added:
  • The Desert Pageant is a three-day occasion in spring which may be accessed solely as soon as the bus has been repaired. 
  • Two mini fishing festivals: Trout Derby and Squidfest
  • Environmental ‘occasion’ within the Summer season
• New “mastery” system which grants highly effective perks and objects, accessed by way of a brand new (unspecified) space
• New Farm, Meadowlands Farm, comes with a pre-built Rooster Coop and two Chickens
• A number of new NPC dialogues
• Now you can have a number of pets, however solely after getting most hearts along with your starter pet. In addition to this, pets who love you’ll now generally deliver you items.
• A world map for Ginger Island will now be seen whereas visiting the island
• World map now exhibits not solely your personal real-time place, but additionally the place of different gamers whereas taking part in multiplayer video games
• NPCs will put on winter outfits
• Festivals now have map and dialogue modifications each second yr (besides the Evening Market and Desert Pageant)
• Added the Golden Joja Parrot, which is able to discover the remaining Golden Walnuts on Ginger Island in change for a price
• Now you can bypass perfection challenges utilizing Perfection Waivers
• There’s now a prize machine in Lewis’ home. Prize tickets are rewarded for finishing quests and particular orders, or from repeated Egg or Ice Pageant wins
• A bookseller now involves city twice a season
• Thriller packing containers can now be discovered at random
• Added a giant tree, with a quest line which finally offers you some new neighbors
• Added 4 new crops, seeds for which may be bought at Pierre’s Retailer:
  • Carrots
  • Summer season Squash
  • Broccoli
  • Powdermelon
• Added two new big crops
• Added 4 house renovations:
  • Eating Room
  • Attic
  • Expanded Nook Room
  • Cubby
• Added Goby fish
• Newly added Remixed Bundles
• Now you can place hats on cats and canine
• Now you can improve the Copper Pan to all ranges, together with Iridium
• Now you can enchant Pans with Aechaeologist, Beneficiant, Fisher and Reaching
• Added a “Particular Objects & Powers” tab to switch the Pockets. 
• Pockets space now tracks a collection of progress markers
• Added a brand new animal tab which exhibits all your pets and animals
• Now you can construct three forms of Pet Bowls in Robin’s store
• The Farmhouse and Pet Bowl can now be moved via Robin’s menu
• The Farm Pc can now be used anyplace to see a abstract of that location
• The Mini-Jukebox can now be used on the Ginger Island Farm
• Added a brand new interplay along with your Horse
• Added a brand new side-tunnel to the quarry mine
• The Neighborhood Middle fish tank will now turn into an precise fish tank when accomplished
• Extra secrets and techniques and easter eggs
• Two new Cat and Canine breeds
• Now you can hold Turtles as pets
• 8 new achievements
• 4 new Cabin variants
• Extra accent choices in character creation
• Willy’s store now has a Bobber machine with 39 kinds of Bobber to select from. New kinds are unlocked by way of catching new sorts of fish
• Emily has a brand new uncommon “socialize” each day quest in the event you’ve accomplished the introduction quest
• Now you can add anchors, treasure chests and pearls to fish tanks
• Pierre now sells just a few random objects on the winter star sales space
• Added a Cranium Cavern statue that can be utilized to toggle laborious mode within the Cranium Cave, however solely when you’ve accomplished Qi’s problem
• Added extra chests to ranges 200 and 300 of Cranium Cavern
• Added distinctive chests on ranges 100, 200 and 300 of Cranium Cavern
• Added Iridium Golem to Wilderness Farm

Objects added with replace 1.6

• Massive Chest, nearly double the dimensions of a daily Chest. Will also be positioned “onto” a daily Chest to improve it 
• Dehydrator which turns fruit and mushroom into dried variations
• Mushroom Log, which produces mushrooms and interacts with close by bushes
• Bait Maker, which produces fish-specific bait
• Heavy Furnace, which might course of extra bars at a time and generally produce further bars
• Fish Smoker, which produces smoked fish and doubles the worth of the unique fish. You’ll now get considered one of these by default when beginning a brand new Riverlands farm.
• Customized textual content indicators
• Anvil, which lets you re-roll trinkets
• Mini-Forge, which acts as a Dwarvish Forge
• Statue of Blessings, which grants a random blessing every day
• Statue of the Dwarf King, which lets you choose considered one of two mining buffs for the day
• Tent Kits, which can be utilized to erect a tent to sleep in for one evening
• Treasure Totems, which spawn a hoop of diggable spots
• Mystic Seeds, which develop a novel tree which may be tapped
• Mystic Syrup
• Deluxe Bait, which will get fish biting sooner than common bait
• Problem Bait, which permits for as much as three fish to be caught directly, however loses one every time a fish leaves the bobber bar
• Deluxe Worm Bin, which upgrades the common Worm Bin to supply Deluxe Bait
• 19 distinctive Books of Energy, which grant particular perks
• Talent Books, which grant expertise in a talent
• Ebook of Stars, which grants expertise in all expertise
• Moss, a brand new useful resource which grows on previous bushes
• Combined Flower Seeds
• Sonar Bobber, which exhibits the fish in your line earlier than you catch it
• Raisins, which have a particular use
• New issues to fish for:
  • Sea Jelly
  • River Jelly
  • Cave Jelly
• 7 Trinkets, which grant powers associated to fight
• Fireworks
• Stardrop Tea, which makes a superb present for any villager
• 25 new hats
• 280 new furnishings objects
• New distinctive furnishings catalogues containing themed furnishings units
• 41 new flooring kinds
• 24 new wallpaper kinds
• Golden Animal Crackers
• Mannequins, which may be dressed
• Partner Portraits which may be bought after receiving 14 hearts
• Butterfly Powder, which lets you take away pets
• Blue Grass Starter
• Moss Soup
• Secret objects

Now bear in mind, that’s simply the new stuff. There’s additionally visible enhancements (the map has been utterly redrawn, as an illustration) and a whole lot of fastened points that have been remaining from earlier patches.