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 massive one: The replace will embrace an all-new farm sort known as Meadowlands Farm.
Stardew Valley at the moment has seven farm sorts—customary, 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 massive deal, as a result of it provides gamers a chance (or excuse) to begin yet again in a model new setting. It is also the primary new farm sort to be added to the sport because the Seaside farm in 2020.
Added a brand new farm sort: 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 sort can be one of many massive content material additions within the 1.6 replace. However that is the primary time Barone has shared something about what precisely gamers need to sit up for, and followers are predictably very enthusiastic about it.
Maybe rather less predictably, there may be 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, as an illustration, or the addition of a one-week honeymoon interval for newly-married {couples}. At the moment’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 could 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 date 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 many 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.