The long-awaited Stardew Valley 1.6 update is finally here, released recently for Windows PC players, this update is full of improvement and fixes. Developed by Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone, the update brings lots of new things to the game. If you are curious about what is included in the game, So in this article, we will give you a quick overview of what to expect from the 1.6 patch.
Fresh Festivals and Farm
In the latest update, Stardew Valley has added lots of cool new stuff to make your farming experience even more fun, ready for two small fishing festivals, a three-day spring celebration, and a special summer event. But wait, there’s more, the update also includes new tools, items, and improvements to make the game better. Even though there are a lot of changes listed in the update notes, it’s only around 50 MB big, so it won’t take long to download for players who are excited to try it out.
Stardew Valley 1.6 update new content and features
- Mastery system, a new area that the player can access within Cindersap Forest which grants powerful perks and items.
- Added a “Special Items & Powers” tab to replace the wallet. The wallet area now tracks a selection of progress markers.
- 19 unique Books Of Power, which grant special perks.
- Skill Books, which grant experience in a skill.
- Book Of Stars, which grants experience in all skills.
- Meadowlands Farm: A new farm type that has a chewy blue grass that animals love. You also start with a coop and two chickens.
- Stardew Valley on PC can now host up to eight players for multiplayer
- The world map now shows your actual position within the world in real-time (instead of showing you at a fixed point for each location). In multiplayer, you’ll see other players’ positions in real-time too.
- Players can now place hats on cats and dogs
Multiplayer changes
- You can now have up to 8 players on PC.
- Many improvements for multiplayer performance and stability. That includes:
- Steam players will now use Steam multiplayer authentication, potentially improving connection issues significantly.
- Large multiplayer packets are now compressed, reducing bandwidth usage and latency.
- Internal optimizations to data syncing.
- You now need the same build number (in addition to version) to join a multiplayer server. This prevents crashes due to game changes between builds.
- Accepting a Qi challenge that increases mine difficulty now only kicks other players out of the affected mine type, not all mines.
- Purple shorts no longer show a chat message when placed into the Luau soup.
- Jump down mineshaft sound now plays for all players in the level rather than just the jumper.
New Festivals and Events
- The Desert Festival: a three-day event in spring which can be accessed after the bus is repaired.
- Trout Derby and Squidfest: Mini Fishing Festival
- new environmental “event” in summer
Stardew Valley 1.6: New Items
- Big Chest: Almost double the size of a regular chest. Can be placed “onto” a regular chest to upgrade it.
- Dehydrator: Turns fruit into dried fruit and mushrooms into dried mushrooms.
- Mushroom Log: Produces mushrooms and interacts with nearby trees.
- Bait Maker: Produces fish-specific baits.
- Heavy Furnace: Processes more bars at a time, yielding bonus bars.
- Fish Smoker: Produces smoked fish, doubling the value of the fish. You get one by default when starting a new Riverlands farm.
- Mini-Forge: Acts as a Dwarvish Forge.
- Statue Of Blessings: Grants a random blessing each day.
- Statue Of The Dwarf King: Allows you to select one of two mining buffs for the day.
- Tent Kits: Allow you to build a tent which can be slept in for one night.
- Treasure Totems: Spawn a ring of digable spots.
- Mystic Seeds: Grow a unique tree which can be tapped.
- Mystic Syrup: A valuable tapper product.
- Deluxe Bait: Gets fish biting faster than regular bait.
- Challenge Bait: Allows for up to 3 fish to be caught at once, but loses 1 each time a fish leaves the bobber bar.
- Deluxe Worm Bin: Upgrades the regular worm bin to produce deluxe bait.
- Moss: A new resource type which grows on old trees.
- Sonar Bobber: Shows the fish on your line before you catch it.
- 7 Trinkets: Grant powers related to combat.
- Stardrop Tea: Makes an excellent gift for anyone.
- Butterfly Powder: Which allows you to remove pets.
Visual improvements
- Added more holiday decorations in winter.
- Added more pathstones to various maps.
- Added jack-o-lanterns after the Stardew Valley Fair in fall.
- Added seasonal world map variants.
- Added a new rare ambient critter.
- Added some rare summer butterfly variants.
- Added an uncommon little brown bird variant.
- Redrew the world map to better match the in-game locations and be more detailed.
- Boat journey textures are now seasonal and reflect the latest valley map.
- The bus stop now has a wider map, though the distance to traverse it is the same. (This is to prevent black bars from appearing at the sides of the screen.)
- Jelly, pickles, wines, and juices are now colored based on the ingredient item.
- Many town trees are now actual tree objects, though you can’t cut them down.
- Slight adjustment to the way items pop out when dug from the ground.
- Updated volcano gold ore node sprite.
- Some trees have a chance to lose their leaves in the fall.
- Riverbanks and lakeshores in the mountain, town, and forest areas are now less jagged in some places.
- Graphical improvements to building interiors.
- Improved the art of George & Evelyn’s roof.
- If you destroy a mines chest, it now shows some graphics debris.
- Added special backplates to fortune teller TV show if you get a perfectly good or perfectly bad luck day.
Other bug fixes
- Fixed crash when taking a screenshot on macOS if the ~/.local folder doesn’t exist.
- Fixed crash when removing light glows in rare cases.
- Fixed window resize on character creation resetting profit margins & starting cabins, and desyncing the ‘skip intro’ checkbox.
- Fixed able to equip a staircase as pants to obtain trimmed lucky purple shorts.
- Fixed being able to place a yellow couch in a loom.
- Fixed wilderness farm spawning a stone in water.
- Fixed hill-top farm spawning grass inside of stumps.
- Fixed Trash Bear treated as a villager (e.g. it could theoretically be picked for quests).
- Fixed save folder collision if you set the save’s name & seed to the same value as an existing save.
- Fixed selecting small buildings in the construction menu’s farm view. This fixes the gap above the shipping bin where it can’t be selected, and fixes small buildings selectable by hovering three tiles above them.
- Fixed the build number not set on Linux/macOS.
- Fixed unable to write vanilla error logs for players with special characters in their name.
You can read the full Patch notes on the official Website. The Stardew Valley 1.6 update brings lots of new fun for both old and new players. With all its new stuff and improvements, this update makes the farming game even better.
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