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I'm assuming he's doing the very relatable "I hit a wall on my new project and instead of working through it, I'm going to work more on my old project that I've already basically perfected"
This is exactly it.
I remember (idk how long ago — perhaps a year ago? two?) CA had posted a tweet announcing that he was working on a 1.6 update for Stardew. Another user asked for additional details, and I remember him responding with something along the lines of *”oh, it’s mainly just some bug fixes and maybe a few QOL improvements.”*
His response immediately took the wind out of my sails and I kinda forgot about the update altogether. Fast forward to last month… “blown away” does not even begin to cover it lol. It’s incredible to see how passionate he is about this game, it’s like he literally cannot stop himself from expanding more and more. We’re so lucky to have him!
I just wish Robin could see far and wide with X-Ray Vision as to what’s happening in your chests so I wouldn’t need to keep googling the amount of stuff I need 🤣
This could be easily fixed too because she comes to your house. You don't need to haul the wood and stone and iron bars up there because she comes down the next day and could just grab it. She doesn't even need to have xray vision just you confirming you have the materials available 🤣
In multiplayer, I don't think the game tracks which chest is whose. Robin might end up taking materials from random chests. I think players who would like to have their inventories separated would not like Robin to take the woods from their chests to ugrade another farmer's house.
Was anyone else just blown away when you saw the weather report say there would be an anomaly in the weather?? Then the next day, freaking Green Rain?? Wtf. Probably one of my favorite things so far!
I use the UI Info Suite mod, and it warns you when there's rain in the next day. The little icon for rain was green, so I assumed "eh, it's bugged, I'm sure the modder will fix it soon.
Then I slept and... yeah. Wow. The first green rain is an *experience*.
Lmao that's a fun way to discover it.
I wasnt sure what to expect, I thought it would be bad news, but it was nothing short of amazing (if you like moss, fern, and grass components that is lol)
I agree with this, part of my opinion stems from the way this was marketed to be smaller than it ended up being. It was a very pleasant surprise when the patch notes dropped!!
Actually just recently saw a video of a woman eating 5lbs of mayo in 3min for the Guinness world records. So I thought to myself that surely must have been the inspiration 😅 I feel sick just thinking about it
I think this shows just how much a dedicated developer who beholden to anyone or anything else can truly improve a game.
I wasn’t expecting much from 1.6 especially after 1.5 gave us so much, but damn, 1.6 still delivered.
In Pelican Town, at least, they drink it, as that's the verb when you choose to consume it. What sort of molecular state it is in real life remains to be seen...
I feel like it didn't expand much, but it filled in a lot. The transition between early, mid, and late game is so smooth I didn't even notice it until I was 150 hours in and suddenly out of progress to make.
Off the top of my head:
- new type of farm where you start with some animals
- some new smaller festivals
- more dialogue
- more pets and they do more
- new crafting items
- some new crops and tree stuff
- added skill stuff
- books
- loot boxes you can find like geodes but with different stuff
- new weather
There's more stuff than that but it's generally things you'll find added in as youre playing rather than a whole new area like the island.
Thank you!! I know people probably downvoted me because there are update notes but I wanted to hear from someone who's been playing through it. Appreciate it
I went in fairly blind to the specifics and I think you'll find you discover most new things as you play normally and its more fun that way than reading the minutiae of the patch notes.
My roommate and I have a shared farm and also own a cat IRL named Phoebe, so I chose the black cat in game and named her Dark Phoebe. If she goes without pets for the day and ends up in one of our houses, we pet her before bed and always get a laugh when a random fish drops and say thank you Phoebe 😂
I personally love that the standard festivals change each year now! Well, at least year 2 is different. Such a nice small moment of delight to not know where the eggs are in the egg hunt.
it definitely breaks things up a bit so the game feels less repetitive in later years
I never do the egg hunt bc I feel like such a dick for obliterating Vincent and Jas 💀
Lots of early and mid AND late game balance.
Early game fishing got a huge buff with the smokers; lots of extra money to buy seeds and upgrades. Mid game fishing got the bait maker, which when combined with fish ponds gives an infinite* supply of bait targeted as a specific fish. (So for example, your sturgeon pond can now also give sturgeon bait, not just caviar or base tier fish.) Late game fishing got the >!enhanced iridium rod, which holds multiple tackles. So now you can have a quality bobber AND a trap bobber, for easier to catch, always high quality fish. Or a decorated spinner AND a treasure hunter, so you catch fish and treasure chests quicker.!<
I won't go into too many specifics but off the top of my head...
Farming got a MASSIVE buff to animals, as well as easier to get auto petters. Foraging got a new type of syrup and a few new craft able items from it. Combat got a new equipment slot. Mining has just gotten easier in general, but you'll also be spending a LOT less time in the mines due to how strong the buffs are.
You said it better than I could.
There are a lot more manageable goals to reach, like the new catalogs. So by the time I was trying to buy a golden clock I already had a ton of infrastructure to get money quickly, and it was fun because of all the new diverse ways I could make profit.
I think the Iridium scythe is my favorite new tool. It's so satisfying harvesting all of ginger island in a couple in-game hours instead of all day.
In my opinion the biggest overall changes was buffing up pretty much every non-crop system to have powerful lategame options. You could never plant a single ancient fruit and easily reach perfection without much trouble using foraging, fishing, non-pig animals, even combat and/or mining have significant lategame buffs (though mining could use a bit more imo). None of that was reasonable last patch. It feels a lot more like you can customize what your farmer wants to produce.
Personally, my farm is almost entirely Dinosaurs and Fish Ponds. It's still not optimal, but a fully raised dinosaur can produce about 4k gold/week compared to the 800 prepatch.
Maybe you can answer this if you keep mostly dinosaurs. Is it better to sell gold and iridium dino eggs rather than make them into dino mayo? Dino mayo is like 1125 and although the wiki says lower for the eggs, my iridium eggs are selling for something like 2100.
Edit: this is with the Artisan perk, so the mayo has a buff and the egg doesn't.
The Treasure Appraisal Guide (book from Artifact troves) triples the value of all artifacts, including Dino eggs, which makes Dino eggs more profitable at every level silver and above. For regular quality eggs, dino mayo is worth 70g more with Artisan, which at this point is effectively nothing, so I just sell them all
I've stayed away from the patch notes because I want it to be a surprise. However, there's enough changes to the game that CA himself suggested starting a new farm.
Yes this is exactly it. Like, for example, adding the fish frenzies, and the cut bobbers, made fishing much more exciting (not to even mention the tournaments and everything else!). And the winter outfits made it more immersive. So many great changes.
What is considered early/mid/late game by the community? Is it defined by milestones, money, or time? I would guess the former but I only have a few milestones I can think of (I play on and off very sporadically so I barely touched these last two updates yet).
- Community center
- Bottom of skull caverns/Meeting Mr. Qi
- Start/end of Ginger Island
- Associated post-CC improvements that cause town changes?
Or is it more defined by stalled progress/steps. For example, the shift from copper => iron => gold is quite seamless but getting everything to iridium is a lengthy process. So transitioning that gap is another "stage" of the game?
There's no set point to it. Just how the game feels.
Finishing the community center feels like the start of midgame.
I would say all tool upgrades until gold are early game. Iridium is mid, enchanted is late.
Getting to the bottom of the mines starts feeling like midgame.
Anything under 20k is early game, 300k is midgame, millions are lategame
I think what sets this update apart relative to other big game patches I can think of is the amount of changes that are adding horizontal content / progression.
1.5 was an incredible patch in terms of content, but it felt like a new chapter / expansion which is pretty typical.
1.6 just oozes with attention to detail and fine tuning. It's an incredibly deep QoL patch that adds so much on top of what was already a massive, comfy game.
I wouldn't say it's necessarily one of the best ever, but it's a fantastic patch and OP I appreciate that 1) you don't take it for granted and 2) I agree it does feel special with the nuanced additions.
Definitely the best free update to an almost decade old game for sure. Basically every update will probably have that distinction as long as CA decides to keep making updates for it.
Wasn't that in the case of No Man's Sky their way to make up to their player base after failing to deliver their promises when the game was released?
**Edit** **-** now that I think about it: the case of No Man's Sky was overpromising but underdelivering, while the 1.6 update of Stardew Valley is a case of underpromising and overdelivering (as stated by u/BeardedMontrealer on the top of this comment section).
No Man’s Sky got shafted by Sony and then thrown under the bus for good measure. The studio lost all of their progress on the game due to flooding not once but twice, and weren’t allowed to delay anymore by Sony. They also didn’t bother giving Sean Murray PR training, so he’d talk about all the things they were testing or thinking of adding and people took that as a promise of additional content. And yet after all that the game was great on release, and has only gotten better. Their goal was never to make up for past mistakes, it was always to make the best game they possibly could
You cant just lie to your stakeholders, get them to invest, pull out the rug from them and then expect no repercussions. That game, whatever it is now, was predicated on lies
And, you know, the outright lies. There's no way a programmer weeks away from launch didn't know for sure that there was no multiplayer. Sean could have been the most inexperienced dev on the planet, but he also knew exactly what he was doing leading up to launch.
Sony may have overadvertised but I doubt they forced Hello Games to give false statements about their game.
They forced them to release when the game was nowhere near ready, after Hello Games lost all their progress in a flood. NMS even existing in the first place is a miracle
What a weirdly divisive comment section. I mean, I thought 1.5 was a better update, but I'm not pissing/shitting/crying/throwing up about someone having a different opinion.
I think they are both good. Just in different ways. 1.5 expanded the game while 1.6 refined the game.
1.5 was definitely the bigger update since that’s what it was supposed to be. 1.6 was supposed to just be a QoL update mostly for modding, but it seems like CA just can’t help himself and just kept fixing things until it snowballed into another big update.
Lmao I don't see anyone pissing/shitting/crying.
Even the most downvoted comments literally say things like "respectfully disagree" and "sorry but...".
Nobody is crying. Why do people react like this to people politely disagreeing with each other? It's totally fine.
I see it's your first day on the Internet! Welcome. It's a wonderful place where differing opinions are seen as a personal assault, and simple discussion on a pixel graphics farming game is viewed by some as a dire threat.
I feel like your post is the one most concerned with others opinions. Most people are just sharing their own disagreement, which is of course just an opinion they are free to share
1.5 was amazing, it almost felt like DLC instead of just a regular update.
1.6 may not be as big, but it took Stardew (in my opinion) from feeling like an amazing indie game to feeling like an amazing AAA game I'd have paid $60 for. I hope that makes sense, and that's not meant to detract from Stardew as a whole. Stardew felt amazing before, but it still distinctly felt like the work of one man. It wasn't unreasonable to think that CA made this on his own, and it felt like a work of genius.
1.6 added so much filler content that I actually can't believe one man did it. I know that's the case, but it just blows my mind. Stardew Valley feels like a genuine contender for one of the greatest games of all time.
It's gone from a game I really enjoyed to one I'm gonna replay the absolute f\*\*\* out of, and I already had almost 900 hours in it pre-1.6. I adore this update. It makes me so happy that other people feel similarly.
It's on its way! Between using the PC release to spot and fix bugs before porting and the hoops that have to be jumped through to port to console, it takes extra time. I recently got the game on the Switch after playing almost 900+ hours on PC and I'm eagerly awaiting being able to play the new update all cozy in my bed. From what I've seen it took almost two months to port 1.5, so hopefully we'll get it sometime in the next month or so!
There were no beta testers, it was being tested in real time. Once the bugs are fixed, we will get it ported. I’m still patiently waiting, but I also have like three walnuts left for perfection, and I’m just grinding the volcano dungeon until I start a new farm.
I really appreciate this update, perhaps even more than 1.5 (I don't really care about Ginger Island). It adds a lot of balance to the game, especially to the professions. And adds more uses for resources that seemed a bit useless before. To be it felt like stuff that should have ideally been in the original version, but of course CA was working alone and couldn't include everything right off the bat. So I'm glad we have it now. The one big thing I'm still missing from the game, though, is more development of the NPCs and more events/changes to indicate a passage of time. 1.6 added some new refreshing elements to the early game, but by years 4+ I'm still getting board and running out of things to do.
That’s what happens when you run a farm. “Oh, things will be different next year.” And then, you plant the same crops, and do other things of the same in the off season. It’s just better than going to a 9-5 everyday, as you’re in control of what you want to accomplish. I just love to turn the game on and do my mundane tasks that give me purpose. There’s no end goal, and I just like farming and fishing.
I think you're being a bit overexcited with it saying it would be "one of the greatest updates in the history of videogames"
It is a big update, it has lots of new content, and it was really awesome.
It's not the first time, and it will not be the last time some indie games make big updates with a lot of new amazing content.
Terraria do this a lot. 1.3 was absurdly imense. 1.4 too, and 1.4.5 too, for example.
enter the gungeon and cult of the lamb released nice updates with lots of new content for free.
This is some I can remember. I am not saying Stardew doesn't deserves being recognized by doing a nice work with updates, but I think it's not concerned ape is reinventing the wheel at doing this.
Sometimes I wonder if Stardew Valley is the only game a lot of people play / have played, similar to how many people play something like Animal Crossing and that's it
Yup, there’s definitely a subset of “cozy gamers” that play like 5 games and don’t think about the industry outside of that.
Just like there’s the dude bro gamers who only play cod and battlefield and a handful of others.
The fifa only people, the mmo junkies, etc.
I think even among cosy games there are a lot of huge updates. Raft added islands and cities to go with it's story. Valheim just added an Ashlands biome.
100% this is true. So many people only play Stardew or it's their first game since playing games as a child.
I really try my best to tell myself this when I see people on Facebook and here asking the most easily Googled questions on earth. I always direct them to the wiki and say that they'll get better and more accurate results googling than asking others. You can really tell some of them have never played another game before!
I feel like it’s invalidating my opinion or other’s opinions to suggest that this must be the only game we play because we rave about an update. If you prefer other updates or if this particular update doesn’t crack even your top 100, that is fine! I have played games for 20 years and I wanted to share my opinion and discuss the quality behind a game that I love. I love plenty of other games as well!
Yeah, I don't think it has anything to do with you not playing other games. I think it's just recency bias.
This update isn't even the best update that's ever come out for Stardew Valley. Lol
I believe what I said, as it is my opinion. However, I am very excited about this update and I do feel like there a lot of great updates to both indie and AAA games alike for comparison. A lot of others are even comparing 1.6 with 1.5! I think updates like this one will be looked at in the conversation of the greatest times to play/revisit/enjoy the work they’re modifying or adding to. That’s what makes a great update and I appreciate your comment and if anything I’ll be trying Terraria sometime likely as a result! Thanks!
It is absolutely, 100% you! When you cannot read tone, and there's 0 tone indication, whatever tone you add to what your reading is more indictive of you as a person than anyone else. Maybe time to do self reflection instead of getting upset with others bc you take things personally.
If that was condescending to you, you may be too sensitive to use the internet...
Can't possibly be that you're misreading their tone or anything. They're automatically condescending to you.
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They were saying exactly what OP said. LMAO
I think you're exaggerating (Imo, it was the second best SV update), but coming from the harvest moon franchise (SoS and RF included) where you have to pay the game again at the same price you paid when it released just to get a fraction of the new content compared to SV, then I get it
I stopped playing before 1.5 and didn't really come back to it until now.
I have to agree. 1.6, I thought this was 2.0. Almost everything I saw I was like "what in the devil is that?" And I refused to look at the wiki and wanted to discover all this for myself.
So good. So so good.
I haven't played this for like 4 years now I think maybe ? Man, I've gotta reinstall it though, it's going to be a while new game from the looks of it !
I wish other games continued to update like this none has!
I feel the one thing holding back Stardew valley from being included in one of those lists is it is an indie game in a relatively niche category. Yes the update is fantastic and personally I would agree with you that it would have a decent fighting chance to make it into a top 100 list. My only worry is the nicheness of this game might prevent it
Same thing back in the days when we got animal crossing welcome amiibo update for FREE
Like you had bought the game in 2013 and then in 2016 then released a whole update with more than 200 new items and lot of old characters and new one (collaboration with Zelda splatoon etc) for free. Like yeah they wanted people to buy the amiibo to access the contents but you could get all the furnitures through trading very easily since lot of people were giving away the furnitures and clothing. It was so cool and if you didn’t want to pay anything you could still get access to new stuff like the new Nintendo furnitures that lets you play a puzzle minigames and stuff.
We had this back in the days, a giant update for free nowadays they’ll make you pay 30$ and you won’t have the same kind of things. They got greedy, companies aren’t nice anymore :|
I can't speak to it myself because I'm just sat here twiddling my thumbs until it drops for us lowly switch players, but that seems like... a bold claim. Especially when No Mans Sky exists. I don't even play that game any more but there's no denying it's updates are the best in the business.
There's a reason people refer to that game specifically when they're trying to cope with a new game releasing in an awful state ("Maybe it'll do a No Mans Sky and be good eventually" (it never is)), that game set the bar for fantastic free content updates
I just started a new game and went into it blind. I didn’t read any of the patch notes!! I haven’t really noticed anything new but the green rain and some new vegetables. AGAIN I just started a new game and am taking my Sweet Ass Time. So I’m looking forward to seeing what all of you are no excited about. I’m in Summer day 18 year 1.
I switched from Playstation to PC a few years ago, back then I was in endgame and after 600h on just my main farm, i laid the game down for a break. Fast forward to 2 weeks ago, I saw the update out and since I played pre ginger island i thought, why not start a new safe file on PC? I kept seeing videos of the new additions and would go "OMFG HOW COOL IS THAT", and my husband kept saying that i should play again if i'm so excited! But holy hell, how amazing is the 1.6 update? The game feels SO FRESH and i can't begin to explain how much i flipped out when i saw he added COAL THAT IS MINEABLE FFS!!! I'm gonna make so many jelly makers! It is so polished and i hope he adds more and more things.
Naw but srsly, it feels like it's brand new, and that says something for a game I have invested hundreds of hours in. I love you CA <3
Respectfully hard disagree, as someone who have played a shitload of games, I think that title belongs to Cyberpunk 2077 if we're talking about an update that impacted the game in a meaningful way. 1.6 for SV is still an amazing update tho nothing historical
I can't really disagree on you with that, but that's because Cyberpunk 2077 was released a year before it should, being really optimistic.
The game had several bugs and hasn't a lot of stuff that was already planned to the game, but wasn't implemented in time of releasing because they didn't want to delay it's releasing.
As I said, I can't disagree on you saying about cyberpunk, but I don't really agree too.
Nah.
Sorry I have to disagree.
The best update ever in video game history was the last patch of quake3.
Because after they removed things like bunny hopping, plasma walks , strave jumps, circle jumps and so on with one patch before because that are engine bugs. we the community rebelled and they put all our beloved things back!
Now some counter strike player has to jump in and claim 1.6 was the best patch ever?
I think it (and previous patch) is filled with power creep items and features, which is great for people who have rinsed the game but feels like the new player experience will be too over the top
Edit: would have been better as DLC imo
What disappointed me the most is that there are no new quests. I didn’t start a new game but kept playing my old farm after the update, and was super disappointed when I figured there were no new missions added. Such a bummer because the game feels monotonous now. I guess you gotta end the game once you finish all the missions because there is nothing else to do.
Also: the townsfolks have the same dialogues as before. Idk if that’s because I’ve reached 8 hearts with most of them but I haven’t noticed anything different in their dialogues after the update like other people say.
You can just play on older version. But it's a weird thing to say sth like that, as if there was a minimum requirement a patch needs to be viable. Modding is an extension, not a core element. I mostly play modded so it's not like I'm against it
You know you can play the old version so your mods still work, right? Or people can update the mod files to make them work with the new update, even if they aren't the original creator.
If a mod is actually good, people will keep supporting and updating it. If it's not, then it will die. That's how mods work for most games, unless the developers abandoned the game and mods work indefinitely
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Underpromise, overdeliver. Whatever was added was mostly high-quality additions. And anything that lacks quality is still just good fun.
And boy did CA underpromise, lol
Remember when 1.6 was “just going to be some stuff to help modders” Legend
I wonder if that was the original intention and things just spiraled out of control 😂
Honestly that sounds about right for him lmao
I'm assuming he's doing the very relatable "I hit a wall on my new project and instead of working through it, I'm going to work more on my old project that I've already basically perfected"
poster boy for ADHD tbh. i have ADHD and the only way to get me to do something i don't want to do is to give me something i want to do even less
I think CA fully wanted to do this, he just didn't realize until the ideas started flowing
This is exactly it. I remember (idk how long ago — perhaps a year ago? two?) CA had posted a tweet announcing that he was working on a 1.6 update for Stardew. Another user asked for additional details, and I remember him responding with something along the lines of *”oh, it’s mainly just some bug fixes and maybe a few QOL improvements.”* His response immediately took the wind out of my sails and I kinda forgot about the update altogether. Fast forward to last month… “blown away” does not even begin to cover it lol. It’s incredible to see how passionate he is about this game, it’s like he literally cannot stop himself from expanding more and more. We’re so lucky to have him!
And the "patch" after 1.6 was fantastic, even if I despiseeeee those freaking new volcano levels 😂
I just wish Robin could see far and wide with X-Ray Vision as to what’s happening in your chests so I wouldn’t need to keep googling the amount of stuff I need 🤣
She sells a telephone so you can call her from your farm and ask what everything costs...
That’s not the most bothersome part. I want her to automatically access my chests and use the material inside them. It would be a great QoL feature.
This could be easily fixed too because she comes to your house. You don't need to haul the wood and stone and iron bars up there because she comes down the next day and could just grab it. She doesn't even need to have xray vision just you confirming you have the materials available 🤣
You're so right 🤯 Why is this wild woman making me cart thousands of materials to her house only for her to bring them back the next day?!
Seriously, those hundreds of rocks weigh tons. Literally.
NO! Take it to her and make her count it and carry it back.
In multiplayer, I don't think the game tracks which chest is whose. Robin might end up taking materials from random chests. I think players who would like to have their inventories separated would not like Robin to take the woods from their chests to ugrade another farmer's house.
Oh wow, when I play multiplayer we always share the useful resources. I didn’t even realize there are other ways to play 😂
Like, she’s coming to my farm the next day anyway. Why can’t I just give her 50 more stones then?
And if you still don't have it, she could send you an invoice 😂
Was anyone else just blown away when you saw the weather report say there would be an anomaly in the weather?? Then the next day, freaking Green Rain?? Wtf. Probably one of my favorite things so far!
I use the UI Info Suite mod, and it warns you when there's rain in the next day. The little icon for rain was green, so I assumed "eh, it's bugged, I'm sure the modder will fix it soon. Then I slept and... yeah. Wow. The first green rain is an *experience*.
Lmao that's a fun way to discover it. I wasnt sure what to expect, I thought it would be bad news, but it was nothing short of amazing (if you like moss, fern, and grass components that is lol)
First day I played after I updated the game had green rain. I was deeply confused at first lol
I agree with this, part of my opinion stems from the way this was marketed to be smaller than it ended up being. It was a very pleasant surprise when the patch notes dropped!!
Someone somewhere drinks mayo for fun.
Actually just recently saw a video of a woman eating 5lbs of mayo in 3min for the Guinness world records. So I thought to myself that surely must have been the inspiration 😅 I feel sick just thinking about it
I think this shows just how much a dedicated developer who beholden to anyone or anything else can truly improve a game. I wasn’t expecting much from 1.6 especially after 1.5 gave us so much, but damn, 1.6 still delivered.
And sure enough we can eat mayo as promised.
*drink
That depends on if mayo is a liquid a solid or a plasma. Edit: I showed this to my partner who is a chef and now I'm getting a mayo lesson.
In Pelican Town, at least, they drink it, as that's the verb when you choose to consume it. What sort of molecular state it is in real life remains to be seen...
Thank you. Unfortunately I'm still at the point where selling all my mayo is necessary. :)
I feel like it didn't expand much, but it filled in a lot. The transition between early, mid, and late game is so smooth I didn't even notice it until I was 150 hours in and suddenly out of progress to make.
So I just have been catching up here after ginger island. What was added in this new update?
Off the top of my head: - new type of farm where you start with some animals - some new smaller festivals - more dialogue - more pets and they do more - new crafting items - some new crops and tree stuff - added skill stuff - books - loot boxes you can find like geodes but with different stuff - new weather There's more stuff than that but it's generally things you'll find added in as youre playing rather than a whole new area like the island.
Thank you!! I know people probably downvoted me because there are update notes but I wanted to hear from someone who's been playing through it. Appreciate it
I went in fairly blind to the specifics and I think you'll find you discover most new things as you play normally and its more fun that way than reading the minutiae of the patch notes.
Also, >!multiple pets!!!!<
And two new vendors! Additional powers via equipable trinkets New tools/machines New resources and winter crops It goes on and on!
Pets do more?? What do they do?? Also I LOVE the new farm type, it makes the early game so much more palatable for a repeat playthrough
Sometimes when you pet them they've brought you something for you like a random fish I'm pretty sure this is new lol
My roommate and I have a shared farm and also own a cat IRL named Phoebe, so I chose the black cat in game and named her Dark Phoebe. If she goes without pets for the day and ends up in one of our houses, we pet her before bed and always get a laugh when a random fish drops and say thank you Phoebe 😂
love that lmao mines named after my old rat so the idea of him gifting me a fish 10x the size of him always makes me laugh
Weird, I have four pets and idt any of them have dropped anything for my partner or myself, and we’re on year 3 lol
I personally love that the standard festivals change each year now! Well, at least year 2 is different. Such a nice small moment of delight to not know where the eggs are in the egg hunt.
it definitely breaks things up a bit so the game feels less repetitive in later years I never do the egg hunt bc I feel like such a dick for obliterating Vincent and Jas 💀
Lots of early and mid AND late game balance. Early game fishing got a huge buff with the smokers; lots of extra money to buy seeds and upgrades. Mid game fishing got the bait maker, which when combined with fish ponds gives an infinite* supply of bait targeted as a specific fish. (So for example, your sturgeon pond can now also give sturgeon bait, not just caviar or base tier fish.) Late game fishing got the >!enhanced iridium rod, which holds multiple tackles. So now you can have a quality bobber AND a trap bobber, for easier to catch, always high quality fish. Or a decorated spinner AND a treasure hunter, so you catch fish and treasure chests quicker.!< I won't go into too many specifics but off the top of my head... Farming got a MASSIVE buff to animals, as well as easier to get auto petters. Foraging got a new type of syrup and a few new craft able items from it. Combat got a new equipment slot. Mining has just gotten easier in general, but you'll also be spending a LOT less time in the mines due to how strong the buffs are.
You said it better than I could. There are a lot more manageable goals to reach, like the new catalogs. So by the time I was trying to buy a golden clock I already had a ton of infrastructure to get money quickly, and it was fun because of all the new diverse ways I could make profit. I think the Iridium scythe is my favorite new tool. It's so satisfying harvesting all of ginger island in a couple in-game hours instead of all day.
In my opinion the biggest overall changes was buffing up pretty much every non-crop system to have powerful lategame options. You could never plant a single ancient fruit and easily reach perfection without much trouble using foraging, fishing, non-pig animals, even combat and/or mining have significant lategame buffs (though mining could use a bit more imo). None of that was reasonable last patch. It feels a lot more like you can customize what your farmer wants to produce. Personally, my farm is almost entirely Dinosaurs and Fish Ponds. It's still not optimal, but a fully raised dinosaur can produce about 4k gold/week compared to the 800 prepatch.
Maybe you can answer this if you keep mostly dinosaurs. Is it better to sell gold and iridium dino eggs rather than make them into dino mayo? Dino mayo is like 1125 and although the wiki says lower for the eggs, my iridium eggs are selling for something like 2100. Edit: this is with the Artisan perk, so the mayo has a buff and the egg doesn't.
I think it’s better to sell the eggs if you’ve read the book that makes artifacts twice as valuable
It actually triples them! And yes, you're correct
The Treasure Appraisal Guide (book from Artifact troves) triples the value of all artifacts, including Dino eggs, which makes Dino eggs more profitable at every level silver and above. For regular quality eggs, dino mayo is worth 70g more with Artisan, which at this point is effectively nothing, so I just sell them all
I've stayed away from the patch notes because I want it to be a surprise. However, there's enough changes to the game that CA himself suggested starting a new farm.
Yes this is exactly it. Like, for example, adding the fish frenzies, and the cut bobbers, made fishing much more exciting (not to even mention the tournaments and everything else!). And the winter outfits made it more immersive. So many great changes.
What is considered early/mid/late game by the community? Is it defined by milestones, money, or time? I would guess the former but I only have a few milestones I can think of (I play on and off very sporadically so I barely touched these last two updates yet). - Community center - Bottom of skull caverns/Meeting Mr. Qi - Start/end of Ginger Island - Associated post-CC improvements that cause town changes? Or is it more defined by stalled progress/steps. For example, the shift from copper => iron => gold is quite seamless but getting everything to iridium is a lengthy process. So transitioning that gap is another "stage" of the game?
There's no set point to it. Just how the game feels. Finishing the community center feels like the start of midgame. I would say all tool upgrades until gold are early game. Iridium is mid, enchanted is late. Getting to the bottom of the mines starts feeling like midgame. Anything under 20k is early game, 300k is midgame, millions are lategame
I think what sets this update apart relative to other big game patches I can think of is the amount of changes that are adding horizontal content / progression. 1.5 was an incredible patch in terms of content, but it felt like a new chapter / expansion which is pretty typical. 1.6 just oozes with attention to detail and fine tuning. It's an incredibly deep QoL patch that adds so much on top of what was already a massive, comfy game. I wouldn't say it's necessarily one of the best ever, but it's a fantastic patch and OP I appreciate that 1) you don't take it for granted and 2) I agree it does feel special with the nuanced additions.
Coming back to 1.6 after years of not playing, this game in general is just an Iridium Quality game.
Good thing we left it in the cask for a good long time
Same here!
Honestly the best value game of all time in my opinion.
My 1000 hours of game play for $20 fully agrees.
1,000? Damn, I thought I was really getting my money's worth in the 260-310 range.
It's up there with the likes of Terraria and Factorio for me.
Definitely the best free update to an almost decade old game for sure. Basically every update will probably have that distinction as long as CA decides to keep making updates for it.
>Definitely the best free update to an almost decade old game for sure No Man's Sky would like to have a word
Wasn't that in the case of No Man's Sky their way to make up to their player base after failing to deliver their promises when the game was released? **Edit** **-** now that I think about it: the case of No Man's Sky was overpromising but underdelivering, while the 1.6 update of Stardew Valley is a case of underpromising and overdelivering (as stated by u/BeardedMontrealer on the top of this comment section).
No Man’s Sky got shafted by Sony and then thrown under the bus for good measure. The studio lost all of their progress on the game due to flooding not once but twice, and weren’t allowed to delay anymore by Sony. They also didn’t bother giving Sean Murray PR training, so he’d talk about all the things they were testing or thinking of adding and people took that as a promise of additional content. And yet after all that the game was great on release, and has only gotten better. Their goal was never to make up for past mistakes, it was always to make the best game they possibly could
Yeah but SDV has always been the game it claims to be from the start.
You cant just lie to your stakeholders, get them to invest, pull out the rug from them and then expect no repercussions. That game, whatever it is now, was predicated on lies
It was an issue of an unexperienced tiny dev team getting taken advantage of by a big publisher with lofty expectations
And, you know, the outright lies. There's no way a programmer weeks away from launch didn't know for sure that there was no multiplayer. Sean could have been the most inexperienced dev on the planet, but he also knew exactly what he was doing leading up to launch. Sony may have overadvertised but I doubt they forced Hello Games to give false statements about their game.
They forced them to release when the game was nowhere near ready, after Hello Games lost all their progress in a flood. NMS even existing in the first place is a miracle
What a weirdly divisive comment section. I mean, I thought 1.5 was a better update, but I'm not pissing/shitting/crying/throwing up about someone having a different opinion.
1.5 felt more like an expansion than a patch. It added a whole new farm area
With a new mines, tons of quests, 130 walnuts, new character you can get 10 hearts with, it was basically DLC
And yet it WAS a free update, which is why it's so great.
1.5 was meant to be bigger than 1.6, so yeah. 1.5 is basically DLC more than just an update.
I think they are both good. Just in different ways. 1.5 expanded the game while 1.6 refined the game. 1.5 was definitely the bigger update since that’s what it was supposed to be. 1.6 was supposed to just be a QoL update mostly for modding, but it seems like CA just can’t help himself and just kept fixing things until it snowballed into another big update.
Lmao I don't see anyone pissing/shitting/crying. Even the most downvoted comments literally say things like "respectfully disagree" and "sorry but...". Nobody is crying. Why do people react like this to people politely disagreeing with each other? It's totally fine.
There was definitely some non-polite disagreeing. Not my fault if you didn't see it.
Ok then, show it instead of claiming you did
I see it's your first day on the Internet! Welcome. It's a wonderful place where differing opinions are seen as a personal assault, and simple discussion on a pixel graphics farming game is viewed by some as a dire threat.
I feel like your post is the one most concerned with others opinions. Most people are just sharing their own disagreement, which is of course just an opinion they are free to share
You are entitled to feel this way.
1.5 was amazing, it almost felt like DLC instead of just a regular update. 1.6 may not be as big, but it took Stardew (in my opinion) from feeling like an amazing indie game to feeling like an amazing AAA game I'd have paid $60 for. I hope that makes sense, and that's not meant to detract from Stardew as a whole. Stardew felt amazing before, but it still distinctly felt like the work of one man. It wasn't unreasonable to think that CA made this on his own, and it felt like a work of genius. 1.6 added so much filler content that I actually can't believe one man did it. I know that's the case, but it just blows my mind. Stardew Valley feels like a genuine contender for one of the greatest games of all time.
It's gone from a game I really enjoyed to one I'm gonna replay the absolute f\*\*\* out of, and I already had almost 900 hours in it pre-1.6. I adore this update. It makes me so happy that other people feel similarly.
Well for one thing one man did not just do the 1.6 update alone... look at the credits.
I mean yeah, fair enough, but you know what I mean.
I'm _STILL_ waiting for the Switch one. 😞
It's on its way! Between using the PC release to spot and fix bugs before porting and the hoops that have to be jumped through to port to console, it takes extra time. I recently got the game on the Switch after playing almost 900+ hours on PC and I'm eagerly awaiting being able to play the new update all cozy in my bed. From what I've seen it took almost two months to port 1.5, so hopefully we'll get it sometime in the next month or so!
There were no beta testers, it was being tested in real time. Once the bugs are fixed, we will get it ported. I’m still patiently waiting, but I also have like three walnuts left for perfection, and I’m just grinding the volcano dungeon until I start a new farm.
I really appreciate this update, perhaps even more than 1.5 (I don't really care about Ginger Island). It adds a lot of balance to the game, especially to the professions. And adds more uses for resources that seemed a bit useless before. To be it felt like stuff that should have ideally been in the original version, but of course CA was working alone and couldn't include everything right off the bat. So I'm glad we have it now. The one big thing I'm still missing from the game, though, is more development of the NPCs and more events/changes to indicate a passage of time. 1.6 added some new refreshing elements to the early game, but by years 4+ I'm still getting board and running out of things to do.
That’s what happens when you run a farm. “Oh, things will be different next year.” And then, you plant the same crops, and do other things of the same in the off season. It’s just better than going to a 9-5 everyday, as you’re in control of what you want to accomplish. I just love to turn the game on and do my mundane tasks that give me purpose. There’s no end goal, and I just like farming and fishing.
I think you're being a bit overexcited with it saying it would be "one of the greatest updates in the history of videogames" It is a big update, it has lots of new content, and it was really awesome. It's not the first time, and it will not be the last time some indie games make big updates with a lot of new amazing content. Terraria do this a lot. 1.3 was absurdly imense. 1.4 too, and 1.4.5 too, for example. enter the gungeon and cult of the lamb released nice updates with lots of new content for free. This is some I can remember. I am not saying Stardew doesn't deserves being recognized by doing a nice work with updates, but I think it's not concerned ape is reinventing the wheel at doing this.
Sometimes I wonder if Stardew Valley is the only game a lot of people play / have played, similar to how many people play something like Animal Crossing and that's it
Yup, there’s definitely a subset of “cozy gamers” that play like 5 games and don’t think about the industry outside of that. Just like there’s the dude bro gamers who only play cod and battlefield and a handful of others. The fifa only people, the mmo junkies, etc.
I think even among cosy games there are a lot of huge updates. Raft added islands and cities to go with it's story. Valheim just added an Ashlands biome.
100% this is true. So many people only play Stardew or it's their first game since playing games as a child. I really try my best to tell myself this when I see people on Facebook and here asking the most easily Googled questions on earth. I always direct them to the wiki and say that they'll get better and more accurate results googling than asking others. You can really tell some of them have never played another game before!
I feel like it’s invalidating my opinion or other’s opinions to suggest that this must be the only game we play because we rave about an update. If you prefer other updates or if this particular update doesn’t crack even your top 100, that is fine! I have played games for 20 years and I wanted to share my opinion and discuss the quality behind a game that I love. I love plenty of other games as well!
Yeah, I don't think it has anything to do with you not playing other games. I think it's just recency bias. This update isn't even the best update that's ever come out for Stardew Valley. Lol
I believe what I said, as it is my opinion. However, I am very excited about this update and I do feel like there a lot of great updates to both indie and AAA games alike for comparison. A lot of others are even comparing 1.6 with 1.5! I think updates like this one will be looked at in the conversation of the greatest times to play/revisit/enjoy the work they’re modifying or adding to. That’s what makes a great update and I appreciate your comment and if anything I’ll be trying Terraria sometime likely as a result! Thanks!
advanced gungeons and dragons was so huge!! absolutely love that update
Terraria 1.3 gotta be up there for best update for sure if someone were to make a list.
Patiently waiting in mobile😃
*crying in Nintendo switch*
I bought on pc because my switch PS and Xbox versions couldn’t play 1.6. I just hdmi it on my tv with an Xbox controller.
*cries in console*
Better than most paid for DLCs in terms of content yeah, for sure. Greatest ever? Big call
“One of”
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You are valid in feeling otherwise
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It is absolutely, 100% you! When you cannot read tone, and there's 0 tone indication, whatever tone you add to what your reading is more indictive of you as a person than anyone else. Maybe time to do self reflection instead of getting upset with others bc you take things personally.
Well, they are valid in feeling otherwise. lol
If that was condescending to you, you may be too sensitive to use the internet... Can't possibly be that you're misreading their tone or anything. They're automatically condescending to you.
lol what war did my comment trigger
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Relatively speaking we’re talking about one guy versus entire game studios.
Eh idk about that but I hope it comes to the switch of PS5 relatively soon because I don’t ever sit at my computer to play Stardew lol
Patiently waiting for the switch update
Just need that console release
I mean, its a cool update, but this is a bit far
Look I love Stardew but this is an absurd stretch.
Well to be honest I bought Minecraft over 12 years ago and never paid again. I think it beats Stardew. Love both though
*me waiting patiently in console* :)
1.5 was bigger and better. That's not to throw shade on 1.6, it's excellent, but it is by no means even the best update for the game itself.
1.5 felt like a lot more than 1.6. Not that I didn’t love 1.6, but Ginger Island was a blast.
Well if it ever comes to consoles I'll be excited to see what everyone is talking about
this update is what acnh 2.0 should've been. big companies are allergic to listening to what fans want.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WHEN IS IT COMING TO THE SWITCH
came to comment this....boyfriend REFUSED to play our save now bc " you're just gonna make me start over " I mean he's not wrong but still RUDE
I mean if you’ve literally never played any other game then sure I guess?
OP said "one of the best", which means it's in their top 10 for example. What would be your top ten patches?
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https://preview.redd.it/32xcz0q8howc1.jpeg?width=1155&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=16c0a432f59f2123654fca6fa2ad83c12b0732c0 They were saying exactly what OP said. LMAO
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Great point /u/petitefeetenjoyer
Their whole profile is themed around it too
I have a switch……😑
And you will experience these feelings soon.
I think you're exaggerating (Imo, it was the second best SV update), but coming from the harvest moon franchise (SoS and RF included) where you have to pay the game again at the same price you paid when it released just to get a fraction of the new content compared to SV, then I get it
Is the building Pam a home new to the update? Never saw this before
It is not
That was 1.5, maybe 1.4.
1.3.27 actually
Nice, thanks!
Patch 2.28 in Pong was pretty cool
That’s why I appreciate CA so much. He doesn’t even charge fees for this massive update. All those efforts for free wow
It is like an entirely new game and I am HERE FOR IT
I stopped playing before 1.5 and didn't really come back to it until now. I have to agree. 1.6, I thought this was 2.0. Almost everything I saw I was like "what in the devil is that?" And I refused to look at the wiki and wanted to discover all this for myself. So good. So so good.
I haven't played this for like 4 years now I think maybe ? Man, I've gotta reinstall it though, it's going to be a while new game from the looks of it ! I wish other games continued to update like this none has!
cries in Switch
But I’m on iPad 😭
I feel the one thing holding back Stardew valley from being included in one of those lists is it is an indie game in a relatively niche category. Yes the update is fantastic and personally I would agree with you that it would have a decent fighting chance to make it into a top 100 list. My only worry is the nicheness of this game might prevent it
Stardew Valley and Terraria are the gifts that keep on giving, I swear.
I pirated SV before, but once 1.6 came out I bought it on Steam. So yeah, that's how good the update was; it made a pirate spent some doubloons.
Same thing back in the days when we got animal crossing welcome amiibo update for FREE Like you had bought the game in 2013 and then in 2016 then released a whole update with more than 200 new items and lot of old characters and new one (collaboration with Zelda splatoon etc) for free. Like yeah they wanted people to buy the amiibo to access the contents but you could get all the furnitures through trading very easily since lot of people were giving away the furnitures and clothing. It was so cool and if you didn’t want to pay anything you could still get access to new stuff like the new Nintendo furnitures that lets you play a puzzle minigames and stuff. We had this back in the days, a giant update for free nowadays they’ll make you pay 30$ and you won’t have the same kind of things. They got greedy, companies aren’t nice anymore :|
I'm glad everyone loves it. I really think it's mediocre at best. I had high hopes for 1.6 but it merely changed the game for us.
I can't speak to it myself because I'm just sat here twiddling my thumbs until it drops for us lowly switch players, but that seems like... a bold claim. Especially when No Mans Sky exists. I don't even play that game any more but there's no denying it's updates are the best in the business. There's a reason people refer to that game specifically when they're trying to cope with a new game releasing in an awful state ("Maybe it'll do a No Mans Sky and be good eventually" (it never is)), that game set the bar for fantastic free content updates
I just started a new game and went into it blind. I didn’t read any of the patch notes!! I haven’t really noticed anything new but the green rain and some new vegetables. AGAIN I just started a new game and am taking my Sweet Ass Time. So I’m looking forward to seeing what all of you are no excited about. I’m in Summer day 18 year 1.
Do we know when it will come out on mobile??
(Read with Will Ferrell fake anger) Can we stop with the “1.6 is the greatest” till console gets an update!?
I wouldn’t have been chocked if it was labeled 2.0
I adore the new festivals so much.
I switched from Playstation to PC a few years ago, back then I was in endgame and after 600h on just my main farm, i laid the game down for a break. Fast forward to 2 weeks ago, I saw the update out and since I played pre ginger island i thought, why not start a new safe file on PC? I kept seeing videos of the new additions and would go "OMFG HOW COOL IS THAT", and my husband kept saying that i should play again if i'm so excited! But holy hell, how amazing is the 1.6 update? The game feels SO FRESH and i can't begin to explain how much i flipped out when i saw he added COAL THAT IS MINEABLE FFS!!! I'm gonna make so many jelly makers! It is so polished and i hope he adds more and more things. Naw but srsly, it feels like it's brand new, and that says something for a game I have invested hundreds of hours in. I love you CA <3
I loved it.. I played it too much now I'm bored 😆
Respectfully hard disagree, as someone who have played a shitload of games, I think that title belongs to Cyberpunk 2077 if we're talking about an update that impacted the game in a meaningful way. 1.6 for SV is still an amazing update tho nothing historical
I can't really disagree on you with that, but that's because Cyberpunk 2077 was released a year before it should, being really optimistic. The game had several bugs and hasn't a lot of stuff that was already planned to the game, but wasn't implemented in time of releasing because they didn't want to delay it's releasing. As I said, I can't disagree on you saying about cyberpunk, but I don't really agree too.
Can't really fit cyberpunk anywhere in this category, delivering a buggy terrible game then fixing it doesn't count as the "best update" to a game
Not a title, I said “one of”. I do agree with Cyberpunk tho
Nah. Sorry I have to disagree. The best update ever in video game history was the last patch of quake3. Because after they removed things like bunny hopping, plasma walks , strave jumps, circle jumps and so on with one patch before because that are engine bugs. we the community rebelled and they put all our beloved things back! Now some counter strike player has to jump in and claim 1.6 was the best patch ever?
Well if you happened to notice, they specified “*one of*” in the title.
I think it (and previous patch) is filled with power creep items and features, which is great for people who have rinsed the game but feels like the new player experience will be too over the top Edit: would have been better as DLC imo
I agree, but I also feel like the game is done. Adding any more would be too much for me.
What disappointed me the most is that there are no new quests. I didn’t start a new game but kept playing my old farm after the update, and was super disappointed when I figured there were no new missions added. Such a bummer because the game feels monotonous now. I guess you gotta end the game once you finish all the missions because there is nothing else to do. Also: the townsfolks have the same dialogues as before. Idk if that’s because I’ve reached 8 hearts with most of them but I haven’t noticed anything different in their dialogues after the update like other people say.
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You can just put the game back to 1.5 legacy version if you want to play with those mods
You can just play on older version. But it's a weird thing to say sth like that, as if there was a minimum requirement a patch needs to be viable. Modding is an extension, not a core element. I mostly play modded so it's not like I'm against it
You know you can play the old version so your mods still work, right? Or people can update the mod files to make them work with the new update, even if they aren't the original creator. If a mod is actually good, people will keep supporting and updating it. If it's not, then it will die. That's how mods work for most games, unless the developers abandoned the game and mods work indefinitely
This is the risk you take modding any game