Eric ‘Involved Ape’ Barone has given Stardew Valley followers their first glimpse at patch notes for the sport’s extremely anticipated 1.6 replace, which is ready to launch on PC on March 19, with console variations arriving shortly after.
At its coronary heart, Stardew Valley is a sport about development and human connections. After tens of hours of gameplay, watching crops and timber develop because the seasons wax and wane, all the things planted takes on a type of emotional weight.
This may render the act of hacking down timber to make manner for brand spanking new crops or buildings a guilt-inducing expertise, significantly when you had planted them your self and waited many digital days for them to develop to maturity and bear literal fruit. Fortunately, Barone has begun engaged on patch notes for the 1.6 replace, and the primary glimpse at them has revealed a brand new high quality of life change that can make reshaping your farm much less of an ordeal, arboreally talking, not less than.
began engaged on the patch notes for 1.6, thought I might share one random line about adjustments to fruit timber: pic.twitter.com/WoQ5U76Tx1
— ConcernedApe (@ConcernedApe) March 11, 2024
“Slicing doan a fruit tree now yields the suitable fruit sapling,” reads the patch be aware. “If the tree is mature (i.e. the fruit high quality is > fundamental), it should yield a sapling with the identical high quality as its fruit. The upper the standard, the sooner the sapling will mature when replanted.”
In different phrases, eliminating a fruit tree after 1.6 drops will current you with a sapling of the identical kind and high quality as the unique, which can mature sooner than an ordinary tree. Barone additionally famous in a subsequent publish that the sapling might want to develop and “undergo all of the levels once more” earlier than it should produce seeds of the identical high quality because the mum or dad tree. On the time of writing Barone’s publish has obtained over 48,000 likes, with many followers welcoming the brand new addition.
That is so thrilling each for timber you plant earlier than you might have greenhouse entry and for whenever you place your tree mistaken and waste a complete sapling 😭 I’ve restarted so many days from badly positioned timber or purchased a complete different sapling to switch it.
— MaddyZaddy (@MadelineTayl0r) March 11, 2024
oh it is a sport changer, actually
— seri berry ☾🫧beadjeweled period (@serismidnights) March 11, 2024
It is a a lot wanted characteristic for once I get to late sport and wish to maneuver issues, thanks!
— TheCrocCrusader (@TheCrocCrusader) March 11, 2024
“It is solely meant to assist individuals transfer their timber, not present any financial profit,” stated Barone in a separate post. “The perfect cash maker can be to plant your tree and by no means contact it once more. This simply makes it much less of a tragedy if there comes a time that you need to transfer a tree.”
Stardew Valley’s 1.6 replace provides eight-player multiplayer assist on PC, a brand new farm structure, recent late sport content material, over 100 traces of latest dialogue, and a complete lot extra.
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