Not content with finally getting Stardew Valley 1.6 live on all platforms, Eric Barone has piled a bunch of other new stuff on top of it in yet another big update

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(Image credit: Eric Barone)

Stardew Valley screenshot - farmer standing in the yard in front of his house

“I have this problem where once I start, I can’t stop,” Eric Barone said in an interviewearlier this year, and boy, he wasn’t kidding. Case in point: Stardew Valley, which Barone started in 2012, released in 2016, and has relentlessly hammered away on since, despite having plenty of other things he’s supposed to be doing.

“1.6 ended up being a little larger in scope than originally planned. I’m done adding major new content to it now, though,” Barone said afew months priorto that “can’t stop” comment, and that was at least technically true in the sense that the 1.6 update rolled out for PC in March. But calling it “a little larger” was a bit off the mark: The thing wasmassive.

Console and mobile players unfortunately had to wait for the update, as Barone said in May that those versions “require extra work,” but the ports are finally out today—and it turns out that Barone was working on even more stuff to pile on top of it in the 1.6.9 patch, which is also now live on all platforms. Guess he didn’t want PC players to feel left out today.

(Image credit: Eric Barone (Twitter))

The Stardew Valley 1.6.9 update for Consoles, Mobile, and PC will start releasing at 10am PST. The exact time that it will be available may vary from platform to platform. Patch notes: https://stardewvalley.net/stardew-valley The patch notes are just for 1.6.9, but Console and Mobile are getting all the previous 1.6 content as well

Make no mistake, this is a pretty beefy addition to the 1.6 update, with balance and quality of life changes, a slew of fixes, and—you guessed it—more new content, including new Easter eggs, a mysterious new friend who will appear in the secret woods to help you recover lost items (for a price, of course), and “hidden cheat commands,” although that will only work on platforms that allow save edits, which I would assume excludes consoles.)

The cheats, detailed on theStardew Valley wiki, are powerful tools: One enables players to instantly grant themselves whatever amount of money they want, while the other enables the use of any debug command through the chat console—something you should do with all appropriate caution, as the wiki warns that debug commands “may crash your game, permanently corrupt or break your save, or cause other problems. Using these in a save you care about is not recommended.” Back up your saves first.

The addition I find more intriguing, though, is the “new friend” who will do you a solid if you lose something important. “If a player has unlocked a unique item and then lost it, a secret shop appears overnight behind the fallen column to buy it back,” the wiki explains. “The shop sells items that can’t be re-obtained any other way. In multiplayer, any player can purchase an item that was lost (not only the player that lost theirs).”

The one downside? Each item costs10,000 gold. Be careful with your stuff.

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Barone said in September that he hasn’t worked on his next game, Haunted Chocolatier, “in a long time” because he’s been focused on the Stardew 1.6 update. That might be disappointing for people eager to explore his new world, but the general consensus reaction is one of excitement and appreciation that Barone is still doing so much for a game he could’ve justifiably washed his hands of years ago. “He better be wearing a chef’s hat the way he cooked with this update,” MaximusJDo wrote on Steam, nicely summarizing the mood.

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Steam users react positively to the Stardew Valley 1.6.9 update

The full Stardew Valley 1.6.9 patch notes are below.

New content & features

Balance changes

Quality of life changes

Technical changes

Gameplay fixes

Multiplayer fixes

Display text and localization fixes

Cosmetic fixes

Gamepad fixes

Changes for modded players

Changes for mod authors

I told you it’s a lot.

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