Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has been teasing fans with the upcoming new content for the past few months. After a long wait, Stardew Valley 1.6 update is finally out. Players on PC/Steam can now dive into the latest features and discover new content.
The Stardew Valley 1.6 update brings new festivals, a mastery system, a new farm type, the ability to have multiple pets and give them hats, and other quality of life updates. New items have also been added, such as chests, a dehydrator, a bait maker, a heavy furnace, a fish smoker, and various seeds and books.
If you want spoiler-free gameplay, you may want to go back to your farm. Without further ado, let’s dive into the Stardew Valley 1.6 update.
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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
Stardew Valley 1.6: 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.
- Blue Grass Starter.
- Moss Soup.
- Secret items.
This is just some of the new contents for the game as part of the Stardew Valley 1.6 update. For the full patch notes and changelogs you can check out the long list of updates on the Stardew Valley website for the full details.
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