As Stardew Valley 1.6 Finally Hits Console and Mobile, 1.6.9 Patch Notes Reveal Further Changes

Stardew Valley 1.6 lastly hits the console and cell variations of Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone’s 30 million-selling farm life simulation sport right now, November 4, and with it replace 1.6.9 launches throughout all platforms.

The Stardew Valley 1.6.9 replace for consoles, cell, and PC rolls out from 10am PST, though the precise time will probably be obtainable could differ from platform to platform, Barone tweeted.

Fans do have the Stardew Valley 1.6.9 changelog to run by way of now (take a look at the patch notes beneath). The patch notes are only for 1.6.9, however console and cell get all of the earlier 1.6 content material as nicely.

There’s so much to dig into with 1.6.9, however new content material and options embody the flexibility to discover a misplaced merchandise by way of a brand new buddy who seems within the secret woods, barely tweaked dialogues, new Easter eggs, and new hidden cheat instructions.

Stardew Valley Gameplay Screenshots – 1.6 Update

Barone had mentioned that following the discharge of 1.6, console and cell gamers can nonetheless expertise nearly all the pieces new with their present save, “however when you have any curiosity in beginning a brand new farm it could be preferrred to begin recent.”

“Some of the brand new issues, for instance, are completely different in 12 months one than in 12 months two plus,” Barone continued. “Besides, it is enjoyable to begin a brand new farm proper?”

The free 1.6 replace, which sparked a recent 10/10 Stardew Valley overview from IGN, launched on PC in March, which suggests console and cell gamers have waited eight months for it to launch on their platforms. Barone initially anticipated the ports can be launched a month later.

Barone has apologized to disgruntled followers and promised to not return to work on his subsequent sport, Haunted Chocolatier, till Stardew 1.6 was finalized. Haunted Chocolatier, revealed in 2021, doesn’t have a launch window.

Stardew Valley 1.6.9 patch notes:

New content material & options

• If you misplaced an merchandise that may’t be discovered once more, a new friend appears in the secret woods who can get it again (for a worth).
• You can now put legendary fish in fish ponds. These are restricted to at least one per pond and produce legendary fish roe. Each fish has a novel water colour.
• You can now place beds and sleep inside any constructed buildings that permit furnishings.
• Items dropped in water now float for a short while, so you may accumulate them when you’re fast or have a magnet ring.
• Sam and Shane now have work portraits whereas working at JojaMart.
• Slightly tweaked some dialogues.
• Added new Easter eggs.
• Added hidden cheat commands. (Only on platforms the place a save edit is feasible)

Balance adjustments

• Blue grass now not grows slower than regular grass.
• Fruit tree development is now not blocked by grass and seed spots.
• Pine bushes now drop one further wooden when chopped down.
• The initiation quest now counts wild slimes killed on the farm.
• Thorns ring harm now stacks when you equip two of them, and monsters killed by a thorns ring now drop loot like common kills.
• With the Gatherer ability, the possibility to double harvested forage now applies when utilizing an iridium scythe too.
• Son of Crimsonfish can now be caught throughout the evening market.
• Robin now not constructs buildings throughout inexperienced rain in 12 months 1.
• Placing a bomb after which switching to a weapon now not applies its enchantments to the bomb harm.
• Added some gadgets to retailers:
  • Adventurer’s Guild: Rusty Sword, Femur, Elf Blade, Steel Smallsword, Crystal Dagger, Obsidian Edge, and Work Boots. These unlock after you attain a sure mine stage, no matter whether or not you discovered them in a mine chest.
  • Marnie’s store: Cow Decal.
  • Hat mouse: Sports Cap.
  • Willy’s store: Advanced Iridium Rod.
• Passing trains are actually extra prone to occur a number of instances in the identical session, however can now not seem on consecutive days.
• Willy’s store now opens on spring 2 within the first 12 months even when you didn’t learn his letter.
• Fixed Queen of Sauce reruns being affected by the recipes wanted by unclaimed farmhands in empty cabins.
• Fixed having the ability to obtain monster harm whereas leaping down a mine shaft earlier than the display screen fades to black.
• Fixed spa not absolutely recovering vitality when a max-energy buff is lively.
• Fixed sleeping late whereas exhausted not decreasing stamina as meant.
• Fixed {the catalogue} and Furniture Catalogue promoting gadgets from themed catalogues like Retro Catalogue.
• Fixed exploit the place a fish pond with a golden cracker might produce limitless output. Fish pond output bonuses are actually utilized as soon as when the output is created.
• Fixed exploit the place you possibly can cancel cow milking and nonetheless get the friendship enhance.
• Fixed unintended further likelihood of spontaneous inexperienced rain bushes when loading a save in fall.
• Fixed ability buffs affecting store merchandise necessities in 1.6.
• Fixed sturdy ring now not halving debuff instances in 1.6.
• Fixed decrease likelihood of catching lava eels in caldera after 1.6.
• Fixed forage crops harvested from backyard pots all the time being low-quality and offering no XP.
• Fixed iridium scythe with forage crops not giving XP or making use of the forage stage high quality enhance.
• Fixed some weapons by no means dropping from crates when legacy randomization is enabled.

Quality of life adjustments

• The sport now recovers most saves mechanically in the event that they’re damaged, corrupted, or lacking the SaveGameInfo file.
• The sport now resends most achievements, recipes, and essential mail when you one way or the other missed them. For PlayStation/Xbox gamers, missed trophies are readded when perform a specific action instead.
• Fish ponds now present the variety of roe or different output gadgets to gather.
• The marriage ceremony occasion now replays when you exit & reload the day.
• The tailoring UI is now a bit extra intuitive: slots that may’t settle for the held merchandise are actually disabled, and you’ll now not choose up some gadgets that may’t be tailor-made.
• Colored gadgets like flowers now additionally kind by colour. That avoids gadgets being reordered randomly every time you kind your stock.
• You can now solely promote books to the bookseller by way of the e-book buy menu, not the trade-in menu. This reduces the possibility of by chance promoting a e-book when attempting to commerce it in.
• The collections tab now exhibits artifacts, gems, and minerals as soon as they’re donated to the museum (not as quickly as you discover it).
• Clint now refills your watering can when upgrading it.
• Tweaked save course of to cut back the possibility of corruption.
• Anvils now not settle for parrot eggs when you can’t re-roll their stage but.
• Improved chatbox instructions:
  • Chat instructions are actually case-insensitive.
  • Changed /assist format to make room for extra instructions.
  • Added /assist descriptions for /emote, /mapScreenshot, and /unbanAll.
  • Added constant messages when you may’t use a multiplayer-only or host-only command.
• Performance optimizations.

Technical adjustments

• Migrated from FAudio to OpenAL, which ought to enhance efficiency when enjoying audio.
• Updated SDL from 2.0.x to 2.30.4 (used for enter and windowing).
• Fixed compatibility with newer Windows methods when utilizing some older GPUs.

Gameplay fixes

• You can now not swap a chest’s kind if the brand new kind is simply too small to retailer its present gadgets.
• Fixed NPC points:
  • NPCs now not keep away from satisfactory terrain options like flooring and grass when pathfinding.
  • Fixed kicking Krobus out of the home triggering divorce dialogues.
  • Fixed Leo following his island schedule after shifting to the mainland.
  • Fixed a Lewis schedule the place he would overlap Marnie.
  • Fixed a Penny resort dialogue when married that was by no means proven.
  • Fixed Pierre generally displaying a closed-on-Wednesday dialogue after his store hours are prolonged.
  • Fixed mother or dad sending duplicate mail when you change gender later.
  • Fixed some dialogue based mostly on location + coronary heart stage solely being proven when you have 10 or extra hearts with the NPC.
  • Fixed particular NPC reward response dialogue generally not matching their reward style (e.g. Willy giving a constructive dialogue for triple shot espresso).
  • Fixed unable to speak to Robin after accepting a home improve.
  • Fixed incorrectly break up dialogue in Linus’ first coronary heart occasion.
  • Fixed NPCs unable to pathfind by way of tiles that had a tent at first of the day.
  • Fixed NPCs not loading their inexperienced rain dialogue when you began the day on the island.
  • Fixed NPCs saying “…” in 1.6 in the event that they purchased an merchandise you offered to a store however they don’t have a related dialogue for it.
  • Fixed your partner generally saying “…” as an alternative of the meant impartial dialogue.
  • Fixed your fiancée/partner reacting to a mermaid’s pendant as when you’re engaged/married to another person.
• Fixed UI points:
  • Fixed world map not all the time displaying gamers on the proper spot after they’re inside a constructed constructing.
  • Fixed hyperlinks in credit now not opening a browser web page.
  • Fixed capable of work together with HUD components just like the toolbar after they’re hidden (e.g. when the sport is paused).
  • Fixed points when resizing the sport window:
    • superior sport choices structure being tousled;
    • collections web page shedding its chosen tab and web page;
    • social web page shedding its scroll place.
  • Fixed themed catalogues not having class tabs.
  • Fixed forge UI destroying any merchandise held by the cursor after unforging.
  • Fixed museum menu clicks on the OK button generally grabbing the artifact behind it as an alternative.
  • Fixed tailoring menu letting you trash some non-trashable gadgets.
  • Fixed arrange button in stock UIs letting you set any merchandise in particular chests like enrichers.
  • Fixed situation the place phoning Robin to get constructing costs after which resizing the window would allow the construct/demolish/and many others choices as when you’d visited the store immediately.
• Fixed particular gadgets and machines:
  • Fixed chest colour getting reset while you swap chest kind.
  • Fixed crab pots not producing double catches accurately with wild bait.
  • Fixed crab pots duplicating bait when loaded by a hopper.
  • Fixed crab pots not making use of deluxe bait and wild bait bonuses in some circumstances.
  • Fixed fences destroyed on click on when surrounded by impassable objects on three sides (above + left + proper) as an alternative of 4 as meant.
  • Fixed geode crushers incrementing the ‘geodes crushed’ stat when hovering, which allowed unintended RNG manipulation.
  • Fixed magic quiver trinket generally doing nothing if each a legitimate and invalid goal are in vary.
  • Fixed mannequins shedding their garments in the event that they’re moved into storage to create space (e.g. for an occasion). They now re-equip their earlier garments after they’re put again down.
  • Fixed tents not blocking merchandise placement.
  • Fixed watering cans with bottomless enchantment generally proven with a half-empty meter. Bottomless watering cans are actually all the time full.
• Fixed constructing upgrades not putting inside gadgets (just like the coop incubator) if…
  • furnishings is in the best way. The furnishings is now moved similar to different objects.
  • an merchandise blocking placement can’t be moved. It’s now moved into the misplaced & present in that case.
• Fixed circumstances the place the Pirate’s Wife quest chain might lock you out:
  • If you might have the search however misplaced the required merchandise, you now get a brand new War Memento in a single day.
  • If the search was cancelled, now you can speak to Birdie to restart it.
  • NPCs can now not mistakenly settle for the search gadgets as presents or refuse to simply accept their quest merchandise.
• Fixed location/map points:
  • Fixed display screen viewport at improper place proper after warping on horseback in some circumstances.
  • Fixed wilderness farm not pre-building the primary cabin in separate-cabins mode.
  • Fixed grass in Marnie’s cow area by no means regrowing.
  • Fixed Willy’s bait barrel lacking throughout evening market.
  • Fixed some lacking map tiles which allow you to stroll off-screen.
  • Fixed capable of go away Stardew Valley Fair’s pageant space in odd years.
  • Fixed weed/stone particles spawning on prime of positioned paths in some circumstances.
  • Fixed capable of dig up buried treasure from non-diggable tiles in some circumstances.
  • Fixed forest fish now not catchable on the 4 corners farm.
  • Fixed bug the place utilizing the usual farm’s wallpaper/flooring in farmhouses of one other farm kind would reset them to that farm’s themed defaults.
• Fixed pre-1.6 saves generally shedding the Dwarvish Translation Guide. The repair is retroactive for affected gamers.
• Fixed pre-1.6 farmhand stats not migrated accurately. The repair is retroactive for affected farmhands.
• Fixed pre-1.6 tubs o’ flowers by no means blooming once more if their first day in 1.6 was in fall or winter.
• Fixed raccoon bundle accepting something for protect gadgets.
• Fixed stage requirement for farmer titles lowered by one in 1.6.
• Fixed fish ponds accepting a number of golden crackers earlier than the primary one lands within the water. They now register the primary golden cracker instantly (however nonetheless delay the visible change till it lands).
• Fixed two Desert Festival makeover outfits that utilized male shirts to feminine gamers.
• Fixed unusual conduct of store gadgets with each a inventory restrict and stack dimension (e.g. gadgets in a number of desert pageant retailers).
• Fixed edge circumstances the place viewing a earlier 12 months’s secret santa letter within the collections tab would present the present 12 months’s secret santa within the sport menu throughout the Feast of the Winter Star week.
• Fixed the throw-item-into-shipping-bin animation drawing the bottom uncolored sprite for coloured gadgets like roe.
• Fixed error loading cell saves on different platforms.
• Fixed crash when loading a save file in some uncommon circumstances.
• Fixed crash when utilizing a tent on Ginger Island throughout an evening occasion.
• Fixed some cat presents making use of fishing bonuses from the principle participant’s outfitted fishing rod.
• Fixed movie show scene failing in some circumstances when gamers have beforehand unequipped trinkets.
• Fixed Junimo harvesters shedding the merchandise colour when dropping a crop on the bottom as a result of their hut being full.
• Fixed uncommon edge case the place a Junimo hut output chest has too many merchandise slots.

Multiplayer fixes

• Added an /unlinkPlayer [name] chat command, which lets the host participant launch a farmhand so it may be reclaimed by the following one who connects.
• Fixed having the ability to steal one other participant’s roommate.
• Fixed farmhands capable of declare a number of Desert Festival fishing quests per day.
• Fixed crash when reconnecting later within the day after leaving a pageant.
• Fixed host crash if a farmhand disconnects whereas they’re between areas.
• Fixed NPC duplication in multiplayer fish derbies.
• Fixed crab pots & cattle owned by an offline farmhand checking the principle participant’s professions as an alternative.
• Fixed crab pots with no proprietor checking professions from the principle participant as an alternative of the participant including bait.
• Fixed farmhands generally not seing the message after they can’t enter an NPC’s bed room.
• Fixed Marlon’s desert pageant quests not displaying the Calico Egg reward to farmhands.
• Fixed some multiplayer logic not dealing with an offline/invalid participant accurately.
• Fixed some potential ‘null reference exception’ crashes in multiplayer code.
• Fixed crab pots with no proprietor checking the Mariner career as an alternative of Luremaster for the bait requirement in some circumstances.
• Fixed Willy not sending fishing rod mail to farmhands who be a part of after spring 2.
• Fixed ‘ready for gamers’ test together with disconnecting gamers.
• Fixed trains not enjoying chugga chugga sounds for farmhands.

Display textual content and localization fixes

• In the credit, changed the Reddit/Twitter hyperlinks with a “News & Community” hyperlink.
• Fixed an enormous variety of translation points for non-English gamers, and added automated assessments to maintain translations extra in sync going ahead. For instance, this fixes…
  • dialogue/occasion adjustments in 1.6 which weren’t utilized in some languages;
  • lacking dialogues and occasion actions;
  • lacking, outdated, or incorrect translations;
  • lacking occasion preconditions (e.g. Leah’s 10-heart occasion might play on a wet day in some languages);
  • occasions enjoying the improper music, not being skippable, or putting gamers or NPCs on the improper spot;
  • translations having completely different dialogue portraits/breaks/and many others;
  • dialog subjects not began when one thing occurs;
  • textual content being proven with one phrase per dialogue field;
  • improved grammar (e.g. gender conjugation);
  • varied errors and typos;
  • and plenty of different points.
• Many enhancements and fixes to translations and sprites, together with some re-translated item names.
• Renamed “cranberries jelly/juice/wine” to “cranberry jelly/juice/wine”.
• Fixed some unhealthy phrases being produced by the random identify generator.
• Fixed NPC textual content indicators and a few chat/UI messages in multiplayer not all the time proven in your language.
• Fixed flavored gadgets in some chat/UI messages not proven accurately (like “Player put ‘Smoked’ into the potluck soup“).
• Fixed varied typos in English textual content.
• Fixed particular order targets not re-translated when the language adjustments. (This repair solely applies to new particular orders going ahead.)
• Fixed Robin displaying the improper variety of hardwood required for a home improve in some languages.
• Fixed some languages displaying Willy’s again room invite mail as “???” within the collections tab.
• Fixed some languages having inconsistent hat hair conduct.
• Fixed some languages producing gadgets with a unique inside identify.
• Fixed French gamers not seeing prismatic impact for Magic Cowboy Hat and Magic Turban.
• Fixed French and Japanese displaying a ‘wants 5 coal’ message for the dehydrator.
• Fixed Russian membership coin and slots offset points.
• Fixed Russian Joja movie show tilesheet not displaying up.
• Fixed Russian software tooltips having overlapped names.
• Fixed Spanish jukebox displaying clean identify for ‘Ginger Island’ tune.
• Fixed buy-ticket messages displaying an unformatted worth (like 1000g as an alternative of 1,000g).

Cosmetic fixes

• Added lights to Marcello’s e-book stand.
• Sam now adjustments uniform when he enters JojaMart, as an alternative of solely when he reaches his work tile.
• Fixed many bugs associated to gentle sources (e.g. lights caught on display screen, proven within the improper location, eliminated earlier than they need to be, and many others).
• Fixed points with the golden walnut & Qi gem drop-down show:
  • Added help for displaying each directly (e.g. one other participant finds a golden walnut when you’re within the Qi gem store).
  • Fixed show generally caught on display screen completely.
  • Fixed show displaying the improper kind in some circumstances.
  • Fixed show generally showing in multiplayer when the worth didn’t change.
• Fixed line wrapping for film concession description tooltips.
• Fixed visible glitch throughout the even-year Spirit’s Eve when you have the Joja movie show.
• Fixed situation with padding on the sting of maximized sport home windows on Windows.
• Fixed a shirt that regarded bizarre.
• Fixed tooltip show points, like an empty area for edible gadgets that don’t get better any stamina/well being (like candy pea and crocus) or an unintended double area in tooltip buff names.
• Fixed lacking shadows behind some coloured gadgets (like wine) in menus.
• Fixed texture wrapping situation with Joja door.
• Fixed glitched hidden emote animations in NPC profile menu in some circumstances. NPCs now use all the time their default sprite within the profile view.
• Fixed pink slime merchandise sprite drawn one pixel decrease than different colours.
• Fixed lacking pixels in anvil sprite’s define.
• Fixed stray pixel in dried mushroom colour masks.
• Fixed Krobus displaying a present icon for the void ghost pendant when he can’t settle for it.
• Fixed the item-received message reducing off a part of the merchandise identify if it accommodates a # character (like ‘Tropical Fish #173’).
• Fixed the item-received message generally displaying no depend or a improper depend.
• Fixed some cattle having double shadows.
• Fixed stardrop tooltips displaying incorrect well being/vitality restoration quantities.
• Fixed timing of Easter egg in summit occasion.

Gamepad fixes

• Fixed varied points/crashes with gamepad help.
• When shopping for animals or buildings with a gamepad, now you can use the D-pad to maneuver the cursor.
• In the neighborhood middle bundle UI, utilizing gamepad triggers to maneuver to donation slots and again now returns you to the identical spot.
• Added a small delay earlier than you may cancel a waiting-for-players dialogue utilizing a gamepad, to stop by chance closing it instantly after urgent the OK button.
• Fixed gamepad points on the brand new sport display screen.
• Fixed dresser tabs not selectable with a gamepad.

Changes for modded gamers

• Added a Content/ContentHashes.json file containing the MD5 hash for each vanilla content material asset. This can be utilized by SMAPI and different instruments to detect corrupted or modified sport information.
• Improved debug console commands.
• When you permit a horse/mount in a short lived location, it now returns dwelling when that location is eliminated.
• Fixed ‘Jewels Of The Sea’ e-book producing roe for customized fishing catches that usually don’t have roe.
• Fixed forage crops outdoors the farm being eliminated every week.
• Fixed meteorite, unusual capsule, and stone owl solely showing within the top-left 64×64 tile space on massive customized farm maps.
• Fixed pagination in powers tab when mods add extra powers.
• Fixed edge circumstances all through the sport code associated to gadgets whose stacks can’t be lowered to zero (e.g. instruments).
• Fixed varied errors when customized gadgets don’t have any identify.
• Fixed error when mods apply audio adjustments if there’s no audio machine obtainable.
• Fixed error if there aren’t any films obtainable as a result of a mod bug. The sport will now log a warning and select from the complete checklist of flicks as an alternative.
• Fixed crash if a farm animal is in a damaged constructing or location.
• Fixed crash if a smoked fish’s unique fish knowledge now not exists. You now get a scrumptious smoked Error Item as an alternative.
• Fixed crash when customized sounds loaded from a mod’s .ogg information are paused/resumed many instances.
• Fixed map tilesheet crash in some circumstances when enjoying split-screen mode with mods.
• Fixed points when the sport’s whichFarm and whichModFarm fields are out of sync.
• Fixed ‘gentle supply already exists’ and ‘altering web area father or mother’ warnings in some circumstances.
• Fixed mod knowledge getting reset on chest kind swap.
• Fixed berry bushes displaying improper sprite in areas the place seeds could be planted in any season.
• Fixed stardrop reward response dialogue for customized NPCs defaulting to some uncooked knowledge as an alternative of their cherished dialogue.
• Fixed capable of enter the Adventurer’s Guild again room with out assembly the requirement if the door is open after a customized occasion.
• Fixed triggered actions being logged twice.

Changes for mod authors

• See the 1.6.9 mod author migration guide for brand spanking new APIs, dialogue keys, sport state queries, debug instructions, map properties, C# constants/fields/strategies, knowledge fields, and plenty of different technical adjustments.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.