'Stardew Valley' is getting an update with 'new game content'

Pelican Town residents, break out some of that highly questionable Crystal Fruit wine, as Stardew Valley is getting another update.

The farming/role-playing game's designer, Eric Barone, who works under under the alias ConcernedApe, posted on Twitter that a sixth update is coming, promising "new game content" and changes "which will make it easier and more powerful to mod."

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Barone said he's taking a break from developing his anticipated game, Haunted Chocolatier, to work on the Stardew update.

One of our favourite games from the 2010s and one of the cutest cozy games to play solo or with your friends, with your significant other or your kids, Stardew Valley sees players making their own little avatar and building a farm from scratch, raising crops and animals, dating neighbours, exploring the map, foraging for fruit, mining for precious materials, and battling weird shit in the mines, all in the quaint neighbourhood of Pelican Town.

This news should come as welcome to plenty of you — Stardew Valley sold over 20 million copies by March 2022, and thousands of mods have been created in its wake. Since the game was released in 2016, there have been five updates to Stardew Valley throughout its rollouts on PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and iOS. The most recent game update added a huge amount of content including new farm layouts, puzzles, locations, enemies, farm animals, craftable items, crops, trees, festivals and more. In his post, Barone said update 1.6 will include "new game content, albeit much less than 1.5."