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

Barone had stated 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’ve got any curiosity in beginning a brand new farm it will be superb to begin contemporary.”

“Among the new issues, for instance, are totally different in 12 months one than in 12 months two plus,” Barone continued. “In addition to, it is enjoyable to begin a brand new farm proper?”

The free 1.6 replace, which sparked a contemporary 10/10 Stardew Valley evaluation 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 recreation, 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

• In case 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).
• Now you can put legendary fish in fish ponds. These are restricted to at least one per pond and produce legendary fish roe. Every fish has a novel water colour.
• Now you can place beds and sleep inside any constructed buildings that enable furnishings.
• Gadgets dropped in water now float for a short while, so you may accumulate them should you’re fast or have a magnet ring.
• Sam and Shane now have work portraits whereas working at JojaMart.
• Barely tweaked some dialogues.
• Added new Easter eggs.
• Added hidden cheat commands. (Solely on platforms the place a save edit is feasible)

Stability 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 additional wooden when chopped down.
• The initiation quest now counts wild slimes killed on the farm.
• Thorns ring harm now stacks should you equip two of them, and monsters killed by a thorns ring now drop loot like common kills.
• With the Gatherer talent, the prospect to double harvested forage now applies when utilizing an iridium scythe too.
• Son of Crimsonfish can now be caught through the night time market.
• Robin now not constructs buildings throughout inexperienced rain in 12 months 1.
• Inserting a bomb and then switching to a weapon now not applies its enchantments to the bomb harm.
• Added some gadgets to outlets:
  • Adventurer’s Guild: Rusty Sword, Femur, Elf Blade, Metal Smallsword, Crystal Dagger, Obsidian Edge, and Work Boots. These unlock after you attain a sure mine degree, no matter whether or not you discovered them in a mine chest.
  • Marnie’s store: Cow Decal.
  • Hat mouse: Sports activities Cap.
  • Willy’s store: Superior Iridium Rod.
• Passing trains are actually extra more likely to occur a number of occasions 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 should you didn’t learn his letter.
• Mounted Queen of Sauce reruns being affected by the recipes wanted by unclaimed farmhands in empty cabins.
• Mounted with the ability to obtain monster harm whereas leaping down a mine shaft earlier than the display screen fades to black.
• Mounted spa not absolutely recovering power when a max-energy buff is lively.
• Mounted sleeping late whereas exhausted not decreasing stamina as meant.
• Mounted {the catalogue} and Furnishings Catalogue promoting gadgets from themed catalogues like Retro Catalogue.
• Mounted exploit the place a fish pond with a golden cracker may produce limitless output. Fish pond output bonuses are actually utilized as soon as when the output is created.
• Mounted exploit the place you may cancel cow milking and nonetheless get the friendship enhance.
• Mounted unintended additional likelihood of spontaneous inexperienced rain bushes when loading a save in fall.
• Mounted talent buffs affecting store merchandise necessities in 1.6.
• Mounted sturdy ring now not halving debuff occasions in 1.6.
• Mounted decrease likelihood of catching lava eels in caldera after 1.6.
• Mounted forage crops harvested from backyard pots at all times being low-quality and offering no XP.
• Mounted iridium scythe with forage crops not giving XP or making use of the forage degree high quality enhance.
• Mounted some weapons by no means dropping from crates when legacy randomization is enabled.

High quality of life adjustments

• The sport now recovers most saves robotically in the event that they’re damaged, corrupted, or lacking the SaveGameInfo file.
• The sport now resends most achievements, recipes, and necessary mail should 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 occasion now replays should 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 may now not decide up some gadgets that may’t be tailor-made.
• Coloured gadgets like flowers now additionally kind by colour. That avoids gadgets being reordered randomly every time you kind your stock.
• Now you can solely promote books to the bookseller through the e book buy menu, not the trade-in menu. This reduces the prospect of by chance promoting a e book when making an attempt 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 prospect of corruption.
• Anvils now not settle for parrot eggs should you can’t re-roll their degree but.
• Improved chatbox instructions:
  • Chat instructions are actually case-insensitive.
  • Modified /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.
• Efficiency optimizations.

Technical adjustments

• Migrated from FAudio to OpenAL, which ought to enhance efficiency when taking part in audio.
• Up to date SDL from 2.0.x to 2.30.4 (used for enter and windowing).
• Mounted compatibility with newer Home windows techniques when utilizing some older GPUs.

Gameplay fixes

• You possibly can now not swap a chest’s sort if the brand new sort is just too small to retailer its present gadgets.
• Mounted NPC points:
  • NPCs now not keep away from satisfactory terrain options like flooring and grass when pathfinding.
  • Mounted kicking Krobus out of the home triggering divorce dialogues.
  • Mounted Leo following his island schedule after shifting to the mainland.
  • Mounted a Lewis schedule the place he would overlap Marnie.
  • Mounted a Penny resort dialogue when married that was by no means proven.
  • Mounted Pierre generally exhibiting a closed-on-Wednesday dialogue after his store hours are prolonged.
  • Mounted mother or dad sending duplicate mail should you change gender later.
  • Mounted some dialogue primarily based on location + coronary heart degree solely being proven when you’ve got 10 or extra hearts with the NPC.
  • Mounted particular NPC reward response dialogue generally not matching their reward style (e.g. Willy giving a constructive dialogue for triple shot espresso).
  • Mounted unable to speak to Robin after accepting a home improve.
  • Mounted incorrectly break up dialogue in Linus’ first coronary heart occasion.
  • Mounted NPCs unable to pathfind via tiles that had a tent in the beginning of the day.
  • Mounted NPCs not loading their inexperienced rain dialogue should you began the day on the island.
  • Mounted 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.
  • Mounted your partner generally saying “…” as a substitute of the meant impartial dialogue.
  • Mounted your fiancée/partner reacting to a mermaid’s pendant as should you’re engaged/married to another person.
• Mounted UI points:
  • Mounted world map not at all times exhibiting gamers on the proper spot once they’re inside a constructed constructing.
  • Mounted hyperlinks in credit now not opening a browser web page.
  • Mounted capable of work together with HUD parts just like the toolbar once they’re hidden (e.g. when the sport is paused).
  • Mounted points when resizing the sport window:
    • superior recreation choices structure being tousled;
    • collections web page shedding its chosen tab and web page;
    • social web page shedding its scroll place.
  • Mounted themed catalogues not having class tabs.
  • Mounted forge UI destroying any merchandise held by the cursor after unforging.
  • Mounted museum menu clicks on the OK button generally grabbing the artifact behind it as a substitute.
  • Mounted tailoring menu letting you trash some non-trashable gadgets.
  • Mounted manage button in stock UIs letting you place any merchandise in particular chests like enrichers.
  • Mounted challenge the place phoning Robin to get constructing costs and then resizing the window would allow the construct/demolish/and so forth choices as should you’d visited the store instantly.
• Mounted particular gadgets and machines:
  • Mounted chest colour getting reset if you swap chest sort.
  • Mounted crab pots not producing double catches accurately with wild bait.
  • Mounted crab pots duplicating bait when loaded by a hopper.
  • Mounted crab pots not making use of deluxe bait and wild bait bonuses in some circumstances.
  • Mounted fences destroyed on click on when surrounded by impassable objects on three sides (above + left + proper) as a substitute of 4 as meant.
  • Mounted geode crushers incrementing the ‘geodes crushed’ stat when hovering, which allowed unintended RNG manipulation.
  • Mounted magic quiver trinket generally doing nothing if each a sound and invalid goal are in vary.
  • Mounted 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 once they’re put again down.
  • Mounted tents not blocking merchandise placement.
  • Mounted watering cans with bottomless enchantment generally proven with a half-empty meter. Bottomless watering cans are actually at all times full.
• Mounted constructing upgrades not inserting inside gadgets (just like the coop incubator) if…
  • furnishings is in the way in which. The furnishings is now moved identical to different objects.
  • an merchandise blocking placement can’t be moved. It’s now moved into the misplaced & present in that case.
• Mounted circumstances the place the Pirate’s Spouse quest chain may lock you out:
  • When you’ve got the hunt however misplaced the required merchandise, you now get a brand new Warfare Memento in a single day.
  • If the hunt was cancelled, now you can speak to Birdie to restart it.
  • NPCs can now not mistakenly settle for the hunt gadgets as presents or refuse to simply accept their quest merchandise.
• Mounted location/map points:
  • Mounted display screen viewport at unsuitable place proper after warping on horseback in some circumstances.
  • Mounted wilderness farm not pre-building the primary cabin in separate-cabins mode.
  • Mounted grass in Marnie’s cow subject by no means regrowing.
  • Mounted Willy’s bait barrel lacking throughout night time market.
  • Mounted some lacking map tiles which allow you to stroll off-screen.
  • Mounted capable of go away Stardew Valley Truthful’s competition space in odd years.
  • Mounted weed/stone particles spawning on high of positioned paths in some circumstances.
  • Mounted capable of dig up buried treasure from non-diggable tiles in some circumstances.
  • Mounted forest fish now not catchable on the 4 corners farm.
  • Mounted bug the place utilizing the usual farm’s wallpaper/flooring in farmhouses of one other farm sort would reset them to that farm’s themed defaults.
• Mounted pre-1.6 saves generally shedding the Dwarvish Translation Information. The repair is retroactive for affected gamers.
• Mounted pre-1.6 farmhand stats not migrated accurately. The repair is retroactive for affected farmhands.
• Mounted pre-1.6 tubs o’ flowers by no means blooming once more if their first day in 1.6 was in fall or winter.
• Mounted raccoon bundle accepting something for protect gadgets.
• Mounted degree requirement for farmer titles lowered by one in 1.6.
• Mounted 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).
• Mounted two Desert Pageant makeover outfits that utilized male shirts to feminine gamers.
• Mounted unusual conduct of store gadgets with each a inventory restrict and stack dimension (e.g. gadgets in a number of desert competition outlets).
• Mounted 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 recreation menu through the Feast of the Winter Star week.
• Mounted the throw-item-into-shipping-bin animation drawing the bottom uncolored sprite for coloured gadgets like roe.
• Mounted error loading cell saves on different platforms.
• Mounted crash when loading a save file in some uncommon circumstances.
• Mounted crash when utilizing a tent on Ginger Island throughout an evening occasion.
• Mounted some cat presents making use of fishing bonuses from the primary participant’s outfitted fishing rod.
• Mounted movie show scene failing in some circumstances when gamers have beforehand unequipped trinkets.
• Mounted Junimo harvesters shedding the merchandise colour when dropping a crop on the bottom resulting from their hut being full.
• Mounted 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 that connects.
• Mounted with the ability to steal one other participant’s roommate.
• Mounted farmhands capable of declare a number of Desert Pageant fishing quests per day.
• Mounted crash when reconnecting later within the day after leaving a competition.
• Mounted host crash if a farmhand disconnects whereas they’re between places.
• Mounted NPC duplication in multiplayer fish derbies.
• Mounted crab pots & cattle owned by an offline farmhand checking the primary participant’s professions as a substitute.
• Mounted crab pots with no proprietor checking professions from the primary participant as a substitute of the participant including bait.
• Mounted farmhands generally not seing the message once they can’t enter an NPC’s bed room.
• Mounted Marlon’s desert competition quests not displaying the Calico Egg reward to farmhands.
• Mounted some multiplayer logic not dealing with an offline/invalid participant accurately.
• Mounted some potential ‘null reference exception’ crashes in multiplayer code.
• Mounted crab pots with no proprietor checking the Mariner career as a substitute of Luremaster for the bait requirement in some circumstances.
• Mounted Willy not sending fishing rod mail to farmhands who be part of after spring 2.
• Mounted ‘ready for gamers’ examine together with disconnecting gamers.
• Mounted trains not taking part in chugga chugga sounds for farmhands.

Show textual content and localization fixes

• Within the credit, changed the Reddit/Twitter hyperlinks with a “Information & Group” hyperlink.
• Mounted 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 may play on a wet day in some languages);
  • occasions taking part in the unsuitable music, not being skippable, or inserting gamers or NPCs on the unsuitable spot;
  • translations having totally different dialogue portraits/breaks/and so forth;
  • dialog matters 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 many 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”.
• Mounted some dangerous phrases being produced by the random title generator.
• Mounted NPC textual content indicators and some chat/UI messages in multiplayer not at all times proven in your language.
• Mounted flavored gadgets in some chat/UI messages not proven accurately (like “Participant put ‘Smoked’ into the potluck soup“).
• Mounted varied typos in English textual content.
• Mounted particular order aims not re-translated when the language adjustments. (This repair solely applies to new particular orders going ahead.)
• Mounted Robin exhibiting the unsuitable variety of hardwood required for a home improve in some languages.
• Mounted some languages exhibiting Willy’s again room invite mail as “???” within the collections tab.
• Mounted some languages having inconsistent hat hair conduct.
• Mounted some languages producing gadgets with a distinct inside title.
• Mounted French gamers not seeing prismatic impact for Magic Cowboy Hat and Magic Turban.
• Mounted French and Japanese exhibiting a ‘wants 5 coal’ message for the dehydrator.
• Mounted Russian membership coin and slots offset points.
• Mounted Russian Joja movie show tilesheet not exhibiting up.
• Mounted Russian instrument tooltips having overlapped names.
• Mounted Spanish jukebox exhibiting clean title for ‘Ginger Island’ tune.
• Mounted buy-ticket messages exhibiting an unformatted worth (like 1000g as a substitute of 1,000g).

Beauty fixes

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

Gamepad fixes

• Mounted varied points/crashes with gamepad assist.
• When shopping for animals or buildings with a gamepad, now you can use the D-pad to maneuver the cursor.
• Locally 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 forestall by chance closing it instantly after urgent the OK button.
• Mounted gamepad points on the brand new recreation display screen.
• Mounted 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 recreation recordsdata.
• Improved debug console commands.
• While you go away a horse/mount in a short lived location, it now returns residence when that location is eliminated.
• Mounted ‘Jewels Of The Sea’ e book producing roe for customized fishing catches that usually don’t have roe.
• Mounted forage crops exterior the farm being eliminated every week.
• Mounted meteorite, unusual capsule, and stone owl solely showing within the top-left 64×64 tile space on massive customized farm maps.
• Mounted pagination in powers tab when mods add extra powers.
• Mounted edge circumstances all through the sport code associated to gadgets whose stacks can’t be lowered to zero (e.g. instruments).
• Mounted varied errors when customized gadgets haven’t any title.
• Mounted error when mods apply audio adjustments if there’s no audio gadget accessible.
• Mounted error if there are not any films accessible resulting from a mod bug. The sport will now log a warning and select from the complete record of films as a substitute.
• Mounted crash if a farm animal is in a damaged constructing or location.
• Mounted crash if a smoked fish’s authentic fish knowledge now not exists. You now get a scrumptious smoked Error Merchandise as a substitute.
• Mounted crash when customized sounds loaded from a mod’s .ogg recordsdata are paused/resumed many occasions.
• Mounted map tilesheet crash in some circumstances when taking part in split-screen mode with mods.
• Mounted points when the sport’s whichFarm and whichModFarm fields are out of sync.
• Mounted ‘gentle supply already exists’ and ‘altering internet subject guardian’ warnings in some circumstances.
• Mounted mod knowledge getting reset on chest sort swap.
• Mounted berry bushes exhibiting unsuitable sprite in places the place seeds might be planted in any season.
• Mounted stardrop reward response dialogue for customized NPCs defaulting to some uncooked knowledge as a substitute of their liked dialogue.
• Mounted capable of enter the Adventurer’s Guild again room with out assembly the requirement if the door is open after a customized occasion.
• Mounted triggered actions being logged twice.

Changes for mod authors

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

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