It is a large week for cosy farming sim Stardew Valley as the sport celebrates its eighth anniversary, with creator ConcernedApe taking the chance to announce that main replace 1.6 will lastly arrive on March 19. The 2016 sport additionally hit a significant gross sales milestone, having offered over 30 million copies since launch.
Update 1.6 was first introduced in April final yr, with newer updates revealing that the patch will add extra new content material than first anticipated, together with 8-player co-op, new main and mini festivals, and over 100 strains of latest dialogue. Stardew’s long-time gamers may even get to take pleasure in extra end-game content material with the brand new replace.
The upcoming patch will launch on PC on March 19, and whereas different platforms do not have a launch date but, ConcernedApe says console and cellular updates will comply with “as quickly as doable.”
It is the eighth anniversary of Stardew Valley. Thanks for all of the help over time! Right now I’m saying the PC Launch date for the 1.6 replace: –March Nineteenth–. Console & Cellular will comply with as quickly as doable. pic.twitter.com/dMEFydjSqC
— ConcernedApe (@ConcernedApe) February 26, 2024
In a follow-up tweet, the solo developer celebrated that “Stardew Valley is prospering greater than ever,” revealing that the sport has now offered over 30 million copies. He additionally famous just a few of the sport’s different thrilling accomplishments, together with its touring live performance, and the upcoming official cookbook.
ConcernedApe introduced a brand new sport referred to as Haunted Chocolatier in late 2021, which is able to see gamers operating a chocolatier inside a stupendous haunted fortress. The brand new sport can be being developed as a solo challenge, and ConcernedApe stated final yr that he could be placing Haunted Chocolatier on maintain quickly whereas he was engaged on Update 1.6 for Stardew Valley.