The standard farming sim and ultimate cozy game, Stardew Valley, dropped a serious replace on Tuesday after months of anticipation. Stardew’s 1.6 replace has an insane quantity of latest content material that touches each space of the sport, from new menus and DIYs, to a brand new farm structure, new crops, and the flexibility to have a number of pets and play with seven associates without delay. It’s sufficient updates to make the sport really feel recent, however isn’t so new you could’t ease again right into a beloved farm and toil away.

It’s essential to notice right here that the free replace is at present solely accessible for PC gamers. The replace will come to cellular and consoles just like the Nintendo Switch in a while. If you are not a PC participant, the 1.6 information has not modified gameplay, and you can play usually when you await it to indicate up. If you do not have the sport but on PC, you possibly can purchase it on Steam for $15, and it really works on PC, Linus, and Mac computer systems.

As quickly because the PC replace arrived, I opened up Stardew Valley and began a file with the brand-new farm structure (which has me very broke) to dive proper in. The replace additionally works in your current Stardew information, and I’ve been bouncing backwards and forwards between my brand-new file and a later-game file to see what’s new in several seasons. Everywhere I look, I see one thing new. Moss to forage off bushes! New reactionary dialog from NPCs! A prize machine within the mayor’s home!

If you hate spoilers, I’m actually unsure why you learn this far, however you need to undoubtedly cease studying. I’m about to inform you about among the greatest modifications I’ve noticed since enjoying the up to date recreation.

Ranch Mode

The greatest change to see instantly is the brand new farm structure. Stardew’s 1.6 replace provides the Meadowlands Farm, a grass- and animal-focused design for my fellow animal ranchers. This farm grows a special blue grass that recreation creator Eric Barone says animals will love. It can elevate animal’s hearts quicker, enhancing the eggs and milk they provide you. There’s much less farming land accessible, and some modifications to preliminary quests. I’m having fun with the Meadowlands Farm to date—I instantly created one when the sport dropped–though beginning with two chickens and no parsnip seeds is unquestionably a slower path to the infinite wealth I’m searching for. But though I’m broke, it’s nonetheless been enjoyable to have such a distinct begin to the sport.

Fresh Crops

The first query my sister requested me after I began enjoying: “Are there new crops?” At first, I informed her no. I didn’t see something new to buy within the store. But there are new crops with the replace–you simply gained’t discover them in any shops.

Instead, you discover 4 new crops (one for every season!) in a couple of other ways—primarily, digging them up from the bottom within the recreation’s well-known Artifact Spots, though spots with these new crops have a barely completely different model you’ll be capable to spot. You may win them within the brand-new Prize Machine within the mayor’s home, when you get your hand on a prize ticket. The new crops are carrots for spring, summer season squash for (shocker) summer season, broccoli for fall, and powdermelon in winter. These new crops can be utilized within the recreation’s important quest, too. Just select Remixed Bundles for the Community Center in your beginning settings.