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Stardew Valley update 1.6 is now out and available to download on PC. It’s a fantastic new chapter for the community, and it adds lots of new content. However, there is naturally a few bugs that came with the additional content, and Concerned Ape has shared the patch notes for Stardew Valley update 1.6.1 as it prepares to come out.
If you haven’t already, you can check out the Stardew Valley 1.6 patch notes to find everything new added to the game. Highlights include a new major festival and two new mini festivals, but there’s also small but significant quality-of-life improvements. Unfortunately, there is no release date for PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch as of writing, but the developer has promised it will be coming soon.
For those who have the luxury of playing on PC and enjoying all of the new content before console, get ready to download update 1.6.1 for which some of the patch notes are already shared.
Stardew Valley update 1.6.1 patch notes
Below are all of the Stardew Valley update 1.6.1 patch notes so far:
- Fixed botched German egg quest text (for new players going forward)
- Prevent animal page from crashing when clicking on the scroll bar when there’s a low number of animals
- Fix Jumino harvester in save crash
- Fix Meadowlands farm quest persisting if the farm icon was selected, but then another farm was started
- Fixed the telephone robin house upgrade question being malformed
- Improved cases where the quest title would could go off the edge of the quest log
- Fixed eyebrow accessory looking weird when fishing
- Don’t allow clipboard to be set to a null string
- Fixed crash when farmhand re-connects to town during green rain (and potentially other releated crashes)
- Fixed several map tile issues and places where farage could spawn out of grounds
All of the above come courtesy of the official ConcernedApe Twitter account. There’s no mention of exactly when the update will drop, but it could happen today as the dev says it is ‘imminent’.
If you are playing Stardew Valley anew, below is a list of new content added in update 1.6:
- A new major festival
- Two new mini festivals
- New late in-game content, which expands on each of the skill areas
- New items and crafting recipes
- JoJa alternatives to some of the end-game quests
- 100+ new lines of dialogue
- Winter outfits for the villagers
- New type of reward for completing billboard requests
- PC support for 8-person multiplayer
- Many small additions and adjustments
- New farm type
- New secrets and more
For more Stardew Valley, check out our cheats and glitches guide for infinite stamina and more. Eric Barone has also said that his new in-development game Haunted Chocolatier will have a greater focus on combat.
