{"id":455403,"date":"2024-01-28T08:24:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T14:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/?p=455403"},"modified":"2024-01-28T08:24:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T14:24:43","slug":"stardew-valley-1-6-absolutely-releasing-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/stardew-valley-1-6-absolutely-releasing-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Stardew Valley 1.6 &#8216;absolutely&#8217; releasing in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Stardew Valley<\/em> developer ConcernedApe has confirmed the fans&#8217; suspicions: content update 1.6 is due to launch in 2024 after all! Though update 1.6 won&#8217;t be the biggest the game&#8217;s received yet, it has ended up being bigger than the developer expected, which is good news for the players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per some of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/heres-a-sneak-peek-at-whats-coming-to-stardew-valley-in-update-1-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ConcernedApe&#8217;s previous announcements<\/a>, <em>Stardew Valley<\/em> update 1.6 will be adding new tidbits and goodies to virtually every aspect of the game, and it is now officially in the &#8220;bug-fixing and polishing phase until it&#8217;s ready for release,&#8221; ConcernedApe has recently confirmed on Twitter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">yes absolutely<\/p>&mdash; ConcernedApe (@ConcernedApe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ConcernedApe\/status\/1750964015420088432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-stardew-valley-1-6-is-coming-soon-ish\">Stardew Valley 1.6 is coming soon(ish)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who haven&#8217;t kept up with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ConcernedApe\/status\/1707155027914035542?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1707155027914035542%7Ctwgr%5E599bd134117848a7d3af466258b57f75323978f1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.destructoid.com%2Fheres-a-sneak-peek-at-whats-coming-to-stardew-valley-in-update-1-6%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the news<\/a> will be thrilled to hear that <em>Stardew Valley<\/em> update 1.6 adds all of the following to the mix:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>An all-new &#8220;major&#8221; festival<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Two all-new mini-festivals<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bonus late-game content<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New items and crafting recipes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Joja alternatives to endgame quest lines<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>100+ new lines of dialogue<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cold weather outfits for villagers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>6-player multiplayer on PC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New farm type<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New secrets<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A wealth of small additions and adjustments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This list, note, isn&#8217;t what you&#8217;d call &#8220;exhaustive.&#8221; ConcernedApe himself said that the list featured above is merely a &#8220;sneak peek&#8221; to the full list of additions, suggesting a fairly massive bump-up in content. Whatever the case may be, it&#8217;s clear that <em>Stardew Valley<\/em> will be even better and more interesting after update 1.6 hits. It may even be enough to tide you over until <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/stardew-valley-creator-posts-tease-from-upcoming-new-game-haunted-chocolatier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Haunted Chocolatier<\/a><\/em> comes out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Curiously, <em>Stardew Valley<\/em> isn&#8217;t the only hugely successful indie game that&#8217;s getting a humongous content update in 2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/project-zomboids-hotly-anticipated-build-42-is-coming-in-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Project Zomboid<\/em>&#8216;s Build 42<\/a>, for one, has been in active production since early 2021, and the developer has finally come out to announce it, too, would be released sometime this year. The overlap between <em>Stardew<\/em> and <em>Zomboid<\/em> isn&#8217;t necessarily overwhelmingly massive, granted, but this does suggest that 2024 might end up being the Year of Awesome Indie Updates, as it were. Fun to think about, if nothing else!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to return to the farm. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":872,"featured_media":425204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"article_type":"","ub_ctt_via":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[688],"internal-label":[22870],"invoiceable_action":[23725],"article_type":[23116],"coauthors":[{"id":872,"display_name":"Filip Galekovic","user_nicename":"filip-galekovic"}],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Stardew-Valley-dev-is-very-protective-of-their-IP-wont-just-hand-it-over.jpg?fit=1200%2C675","author_info":{"display_name":"Filip Galekovic","author_link":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/author\/filip-galekovic\/"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Stardew-Valley-dev-is-very-protective-of-their-IP-wont-just-hand-it-over.jpg?fit=1200%2C675","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/872"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455403"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455527,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455403\/revisions\/455527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455403"},{"taxonomy":"internal-label","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal-label?post=455403"},{"taxonomy":"invoiceable_action","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/invoiceable_action?post=455403"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=455403"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=455403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}