Stardew Valley's Next Free Update Will Be "Packed With New Stuff" For More Fun

Hope this becomes like Minecraft where its constantly updated to make the game a better, fun and more fresh experience

I guess something I'd like to see changed is the mine in the desert. Why doesn't it have save points? You already have to wait for the bus lady (iirc she arrives at noon), so you've got a shorter window of time and your actual rewards are too RNG-based down there. Always found this a tedious part of the game, halting progression and making me quit the game every time.

That game was awesome when I played it a year ago and is constantly getting better. I'll have to dust off my switch at some point to play it again with other minor games like Mario, Zelda and XC2.

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New content for this game is always welcome. Not gonna lie though, I always tend to reset the day if I die in the cave rather than deal with losing the equipment, unless it is something minor like a few stone, so I probably wouldn't need Marlon too much. Good feature to have nonetheless.

@Fazermint Pam arrives at 10ish (or you can make her arrive a little earlier with a glitch) which is a pretty good time frame which lets you get stuff done on the farm first. Bring plenty of stone to craft staircases, and you can easily craft bombs or buy them from the Dwarf for cheap. Once in the desert mine, blast away and/or set staircases down, and don’t stop until you get to around level 30. Once there, the chance of rewards and good materials significantly increases.

I hope they ad French language support too. The PC version already has it.

@Fazermint at a later stage, you can assemble warp totems to warp straight back to the farm. But those caves are extremely hard.

I hope the lag that was introduced with the multiplayer update is fixed. It was supposed to be sorted in the last patch, but my farm is so laggy. Everywhere else is fine, but harvesting is so tedious and frustrating because of the slowdown... To single digit frames sometimes. I haven't touched SV since the last patch because of this. I don't even have a big farm (first year) so I was dreading what the slowdown would be like as I progressed.

I really love this game, too.

The bug that caused the game to crash on save if you had an empty slot in your fridge got me twice before I figured out why. I had spent all day in the mines each time and got a lot of cool stuff and crash. Maybe I’ll get back into it after this patch.

Did they ever make the walking speed faster?

I wouldn't mind a few little tweaks and bug fixes. I keep running into stuff like giving someone a gift, having it say I already gave them a gift, and then if I talk to them again, they respond to the gift.

And then little things, like being able to rotate while charging up a tool so you're not stuck in the direction you started, or maybe a tooltip showing that you can rotate furniture (I honestly got 40 hours in before finding that out on the internet).

I haven't finished up this game yet though, so new updates are always appreciated no matter what they contain!

Love this game. It filled the Rune Factory shaped hole in my heart back when I thought the series was dead.

I was a late comer to this game, but I absolutely loved it. I will definitely pick it up for another go round when the patch comes out.

I'd love more content in this game. I feel like you get to a certain point where you are making so much money, and you've basically grown everything that there isn't much left to do.

I'd like more crops to grow, more goods to craft, more animals to raise, more buildings to get, and maybe a full blown DLC expansion that adds more to the valley and a couple new villagers to interact with.

Or they could add more to do with your wife/husband after marriage, some kind of job system. Or your kids could actually grow up past "toddler" and could help on the farm, or you could send them to school or something.

I dropped 200 hours into Stardew Valley happily. And I want more. But the late game just starts feeling like you're doing the same thing forever with no more progress. Like, once I have a full cellar full of barrels aging starfruit wine and a green house full of starfruit growing, I know money is NEVER going to be an issue again.

@NESlover85 Brew and drink coffee, and buy a horse

@Heavyarms55 Yeah, that is pretty much what I have been doing with my farm. It can become a bit of a slog.

I have it and I like it, but I don't have time for such time sinks, so I will finish the three years they give you to build your farm and maybe a family (no progress on that front yet) and then I'll move on. I have too much backlog.

@Vriess whas confirmed for Beta.

i took off half a day of work for the android and iphone ports, and a day off for the 1.3 update. ima take two days off for this one!

@Heavyarms55 you say "they" but remember stardew is made entirely by 1 person, with only translation and some of the multiplayer code involving a second person. all that art, music, dialog and programming being one person and still coming up with 200+ hours of content is still amazing to me!

@russellohh Yeah it is really impressive. I really admire Concerned Ape (Eric Barone) and what he was able to accomplish.

I started 3 farms and saw most of the NPC cutscenes. Playing mock Dungeons and Dragons with Sebastian, finding Pierre’s stash of ????, encouraging Leah to put on her Art show were really special moments.

Love this game.

@Fazermint yep me too!

This game and Football Manager together almost cost me my marriage. Good times.

This game ranks as my highest played game, out of a collection of 30 or so. Gets better after the community hall, as by then you have the resources to go for anything. My MO is to create Zen garden type farm layouts.

@Koronus
I thought that the multiplayer patch officially brought the game out of beta? The Steam version has French language support since the beginning of March. What's taking so long to patch this into the Switch version?

@Vriess Consoles take always longer because they need to accept from the console companies first. So on consoles you will get no Beta only finished versions.

@russellohh Yeah yeah I know it's primarily one guy. I thought it was clear that, by stating I happily put 200 hours into the game that I really really like it. That's why I want more. Obviously this guy oozes talent.

@sevex What? You can rotate furniture? Already took me ages to find out how to place paintings.

Would like to have minerals and artifacts having a meaning, they just keep stacking up in my chests and they don't sell for much either, not compared to my greenhouse full of ancient fruit of course.

I should by rights love this game but I couldn’t get into it. Maybe I’ll take another run at it .

@KIRO So, I played the game for a few hours, put it down, moved on to other games. Then, one day at the game store, someone showed me their farm and I went back to play it.

Next thing I know, I am hooked. I put in over 100 hours, played the full "three years" to complete the main story line and I absolutely loved the game.

So, I encourage you to go back and have another run at it. Also, while I don't like online help, the wiki is almost necessary to play it. The programmer is fantastic, but some important things are not explained, and the online guide makes the game play less frustrating, more smooth.

Happy gaming!

@dugan nice one! I think it may be because I’m a bit lazy and just want to get growing a load of veg without jumping through a ton of hoops . But yeah I’ll check out the wiki for sure ! Thanks .

I have Stardew for Ps4, and I absolutely adore it. Wish I could get it for PC and do all the fun mods and all, but I have questions about another update. Will this update be released for ps4? Or have console users outside of Switch been forgotten. We still haven't gotten the 1.3 update as far as I know. Nothing on mine anyway.

Please let me marry krobus

I've kinda"finished" it twice (once just doing things via Jojo Mart and another just with the community centre), as in done everything I can do and see so would love some more content, I'd even pay for DLC to see another town. I still put in maybe 10 hours a week as my daughter likes to watch so I'm fine doing chores and starting a new farm from fresh with different tyoes of land is great as you have to do things quite differently.