Stardew Valley Creator Seemingly Teases Next Big Update

I reaaaaaalllly need to pick up this game up but between Zelda and Advance Wars I have no time. One day.

Perfect timing with the prior article on Stardew. More content for them

I have so many games I need to replay. I put around 300 hours into Stardew on my tablet, and I really need to put more time into the switch version some day

@kid_keo
Same, Stardew has always been on my list of games to buy. But I just don’t ever bite the bullet.

I just want to see a nonbinary gender option for the player added to the base game.

Steam users added a mod for this to the game for free, so it obviously can be done.
I'm not nonbinary, but several loved ones in my life who play Stardew are, and they deserve to be seen.

We need an LMG for the mine pretty please

@blindsquarel yeah it’s one of those ones. I keep trying to convince the wife to play co op with me but sadly she isn’t a sim type gal. Alas, we will get there one day!

I love that he continues to support SDV, but I want a new experience. I’ve sunk like 200hrs into the game and while I still haven’t done everything, I’m satisfied with what I’ve done. I was kinda bummed he paused development on Haunted Chocolatier to work on this update. I can’t be mad because SDV is farm sim GOAT.

I am getting really close to picking it up. Having 2 switches means I could play it with my kids, if they also buy it, but seeing as I have heard NOTHING but praise, a discount could get me to buy it for everyone in the family.

Edit: Or get at least one physical... hmmmm....

Edit 2: Or... so it seems, split screen. Which is fine by me. As soon as summer vacation starts, I am getting it.

@CharlieGirl why it is useless maybe can't you make that uo for yourself.
That would cost the maker 6000+ dollars if he outsourced that.
And maybe 500 people worldwide would use that.
The ceator could better focus on extending story or something else important

@kfflscnt
"maybe 500 people"? How about up to or more than 1.6 million.
Studies show that about 8% of gamers identify as non-binary, trans or genderqueer. Stardew Valley sold 20M copies in March 2022.

I will never get why people just make up random numbers to prove a point.

@demiurgesays About 57% of people make up fake numbers. I am included within that percentage.

I only ever played through the game once (don't remember the version number but it was before he added multi-player) and there have been so many updates with so much content since then. One day I will play it again & I'm sure it will feel like a new game with all the added stuff. It's so cool that ConcernedApe continued supporting it this long, & wild that all the updates have been free.

@demiurgesays 8% of people who were in a sertain poll.
in the real world it is muchsmaller.
maybe 0.0000002% of the population uses those things.

@EaglyPurahfan i work for a sertain fishing license company in the netherlands we had 3 out of 60.000 members ask if there could be a non binary and other gender section for the app when setting genders.
it would cost us around 4500 euro in the app.
even though we pay around 200.000 a year for the yearly service.
sorry for the bad english.
for the game it would cost much more because reaction and animations would have to be changed.

@kfflscnt "i work for a sertain fishing license company in the netherlands we had 3 out of 60.000 members ask if there could be a non binary and other gender section for the app when setting genders "

What does this have to do with people that play Stardew Valley in many different countries?

Oh man I’m as excited for this as his new launch. Would love to jump back into Stardew. Game is truly endless.

Stardew Valley is my all-time favorite game so I am definitely looking forward to this update.

Some things I would like to see eventually:
1. A non-binary player option, as CharlieGirl said.

2. Progress bars for skills. The combat takes me eons to level up in so I would like to at least see how close I am to leveling up. (There’s a mod for this as well, but I usually play on switch)

3. Another location would always be welcome.

4. More ways to randomize elements of the game. The random bundle and mine reward options added in 1.5 are a great start though!

5. More furniture options. Nothing too fancy, just stuff that can be seen in other villagers’ houses. (Like the pool table)

All in all though the game is top-tier as is ConcernedApe. Even if none of those things get added I’d still easily regard Stardew Valley as my favorite game

@CharlieGirl Seeing as non-binary is an identity and not something physical can't the players just RP it after choosing their character's sex?

@Dazman Why should they have to? Front facing inclusion should be a given, not a second thought.

@CharlieGirl Given that one can change everything about their physical appearance at the shrine of illusions for 500g (you can go there and change your face, sex, hair, and so on). There's nothing left to do apart from RP the reasons for the change