1.6 Stardew Valley Console and Mobile Patch Release Time Set

Eric “Involved Ape” Barone shared the precise launch time for the Stardew Valley console and cell patch 1.6 launch time. It can roll out at 10am PT/1pm ET/7pm CET on November 4, 2024. This follows the March 2024 debut of the replace for PCs. 

Involved Ape additionally famous that the discharge time for the console and cell variations of the Stardew Valley 1.6 patch would possibly range. The 10am PT/1pm ET/7pm CET time is an estimate. So it is perhaps somewhat early or late, relying on which system you employ to play the farming sim. The announcement additionally confirmed that it’ll cowl all 1.6 content material up by way of 1.6.9. 

Listed here are the total patch notes for the Stardew Valley console and cell 1.6.9 replace from the official web site. Involved Ape famous that Pathoschild put all of them collectively for us.

New content material & options

• Should you misplaced an merchandise that may’t be discovered once more, a new good friend seems within the secret woods who can get it again (for a worth).
• Now you can put legendary fish in fish ponds. These are restricted to at least one per pond and produce legendary fish roe. Every fish has a novel water colour.
• Now you can place beds and sleep inside any constructed buildings that enable furnishings.
• Gadgets dropped in water now float for a short while, so you’ll be able to acquire them when you’re fast or have a magnet ring.
• Sam and Shane now have work portraits whereas working at JojaMart.
• Barely tweaked some dialogues.
• Added new Easter eggs.
• Added hidden cheat instructions. (Solely on platforms the place a save edit is feasible)

Steadiness modifications

• Blue grass now not grows slower than regular grass.
• Fruit tree development is now not blocked by grass and seed spots.
• Pine timber now drop one additional wooden when chopped down.
• The initiation quest now counts wild slimes killed on the farm.
• Thorns ring harm now stacks when you equip two of them, and monsters killed by a thorns ring now drop loot like common kills.
• With the Gatherer ability, the possibility to double harvested forage now applies when utilizing an iridium scythe too.
• Son of Crimsonfish can now be caught throughout the evening market.
• Robin now not constructs buildings throughout inexperienced rain in yr 1.
• Putting a bomb after which switching to a weapon now not applies its enchantments to the bomb harm.
• Added some objects to outlets:
  • Adventurer’s Guild: Rusty Sword, Femur, Elf Blade, Metal Smallsword, Crystal Dagger, Obsidian Edge, and Work Boots. These unlock after you attain a sure mine stage, no matter whether or not you discovered them in a mine chest.
  • Marnie’s store: Cow Decal.
  • Hat mouse: Sports activities Cap.
  • Willy’s store: Superior Iridium Rod.
• Passing trains at the moment are extra prone to occur a number of instances in the identical session, however can now not seem on consecutive days.
• Willy’s store now opens on spring 2 within the first yr even when you didn’t learn his letter.
• Mounted Queen of Sauce reruns being affected by the recipes wanted by unclaimed farmhands in empty cabins.
• Mounted with the ability to obtain monster harm whereas leaping down a mine shaft earlier than the display screen fades to black.
• Mounted spa not totally recovering power when a max-energy buff is lively.
• Mounted sleeping late whereas exhausted not lowering stamina as supposed.
• Mounted the [[catalogue]] and [[Furniture Catalogue|furniture catalogue]] promoting objects from themed catalogues like [[Retro Catalogue]].
• Mounted exploit the place a fish pond with a golden cracker might produce limitless output. Fish pond output bonuses at the moment are utilized as soon as when the output is created.
• Mounted exploit the place you may cancel cow milking and nonetheless get the friendship increase.
• Mounted unintended additional probability of spontaneous inexperienced rain timber when loading a save in fall.
• Mounted ability buffs affecting store merchandise necessities in 1.6.
• Mounted sturdy ring now not halving debuff instances in 1.6.
• Mounted decrease probability of catching lava eels in caldera after 1.6.
• Mounted forage crops harvested from backyard pots all the time being low-quality and offering no XP.
• Mounted iridium scythe with forage crops not giving XP or making use of the forage stage high quality increase.
• Mounted some weapons by no means dropping from crates when legacy randomization is enabled.

High quality of life modifications

• The sport now recovers most saves routinely in the event that they’re damaged, corrupted, or lacking the SaveGameInfo file.
• The sport now resends most achievements, recipes, and vital mail when you one way or the other missed them. For PlayStation/Xbox gamers, missed trophies are readded when carry out a particular motion as a substitute.
• Fish ponds now present the variety of roe or different output objects to gather.
• The marriage occasion now replays when you exit & reload the day.
• The tailoring UI is now a bit extra intuitive: slots that may’t settle for the held merchandise at the moment are disabled, and you may now not choose up some objects that may’t be tailor-made.
• Coloured objects like flowers now additionally type by colour. That avoids objects being reordered randomly every time you type your stock.
• Now you can solely promote books to the bookseller by way of the e-book buy menu, not the trade-in menu. This reduces the possibility of by accident promoting a e-book when making an attempt to commerce it in.
• The collections tab now reveals artifacts, gems, and minerals as soon as they’re donated to the museum (not as quickly as you discover it).
• Clint now refills your watering can when upgrading it.
• Tweaked save course of to scale back the possibility of corruption.
• Anvils now not settle for parrot eggs when you can’t re-roll their stage but.
• Improved chatbox instructions:
  • Chat instructions at the moment are case-insensitive.
  • Modified /assist format to make room for extra instructions.
  • Added /assist descriptions for /emote, /mapScreenshot, and /unbanAll.
  • Added constant messages when you’ll be able to’t use a multiplayer-only or host-only command.
• Efficiency optimizations.

Technical modifications

• Migrated from FAudio to OpenAL, which ought to enhance efficiency when taking part in audio.
• Up to date SDL from 2.0.x to 2.30.4 (used for enter and windowing).
• Mounted compatibility with newer Home windows methods when utilizing some older GPUs.

Gameplay fixes

• You may now not swap a chest’s sort if the brand new sort is simply too small to retailer its present objects.
• Mounted NPC points:
  • NPCs now not keep away from satisfactory terrain options like flooring and grass when pathfinding.
  • Mounted kicking Krobus out of the home triggering divorce dialogues.
  • Mounted Leo following his island schedule after shifting to the mainland.
  • Mounted a Lewis schedule the place he would overlap Marnie.
  • Mounted a Penny resort dialogue when married that was by no means proven.
  • Mounted Pierre generally displaying a closed-on-Wednesday dialogue after his store hours are prolonged.
  • Mounted mother or dad sending duplicate mail when you change gender later.
  • Mounted some dialogue based mostly on location + coronary heart stage solely being proven you probably have 10 or extra hearts with the NPC.
  • Mounted particular NPC reward response dialogue generally not matching their reward style (e.g. Willy giving a optimistic dialogue for triple shot espresso).
  • Mounted unable to speak to Robin after accepting a home improve.
  • Mounted incorrectly cut up dialogue in Linus’ first coronary heart occasion.
  • Mounted NPCs unable to pathfind by way of tiles that had a tent at first of the day.
  • Mounted NPCs not loading their inexperienced rain dialogue when you began the day on the island.
  • Mounted NPCs saying “…” in 1.6 in the event that they purchased an merchandise you bought to a store however they don’t have a related dialogue for it.
  • Mounted your partner generally saying “…” as a substitute of the supposed impartial dialogue.
  • Mounted your fiancée/partner reacting to a mermaid’s pendant as when you’re engaged/married to another person.
• Mounted UI points:
  • Mounted world map not all the time displaying gamers on the proper spot once they’re inside a constructed constructing.
  • Mounted hyperlinks in credit now not opening a browser web page.
  • Mounted capable of work together with HUD components just like the toolbar once they’re hidden (e.g. when the sport is paused).
  • Mounted points when resizing the sport window:
    • superior sport choices structure being tousled;
    • collections web page dropping its chosen tab and web page;
    • social web page dropping its scroll place.
  • Mounted themed catalogues not having class tabs.
  • Mounted forge UI destroying any merchandise held by the cursor after unforging.
  • Mounted museum menu clicks on the OK button generally grabbing the artifact behind it as a substitute.
  • Mounted tailoring menu letting you trash some non-trashable objects.
  • Mounted arrange button in stock UIs letting you set any merchandise in particular chests like enrichers.
  • Mounted concern the place phoning Robin to get constructing costs after which resizing the window would allow the construct/demolish/and so forth choices as when you’d visited the store immediately.
• Mounted particular objects and machines:
  • Mounted chest colour getting reset if you swap chest sort.
  • Mounted crab pots not producing double catches appropriately with wild bait.
  • Mounted crab pots duplicating bait when loaded by a hopper.
  • Mounted crab pots not making use of deluxe bait and wild bait bonuses in some instances.
  • Mounted fences destroyed on click on when surrounded by impassable objects on three sides (above + left + proper) as a substitute of 4 as supposed.
  • Mounted geode crushers incrementing the ‘geodes crushed’ stat when hovering, which allowed unintended RNG manipulation.
  • Mounted magic quiver trinket generally doing nothing if each a legitimate and invalid goal are in vary.
  • Mounted mannequins dropping their garments in the event that they’re moved into storage to create space (e.g. for an occasion). They now re-equip their earlier garments once they’re put again down.
  • Mounted tents not blocking merchandise placement.
  • Mounted watering cans with bottomless enchantment generally proven with a half-empty meter. Bottomless watering cans at the moment are all the time full.
• Mounted constructing upgrades not inserting inside objects (just like the coop incubator) if…
  • furnishings is in the best way. The furnishings is now moved identical to different objects.
  • an merchandise blocking placement can’t be moved. It’s now moved into the misplaced & present in that case.
• Mounted instances the place the Pirate’s Spouse quest chain might lock you out:
  • When you have the hunt however misplaced the required merchandise, you now get a brand new Warfare Memento in a single day.
  • If the hunt was cancelled, now you can discuss to Birdie to restart it.
  • NPCs can now not mistakenly settle for the hunt objects as items or refuse to just accept their quest merchandise.
• Mounted location/map points:
  • Mounted display screen viewport at flawed place proper after warping on horseback in some instances.
  • Mounted wilderness farm not pre-building the primary cabin in separate-cabins mode.
  • Mounted grass in Marnie’s cow area by no means regrowing.
  • Mounted Willy’s bait barrel lacking throughout evening market.
  • Mounted some lacking map tiles which allow you to stroll off-screen.
  • Mounted capable of depart Stardew Valley Honest’s competition space in odd years.
  • Mounted weed/stone particles spawning on high of positioned paths in some instances.
  • Mounted capable of dig up buried treasure from non-diggable tiles in some instances.
  • Mounted forest fish now not catchable on the 4 corners farm.
  • Mounted bug the place utilizing the usual farm’s wallpaper/flooring in farmhouses of one other farm sort would reset them to that farm’s themed defaults.
• Mounted pre-1.6 saves generally dropping the Dwarvish Translation Information. The repair is retroactive for affected gamers.
• Mounted pre-1.6 farmhand stats not migrated appropriately. The repair is retroactive for affected farmhands.
• Mounted pre-1.6 tubs o’ flowers by no means blooming once more if their first day in 1.6 was in fall or winter.
• Mounted raccoon bundle accepting something for protect objects.
• Mounted stage requirement for farmer titles lowered by one in 1.6.
• Mounted fish ponds accepting a number of golden crackers earlier than the primary one lands within the water. They now register the primary golden cracker instantly (however nonetheless delay the visible change till it lands).
• Mounted two Desert Pageant makeover outfits that utilized male shirts to feminine gamers.
• Mounted unusual conduct of store objects with each a inventory restrict and stack measurement (e.g. objects in a number of desert competition outlets).
• Mounted edge instances the place viewing a earlier yr’s secret santa letter within the collections tab would present the present yr’s secret santa within the sport menu throughout the Feast of the Winter Star week.
• Mounted the throw-item-into-shipping-bin animation drawing the bottom uncolored sprite for coloured objects like roe.
• Mounted error loading cell saves on different platforms.
• Mounted crash when loading a save file in some uncommon instances.
• Mounted crash when utilizing a tent on Ginger Island throughout an evening occasion.
• Mounted some cat items making use of fishing bonuses from the primary participant’s geared up fishing rod.
• Mounted movie show scene failing in some instances when gamers have beforehand unequipped trinkets.
• Mounted Junimo harvesters dropping the merchandise colour when dropping a crop on the bottom attributable to their hut being full.
• Mounted uncommon edge case the place a Junimo hut output chest has too many merchandise slots.

Multiplayer fixes

• Added an /unlinkPlayer [name] chat command, which lets the host participant launch a farmhand so it may be reclaimed by the subsequent one who connects.
• Mounted with the ability to steal one other participant’s roommate.
• Mounted farmhands capable of declare a number of Desert Pageant fishing quests per day.
• Mounted crash when reconnecting later within the day after leaving a competition.
• Mounted host crash if a farmhand disconnects whereas they’re between areas.
• Mounted NPC duplication in multiplayer fish derbies.
• Mounted crab pots & livestock owned by an offline farmhand checking the primary participant’s professions as a substitute.
• Mounted crab pots with no proprietor checking professions from the primary participant as a substitute of the participant including bait.
• Mounted farmhands generally not seing the message once they can’t enter an NPC’s bed room.
• Mounted Marlon’s desert competition quests not displaying the Calico Egg reward to farmhands.
• Mounted some multiplayer logic not dealing with an offline/invalid participant appropriately.
• Mounted some potential ‘null reference exception’ crashes in multiplayer code.
• Mounted crab pots with no proprietor checking the Mariner occupation as a substitute of Luremaster for the bait requirement in some instances.
• Mounted Willy not sending fishing rod mail to farmhands who be a part of after spring 2.
• Mounted ‘ready for gamers’ verify together with disconnecting gamers.
• Mounted trains not taking part in chugga chugga sounds for farmhands.

Show textual content and localization fixes

• Within the credit, changed the Reddit/Twitter hyperlinks with a “Information & Neighborhood” hyperlink.
• Mounted an enormous variety of translation points for non-English gamers, and added automated exams to maintain translations extra in sync going ahead. For instance, this fixes…
  • dialogue/occasion modifications in 1.6 which weren’t utilized in some languages;
  • lacking dialogues and occasion actions;
  • lacking, outdated, or incorrect translations;
  • lacking occasion preconditions (e.g. Leah’s 10-heart occasion might play on a wet day in some languages);
  • occasions taking part in the flawed music, not being skippable, or inserting gamers or NPCs on the flawed spot;
  • translations having completely different dialogue portraits/breaks/and so forth;
  • dialog subjects not began when one thing occurs;
  • textual content being proven with one phrase per dialogue field;
  • improved grammar (e.g. gender conjugation);
  • varied errors and typos;
  • and lots of different points.
• Many enhancements and fixes to translations and sprites, together with some re-translated merchandise names.
• Renamed “cranberries jelly/juice/wine” to “cranberry jelly/juice/wine”.
• Mounted some unhealthy phrases being produced by the random title generator.
• Mounted NPC textual content indicators and a few chat/UI messages in multiplayer not all the time proven in your language.
• Mounted flavored objects in some chat/UI messages not proven appropriately (like “Participant put ‘Smoked’ into the potluck soup“).
• Mounted varied typos in English textual content.
• Mounted particular order aims not re-translated when the language modifications. (This repair solely applies to new particular orders going ahead.)
• Mounted Robin displaying the flawed variety of hardwood required for a home improve in some languages.
• Mounted some languages displaying Willy’s again room invite mail as “???” within the collections tab.
• Mounted some languages having inconsistent hat hair conduct.
• Mounted some languages producing objects with a unique inside title.
• Mounted French gamers not seeing prismatic impact for Magic Cowboy Hat and Magic Turban.
• Mounted French and Japanese displaying a ‘wants 5 coal’ message for the dehydrator.
• Mounted Russian membership coin and slots offset points.
• Mounted Russian Joja movie show tilesheet not displaying up.
• Mounted Russian device tooltips having overlapped names.
• Mounted Spanish jukebox displaying clean title for ‘Ginger Island’ tune.
• Mounted buy-ticket messages displaying an unformatted worth (like 1000g as a substitute of 1,000g).

Beauty fixes

• Added lights to Marcello’s e-book stand.
• Sam now modifications uniform when he enters JojaMart, as a substitute of solely when he reaches his work tile.
• Mounted many bugs associated to gentle sources (e.g. lights caught on display screen, proven within the flawed location, eliminated earlier than they need to be, and so forth).
• Mounted points with the golden walnut & Qi gem drop-down show:
  • Added assist for displaying each without delay (e.g. one other participant finds a golden walnut whilst you’re within the Qi gem store).
  • Mounted show generally caught on display screen completely.
  • Mounted show displaying the flawed sort in some instances.
  • Mounted show generally showing in multiplayer when the worth didn’t change.
• Mounted line wrapping for film concession description tooltips.
• Mounted visible glitch throughout the even-year Spirit’s Eve you probably have the Joja movie show.
• Mounted concern with padding on the sting of maximized sport home windows on Home windows.
• Mounted a shirt that appeared bizarre.
• Mounted tooltip show points, like an empty area for edible objects that don’t get better any stamina/well being (like candy pea and crocus) or an unintended double area in tooltip buff names.
• Mounted lacking shadows behind some coloured objects (like wine) in menus.
• Mounted texture wrapping concern with Joja door.
• Mounted glitched hidden emote animations in NPC profile menu in some instances. NPCs now use all the time their default sprite within the profile view.
• Mounted purple slime merchandise sprite drawn one pixel decrease than different colours.
• Mounted lacking pixels in anvil sprite’s define.
• Mounted stray pixel in dried mushroom colour masks.
• Mounted Krobus displaying a present icon for the void ghost pendant when he can’t settle for it.
• Mounted the item-received message slicing off a part of the merchandise title if it incorporates a # character (like ‘Tropical Fish #173’).
• Mounted the item-received message generally displaying no depend or a flawed depend.
• Mounted some livestock having double shadows.
• Mounted stardrop tooltips displaying incorrect well being/power restoration quantities.
• Mounted timing of Easter egg in summit occasion.

Gamepad fixes

• Mounted varied points/crashes with gamepad assist.
• When shopping for animals or buildings with a gamepad, now you can use the D-pad to maneuver the cursor.
• In the neighborhood heart bundle UI, utilizing gamepad triggers to maneuver to donation slots and again now returns you to the identical spot.
• Added a small delay earlier than you’ll be able to cancel a waiting-for-players dialogue utilizing a gamepad, to forestall by accident closing it instantly after urgent the OK button.
• Mounted gamepad points on the brand new sport display screen.
• Mounted dresser tabs not selectable with a gamepad.

Modifications for modded gamers

• Added a Content material/ContentHashes.json file containing the MD5 hash for each vanilla content material asset. This can be utilized by SMAPI and different instruments to detect corrupted or modified sport information.
• Improved debug console instructions.
• If you depart a horse/mount in a short lived location, it now returns residence when that location is eliminated.
• Mounted ‘Jewels Of The Sea’ e-book producing roe for customized fishing catches that usually don’t have roe.
• Mounted forage crops outdoors the farm being eliminated every week.
• Mounted meteorite, unusual capsule, and stone owl solely showing within the top-left 64×64 tile space on giant customized farm maps.
• Mounted pagination in powers tab when mods add extra powers.
• Mounted edge instances all through the sport code associated to objects whose stacks can’t be decreased to zero (e.g. instruments).
• Mounted varied errors when customized objects don’t have any title.
• Mounted error when mods apply audio modifications if there’s no audio system out there.
• Mounted error if there aren’t any films out there attributable to a mod bug. The sport will now log a warning and select from the total listing of flicks as a substitute.
• Mounted crash if a farm animal is in a damaged constructing or location.
• Mounted crash if a smoked fish’s authentic fish information now not exists. You now get a scrumptious smoked Error Merchandise as a substitute.
• Mounted crash when customized sounds loaded from a mod’s .ogg information are paused/resumed many instances.
• Mounted map tilesheet crash in some instances when taking part in split-screen mode with mods.
• Mounted points when the sport’s whichFarm and whichModFarm fields are out of sync.
• Mounted ‘gentle supply already exists’ and ‘altering web area guardian’ warnings in some instances.
• Mounted mod information getting reset on chest sort swap.
• Mounted berry bushes displaying flawed sprite in areas the place seeds could be planted in any season.
• Mounted stardrop reward response dialogue for customized NPCs defaulting to some uncooked information as a substitute of their cherished dialogue.
• Mounted capable of enter the Adventurer’s Guild again room with out assembly the requirement if the door is open after a customized occasion.
• Mounted triggered actions being logged twice.

Modifications for mod authors

• See the 1.6.9 mod creator migration information for brand new APIs, dialogue keys, sport state queries, debug instructions, map properties, C# constants/fields/strategies, information fields, and lots of different technical modifications.

Stardew Valley is offered for the Nintendo Swap, PS4, Xbox One, PCs, cell gadgets, and the PlayStation Vita. The 1.6 replace is offered now on PCs, and the patch will come to the Swap, PS4, Xbox One, and cell gadgets on November 4, 2024.