1.6 Stardew Valley Console and Cell Patch Launch Time Set

Eric “Involved Ape” Barone shared the precise launch time for the Stardew Valley console and cellular patch 1.6 launch time. It’s going to 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 cellular variations of the Stardew Valley 1.6 patch would possibly fluctuate. The 10am PT/1pm ET/7pm CET time is an estimate. So it could be slightly early or late, relying on which system you utilize to play the farming sim. The announcement additionally confirmed that it’ll cowl all 1.6 content material up via 1.6.9. 

Listed below are the total patch notes for the Stardew Valley console and cellular 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

• If you happen to misplaced an merchandise that may’t be discovered once more, a new buddy 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 singular water colour.
• Now you can place beds and sleep inside any constructed buildings that permit furnishings.
• Objects dropped in water now float for a short while, so you possibly can accumulate them for those who’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)

Stability modifications

• Blue grass now not grows slower than regular grass.
• Fruit tree progress is now not blocked by grass and seed spots.
• Pine bushes now drop one additional wooden when chopped down.
• The initiation quest now counts wild slimes killed on the farm.
• Thorns ring injury now stacks for those who 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 in the course of the night time market.
• Robin now not constructs buildings throughout inexperienced rain in 12 months 1.
• Putting a bomb after which switching to a weapon now not applies its enchantments to the bomb injury.
• 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 degree, 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 occasions in the identical session, however can now not seem on consecutive days.
• Willy’s store now opens on spring 2 within the first 12 months even for those who didn’t learn his letter.
• Fastened Queen of Sauce reruns being affected by the recipes wanted by unclaimed farmhands in empty cabins.
• Fastened having the ability to obtain monster injury whereas leaping down a mine shaft earlier than the display screen fades to black.
• Fastened spa not totally recovering power when a max-energy buff is lively.
• Fastened sleeping late whereas exhausted not decreasing stamina as meant.
• Fastened the [[catalogue]] and [[Furniture Catalogue|furniture catalogue]] promoting objects from themed catalogues like [[Retro Catalogue]].
• Fastened exploit the place a fish pond with a golden cracker may produce limitless output. Fish pond output bonuses at the moment are utilized as soon as when the output is created.
• Fastened exploit the place you might cancel cow milking and nonetheless get the friendship enhance.
• Fastened unintended additional probability of spontaneous inexperienced rain bushes when loading a save in fall.
• Fastened ability buffs affecting store merchandise necessities in 1.6.
• Fastened sturdy ring now not halving debuff occasions in 1.6.
• Fastened decrease probability of catching lava eels in caldera after 1.6.
• Fastened forage crops harvested from backyard pots all the time being low-quality and offering no XP.
• Fastened iridium scythe with forage crops not giving XP or making use of the forage degree high quality enhance.
• Fastened some weapons by no means dropping from crates when legacy randomization is enabled.

High quality of life modifications

• The sport now recovers most saves mechanically in the event that they’re damaged, corrupted, or lacking the SaveGameInfo file.
• The sport now resends most achievements, recipes, and necessary mail for those who someway missed them. For PlayStation/Xbox gamers, missed trophies are readded when carry out a particular motion as an alternative.
• Fish ponds now present the variety of roe or different output objects to gather.
• The marriage occasion now replays for those who 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’ll now not decide up some objects that may’t be tailor-made.
• Coloured objects like flowers now additionally kind by colour. That avoids objects being reordered randomly every time you kind your stock.
• Now you can solely promote books to the bookseller through the e book buy menu, not the trade-in menu. This reduces the possibility of unintentionally promoting a e book when making an attempt to commerce it in.
• The collections tab now exhibits 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 for those who can’t re-roll their degree 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 possibly can’t use a multiplayer-only or host-only command.
• Efficiency optimizations.

Technical modifications

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

Gameplay fixes

• You possibly can now not swap a chest’s kind if the brand new kind is just too small to retailer its present objects.
• Fastened NPC points:
  • NPCs now not keep away from satisfactory terrain options like flooring and grass when pathfinding.
  • Fastened kicking Krobus out of the home triggering divorce dialogues.
  • Fastened Leo following his island schedule after transferring to the mainland.
  • Fastened a Lewis schedule the place he would overlap Marnie.
  • Fastened a Penny resort dialogue when married that was by no means proven.
  • Fastened Pierre generally exhibiting a closed-on-Wednesday dialogue after his store hours are prolonged.
  • Fastened mother or dad sending duplicate mail for those who change gender later.
  • Fastened some dialogue based mostly on location + coronary heart degree solely being proven when you’ve got 10 or extra hearts with the NPC.
  • Fastened particular NPC reward response dialogue generally not matching their reward style (e.g. Willy giving a constructive dialogue for triple shot espresso).
  • Fastened unable to speak to Robin after accepting a home improve.
  • Fastened incorrectly cut up dialogue in Linus’ first coronary heart occasion.
  • Fastened NPCs unable to pathfind via tiles that had a tent initially of the day.
  • Fastened NPCs not loading their inexperienced rain dialogue for those who began the day on the island.
  • Fastened NPCs saying “…” in 1.6 in the event that they purchased an merchandise you offered to a store however they don’t have a related dialogue for it.
  • Fastened your partner generally saying “…” as an alternative of the meant impartial dialogue.
  • Fastened your fiancée/partner reacting to a mermaid’s pendant as for those who’re engaged/married to another person.
• Fastened UI points:
  • Fastened world map not all the time exhibiting gamers on the proper spot once they’re inside a constructed constructing.
  • Fastened hyperlinks in credit now not opening a browser web page.
  • Fastened in a position to work together with HUD parts just like the toolbar once they’re hidden (e.g. when the sport is paused).
  • Fastened points when resizing the sport window:
    • superior recreation choices structure being tousled;
    • collections web page shedding its chosen tab and web page;
    • social web page shedding its scroll place.
  • Fastened themed catalogues not having class tabs.
  • Fastened forge UI destroying any merchandise held by the cursor after unforging.
  • Fastened museum menu clicks on the OK button generally grabbing the artifact behind it as an alternative.
  • Fastened tailoring menu letting you trash some non-trashable objects.
  • Fastened manage button in stock UIs letting you place any merchandise in particular chests like enrichers.
  • Fastened problem the place phoning Robin to get constructing costs after which resizing the window would allow the construct/demolish/and so forth choices as for those who’d visited the store instantly.
• Fastened particular objects and machines:
  • Fastened chest colour getting reset while you swap chest kind.
  • Fastened crab pots not producing double catches accurately with wild bait.
  • Fastened crab pots duplicating bait when loaded by a hopper.
  • Fastened crab pots not making use of deluxe bait and wild bait bonuses in some circumstances.
  • Fastened fences destroyed on click on when surrounded by impassable objects on three sides (above + left + proper) as an alternative of 4 as meant.
  • Fastened geode crushers incrementing the ‘geodes crushed’ stat when hovering, which allowed unintended RNG manipulation.
  • Fastened magic quiver trinket generally doing nothing if each a legitimate and invalid goal are in vary.
  • Fastened mannequins shedding 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.
  • Fastened tents not blocking merchandise placement.
  • Fastened watering cans with bottomless enchantment generally proven with a half-empty meter. Bottomless watering cans at the moment are all the time full.
• Fastened constructing upgrades not inserting inside objects (just like the coop incubator) if…
  • furnishings is in the best way. The furnishings is now moved similar to different objects.
  • an merchandise blocking placement can’t be moved. It’s now moved into the misplaced & present in that case.
• Fastened circumstances the place the Pirate’s Spouse quest chain may lock you out:
  • When you have the search however misplaced the required merchandise, you now get a brand new Conflict Memento in a single day.
  • If the search was cancelled, now you can speak to Birdie to restart it.
  • NPCs can now not mistakenly settle for the search objects as presents or refuse to just accept their quest merchandise.
• Fastened location/map points:
  • Fastened display screen viewport at improper place proper after warping on horseback in some circumstances.
  • Fastened wilderness farm not pre-building the primary cabin in separate-cabins mode.
  • Fastened grass in Marnie’s cow discipline by no means regrowing.
  • Fastened Willy’s bait barrel lacking throughout night time market.
  • Fastened some lacking map tiles which allow you to stroll off-screen.
  • Fastened in a position to go away Stardew Valley Honest’s competition space in odd years.
  • Fastened weed/stone particles spawning on high of positioned paths in some circumstances.
  • Fastened in a position to dig up buried treasure from non-diggable tiles in some circumstances.
  • Fastened forest fish now not catchable on the 4 corners farm.
  • Fastened bug the place utilizing the usual farm’s wallpaper/flooring in farmhouses of one other farm kind would reset them to that farm’s themed defaults.
• Fastened pre-1.6 saves generally shedding the Dwarvish Translation Information. The repair is retroactive for affected gamers.
• Fastened pre-1.6 farmhand stats not migrated accurately. The repair is retroactive for affected farmhands.
• Fastened pre-1.6 tubs o’ flowers by no means blooming once more if their first day in 1.6 was in fall or winter.
• Fastened raccoon bundle accepting something for protect objects.
• Fastened degree requirement for farmer titles lowered by one in 1.6.
• Fastened 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).
• Fastened two Desert Pageant makeover outfits that utilized male shirts to feminine gamers.
• Fastened unusual conduct of store objects with each a inventory restrict and stack dimension (e.g. objects in a number of desert competition outlets).
• Fastened edge circumstances the place viewing a earlier 12 months’s secret santa letter within the collections tab would present the present 12 months’s secret santa within the recreation menu in the course of the Feast of the Winter Star week.
• Fastened the throw-item-into-shipping-bin animation drawing the bottom uncolored sprite for coloured objects like roe.
• Fastened error loading cellular saves on different platforms.
• Fastened crash when loading a save file in some uncommon circumstances.
• Fastened crash when utilizing a tent on Ginger Island throughout an evening occasion.
• Fastened some cat presents making use of fishing bonuses from the principle participant’s geared up fishing rod.
• Fastened movie show scene failing in some circumstances when gamers have beforehand unequipped trinkets.
• Fastened Junimo harvesters shedding the merchandise colour when dropping a crop on the bottom as a consequence of their hut being full.
• Fastened 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 following one who connects.
• Fastened having the ability to steal one other participant’s roommate.
• Fastened farmhands in a position to declare a number of Desert Pageant fishing quests per day.
• Fastened crash when reconnecting later within the day after leaving a competition.
• Fastened host crash if a farmhand disconnects whereas they’re between areas.
• Fastened NPC duplication in multiplayer fish derbies.
• Fastened crab pots & cattle owned by an offline farmhand checking the principle participant’s professions as an alternative.
• Fastened crab pots with no proprietor checking professions from the principle participant as an alternative of the participant including bait.
• Fastened farmhands generally not seing the message once they can’t enter an NPC’s bed room.
• Fastened Marlon’s desert competition quests not displaying the Calico Egg reward to farmhands.
• Fastened some multiplayer logic not dealing with an offline/invalid participant accurately.
• Fastened some potential ‘null reference exception’ crashes in multiplayer code.
• Fastened crab pots with no proprietor checking the Mariner career as an alternative of Luremaster for the bait requirement in some circumstances.
• Fastened Willy not sending fishing rod mail to farmhands who be a part of after spring 2.
• Fastened ‘ready for gamers’ verify together with disconnecting gamers.
• Fastened trains not enjoying chugga chugga sounds for farmhands.

Show textual content and localization fixes

• Within the credit, changed the Reddit/Twitter hyperlinks with a “Information & Group” hyperlink.
• Fastened 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 may play on a wet day in some languages);
  • occasions enjoying the improper music, not being skippable, or inserting gamers or NPCs on the improper spot;
  • translations having completely different dialogue portraits/breaks/and so forth;
  • dialog matters not began when one thing occurs;
  • textual content being proven with one phrase per dialogue field;
  • improved grammar (e.g. gender conjugation);
  • numerous 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”.
• Fastened some dangerous phrases being produced by the random title generator.
• Fastened NPC textual content indicators and a few chat/UI messages in multiplayer not all the time proven in your language.
• Fastened flavored objects in some chat/UI messages not proven accurately (like “Participant put ‘Smoked’ into the potluck soup“).
• Fastened numerous typos in English textual content.
• Fastened particular order aims not re-translated when the language modifications. (This repair solely applies to new particular orders going ahead.)
• Fastened Robin exhibiting the improper variety of hardwood required for a home improve in some languages.
• Fastened some languages exhibiting Willy’s again room invite mail as “???” within the collections tab.
• Fastened some languages having inconsistent hat hair conduct.
• Fastened some languages producing objects with a special inside title.
• Fastened French gamers not seeing prismatic impact for Magic Cowboy Hat and Magic Turban.
• Fastened French and Japanese exhibiting a ‘wants 5 coal’ message for the dehydrator.
• Fastened Russian membership coin and slots offset points.
• Fastened Russian Joja movie show tilesheet not exhibiting up.
• Fastened Russian software tooltips having overlapped names.
• Fastened Spanish jukebox exhibiting clean title for ‘Ginger Island’ tune.
• Fastened buy-ticket messages exhibiting an unformatted worth (like 1000g as an alternative of 1,000g).

Beauty fixes

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

Gamepad fixes

• Fastened numerous points/crashes with gamepad help.
• 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 possibly can cancel a waiting-for-players dialogue utilizing a gamepad, to forestall unintentionally closing it instantly after urgent the OK button.
• Fastened gamepad points on the brand new recreation display screen.
• Fastened dresser tabs not selectable with a gamepad.

Adjustments 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 recreation information.
• Improved debug console instructions.
• Whenever you go away a horse/mount in a short lived location, it now returns house when that location is eliminated.
• Fastened ‘Jewels Of The Sea’ e book producing roe for customized fishing catches that usually don’t have roe.
• Fastened forage crops outdoors the farm being eliminated every week.
• Fastened meteorite, unusual capsule, and stone owl solely showing within the top-left 64×64 tile space on giant customized farm maps.
• Fastened pagination in powers tab when mods add extra powers.
• Fastened edge circumstances all through the sport code associated to objects whose stacks can’t be lowered to zero (e.g. instruments).
• Fastened numerous errors when customized objects haven’t any title.
• Fastened error when mods apply audio modifications if there’s no audio machine out there.
• Fastened error if there are not any motion pictures out there as a consequence of a mod bug. The sport will now log a warning and select from the total checklist of flicks as an alternative.
• Fastened crash if a farm animal is in a damaged constructing or location.
• Fastened crash if a smoked fish’s unique fish information now not exists. You now get a scrumptious smoked Error Merchandise as an alternative.
• Fastened crash when customized sounds loaded from a mod’s .ogg information are paused/resumed many occasions.
• Fastened map tilesheet crash in some circumstances when enjoying split-screen mode with mods.
• Fastened points when the sport’s whichFarm and whichModFarm fields are out of sync.
• Fastened ‘mild supply already exists’ and ‘altering web discipline mum or dad’ warnings in some circumstances.
• Fastened mod information getting reset on chest kind swap.
• Fastened berry bushes exhibiting improper sprite in areas the place seeds may be planted in any season.
• Fastened stardrop reward response dialogue for customized NPCs defaulting to some uncooked information as an alternative of their cherished dialogue.
• Fastened in a position to enter the Adventurer’s Guild again room with out assembly the requirement if the door is open after a customized occasion.
• Fastened triggered actions being logged twice.

Adjustments for mod authors

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

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

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