Stardew Valley has rolled out a hotfix update to the farming sim game to address a recent issue resulting in game crashes. Since its 2016 debut, the beloved farming game has been credited as one of the biggest titles in the explosion in popularity of farming sims within the indie game market. Stardew Valley offers a wealth of content for players beyond their in-game farms, with dungeon-like caves to explore, a romance system, and plenty of diverse and unique NPCs to meet. Now, a new fix is addressing a major issue with a recent update.
Stardew Valley made waves last month with the release of the game's highly-anticipated 1.6 update, adding plenty of new things to do in the game. The update introduced multiple new seasonal festivals to the game, new food items, and even a new type of farm for players to use in Stardew Valley. The major update has also seen several smaller patches in the month following its release, with developer ConcernedApe most recently launching the 1.6.6 update late last week. Now, the game's newest hotfix looks to fix a new crash within the last patch.
Following reports of crashes within Stardew Valley's recent 1.6.6 update, ConcernedApe officially confirmed a hotfix to come for Stardew Valley. According to the developer, the crashes were related to NPC characters utilizing the changing rooms at Stardew Valley's in-game island resort. ConcernedApe announced at the time that a hotfix was already in the works for the issue, revealing that the fix would be released within an hour of his announcement on Twitter. Players were advised to turn off the resort or wait for the patch, in order to not be met with an in-game crash before the hotfix went live.
The hotfixes come as the most recent of plenty of fixes to Stardew Valley following its most recent major update. ConcernedApe has released multiple smaller iterations for the newest update, fixing bugs and even adding some new content to the game beyond the 1.6 update. Update 1.6.4 introduced multiple new mine layouts and a new cutscene to the game, alongside quality-of-life improvements to the game's translations and plenty more.
The newest update to Stardew Valley has brought plenty of eyes back onto the popular farming sim, seeing a major resurgence over the last month. Stardew Valley broke its player count record on Steam following the launch of Update 1.6, with more than 140,000 players logging into the farming game. The game would even continue to set more records after that, with the game reportedly peaking above 200,000 players and seeing consistently high numbers. Stardew Valley's success following the 1.6 update shows the game remains a fan-favorite eight years later.
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