Stardew Valley fans are asking for improved pronoun options to be included in the farming sim's upcoming 1.6 update - via a 5,000-signature petition.
28.09.2023 - 21:13 / polygon.com / New / New Content / Will
Grandpa might not have faired well but Stardew Valley fans have reason to celebrate. On Wednesday evening, developer Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone announced a detailed breakdown of the game’s upcoming 1.6 patch. The update will bring a hefty list of features including new end-game content, events, and items. Barone did not share a release date for the patch.
Stardew Valley has not received an update in several years. The last time the team released a patch was the 1.5 update in December 2020. While maybe not as large as previous updates, the 1.6 update will bring a considerable amount of new content to the game. You can view the full list below, with highlights including a new festival, more than 100 new lines of dialog, and new end-game content.
1.6 content sneak peek. no release date yet pic.twitter.com/vyhbFRkZ00
Stardew Valley creator Barone has been juggling the development of the new update with his next title, Haunted Chocolatier. He started working on Haunted Chocolatier in 2020 as a solo developer. In April of 2023, he announced that he was taking a break from creating the game and would spend time working on Stardew Valley’s next update. At the time, he said that the new update would include “mostly changes for modders” to make the game easier to work with.
While it’s been years since fans have gotten an official update, modders have become the lifeblood of the Stardew Valley community. Developers have published mods that add new areas to explore, edit the aesthetics of the game, and bring new features.
Stardew Valley fans are asking for improved pronoun options to be included in the farming sim's upcoming 1.6 update - via a 5,000-signature petition.
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It’s been over seven years since the release of Stardew Valley,and its fan base is as active as ever. This time, Stardew Valley fans have organized to ask for more inclusive pronoun options in the beloved farming sim. On Sept. 29, Canadian content creator Atmos Fierce started an online petition asking the game’s creator, Eric Barone, to add additional pronoun options as part of the upcoming 1.6 update. Since then, the petition has received over 3,000 signatures and revived a long-running conversation around how the game interacts with its queer fan base.
Oh to be a Stardew Valley fan, enjoying the stellar score in live concert, among an audience of fellow fans. For fans who score a ticket to the forthcoming Stardew Valley Concert Tour, this dream can be a reality.
Video game concerts are some of my favourite things in the world. Final Fantasy’s Distant Worlds, the NieR:Orchestra concerts, the Sonic Symphony - whatever particular series is your personal earworm, hearing music you’ve spent dozens or hours of hours listening to performed by a live orchestra can be incredibly moving and transformative. For those who feel that kind of connection with Stardew Valley, the engrossing farming-slash-romance-slash-dungeon-crawling sim is taking its OST on the road next year.
It’s official — you’ll soon be able to experience the music of Stardew Valley in live orchestral form, as a real-life concert tour is set to kick off next year across the globe.
If you just can't get enough Stardew Valley in your life, here's a different way to indulge in its unrelenting life sim coziness: The Stardew Valley «Festival of Seasons» concert series, an international musical tour featuring a selection of music from the game performed by a chamber orchestra.
If you’re an avid concert-goer, and you also love Stardew Valley, this may be the perfect concert for you! Concerned Ape, the creator of Stardew Valley, announces the first ever orchestra music tour for Stardew Valley. Currently, there are 14 confirmed dates for the ‘Festival of Seasons’.
Season 5 launches on October 17.
As of update 1.5 for, there are 25 Secret Notes, collectibles that can give you directions to secret locations, gifts certain characters would Love, or solutions to puzzles. To start finding Secret Notes in, you need to obtain a Magnifying Glass, which can only be done during certain times of day during the winter. Then, you will be able to find various notes from cutting weeds, defeating monsters, and a variety of other tasks.
Stardew Valley creator Eric «ConcernedApe» Barone has given fans something tangible to look forward to, with an outline of what the eagerly anticipated 1.6 update entails. While there is still sadly no release date, it has some pretty cool stuff to look forward to, and it's not like the life-consuming farm management sim really needed to be more fully featured.
After teasing Stardew Valley players about the potential additions being made to the game as part of its upcoming update 1.6, developer Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has taken to social media platform X to elaborate to confirm some of the new features coming to the game.