Stardew Valley | 1.6 Announced

[Amalthea]

Has anyone played Stardew Valley? I sunk a loooot of hours into it when it first came out and I had a lot of fun, especially with the modding that was available for it. I think ConcernedApe did a really great job with it, it wasn't perfect by any means, but I thought it was pretty well done. If I recall correctly he did most, if not all, of the game himself and was pretty good with fixing bugs/responding to players, adding updates etc. I haven't played it in awhile though, but I've recently been wanting to give it another go since the updated farms and multiplayer (I think?) was added.

Before the update I had my farm pretty decked out with Studio Ghibli mods (appearance mods). The scarecrows were changed to characters from the Studio Ghibli movies, I made Totoro plushies myself, and replaced art/pictures on the wall with artwork from the movies too  

Anywho, thoughts on the game? Who are some of your favourite characters? Did you do and modding? And feel free to post up screenshots of your farm if you have them!

[Moonface]

I started this a few days ago, and I'm loving it so far! I'm into Day 9 of Summer, Year 1, and I haven't really done much for my farm yet. I'm mostly just planting a load of seeds, and while those grow going out to forage, mine, and fish to build up money and resources for upgrading my tools or completing community center gathering quests. Modding won't be a thing for me since I'm playing on Switch.

[ShiraNoMai]

Stardew is so goooood. Watching Moony play it recently has me itching to pick my file back up where I left it, on the first days of Winter. I wanted to redo my entire farm layout since I figured while I can't make crops, I can better utilize that time to replanting my unplanned farm. The idea of it overwhelmed me at the time so I bounced off the game after that but I was completely unaware that someone had made a farm planner for the game that's fully interactive: Stardew Planner

[Moonface]

That farm planner is such a great tool. I don't think it has every possible item in it, but it has enough to at least plan out your buildings and paths. There's also a subreddit dedicated to farm designs for Stardew, and these two were my favourites I saw there:

https://i.redd.it/2mgst1er5j921.png
https://i.redd.it/394hxzv0g4531.png

I'm surprised you don't want to start a new save so you can use one of the other farm layouts Shira.

[WR91]

This game looks intriguing. Is it worth the pickup on the Switch?

[Moonface]

This game looks intriguing. Is it worth the pickup on the Switch?

I have it for Switch and it's perfectly fine on the system. The clock system can sometimes work against you in annoying ways, such as trying to reach deeper levels of the caves, but it's a neat pick up and go type of game.

[Moonface]

Stardew Valley 1.6 Announced
Despite not having touched this game in forever and this thread being dormant for a few years, I can't help but want to share this tweet from the developer that was made yesterday I didn't see until now:

Yes, the madman is still updating this game! I genuinely thought he was done with any major updates for this game a while ago, especially with Haunted Chocolatier in the pipeline, so just to see him still putting work into this game when it could've been done multiple updates ago is truly commendable. It feels rare to see any game getting this treatment that isn't a GaaS or doing other things to generate constant revenue beyond the initial purchase.