Stardew Valley News

This Stardew Valley mod adds a horde mode with homicidal scarecrows

Stardew Valley is a tranquil farming sim that teaches you the values of self-care and accomplishing goals at a rate that works for you. Forget all that, though, because here's a mod that turns the chill PC game into a fight for survival.

The way Aedenthorn's Murdercrows Stardew Valley mod works is simple. Hordes of ghouls will attack your farm between the hours of 9:00 to 18:00 in-game time. To defend yourself and your property, you can plant scarecrows to fight them off. Normal scarecrows are the least powerful as they shoot rocks, rarecrows shoot directional fire, whereas deluxe scarecrows lob "some green blob-looking thing". The modder has also added gold scarecrows that shoot "better" green blob-looking things and iridium scarecrows that hurl long, chaotic fire - the modder assures this is cool-looking.

If the horde of enemies invades your farm, they'll destroy everything, basically, from your crops to your murdercrows - so it's best to knock them off first. If this sounds like your kind of thing, then you can find the mod and instructions on how to download it over on Nexus Mods.

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This Stardew Valley mod turns the Wizard's Tower into Howl's Moving Castle

Stardew Valley modders adore bringing Studio Ghibli to Concerned Ape's tranquil farming sim. Whether it's creating new mods to do it or bringing old ones together, we've seen a few fan-made collaborations. The latest Studio Ghibli related Stardew Valley mod allows you to turn the Wizard's Tower into Howl's Moving Castle.

If you're not sure where the tower is, it's located on the western edge of Cindersap Forest, which is all the way on the left side of the map. The tower is only open between 6:00 to 23:00 in-game, but you can't enter right away. You need to get access to the Community Centre and read the golden scroll in the Crafts Room first.

Once you download Jina2ya's Stardew Valley mod, the tower will turn into Howl's Moving Castle. Do, er, take note, though, that the castle remains stationary and won't be stomping around the map. This is a chill game, after all. If you want to take the immersion even further, then you can also download two other Stardew Valley mods that add Howl and Calcifer to the mix.

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1.4.5 Patch available now

Hey everyone, there's a small patch out now that fixes a few issues with Stardew Valley. The most notable is the "no audio" bug that was happening to some people.

CHANGELOG:
- Fixed an issue on Windows where the game would initialize incorrectly and start without audio.
- Fixed an issue where passable objects, such as torches, could block you from attacking enemies that are standing nearby.
- You can now reclaim the Ancient Seed crafting recipe from Gunther if you donated an Ancient Seed artifact and collected only the seed and not the recipe.
- Fixed an issue that would allow animals to walk on certain water tiles alongside some bridges.
- Wallpapers can no longer be used in place of items to be processed into artisan goods.
- Fixed the Lewis statue letter not granting its reward in the Simplified Chinese localization.

-Ape

Stardew Valley 1.4.4 patch out now

Hey everyone,

The 1.4.4 patch is out now, which makes some improvements and fixes some remaining issues in the 1.4 content update. Patch notes below:

- Adjusted dropped item pickups so that they're more responsive for clients in multiplayer and will "rubber band back" to their previous locations less frequently.
- Adjusted item collection code so that machines tucked in corners can be refilled without using cursor mode.
- Added Elliott's 14-heart not properly working in non-English languages.
- Fixed a data entry issue that caused some fish ponds to use incorrect data.
- Fixed the Shrimp Enthusiast Shirt applying the wrong shirt artwork.
- Fixed a softlock when watching the 2nd Fall movie in a non-English languages.
- Fixed the cursor not appearing in the level up profession selector if the Controller Style Menus option is toggled off while using a controller.
- Unsuccessfully crafting an unstackable item while already holding an item on your cursor no longer grants you credit for crafting it.
- Fixed an issue where Garden Pots would consume seeds without planting them if they were planted from more than a tile away.
- Fixed the color selector sliders on the Farmhand creation screen having incorrect navigation on controller.
- Fixed the logic for fruit tree obstruction checking the wrong tile.
- Fixed the dagger swipe sound effect repeating an extra time in multiplayer if another player is in the same area.
- Krobus will no longer get jealous if you gift characters you're dating after he moves in.
- Penny now leaves Garden Pots alone in her 14 heart event.
- Fixed an issue that could cause Sam's 6 heart event to soft-lock.
- The game now re-issues the player the Qi's Challenge quest if they had previously opened the mail, but dismissed it without accepting the quest.
- Items placed in an ex's room are now collected and placed in a chest after divorce.
- You can no longer give away quest items or non-giftable items during the Feast of the Winter Star.
- Adjusted some NPC gift reactions (Vincent and Jas now dislike Triple Shot Espresso, Dwarf now loves Lemon Stone, and Sam now enjoys concession stand Joja Cola.)
- Adjusted Desert map so that crab pots placed in the water no longer render incorrectly, and objects can no longer be placed on top of the Desert Trader.
- Removed Catfish from Willy's fishing quests during Winter, as it's impossible to catch one without a Rain Totem.
- Fixed a crash that could occur on the host when a client connects to a game that was set to Friends or Invite Only that is now being hosted on a platform that doesn't support those online modes.
- Fixed incorrectly looping ambient noise in the Deep Woods at night.
- Fixed an issue where the Japanese localization's dialogue for a spouse watering your crops would incorrectly show both gender variants of the text.
- Fixed the Simplified Chinese localization incorrectly showing Sunflower Seeds as a Fall only crop.
- Removed the '- Fixed an issue where Junimos would show an empty text bubble when bringing a bundle to the Junimo Hut after completing a bundle in Simplified Chinese or Korean.
- Fixed an issue where viewing the Junimo Note before learning to read it would cause certain text to permanently display much larger in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean localizations.
- Filled in some missing characters in the Korean fonts. This fixes some instances where an asterisk appears instead of a Korean character.
- Fixed a minor typo in Grandpa's Note in the Korean localization.

On a side note, I recently announced that Stardew Valley has sold over 10 million copies (probably closer to 12 million), and the majority of sales have been here on Steam. So I'd like to thank all of you here for your support over the past 4 years and for making this possible. I hope to keep bringing you many more hours of fun and magic w/ Stardew Valley and beyond!

Hope you're enjoying the 1.4 update, and as always, thanks for playing Stardew Valley!
-ConcernedApe

1.4.3 Patch Out Now

Hi Everyone,
The 1.4.3 patch is now out, which fixes a few more bugs/problems with the 1.4 update:

- Fixed an issue where you could collect multiples of a bundle's reward in the community center if you closed the menu without collecting them.
- Fixed an issue where naming your pet the name of an NPC could have your pet appear on the calendar on that NPC's birthday.
- Fixed an item duplication exploit when using the add to existing stacks button on an inventory with a full stack.
- Made some fixes to the Turkish localization.
- Fixed a bug in the Crafting Menu that could cause extra resources to be consumed in certain situations.
- Adjusted the Four Corners farm map to fix layering issue with buildings.
- Fixed a bug where you could enter Wizard's Tower before unlocking the Community Center.
- Taking a map screenshot while the option to show menu backgrounds is on will no longer render the menu in the screenshot.
Fixed an issue causing certain wallpapers to grant a Lost Book when selected in the Catalogue.
- Fixed an issue where you could get your grange score immediately after asking Lewis to judge your grange during the Stardew Valley Fair.

Thanks for playing!
-Ape