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When I was a little thing, I spent most summers at my grandmother's old, overgrown farm in the middle of nowhere Mississippi. Without fail, at some point in each visit, I'd find myself in her kitchen as she equipped me with a small, dinky spoon and shoddy bucket. My task? Dig up a field of red potatoes with that spoon—yes, a spoon—and drag the bucket back and forth to her house to drop off my potato haul...
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Stardew Valley's 1.6.9 update has arrived with a few hiccups, including missing chickens and a sudden announcement to remove all hats from pets to avoid performance issues, and these peculiar problems aren't slowing down. Fortunately, ConcernedApe has reassured us with various responses that things will be taken care of in the next update, but when that will be remains a mystery...
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Changes for vanilla players:
- Added a few extra spouse reactions when interacting with them without dialogue
- You no longer lose a fish if you pass out while holding it, or pass out while fishing into a fish pond
- Fixed animal products always harvesting with 0 quality
- Improved efficiency of playing sound effects.
- Fixed spouses being warped to 0,0 for farmhands.
- Fixed some cases where spouses would point the wrong direction after interactions
- Prevent rare crash when updating Robin's construction animation.
- Prevent rare crash when obtaining Stardrops with stowed tools.
- Fix chimney duplication when creating a new 1.6.9+ save.
- Fix crash when homeless farmhands remain after deleting cabins.
- Fix players inside farm buildings mis-positioned on world map
- Made geode menu more stable if you resize the window during geode opening
- Fixed roommates requiring 2 house upgrades instead of 1 like marriage candidates
- Improvements to Russian translation

Changes for modded players:
- Fix crash when mods add too many streamed .ogg sound effects.

Changes for mod authors:
- Allow for multiple instances of the same streamed .ogg sound effect.