Stardew Valley News

Stardew Valley 1.6.3 Patch

Hey everyone,

The 1.6.3 update is here, which includes some "Quality of Life" changes, bug fixes, and balance adjustments. Patch notes below:

-You can now access Clint's shop and geode service while your tool is being upgraded.
-Increased raccoon bug meat and bat wing request amount
-Harvesting moss now grants 1 foraging exp per moss
-Infinite Power achievement is now more generous with how it activates, allowing pre-1.6 saves to trigger the achievement
-Adds mine cart shortcut to year 1 Spirit's Eve festival
-You now have to collect (not just donate) the 4 prismatic shards for the "Four Precious Stones" Qi Quest
-The JunimoKart Qi Quest now rewards 20 Qi gems (up from 10)
-Adds new cabins to starter layouts for multiplayer.
-Starter cabins now appear in the actual order intended.
-Adult mossy green rain trees boost the moss growth rate of nearby trees
-If a Journal quest title is too wide, the clock icon and the rest of the text will be shifted down to make room
-You can now press the Escape or menu button to "go back" on a shipping menu category page
-Adjustments to moss growth (grows slower on sunny summer days, recovers slower after harvest)
-Reduced meteorite prismatic shard chance (100% -> 25%)
-You can now paint the new cabins (at 3rd upgrade level)
-Ancient seed packets excluded from sale at traveling cart
-Made waterfall and other ambient positional sounds fade out more smoothly
-Added a catch-all case: if it's year 2 and you don't have a pet (for any reason), you can start adoptinng them from Marnie's
-Made berry bush state consistent overnight and on load (both at 20% plus a small new random bonus chance)
-Minor graphical fixes
-Fixes several translation errors and missing translations
-Fixes large character sprites having a visual glitch (e.g. bear, island frog, clint hammering)
-Fixed a visual error in the shop menu if an item's name was longer than the width of the menu
-Fix a crash related to the new festival
-Fix a bug that was causing excess trash to be fished
-Fixed bug preventing Emily's 10 heart mail and event from triggering
-Fixed some graphics issues with Shipping menu
-Fixed several more spawn-out-of-bounds cases
-Added Krobus portrait

Thanks for playing!
-Ape ːstardropː

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