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This Stardew Valley mod gives you an old abandoned school to fix up

A big theme of Stardew Valley is rebuilding. You come to Pelican Town not just to fix up your grandfather's old farm, but to rebuild your life into something more fulfilling and meaningful. Stardew Valley is, however, more than five years old. While the game gets an update here and there to keep it fresh, we like to check out what the modding community is getting up to keep the game vibrant.

One of the more recent mods to capture our eye is xiddav's Little Red School House mod, which is also about rebuilding. This one adds an old, broken school to Pelican Town, which you can find near the playground. You'll need to take fixing it up into your own hands, though, by fulfilling the special orders board. You'll notice a woodpile near the ruined school, which is where you'll want to take the items needed for the special order.

Once the school is complete, it'll hum with life. Penny, Jas, and Vincent will attend, though you won't see Leo just yet. Xiddav explains that they haven't met Leo in-game yet, so they don't want to spoil anything for themselves, which is fair! Oh, and perhaps most importantly, there's a class hamster called Russel.

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Stardew Valley player introduces gladiatorial combat to the chill farming sim

Stardew Valley is a chill game about farming and learning to grow within your limits. It's only natural, then, that a modder adds a pinch of chaos every now and then. We once reported on a mod that adds a horde mode with homicidal scarecrows, but the most recent fan-made addition to catch our eye is more about arena-based combat.

XxHarvzBackxX's Arena Challenges mod introduces a new location where you can go to defeat monsters for rewards - are you not entertained? The challenges range in difficulty but you'll be rewarded for your time and effort.

The modder explains that you can find the arena by heading to a door in the mines. Once you enter, you'll be brought to a lobby of sorts. There you'll see a chap at a desk who will whisk you away to the arena after asking a slew of questions. If you complete the challenge, you'll get a reward that's proportional to the difficulty you selected. The modder doesn't give much away about what prizes are on offer, though they're "very valuable".

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Stardew Valley has sold 15 million copies, including five million in the past two years

September 8, 2021 Stardew Valley has reached 15 million units sold.

Stardew Valley sales have reached yet another massive milestone, as the farming RPG has surpassed 15 million copies sold. That's impressive enough, but perhaps the most notable part is that the game's success has not slowed down a bit - in fact, thanks to its continued releases on a wide variety of platforms, Stardew Valley has sold more in the last two years than any point before.

PC players got Stardew Valley on February 26, 2016. The game was an instant hit, and sold one million copies in the space of two months. Console versions followed in late 2016, and the Switch port landed in October 2017. By January 2018, SuperData reported that the game had sold 3.5 million copies (via GamesBeat) - and that's before the iOS port launched later the same year.

In January 2020, the official site was been updated to report that Stardew Valley has sold 10 million copies worldwide. Now, a year later, it's been updated again to report 15 million units sold. Once again, my childhood obsession with Harvest Moon 64 has been vindicated - yes, the world has at last seen that farming RPG games are good, actually.

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Stardew Valley has sold over 15 million copies as creator shifts to new project

The incredibly addictive farming sim Stardew Valley has officially hit 15 million sales, as developer Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone announces he's shifting focus to an unannounced project...
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Stardew Valley creator's next game may be announced "fairly soon"

The mysterious next game from Stardew Valley creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone has had a few details revealed at last. It won't be Stardew Valley 2 or a farming game, but will be "kind of similar" and should be announced "fairly soon". However, don't expect to see another Stardew Valley update anytime soon as he's focused on this next game.

Yesterday Barone and Zach "UnsurpassableZ" Hartman hosted the first official Stardew Valley Cup, all four hours of which can be seen on Twitch. At the end of the stream, Barone answered a number of questions from fans, and obviously, the topic of his new game came up. Barone doesn't go into too much detail, but it does give a clearer picture than fans have had since the game was announced in 2018.

In terms of look, Barone confirms that "it's another kind of pixel-art game" with "a top-down perspective similar to Stardew Valley". He also admits that "in some ways, it is kind of similar to Stardew Valley," but adds that, gameplay-wise, "it's also not a farming game... it's something different."

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