Stardew Valley creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has revealed the next major update is coming to the game this year.
Stardew Valley received the 1.5 update in 2020 before Barone shifted his focus to work on Haunted Chocolatier. In November 2022, he confirmed a smaller 1.6 update was in the works and would mostly focus on mod support but that plan has clearly changed over the past 14 months.
Taking to social media earlier today (January 29), Barone wrote: “1.6 ended up being a little larger in scope than originally planned.”
“I’m done adding major new content to it now though, and it’s in a bug-fixing and polishing phase until it’s ready for release,” he continued. ”Thanks for your patience. It’ll be fun to see everyone play it!”
Elsewhere, he confirmed that the update would probably be released for PC first but mobile and console shouldn’t be far behind. “I really really don’t want a big delay between [them]. That was a nightmare in the past.” He also said the update this year.
