Stardew Valley Creator Says 1.7 Update Will Contain 'More Character/Social Stuff' and a New Farm Type

As Stardew Valley fans proceed to hold patiently for the antecedently announced 1.7 update, creator Eric Barone (ConcernedApe) has dropped a mates small, vague, yet breathtaking hints astir what said mysterious update mightiness entail: a caller workplace type, and "more character/social stuff."

This comes from a tweet/X station from ConcernedApe, wherever helium was asked if helium could springiness immoderate hints astir the upcoming update. His effect was beauteous simple: "there volition beryllium immoderate much character/social stuff, it's besides accepted to adhd a caller workplace type. Lots much but I don't privation to uncover overmuch yet."

there volition beryllium immoderate much character/social stuff, it's besides accepted to adhd a caller workplace type. Lots much but I don't privation to uncover overmuch yet

That's not a ton of detail, but surely capable to spark the imagination. The caller workplace benignant was so to beryllium expected. Stardew Valley started with conscionable 1 benignant of workplace map, and since its release, astir large caller contented updates person added astatine slightest 1 for a full of 8 antithetic options. Each workplace representation centers astir a antithetic specialty, with the Standard representation being reasonably generic and open-ended, and different maps promoting fishing, foraging, mining, combat, multiplayer, a operation of sportfishing and foraging, and carnal raising. Currently, this means that fundamentally each benignant of playstyle is supported, truthful there's a batch near to wonderment astir erstwhile it comes to imagining what caller workplace benignant could beryllium added. Perhaps thing that encourages gathering NPC friendships?

The "character/social stuff" is simply a small much vague. This could mean thing from caller scenes and events with existing characters to caller characters entirely. It's truly hard to accidental astatine this stage!

Popular instrumentality requests for aboriginal Stardew Valley features see much NPCs, including much romanceable NPCs, much dialog and satellite lore, but besides conscionable mostly much of everything: much animals, much crops, much decorations, much clothing, much enemies to fight, dishes to cook, and truthful forth. ConcernedApe hasn't truly revealed thing truthful acold astir what 1.7 volition contain, oregon adjacent erstwhile we mightiness expect it. He's fixed nary merchandise date, lone suggested that it's imaginable it doesn't travel retired until aft Haunted Chocolatier releases. Maybe. It'll beryllium acceptable erstwhile it's ready.

ConcernedApe did driblet 1 different thing, though. When asked astir a imaginable Nintendo Switch 2 edition, helium said he's denote thing "very soon." A Switch 2 variation was archetypal announced backmost successful September, and volition bring rodent controls, four-player divided surface multiplayer, and Game Share multiplayer to the Switch version. No merchandise day has been fixed yet.

We re-reviewed Stardew Valley successful 2024 to relationship for its many, galore updates since motorboat successful 2016. While our archetypal reappraisal gave it an awesome 8.8/10, the re-review called it a 10/10 masterpiece, saying, "Stardew Valley is not lone the champion farming crippled I’ve played, it is 1 of my favourite games of each time. That myself and others support returning to this eight-year aged gem each clip it gets adjacent the smallest update speaks to however it’s genuinely a masterpiece successful the genre it some reinvigorated and has travel to define."

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