Key Highlights:
- Stardew Valley’s major version 1.6 update arrives on March 19th for PC
- It introduces a new 7-day “honeymoon period” for married spouses
- During this time, spouses cannot lay in bed all day due to being upset
- The update also changes jelly, pickle, wine, and juice colors to match ingredients
- Other improvements include faster pet passing, sapling changes, and more
Stardew Valley Update 1.6 Patch Notes
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Fruit Tree Saplings | Cutting down a fruit tree now yields the appropriate fruit sapling. |
| For mature trees (fruit quality > basic), the sapling will have the same quality fruit. | |
| Higher quality fruit saplings mature faster when replanted. | |
| Combat | Increased the area of effect for downward facing melee attacks. |
| Bug Fix | Fixed a harvesting bug where left-to-right harvesting was faster than right-to-left. |
| Food Colouring | Jelly, pickles, wines, and juices now have colours that reflect the ingredient used. |
| Pet Interactions | Reduced the time needed to push against a pet before they move (1.5 seconds -> 0.75 seconds). |
| Marriage | Spouses now have a 7-day “honeymoon” period after marriage, preventing them from being upset and spending all day in bed. |
Players have been anxiously awaiting the launch of Stardew Valley’s substantial version 1.6 update and that highly anticipated day has finally arrived for PC fans. The farming/life sim’s latest free content drop hits the platform on March 19th, ushering in an array of gameplay refinements and cheeky new features.
The creator posted on social site X/Twitter announcing the release date for PC users, but console and mobile players will have to wait just a little longer for an announcement.
Leading the charge is the lovingly-dubbed “honeymoon period” for newly married couples.
For one whole week after tying the knot, your digital spouse will be contractually obligated to keep those postmarital blues at bay.
That’s right, no more coming home to find your unhappy partner moping in bed all day long!
According to developer ConcernedApe, this brief respite ensures “spouses now have a seven-day ‘honeymoon’ period after marriage which prevents them from laying in bed all day due to being upset.” Sounds like a real romantic way to kick off your virtual nuptials!
Visual and Quality of Life Upgrades
Alongside the post-wedding bliss, version 1.6 serves up several welcome quality-of-life improvements fans have been requesting.
These include reducing pet-passing time from 1.5 seconds to a breezy 0.75 – a small but incredibly meaningful change for those constantly navigating around their faithful animal companions.
The new update also streamlines harvesting so that left-to-right and right-to-left actions are now equally efficient.
Plus, chopping down fruit trees will finally yield the corresponding sapling type of the same quality as the original tree. Higher quality means faster maturation too!
But the most visually apparent upgrade comes to the game’s various handcrafted goods like jelly, pickles, wines, and juices. These consumable items will now inherit the distinct colour of whatever ingredient was used in their crafting for easier inventory management.
More to Come
While these opening details are certainly exciting, they merely scratch the surface of what version 1.6 has in store. The secretive developer has been meticulously rolling out additional patch notes daily leading up to the hotly anticipated launch. So there should be two or three more changes that we’ll add to the patch notes and update this page as the final couple of days play out.
Previous reveals covered everything from increasing the area-of-effect for melee strikes to allowing tool upgrades from the comfort of your farm.
Dedicated Stardew fans are ravenously devouring each new pieces of information, hungering for the entire feature set to be uncovered. Believe it or not, there’s even talk of a movie on the horizon but that will be a long way off from now.
With mobile and console deployments still to come over the following weeks, this latest Stardew Valley bonanza has only just begun. One thing’s for sure, players across all platforms will soon be raising a glass to toast what could be the game’s biggest update yet!