Stardew Valley Update 1.6 Brings New Festivals, NPCs, and Gameplay Features
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Update 1.6 for Stardew Valley brings new festivals, events, farm type, NPC dialogues, gameplay features like mastery system and perfection waivers, over 280 new furnitures, and visual improvements.
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It fixes various bugs related to buffs, festivals, fishing, items, combat, controllers, UI, NPCs, multiplayer, display text, cosmetics, modded gameplay, and crashes.
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Key new features include new Desert Festival, fishing derbies, new environmental summer event, Meadowlands farm with chickens, gifts and special reactions from NPCs, getting multiple pets, world map tracking real-time positions, and various new machines.
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Over 50 changes made to rebalance gameplay elements like skill requirements, shop prices, spawn rates, difficulty levels, buff durations, combat mechanics, bundle rewards etc.
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Update improves gameplay with UI tweaks like hourglass cursor for loading screens, longer notification messages, skippable animations and events, performance optimizations, and overall quality of life changes.