As Stardew Valley followers proceed to patiently anticipate the beforehand introduced 1.7 replace, creator Eric Barone (ConcernedApe) has dropped some small, obscure, however thrilling hints about what the mysterious replace may entail. It is a new farm kind and “extra characters/social components.”
This comes from a tweet/X put up from ConcernedApe, who requested if I may have any hints about future updates. His reply was quite simple. “Extra characters and social components will likely be added. Including new farm varieties can be conventional. There’s much more, however we do not wish to reveal an excessive amount of but.”
Extra character/social components are added, and including new farm varieties can be conventional. There are a lot of others, however I do not wish to reveal an excessive amount of but
β ConcernedApe (@ConcernedApe) December 17, 2025
It is not very detailed, nevertheless it’s sufficient to stimulate your creativeness. The brand new farm varieties had been precisely as anticipated. Stardew Valley began with only one type of farm map, however since its launch, most main new content material updates have added at the least one, for a complete of eight totally different choices. Every farm map is organized round a special specialty, with normal maps being pretty basic and open-ended, and different maps selling fishing, foraging, mining, fight, multiplayer, a mixture of fishing and foraging, and animal husbandry. In the mean time, this implies basically each kind of playstyle is supported, so there’s rather a lot to surprise about when imagining what new farm varieties is perhaps added. Maybe one thing that helps construct friendships with NPCs?
βCharacter/social stuffβ is a bit more obscure. This will imply something from new scenes and occasions with present characters to fully new characters. It is actually laborious to say at this stage!
Widespread requests from followers for future Stardew Valley options embrace extra romantic NPCs, extra NPCs with extra dialogue and world lore, but additionally extra usually the addition of every little thing from extra animals, extra crops, extra decorations, extra clothes, extra enemies to combat, extra meals, and extra. ConcernedApe has up to now not revealed something about what 1.7 will embrace or once we can count on it. He didn’t give a launch date, solely hinting that it may not be launched till after The Haunted Chocolatier is launched. maybe. Will probably be accomplished if you end up prepared.
Nonetheless, ConcernedApe has dropped another. When requested about the opportunity of a Nintendo Change 2 version, he mentioned he would announce one thing “quickly.” The Change 2 version was first introduced in September and provides mouse controls, four-player split-screen multiplayer, and sport share multiplayer to the Change model. The discharge date has not been introduced but.
We reviewed Stardew Valley once more in 2024, contemplating the quite a few updates it has undergone since its launch in 2016. Within the unique overview I gave it an important ranking of 8.8/10, however within the re-review I gave it a ten/10 masterpiece and mentioned, “Stardew Valley just isn’t solely the very best farming sport I’ve ever performed, it is certainly one of my favourite video games of all time. It is telling that we hold returning to the masterpieces of years in the past, and the way they’re the true masterpieces of the style that revitalized and outlined them. β
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