The single-player/multiplayer life sim RPG darling Stardew Valley has received one of its rare but absolutely loaded content updates, touching pretty much every aspect of the game and adding even more things to see and do.
Top of the list are new festivals including a Desert Festival in the spring, two fishing-focused mini-events, and a new environmental event that happens during the summer. There’s also a new mastery system hiding in a new area that grants “powerful perks and items,” plus the new Meadowlands Farm map that features “chewy blue grass that animals love” and gives players a coop and two chickens right from the start.
In our corner of the gaming woods, this patch also expands the number of players that can play the game together to eight, adds a host of performance improvements to make things more stable and run faster, and applies some bug fixes for multiplayer games.
Those are just the tip of a very large iceberg of updates including more items, more NPC dialogue, and long lists for balance and quality-of-life. The patch notes do point out that everyone has to be playing the game with the same version number in order for multiplayer to work, so bear that in mind before getting together for all the new stuff.
