In case you’ve ever suspected that harvesting crops in Stardew Valley is quicker in a single course than one other, validation is at hand. The beloved farming sim’s creator has confirmed that the long-rumoured quirk is actual, as its incoming 1.6 replace prepares to repair a bug courting again nearly a decade.
Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone dropped the element on TwiXXer as a part of an ongoing tease of patch notes and options for Stardew Valley’s large 1.6 replace, which can carry expanded assist for modders, eight-player co-op and a brand new main competition (plus two smaller ones), amongst new gadgets like an even bigger chest and a few contemporary secrets and techniques to hunt out, when it arrives on March nineteenth.
Detailing a number of the extra behind-the-scenes adjustments in current days, Barone revealed that 1.6 will see felled bushes now yield saplings that match the fruit high quality of extra mature bushes, which can even mature sooner based mostly on the standard stage. (Making it simpler to replant bushes and have them get again to their earlier maturity.)
Additionally being tweaked is fight, with swinging a sword downward now having an increased area-of-effect to override the unique choice to match its vary with the animation that left gamers at an obstacle. Different adjustments embody halving the amount of time you need to spend pushing against a pet before being able to walk through them and adding a one-week “honeymoon” period for NPCs you marry that stops them instantly spending all day in mattress feeling unhappy.
The largest revelation, nonetheless, got here in a seemingly innocuous patch be aware that confirmed what many gamers (and speedrunners) had suspected for years: harvesting crops in a single explicit course is quicker than one other.
Barone defined that since Stardew Valley’s launch greater than eight years in the past, the animation when harvesting crops left-to-right has been 100ms faster than when doing so right-to-left. (Nicely noticed, Kotaku.) Replace 1.6 will lastly repair the bug, rising the pace of the right-to-left animation to make harvesting in both course equally quick.
There’ll little doubt be many extra such particulars in replace 1.6 when it lands subsequent week, which Barone recommends you expertise with a contemporary save to see all that it provides. It’ll nonetheless work together with your current sport should you can’t bear to surrender your numerous hours invested in arranging your backyard and courting townsfolk, although.