After months of ready, Stardew Valley’s huge 1.6 replace is lastly reside on consoles and cell, and as if that wasn’t sufficient creator Eric Barone additionally shocked the world by rolling out one more replace on prime of the replace: Stardew Valley 1.6.9, which introduces a contemporary array of fixes, tweaks, updates, and new content material—and on prime of that, some shock Stardew lore: Wild coyotes!
“PSA: there may be at the moment a difficulty, if you happen to begin a brand new farm on the meadowlands farm and open the animal door on the coop day 1, your chickens will disappear,” Barone wrote on X. “If you happen to go away the door closed for sooner or later, it ought to save them. We’ll repair this.
“Lore: There’s a wild coyote on the farm day 1 rn”
Okay, so it is not precisely new lore within the strictest sense, however I really like the best way Barone turns a bug right into a function by simply waving his palms and declaring “environmental storytelling” in a deep, spooky voice. Not completely significantly, in fact, however given how Barone rolls I might be lower than shocked to see wild coyotes added to the sport within the inevitable Stardew Valley 1.7 replace we’ll all be speaking about in spring 2025.
(For the document, I’m not conscious of any precise Stardew 1.7 replace within the works, however I made the prediction in March and I am not backing off.)
I am not the one one who thinks it could be a good suggestion:
Yeah, we’re by no means getting Haunted Chocolatier.