Stardew Valley celebrates its tenth anniversary later this month. Sure, actually. On twenty sixth February 2026, ConcernedApe’s monumental farming sim will flip a decade previous. It got here to Change in 2017 and, within the time because it’s launch, has offered tens of millions of copies and has constantly acquired various massive free updates, with the subsequent one — replace 1.7 — on the horizons.
And, chatting with IGN forward of the sport’s massive birthday, Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone gave us somewhat tease of what to anticipate from the upcoming replace, and so they’re associated to kids and marriage.
Barone admitted he is “making an attempt to not reveal an excessive amount of as a result of I like for it to be a shock”, however allowed himself to slide in just a few little particulars into the chat: “Nicely, there’s a in style fan request, which has to do with the kids, making an attempt to make the kids somewhat extra fascinating.”
Proper now, kids do not actually have a operate within the sport — they’re key to getting the Full Home achievement, and also you get some further dialogue along with your partner, however that is about it. Maybe we’ll be capable of discuss to them extra or possibly they may help on the farm once they’re sufficiently old. Who is aware of!
However long-time followers will even be excited to know that Barone goes to be “including two extra marriage candidates, however I will reveal who it’s on the anniversary day.” There are at the moment 12 marriage candidates in-game, so this can carry up the record of eligible bachelors to 14. And naturally, there are not any gender restrictions right here, both.
After all, these aren’t the one two issues coming with replace 1.7, which Barone additionally teases: “…there’s loads of different issues within the replace as properly that nobody’s actually requested for, however I feel individuals will respect it.”
Seems like we’ll discover out somewhat bit extra — at the least on the wedding candidates — on twenty sixth February, then! Maybe we’ll get an replace on the Change 2 Version patch and European launch, too.
Be sure to give the total interview a learn for some beautiful little tidbits about Barone’s time growing the sport, together with how he comes up with concepts, his love of David Lynch, and the very fact there’s nonetheless a secret nobody has found in-game.
Barone additionally mentions his subsequent sport, Haunted Chocolatier, which final week he needed to calm fears about ‘abandoning” because of the lengthy growth time.
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