Stardew Valley’s 1.7 patch goes to be a lot greater than anybody in all probability expects, and that is accounting for the truth that most Stardew Valley patches find yourself being greater than anybody expects. In a brand new interview with IGN, creator Eric Barone listed a handful of options coming within the replace, and one in every of them solutions an oft-made demand from Stardew Valley die-hards: make youngsters attention-grabbing.
Stardew Valley youngsters—ie, the youngsters you increase your self, not the diminutive NPCs roaming round city—are very boring. They only stroll round your own home and do not do a lot else. They do not develop, and so they have few calls for. They’re fairly not like actual kids.
“What I’ll say with out possibly being too particular is that with this replace, one of many issues we’re attempting to do is… Nicely, there’s a well-liked fan request, which has to do with the youngsters, attempting to make the youngsters slightly extra attention-grabbing,” Barone mentioned. “So I am attempting to do one thing with that, however there’s a variety of different issues within the replace as effectively that nobody’s actually requested for, however I feel folks will admire it.”
One other confirmed new function is 2 new marriage candidates. (Krobus, anybody?) Barone additionally talked in regards to the potential for a farm map editor “so you can mainly make your individual,” although he is uncertain but whether or not it will truly materialise in 1.7.
“As a result of with each replace, it is conventional so as to add a brand new farm kind,” Barone mentioned. “When the sport first got here out, there was simply normal farm, that was it. After which 1.1, I added 4 totally different farms or one thing. After which with each replace, there’s been one added. What if we opened this as much as the group and it was like now you can press an additional button, go right into a browser and take a look at everybody’s farm creation? That now provides nearly infinite replayability to Stardew Valley. So I am fascinated by methods to make the sport extra simply infinitely replayable with out using AI. That is by no means going to occur.”
As Andy Chalk reported again in December, Barone has already vaguely confirmed “some extra character/social stuff” and that “it is also conventional so as to add a brand new farm kind”. However as all the time, the complete scale of 1.7 will not be clear till simply earlier than launch.
