Eric ‘Concerned Ape’ Barone has given Stardew Valley fans their first glimpse at patch notes for the game's highly anticipated 1.6 update, which is set to release on PC on March 19, with console versions arriving shortly after.
At its heart, Stardew Valley is a game about growth and human connections. After tens of hours of gameplay, watching crops and trees grow as the seasons wax and wane, everything planted takes on a kind of emotional weight.
This can render the act of hacking down trees to make way for new crops or buildings a guilt-inducing experience, particularly if you had planted them yourself and waited many digital days for them to grow to maturity and bear literal fruit. Thankfully, Barone has begun working on patch...