[STEAM] Stardew Valley Console and Mobile 1.6 Update Finally Has a Release Date

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Stardew Valley developer Eric Barone, aka ConcernedApe, has finally announced the hotly anticipated release date for update 1.6 on console and mobile.

The developer behind the 30 million-selling farm life simulation game said in a

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that 1.6 hits console and mobile on November 4, 2024. That’s for all console and mobile versions of the game, including the Nintendo Switch version, and includes the 1.6.9 update.

In a follow-up

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, ConcernedApe said that following the release of 1.6, console and mobile players can still experience almost everything new with their existing save, “but if you have any interest in starting a new farm it would be ideal to start fresh.”

“Some of the new things, for example, are different in year one than in year two plus,” ConcernedApe continued. “Besides, it's fun to start a new farm right?”

Last month,

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— so much so that he hadn’t worked on his follow-up game “in a long time.”

The free 1.6 update, which sparked

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, launched on PC in March, which means console and mobile players will have waited eight months for it to launch on their platforms. ConcernedApe initially expected the ports would be released a month later.

In a

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, a clearly frustrated ConcernedApe apologized to disgruntled fans, and promised not to return to work on his next game,

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, until Stardew 1.6 was finalized. Haunted Chocolatier, revealed in 2021, doesn’t have a release window.

I never intended for the delay to be this long.

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, ConcernedApe explained: “I've always released on PC first, because it's sort of a ‘beta test’ to make sure there are no critical (e.g. save-destroying) bugs, which are a much ******* deal on consoles because they can't be patched out as quickly. However, I never intended for the delay to be this long.”

Also last month, ConcernedApe explained why

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