Excellent news, Stardew Valley fanatics: the 1.7 replace will make youngsters ‘a bit extra fascinating’ and add two new marriage candidates

Stardew Valley’s 1.7 patch goes to be a lot greater than anybody most likely 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 all them solutions an oft-made demand from Stardew Valley die-hards: make youngsters fascinating.

Stardew Valley youngsters—ie, the kids you elevate your self, not the diminutive NPCs roaming round city—are very boring. They only stroll round your 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 youngsters.

“What I’ll say with out perhaps being too particular is that with this replace, one of many issues we’re attempting to do is… Properly, there’s a widespread fan request, which has to do with the kids, attempting to make the kids a bit extra fascinating,” Barone mentioned. “So I am attempting to do one thing with that, however there’s lots of different issues within the replace as properly that nobody’s actually requested for, however I believe folks will admire it.”

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One other confirmed new function is 2 new marriage candidates. (Krobus, anybody?) Barone additionally talked concerning the potential for a farm map editor “so you may principally make your individual,” although he is not sure but whether or not it will really materialise in 1.7.

“As a result of with each replace, it is conventional so as to add a brand new farm sort,” 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 may press an additional button, go right into a browser and take a look at everybody’s farm creation? That now provides virtually infinite replayability to Stardew Valley. So I am excited 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 sort”. However as at all times, the complete scale of 1.7 will not be clear till simply earlier than launch.