Stardew Valley 1.6 Secretly Added Multiplayer to the Cellular Model — and You Unlock It With the Konami Code

Stardew Valley 1.6 added a hidden experimental multiplayer characteristic to the cell model of the sport, developer Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone has revealed.

In a weblog put up, Barone stated the characteristic is hidden as a result of it could have some bugs or points, and the character of the cell platform “might make a multiplayer session irritating.”

“Cellular multiplayer works just about the identical as on different platforms, besides there is no such thing as a farm ‘discovery’ functionality,” Barone defined. “You possibly can solely join through IP. You possibly can, nonetheless, be a part of a PC-hosted farm from a cell machine through IP.”

The best “cell multiplayer” state of affairs, Barone added, could be to hook up with a PC-hosted farm from a high-end cell machine on an area community (utilizing wi-fi, except you’ve gotten some strategy to join your cell machine to ethernet). “This could be the best-case state of affairs,” Barone stated, earlier than warning towards making an attempt to attach or host utilizing a cellphone community.

“The worst case state of affairs could be if somebody had been to host a sport from a low-performance cellphone, on a cell community (you’d most likely must create a cell wi-fi hotspot for others to hook up with domestically), they usually had been on a practice or one thing, going by means of tunnels,” Barone went on.

“After which the host can also be getting calls, inflicting the app to be interrupted repeatedly. This could lead to a doubtlessly irritating multiplayer expertise.

“Nevertheless, if you wish to strive this stuff out, there’s nothing stopping you… Simply bear in mind that there are inherent connectivity points that may come up when making an attempt to host a multiplayer sport from a cell machine.”

Stardew Valley 1.6 lastly launched on console and cell this week, eight months after the replace launched on PC. It did so alongside one other large replace that modified the vastly widespread farm and life sim additional.

Unlocking the cell model’s hidden multiplayer characteristic requires inputting a riff on the Konami Code (the well-known collection of inputs used to unlock cheats in Konami video games).

As Barone defined within the weblog put up, on the title display, gamers will discover that the Stardew Valley emblem has 4 teams of leaves connected to it. Faucet the leaves on this order: ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → then press the ? button within the bottom-right nook of the display. Exit the ? menu and also you’ll have a co-op button on the title display.

The free 1.6 replace, which sparked a contemporary 10/10 Stardew Valley evaluate from IGN, launched on PC in March. Barone initially anticipated the console and cell ports of 1.6 could be launched a month later.

Barone has apologized to disgruntled followers and promised to not return to work on his subsequent sport, Haunted Chocolatier, till Stardew 1.6 is finalized. Haunted Chocolatier, revealed in 2021, doesn’t have a launch window.

Wesley is the UK Information Editor for IGN. Discover him on Twitter at @wyp100. You possibly can attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.