Stardew Valley replace 1.6.6 is formally right here, and though creator Eric Barone says it is “largely bug fixes and translation modifications,” there’s a listing of “steadiness and gameplay modifications,” and amongst them is one which’s a reasonably dang large deal for honey farming.
Proper on the high of the official 1.6.6 patch notes is a change that reads: “Bee homes now work with flowers in backyard pots.” It would not sound like a lot at first look, however effectively, there is a motive the Stardew Valley neighborhood is wigging out over on Reddit and utilizing pun-laden expressions of pleasure like, “BEE HOUSES WORK WITH FLOWERS IN GARDEN POTS. LIFE (or at the least SDV endgame) WILL NEVER ‘BEE’ THE SAME!!”
For the uninitiated, honey farmers can enhance the worth of their product just by inserting beehives close to flowers and producing Flower Honey, however till this replace, these flowers needed to be planted within the floor for it to work. This meant that, so as so that you can produce Flower Honey, you needed to place beehives inside 5 tiles of a completely grown flower, which meant taking over useful tillable land with beehives. Now, you possibly can merely plant a flower in a pot, inside or exterior, and convey it anyplace you need to make some Flower Honey, put a beehive close to it, and also you’re good to go.
“Bee homes working with backyard pot flowers modifications sooooo a lot! That is superb,” stated one excited fan.
“I’m very enthusiastic about this, no extra jank layouts on the island,” stated one other.
One participant supplied: “That is tremendous thrilling for the brand new farm sort. Bees are a beautiful match for animal targeted playthroughs, however beforehand wanted tillable land inside a sure distance.”
Elsewhere within the replace, there are some fixes for points associated to the Chinese language translation that had beforehand been breaking the sport for some gamers, in addition to a laundry listing of bug fixes for the modded and un-modded variations of the sport.
In case you’re one in every of many farming fanatics on console or cell tapping your toes merely ready for the preliminary Stardew Valley 1.6 replace, effectively, all Barone needed to say on that matter is “Console and cell ports are nonetheless in progress, thanks once more in your continued endurance!” It is not a lot, however at the least it is… progress.
In the meantime, a former Stardew Valley dev is making their very own life sim set in a metropolis, and it boasts some thrilling “Wind Waker-style wind whirlies.”
