What’s the Future of Stardew Valley?

What’s the Future of Stardew Valley?

um we just got 1.6 Don’t you think it’s a little greedy to already be demanding another update Funny enough I’m not the one that started this conversation I know you’re probably sick of hearing about it but in that PC gamer interview Mr Concerned mentioned that while he is focusing on Haunted Chocolier for the time being Stardw Valley tends to keep calling him back So a 1.7 isn’t out of the picture At this point though what could we even expect Well I have a couple of ideas before that though If we look back at 1.6 overall I think I would call it a balancing update more than anything So like the mastery system made a lot of the less profitable skills more profitable There’s books that made things like selling artifacts more lucrative And then a lot of things like the order you unlock crafting recipes were shuffled around just to make them more usable So then looking forward to 1.7 I think it could be more of a quality of life type update focused on giving the player more options to play around with to tailor the experience for them So here’s my ideas First this is one that I’m kind of borrowing from Fields of Mistria if you’ve heard of that It’s very similar to Stardy Valley but it’s doing a couple of things different And one of those things is that it has a daylength slider in the options where if you feel like your days are too short you can lengthen them out by a few minutes And while I never have an issue with the days ending I know there’s a ton of people who are just frustrated when they’re in the middle of something and their days coming to a close Me on the other hand I’m the complete opposite So I have another suggestion for people like me You know that system that a couple of openw world games have whenever you sit down or lay in bed and then it gives you an option to skip so many hours I’d like to see that come into Stardy Valley If you sit on a chair or maybe you know get in bed you have the option to skip some amount of time Now the hard part here is figuring out a way to do it without any jankiness because we can kind of simulate how this would work with CJB cheats menu And what NPCs will do when you skip a couple of hours is they’ll start hitting every point on their schedule walk to it move immediately on to the next until they finally catch up with time which can be a little weird But then again I don’t know if there’s another way that you could even do it And my main reason for wanting to add this is that there’s just so many times where I’m like “Okay today I need to give out gifts but you know no one comes out until 9:00 a.m so I have to stand around doing something for 3 hours.” Or maybe I want to get into the Adventures Guild and it doesn’t open up until 2:00 p.m And again it’s just another situation where I’m just sitting there waiting for it to open And in a similar vein I have another suggestion We have the option to skip days And yes I know this is a very like speedrun and challenge runoriented edition but hear me out If someone wants to sleep through multiple days they can do it anyway It just takes some time They have to keep going into bed and mashing the Y button to sleep over and over again Perhaps there’s a special order from Robin where you have to collect 100 hardwood and your prize at the end of it is the deluxe bed Currently that bed doesn’t do anything What if that bed allowed you to sleep through multiple days So you do have to work for it but then you get that option At the very least you’d have to play up to fall when the special orders unlock just playing normally So the option being there isn’t going to completely destroy someone’s first experience with the game And again this is something that we can actually simulate in CJB cheats menu You can see what happens when you skip a bunch of days And doing that we can see that there’s some things that would actually need to be adjusted For one like your crops don’t grow in any time that you’ve skipped your machines don’t work for any time you’ve skipped That would have to be fixed And again it’s one of those things I don’t I haven’t worked on the game I don’t know if that’s possible to adjust but if it’s something that can be fixed I would absolutely love that addition Here’s a very late game one and I don’t know how many people it would help but it would help me Uh I want an option on the golden clock to be able to prevent trees from spreading Currently the two things it does is stop debris from spreading and your fences from decaying And what that really means is that trees are the one and only thing that can take control of your farm I use my old farms a lot for getting footage for various videos and shorts and stuff And it’s not rare that I have to sleep through to a certain season or a certain day to get specific footage And while I do that the trees are just creeped up on my entire farm And eventually I have to do like a purge and bomb them all down But it it’s a neverending chore And I you know this could just be me That’s a very specific situation that not a lot of people probably have But I think it makes sense right This next one since I’ve been playing with mods I’ I’ve had access to a lot of quality of life things but I think there’s only one thing that I really miss whenever I go back to vanilla and it’s this button right here It automatically sorts all of my items to the appropriate chest within a certain radius of me And man does it feel good to come back from the skull caverns or the mines like it’s 1:30 in the morning and I just walk on by my chests menu click the button and then go to sleep It’s just such an absolute game changer More so than having like UI info suite stuff Nothing nothing else even comes close to comparing to that little button I need it and console players need to experience it So moving on from mechanics that I want added let’s talk about our characters in the game right now There’s another part of the PC gamer interview where he talks about how there’s a lot of kind of plot lines for individual NPCs in the town that aren’t closed yet and maybe he’ll go back and close some of them off Here’s my thing For almost every single one of those situations I don’t want it to be tied up neatly with a bow I love the open-ended nature of it Will Lewis and Marne figure out their relationship issues What’s the deal with Abigail’s hair Will the shadow people and dwarves ever get along We don’t know And you know we don’t have to know That’s what keeps it interesting And it’s weird because I don’t think for any other game or like piece of media an unfinished character arc would be you know good But for some reason it just works here Now I say that but I do think there’s two specific cases that could have a little add-on The first I we’ve discussed this before It’s shame I think a lot of people take the fact that beer is still a loved item for him as oh he didn’t go sober He’s still struggling with it because he loves it whenever we give him alcohol I don’t know if that’s even intended to be the case I feel like it’s more we couldn’t figure out how to make it not a loved item for him anymore And again that may be the case but if we could just swap beer with like Jojacola not that Jojacola is going to be the bastion of health items you know but it’s better than beer and it gives the player a little reward cuz it’s a cheaper item to buy for him than beer But yeah that’s a discussion that’s been had for forever Let’s move on to Clint See what I think Clint needs is just one more cut scene And this is after he realizes you know Emily isn’t into him the way he’s into her So all that happens is he’s like “Hey farmer I’m headed into Zuzu City for a date That’s it.” I think just that says so much And you know how like sometimes after a cut scene a character will have a unique line of dialogue pertaining back to that cut scene He could just be like “Hey date went well Going back for a second one next week.” And that’s it That’s all you hear about it Does it keep going Does it work out We’ll never know But here’s what you have to do though He doesn’t stop going to the saloon to hang out with Emily He has to keep going because you don’t want it to you know Emily is his friend So you know if he stops seeing her completely you know that’s mean But hold on Ooh Ooh Then again that could add a little bit of stank to that conclusion though right Clean up one conflict open up another and then maybe Emily at some point is like “Hey I think Clint’s been avoiding me Did I say something?” Ooh Ooh another conflict Save it print it put it in the game And to finish this off here I thought I’d rapid fire a couple of smaller ideas that you know don’t need explanation It’s just oh they’re in First a notification when you place something in a spot that a villager walks through and would be destroyed An upgrade to the silo that holds more hay Maybe you don’t have enough space for multiple silos It’d be nice More horse designs You know you get to choose between your dog and your cat and your even your turtle design Why not horses too I do think you should be able to stack full durability tackle now that we have the advanced aridium rod Bringing multiple types of tackle can take up a lot of inventory space Just a little bit of quality of life there And then one final one that I’m not fully convinced on and that’s an extra backpack upgrade to get a fourth slot of inventory Now as the game gets bigger more items are added inventory management becomes a lot more difficult and that extra line of inventory could be huge But here’s my worry If you add a fourth line of inventory it’s just going to be that much more annoying You come home from the end of the day and you have to sort four lines of inventory into your chest To me that feels like it would be really overwhelming And I think it can only really be done if you add that button I was talking about earlier where everything auto sorts Anyway for now that’s all I got While I did focus on like the quality of life stuff like I said I do think it’s a given that you know there’s a new crop or a new fruit tree and stuff like that And as far as that goes you know there’s infinite possibilities I don’t think I need to specifically be like “Oh I really hope there’s zucchinis.” They can just add it But that’ll do it for me Please let me know if there’s any ideas you’ve had especially if it’s quality of life related But just if you really want zucchinis you know hell yeah Power to you Thanks for watching See you in the next one And good night [Music]

Before you ask, yes, I would like to see Haunted Chocolatier before any more Stardew Valley updates, BUUUUT it’s likely we’ll see something in the future. Here’s just a couple of the ideas that I’ve had while playing through multiple files!

Sections:
0:00 – Summary of the 1.6 Update
1:03 – Day Length Option
1:29 – Skipping a few hours
2:38 – Skipping Days
3:57 – More Options for the Golden Clock
4:46 – A ‘Store All’ Button
5:32 – Finishing NPC Plotlines
8:18 – Smaller Changes
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https://djcutman.bandcamp.com/album/stardew-chill

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