Surprise Stardew Valley Update 1.6.15 is Live

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Surprise Stardew Valley Update 1.6.15 is Live

Summary

  • Stardew Valley has released Update 1.6.15 for PC and mobile devices.
  • The patch will be rolled out to consoles soon.
  • The patch addresses bug fixes, adds quality-of-life improvements and better mod support for players, and more.



Stardew Valley has released its latest update for PC and mobile devices, giving players on those platforms better rewards for catching the game’s elusive legendary fish. The Stardew Valley 1.6.15 Patch also adds in a few quality-of-life improvements, fixes to a number of persistent bugs in the game, and changes for mod users.

While this patch is only available now on select platforms, game creator ConcernedApe states that the changes will also be hitting console versions of the game as soon as he’s able to sync them up with the PC version. It’s unclear how much time that will take, as there was a noticeable gap of nearly eight months between the console and mobile release of Stardew Valley 1.6 and that version’s initial availability on PC.

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The highlight of this latest patch centers around Stardew Valley‘s legendary fish. Legendary fish that have been placed into fishponds on players’ farms will now have a much higher frequency of producing roe, and the value of the roe that they produce is also increasing. While ConcernedApe did not specify the exact amounts by which these values are changing, the new rates should provide a boost to the income of players who have managed to catch and farm legendary fish.


Currently, there are 10 different Legendary Fish in Stardew Valley, with each producing a different kind of roe. Prior to the new patch, the cheapest unprocessed roe was a tie between those produced by Angler and Ms. Angler, coming in at 480g apiece. While that’s not the highest-profit-margin product players can produce on their farms, the number jumps up considerably at the upper end of the legendary fish roe scale, with the unprocessed roe of the Legend and Legend 2 worth 2,530g each. Aging either of these fish’s roe in the past has increased their value to 5,060g apiece, or 7,084 with the Artisan perk, so further price hikes included in the new patch should mark a significant spike in the economies of players farming them.


In addition to that big boost, the update also provides some additional support for players running some popular Stardew Valley mods. These changes include making sure the appearance of buildings matches the current in-game season, better support for fridges that have an increased storage size, and repairs to previously inoperable interior doors. Multiplayer has also received some bug fix attention, repairing problems including farmhands passing out while using warps and the same pieces of mail getting sent to farmhands daily.


Stardew Valley 1.6.15 Patch Notes

Balance changes

  • Legendary fish ponds now produce roe much more often and have a higher average daily value.

Quality of life changes

  • Performance optimizations.
  • Added the Junimo bundle button to fridge and mini-fridge UIs.
  • Fixed debris able to spread under giant crops.
  • Fixed bad-word filtering added to some extra text boxes in 1.6. Those are now only filtered on platforms that require it, as originally intended.


Gameplay fixes

  • Fixed Krobus’ shop not accessible on Fridays for Japanese players.
  • Fixed some achievements not unlocked retroactively in some cases.
  • Fixed some things being less random than intended.
  • Fixed new-game data corruption issue, where viewing the load screen before creating a new save in rare cases would incorrectly copy data from one of the load slots into the new save.
  • Fixed some older items in the lost & found not correctly retrieveable.
  • Fixed crash when collecting empty crab pots.
  • Fixed crash when farm animals somehow end up in multiple locations.
  • Fixed crash when failing to play/resume/pause/stop sound effects.
  • Fixed crash in raccoon menu if you have a base flavored item in your inventory.
  • Fixed crash if a shop somehow has a null item from a player to sell.
  • Fixed rare crash in Calico Jack minigame.
  • Fixed error loading pre-1.6 saves with case-sensitive stat key conflicts; conflicting stats are now merged.
  • Fixed selected tool lost in some cases when obtaining a stardrop.


Multiplayer fixes

  • Fixed some mail getting re-sent to farmhands every day.
  • Fixed unable to join a server whose invite code contains a bad word.
  • Fixed issue where the host’s mine levels could be frozen in time.
  • Fixed crash in WeGame version.
  • Fixed crash when a farmhand passes out while warping between locations.
  • Fixed `/unlinkPlayer` and other multiplayer chat commands sometimes using the first player instead of the intended one.
  • Fixed co-op menu scroll not reset when switching tab.

Display text and localization fixes

  • Improved Hungarian, Japanese, and Russian translations.
  • Fixed a missing period in the shears description.
  • Fixed some item tooltips on the collection tab in some languages showing a raw `{1}` token.
  • Fixed gray box behind Russian railroad sign.
  • Fixed Robin’s start-construction message showing the general building name inconsistently.
  • Fixed a few translated dialogues with broken dialogue commands.

Cosmetic fixes

  • Fixed Alex’s hand in one of his portraits.
  • Fixed butterflies spawned by statue of blessings glitching out in summer.


Changes for modded players

  • Fixed support for fridges with a larger capacity.
  • Fixed buildings visually matching the calendar season even if their location has a different season.
  • Fixed interior doors not working if you wake up in their location.
  • Fixed crash on powers tab hover if a mod added an entry with no display name.
  • Added logs to track game load timing.

Changes for mod authors

  • See [mod author notes on the wiki](https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Migrate_to_Stardew_Valley_1.6.9#1.6.15).

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