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Posted October 04, 2016
The ploughing continues!

<span class="bold">Stardew Valley</span>, the ridiculously addictive simulation/RPG about the hilarious complications of your simple life in the countryside, has been updated to version 1.1. Apart from an extensive list of bugfixes, it brings plenty of neat additions and balance changes, including:

- Five different farm maps to choose from at the beginning of your adventure, each one catering to a different playstyle
- A "Shed" and a "Mill" building available for construction
- A new quest and several new locations connected to it
- You can now get married to Shane or Emily
- New house upgrade that adds a cellar and teaches you the recipe to "cask" stuff
- You can now make void mayonnaise out of void eggs! Yum!
- You can move your buildings around thanks to Robin's services
- Several Magical Constructions that provide bonuses and effects

That's just a small fraction of the entire list of changes, though - if you want to see what else is new, grab yourself a cup of coffee and scroll through the entire <span class="bold">changelog</span>. Or better yet, make yourself a full coffee thermos and fire up <span class="bold">Stardew Valley 1.1</span> to check them out first-hand!

Here's the launch trailer, demonstrating all that Update 1.1 goodness:


]https://www.youtube.com/embed/UqC_MELvUXQ
Post edited October 04, 2016 by maladr0Id
Posted October 05, 2016
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ssokolow: The idea behind that is that the Steam and non-Steam builds of a game are as similar as possible to simplify development and bug testing. The Steam features are just only activated if the game is launched from the Steam client.

Given SDV's propensity for the odd bug or two, I shudder to think how bad it could be without that help.
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Fairfox: Yah. I mean it doesn't really matter, and I totes understand it speeds teh process up for multi-platforms, etc, Imma just surprised GOGie don't clean these files out before bundling into their installer(s). I means... Imma guessing they don't need to be there, but who knows, mebbe it breaks something if they're not?
It does break things because, in both the Steam and non-Steam releases, games call into the Steam DLLs in the same way. The difference is whether the Steam DLLs say "Steam's not around? OK. Never mind." when called upon. (eg. returning 'success' without actually doing anything, returning empty lists of results, etc.)

Removing the Steam libraries will, depending on how everything's put together, either cause the game to refuse to start with a missing library error message (stderr on Linux, dialog on Windows, or cause it to crash the first time it tries to load them dynamically. (Unless it's one of the very rare cases where a developer did the not-worth-the-effort work to make the steam DLLs optional and they were included by mistake.)
Post edited October 05, 2016 by ssokolow
Posted October 05, 2016
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Kunovski: what I dislike about this game is that I miss stuff all the time - the time (and energy) is very limited, and I usually spend it all just by tending to garden, rarely have time to go to town and socialize... is it still okay? do the events repeat, or will I end up having a nice farm, but all alone with nobody to love me? :'(
You shouldn't "miss" something. The events happen when you get to a certain place at a certain hour with relations at a certain level, not on specific days. Obviously, the annual events (festivals, holidays) and birthdays happen once a year, of course, so if you miss the dance it will take quite some time to have it happen again.

But if you take ALL your time tending to the garden, maybe you are overextending yourself. You should have quite a lot of free time to wander around, woo the ladies or do some fishing ;)
Posted October 05, 2016
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Kunovski: what I dislike about this game is that I miss stuff all the time - the time (and energy) is very limited, and I usually spend it all just by tending to garden, rarely have time to go to town and socialize... is it still okay? do the events repeat, or will I end up having a nice farm, but all alone with nobody to love me? :'(
You may be over-gardening to start. It can be easier to keep a small farm for the first year (one where you can have your daily gardening chores done by noon), and work towards getting the recipe and ingredients for big sprinklers, which will require effort on other fronts.
Posted October 05, 2016
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Kunovski: what I dislike about this game is that I miss stuff all the time - the time (and energy) is very limited, and I usually spend it all just by tending to garden, rarely have time to go to town and socialize... is it still okay? do the events repeat, or will I end up having a nice farm, but all alone with nobody to love me? :'(
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Kardwill: You shouldn't "miss" something. The events happen when you get to a certain place at a certain hour with relations at a certain level, not on specific days. Obviously, the annual events (festivals, holidays) and birthdays happen once a year, of course, so if you miss the dance it will take quite some time to have it happen again.

But if you take ALL your time tending to the garden, maybe you are overextending yourself. You should have quite a lot of free time to wander around, woo the ladies or do some fishing ;)
it's really hard for me to just say to myself "ok, it's time to stop this activity and start doing something different" :D I don't like "timed" games generally, I like to take my time and just do what I want, when I want, without time putting pressure on me... and as this game is supposed to be relaxing, it kind of makes the opposite to me :D I do have a little garden (about 5x15 spaces) but that alone takes tons of my time, and also clearing the rest of the neglected farm (I just can't leave until it's all neat and tidy!!! :D
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Kunovski: what I dislike about this game is that I miss stuff all the time - the time (and energy) is very limited, and I usually spend it all just by tending to garden, rarely have time to go to town and socialize... is it still okay? do the events repeat, or will I end up having a nice farm, but all alone with nobody to love me? :'(
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Luned: You may be over-gardening to start. It can be easier to keep a small farm for the first year (one where you can have your daily gardening chores done by noon), and work towards getting the recipe and ingredients for big sprinklers, which will require effort on other fronts.
hmm, the approach "until noon - gardening" and "after noon - city and other stuff" might work for me, I'll give it a try, thanks :D yeah, I'm broken, where other people relax and enjoy this game, I'm stressed and depressed I can't get anything done in time :D
Post edited October 05, 2016 by Kunovski
Posted October 05, 2016
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Kunovski: what I dislike about this game is that I miss stuff all the time - the time (and energy) is very limited, and I usually spend it all just by tending to garden, rarely have time to go to town and socialize... is it still okay? do the events repeat, or will I end up having a nice farm, but all alone with nobody to love me? :'(
A great tip I've read somewhere, is to give things that the NPCs love/like, in their birthdays. It will increase their friendship quickly with you.
So if you do that, and give your preferred NPCs gifts at least 1 day of the week, you'll be fine.
It's what I've been doing, and I already have 3 friends (I'm in the first year).
Posted October 05, 2016
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Kunovski: what I dislike about this game is that I miss stuff all the time - the time (and energy) is very limited, and I usually spend it all just by tending to garden, rarely have time to go to town and socialize... is it still okay? do the events repeat, or will I end up having a nice farm, but all alone with nobody to love me? :'(
On top of what others said, both your max energy and "energy/time needed to tend to one gardening spot" will get better as the game progresses (you have to trigger specific events for the first one, the second is kinda automatic - level up your farming/foraging and upgrade tools). From first summer on you can visit spa to restore your energy too, but it costs time.

Oh, and cleaning your garden is futile until you have a lot better tools - there will be a lot of new debris with new season, and there is not enough time if you want to do anything else. Clean enough space for your farming needs, and trees only as required for their ingredients.

The "noon rule" really sounds good. I adopted something like that in my 1.1 game. Not a conscious decision, it just works out that way most of the days.
Posted October 05, 2016
Will there be a Stardew Valley sale in the future?
Posted October 05, 2016
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IronArcturus: Will there be a Stardew Valley sale in the future?
It's already been sold at 20% off at Steam and GOG, so I guess at the least this will be repeated in the future
Posted October 05, 2016
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IronArcturus: Will there be a Stardew Valley sale in the future?
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Asbeau: It's already been sold at 20% off at Steam and GOG, so I guess at the least this will be repeated in the future
I'm thinking the GOG fall sale (which should arrive in a month or two) will probably have this game for sale. If so, that's when I'll be picking it up. If not, well, I've waited this long, I can continue to wait.
Posted October 09, 2016
Does this game still randomly crashes? I love Harvest Moon and after hearing about Stardew Valley I got very excited and installed it immedietaly but I didn`t even pass one ingame day before crash and just got angry and uninstalled it. Like 2 weeks ago when I saw SD on best selling list I was wondering why I`m not playing this game, so got it back on my computer, played for like a half ingame day and bam- crash and now I remembered everything. Is this game playable nowadays?
Posted October 10, 2016
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k0mo: Does this game still randomly crashes? I love Harvest Moon and after hearing about Stardew Valley I got very excited and installed it immedietaly but I didn`t even pass one ingame day before crash and just got angry and uninstalled it. Like 2 weeks ago when I saw SD on best selling list I was wondering why I`m not playing this game, so got it back on my computer, played for like a half ingame day and bam- crash and now I remembered everything. Is this game playable nowadays?
Thats really odd its not a very demanding game either, i have already put in over 110 hours in the game and havent had a crash yet. maybe the save file or some game file is corrupt
Posted October 10, 2016
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k0mo: Does this game still randomly crashes? I love Harvest Moon and after hearing about Stardew Valley I got very excited and installed it immedietaly but I didn`t even pass one ingame day before crash and just got angry and uninstalled it. Like 2 weeks ago when I saw SD on best selling list I was wondering why I`m not playing this game, so got it back on my computer, played for like a half ingame day and bam- crash and now I remembered everything. Is this game playable nowadays?
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liquidsnakehpks: Thats really odd its not a very demanding game either, i have already put in over 110 hours in the game and havent had a crash yet.
Same here. Played more than 90 hours and not a single crash. So I guess it's either fixed or a very uncommon problem (I haven't seen any complaints about it before).
Posted October 10, 2016
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k0mo: Does this game still randomly crashes? I love Harvest Moon and after hearing about Stardew Valley I got very excited and installed it immedietaly but I didn`t even pass one ingame day before crash and just got angry and uninstalled it. Like 2 weeks ago when I saw SD on best selling list I was wondering why I`m not playing this game, so got it back on my computer, played for like a half ingame day and bam- crash and now I remembered everything. Is this game playable nowadays?
Weird, the game crashed once in 60+ hours in my playthrough.
Did you check the game specific forum here : https://www.gog.com/forum/stardew_valley#1476058856

Skimming it I saw that some people have some sort of weird crash when they enter the cave, but not too lmany complaints apart from that. Maybe you have an uncommon bug?
Posted October 10, 2016
Thanks, I will do some research since this game is worth playing, I will try to be more calm next time I run the game ;p
Posted October 10, 2016
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k0mo: Thanks, I will do some research since this game is worth playing, I will try to be more calm next time I run the game ;p
Keeping your calm is a good default reaction in general. Fwiw I had no crash either, and I'm on my second playthrough (nearing 200 hours). Well, I had one consistent crash, but it was caused by broken mod (which I broke myself, in an attempt to update it for 1.1 content). Try repairing the installation if you are using galaxy, and re/install XNA redistributable.
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