The Stardew Valley Update 1.6 release date was this week, at least on PC. The latest update to the game added a metric ton of new content and improvements. Update 1.6 is not the biggest update Stardew Valley has seen since its release eight years ago, but it is certainly in the conversation of meaningful updates and it very well could be the last major update to the game based on previous comments from developer ConcernedApe. Thus, perhaps to the surprise of not a single SDV player, there are seemingly some new secrets to discover.
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To this end, a YouTube user recently pointed out that as of Update 1.6, the out-of-bounds glitch to get to The Summit before you are supposed to be able to has been tweaked. Upon doing this, Mister Qi awaits you, calls you out, and then eliminates you. In other words, rather than patch the Summit skip, ConcernedApe added a new, special cutscene to deal with your cheating.ย
“The couple of frames where you see mr Qi moving towards you is actually terrifying,” writes one Stardew Valley fan of the discovery. “I always thought he was a character who was nice and trying to help you but now knowing he canonically can do that is really creepy
ConcernedApe has not commented on this scene publicly, so it is unclear what his thinking with it is, but it seems just to be a playful way to deal with the exploit rather than flat out patch it. That said, to create a special scene for an exploit a vast majority of players don’t know about and will never see is a nice touch players appreciate it: “I LOVE that instead of patching out the summit skip, he added this in. ConcernedApe is the best,” adds another fan about the scene.ย
Right now, Stardew Valley Update 1.6 is only available on PC, with no word of when it will come to other platforms. In the meantime, for more Stardew Valley coverage — including all of the latest Stardew Valley news, all of the latest Stardew Valley rumors and leaks, and all of the latest Stardew Valley speculation — click here.
