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Currently hanging out in the mod making channels of the Stardew Valley discord waiting for version 1.6 to launch. It's a major update, affecting both the story and the underlying code.

I haven't felt this sort of group vibe of "Ooh what will the new content be" enthusiasm mixed with "oh god what will this break" trepidation and "But WHEN WILL IT UPDATE" uncertainty since waiting for Homestuck updates back in the day.

Players have nothing to worry about (except for mods maybe breaking), and mod makers had access to a coding alpha, but until we see the new story content a lot of us don't know exactly how much editing we're going to have to do to make our existing mods compatible with the new content.

But also, new content! Exciting!

It's like 5am in much of the US, many people have stayed up waiting for ConcernedApe (the creator and primary dev) to wake up in California and press the button. It's approaching 11pm here but I don't feel like going to sleep just yet.

The discord mods have been making increasingly unhinged posts in the bulletin board channel that THEY WILL PING US WHEN IT UPDATES. Apparently so many people joined the server at once that discord flagged it as suspicious lol. Meanwhile the 1.6 alpha channel is everyone waving goodbye before it gets archived.

And then of course once it DOES come out... hoo boy.

*bounces quietly*

Because I kept having to link them, and because some people might be interested! There's some great ones out there.


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