Stardew Valley mini-update adds pet adoption, fixes moss issues arising from the 1.6 mega-update

Stardew Valley, one of our favourite RPGs despite coming out almost a decade ago, still has an attentive steward in the form of developer Eric Barone. After the recent 1.6 mega-update to the game, which added a whole bunch of stuff, Barone (better known in his developer form as ConcernedApe) Xeeted out a list of fixes in the now-available 1.6.3 update. This makes tweaks to things arising from 1.6 (many of them addressing moss, a new foraging item) and fixes bugs, one of which was causing ‘excess trash’ to be fished.

Importantly, 1.6 added more pet animals to the game, and the mini-update has built in a case where if you don’t have a pet by year two, for any reason, then you can adopt them from Marnie’s. This is lovely.

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