Beach farm! Beach farm! Beach farm! I may be over-excited as I currently play on Stardew Valley, but developer ConcernedApe has revealed that the next update to the game will come with a new farm – the beach! It may sound like a nice little escape to the beach, but this farm seems to be a difficult one to start with – especially because the sprinklers will not work on that boring sand.
If you like a challenge even more, Concerned Ape says Update 1.5 also brings some “Advanced Game Options”, making community center packages, and my rewards are a little more interesting.
“Good food and fishing and lots of open space,” reads the description of the beach farm. “Sometimes the supply crates are washed ashore. However, sprinklers do not work in sandy soil. “
I think this could be the beginning of another Stardew game for me, although I’m a little worried about the lack of sprinklers. Who will take care of my crops while I am in the mine? I’m also lazy. Fortunately, this update also adds a split screen, so I could just drag a few friends to do it.
Stardew’s future “Advanced Game Options” will allow you to choose how community center packages (packages that you fill with crops and produce for community center restoration) appear before you start your farm. If you select “remixed” in the drop-down menu, you will randomly choose new packages and create variations of the old ones, asking you to do slightly different things to complete them. There is also an option that guarantees that you will be able to fill all the packages in the first year if you do not want to last for ages.
Moreover, my rewards will also be changeable (although it is not entirely clear what all the options are for this) and you can enable (or disable) the monsters for your farm.
Last month, ConcernedApe said the 1.5 update to Stardew Valley is “home”, so hopefully it won’t be long before we can start our new lives as beach hermits. The developer previously mentioned that 1.5 will also add “a significant new piece of final content”, and bananas are on their way.
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