Last month, Stardew Valley creator Eric 'ConcernedApe' Barone announced that the farming game's upcoming 1.5 version was "in the home stretch" of development. There's still no word on an exact Stardew Valley 1.5 release date just yet, but the dev has now highlighted some of its new features - which include a new farm type and menu option for game tweaks.
"If you're a seasoned player thinking of starting a new farm when 1.5 comes out, I'd like to highlight a couple of new features," Barone says on Twitter. "There will be a new farm type, 'Beach Farm', and a new 'Advanced Game Options' menu, from which you can adjust some aspects of the game." There's no screenshot to take a peep at of the new farm type just yet, but this'll surely be exciting news for fans keen to branch out from the base simulation game's more rural offerings and try a whole other flavour of farm.
We do get a description, however: "Good foraging and fishing, and tons of open space," the screenshot reads, and it sounds like we'll be able to make use of flotsam and jetsam being that close to the big blue, too: "Sometimes, supply crates wash up on shore". However, there's an element of challenge in that sprinklers won't work on a beach farm's sandy soil - plus, there'll be "some regular soil, but not much". Grass will grow on the sand, though. Sweet.
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