In a flip flop for the ages, Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone has revealed that mayonnaise will change into a drinkable merchandise for gamers as soon as the extremely anticipated 1.6 replace lands for PC on March 19.
“I like pickles, however mayo… I plead the fifth,” stated Barone to a fan in a 2021 Twitter/X post discussing why the digital variations of the foodstuffs could not be slurped down in Stardew Valley. “But when I bear in mind proper, the true cause you possibly can’t eat them within the recreation is as a result of they’re in a glass jar and I did not wish to have to attract a particular animation for fishing out the pickles, and no approach would I permit consuming mayonnaise.”
I like pickles, however mayo… I plead the fifth. but when I bear in mind proper, the true cause you possibly can’t eat them within the recreation is as a result of they’re in a glass jar and I did not wish to have to attract a particular animation for fishing out the pickles, and no approach would I permit consuming mayonnaise.— ConcernedApe (@ConcernedApe) October 12, 2021
Properly, time makes liars of us all, and in his newest every day patch be aware Barone introduced that the approaching 1.6 replace will in reality make a participant’s artisanal mayonnaise a drinkable merchandise, although why you’ll wish to chug the white stuff, and what advantages it might confer, stay a thriller.
pic.twitter.com/f74guOGJ4U— ConcernedApe (@ConcernedApe) March 17, 2024
On the time of writing the publish has already banked over 120,000 likes, with many Stardew Valley followers taking to the feedback to specific a spread of feelings operating the gamut from horrified to elated. “I want it was ‘eat’ as an alternative of ‘drink’, I feel I’m going to be sick lol,” stated Reddit person Whaim on a publish discussing the patch be aware. “Your scientists had been so preoccupied with whether or not or not they may, they didn’t cease to assume if they need to,” stated person gammongaming11.
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Barone introduced earlier this month that he intends to publish a brief, spoiler free patch be aware detailing new content material and tweaks coming to recreation each day operating as much as the discharge of the 1.6 replace for PC on March 19. Up to now, the tidbits have revealed numerous new aesthetic and high quality of life adjustments coming to the sport, together with the implementation of a seven day “honeymoon” interval for NPCs after getting married to the participant, which prevents them from staying in mattress all day as a result of they’re upset.
The replace can even scale back the period of time it takes gamers to nudge their well past obstructing pets down from 1.5 to 0.7 seconds, and can make jars of preserves and bottles of wine the right color based mostly on the substances used to make them. Barone additionally assured gamers final week that the patch will repair a harvesting bug that made it slower to reap crops whereas shifting from proper to left, and in his newest X publish revealed that a new Meadowlands Farm type might be added in 1.6, which can see gamers begin the sport with a coop and two chickens, in a map with “chewy blue grass that animals love”.
pic.twitter.com/FgDai0IDvy— ConcernedApe (@ConcernedApe) March 18, 2024
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