Stardew Valley 1.6 added a hidden experimental multiplayer function to the cellular model of the sport, developer Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone has revealed.
In a weblog publish, Barone mentioned the function is hidden as a result of it could have some bugs or points, and the character of the cellular platform “may make a multiplayer session irritating.”
“Cell multiplayer works just about the identical as on different platforms, besides there isn’t a farm ‘discovery’ functionality,” Barone defined. “You’ll be able to solely join through IP. You’ll be able to, nonetheless, be a part of a PC-hosted farm from a cellular gadget through IP.”
The perfect “cellular multiplayer” situation, Barone added, could be to connect with a PC-hosted farm from a high-end cellular gadget on a neighborhood community (utilizing wi-fi, until you’ve some technique to join your cellular gadget to ethernet). “This may be the best-case situation,” Barone mentioned, earlier than warning towards attempting to attach or host utilizing a cellular phone community.
“The worst case situation could be if somebody had been to host a sport from a low-performance telephone, on a cell community (you’d in all probability should create a cellular wi-fi hotspot for others to connect with domestically), and so they had been on a prepare or one thing, going by tunnels,” Barone went on.
“After which the host can be getting calls, inflicting the app to be interrupted repeatedly. This may end in a doubtlessly irritating multiplayer expertise.
“Nevertheless, if you wish to strive this stuff out, there’s nothing stopping you… Simply bear in mind that there are inherent connectivity points that may come up when trying to host a multiplayer sport from a cellular gadget.”
Stardew Valley 1.6 lastly launched on console and cellular this week, eight months after the replace launched on PC. It did so alongside one other massive replace that modified the massively widespread farm and life sim additional.
Unlocking the cellular model’s hidden multiplayer function requires inputting a riff on the Konami Code (the well-known collection of inputs used to unlock cheats in Konami video games).
As Barone defined within the weblog publish, on the title display screen, gamers will discover that the Stardew Valley brand has 4 teams of leaves connected to it. Faucet the leaves on this order: ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → then press the ? button within the bottom-right nook of the display screen. Exit the ? menu and also you’ll have a co-op button on the title display screen.
The free 1.6 replace, which sparked a recent 10/10 Stardew Valley assessment from IGN, launched on PC in March. Barone initially anticipated the console and cellular ports of 1.6 could be launched a month later.
Barone has apologized to disgruntled followers and promised to not return to work on his subsequent sport, Haunted Chocolatier, till Stardew 1.6 is finalized. Haunted Chocolatier, revealed in 2021, doesn’t have a launch window.
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