In a flip flop for the ages, Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone has revealed that mayonnaise will turn 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 actual cause you possibly can’t eat them within the sport is as a result of they’re in a glass jar and I did not need to have to attract a particular animation for fishing out the pickles, and no manner would I enable ingesting mayonnaise.”
I like pickles, however mayo… I plead the fifth. but when I bear in mind proper, the actual cause you possibly can’t eat them within the sport is as a result of they’re in a glass jar and I did not need to have to attract a particular animation for fishing out the pickles, and no manner would I enable ingesting mayonnaise.— ConcernedApe (@ConcernedApe) October 12, 2021
Nicely, time makes liars of us all, and in his newest every day patch word Barone introduced that the approaching 1.6 replace will in actual fact make a participant’s artisanal mayonnaise a drinkable merchandise, although why you’ll need 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 submit has already banked over 120,000 likes, with many Stardew Valley followers taking to the feedback to precise a variety of feelings operating the gamut from horrified to elated. “I want it was ‘eat’ as a substitute of ‘drink’, I believe I’m going to be sick lol,” stated Reddit person Whaim on a submit discussing the patch word. “Your scientists had been so preoccupied with whether or not or not they might, they didn’t cease to suppose if they need to,” stated person gammongaming11.
I hope there’s additionally a jail added to pelican city, as a result of whoever does that is going to it https://t.co/rmSfaOy9s2— Rinqueen ? (@rinqueen6) March 18, 2024
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HOLY SHIT THIS IS HUGE.— RubberRoss (@RubberNinja) March 18, 2024
Barone introduced earlier this month that he intends to submit a brief, spoiler free patch word detailing new content material and tweaks coming to sport each day operating as much as the discharge of the 1.6 replace for PC on March 19. To date, the tidbits have revealed various new aesthetic and high quality of life modifications 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 may even scale back the period of time it takes gamers to nudge their well beyond obstructing pets down from 1.5 to 0.7 seconds, and can make jars of preserves and bottles of wine the right color primarily based on the components 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 submit revealed that a new Meadowlands Farm type can be added in 1.6, which is able to 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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