Stardew 1.6 lands on consoles with the new farm type in tow

The 1.6 update for Stardew Valley has rolled out to consoles and mobile, months after it landed on PC, bringing the new Meadowlands farm type and a long list of smaller additions to the rest of the player base. If you've been watching PC players talk about content you couldn't touch, the wait is over.

The Meadowlands farm is the marquee item: it starts with a small barn and a pair of chickens, and swaps some tillable ground for blue-grass pasture aimed at animal-focused players. It's the first genuinely new farm layout in years and changes the early-game calculus if you pick it.

Beyond the farm, 1.6 adds new craftable items, more festival content, additional dialogue, and a pile of quality-of-life fixes that PC players have enjoyed for a while. ConcernedApe has, as usual, shipped it as a free update with no strings — the longstanding policy that keeps this game's goodwill bottomless.

There's no catch and no season pass. Update your game, start a Meadowlands save if you're curious, and enjoy the rare big-game update that asks nothing of your wallet.