http://toonskribblez.tumblr.com/post/150033933975/eric-barone-creator-of-stardew-valley-talks Apparently version 1.1 might have different farm layouts you can choose from depending on whether you want to focus on farming or fishing or combat and that is so cool
I am so fucking excited to be able to marry Shane. And then Emily on a different file because she's my best friend on this one.
Yo, Stardew 1.1 beta is opt-in now. I'm playing atm, start a new save to pick your farm layout. Gonna marry shane. Gonna give him so many chickens.
I think I'll wait for the proper release since I'm still very invested in Starbound, but I read the list of features in the Stardew forum thread and it looks soooo cool. Pretty sure I'm going to restart entirely, although I'll keep my old saves just in case.
Ahhh, I'm so torn between farms. ;-; But mostly I'm excited because you can finally move buildings without destroying and reconstructing them! And make coffee and mead!
wait kathy, so to get new farm layout you need a new save, but for the marrying stuff do you need a new save?
urrrrgh this is not what I needed to hear today I have things I have to get done okay I can't spend five hours going nuts with new artisan goods
That's probably still the case - the developer has been really dedicated to making sure everyone can continue to use old saves and still get lots of the new content.
According to that list, you can't plant fruit trees outside your farm anymore? 8( Blah, I need to plant multiple orchards before switching to the beta, then, I want the whole town to bear fruit...
So I never really socialized with anyone other than Harvey and Linus and the wizard on my first, lost save. Shane needs to be a farm husband immediately D:
I am super hype to start a new game. There's all sorts of new stuff whose purpose I do not understand yet, and I'm keeping it that way, because I like having the feeling of not knowing everything that'll happen again :3 I chose a forest farm, which was the only legitimate choice for me. There's a huge swath of the farm that's just forest land, where you can't dig or plant, but you can put down objects. No idea of buildings could go there, probably not. You get a shit ton of wild seeds (free crops yus) from weird-looking weeds (they look pulpy? remind me of aloe) and I suspect, though am not certain, that you get a LOT more critters (frogs, crows, rabbits, ect) around the farm and eating your crops at night. I lost I think three crops before a week went by and I could craft a scarecrow 0 _ 0 I don't know who I'm going to marry yet--so many options! I'll just play and see who captures my heart. May end up on the Shane Train like so many others >u< On a completely different note, I accidentally creepypasta? Spoiler: long ramble about weird shit My gf and I were both enthusiastically starting new games while moirail looked on. We were talking about how we like a lot of the marriage options, but some of them are a little off-putting? Maru seems to be almost too polite, like she's just being nice to you? Haley is obviously hella off-putting at first, though the bitchiness charms me. I mentioned that I was always interested in Harvey, but after a while, it seemed like he was freezing me out--always putting his headphones in and ignoring me, no matter where I found him. (I was engaged is probably why, but.) She said she always thought Harvey was a little creepy. "Why?" I asked. "It's his crush on Maru. Sure, he doesn't act on it, but she's way younger than him, and working as his subordinate, and it's weird." I agreed it was weird, though I hadn't thought about it that way before. "He does have a quiet creep vibe, though," I agreed, "though I thought it was a false positive with the whole 'shy, awkward man' vibe that sometimes is a hallmark of creepiness, sometimes not. The whole 'nearly middle aged recluse who's always up in his house hiding away from people and doing his own quiet thing' leads one to suspicion. I'm trying to say that if anyone was a secret serial killer in Pelican Town, I would be almost certain it was Harvey." We laughed. There were five minutes of silence as we both kept playing. Then, after five minutes, I quietly said "guys, Harvey might be a serial killer. Listen to me. He's an established doctor running his own practice in a solitary podunk town he didn't grow up in but specifically chose to move to, he lives alone in a private space that's hard for anyone else to get to, he's running into a middle-aged 'I've done nothing with my life' breakdown, he complains about not having enough patients and almost wishing people weren't well and then quickly negating what he said... uh... if someone were killing people there wouldn't even be competition it's clearly Harvey." We kept mentioning various lines and things he does. Things kept clicking. "I can't quite make ends meet; I'm going to need more patients." It was worrying. A short conversation about how some other villagers are weird, but not serial killer weird, ensued. Elliot is weird and reclusive, put clearly pure of heart. Pierre is up to SOMETHING, but probably drugs. Or he's just a swindler. There's the Wizard, but he's not serial killer weird. He's just wizard weird. Sebastian is a weird recluse but that darling little pansy wouldn't be able to hurt anything other than a slime. Linus is pure. (WE agreed that Demetrius is probably doing some mad science, but it's somehow still good mad science, like, he made a rogue AI and hought he was such a bad person, but all the rogue AI does is write scholarly papers or some shit. Because he ca only make good things) If people were dying off in Pelican Town I wouldn't even bother to suspect anyone other than the weird, discontented doctor. At which point Aya said 'Unless it's you. The player. That's the other option, because the player can be any kind of person.' Then we agreed that with the update, with divorce and dark magic and stuff, the farmer would be potentially the best black widow killer ever, and a creepypasta-style fic in which Harvey and the farmer don't realize they're both in the business of offing people until years passed would be a great story, which I don't have time to write. (Consider; Harvey: You were the one who killed Shane and Alex and Leah?? I would never have known, you're so cute!! Farmer: Wait, YOU killed--you think I'm cute? :D) I have no idea what to do with that but it won't leave my head and I am not looking at Harvey in the same way. I might marry Harvey this playthrough.
Report from the combat farm: The blurb says you'll get bats and golems, IIRC, but I've seen skeletons and slimes as well. It took a while for those to show up, though. Probably depends on your combat skill? Spawn rate is pretty reasonable, you don't go a night without at least seeing a couple but I've never been just mobbed and in fear for my life, even coming back from a long and health-draining day in the mines. I haven't checked yet if anything counts towards eradication goals. Bats are no big deal, I've been standing around doing a bit of late-night fishing in the pond while a bat repeatedly swooped at me doing single points of damage until I finally caught the fish and went to kill it. It was pretty funny, actually. They do drop wings. You will be drowning in those. The slimes drop slime, too. The "golems" are a unique kind that, instead of stone and other cavey things, drop fibers and wild seeds!
I also considered "small isolated town with colorful cast of characters where everyone knows each other => MURDER", but that may just be my love of Agatha Christie. I was going to write a "prequel" where everyone's a few years younger and the big farm plot is still laying wild and untended, and have a few additional characters as victims/potential suspects.
