The latest Stardew Valley update, released last night, accidentally introduces a few new issues – including chickens that mysteriously disappear.
The 1.6.9 update – which was released alongside 1.6 for consoles – adds a new friend to retrieve lost items and more. However, there have been some cases of players losing their chickens when they start a new farm on the Meadowlands farm and open the door to the coop on the first day.
Stardew Valley creator Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone has said that a fix for this, for the time being at least, is to make sure players leave the door to the coop “closed for one day”. Then – not that he needed to but I love that he has – Barone blamed the chickens’ disappearance on a “wild coyote” nosing about the farm on day one. What a cheeky blighter (the coyote, not Barone).
Barone has already released patch 1.6.10 on Steam and GOG that addresses the rogue chickens, as well as some crashes. This update will arrive on other platforms “as soon as possible”, Barone said.
1.6.10 is now live for Steam/GOG, and these fixes will make it to other platforms as soon as possible. A patch for PlayStation will also be live very soon, which fixes the European crash and more pic.twitter.com/S7p2cV3zES
— ConcernedApe (@ConcernedApe) November 5, 2024
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So, after all this is sorted, what is next for Barone? Earlier this year, the creator admitted he hadn’t actually touched his next game – Haunted Chocolatier – “in a long time”, because his focus had been on Stardew Valley.