Hey everyone, The 1.6.3 update is here, which includes some "Quality of Life" changes, bug fixes, and balance adjustments. Patch notes below:
You can now access Clint's shop and geode service while your tool is being upgraded.
Increased raccoon bug meat and bat wing request amount
Harvesting moss now grants 1 foraging exp per moss
Infinite Power achievement is now more generous with how it activates, allowing pre-1.6 saves to trigger the achievement
Adds mine cart shortcut to year 1 Spirit's Eve festival
You now have to collect (not just donate) the 4 prismatic shards for the "Four Precious Stones" Qi Quest
The JunimoKart Qi Quest now rewards 20 Qi gems (up from 10)
Adds new cabins to starter layouts for multiplayer.
Starter cabins now appear in the actual order intended.
Adult mossy green rain trees boost the moss growth rate of nearby trees
If a Journal quest title is too wide, the clock icon and the rest of the text will be shifted down to make room
You can now press the Escape or menu button to "go back" on a shipping menu category page
Adjustments to moss growth (grows slower on sunny summer days, recovers slower after harvest)
Reduced meteorite prismatic shard chance (100% -> 25%)
You can now paint the new cabins (at 3rd upgrade level)
Ancient seed packets excluded from sale at traveling cart
Made waterfall and other ambient positional sounds fade out more smoothly
Added a catch-all case: if it's year 2 and you don't have a pet (for any reason), you can start adoptinng them from Marnie's
Made berry bush state consistent overnight and on load (both at 20% plus a small new random bonus chance)
Minor graphical fixes
Fixes several translation errors and missing translations
Fixes large character sprites having a visual glitch (e.g. bear, island frog, clint hammering)
Fixed a visual error in the shop menu if an item's name was longer than the width of the menu
Fix a crash related to the new festival
Fix a bug that was causing excess trash to be fished
Fixed bug preventing Emily's 10 heart mail and event from triggering
Fixed some graphics issues with Shipping menu
Fixed several more spawn-out-of-bounds cases
Added Krobus portrait
Thanks for playing! -Ape
That’s the short of it, for the patch notes in the smaller 1.6.3 update for Stardew Valley across storefronts.