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Crop Planner
Plan profits by season & layout
🐟Fish Calendar
Fish by season, weather & time
💝Villager Gifts
Loved gifts & weekly schedules
📦Community Center
All bundles, items & rewards
🏝️Ginger Island
Golden Walnuts, tours & secrets
🎪Festival Calendar
All festivals & seasonal events
🏠House Upgrades
Rooms, costs & requirements
⚔️Skill Mastery
How skills work & best ways to level
Beginner's Guide: Your First Year on the Farm
A season-by-season roadmap for Year 1 in Stardew Valley 1.6, from the 15 free parsnip seeds to a profitable winter. Follow it and you will finish Year 1 with steady gold, most skills around level 6, and the Community Center well under way.
Read Guide ›Best Ways to Make Gold in Every Stage of the Game
The highest gold-per-day strategies for early, mid and late game, with verified numbers: parsnip cycling and rainy-day catfish, the Hops-to-Pale-Ale economy, and the Starfruit and Ancient Fruit wine empire with cellar aging. Includes a g/day comparison table and the 1.6 money tools like Dehydrators and Golden Animal Crackers.
⛏️ COMBATThe Mines & Skull Cavern: Complete Guide
Everything about the 120-floor Mines and the endless Skull Cavern in 1.6: floor sections and reward floors, ladder and elevator mechanics, the weapon ladder up to the Galaxy Sword, and a luck-based deep-dive strategy. Includes Qi's floor 100 challenges and all the 1.6 additions from Gold Slimes to Trinkets.
⚔️ MASTERYSkill Mastery Guide (1.6): How to Unlock Mastery Caves
The complete 1.6 Mastery system: the Mastery Cave in Cindersap Forest, how excess skill XP converts to Mastery Points, the exact 10,000-100,000 point curve, and every reward from the Iridium Scythe to the Anvil. Includes the shared skill XP table and the fastest way to level each skill from 1 to 10.
🎣 FISHINGFishing Guide: Every Season, Weather & Legendary Fish
How the fishing minigame actually works - green bar size, perfect catches and treasure odds - plus the best money fish for every season and weather. Covers all five legendary fish with exact locations, hook chances and requirements, the second-generation Extended Family legends, tackle and bait choices, and the real 1.6 additions like the Goby and jellies.
Stardew Valley 1.6.15.1 - Console Parity Patch
ConcernedApe shipped 1.6.15.1 to Xbox and PlayStation on February 12, 2025, syncing console content with the latest PC build and fixing a Switch bug that treated every gift as a loved gift. The Nintendo Switch received the same patch on February 26, 2025. This remains the newest console version as of August 2026.
PATCH 2025-02-12 🔧Stardew Valley 1.6.15 - December Stability Patch
The final PC patch of 2024 made legendary fish ponds far more productive and cleaned up a long list of crashes and multiplayer problems. Achievements now unlock retroactively in more cases, and Hungarian, Japanese and Russian translations were improved. 1.6.15 is still the latest PC version as of August 2026.
PATCH 2024-12-20 🔧Stardew Valley 1.6.14 - Spouse Reactions and Fixes
This patch added extra spouse reactions when you interact with them without dialogue and polished a series of gameplay bugs. Animal products no longer always harvest at base quality, and fish are no longer lost when you pass out holding one. Several multiplayer crashes involving farmhands were resolved.
PATCH 2024-11-12 🔧Stardew Valley 1.6.13 - Input and Audio Fixes
A quick follow-up that corrected the overpowered legendary-fish pond economy introduced days earlier and fixed a bug redirecting all phone calls to Robin. Controller rumble and several controller types regained support, and SDL was updated to 2.30.9.
PATCH 2024-11-08 🔧Stardew Valley 1.6.12 - Foraging XP Boost Patch
Foraging experience from digging special dirt spots, panning, harvesting ginger and chopping trees was increased in this patch. Sandy began selling basic pants, a crab pot harvesting exploit was removed, and headphone audio issues introduced in 1.6.11 were fixed.
PATCH 2024-11-07Artifacts
Complete the museum collection
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Stardew Valley 1.6
The biggest content update since 1.5 launched on PC on March 19, 2024, headlined by the Mastery system, the Meadowlands farm type and three new festiv…
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