{"id":1333358,"date":"2025-09-22T22:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T22:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keKbonhzmgxeF4F6o7QsDk"},"modified":"2025-09-22T22:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T22:45:17","slug":"eric-barone-says-he-doesnt-want-too-much-hype-for-stardew-valleys-1-7-update-which-is-a-bit-like-showing-the-internet-a-big-red-button-marked-do-not-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/eric-barone-says-he-doesnt-want-too-much-hype-for-stardew-valleys-1-7-update-which-is-a-bit-like-showing-the-internet-a-big-red-button-marked-do-not-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Barone says he doesn&#8217;t want &#8216;too much hype&#8217; for Stardew Valley&#8217;s 1.7 update, which is a bit like showing the internet a big red button marked DO NOT PRESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Eric &#8220;ConcernedApe&#8221; Barone can&#8217;t help himself. The long and glorious journey of Stardew Valley development was supposed to be capped off with the major 1.6 update, which in Barone&#8217;s words this April left the game in &#8220;<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/life-sim\/after-getting-stardew-valley-to-a-good-place-with-update-1-6-eric-barone-is-now-fully-focused-on-his-next-game-im-committed-to-not-working-on-stardew-valley-until-im-done-with-haunted-chocolatier\/\" target=\"_blank\">a good place<\/a>&#8220;\u2014so good he wouldn&#8217;t be &#8220;working on Stardew Valley until I&#8217;m done with Haunted Chocolatier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But then in August our green-fingered hero announced he was going back\u2026 <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/life-sim\/bless-him-eric-barone-cannot-stop-updating-stardew-valley-has-announced-version-1-7-is-coming\/\" target=\"_blank\">for one (point seven) last job<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Barone managed to keep away for four whole months, before speaking at a live concert of Stardew Valley music and blurting out that 1.7 was gonna happen. &#8220;Okay, I revealed this at the concert last night and now the cat&#8217;s out of the bag,&#8221; <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ConcernedApe\/status\/1961864959484412104\" target=\"_blank\">Barone followed-up on X<\/a>. &#8220;So I will confirm for everyone: There will be a Stardew Valley 1.7 update. No release date, no estimate. But it&#8217;s happening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Our man then answered the question most would want asked: Yes, it will slow down work on his next game Haunted Chocolatier, &#8220;<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/life-sim\/yes-stardew-valleys-newly-announced-update-will-probably-slow-down-work-on-haunted-chocolatier-but-not-as-much-as-you-might-think\/\" target=\"_blank\">but not as much as you might think<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because, surprise surprise, such a massive hit now has a team working alongside Barone to maintain it: even if this bucolic Willy Wonka &#8220;need[s] my hand to touch every piece of new content,&#8221; he&#8217;s still spending plenty of time in the (haunted) chocolate factory.<\/p>\n<p>Stardew Valley does seem like one of those games that, for whatever reason, just appeals across generations. I loved it way back when I first played it, which would be almost a decade ago now, and was delighted when it was the first game my eldest kid really clicked with: and fascinated by how differently she played the game to me, and how it accommodated and rewarded that different approach. Perhaps that&#8217;s why it is, from the horse&#8217;s mouth, &#8220;still so popular (in fact, still growing) that it&#8217;s hard to just stop improving it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1280px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"vQbhnvKvhUwMvmTPuTVqEm\" name=\"kddLKAMUzhLpegBJTJTbZf.jpg\" alt=\"Stardew Valley\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/eric-barone-says-he-doesnt-want-too-much-hype-for-stardew-valleys-1-7-update-which-is-a-bit-like-showing-the-internet-a-big-red-button-marked-do-not-press.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Eric Barone)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a new response to a fan request for a &#8220;sneak peek&#8221; <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ConcernedApe\/status\/1970002493901000833\" target=\"_blank\">Barone says<\/a> &#8220;More will come. I just don&#8217;t want too much hype at this point. It&#8217;s going to be a while before the update is ready.&#8221; The only other thing Barone added to this <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ConcernedApe\/status\/1970001373657002073\" target=\"_blank\">was an assurance<\/a> they&#8217;d try to avoid the six-month gap between the PC and console release of 1.6: &#8220;I will do my best to minimize the delay between the two so as not to have the same problem as last update.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Avoiding the hype is impossible: too many people love Stardew Valley, to the extent that Barone and co. could probably push a 1.7 update that added a new vegetable, and we&#8217;d all go bananas. But then it is, by the most objective metric on the planet, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/the-top-100-pc-games-2024\/#section-10-1\" target=\"_blank\">the ninth-best game ever made<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"5d159b20-7509-422b-a32f-6a6478cc07ef\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:400px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Vji3V6i3HDWUHeQ22PrjFL\" name=\"New Project (8).jpg\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/eric-barone-says-he-doesnt-want-too-much-hype-for-stardew-valleys-1-7-update-which-is-a-bit-like-showing-the-internet-a-big-red-button-marked-do-not-press-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-games-2025-upcoming-pc-release-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"5d159b20-7509-422b-a32f-6a6478cc07ef\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2025 games<\/strong><\/a>: This year&#8217;s upcoming releases<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/sim\/eric-barone-says-he-doesnt-want-too-much-hype-for-stardew-valleys-1-7-update-which-is-a-bit-like-showing-the-internet-a-big-red-button-marked-do-not-press\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric &#8220;ConcernedApe&#8221; Barone can&#8217;t help himself. The long and glorious journey of Stardew Valley development was supposed to be capped off with the major 1.6 update, which in Barone&#8217;s words this April left the game in &#8220;a good place&#8220;\u2014so good he wouldn&#8217;t be &#8220;working on Stardew Valley until I&#8217;m done with Haunted Chocolatier.&#8221; But then in August our green-fingered hero announced he was going back\u2026 for one (point seven) last job. Barone managed to keep away for four whole months, before speaking at a live concert of Stardew Valley music and blurting out that 1.7 was gonna happen. &#8220;Okay, I revealed this at the concert last night and now the cat&#8217;s out of the bag,&#8221; Barone followed-up on X. &#8220;So I will confirm for everyone:&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/eric-barone-says-he-doesnt-want-too-much-hype-for-stardew-valleys-1-7-update-which-is-a-bit-like-showing-the-internet-a-big-red-button-marked-do-not-press\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1333359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[748,763],"class_list":["post-1333358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-games","tag-sim"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Eric Barone says he doesn&#039;t want &#039;too much hype&#039; for Stardew Valley&#039;s 1.7 update, which is a bit like showing the internet a big red button marked DO NOT PRESS | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Eric &quot;ConcernedApe&quot; Barone can&#039;t help himself. 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