Lovely farm ’em up Stardew Valley‘s multiplayer is alllmost ready, close enough to finished that today it launched an opt-in open beta. Stardew’s multiplayer will let gamers host as much as three different gamers of their farm, chipping in to work the land, journey, fish, and possibly drink an entire lot. Heck, you may even get married to different gamers.
The beta department is now dwell on Steam, will hit Stardew’s GOG model “in a few days”, and can formally launch in the primary sport… when it’s performed.
“After several months of internal testing and QA, we’ve decided to open the beta up to a wider audience,” Chucklefish’s Tom Coxon stated in the announcement. The publishers have stepped in to deal with including multiplayer, seeing as they’ve extra expertise and sources, whereas Stardew creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has targeted on making new singleplayer content material – which can also be on this new beta construct.
If you need to invite one other participant to your current farm, you’ll have to put in a little bit preparation first, constructing them a cabin to dwell in – although they solely value 100 gold and 10 stone. For new farms, you’ll have the choice to ask folks and have cabins for them from the beginning.
And yup, it does assist LAN play in addition to on-line co-op.
See the blog post for full particulars on easy methods to be part of the beta and begin multiplaying. That additionally particulars precisely who has management of what and what’s communal and so forth.
Many mods haven’t but been up to date to work with the 1.three beta, so do disable these or they could trigger issues.
