Stardew Valley’s 1.6 replace has given gamers a brand new option to get their arms on Mayor Lewis’ coveted Fortunate Purple Shorts, whereas referencing a preferred bug present in earlier variations of the sport.
Three digital days into the primary pixel Summer season of Eric Barone’s beloved farming RPG, the participant are introduced with a really unusual quest — to seek out the Mayor’s Fortunate Purple Shorts, and discretely return them to him, with the remainder of the village being non the wiser. Mayor Lewis doesn’t supply any particulars as to how the garment was misplaced, however provided that the shorts can later be discovered within the bed room at Marnie’s Ranch, properly, we are able to most likely infer from context.
With a view to retrieve them the traditional approach, the participant want to enhance their relationship with Marnie till they’re allowed entry to her room. Nonetheless, just a few years in the past followers found that it was additionally doable to get a pair of the fetching shorts by inserting a crafted staircase into a personality’s ‘pants’ clothes slot. Doing so would remodel the merchandise right into a wearable set of Trimmed Fortunate Purple Shorts.
Relatively than erase the bug totally for replace 1.6, Barone as a substitute opted to provide gamers a novel option to get their arms on the Mayor’s shorts whereas referencing the sooner exploit. As detailed in a Twitch stream from creator Bla_De, who discovered a reference to a hitherto undiscovered basement within the recreation’s code, the newly-discovered Easter egg as soon as once more entails the adroit placement of a crafted staircase that have to be set down on a transparent spot within the Mayor’s bed room.
Doing so permits the participant to achieve entry a hidden maze, on the finish of which lies a pair of the Mayor’s Fortunate Purple Shorts. Nonetheless, retrieving the versatile garment will trigger an invincible flying shorts monster to spawn, which can relentlessly assault the participant till they ascend the steps after retracing their steps via the advert hoc maze.
The method could be repeated a number of occasions, permitting the participant to accrue a stack of 99 Trimmed Fortunate Purple shorts. In fact this is not the one time that Barone has made reference to an previous exploit to make new content material for the 1.6 replace. Followers making use of one other well-known exploit that allowed them to glitch out of bounds to entry a late recreation space of the sport have been left shocked to seek out that the developer had launched a brand new cutscene that punished the participant for dishonest the sport.
You should definitely take a look at IGN’s Stardew Valley Wiki to make amends for the wave of recent content material launched within the 1.6 replace, and to remain updated with the information on Barone’s subsequent extremely anticipated title, The Haunted Chocolatier.
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