Stardew Valley’s 1.6 replace has given gamers a brand new approach to get their palms on Mayor Lewis’ coveted Fortunate Purple Shorts, whereas referencing a well-liked bug present in earlier variations of the sport.
Three digital days into the primary pixel Summer time of Eric Barone’s beloved farming RPG, the participant are offered with a really unusual quest — to search 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 will in all probability infer from context.
As a way to retrieve them the conventional method, the participant want to enhance their relationship with Marnie till they’re allowed entry to her room. Nonetheless, a couple of years in the past followers found that it was additionally attainable to get a pair of the fetching shorts by putting 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.
Moderately than erase the bug completely for replace 1.6, Barone as an alternative opted to present gamers a novel approach to get their palms 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 includes the adroit placement of a crafted staircase that should 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 is able to relentlessly assault the participant till they ascend the steps after retracing their steps by the advert hoc maze.
The method will 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 In fact this is not the one time that Barone has made reference to an outdated exploit to make new content material for the 1.6 replace.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 had been left shocked to search out that the developer had launched a brand new cutscene that punished the participant for dishonest the sport.
You should definitely try IGN’s Stardew Valley Wiki to make amends for the wave of latest 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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