Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update was supposed to be for modders, but it’s adding 8-player support, three festivals, over 100 lines of dialogue, and more

When Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone announced back in April that his life-consuming farm-life sim would be getting another update, he described 1.6 as “mostly changes for modders (which will make it easier & more powerful to mod)”, saying the number of new additions would be “much less than 1.5.” He’s got Haunted Chocolatier to…

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‘Coups, schisms, near-death experiences’: The scarcely believable 22-year development of a Morrowind mod older than the game itself

Not many mod projects have 122-page chronicles of their own history, but then not many mod projects are Tamriel Rebuilt, a mod for The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind whose aim is to, well, build Morrowind. The rest of it, I mean. Because in spite of the name, Morrowind doesn’t actually contain its entire titular province. …

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