Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone invents new lore after the latest update starts killing chickens: "There is a wild coyote on the farm day 1 rn"

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澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Stardew Valley c🤪reator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone🎃 has shared some new lore to explain a chicken-deleting bug while a fix is being implemented.

Stardew Valley update 1.6.9 launched today for PC, consoles, and mobile, and Barone took to Twitter with a fairly alarming warning for those who've updated to 🌱the latest version: "PSA: there is currently an issue, if you start a new farm on the meadowlands farm and open the animal door on the coop day 1, your chickens will disappear."

This seems like a pretty niche problem that hopefully won't affect too many players before it's patched out, and B🌼arone clarified that "if you leave the door closed for one day, it should save" your chickens. However, in the meantime he made the bug canon by simply inventing a wild coyote that's hungry for chickens.

"We will fiღx this. Lore: There is a wild coyote on the farm day 1 rn," he said, eliciting an audible chuckle from me. Oh, 🌠those wily coyotes. 

As terribly funny as this all is, if you've played much of Stardew Valley you'll know chickens don't exactly come cheap at 800G each, 🍸so if you are starting a new farm on the Meadowlands, do be careful not to open your coop's animal door until an in-game day has passed. Even if money's not a factor, death by coyote is no way to treat your feathered friends.

Elsewhere, Stardew Valley 1.6.9 adds The Sims-style cheat codes and a "new friend" who can restore some of the game's rarest items "for a price".

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