Stardew Valley Update Made Slime Hutch Change You May Not Have Noticed

Stardew Valley Update Made Slime Hutch Change You May Not Have Noticed

• The Slime Hutch in Stardew Valley was made significantly smaller in the 1.6 update.
• Many players are only now noticing this change, possibly because the Slime Hutch has long been ignored by some due to being too big to easily fit into some farms.
• The new Slime Hutch has a 7×4 layout, which is 57% smaller than its old 11×6 design.

Stardew Valley has recently made the Slime Hutch significantly smaller. While the change is already six weeks old, some Stardew Valley players have only now started noticing it.

The Slime Hutch is one of the many farm structures that can be built in Stardew Valley. Much like its name implies, it is used for raising and keeping Slimes. The facility has been part of the hit farming sim since its original 2016 release.

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The Slime Hutch was treated to its first major revision more than eight years later, having been made significantly smaller by the Stardew Valley 1.6 update. The patch itself rolled out in mid-March, but some players have only now begun noticing the change. That group includes Reddit user jeeps009, whose recent post highlighting the size difference between the old and new Slime Hutch layouts recently made its way to the front page of the largest Stardew Valley subreddit, indicating that a section of the player base was oblivious to the redesign until now.

As for the extent of the change, the official patch notes attached to the game’s latest major update reveal that the Slime Hutch has abandoned its 11×6 layout in favor of a 7×4 one. The surface area of the facility hence went from 66 to 28 tiles, a 57.6% decrease. While the changelog doesn’t go into the reasoning behind the redesign, the new layout does have one obvious advantage in that it makes the process of setting up the Slime Hutch in Stardew Valley much easier. The old layout was fairly large for such a niche facility, so making the building smaller could incentivize more players to build it.

How Slime Hutch Looked Prior to Stardew Valley Update 1.6

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The fact that some fans have only started noticing this change after six weeks reinforces the notion that many have been ignoring the Slime Hutch prior to the update. Making the facility more compact without affecting its functionality may change this state of affairs, especially for people who like to use trickier farm layouts, like the Riverlands and Meadowlands Farms, which restrict the amount of real estate the player has to work with.

Stardew Valley’s Slime Hutch is far from the game’s only feature that was reworked as part of its latest big patch. The 1.6 update also made content changes to the Ginger Island jungle and Mushroom cave, in addition to allowing players to increase their farm animals’ happiness by closing the doors of their dwellings at night, among dozens of other novelties. Stardew Valley has already received eight additional patches following the release of the 1.6 update, most of which were aimed at resolving bugs that arose from the previous release. The 1.6 patch is currently exclusive to the PC build of the game, but is expected to make its way to consoles and mobile sometime in 2024.

Stardew Valley

Stardew Valley is a hit Indie release that spawned a cult following thanks to its similarities to titles like Harvest Moon and The Sims. Players will take control of their own characters as they are dropped into the eponymous Stardew Valley and given an old dilapidated farm. They’ll cultivate new crops and relationships with the NPCs scattered around the area, as well as combat monsters and embark on other quests.

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