Every 1.6 patch from 1.6.1 through 1.6.15 in one dated timeline. The 1.6 launch added Mastery, Meadowlands Farm, the Desert Festival, Mystery Boxes, and eight-player multiplayer; later patches fixed crashes, balanced legendary fish ponds, adjusted mastery XP, and expanded controller and localization support.
Use the timeline to check what changed before returning to a save or a modded setup. Entries summarize the headline additions, balance changes, and fixes; versions with full categorized notes link through to the update detail page.
| Version | Date | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| v1.6.15 | 2024-12-20 | Legendary fish ponds produce roe more often and earn more; performance work; Junimo bundle button in fridges; fixes for achievements, randomness, new-save corruption, and the lost-and-found. |
| v1.6.14 | 2024-11-12 | Extra spouse reactions; no longer lose a held fish when passing out; fixes for animal product quality, chimney duplication, map position inside farm buildings, and spouse facing. |
| v1.6.13 | 2024-11-08 | Reduced legendary fish pond profit; more controller support; fixes for the beach bridge, controller rumble, and calls all redirecting to Robin; SDL updated. |
| v1.6.12 | 2024-11-07 | More foraging XP from dirt spots, panning, ginger, and chopping; Sandy sells basic pants; fixes for crab pot quantities, phone crashes, and multiplayer connection crashes. |
| v1.6.11 | 2024-11-06 | Fixes for rare animal disappearance, NPCs not responding on first talk, and controller furniture pickup; OpenAL update fixes a rare crash. |
| v1.6.10 | 2024-11-04 | French/Russian translation improvements; fixes for Penny's 14-heart items in the lost-item shop, Meadowlands chickens disappearing, mine transition crashes, and invalid furniture IDs. |
| v1.6.9 | 2024-11-04 | A secret-woods friend recovers lost items; legendary fish can go in ponds; beds can be placed and used inside buildings; dropped items float briefly; blue grass and pine tree adjustments. |
| v1.6.8 | 2024-04-28 | Fixed a game-breaking crash introduced in 1.6.7 when NPCs reach the island resort changing room. |
| v1.6.7 | 2024-04-27 | Fixes for giving Pierre the Missing Stock List and for machines/Desert Festival logic on the Linux/macOS compatibility branch. |
| v1.6.6 | 2024-04-26 | Bee houses work with garden-pot flowers; Gold Clock toggle; raccoon coal-to-mahogany trade; 50% mastery XP applies only to farming; Chinese font and translation changes. |
| v1.6.5 | 2024-04-20 | Fixed a crash when loading dark mine levels and cleaned up broken villager data on load; those NPCs respawn when re-added. |
| v1.6.4 | 2024-04-18 | 20 alternate mine layouts, 20 volcano layouts, fish frenzies, new fairy styles, and fish tank items; a special cutscene and raccoon shop trades. |
| v1.6.3 | 2024-03-27 | Clint's shop and geode service stay available during upgrades; Krobus portrait, year-one Spirit's Eve minecart shortcut; moss and foraging XP changes. |
| v1.6.2 | 2024-03-21 | Juice, jelly, wine, and pickles gain quality-scaled edibility; Void Egg is poisonous; fixes for Willy's rod, tea sprites, the Luau, and a tool soft-lock. |
| v1.6.1 | 2024-03-19 | Fixes for quest title overflow, animal page scroll crash, Meadowlands quest persistence, green rain multiplayer crashes, and map/forage out-of-bounds issues. |
| v1.6 | 2024-03-19 | Major content update: Mastery, Meadowlands Farm, Desert Festival, Mystery Boxes, 8-player multiplayer, new crops, and many quality-of-life changes. |
Back up saves before a major update, verify SMAPI and Content Patcher versions, and re-check mod compatibility after each patch. The largest 1.6 changes for returning players are the Mastery system, Meadowlands Farm, Desert Festival, and the 1.6.9+ legendary fish ponds.
Update overview · Mastery guide · Desert Festival · Mod compatibility