Stardew Valley Fans Had No Idea They Can Now Feed Their Horse Thanks To An Update 1.6 Feature

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players have discovered yet another hidden feature from Update 1.6, and this time it involves horses. The cozy life and farming sim was released in 2016 and has since become a phenomenon, still beloved by many players and still getting regular free updates from its creator, ConcernedApe. The massive Update 1.6 was released last year for PC and, after months of anticipation, it became available on mobile devices and consoles.

Players are still discovering new things that the update brought to the game, including one fun new interaction with the horse that was spotted by teengirlhelley on Reddit. The Redditor writes, "" The player says they tried to feed the horse other things, but "" It turns out that the discovery is more than just a fun Easter egg, and there's an actual benefit to doing this.

Carrots are one of the four new crops added in Update 1.6, along with summer squash, broccoli, and powder melon. Feeding the farmer's horse a carrot in has two great benefits. The first is that feeding the horse a carrot gives it a buff, increasing its speed by 0.4 for the rest of the day. This is a useful boost since the horse helps players get around the world much faster, making it possible to get even more done in one day.

Stardew Valley might be iconic today, but it was once written off as a «Harvest Moon clone,” and its success is a lesson for other clone type games.

The horse can only eat one carrot per day, so there's no way to stack speed boosts. The hidden buff is still a great discovery, and many fans in the comments are eager to try it themselves. The feature is especially nice since carrots only take three days to fully grow, making it easy to get many of them fairly quickly. And the second benefit of feeding the horse a carrot? As teengirlhelley notes, it „“

Update 1.6 added many advertised new features, from small quality-of-life updates to large, game-changing new features like a whole new type of farm and co-op multiplayer so players can farm together.