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Lincoln Carpenter

An early version of Stardew Valley's mines featured an 'underground goblin village' before ConcernedApe scrapped it

A frowning goblin portrait from Stardew Valley.

While I'm sure acknowledging this will inflict some amount of psychic pain, today is the 10th anniversary of the launch of Stardew Valley. To commemorate the occasion and the steady degradation of our joints and bones, Stardew creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone aired a celebratory 10-year anniversary stream, covering his gigahit life sim's history—some of which we're seeing for the first time.

Barone's retrospective stretched back before Stardew's release date, showing some early development builds demonstrating planned features that never came to fruition. And there's a particularly wild one among his scrapped plans: At one point, Stardew was going to feature an underground goblin society that's now lost to development history.

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