Stardew Valleyplayers are falling in love with the most unlikely addition from the recent Update 1.6, the Trout Man. The latest update was released a few months ago for PC and came out on consoles and mobile in November 2024. It added a huge amount of new items, events, dialogue, various quality-of-life tweaks, and so much more. One of the features that the update introduced as a new event, the Trout Derby, and it’s here that the enigmatic Trout Man can be found.
Trout Man has no name, or rather thatishis name. “Where I come from,” he says, “they call me ‘Trout Man’.” That’s all it’s taken for Reddit user andStardew Valleyfanpainandstutteringto become intrigued by thismysterious fisherman who appears in town during the new Trout Derby event, a two-day festival that takes place in the summer. “I wish to marry him,” says the Redditor. They go on to make a fish-themed innuendo, then add, “My dearest Trout Man, I need to know more about you.”
New Trout Man NPC In Stardew Valley Is Catching Fans' Eyes
Trout Man Has The Right Outlook On Life
The Trout Man only has three lines of dialogue, butthese three lines tell players everything they need to know about him. He seems to have his whole life figured out, after apparently spending five years learning how to “think like a trout.” The man follows the lifestyle of a trout, too: “Food, food, food, lay eggs, rest, eat more food.” Or at least, he tries to, as he quite enjoys eating food but is “not so good at laying eggs, though.”
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Many of the comments in the Reddit discussion find the Trout Man hilarious,withGammaHuntjokingly declaring that “this is one of my favorite Stardew characters” and many other chiming in to say “same.” However, the new character is not everyone’s cup of tea. Reddit userAnOnlineHandlewrites that they initially fell in love with the game for its “surprisingly deep and realistic” characters, so they have “mixed feelings about this sudden influx of absurdist joke characters.”
However, others have noted thatthe new characters and their interactions are accurate to real life, especially for those who have worked in retail. GammaHunt once again came to the defense of the Trout Man and other characters like him that wereadded in Update 1.6. They write that in their opinion, “it brings more life into the game — obviously random people will come to the valley to experience what it has.”
The Trout Derby Has A Range Of New Unique NPCs
The Characters Are Varied And Realistic
The new Trout Derby placesStardew Valleyon the map, apparently, as it’s managed to draw in participants from outside of the valley and past Pelican Town. One character even says that he came all the way from someplace called Grampleton for the event. Like in real life,the people who arrive in town for the derby are a mixed bag of personalities.
Players can trigger a secret response from the Trout Derby participants by using mayonnaise to recover energy near the fishing NPCs. Doing so will cause them to exclaim in horror: “Gross… Did you just…? Why?!”
Some, like the Trout Man, just really like fishing. The “famous fishing sisters” for example, plan to “fish as many fish as er wish, nah nah nah!” as they tell the farmer.Several of the participants are really competitive, and others justenjoy the tranquility of the fishing experience. One fisherman in particular is just trying to “enjoy the peace and quiet.” If players keep trying to speak to him, he’ll eventually snap and threaten the player, angrily exclaiming that “someone’s about to get battered, and it ain’t the trout.”
Stardew Valley Update 1.6 Added More Characters To The Title
The Main Characters Remain The Same, Though
Stardew Valleyadded several new characters in Update 1.6, and although none of them have significant roles, all were clearly lovingly crafted. The gameadded several new NPCs that players can encounterduring a few events, like the Trout Derby and the SquidFest, the odd new character Fizz, and a family that makes its home in the Giant Stump in Cindersap Forest. Aside from these characters, though, the main character roster ofStardew Valleyremains unchanged.
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Players can still onlyromance the same selection of 12 charactersand get to know the same residents of Pelican Town. Many players had been hoping that Update 1.6 would introduce more marriage options to the game, especially as the player base grows older while theeligibleStardew Valleycharacters remain noticeably young.The update did add plenty of new dialogue options for the existing characters, though, fleshing out their personalities even more than before.
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Update 1.6 Added So Many New Things That Fans Are Still Discovering Secrets
The Trout Man is just one tiny portion of the huge amount of content that was added toStardew Valleyin Update 1.6. Regardless of what players think of this particular character, there’s no doubt that he and the other additions to the gameadd even more content and depth to an already robust game. Players are constantly discovering new details in the game, like the fact thatthe unpopular JojaMart run has hidden descriptionsthat most fans would never even see.
Stardew Valleywas released an astounding eight years ago and it’s still going strong, in part thanks to all that there is to discover in it. Not only is it still adding free updates, but it’s also still achieving impressive milestones, includingselling 41 million copies by the end of 2024. It looks likeStardew Valleywill continue to be beloved by fans for many years to come, especially if it continues to introduce ridiculous and loveable characters like the Trout Man.
