The announcement was made on the game’s website where he revealed that he had a new game that he was working on, however he also reassured Stardew Valley gamers that this did not mean that he would be neglecting the game, and quite the opposite, he will be doubling down on his efforts at maintaining Stardew Valley.
According to ConcernedApe, “In short, what I’m saying is that I am going to keep making new content for Stardew Valley. In fact, I’ve recently put my other game on the back-burner and have been in the process of creating a new free content update.” He also revealed that he would be putting a team together to help develop content for the game, whereas in the past he had mostly worked on it solo.
“For a while, I considered being finished with Stardew Valley altogether. But that would make me (and many others) sad. So I’ve decided that I’m going to form a team to help me work on future Stardew Valley content. The update I’m working on right now (1.4) will be another solo update, but after that I hope to have a team in place that I can work closely with on future content.” In the meantime the 1.3 update for the Nintendo Switch has since been released and will add multiplayer features to the game, with the update still planned for arrival on other consoles.