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Stardew Valley speedrunner blows up his farm first and drops his tools
Annual Charity Speed Run Marathon AWESOME GAME TO COMPLETE FAST This week is underway, letting players from a variety of games show off their quick game strategies. This year’s Stardew Valley speedrun category is completing the town community center with glitches – oh my gosh, hacks do flow.
Speedrunner Olenoname, this year’s Stardew runner, rightly warned before his race: “This run is going to be very fast and it’s going to start quickly, so I hope you’re ready.” Then he put his farm Completely blown away.
Olenoname started Stardew in almost the opposite way to us normal people. He immediately deletes a bunch of tools, magically generates a ton of items in his inventory, and starts dropping bombs all over his farm. It’s definitely faster than cutting down all the trees one by one.
As Olenoname and his co-reviewers explain, the glitch’s quick run hinges on abusing a specific trick that might get your attention on the character creation screen before he even starts playing.
Usually in Stardew Valley, your friendly neighbors stop by your farm and give you different items. Olenoname explained that the process of receiving an item during a conversation is controlled by an item code hidden in the conversation. By naming his character with a very long list of item codes, if an NPC calls him by his name, he can trick the game into giving him the same very, very long list of items. Some of these items are super bombs and therefore employ aggressive tree removal techniques.
Despite the glitches of all of these projects, Olenoname did actually spend some time growing some of his own crops and raising a few chickens. It’s a pretty quick run at just over 17 minutes, which you can capture from scratch in the video above.
If you missed it, you can Stardew Valley Cup Its developer, Eric Barone, co-chaired the project in September.