Stardew Valley fans have proven in the past that they're very capable of doing some of the most bizarre things we've ever seen for no particular reason. One example of living rent-free that comes to mind is someone who decided to play a game without walking anywhere and decided to build an intricate chair highway called a “loot express” to get around.
This is a level of dedication I never thought I'd see from other players, but Reddit user Holozard proved me very wrong. A few days ago, Holozard shared a bizarre game save with the Stardew Valley subreddit (thanks PC Gamer), during which they continued to sleep for 1,000 years for no reason other than to see what would happen. The result was complete chaos.
If you sleep for 1,000 years, Stardew Valley turns into The Last of Us
First, Holozard explained how he was actually able to sleep for so long in the game, and the answer was truly baffling. First, they ran the Nintendo Switch continuously for over three weeks, during which time the game crashed nine times. They set up the controller with a turbo button that keeps you pressing 'A' and a hair band that wraps around the stick to keep you moving to the right. This actually caused the controller to shut down completely, causing terrible stick drift.
Stardew Valley is one of the only games I want to play forever.
ConcernedApe's farming simulation is the definition of a modern indie classic.
Or it could have been an apocalyptic nightmarescape, much like what 1,000 years of sleep did to the world of Stardew Valley. As you can see in the image above, every square inch of Holozard's farm was filled with giant mushrooms, some form of weed or overgrown tree, and it took three seasons to clear it all.
Asked what the chickens are like without an owner to look after them for 1,000 years, Holozade shared screenshots claiming they look “a bit thin” and “grumpy.” If I were abandoned for a thousand years I would be too, don't worry.
Holozard's farm wasn't the only one negatively affected by their big sleep. Pelican Town seemed to be in disarray due to lack of farmers. Because the game was in a paused state, none of the game's villagers (who were still alive and seemingly immortal) were able to perform their daily tasks.
As a result, Pelican Town was filled with rubble and debris, making almost every square inch of the town inaccessible, and the Cindersap Forest was somehow left in an even worse state. If I didn't know better, I would have thought someone had dropped an atomic bomb and the whole place had just vaporized.
But there are benefits to sleeping for 1,000 years and turning Pelican Town into a wasteland. This seems to be one way to start saving Stardew Valley, because once Holozard is done cleaning up the town, he “made almost half a million dollars in mushrooms.”
- released
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February 26, 2016
- ESRB
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E for Everyone (Fantasy Violence, Mild Blood, Mild Language, Simulated Gambling, Alcohol and Tobacco Use)
- developer
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Concerned Monkey
- publisher
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Concerned Monkey
- engine
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ownership
- multiplayer
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Local multiplayer, online multiplayer
- cross platform play
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Stardew Valley does not currently support crossplay between other consoles and PC.
