A Stardew Valley player created an unusual challenge for themselves, running their Nintendo Switch nearly non-stop while their farmer slept for 1000 years. The effort was no small feat, and even led to some problems for the gamer's console, but it's also provided a look into how the world of Stardew Valley changes over time.
Stardew Valley players frequently create interesting challenges for themselves in the game. Since Stardew Valley has no real end in the sense of the game no longer being playable without starting a new save, that gives players plenty of opportunities to engage in unusual playstyles, whether they've reached Perfection on their Stardew Valley farm or not.
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Stardew Valley Farmer Sleeps for 1000 Years
On Reddit, a Stardew Valley player called Holozard shared screenshots of their game and explained that they put their farmer to sleep for 1000 years. Holozard appropriately dubbed their farm "Sleepwell" and their farmer "Sleepy." Impressively, the player was using the Nintendo Switch version of the game, so there were no Stardew Valley mods used. However, they did have to make some real-world tweaks in order to readily pull off the challenge. In addition to running their Switch for three weeks straight, the challenge required using a controller with a turbo button that could be programmed to hit "A" repeatedly to confirm the player's action. Aside from that, they used a hairtie to constantly pull the stick to the right, so that the farmer would run straight into their bed, toggle A, and go to sleep, day after day.
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The view outside the farmer's home reveals just how much growth can transpire over the course of a thousand years in-game. Holozard's farm is absolutely overrun with mushroom trees, weeds, and plenty of rocks. There's so many mushrooms that Holozard says that they made nearly half a million from cutting them down and selling them. Perhaps the most impressive result, seen in the third image, is the fact that the farm is covered in both meteorites and Stone Owls. Given that meteorites only have a 1% chance of landing on the farm on any given night, and the Stone Owl only 0.5%, seeing just one of these in-game is typically pretty rare, making it quite a sight to behold.
The dedication to the challenge is receiving a lot of praise from the community, who are also marveling at the look of the farm. Several have made jokes about the way time works in the game, pointing out that Jas and Vincent will still be kids at this point, despite a millennium transpiring. While it sounds like Holozard enjoyed the results of their challenge, it didn't come without cost. In addition to Holozard's in-game chickens being quite miffed that their owner went to sleep for 1000 years, their controller now experiences permanent stick drift. Thankfully, they say that they used a third-party controller, so hopefully it's not too expensive to replace or get repaired. Their Switch also seems to have survived the ordeal, though they mentioned that loading times were particularly long on the console.
Those who might consider trying this challenge for themselves will likely want to prepare for their console to be constantly on for a long time. Holozard says that despite the challenge taking three weeks, only about 150 hours of gameplay time were recorded, as there was downtime during crashes while the player was unable to be around their console to restart the process. Even so, that's a lot of time to dedicate a game system to just one title. While Stardew Valley's gameplay typically doesn't require much in the way of system specs, players trying the challenge may want to make sure that their Switch has adequate ventilation to prevent any damage over the course of those 150 or so hours.
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 90 /100 Critics Rec: 99%
- Released
- February 26, 2016
- ESRB
- E for Everyone (Fantasy Violence, Mild Blood, Mild Language, Simulated Gambling, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco)
- Developer(s)
- ConcernedApe
- Publisher(s)
- ConcernedApe
WHERE TO PLAY
- Genre(s)
- RPG, Simulation
