This got way more views than I expected so here is a quick FAQ while I continue writing up notes for my commentary stream: What the heck is this? - Tool Assisted Speedrun (TAS) for Glitchless Community Center %, attempting to finish every bundle in the community center as fast as possible. This is done with a custom build of Stardew Valley 1.5.4 that I've wrapped to allow me to provide frame-by-frame advancing/input replay. These tools are CLOSED SOURCE, as they'd require me to redistribute the game to effectively let others use the tools as is (as there are multiple areas where I need to wrap the normal control flow to allow the TAS replay to work). Why are you walking in bed/why is it raining every day? - Step manipulation - many events like rain, luck, and whether a villager gives you a gift are decided during the overnight save, where a random number generator is seeded with (among other things) the player's current step count. This run makes heavy abuse of this mechanic to force rain on basically every useful day to water crops, luck for all mining days, and gifts from Robin who ends up giving us about 800 wood in the mail. Why are you waiting in the mines? - Mines floor seeding - when you enter a mines floor, the generation of stones/etc is determined by the second on which the new floor is generated. I'm waiting to roll for a good floor that either has a free ladder or a rock nearby that I can break to spawn a ladder. What on earth is that fishing slide? - I animation cancel during the cast animation, which leads to some really wonky behavior. This has no real practical purpose (I guess it doesn't advance step count...) but I have 2 in-game hours to kill and nothing productive I can do... it's dumb looking though so there's that at least 30 seconds of pausing in skull caverns? - I pause the frame before the in-game clock is about to tick. On a tick, if you're in the mines you can either get a monster spawn or a fog spawn (or nothing). Here I'm waiting to get a serpent to spawn that has a rabbit's foot in its drop list. Why dog not cat? - dog >> cat despite the dog being 3-4 seconds slower. Let's call it RNG manip... Perfection when? - kill me, though I'm interested in routing other categories, I need to get Blade to dust off his marriage notes😎
Why no traveling cart? It could guarantee not having to run all the way to Summer Y2 for the red cabbage, and with the right seed could even make some aspects of animal raising obsolete.
@@rmzing this is something I forgot to call out here (I’ve said it on another vid) but I think a cart run would be extremely boring to route/watch, so for this run it’s no cart/geodes/trashcans for bundle turn ins. That way I’m forced to do basically every aspect of the game (otherwise the run would have no animals/no house upgrade/etc). You’re definitely right though, it’s significantly slower this way assuming I could find a good cart seed
1:06:27 >weird new villager comes to shop >fills bag with hundreds of stones and wood in a fraction of a second >talks so fast it sounds like telepathy >sets two coops to be built in the farm in seconds >hits ground with pickaxe until tiredness takes over >passes out on ground >refuses to elaborate >does not leave, have to call the doctor to rescue them
I love the contrast between "*car slap meme* You can fit so many animation cancels in this bad boy" and "the max movement speed is still Leisurely Stroll"
Everyone else watching in awe as some random scraggly stranger absolutely levels an entire mountain's worth of landslide debris and commits deforestation, all while seemingly teleporting random clumps of seeds from his pocket to the ground, watering them, and then a monsoon rolls through time and time again. The only one able to keep up with such speed is Pierre, who can match said stranger in capitalistic combat.
Just imagining the townies reaction to this "Have you seen anything from that new farmer? He's been here a week and I haven't seen him at all." "I went to see if he was okay this morning and I saw him leave the house and cut down like 6 trees in an hour, and then he just went back inside and slept."
You are a citizen of Pelican Town in Stardew Valley. You hear that a new farmer moved into town. Immediately afterward, it begins to rain for nearly a month straight. You have never met him directly, but you see him sprinting around town sometimes.
For some reason I just love at 32:26 Robin saying "Some weather huh?" after it has been raining almost everyday for the past month and a half lol. Never thought I would see something like this, great job!
i think its fun to imagine the months for the seasons are just compressed for the player bc 12 months would be hell. so for the npcs its been raining for nearly 6 months
Having just got back into Stardew somewhat recently I'm blown away by this TAS. It's fun to imagine this from the perspective of the other townsfolk, wondering who this mysterious, constantly sleeping mess of a man who just moved into town is that can apparently chop trees and plow fields at the speed of light.
1:06:25 I like how Robin were trying to be friendly to the mysterious farmer by initiating the conversation with “Hey, have a nice walk?” Only to see the guy silently swinging his pick axe in the speed of light and pass out in her house right after she finished her sentence.
Ain’t got time for polite conversation. There’s another moment somewhere that’s like “Some weather we’re having, huh” that cracks me up having rained for months on end
13:21 how weird it is to see a tas "struggle" with the fishing minigame, idk why in my head i had this assumption that in a tas the bar would follow the fish perfectly
Yeah, it really _isn't_ just you being bad at the game, some of the patterns are physically nearly impossible until you're a high enough fishing level. I recommend fishing buff food like the trout soup (or sometimes the dish of the day at Gus's will be something even better)
Fishing isn’t the most optimized but yeah, some fish patterns are just too fast to follow, so the best you can do is just try and reduce the total duration of the catch
@@pinguin4898 rng manipulation only goes so far, such is why summer 2 wasnt a rainy day. The rng manipulation would have taken more time than it was worth
Instant sub. Anyone dedicated enough to a game to make a TAS like this deserves the support. I am simply amazed at the expression of understanding of RNG manipulation and optimized time management that goes into many games, but until now I didn’t even know it was possible in Stardew. You have my respect
@@Caramalix It's obvious the person played in a way that would be considered cheating, so I just responded by pretending it's supposed to be how you play, that it's without cheats, because this person phrased their comment in a way that implies that it isn't completely obvious if cheating was involved or not, even though it is, as I said, completely obvious.
I can feel the amount of work that’s been put into this TAS. One ought to wonder what a 100% TAS would look like; though that’s a nightmare for someone else to consider.
It would be cool to see a level 100 skull cavern tas. (Not neccesarily from the beginning of the game, just from a day). Just to see how fast you could make it.
I just don't have a ton to do once I'm going for the eel/bream so this is mostly just showing off a goofy mechanic that freezes your character sprite. I actually waste a few seconds at the end of fishing to manip step count, which I should've done before sliding around aimlessly
The other villagers watching this absolute Terminator building his farm and occasionally walking outside for a split-second before going back to sleep for multiple days at a time:
You, sir (or madam) have earned a coveted spot in my favorites list. Of ALL the videos I've watched over YEARS, there are only 186 currently (including this one) that I've put in that list. Only reason the number usually changes, is when videos or channels are no longer available. lol Edits containing thoughts as the video plays out: 2:35 for whatever reason the way you just threw that scarecrow outside in the rain and went back to bed made me laugh WAY more than it probably should have. LOL 5:30 "wait what?" beat "OH, you turned in the quest for the parsnips." 12:33 and 14:10 AHHHH!!!! D: Oh right, must not despawn when you sleep if you dropped it inside, or something. lol That gave me a fright. 14:29 Huh, surprised you didn't already have enough for both bags, with all the thought you obviously put into this thing. lol 17:20 OH! I just realized you never zoomed the screen out! I always do that when I play, but it makes perfect sense not to, for a TAS run! 21:04 Oh that is so satisfying. It don't matter how (or how much) you play the game, it is always so fun getting the crab, without needing the 'crab'pot. It feels like an exploit, without ever actually being one. lol 26:04 Should have grabbed that purple mushroom while you had the chance... Oh wait, guess he was keeping an eye on the time of day. Wait no... that was 1:50 Pm not Am. I missed that part. 32:00 Huh... could of swore you were gonna get the iron axe so you could get the fern here(*). I mean you had the 5 iron ingots and enough funds... Guess I'll have to wait and see why you didn't. (*) Wait... ferns are spring... my bad. (aren't they? I'm SO confused now. lol) 38:10 OHno... You aren't grabbing the reward thingies... D: I get it. It's for the TAS... but that still hurt. lol 38:57 Wait... what did you even build? barn? coop? that was REAL fast. Had to rewind a few frames... I THINK it's a barn? Guess I'll find out. 40:00 I bet this is where things are REALLY going to take off... Skull mines are near at hand. 42:14 ... wait... wouldn't it have been a few less steps to take the minecarts back to the mines than hop out that door? OHH!!! You were seeing if there were any convenient forages along that path, weren't ya! Clever. Continued in a reply for ease of reading...
(continued from prior comment to break up the word wall) 47:15 "Mmm! I am NOT sorry for that soup. That was tasty" (I made a pot of soup that came out really good... yes I DO know that has nothing to do with the video. But I bet it made you smile. ;) ) 48:36 WOW! That went by so fast I couldn't see what you did! (rewound a few frames... 3 spicy eels, and 15 coffee. NOICE find on the eel dish. One of my favorites in the game. 49:30 LOL there's that animation canceling you had mentioned! SmallAnt would call something like that, an XD skip, because it's all about the lulz (thus the XD as a laughing face) but doesn't save any time. I don't remember what GDQ calls the 'for-show' glitches... I remember the word 'showcase', but I don't think that's the right one for DURING a speedrun. 'Pro-Strat' maybe? Said ironically? I'unno... SWAG!!! They always say, "For the swag!" or "Swag-Strat". I knew it would come to me eventually... totally... rolls eyes at self (( Edited after having watched the entire video, and re-reading my metric ton of comments on this thing. LOL )) PS: Would it have been a benefit to go for those bubbles on the right at 50:15 for quicker fish bites? Or does that kind of time-save not really make a difference, when you are running this tight of a TAS? 54:50 Well 88k's a nice tidy sum. For this sort of game, that's about all you could ever need. lol ... Unless you're going for more tools. 58:20 That was interesting. You got Pam to rush twice, collected supplies, upgraded a barn, and STILL had a few moments to spare before she got to her post a few moments early there. Nicely done. PS: close enough that I didn't want to use another timestamp... had to frame-show to see what you did at the desert merchant there. Bought a single stairwell. Okay, carry on. 59:42 There was a hole under the Health bar there. That would have dropped you several floors, instead of only one. The only reasons I can think that you wouldn't have wanted to use it are, can't manip it as easily, or just missed it in the process... which I can't imagine, since your TAS input even knows where ladders are before rocks are cracked. PS: Heheh there's that hype pause from your channel-page. lol So THAT'S why you didn't hop the hole. Might have had to go more floors to find a serpent with the rabbit's foot, Would have taken longer. Makes sense. 1:03:15 Wait... why do you need to still do step-manip-ing in winter? It's not like you can get rain, or storms this time of year. 1:05:30 Oh good, you DID end up grabbing a couple of the rewards. As you may have recalled from one of my previous comments in the first half of these time stamps, it felt weird to just let the rewards expire like that. lol 1:10:40 I didn't think the animals liked the main doors left open at night, especially during cold weather. On a related note, would heaters have helped them be happier a little faster? Or is it another case of it not making enough of a difference for a TAS run, where things can just be RNG-magicked into place? 1:18:15 I couldn't for the life of me, remember whether you needed void eggs or void mayonnaise for the community center or not. I've been playing remixed bundles, and I can't remember the defaults anymore. lol Either way it was a nice break from the sleep spam. ;) PS: Still trying to figure out why you are still occasionally step-manip-ing before bed, since you don't have any crops to worry about any more. 1:19:50 Well now; with that, you've had every night-time event except a crop fairy. Way to go. :) 1:25:55 Ah, there it is! And right on the cabbage too! :D I was wondering why you didn't go get the stuff, because that meant everything was full grown now based on its usual radius... But then I remembered you were working on a wine back at the Community Center. Have to wait for that anyways, might as well zip away the nights anyways. 1:27:10 Oh. We're done? here? Dang it, I thought you'd still have to go through the cut scene and we could see Pierce knock Morris to the moon. }:) Oh well... Still a REALLY fun run. Even without commentary. WOW THAT WAS SO COOL TO SEE!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PUTTING THE TIME INTO THIS CRAZY THING!!! I hope this ridiculous set of word walls didn't bother you too much. ;) It enhanced MY enjoyment of the run, anyways. lol I'm on to your Joja% video. But I have a feeling I won't have quite as much to say on that one. You get good crops going, you farm them, you sell them, you make the town investments. I hope you keep doing these. They certainly have the capacity to bring joy to those who take the time to watch them. :)
Impressive, the first video I saw on your channel was the 18 egg route video, you have improved so much. I am excited for the commentated version on this.
This was so entertaining and very interesting to watch from a human perspective, especially knowing that I completed community center in a very different way. The amount of dedication and research that it must of taken to make this is absolutely insane and I'm very happy to have stumbled upon this!
the reason i came here is because unserpassable z looked at a speedrun, so i looked up a tas stardew, and saw this, it is enjoyable to watch, and those frame holds for drops are very,very nice. i get 4 5 wild seeds on a large patch, were a tas can find 100% of the frames were a wild seed would drop, or 100% of the frames were sleeping would be best. i enjoy tas's. and would not be apposed to watching this be tas'ed again with the same or different conditions. keep up the 6 months = 1 hour work, i know tas's take forever to make.
I’d love to see more TAS work in Stardew. It’s really neat how much you really understand what makes this game tick to do what you did. The fishing slide is also a nice touch lol.
okay, just finished watching this, and thought of some questions i'd like you to address, either here or in the commentary: 1. why did you give robin a bday gift? for the little amounts of wood she gifts you in the mail, maybe? 2. when you're in the process of petting the animals, are their positions in the barn predetermined? or if not, how difficult was it to teach the program how to "find" them? 3. were the witch and fairy random events planned/desired? if not, what would it take to avoid them? 4. i know that missing bundle% is damn near identical to this category, except at the end--but if you ever did feel like running that category, how much would need to change? how much of what that bundle requires could you and the RNG control? (getting a dino egg and an ancient seed as fishing treasures, for example)
Since it’ll probably be a minute: 1) so Robin gifting was a thing I wanted to try once I decided to go for skull caverns since the early dino floor lined up with it, I think in total she sends me 800 wood in the mail (which is good cause money is super tight with only the 1 pumpkin harvest/no jars) 2) this Q makes me realize I should clarify, this isn’t a bot playing and “solving” every facet of the game, I do have automation for things like “animation cancel on first frame” and even “find/walk shortest path to tile loading zone” but otherwise I’m doing frame by frame advances manually, and this is just replaying that input stream. Animal positions in the barn get rerolled on the frame you enter, this is one of the areas I didn’t fret a ton with super optimizing for positions 3) the night events scan your farm and look for random placable tiles to trigger on, but they’re based on your game seed which I should’ve done more investigation on before starting. The witch/owl/capsule/2x meteors are all time loss, the fairy I could have avoided by changing up crop tiles but it saved me manipping rain/at that point I think it’s ridiculous that I could trigger every night event so I kept it 4) my first glance look at missing bundle doesn’t honestly look that horrible, even post CC I think it’d be fairly quick. I’d want to have saved the sturgeon for a fish pond, gotten extra gold for a seed maker to manip 5 ancient seeds, then it’s whether I should’ve tried for dino egg while I was in SC (I have no idea what the pepper rex drop was, too focused on the rabbit’s foot) or I’d just be sleeping for the correct artifact spot (need something to do while waiting on ancient fruit). Void salmon/quality wine are both kinda hard, I guess I'd race money for the house upgrades? 150k+150 hardwood would've been better to route in earlier/would've probably changed the math on just buying the deluxe coop Great questions!
I love the lore context behind this A new farmer one day shows up, proceeds to decimate their grandpa's farmland, refuses to talk to anyone, and it begins to rain almost every day since their arrival. They then proceed to sleep for multiple days on end, yet somehow become the richest person in the valley, and then buy 200+ seeds from Pierre on a regular basis. They're seen every now and then, but it's very little moments just watching them fish or head to the mines. Then one day, the community center is just... Complete, and they're never heard from again.
Really cool! IDK how much you are gonna be optimizing this tas, but I believe the cat is a few frames faster than the dog! or maybe that’s an old update lol
I'm not sure how it would fit in as a category but I'd be interested in seeing something like a Ginger Island All Golden Walnuts tas, but starting the tas from the day you'd go there the first time, maybe from a different CC-completed file. It'd be neat to see the island in isolation without having to worry about setting up the entire run beforehand. Good work on this tas by the way, it is super satisfying!
so that I find kinda interesting, basically start a file at Spring 1 Y1 with the CC finished but nothing else. Time is to All Walnuts (requires unlocking the island from Willy)... 🤔
reading the FAQ and description, this is art. i am not joking, this is a labor of love and dedication. i can't even begin to comprehend the work this must have taken. this should be in a museum or something
Just found this and I have to say this is very impressive (even for a TAS), I just want to know how the actual hell you were able to seemingly manipulate the RNG to be so heavily in your favor (especially the mixed seeds at the beginning like WTF) but it was an amazing run! Can’t wait for you to finish the script on this and add commentary so I can actually understand what’s happening and how lmao
Step Manipulation During the loading screen between two days is when most RNG elements are calculated, and one of those factors is number of steps the player has taken. By taking a precise number of steps, you can manipulate the RNG in your favor.
My guess is that you’re not entirely aware of what a tas is? Tas is entirely run by the computer and the rng was manipulated to be perfect for the route which is allowed because it’s a technically a possible sequence of events in the game
Wow, this is super fascinating Really looking forward to the commentary/script for this, since I already have a lot of questions concerning the routing, which will almost certainly be answered ^^ This game seems incredibly daunting to route for a TAS, let alone actually create the TAS AND the TAS tools, this is incredibly impressive
On a scale of 1 to 10, one being normal playing with rewinds and ten being every moment goes as you want, how optimized is this run? I love TASes and considering how mind numbing extensive RNG manip and seed stuff can be, it would be interesting to see the absolute optimized RNG and how fast that could be. This run is still fascinating, and I appreciate you posting it and answering some questions before the commentary stream
Amazing TAS! Both the routing and the execution must've been painstaikingly precise. And some mechanics, like enemy swarm on a clock tick or smelting bars in the mines, are gonna be useful for casual play as well! 1. Is the fish variety manipulated in any way, seeing how you never get trash and such? 2. Isn't going in and out of bed faster than running in place?
1) yup, when possible I try to manip the actual nibble timing (how long after the bobber hits the water to the ping) and then it selects what fish/trash on the frame you release the click. 2) I don’t think it matters? I guess I need to look into how steps are triggered again but I thought it just was based on the animation state progressing which still happens when running against a wall. Turn around frames I think undo your state so you’d need to walk full cycles and then lose a frame or two on each turnaround. Worth me re-exploring though
If a speedrunner could pull half the bullsh1t off done in this TAS I think that would be terrifying, the RNG manipulation is insanity, getting wild seeds out of every grass cut, and getting straight potatoes with every seed planted, it's like that 1:32 TAS of minecraft I saw a while back, this is insane and I love it
I came here from the TAS subreddit and thought, "I'll watch the first few minutes just to see how insane the movement looks." And yet here I am an hour and a half later. 😅 Very fun run to watch. Well done! Oh, and our of curiosity, how does that fishing slide thing work? If it's a human possible glitch could fun to screw with my friends in multiplayer.
Thanks! Just need to animation cancel when the cast bar is up (sometimes it’ll glitch and give a horrible noise that won’t stop so be warned lol). Animation canceling is RShift+R+Delete (most rebind for it)
@@Underscore76 also out of curiosity, what is the point of this glitch in this run? And why do you go back and forth so much on the beach, its really interesting
Lots of rng is dependent on the player’s step count (rain, gifts, luck, etc), so I’m taking steps to manip certain outcomes. It varies on the day what I’m looking for, though rain is the biggest need for the first year
This is a TAS, also known as a Tool Assisted Speedrun. Basically, you run a special second piece of software that lets you rewind and retry stuff as many times as you want, or run it in slow motion so you can do things as fast as the game can physically process them. This is useful because it can prove that certain tricks and glitches are possible before speedrunners who are people can figure out how to do them reliably, and helps to see if those glitches save enough time to be worth using. You can look up TASes for other games, too - Pokemon runs are often similarly good at RNG manipulation (controlling "luck"), and Undertale has some pretty cool glitches and stuff
This got way more views than I expected so here is a quick FAQ while I continue writing up notes for my commentary stream:
What the heck is this? - Tool Assisted Speedrun (TAS) for Glitchless Community Center %, attempting to finish every bundle in the community center as fast as possible. This is done with a custom build of Stardew Valley 1.5.4 that I've wrapped to allow me to provide frame-by-frame advancing/input replay. These tools are CLOSED SOURCE, as they'd require me to redistribute the game to effectively let others use the tools as is (as there are multiple areas where I need to wrap the normal control flow to allow the TAS replay to work).
Why are you walking in bed/why is it raining every day? - Step manipulation - many events like rain, luck, and whether a villager gives you a gift are decided during the overnight save, where a random number generator is seeded with (among other things) the player's current step count. This run makes heavy abuse of this mechanic to force rain on basically every useful day to water crops, luck for all mining days, and gifts from Robin who ends up giving us about 800 wood in the mail.
Why are you waiting in the mines? - Mines floor seeding - when you enter a mines floor, the generation of stones/etc is determined by the second on which the new floor is generated. I'm waiting to roll for a good floor that either has a free ladder or a rock nearby that I can break to spawn a ladder.
What on earth is that fishing slide? - I animation cancel during the cast animation, which leads to some really wonky behavior. This has no real practical purpose (I guess it doesn't advance step count...) but I have 2 in-game hours to kill and nothing productive I can do... it's dumb looking though so there's that at least
30 seconds of pausing in skull caverns? - I pause the frame before the in-game clock is about to tick. On a tick, if you're in the mines you can either get a monster spawn or a fog spawn (or nothing). Here I'm waiting to get a serpent to spawn that has a rabbit's foot in its drop list.
Why dog not cat? - dog >> cat despite the dog being 3-4 seconds slower. Let's call it RNG manip...
Perfection when? - kill me, though I'm interested in routing other categories, I need to get Blade to dust off his marriage notes😎
this was a really cool run, do you think you would ever do a golden walnut collection tas if you don't do a perfection one?
thanks, was wondering how the perma rain manipulation was done
wait, so you control/code every single frame manually? I always thought TAS is some kind of AI :O
Why no traveling cart? It could guarantee not having to run all the way to Summer Y2 for the red cabbage, and with the right seed could even make some aspects of animal raising obsolete.
@@rmzing this is something I forgot to call out here (I’ve said it on another vid) but I think a cart run would be extremely boring to route/watch, so for this run it’s no cart/geodes/trashcans for bundle turn ins. That way I’m forced to do basically every aspect of the game (otherwise the run would have no animals/no house upgrade/etc). You’re definitely right though, it’s significantly slower this way assuming I could find a good cart seed
Todays news: Local farmer obliterates his field in 20 seconds, then sleeps for a week straight.
As for the forecast rain has continued to fall for the entire season, experts predict mass flooding among the valley.
He’s got bipolar 😂😭
@@yourboi5492 I swear that was the first thing my brain thought of with the 'whoosh...boom' of the overnight explosion - flash flood! LOL
in other news: the local mine has been finished in 6 hours - beating the time of 56 years by the Joja corp.
he didn’t wanna get wet :)
1:06:27 >weird new villager comes to shop
>fills bag with hundreds of stones and wood in a fraction of a second
>talks so fast it sounds like telepathy
>sets two coops to be built in the farm in seconds
>hits ground with pickaxe until tiredness takes over
>passes out on ground
>refuses to elaborate
>does not leave, have to call the doctor to rescue them
I love the contrast between "*car slap meme* You can fit so many animation cancels in this bad boy" and "the max movement speed is still Leisurely Stroll"
Haha true 😂
Would be so funny if existed a speed glitch like the animation canceling and the farmer would be zooming throught the city like crazy
they are actually always fast walking cuz they walk faster than every npc
@@bengermin3104 no, you are running, if you want to you can press shift to walk or turn off auto run in settings
@@benjamingumundsson8338 even if you walk youre still a bit faster than npc
"this area is infested"
*makes a staircase faster than the speed of light*
honestly wouldn't we all
instantly selling the pig after it dug up the truffle made me laugh so hard
just hiding around the corner like "BAM GOTCHYA" XD mfer got sniped
Basically u done your job get out
“That’ll do pig, that’ll do”
1:15:33
@@Ducci__ Thank you.
Menus: Speed of light.
Animations: Speed of sound.
Movement: Casual walk.
=chaos
Everyone else watching in awe as some random scraggly stranger absolutely levels an entire mountain's worth of landslide debris and commits deforestation, all while seemingly teleporting random clumps of seeds from his pocket to the ground, watering them, and then a monsoon rolls through time and time again.
The only one able to keep up with such speed is Pierre, who can match said stranger in capitalistic combat.
JoJa: We...couldn't against that JUGGERNAUT of a capitalist worker...only PIERRE can against him.
@@Jose-yt3qz in all fairness, the farmer was a Joja worker before
Everyone in town:"Why it has been raining every day since the new farmer shown up?"
My mans a harbinger of calamity
cuz he walks in his bed every morning
Just imagining the townies reaction to this
"Have you seen anything from that new farmer? He's been here a week and I haven't seen him at all."
"I went to see if he was okay this morning and I saw him leave the house and cut down like 6 trees in an hour, and then he just went back inside and slept."
My favorite part: 58:08
Farmer stares at Pam: "Walk faster"
Pam stares at Farmer: "Why would I?"
Farmer grabs Axe.
Pam starts speed-walking.
You are a citizen of Pelican Town in Stardew Valley. You hear that a new farmer moved into town. Immediately afterward, it begins to rain for nearly a month straight. You have never met him directly, but you see him sprinting around town sometimes.
You know it's optimized when it waits for 3+ seconds for proper rng
actually, he waits for more than 30 seconds at 1:00:10 to get the rabbit's foot
YOU ABSOLUTE MONSTER! Who would say no to doggo 😭
The bedside furnace for smelting ore during your depressive spirals is a real vibe.
fancy seeing you here. love your stuff.
The fumes help the hibernation process.
STORY OF UNDERTALE
Actually doing something productive during a depressive spiral is the most fantastical thing.
Depression but your coping mechanism is metalworking
The "survivor" hairstyle fits the lifestyle of a modern shaman, spending all most of his days raindancing in bed.
For some reason I just love at 32:26 Robin saying "Some weather huh?" after it has been raining almost everyday for the past month and a half lol. Never thought I would see something like this, great job!
When I saw that I found myself replying, "Welcome to Scotland, Robin".
i think its fun to imagine the months for the seasons are just compressed for the player bc 12 months would be hell. so for the npcs its been raining for nearly 6 months
@@Phreias Sebastian's probably pretty happy, and probably getting more time outside than anyone else. lol
For the past season and a half!
Having just got back into Stardew somewhat recently I'm blown away by this TAS. It's fun to imagine this from the perspective of the other townsfolk, wondering who this mysterious, constantly sleeping mess of a man who just moved into town is that can apparently chop trees and plow fields at the speed of light.
Didn't leave his farm for 13 straight days then sprinted around trying to bankrupt the local supermarket for almost a year without a break
Brought with him a bizarre amount of rain too
Dude just strolled into the saloon and bought gallons of coffee in milliseconds, Gus doesn't even know how it happened
You forget that the sleeping man who chopped trees at the speed of light also has the power to control the weather as well!
And has been raining for 5 weeks since he moved in.
1:06:25
I like how Robin were trying to be friendly to the mysterious farmer by initiating the conversation with “Hey, have a nice walk?”
Only to see the guy silently swinging his pick axe in the speed of light and pass out in her house right after she finished her sentence.
Ain’t got time for polite conversation. There’s another moment somewhere that’s like “Some weather we’re having, huh” that cracks me up having rained for months on end
13:21 how weird it is to see a tas "struggle" with the fishing minigame, idk why in my head i had this assumption that in a tas the bar would follow the fish perfectly
Yeah, it really _isn't_ just you being bad at the game, some of the patterns are physically nearly impossible until you're a high enough fishing level. I recommend fishing buff food like the trout soup (or sometimes the dish of the day at Gus's will be something even better)
Fishing isn’t the most optimized but yeah, some fish patterns are just too fast to follow, so the best you can do is just try and reduce the total duration of the catch
I thought it would just sit still from all the rng manipulation
@@pinguin4898 rng manipulation only goes so far, such is why summer 2 wasnt a rainy day. The rng manipulation would have taken more time than it was worth
@@pinguin4898 i agree, at least stop yourself from getting impossible patterns
I had no idea the RNG in this game could be manipulated.
Impressive.
From what I've seen, it's also very easy to understand compared to other games!
Instant sub. Anyone dedicated enough to a game to make a TAS like this deserves the support. I am simply amazed at the expression of understanding of RNG manipulation and optimized time management that goes into many games, but until now I didn’t even know it was possible in Stardew. You have my respect
The RNG in Stardew is actually unusually easy to understand and manipulate by modern game standards. Look up "clay farming"
Normally tas makers won’t make a tas if they know it’s gonna be 5 or more minutes, let alone an hour, but this man is different.
This guy is a bit too good I think they might have cheated
Wdym? This is how you're supposed to play
@@Chris01114☠️ i believe it’s sarcasm
@@Caramalix It's obvious the person played in a way that would be considered cheating, so I just responded by pretending it's supposed to be how you play, that it's without cheats, because this person phrased their comment in a way that implies that it isn't completely obvious if cheating was involved or not, even though it is, as I said, completely obvious.
@@Chris01114 ah ok
When you forget to record
Even tas struggles with the sturgeon so don’t feel bad guys
That little fucker took me 3 in game days to catch bc I was too stubborn to get the iridium rod
I can feel the amount of work that’s been put into this TAS. One ought to wonder what a 100% TAS would look like; though that’s a nightmare for someone else to consider.
what is a TAS?
I have several thousand hours in Stardew by now (no regrets), this run is just pure absurdity to watch, I love it. This deserves to be on GDQ.
It would be cool to see a level 100 skull cavern tas. (Not neccesarily from the beginning of the game, just from a day). Just to see how fast you could make it.
Completing the “Cryptic Note” quest might be a cool run to do from scratch, I’ll need to think about it 🙂
@@Underscore76 i would watch that
Wow the beginning starts off with a bang. The speed of those actions is just insane.
Bonkers
Ah yes, two of my favorite things combined: tool-assisted speedrunning and Stardew Valley. The amount of joy this gives me cannot be quantified
exactly what i’m thinking
There's some pretty tiny stuff in here that very few people can appreciate, I just wanted to say this is genuinely inspiring
Thanks Prim ❤️
The irony of your farmer wearing a joja shirt while trying to complete the community center as fast as possible...
Only thirty minutes in so far, but man, this is a great run. I am also stealing the idea of smelting my ore at the top of the mine while mining.
As a Stardew player who has yet to even reach their first winter, I'm fearing for my life by watching this
watching you slide around the beach I laughed because I totally imagined the GameChamp text "This is very important" flashing on screen
1:15:35 is my favorite part. It's just so funny to see the pig dig up the truffle to get immediately sold right after.
"I didn't know the new farmer was so hyper"
That was incredible to watch. I play SDV casually on my switch and man, this is a whole different level haha great work making this!
The summer theme fits the frantic movement so well
this is seriously awesome! loved watching it, never new that TAS’s for this game were so cool
I guess my favorite part is 50:10 . Great Job on this TAS!
can someone explain this
@@LOLFLUSHDRAW my only guess is RNG manipulation
also if there is an option to show off in a tas for no time loss, its almost always taken
I just don't have a ton to do once I'm going for the eel/bream so this is mostly just showing off a goofy mechanic that freezes your character sprite. I actually waste a few seconds at the end of fishing to manip step count, which I should've done before sliding around aimlessly
@@Underscore76 worth
Oh my, Stardew Valley TAS is a dream come true
Literally the perfect hair and look for the farmer lol
The other villagers watching this absolute Terminator building his farm and occasionally walking outside for a split-second before going back to sleep for multiple days at a time:
You, sir (or madam) have earned a coveted spot in my favorites list. Of ALL the videos I've watched over YEARS, there are only 186 currently (including this one) that I've put in that list. Only reason the number usually changes, is when videos or channels are no longer available. lol
Edits containing thoughts as the video plays out:
2:35 for whatever reason the way you just threw that scarecrow outside in the rain and went back to bed made me laugh WAY more than it probably should have. LOL
5:30 "wait what?" beat "OH, you turned in the quest for the parsnips."
12:33 and 14:10 AHHHH!!!! D: Oh right, must not despawn when you sleep if you dropped it inside, or something. lol That gave me a fright.
14:29 Huh, surprised you didn't already have enough for both bags, with all the thought you obviously put into this thing. lol
17:20 OH! I just realized you never zoomed the screen out! I always do that when I play, but it makes perfect sense not to, for a TAS run!
21:04 Oh that is so satisfying. It don't matter how (or how much) you play the game, it is always so fun getting the crab, without needing the 'crab'pot. It feels like an exploit, without ever actually being one. lol
26:04 Should have grabbed that purple mushroom while you had the chance... Oh wait, guess he was keeping an eye on the time of day. Wait no... that was 1:50 Pm not Am. I missed that part.
32:00 Huh... could of swore you were gonna get the iron axe so you could get the fern here(*). I mean you had the 5 iron ingots and enough funds... Guess I'll have to wait and see why you didn't.
(*) Wait... ferns are spring... my bad. (aren't they? I'm SO confused now. lol)
38:10 OHno... You aren't grabbing the reward thingies... D: I get it. It's for the TAS... but that still hurt. lol
38:57 Wait... what did you even build? barn? coop? that was REAL fast. Had to rewind a few frames... I THINK it's a barn? Guess I'll find out.
40:00 I bet this is where things are REALLY going to take off... Skull mines are near at hand.
42:14 ... wait... wouldn't it have been a few less steps to take the minecarts back to the mines than hop out that door? OHH!!! You were seeing if there were any convenient forages along that path, weren't ya! Clever.
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47:15 "Mmm! I am NOT sorry for that soup. That was tasty" (I made a pot of soup that came out really good... yes I DO know that has nothing to do with the video. But I bet it made you smile. ;) )
48:36 WOW! That went by so fast I couldn't see what you did! (rewound a few frames... 3 spicy eels, and 15 coffee. NOICE find on the eel dish. One of my favorites in the game.
49:30 LOL there's that animation canceling you had mentioned! SmallAnt would call something like that, an XD skip, because it's all about the lulz (thus the XD as a laughing face) but doesn't save any time. I don't remember what GDQ calls the 'for-show' glitches... I remember the word 'showcase', but I don't think that's the right one for DURING a speedrun. 'Pro-Strat' maybe? Said ironically? I'unno...
SWAG!!! They always say, "For the swag!" or "Swag-Strat". I knew it would come to me eventually... totally... rolls eyes at self (( Edited after having watched the entire video, and re-reading my metric ton of comments on this thing. LOL ))
PS: Would it have been a benefit to go for those bubbles on the right at 50:15 for quicker fish bites? Or does that kind of time-save not really make a difference, when you are running this tight of a TAS?
54:50 Well 88k's a nice tidy sum. For this sort of game, that's about all you could ever need. lol ... Unless you're going for more tools.
58:20 That was interesting. You got Pam to rush twice, collected supplies, upgraded a barn, and STILL had a few moments to spare before she got to her post a few moments early there. Nicely done.
PS: close enough that I didn't want to use another timestamp... had to frame-show to see what you did at the desert merchant there. Bought a single stairwell. Okay, carry on.
59:42 There was a hole under the Health bar there. That would have dropped you several floors, instead of only one. The only reasons I can think that you wouldn't have wanted to use it are, can't manip it as easily, or just missed it in the process... which I can't imagine, since your TAS input even knows where ladders are before rocks are cracked.
PS: Heheh there's that hype pause from your channel-page. lol So THAT'S why you didn't hop the hole. Might have had to go more floors to find a serpent with the rabbit's foot, Would have taken longer. Makes sense.
1:03:15 Wait... why do you need to still do step-manip-ing in winter? It's not like you can get rain, or storms this time of year.
1:05:30 Oh good, you DID end up grabbing a couple of the rewards. As you may have recalled from one of my previous comments in the first half of these time stamps, it felt weird to just let the rewards expire like that. lol
1:10:40 I didn't think the animals liked the main doors left open at night, especially during cold weather. On a related note, would heaters have helped them be happier a little faster? Or is it another case of it not making enough of a difference for a TAS run, where things can just be RNG-magicked into place?
1:18:15 I couldn't for the life of me, remember whether you needed void eggs or void mayonnaise for the community center or not. I've been playing remixed bundles, and I can't remember the defaults anymore. lol Either way it was a nice break from the sleep spam. ;)
PS: Still trying to figure out why you are still occasionally step-manip-ing before bed, since you don't have any crops to worry about any more.
1:19:50 Well now; with that, you've had every night-time event except a crop fairy. Way to go. :)
1:25:55 Ah, there it is! And right on the cabbage too! :D I was wondering why you didn't go get the stuff, because that meant everything was full grown now based on its usual radius... But then I remembered you were working on a wine back at the Community Center. Have to wait for that anyways, might as well zip away the nights anyways.
1:27:10 Oh. We're done? here? Dang it, I thought you'd still have to go through the cut scene and we could see Pierce knock Morris to the moon. }:) Oh well... Still a REALLY fun run. Even without commentary.
WOW THAT WAS SO COOL TO SEE!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PUTTING THE TIME INTO THIS CRAZY THING!!! I hope this ridiculous set of word walls didn't bother you too much. ;) It enhanced MY enjoyment of the run, anyways. lol I'm on to your Joja% video. But I have a feeling I won't have quite as much to say on that one. You get good crops going, you farm them, you sell them, you make the town investments. I hope you keep doing these. They certainly have the capacity to bring joy to those who take the time to watch them. :)
woah this is an extreme amount of work. awesome! Love the dedication
i love how the subtitles interpret the sound of the sleep message being brought up as either applause or "hmm"
This was so interesting to watch, great job dude! Also i appreciate how you had to choose the joja shirt-
It’s pretty funny that the TAS can do literally anything miles faster than humans, yet it struggles to SLEEP
That's was a thing of beauty to witness!,,
Impressive, the first video I saw on your channel was the 18 egg route video, you have improved so much. I am excited for the commentated version on this.
I've seen quite a few tas but non for Stardew yet, it was very entertaining to see the way the character moved
When your mother is almost home but you haven’t done any chores:
This was an amazing watch! Very excited for more.
This was so entertaining and very interesting to watch from a human perspective, especially knowing that I completed community center in a very different way. The amount of dedication and research that it must of taken to make this is absolutely insane and I'm very happy to have stumbled upon this!
the reason i came here is because unserpassable z looked at a speedrun, so i looked up a tas stardew, and saw this, it is enjoyable to watch, and those frame holds for drops are very,very nice. i get 4 5 wild seeds on a large patch, were a tas can find 100% of the frames were a wild seed would drop, or 100% of the frames were sleeping would be best. i enjoy tas's. and would not be apposed to watching this be tas'ed again with the same or different conditions. keep up the 6 months = 1 hour work, i know tas's take forever to make.
Storm god of good fortune spends an entire year and a half between hibernation and expertly performed social engineering and farmwork to fix a house.
Absolutely fantastic. Congrats. I'd really love to see a ginger island volcano TAS even though it would probably be short
So satisfying to watch this TAS
can't wait for that script, man. :) i love speedruns and i love TASes even more!
checking back every day to see if script is here.....
it's fun to watch your menuing frame by frame. so cool, great run
I’d love to see more TAS work in Stardew. It’s really neat how much you really understand what makes this game tick to do what you did. The fishing slide is also a nice touch lol.
i gasped aloud when i got this notification! i haven't watched it through yet, but congratulations in advance 🤯✨💚
okay, just finished watching this, and thought of some questions i'd like you to address, either here or in the commentary:
1. why did you give robin a bday gift? for the little amounts of wood she gifts you in the mail, maybe?
2. when you're in the process of petting the animals, are their positions in the barn predetermined? or if not, how difficult was it to teach the program how to "find" them?
3. were the witch and fairy random events planned/desired? if not, what would it take to avoid them?
4. i know that missing bundle% is damn near identical to this category, except at the end--but if you ever did feel like running that category, how much would need to change? how much of what that bundle requires could you and the RNG control? (getting a dino egg and an ancient seed as fishing treasures, for example)
Since it’ll probably be a minute:
1) so Robin gifting was a thing I wanted to try once I decided to go for skull caverns since the early dino floor lined up with it, I think in total she sends me 800 wood in the mail (which is good cause money is super tight with only the 1 pumpkin harvest/no jars)
2) this Q makes me realize I should clarify, this isn’t a bot playing and “solving” every facet of the game, I do have automation for things like “animation cancel on first frame” and even “find/walk shortest path to tile loading zone” but otherwise I’m doing frame by frame advances manually, and this is just replaying that input stream. Animal positions in the barn get rerolled on the frame you enter, this is one of the areas I didn’t fret a ton with super optimizing for positions
3) the night events scan your farm and look for random placable tiles to trigger on, but they’re based on your game seed which I should’ve done more investigation on before starting. The witch/owl/capsule/2x meteors are all time loss, the fairy I could have avoided by changing up crop tiles but it saved me manipping rain/at that point I think it’s ridiculous that I could trigger every night event so I kept it
4) my first glance look at missing bundle doesn’t honestly look that horrible, even post CC I think it’d be fairly quick. I’d want to have saved the sturgeon for a fish pond, gotten extra gold for a seed maker to manip 5 ancient seeds, then it’s whether I should’ve tried for dino egg while I was in SC (I have no idea what the pepper rex drop was, too focused on the rabbit’s foot) or I’d just be sleeping for the correct artifact spot (need something to do while waiting on ancient fruit). Void salmon/quality wine are both kinda hard, I guess I'd race money for the house upgrades? 150k+150 hardwood would've been better to route in earlier/would've probably changed the math on just buying the deluxe coop
Great questions!
Finally, Stardew Valley has realistic coastal weather patterns
"An explosion as heard in the night" .....Fuck that shit, I'm going back to bed
I keep watching this once in a while because it's just so satisfying
I love the lore context behind this
A new farmer one day shows up, proceeds to decimate their grandpa's farmland, refuses to talk to anyone, and it begins to rain almost every day since their arrival. They then proceed to sleep for multiple days on end, yet somehow become the richest person in the valley, and then buy 200+ seeds from Pierre on a regular basis. They're seen every now and then, but it's very little moments just watching them fish or head to the mines. Then one day, the community center is just... Complete, and they're never heard from again.
Wow this TAS guy is really good!
me when i need to stretch out my arm while shuffling around the beach 49:27
im so looking forward to watching this
This is so satisfying to watch. I want you to do a complete 100% of the game if possible.
I'm gonna subscribe to you man! What a great use of TAS!
1:12:22 we call this one the ol "clip n' dip"
Really cool! IDK how much you are gonna be optimizing this tas, but I believe the cat is a few frames faster than the dog! or maybe that’s an old update lol
I know, I timed it years ago for the speedrunning community but eh, I wanted the dog lol (it’s like 3 seconds+ slower, but let’s call it rng manip)
I'm not sure how it would fit in as a category but I'd be interested in seeing something like a Ginger Island All Golden Walnuts tas, but starting the tas from the day you'd go there the first time, maybe from a different CC-completed file. It'd be neat to see the island in isolation without having to worry about setting up the entire run beforehand. Good work on this tas by the way, it is super satisfying!
so that I find kinda interesting, basically start a file at Spring 1 Y1 with the CC finished but nothing else. Time is to All Walnuts (requires unlocking the island from Willy)... 🤔
I watched this video pausing and going frame by frame so much that it took me around two hours to get to the end
reading the FAQ and description, this is art. i am not joking, this is a labor of love and dedication. i can't even begin to comprehend the work this must have taken. this should be in a museum or something
Just found this and I have to say this is very impressive (even for a TAS), I just want to know how the actual hell you were able to seemingly manipulate the RNG to be so heavily in your favor (especially the mixed seeds at the beginning like WTF) but it was an amazing run! Can’t wait for you to finish the script on this and add commentary so I can actually understand what’s happening and how lmao
Step Manipulation
During the loading screen between two days is when most RNG elements are calculated, and one of those factors is number of steps the player has taken. By taking a precise number of steps, you can manipulate the RNG in your favor.
My guess is that you’re not entirely aware of what a tas is? Tas is entirely run by the computer and the rng was manipulated to be perfect for the route which is allowed because it’s a technically a possible sequence of events in the game
@@Phys1nkI think they were more wondering how the RNG manipulation works than what a tas is
This is sooo satisfying to watch
Nice job on the TAS! ^^
This is insane! Can’t wait for the commentary version.
23:20
me: he’s past lv 50 i wonder what time it is
time: 10:30am
bro is a wizard with the TAS routing, im not sure how it all works but it’s crazy
49:50 cha cha real smooth
Wow, this is super fascinating
Really looking forward to the commentary/script for this, since I already have a lot of questions concerning the routing, which will almost certainly be answered ^^
This game seems incredibly daunting to route for a TAS, let alone actually create the TAS AND the TAS tools, this is incredibly impressive
9:57 i had to back up to rewatch how fast that redecorating was
Subscribed :D can't wait for the narrated version ^^ amazing run !
50:15 Man that pier sure gets slippery in the rain.
On a scale of 1 to 10, one being normal playing with rewinds and ten being every moment goes as you want, how optimized is this run? I love TASes and considering how mind numbing extensive RNG manip and seed stuff can be, it would be interesting to see the absolute optimized RNG and how fast that could be. This run is still fascinating, and I appreciate you posting it and answering some questions before the commentary stream
Amazing TAS! Both the routing and the execution must've been painstaikingly precise. And some mechanics, like enemy swarm on a clock tick or smelting bars in the mines, are gonna be useful for casual play as well!
1. Is the fish variety manipulated in any way, seeing how you never get trash and such?
2. Isn't going in and out of bed faster than running in place?
1) yup, when possible I try to manip the actual nibble timing (how long after the bobber hits the water to the ping) and then it selects what fish/trash on the frame you release the click.
2) I don’t think it matters? I guess I need to look into how steps are triggered again but I thought it just was based on the animation state progressing which still happens when running against a wall. Turn around frames I think undo your state so you’d need to walk full cycles and then lose a frame or two on each turnaround. Worth me re-exploring though
This is so cool. I love it! Thanks for making it become true :)
If a speedrunner could pull half the bullsh1t off done in this TAS I think that would be terrifying, the RNG manipulation is insanity, getting wild seeds out of every grass cut, and getting straight potatoes with every seed planted, it's like that 1:32 TAS of minecraft I saw a while back, this is insane and I love it
Love a good TAS. this is great
I came here from the TAS subreddit and thought, "I'll watch the first few minutes just to see how insane the movement looks."
And yet here I am an hour and a half later. 😅
Very fun run to watch. Well done!
Oh, and our of curiosity, how does that fishing slide thing work? If it's a human possible glitch could fun to screw with my friends in multiplayer.
Thanks! Just need to animation cancel when the cast bar is up (sometimes it’ll glitch and give a horrible noise that won’t stop so be warned lol). Animation canceling is RShift+R+Delete (most rebind for it)
@@Underscore76 also out of curiosity, what is the point of this glitch in this run? And why do you go back and forth so much on the beach, its really interesting
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watching a computer craft a scare crow faster than your eye can blink is terrifying
i lost it whenthe pig instantly vanished after finshing the truffle
> walks up to pam
> selects axe
if you don’t mind me asking, why do you do the thing where you walk upwards in your bed before you actually sleep?
Lots of rng is dependent on the player’s step count (rain, gifts, luck, etc), so I’m taking steps to manip certain outcomes. It varies on the day what I’m looking for, though rain is the biggest need for the first year
the way the player convulses during fishing is so funny to me
Okay just from the character creation screen I can tell this is some crazy shit
perfection speedrun next?? half joking 🙃
I can barely grasp how miserable this would be to route a TAS for lol but it would be cool to see
This is a TAS, also known as a Tool Assisted Speedrun. Basically, you run a special second piece of software that lets you rewind and retry stuff as many times as you want, or run it in slow motion so you can do things as fast as the game can physically process them. This is useful because it can prove that certain tricks and glitches are possible before speedrunners who are people can figure out how to do them reliably, and helps to see if those glitches save enough time to be worth using.
You can look up TASes for other games, too - Pokemon runs are often similarly good at RNG manipulation (controlling "luck"), and Undertale has some pretty cool glitches and stuff
(this is pin bait lol)
It’s good pin bait lol but I feel like I should do a rain/couple other rng manip comments at the same time
50 seconds in and i have whiplash from the sheer speed of that initial planting