"1 year without leaving the farm house." Come on Kevin, I watch your videos to escape reality.

The way Kevin is playing, I wouldn't be surprised if he decides to schedule the one day he goes into town on a holiday.

this inspired me to start my "3 months straight of playing stardew" phase once again

seeing Kevin pass each day without watering or petting the cat makes me *so* sad and stressed for the orange clump of pixels.

I love that his entire future plan is for the community center, something that he needs two days to unlock not including the bundles he needs to do.

"I played 1 year of Stardrew Valley without leaving farm" I think this a challenge that all NPC must love

I cannot explain how much I was just staring at the weeds and just being like "but...all the potential seeds! D: "

He gave up on getting mixed seeds from the bushes so fast

I didn't expect a follow up on this! this is fun. It makes me wanna try it myself. Not scything all the fibers in summer/autumn seems like a loss to me because you would've gotten a lot of seeds from it to plant in the beginning of the next season. Also keeping the forageables for the community center and using the extras to make wild seeds. But I do think trying this out on a map with a mines section would be easier. However, the crates and other stuff that wash up on the beach are also useful.

It's funny that the point of this game is to learn to survive and Kevin is just chopping down tress and destroying nature and selling burgers on ebay

In this video, we wait in horror for the other shoe to drop when he heads to the community center for the first time and learns several terrible things about the crystalarium 1) the vault is the last set of bundles you unlock, so you have to complete like three bundles before you have the option to buy the crystalarium 2) you can't complete any bundles on your first trip because you can't read Junimo 3) you learn how to read junimo by WAITING ANOTHER DAY so you can trip out on forest juice with the local wizard Kevin's right about one thing. Summary: fecked.

I'm just here wondering why he didn't continued scything the grass and the fiber for seeds on summer and autumn. Also, probably the four corners farm would be a good farm to do this challenge

"I come back every 3 days" Kevin, the mushrooms grow back every day.

I think the motto of this playthrough is "I've just googled it - I'm fecked"

I have 2 tips: you can sell the minerals to Clint when you get them out of the geodes. Any hoe-able ground has a chance to give you winter roots and snow yams in winter

He could have gotten so many more mixed seeds from those weeds it was devastating

The whole “leaving home only once a year” rule actually lines up with what Linus does. Outside of events, there’s only one day a year he actually passes through town.

So excited for this! I love this series AND we get a half hour of Kevin!

The fact that you never left the farm and it was still so messy stressed me out more then I thought it would lol

I watched this with my mother who loves Stardew and has 4k hours in the game with her best friend. She mentioned a few things that you should look out for in the future: - the bottom left part of the farm that has dirt is the best for planting crops and using sprinklers, but if you prefer to have them up by your house so you can skip through days and check them quickly that is fine - make wild seeds!! If you get enough of the seasonal forage to make seasonal wild seeds, you can either sell the seeds for a price that is greater than the combined price of the 4 forage that you use to make it. You can also plant them to get MORE forage and make more wild seeds to sell or replant. She and her friend always make and sell wild seeds (because they have better things to do than actually plant and cultivate those seeds in their games) - there were more things she mentioned, but either you brought it up later in the video or I forgot them since we watched the other day.

Poor Kevin, forgetting that it takes more than one day to unlock the community center and a few completed bundles before you can do the money bundles.

I feel so bad hearing Kevin talk about the duplicator while knowing he wont be able to get that in just one day of leaving the farm

Kevin spending an entire year selling sap and not noticing he wasn't getting any money for it is extremely funny but also stressful

"One tree give's you loads of stone but obviously one stone give's you one stone" I think the Madness set in before the island

Every time he mentions "buying" the duplicator I was like "Huh, I didn't know Pierre sold that". Then he mentions it being a BUNDLE and I'm like... Kevin honey... You can't unlock the Vault.....

Just so you know, anything you get out of the geodes you can sell immediately to Clint, and be sure to get rid of any of the wood logs, small tree stumps and weeds, as they’ll prevent other things from growing and spawning Hope to see another stardew video!

Seeing him sell those acorns was heartbreaking. He could have given them to the moose community.

As someone who's been watching Kevin for a couple years now...seeing the lad on Trending multiple times just absolutely astounds me. Congrats on the continued success, you absolute unit.

Recently, Kevin has been going back to a bunch of games he’s made a video on before, and it’s been fecking hilarious

Watching that poor cat every day sit by it's water bowl praying for the rain longing for but a sip

After some thought, I've decided to try a modified version of this challenge. I'm allowed to leave the farm once per season, but for an added challenge I'm not allowed to use the shipping box - all money needs to be earned by selling to shops or completing quests during my one day of freedom per season. The main aim is to complete the community centre by the end of year 2, which I've calculated is possible with strategic use of those 8 days of freedom. I'll be playing on the beach farm (for the foraging, ocean fish and supply crates), with enemies spawning at night so I can get mixed seeds from wilderness golems and get the loot needed for the adventurer's bundle without eating into my time off the farm. The secondary aim is to get 4 candles in grandpa's evaluation, which I think is only going to be possible if I pull off completing the community centre and can also reach the bottom of the mines (with staircases, because I doubt I'll have time for any other method!).

Kevin, you wholesome Irish lad that we all adore…it physically pained me to see you walk past all the forge items on your first day in town, as well as not sell the petrified slimes to Clint. To be fair I’ve forgotten before that you could even sell the stuff you get from geodes to Clint, but ignoring the forge was still painful. We live and we learn, I guess. Still absolutely love this series though, keep up the good work and try not to go completely insane.

How is it in every “stay in one spot” playthrough , Kevin always ends up just cutting down and planting trees?

This is fun! I'm actually curious how much it would change with the four corners farm since that one has a little of everything including the little mining section. Also, whenever you have extra energy try hoeing the ground. That will give you clay/ coal/ artifacts and sometimes ore. Then pickaxe the ground to unhoe it so you still have a chance for stuff to spawn in that spot.

Remember when Kevin thought you could just waltz into town and buy a machine that let you duplicate anything

That fairy that appeared had a 1% chance of spawning Good job getting it

Hello There, just like Kevin’s character, I too am a hermit who rarely leaves his house

kevin should start a new world where he dates everyone in the town, that seems up his alley and loves to see his reaction with everyone ganging up on him

I've played a lot of Stardew Valley and watched several others play but this is by far the most entertaining and intriguing playstyle by far. I'm inclined to give it a go myself sometime

I feel like Hermit is the kind of person who goes around town at night looking for something valuable in trash cans. Please add that to the list of things you can do, Kevo.

I love how he says he wants a VAULT bundle reward, but in order to unlock them you need to complete 4 other bundles.

This was fun to watch! Even though it hurt every fiber of my being to watch the gameplay, I'm excited to see how year two goes. Also, I wonder if selling your soul to Joja would make a hermit type run work better. I've not done one yet, but I'm under the impression you buy the things you would normally get via the CC bundles.

I have lowkey thought about doing this: Not leaving the farm, only interacting with people who come to drop stuff off or kind like tutorial missions, using the foragables and just seeing where the game takes me

Him trying to “sell” to Gunther makes me want to cry, he could have sold all those valuable gems to Clint. Also he could have gotten so much money from getting all those seeds from the weeds and growing them, especially the two-season crops

Alternate Title: "Living like Linus in Stardew Valley."

Ah, so much fun seeing someone go crazy :) Looks fun. Maybe i´ll try a light version. A character with social anxiety, only leaving the farm once per week, and only allowed to speak to two or three people when out. That way maybe one can actually get through the game.

I love your older Stardew series, but the idea of only leaving the farm once a year brings so much chaos that I can't stop watching!

"Playing Minecraft but I cannot leave my one chunk" "Playing Stardew Valley but I cannot leave my farm" Is there a pattern here? A hidden message?

"tell me if you want to see more of this" he says, as if he thinks we can't possibly want more Stardew content 😑

a seed maker would be incredibly useful in this type of playthrough but you cant craft it until farming level 9

Kevin is the best KZfaqr to watch post surgery. I’m not even in pain anymore.

I love that this way of playing Stardew is absolutely not how the game was intended to be played, but it's still so much fun to watch

Kevin: Realizes his inventory would fill up with Geode goodies Also Kevin: Knows he can sell to Piere Also Kevin: Doesn’t realize you can sell ores and treasures directly to Clint

I've decided to do a hermit run as well, I swapped it so that you can leave the farm after three seasons of time so on the first yeah I left one the first day of winter, and the second year it will be the first day of fall that way it rotates through all of the seasons ☺

Assuming you plan on doing another year, you could get the upgrade right at the end of the year, and then go on the second day of the next year. It would technically fulfill your once a year requirement, and doesn't really extend the period which you have to stay on the farm more than a couple of days. It's not an ideal solution, but it's the best one I can think of.

You should clear out all the regular grass so that there is more space for items and foreging things to spawn

The editing on Kevin’s shopping list was honestly really good! So satisfying to watch him tick off stuff and hurt extra hard when he couldn’t get the duplicator. Good job on that!

very kind of you to make such a beautiful tree murdering montage. they deserve it

Fun fact, the grass you can scythe for hay blocks item spawns. So all that grass that he can run through is lowering his chances of getting new stuff like tree seeds planting in the ground or weeds that can be cut down into wild seeds.

A thousand people have probably already said this, but remember that sprinklers don’t work on most of the beach farm!

Kevin heads up. If you want to make the donation for the crystalarium then you'll have to unlock the vault all in one day. Be prepared to complete at least 5 small bundles (not the full room just the bundles)

Every lightning strike is grandpa looking down on you being very disappointed in you for being a hermit

Please do a year 2! High key watched this video twice

I think you can use a hoe in snow to get yams or something. They're decently valuable and you could probably get quite a few in a day.

That was the quickest half an hour of my life. Love these! 😁

I’d love to see year 2! Just some useful tips, in the settings you can turn on a hit box to see where your tools are gonna land when you click, and when chopping wood just hold down you don’t need to click each time

Really love this video! Actually my first time actually looking at this game and totally convinced me to try playing it myself. I've played so much I almost got through the first year in 4 days.

You should try to get coffee beans, the crop is the seed, they last through more than one season and you get multiple harvests.

His lack of cutting the weeds for mixed seeds is triggering me.

The tree cutting montage was incredible!

This was both painful and entertaining to watch, and it makes me want to attempt the challenge myself. Clay farming (and in winter digging for extra forageables) would be another way you could make money without leaving the farm in year 1, and of course actually scything the weeds to get the mixed seeds (although I think they're more likely to spawn next to other weeds, so the best strategy probably is to leave some to begin with in order to produce more for later seasons).

If you do complete year two, in the winter, plowing in the dirt gives you snow yams. So if you're short on trees, you can just hoe the dirt incessantly and find snow yams.

kevin tree saplings need at least one empty space in every single direction (8 spaces around it), otherwise some of them (if they're next to each other like yours were) won't grow into big trees!

This is such an amazing series and I can't wait to see more!

in my head, hermit is just running around the town, just screaming at everyone

Yasss!!! More Hermit! I love this! xD He's so relatable, with all the not going out of his property, not contacting anyone, sleeping for several days in a row, working hard and feeling like the amount of money I earn does not reflect the amount of effort I put into my projects...

Just heard Kevin say "hey there friends how's it going" and I know the video is going to be great as always love your work Kevin

I hope you continue this series!! I really liked it

This was very cool. Enjoyed watching. Never seen your videos before, you popped up on my recommendation feed. I’m going to subscribe 😊

Other ways to make money other than chopping wood: farming for clay (3 seasons) and snow yams in winter. Just hoe the ground looking for them

I love Kevin's stardew playthrough from a couple years ago! it got me into stardew

Clint: too lazy to mine ores? Hermit: no I have social anxiety… Clint: bish who you gonna socialize with, the rocks? 😂😂

Oh man I love this. I’m so glad he finally returned to Stardew Valley. You for sure have to do part two Kevin!

I love Hermit's hostility to people, saying "leave me alone!" every time he gets invitations, staying on the farm at all costs... This is the content I'm here for!

I was completely expecting a year long video of Kevin playing nonstop. Completely expected of Kevin as well.

This is such a fun (to watch) challenge, gotta love the duplicator falling through!

Please continue with these weird challenge videos! I love how cursed they are and it's fun to see someone playing the game in an unusual way!

Kevin, you should let Hermit leave once a season. He deserves it.

I've noticed you've been clicking while cutting the trees. As far as I know, you can hold your mouse button to do the same job. Unless you enjoy the clicking, in which case - keep on making you happy, Kevin.

Normally when I play this game I buy as many season-long crops as possible and go from there. I'll get the corns and the grapes and the hoppes and hoard the produce for one big sell-off at the end of the month. Get some wealth, invest in sprinklers, then get social in town and traverse the mines. Seeing someone do an entire year at a time on just the farm is an interesting new perspective. Thank you for being so wholesome yet so absurd in your videos Kevin. It really brightens up my day.

I have a save pretty similar to this actually, I call it my Krobus save. I have a very hard time not talking to the villagers everyday so for this save I literally never talk to any villagers. I only know three people. Right now my main goal is to unlock the sewers but I basically just mine all day, and clear off my farm and break open geodes on Sunday

Introducing “Hermit”! Also known as “the reason Pelican town has a severe issue with deforestation”

I'd like to see him try to speedrun dating everyone in town at once

I'm so happy to see you play SDV, I started playing this game due to your previous videos on it years ago! This is a funny challenge and honestly.... wanna try!

This brought me back to your channel. Good stuff, love it!

I'm so excited for another episode of this. Last episode was really fun and I am so happy that you're not done with it yet

when I play stardew valley, the winter is my most profitable season(farming vise) because you can have foraging on a high enough lvl to make winter seeds out of the foraged goods, which turns in a lot of mones

This was so fun to watch. I’d love to see a part 2!

More please I love this! Plus longer videos even though it felt so short cuz I was enjoying it so much!

Love how Kevin just glosses over the fact that he has the Owl Statue, which has less than 1/100 of a chance of spawning 😂