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

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 :)

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.

My mans a harbinger of calamity

cuz he walks in his bed every morning

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

=chaos

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

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

actually, he waits for more than 30 seconds at 1:00:10 to get the rabbit's foot

Can’t forget the walk in place for 30 seconds

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

@@kitkatisyummy6119 Sebastian's probably pretty happy, and probably getting more time outside than anyone else. lol

For the past season and a half!

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

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.

Wdym? This is how you're supposed to play

@@reinerzufall1292☠️ 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.

@@reinerzufall1292 ah ok

When you forget to record

From what I've seen, it's also very easy to understand compared to other games!

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

That little fucker took me 3 in game days to catch bc I was too stubborn to get the iridium rod

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.

exactly what i’m thinking

Thanks Prim ❤️

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

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!

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

(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. :)

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

checking back every day to see if script is here.....

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)

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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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 can barely grasp how miserable this would be to route a TAS for lol but it would be cool to see

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(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

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

WAIT A SEC, IS TAS LIKE A "Task Assist System" or something like that????

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