Stardew Valley gamers have theorized for years that harvesting crops from left to proper is quicker than harvesting them from proper to left. Not massively sooner, hardly even noticeable, however simply ever so barely faster. For non-Stardewers it is the type of factor that sounds slightly bizarre and even ridiculous—not fairly up there with pretend moon landings and “Elvis is alive” conspiracy theories, however of an analogous nature. Left-to-right, right-to-left—come on, be severe right here!
Besides on this case, properly, it seems that the temporally-sensitive farmers have been right: Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone confirmed at the moment that there’s actually a bug that brought about left-to-right harvesting to be sooner than right-to-left harvesting, and it may be fastened within the huge 1.6 replace popping out subsequent week.
Now, this is not solely new or unknown, a minimum of amongst some deeply dedicated members of the Stardew Valley neighborhood. Three years in the past, as an illustration, redditor Snow-Infernus carried out an experiment that delivered clear-cut outcomes:
🚜 Seven-row harvesting, left-to-right: 11.11 seconds🚜 Seven-row harvesting, right-to-left: 13.11 seconds
Tip: Harvesting crops is quicker transferring left to proper, vs proper to left. from r/StardewValley
“I found this whereas taking part in on Change on the most recent 1.5 construct. Harvesting 3 rows of seven columns leads to precisely 2 seconds distinction,” they defined. “|No boosts or standing results utilized. I’ve discovered that with bigger plots it is truly sooner to stroll again to the left facet and transfer from left to proper once more, relatively than harvest again from proper to left.”
Barone later confirmed the precise nature of the bug—”The left dealing with harvest animation was 100ms longer than it ought to’ve been”—and that so far as he is aware of, the bug has been there since Stardew launched in 2016.
What meaning, people, is {that a} really staggering period of time has been misplaced: Like a drop of water within the ocean, 100ms might not appear to be a lot by itself however once you extrapolate it throughout the whole Stardew participant base, it provides up in a rush.
There are too many variables in area measurement and crop sort to essentially nail it down, so let’s take a look at it this manner: If Snow-Infernus’ experiment was replicated simply as soon as in every of Stardew Valley’s 30 million copies offered, that might complete 60 million seconds of misplaced time. That interprets in flip to 1 million minutes, 16,667 hours, 694 days, or practically two years. Two years! All since you have been dealing with the fallacious approach when it was time to select the potato bushes.
Ah properly, higher late than by no means—and to be clear, Barone confirmed that the repair will pace up the right-to-left motion, not decelerate the left-to-right. Effectivity!
The Stardew Valley 1.6 replace is about to go reside on March 19, and in case you have been nervous about it, Barone confirmed final week that regardless of its measurement, it is not going to wipe your progress: “All of your save information can be totally intact.”