"Between the game's seasonal crops, time-locked fish, and pressure to keep up relationships with townspeople, most Stardew Valley players wouldn't think of wasting a single in-game day by going to sleep early. Squeezing every possible hour of productivity out of the workday might just be the difference between completing the game's Community Center and having to wait another in-game year to finish the challenge."
"Holozard apparently accomplished the absurd task by running their Switch for three weeks straight. The process involved wrapping a hair tie around the joystick to get their farmer to walk toward their bed automatically and using a controller's turbo function to hit the rest button. Their screenshots show off the most abandoned farm I've ever seen. Predictably, it's absolutely overgrown and covered in rocks, grass, and trees. But it's also covered in some pretty neat spawns that most players have never seen."
Most Stardew Valley players maximize each in-game day because seasonal crops, time-locked fish, and relationship events create pressure to remain productive. One player left the game running and slept through 1,000 in-game years by rigging a controller: wrapping a hair tie to hold the farmer walking toward the bed and using turbo on the rest button while the Switch ran for three weeks. The unattended farm became wildly overgrown with rocks, grass, and trees, and accumulated rare overnight event spawns. Repeated nightly sleeps turned extremely rare occurrences into common ones, producing meteorites, mushroom trees, stone owls, and other uncommon items.
Read at Kotaku
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