That would explain certain aspects of your all bundles run! :D

Where is info like that about the crows to be found? Seeing as how that's not on the wiki? Not that I'm disputing it fwiw, just curious

I just ran a very quick test that tells me it takes about 25 seconds longer to run to Pierre's for the backpack (fits in nicely with your estimates, doesn't it?).

25 seconds that mean you can craft 11 stairs at a time (I would keep the pickaxe on the bar for unfortunate rock spawns). The alternative is opening the menu and crafting one stair for the first 20 floors. Then opening the menu and crafting two stairs for the next 10 and so on. I doubt it takes less than a second to do one craft, so even at level 30 you'd have saved time. And you remove the run breaking RNG of being trapped next to the entry by a stray rock.

Yes, but where are you then going to put all the stairs? Drop a stack for one stair until you've freed up one inventory space would likely take longer than just buying the backpack (which really shouldn't take more than an extra few seconds over running straight to the mines). Buying the backpack allows you to have a lot of empty spaces so you can make a lot of stairs at once and move down a lot quicker

Yeah, I'll admit I hadn't worked level 2 mining into that, but I'm fairly sure you could get it done on the farm waiting for the event to start. As for the energy for doing that mining, the 15 parsnips you get at the start provide 375 energy provided they are all regular quality and none are eaten by crows. All it takes is a few rainy days or watering them manually probably once at most.

So revised route:

1. plant/water parsnips
2. Sleep through spring, making sure you get the required rainy days or water as needed
3. Sleep through to halloween festival, use day to get level 2 mining
4. glitch pumpkin
5. BOOOOM MONEY!
6. Buy backpack
7. Buy a build-by-numbers mountain from Robin
8. Go to mines, craft stairs
9. Create an actual slide down to level 120
10. Claim all the glory

Missing anything now? :D

Having submitted a run for level 50 in the mines, I started thinking of doing 120. That's mostly because there is no run for that category so it could be fun to be the first one to do it.

However I'm now wondering if it's utterly pointless. The method I'd use is so boring it borders on idiotic.

1. Sleep until halloween event.
2. Spend day of event doing whatever around the farm, just get enough stuff to fill up inventory in whatever way.
3. Do the amazingly fun golden pumpkin glitch/trick at the event.
4. GET ALL THE MONIES
5. Day after, grab a couple of backpack upgrades at Pierre's, then run to Robin and buy approximately 12 stacks of stone
6. Go to mines
7. Just start crafting endless amounts of stairs
8. Fly down to level 120 without actually doing anything in the mines
9. Set world's most boring record

Anyone have ideas that would be quicker? Because I sure can't think of any

I noticed that late last night, I had just been looking down the main menu of the forums. Not overly intuitive but I got there in the end ;) Thanks for the heads up anyway

August 5th-7th according to the post on r/speedrun

Sorry if this doesn't belong here, I can't find a forum specifically for Stardew Valley.

Long story not short: Been a fan of GDQ marathons for a couple of years but never really thought I could do speedrunning myself. However somehow I got the idiotic idea to try my hand at streaming and running Stardew Valley, that bastion of Speedrunning with rich history and contested records everywhere.

I decided to go for the ultra-prestigious mines level 50 category to start with. On my first stream I beat the world record by a minute and a half! But then disaster struck! Somehow I hadn't saved the setting for twitch to archive my streams. I thought I had, so I hadn't set OBS to locally record my streams as I thought it would be redundant. Well, lessons learned!

RNG is an incredibly annoying factor in this category so I barely managed to register a completion since then. Today I decided to change the strat up a bit. I didn't stream as I was just intending to mess around and take some benchmarks but I recorded the runs anyway, just in case. On run number two, the stars aligned. The strat worked and RNGesus was heavily on my side which lead to me smashing the world record by around three and a half minutes! Really wish I'd been recording my streaming set up as I just about broke stuff in my excitement!

I've submitted the run and now the wait for a mod to show up and review it begins. In the meantime, you can enjoy this incredibly exciting run of this extremely interesting category. (And if you haven't figured already, this category is probably not very fun for anyone to watch, but do it anyway)

I have no idea if there's any sort of embedding options here? Edit: never mind, auto-embedding ftw!

After watching a few GDQ events, I've decided to get in on the fun myself! Being unemployed for the time being I have the time on my hands to do something fun so why not this?

33 years old from a small rock in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, been gaming for most of my life.

To begin with I'm going to be focusing on the bastion of speedrunning, Stardew Valley! Already did a stream today where I beat the record for level 50 in the mines by a minute and a half, only to find that my settings on twitch hadn't saved so the VOD wasn't archived and I've got no footage! Brutal :(