Speedrunner Olenoname has completed Stardew Valley in just 17 minutes.
Playing the game as part of this year’s Awesome Games Done Quick charity marathon, Olenoname warned viewers that “this run’s gonna move pretty fast and it’s gonna get started really quickly” – and they weren’t wrong.
As spotted by PC Gamer, instead of starting out as carefully as we would, they deleted all their tools – which saw items magically pop up in their inventory – and then threw mega bombs all over the place to chop down those trees and spawn a sneaky fast travel trip. 17 minutes later, they’d finished the game.
As you might well expect, this isn’t a normal playthrough, though. A clever exploit kicked off by naming the character “a very, very long list of item codes” sees you trick the NPCs into gifting things earlier than they should, such as those handy bombs.