The Stardew Speedrun That Can Never Be Beaten

6 months ago, a Stardew Valley speedrunner performed the most INSANE speedrun to ever exist, so today I'm here to unpack that legendary tale.
Shoutout to Sweet Chikorita for letting me use his run:
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[@SeanieDew]

yeah this record got beaten LOL. here's my update video on it! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmPFYa2Qgbupis0

[@ImaDalandan]

Only 1 month to be beaten lol

[@lucutes2936]

Gay challenge

[@placeholderdoe]

Lol

[@tayyz1990]

NOOOO..... What the heck !!

[@thatcommenter9111]

Where is this video?

[@sweetchik460]

My mentality for going for LH was, "The run will get to this point sometime. Someone will eventually try this. Why not be that someone and make everyone else grind for LH? XD" But yeah, this run is "easily" beaten with a LH and urchin same day. You just have to grind for it XD

[@SeanieDew]

AND I WILL BE THAT GUY

[@The_Duck_Editor]

Dude

[@pbtwentythree]

It's basically the Stardew equivalent of shiny hunting.

[@user-yn1oi6iv1f]

@@SeanieDew You need at least 2 days, or shop will not be opened.

[@Spaghatt]

@@pbtwentythree shiny are 1/4000 tho 🥲

[@Binary-]

Speedruns and their intricacies are so fascinating to me. Thanks for the informative vid!

[@aquaplush7531]

Agreed, it’s crazy to see what people can do with games to do them faster!

[@breytonpabst1009]

Tbh if someone wanted it hard enough they could beat this. Granted you got 60 weeds per attempt and it took 2 minutes per reset, it would take 55 hours on average to get a living hat. All you need from there is slight movement optimization after not seeing a urchin on day 10 or getting one day 10 and then you have the unbeatable run. Mad props to Chikorita to for attempting this run tbh.

[@sweetchik460]

Just crazy enough to try and get lucky in a few resets XD I probably spent more time doing Egg Festival runs than LH resets. (I've since tried to get another LH but no luck in 200ish resets.)

[@MINIMAN10000]

Honestly 55 hours is not a lot of time compared to the absolute bonkers amounts of time that speedrunners put into things. The things they do to compete is absurd.

[@dimwarlock]

I got that hat once and I abandoned it because of full inventory... I never knew it was this rare, I even forgot about it.

[@ViperOG]

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnn……

[@Chub_Froggy]

Ouuuuch that hurts man

[@_inky_]

Bro even if u had to sacrifice a prismatic shard u shouldve done it for the hat😣

[@Waffleh7454]

Because of his setback of not having an urchin and not realizing he had the hat someone can theoretically optimize this

[@arkhanok6329]

He got so lucky that even a stone owl spawned on his farm 10:58

[@Dr.CyrusOnTheTube]

Oooor he Just modified the odds 🤔

[@davieclark5548]

stone owls are super common now :)

[@chadikhr7258]

@@Dr.CyrusOnTheTube you suggesting that he pulled a dream on us?

[@dandydwi6_6]

​@@Dr.CyrusOnTheTubeand he make sure the sea urcin doesnt spawn earlier?

[@alsanishat8520]

I have gotten the living hat on the first day of a playthrough and didn't even know it was a hat despite having played sdv for a year up till then. One of my favourite hats tbh very underrated

[@kyonamugench.]

that was me when i first started playing stardew- i thought it was just grass, i was wondering why it wont stack with the others ;w; (found out it was a hat after hovering over and was like OH)

[@marsamelic]

of course you did the summoning salt intro, but seriously great video! thank you for making it easy to follow for someone like me that barely knows about stardew

[@SeanieDew]

you're the best Mars

[@Rikrobat]

So jealous of Chikorita getting the hat that early, haha. But seriously, mad props to his dedication to getting this run solidified!

[@BAVy11037]

Sean emphasises that it was just after 50 fiber and that it's so lucky to get it this early But like What about all of the other runs they did lol

[@Rikrobat]

@@BAVy11037 - Hence the second half of my comment commending Chikorita’s dedication to getting this run to happen.

[@pinkskiessss]

i see you on rinqueens videos 0: ( and so much more stardew youtubers’ lol)

[@Rikrobat]

@@pinkskiessss - haha, yay, I’m noticeable! Nah, Stardew is a comfort series, so I try to comment when I can think of something to say. 🥰

[@deebee0225]

Imagine how many worlds he had to make to get that hat

[@aquaplush7531]

1:44 “Tide pods on the beach” lol

[@superbellgamer6947]

Haha

[@aliciagreen5411]

I love Sean's creative use of words lol

[@pmknieps]

Wouldn't the Garbage Hat be a viabel route? The chances are much better with 0.2% per trash can, after opening 20.

[@kill4karma]

There's only 8 cans so, best case scenario, it would take at least 3 days of going to every can, then going all the way home to sleep. I'm not sure if the walking time would be worth it but if it is, you'd still have to be really lucky to get it on day 3. Probably possible but not as optimal as the living hat route cause the cans are so far away

[@SeanieDew]

no, even if you got it on the 20th can it would be much much much longer than the straw hat route

[@sanddr.]

@@SeanieDew what if you replay the run until you get it on the first one

[@MazerTime]

@@kill4karma you cant open cans in the festival either so you gotta goo to town 4 times. Definetly slower

[@MazerTime]

@@sanddr. it cant spawn before you opened 20 cans, so it could technically spawn the earliest on the 21st can (or maybe 20 is counted before its calculated, so maybe 20 is possible, but that still very slow)

[@TheHaboo]

give me a week

[@kennalikespizza4515]

My favorite part is this run is how incredibly calm he sounds throughout the entirety of it. I really like these kind of documentary-esqe videos though!

[@sheerechoes]

'The sea urchin can only be obtain on the tide pods of the beach' Never change, Seanie, never change

[@chichill0h]

Great video. Just had to run back to my longest played file to check if I ever found this hat without noticing how rare it was. And sure enough, forgotten in a dresser next to my bed: there it is.

[@tazdingo1515]

You killed that summoning salt intro, good job

[@talia2572]

Piano saw this video and said "Hold my hat - I got this!" ;)

[@viljokanniainen3090]

With 40 attempts breaking 55 fiber each time there is a 2,2% chance that one would get the hat, so not exactly that rare

[@darkflame5917]

I started playing Stardew less than a week ago and I already have the hat. I didn't realise it was so rare. This is insane to me. I also got 2 dinosaur eggs from fishing in one day (fall year 1) but donated one and sold another not realising how useful they are. 🙃

[@1996Lukson]

I have rickrolled on my first playthrough of stardew valley too. When I got the ancient seed and I went to gunther for a ancient seed pack, I planted it on the ground on 6th day or so, because I thought that all seasons lasts around 30 days, not 28, so ancient seed died on the 1st day of fall xd

[@ihavenoidea2805]

@@1996Lukson do you mean winter? ancient seeds don't die in fall

[@schaffs2]

I remember finding a Living Hat randomly and didn't know how rare it was, I wore it around for a while bc I thought it was funny and much later I found out about how rare it actually was and I was just like "oh cool" the Living Hat is like Pokemon shiny hunting but worse lol

[@ghostsquee6328]

This run was actually insane lmaooo as always Ur narrations are amazing 😩💕💕

[@SwankiestPants]

I don't play much stardew, haven't touched it in years actually, but as someone who plays lots of games with lots of rng drops 1/100k doesn't seem that bad tbh, I've gotten multiple drops in other games that are 1/15 million or higher and that's without actually aiming for them, tho I suppose the act of actually pursuing a drop that rare vs randomly getting blessed with the drop are 2 very different things as even farming for drops with a 1/400 chance is tedious at best

[@animeloveer97]

Agreed lmao

[@damien678]

JFC dude buy a lotto ticket 😂

[@hitheresamhere]

Seanie Dew: No one will beat this ever Piano: Hold my beer

[@ilikemarkersandstuff]

I can't wait to watch this!! it looks great already!!

[@Zisujitsu]

I remember the time where I got the hat on my first play through of SV on the first spring thinking its just a trash hat so I trashed it :)

[@RunFromBabyPluto]

Wait they got a stone owl AND a living hat in under 6 minutes!?

[@scottishsolgaleo2370]

I got the living hat on the first in game day on my current play through. Didn’t realise it was that uncommon lol

[@100WaysTo...]

Only if I recorded myself getting the fiber hat right by my hilltop farmhouse on the first day

[@FatalHog]

the idea that the music that summoning salt being clipped to the word "SPEEDRUN" is hilarious to me

[@loftea]

I actually got a living hat during my first play through ever and thought it wasn’t rare because it was “so easy” to get Pretty sure I still have it but it’s on mobile unfortunately

[@maxduguay7025]

Could you do a similar setup with the trashcan hat?

[@paper2222]

ooh, yes, i believe so

[@astralanarchist]

as another person commented, you need to open at least 20 trash cans before even getting the chance to get the hat, and there’s only 8 cans on the map. so the player would have to run around to each can for at least 3 days, going back home each day to sleep, so it actually wouldn’t be all that fast.

[@paper2222]

@@astralanarchist ohhhhh wow, didn't know that you had to open 20 garbage cans before any garbage can hat could explode! i thought it was a rng chance right off from the start

[@tyrocks4548]

me getting living hat in the first 10 seconds of the farm

[@tenshiefox713]

I always laugh when i hear someone playing the game for like 800+ hours and never getting the living hat... When i got stardew valley and created my first farm. I got the living hat in the 1st or 2nd day, at first I didn't know what it was but i thought it was funny so i would wear it around n i almost trash it, im so glad i never did cause i still have my first farm ever even though i never really used it again but i like to keep it just because of that reason

[@mememan5466]

He got the owl statue too lmao

[@whodere]

this is awesome. Makes me want to try this run since its so simple.

[@jason_man]

"Every speedrun will be beaten in given time" -Karl Jobst

[@icrazyy1100]

idea to beat: sleep until day 19 and get sea urchin step 2: check a few cans to get garbage hat step 3: wait for shop to open and get new wr

[@CRSN9]

I doubt anyone would believe it, but I got bored one day and downloaded this game thinking I’ll give it a shot, I loaded into my first game and got a living hat within like the first minute of clearing out the land and had no clue how rare it really was, it was just sitting in a chest somewhere until I saw how rare it really was

[@pixelfire86]

1:44 Ah, of course, sea urchins live on laundry detergent.

[@minstonehere9818]

I got the hat after I collected one piece of weed near me the second I spawned in the game and I was so confused why I had *living hat* in my inventory 😭

[@chickenboi09]

i got the living hat really early in the game. i don't actually know when, i didn't notice i picked it up until i saw it in my inventory. it was in the first spring though, and it was my first time playing the game.

[@keetlecorn]

I'm just saying... never tell speedruners that something is impossible

[@Soph_zzz]

I love the summoning salt like intro

[@SwitchbladeOnVHS]

WOW I can't believe it, but I beat Chikorita's time... I got a 5:02.480 I'm stunned, over 1000 hours of playtime and 1 min 30 into a run and I get the living hat for my first time EVER, beyond happy with this! Thanks for the idea Seanie, have a great new year pal!

[@Minecwaft_]

Me who got the living hat in the first 3 hours of playing:

[@reyreynolds693]

Had to watch it twice to make sure he called the tide pools “tide pods” at 1:40

[@alexbayaua4161]

literally got a living hat on the first day. that save file got lots of luck

[@Just_kiddin]

I actually got a living hat ONE DAY ONE And I was so happy that I screamed HOLY SH*T I’m sure you understand😅

[@wizardlyfrog]

It's a shame you have to open 20 cans before you can get the garbage hat, or you could do this even faster.

[@greydoesthearts]

I spent hours trying to get the living hat on my main stardew world because idk it’s cute then made a new world for something else and got it in less than an hour by accident. I was so mad and I haven’t played that world since because I want to keep the time as a memory lmao

[@animeloveer97]

Considering games with crazy chances like binding of Isaac this doesn't seem impossible to beat in the slightest

[@patrikcath1025]

One in 100,000? In some games' speedruns those are great odds.

[@ryuku2]

Living hat. Neat. I got one like a week in, so I had no idea how rare this was

[@jackwhitley4496]

i tried this run and honestly its really fun

[@spencerdaniels8730]

I may have never gotten the living hat but im vibing with my garbage hat in my current run

[@silas--]

As someone who got the living hat in spring one, i can confirm i never heard of the hat until i got it.

[@fuzzypicklesgaming439]

He got the hat after cutting down 55 fiber? I mean, it's not that crazy, considering how many attempts he probably went through. You'll eventually get the living hat after cutting down your first fiber, if you have enough attempts

[@emory946]

I had no idea this hat was rare! I have played a lot of Stardew, but not THAT much. I recently got one on a new save on my second year.

[@Twisted4AGZE]

Little Summoning Salt music there, I like it.

[@CuteKittyMeep]

“the tide pods of the beach” that is the laundry detergent 😅 tide pools are the puddles on beaches

[@lucasfleming3360]

You're telling me this run is possible to reach WR because he had some bad luck?

[@sweetchik460]

Easily can save around a minute or two with better luck.

[@QualityGamingStudios]

Man, you should get in touch with lowest% and see if they'd be interested in a stardew video by you

[@troublemakergamer8200]

He also had to deal with the stupid owl statue cause you didn’t see it on the left side of the screen just above the sea urchin so that must’ve cut into his time as well

[@catherineb8330]

I got the living hat when I was trying to get to a purple mushroom on my forest farm (on the switch) and I had to take a walk after immediately going to bed to save it.

[@addaku]

Is it viable to get the trash hat for this run?

[@kivy.]

I thought of that too. Couldn‘t you just get it when you go down to willys shop?

[@avgplayer3000]

You have to open at least 20 garbage cans before even having the chance for it to be in one of them

[@kivy.]

That makes sense. Cause the speedrun Community wouldn‘t miss somerhing like that. Thanks for the explanation:D

[@addaku]

Thats a shame

[@omegahaxors9-11]

I wonder if you could use RNG manipulation to get that hat early.

[@insomniacnerd5592]

I didn’t think of the living hat. I thought it would be the trash can lid hat, honestly. Damn.

[@angelofthedead5589]

The Summoning Salt vibes! 🙏🏼🙏🏼 bless up

[@jiminthecutemochi7652]

is is bad that I have such bad luck I didnt even know the living hat existed until a couple days ago?

[@reith6073]

The funny thing is that there was a sea urchin behind a tree behind his house

[@kellyhoward1956]

i got a living hat in my first playthrough before i knew literally anything about the game and i have not seen it since

[@whatwhatnat]

I was so confused when the Summoning Salt music started hahahahahaha

[@Mangoesy]

I got the living hat on the first day of a new save, didn't know it was this rare

[@_shad3_71]

I remember just so happening to stumble upon the living hat on my first file in my first year of spring I was the happiest person ever

[@Thiago-yj7dg]

got a living hat in 2 weeks playing stardew, yesterday

[@beccakelsch885]

I was running a new play though and found a living hat within the first week in game. I about died lol

[@xPancake_Mix]

This is it, this will be the first speedrun I attempt

[@rogshotz]

1 in 100k is not nearly enough to be broken for speedrunners :)

[@noflashbang]

I get you’re trying to hype this up but 1:100K odds ain’t that bad.

[@crazyrobak3966]

Trash can hat would work too, but I'd say a bit harder in terms of luck.

[@Psycchan]

this run reminds me a lot of hollow knight's menderbug% where any sane person would keep fishing for menderbug in one run, but to get the record you gotta reset and get him first try altho thats only like a 2 min run lol

[@potato_that_tickles_his_pickle]

I got mine pretty early in the game, but obviously not that early. That's insane

[@thealmightyflabigail]

I got that hat on my first day of my new play through and I flipped out

[@andyv2209]

My first ever stardew game i got the living hat while clearing my farm and i didn't know it was waste until months later... i wish i still had that save xD

[@strawberrylemonadelioness]

1:18 Seanie and his sea son

[@reidleblanc3140]

if he had reset it would be like the stardew version of the mk64 fence clip reset

[@MochaRetriever]

I found that hat once and.. uhhh… I THREW IT AWAY BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS A WEED I WAS GONNA PUT IT ON 😭

[@smash229]

Are you saying he had... Dream luck?

[@sweetchik460]

Dream wouldn't have gotten the Owl Statue and would have gotten sea urchin same day :P but LH is still lucky. Got it in a 50 mines speedrun as well randomly too

[@AmberDSi]

i have the living hat in my save, i wasn't even looking for it i was just trying to clear my farm lol

[@MR.DƏx1234]

What luck! Props to to sweet chik🎉

[@ClamantesDaemonium]

Why did it take me more than a few seconds to recognize the intro music? I'm slightly ashamed...

[@Serviervorschlag-]

I got the gras hat on day 1 in one of my games. 😁😊

[@leoconte4708]

I dropped living hat in the roguelike mod lol

[@Nicolas-lz6pg]

So you just need to get the living hat at the first break and the needeed forage right after to get the WR Flawless strategy

[@yungcobalt]

my first playthrough i got a Living Hat in my first 20 mins and threw it out because i thought it was useless & needed inventory space lol

[@bloomenvogel]

Is it just me or does the music Seanie Dew use sound like the one from "The God Gamers" (Fireb0rn/Hollow Knight) series lol.

[@TenkoBerry]

Weird KZbin recommended but good video 👍

[@tarynquigg]

My biggest success in life is having the living hat. Not 100% but pretty sure I got it in my first year

[@agoodspeler5457]

So what you're saying is, you'll grind for the record as a celebration when you reach 100k subs?