Stardew Valley Players Horrified to Discover Feature That Would've Saved Us Hours

Stardew Valley players are just discovering a big feature that saves a massive amount of time, and we’re all kicking ourselves for not realising it sooner.

Considering Stardew Valley is almost nine years old, it’s had nearly a decades’ worth of updates and quality-of-life improvements added to it.

The intention behind these features is to make life easier for you, cutting down on time and energy doing the general day-to-day busywork of virtual farming.

One such feature has also gone unnoticed by some Stardew Valley players, and it seems to have horrified them in knowing how much time could have been cut down if they’d known about it sooner.

As one person posted on the Stardew Valley Reddit page, “TIL [today I learned] you can quickly switch out your smaller chest for a bigger one without taking everything out.”

To do this, you need to right-click on a chest while holding a Big Chest, and the chests will automatically swap.

It means you won’t need to spend all that time transferring the items out of a chest, into your inventory or the floor, only to pop them back in the new chest. Hooray for modern convenience.

This feature was added in the 1.6 update for Stardew Valley, which launched last year. Of course, this means I’m reeling from the fact that I wasted so much time pre-1.6 from moving items around the old-fashioned way. And it seems like other Stardew Valley players feel the same way.

“Whatttttt….” wrote one player in the replies to the post, ending their post with a mind blown emoji.

“Took me WAY too long to learn that one,” wrote another player, flabbergasted by the revelation. It’s good to see that I’m not alone with this.

“Me and a buddy started a save together for the first time recently. We had both played solo but never on multiplayer,” a third reply reads. “You would not BELIEVE how many times one of us went ‘Wait, WHAT!? That works?’ to the other.”

Other players offered advice for other time-saving techniques in Stardew Valley, with one writing: “You can fix broken fences this way too. Just boop that new one right in there.”

It just goes to show that even after nearly a decade of playing, Stardew Valley players are still finding ways to be surprised by the game. And it’s good that developer ConcernedApe is still able to update the game with new features to accommodate this.