

The through-line of all of these instances is that players feel as though they’ve “over-worked” themselves during the day before the sleeping crash. The ways players spend their time before running into the bedtime crash run the gamut from unfortunate to the bizarre. Tested about 10 times now and doing anything (watering crops, picking up an egg, shipping something, going mining etc) causes the game to crash when I go to sleep afterwards." “If I wake up then go back to sleep right away it works fine but on the next day I have the same problem. “In Fall now and if I do anything at all before going back to sleep the game immediately crashes,” reports a player in a separate Reddit thread. Others report similar experiences, ranging from spending their days eating sashimi before bed or both cooking and feeding themselves. Did the day again and same thing happened.”Įven when allan-god waited out winter until the springtime before saving again, the same thing happened if he saved after he tried to upgrade his tools. “After that I went to sleep and it crashed. “This is first started on the 10th day of winter when I went to upgrade my pickaxe to copper,” wrote the user allan-god. At least, to me it does - just roll with it.) But several people are finding that the game crashes as soon as they lay down to rest - erasing all of their hard-won progress. (That makes sense when thinking about how sleep works in real life. There’s only one way to save progress in Stardew Valley: Get into bed and go to sleep.

With the Nintendo Switch version out now, players are experiencing a kind of Groundhog’s Day thanks to a bug that kills files upon saving.Ī large thread on the game’s community board, hosted by publisher Chucklefish Games, compiles players’ experiences with the bug. It’s important to remember that Stardew Valley was developed by just one person - and yet, we can’t help but highlight some of its strangest bugs.
