Summary
One competitive and dedicatedStardew Valleyplayer has devised a cunning, if unfair, strategy to help their girlfriend win at the annual egg hunt. The egg hunt can be one of the trickier festivals to win inStardew Valley, but this player’s clever cheat could help others who are having trouble taking home the straw hat.
With the game’s 1.6 update finally hitting all remaining platforms on June 30, 2025, there are now a dozen differentfestivals inStardew Valleyscattered across the cozy farming sim’s 120-day annual calendar. Occurring every year on the 13th day of Spring, the Egg Festival’s main feature is its Egg Hunt competition, in which the player must compete against several residents of Pelican Town to see who can find the most brightly colored eggs in a short timeframe. The festival is the first one that new players encounter in the game, and the newness can make the competition a little steeper for starting players.
However, Reddit user Im-lenny has devised a brilliant strategy that didn’t allow them to win the Egg Hunt, but instead put their girlfriend in a position to take home first place. Unless the player can collect a certain number of eggs, which changes depending on how many human players are participating in the festivities, the competition will always be won byStardew Valley’s Abigail, one of only three adult NPCs competing in the event. Rather than try to win the competition personally, this player simply decided to sabotage the top competition by standing in front of the purple-haired shopkeeper’s daughter, preventing her from wandering around the map and collecting the eggs she would need to win.
Stardew Valley Fan Finds Multiplayer Cheat for Egg Festival
According to the player, the strategy worked, and their girlfriend ended up winning theStardew ValleyEgg Hunt. However, based on their comments, it’s not clear whether their interference actually had any effect on the formula that the game uses for calculating the winner. In a single-player game, a player needs to collect nine eggs to win, but that number decreases to six eggs in a two-player game, five with three players, and four with four players. The video attached to the post only shows the girlfriend’s character collecting four eggs, though it only lasts for 32 seconds, while the full time for the competition is set at 50 seconds.
While technically cheating, there’s nothing in the rules that state a player isn’t allowed to impede another player’s movement. Those looking to get ahead in the game on PC can access a couple of actualStardew Valleycheat commandsto add some extra in-game money to their wallets or debug the game to add items to their inventory.
