Stardew Valley fan ditches crops for bops with these rad musical farms
Who needs melons when you have melodies?
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Usually farms in Stardew Valley are reserved for crops, animals and sheds to hoard your countless kegs and chests. But if you’re NetWarrior FM, your farm is a piece of wonderful dirt-coated sheet music filled with all sorts of videogame and pop culture melodies.
As spotted byGamesRadar, the YouTuber has been making music on their Stardew Valley farms since September 2020. They use carefully placed flute boxes and drum blocks to create the tunes and a path that guides the way through the notes, plus different paths to denote a pause in the music. While some songs—such as Final Fantasy 10’s To Zanarkand and Frozen’s Let it Go—have been created with mods to add more notes to the music blocks, most are done with the vanilla game’s two octaves.
NetWarrior has also done songs from the likes of Squid Game, Naruto, Attack on Titan and classic games such as Zelda and Pokémon. They’ve also done a Stardew Valley-style rickroll, because even in 2022 Rick Astley remains inescapable on the internet. They told GamesRadar that each song takes around two to eight hours to complete, adding that “the toughest bit is getting started. Once I get the first few notes in it all comes together and it feels like it just flows.”
It’s a super charming and creative way to utilise the farming sim, and infinitely more wholesome than theunhinged Grandpa death modsthat were all over the place last month. Although Stardew creator Eric Barone is now hard focused on his second gameHaunted Chocolatier, it’s nice to see that eight years and20 million copies laterpeople are still finding countless ways to enjoy farm life.
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Mollie spent her early childhood deeply invested in games like Killer Instinct, Toontown and Audition Online, which continue to form the pillars of her personality today. She joined PC Gamer in 2020 as a news writer and now lends her expertise to write a wealth of features, guides and reviews with a dash of chaos. She can often be found causing mischief in Final Fantasy 14, using those experiences to write neat things about her favourite MMO. When she’s not staring at her bunny girl she can be found sweating out rhythm games, pretending to be good at fighting games or spending far too much money at her local arcade.
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