How to animation cancel Stardew Valley switch

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How to animation cancel Stardew Valley switch

I’ve played stardew for almost two years now and I really want to start speed running. The problem? I don’t know how to/if a switch can animation cancel and can’t play on a computer !!

If you know how please let me know :-)! Thank you!

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How to animation cancel Stardew Valley switch

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You cannot, unfortunately. You can still use speed running philosophy, techniques, and routing…but you will not be able to animation cancel on Switch.

level 2

This is so sad.... thank you very much though :-))

level 1

Well... there is some sort of way of animation cancling... it's not as fast but if you hold the one button for swinging the axe or other stuff, just press down at the moment RIGHT when it hits the ground then repeat, but it will probably happen like 3 or 6 times🎖⛏

How to animation cancel Stardew Valley switch

Animation cancelling is a developer term that means the current animation (ex: like the swing of an axe on a tree) playing on-screen will be cancelled. This will potentially save a lot of time for the players to enjoy other adventures and with a combination of keys, this is possible. Read on to find how to cancel animation in Stardew Valley.

If you hit a tree with an axe, an animation is played. With animation cancelling, the animation of an axe hitting the tree will be cancelled and the player can perform another action quicker.

How to Cancel Animation in Stardew Valley

To cancel the animation the players can simply press: Right Shift + Delete + R

Pressing this combination of buttons while using a tool will cancel the animation. Players need to time this press perfectly. However, there is an alternative available which is more like a modification where if we could combine the three keys (Right Shift + Delete + R)into one key, the cancellation will be much easier.

How to Cancel Animation in Stardew Valley | Combining the Keys

There isn’t an option to rebind all the three keys in the game itself. However, a third party programmer can help with the case.

Proceed as follows – to rebind the keys using AutoHotKey.

  • Download AutoHotKey from this website –
  • After installing go to your desktop, right-click anywhere on the screen.
  • Go to New > AutoHotKey Script.
  • Name the Script anything you like for example Stardew.ahk
  • Right-click on the Script and press Edit.
  • Then on the notepad file that opens, delete everything and paste this complete Script mentioned below. (You may be unable to copy the code here. Please use this Google Doc to copy the code. )

#IfWinActive Stardew Valley

x::

While GetKeyState(“x”,”P”)

{
 sendEvent {LButton Down}
 sleep 10
 sendEvent {LButton Up}
 sleep 125
 sendEvent {r Down}{Delete Down}{RShift Down}
 sleep 10
 sendEvent {r Up}{Delete Up}{RShift Up}
}

sleep 30

return

  • Save this Script file then double click it. It will start running.
  • On the Task Tray at the bottom, you will see a green H icon
  • Next launch the game – Stardew Valley. Load a saved game or create a new one.
  • Next, go to Options, navigate towards the bottom and rebind the X key. You can now have animation cancelling (sometimes you might have issues as the X key by default is the Check/Do Action key so you can rebind the X key in Stardew Valleys options to something else like Spacebar.
  • You can now have quicker tool usage by pressing/holding the X button and cancel the animation.

Hope you can now figure out easily how to save time with animation cancelling in Stardew Valley. For more game updates keep checking this space.

How to animation cancel Stardew Valley switch

Animation Cancelling means tool usage is much faster than usual, saving you the time in the day to tend to your farm, spend more time in the mines or catch that pesky legendary fish you have been looking for!

Animation Cancelling Guide

What is Animation Cancelling

So what even is Animation Cancelling? You might ask. Well technically it is a game developer term or phrase that literally describes what it is, cancelling the current animation that is playing.

Basically, each tool when you use it is just an animation that plays when you press a button and at some point when you swing an axe, it hits a tree. Once the axe animation has hit the tree it then needs to return to the player. Animation Cancelling cuts this animation down to just the necessary part of hitting the tree and allowing you to then start another animation quicker than if you had to wait for the axe to return to the player after hitting said tree.

How Is It Done?

Animation Cancelling is a standard thing that everybody can do in Stardew Valley by just pressing the default keys that perform the Animation Cancel.

Simply press Right-Shift + Del + R.

Ok cool, but that is too hard to do while also moving the character and trying to keep my hand on the mouse!

Don’t worry, I got you!

Lets use a third party software to rebind those keys in game to something easier like the X key.

Step 1

  • Download AutoHotKey

Step 2

Once AutoHotKey is installed basically just close it all down including the tutorial window that should have popped up.

Step 3

Right Click with your mouse anywhere on your Desktop and navigate to New > AutoHotKey Script

How to animation cancel Stardew Valley switch

Step 4

Name it whatever you want, I named mine Stardew.ahk

Step 5

Right Click to Edit the script you just made, copy this script into the script you just made and save it

#IfWinActive Stardew Valley

x::

While GetKeyState(“x”,”P”)

{
 sendEvent {LButton Down}
 sleep 10
 sendEvent {LButton Up}
 sleep 125
 sendEvent {r Down}{Delete Down}{RShift Down}
 sleep 10
 sendEvent {r Up}{Delete Up}{RShift Up}
}

sleep 30

Run the script by double clicking it, you should see a green H icon on your Taskbar.

How to animation cancel Stardew Valley switch

Step 7

Run Stardew Valley, either start a new game or load a saved game. Technically you can now Animation Cancel but sometimes you can have issues as the X key by default is the Check/Do Action key so you really want to rebind the X key in Stardew Valleys options to something else like Spacebar. Other than that you can now enjoy faster tool usage by pressing or holding the X button.

How to animation cancel Stardew Valley switch

Watch how it is done!

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