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Lokarin posted...

are you doing multiplayer or modding? cuz I 100%'d the base game (this was before the multiplayer patch even existed) in only 70 hours

On the current version?

With the tropical island added, I usually take around 160-180 hours per run before I start getting bored and stop playing. Sometimes I mange to finish grinding the 10mil for the golden clock, sometimes not. And while I'm definitely not a speedrunner, I do start quick (maximize profit in spring, buy strawberries, get the greenhouse/ancient fruit/keg/cask combo running as soon as possible), so I'm not just taking my time doing more relaxed runs like a lot of people do.

I usually wind up completing the Community Center somewhere around Fall of Year 2 (though with the mixed bundles option I've gotten it as early as Winter Year 1, and going the Joja route I've gotten it in Fall Year 1). Then the island/volcano completes relatively quickly (about a season or so), and I mostly start grinding out ancient fruit for money to buy the larger stuff (return wand, golden clock) finishing off the Qi challenges to buy his stuff, and completing whatever collections I haven't finished yet (shipping, fishing, museum stuff, cooking, etc). I don't go out of my way to maximally optimize profit in later stages, as I kind of like my farm to look nice rather than having everything crammed together with just enough room to walk (I maybe grow 200 ancient fruit a week and keg them), so I generally make it to at least Year 4 before I stop, and my general stopping point is usually somewhere around Year 6. Though I've made it as far as Year 8 before.

And yeah, that's without mods. With mods (and there are a metric shitton of them) I could easily see a run taking way longer to finish.

I've basically done multiple runs on every farm type (though I prefer Four Corners now), played co-op a couple times, and usually go back to it every couple games or so. It's just a chill time-waster, and I usually play it with the sound off while listening to podcasts, so I usually don't even realize how long I've been playing it for until I'm looking at the character menu and I see all my characters showing something like 180 hours or the occasional 200 hours (and those are just the ones I haven't deleted - I've deleted a lot of runs to tidy up the menu).

Sort of the same way I play Minecraft. I usually create a new world and start playing, work on a project, dump like 100+ hours into it, then eventually get bored, drift off, go play a couple other games in the meantime, and then eventually get in the mood again and start up a new world and a new project. Then eventually I've got like 20 worlds in my menu that I'm never going to open up again and just start deleting them.

My biggest Minecraft project was one where I covered the entire world (on the 360, so a 864x864 map) with a single layer of cobblestone block in the sky to block out the sun. It took about three quarters of a million blocks, and I did it in Survival Mode (so no cheating it all in, I had to make it/mine it). And then I filled in the sides with "walls" (which pretty much doubled the amount of cobble I used). On top of which I built a huge treetop elf village, a massive underground dwarf fortress, an underground lab, a large ranch farm, and a "sky castle". So that world took a looooong time.