i messed up really bad on Monday and accidentally selected the little delete X on my switch; being used to computers where "ok" is on the right and "cancel" is on the left I swapped where the cursor was, realizing as I did so that it said "yes" not cancel. so I hit B. I swear to God I hit B. never in my life has B ever been anything other than BACK/CANCEL. but no. for whatever reason B is a select-button on that screen. and in an instant Farmfarm was gone.
454 hours, 80% perfection; a wife, 2 kids, a cat a turtle and a whole slew of critters on my farm. (many chickens (both regular and void) a few ducks, 2 rabbits, a pig 2 sheeps, a bunch of cows. a full coop of dinos, the starting sof an ostrich barn; they all had stupid names. i miss them)
flower fields and an orchard; each legendary fish as well as a selection of fish that provided me with supplies I needed.
lore for why my farm was laid out the way it was.
i was working on taking screenshots but didn't ever finish. so I don't have one of Farmfarm during the day. i don't have one of my house fully furnished. i don't have proof that I paved the town and started adding street lamps to the pathways.
my weird ginger island house and plantation.
it's all. gone.
i wept for and hour and didn't play at all on Monday.
Tuesday, with a heavy heart, I began anew.
so yeah; the first 2 are the farm and what I had accidentally screenshot Ted of my house. the next 3 are 2 of my sheds (for jams and juices) and my cellar (I had 5 sheds in total, each was laid out (or going to be) the same, one full of cheese presses and one full of mayo makers. the 3rd I had started to fill with fish smokers.
the final 3 photos are 1) me at the egg festival the day I won. 2) my screenshot after proposing to Abigail after beating her at said egg hunt. 3) our wedding day, we spent 4 years happily married. she never let me win the egg hunt again :p
truly this experience devastated me and made me feel like a loser for weeping (loud yelling heartbroken sobs) for a whole day. but it's an art project. it's an escape from the mundane. it was my home.
may Doodlefarm carry the torch forward.
i miss my cactus-man life.
willing to give more explanation on each photo if commenters have questions.
(also my phone is stupid and wouldn't 'communicate' with my switch in a way to send me the actual screenshots)
by Chappieindahaus
15 Comments
RIP Farmfarm.
The screenshot is from Summer year 5; my save was in fall year 5.
Omgosh :(((( im so sorryyyy farm farm :((((
Oh wow. Don’t worry I would’ve also WEPT hard. Probably still would be. Truly so sorry that’s happened.
On the plus side, you get to start anew and do whatever you like and create a new amazing stardew farm-this one looked awesome so I’m sure the next will be even better!
Oh jeez. Honestly such strength to start over so soon because I feel like I’d be in mourning at least a week. I hope Doodlefarm brings you joy and much luck
commenting to add: Farmfarm was my 1st playthrough farm. so it was very very special to me
This hurts.
Even though games technically aren’t real and you can always start over, it’s always so devastating when a save file is deleted. I’ve had my fair share of deleted files for games and it always destroyed me. Stardew valley is especially worse since it’s such a customizable experience to the player. I’m so sorry this happened to you. I hope Doodlefarm thrives and brings brand new memories for you!
I’ve almost accidentally deleted my parter’s and my save on switch, it seems WAY too easy to click it! Sorry about your farm and wishing you great luck in your next!
Oh that’s awful. I’m really sorry and it being your first play through makes it sting all the more. 😞 I know it won’t be the same but I hope your next farm brings you lots of happiness and a tea set early on.
Cactus man and Abigail look beautiful together. I’m so sorry this happened, but thank you for sharing, you’ve given me some ideas for some layout changes I haven’t known where to go with. Never feel dumb for mourning something so lovely. Would love to see what you come up with next, and wishing you all the best in your next save ❤️
I’m so sorry 🫂
God, I started a new farm on my PC the power went off and then I just started another one thinking it didn’t save, but everytime I open the game that new farm with 0:00 time is still there, I’ve delated it so many times at this point I’m just ignoring it because I can’t delate until I go to the save files and manually remove it, I wish something like that happened to you and not to me, so you can still have your farm after deleting it. I don’t have a switch but can you check if there’s any backup files or anything like that?
Let me be abso-f***ing-lutely clear:
There is NO SHAME in crying over the loss of something you care about.
Let me say that again: *There is NO SHAME in crying over the loss of something you care about*.
Doesn’t matter if it’s a video game save file or a lucky pair of socks or whatever. If you care about something and you lose it, your emotions are valid and it’s *incredibly important* to honor those feelings, experience them, process them, and grieve. Otherwise you’ll never heal.
My condolences for your loss. FarmFarm looks beautiful. May it live forever in the memories of all the joy it brought you.
Aw I’m sorry for your loss. Time to mourn then start a new game. You’ll always keep that save in your heart 🫶 you don’t need proof that it happened.