Summary

  • Stardew Valley player designs illusory stairs using furniture creatively.
  • Customization freedom in Stardew Valley allows creative home designs.
  • Players can emulate existing places or create unique designs in-game.

A Stardew Valley player has shared a creative design they've come up with for adding the illusion of stairs to a player's home in a doorway. The design makes excellent use of Stardew Valley's wide array of furniture and decorations, and many fans want to add it to their homes.

Every Stardew Valley player has a house that they can customize to their heart's content. Players can choose to craft their own ornamentation, purchase it, or get it from one of Stardew Valley's furniture catalogs. While using the decorations as intended is fine, this staircase design creatively repurposes items to get the intended effect.

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Reddit user Jyrolyn shared their Stardew Valley illusory staircase that they put between two rooms. The Stardew Valley home design gives the impression of a stairway that drops down from the space they're standing in to the room to the left. The illusion is quite impressive, and makes use of braziers, floor dividers, and both rustic plank and oak paths. By dividing up the paths, the dividers create a structured appearance of individual steps that descend from one room to its neighbor. The staggered brazier placement brings the look home, giving a sense of three-dimensionality where there is none.

Stardew Valley Fans Find Inspiration

Players seem to be quite impressed with this simple but effective design. Over the years since the game's launch, developer ConcernedApe has gradually added more home expansions to Stardew Valley and unique items to fill the space with. However, it seems there's always more space for customization. Expanded homes have an actual staircase, but nothing like the step-down short flight of stairs illusion created by Jyrolyn. While it would be a neat option to see added officially, players can recreate this look just about anywhere in their home, so there's no need to wait to get the look.

While Stardew Valley doesn't offer as much freedom in customization as a game like Minecraft, that hasn't stopped players from being extremely creative. For example, fans have used blue carpet to create the illusion of water, which they've built hot springs and ponds with. Stardew Valley sheds are an empty canvas of sorts to decorate or utilize as one chooses, and players have found all kinds of creative ways of decorating these spaces, making completely unique creations or emulating existing places, like Gus's Stardrop Saloon on their farms. It will be interesting to see if this stair design becomes a common part of decorational builds in the game.

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Stardew Valley
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RPG
Simulation
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Top Critic Avg: 90 /100 Critics Rec: 99%
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Released
February 26, 2016
ESRB
E for Everyone (Fantasy Violence, Mild Blood, Mild Language, Simulated Gambling, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco)
Developer(s)
ConcernedApe
Publisher(s)
ConcernedApe
Engine
Proprietary
Multiplayer
Local Multiplayer, Online Multiplayer
Cross-Platform Play
Stardew Valley does not currently support crossplay between different consoles and PC
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DIGITAL
PHYSICAL
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You’ve inherited your grandfather’s old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home? It won’t be easy. Ever since Joja Corporation came to town, the old ways of life have all but disappeared. The community center, once the town’s most vibrant hub of activity, now lies in shambles. But the valley seems full of opportunity. With a little dedication, you might just be the one to restore Stardew Valley to greatness!

Cross Save
cross-progression is only available between the PC and mobile versions of the game
Number of Players
1-4
Split Screen Orientation
Vertical or Horizontal
Steam Deck Compatibility
Verified
Platform(s)
PC, Xbox One, Android, iOS, PS4, Switch
Genre(s)
RPG, Simulation
How Long To Beat
53 Hours
X|S Optimized
No
File Size Xbox Series
1 GB (November 2023)
Local Co-Op Support
1-4 Players
OpenCritic Rating
Mighty