Anyone who’s reached perfection inStardew Valleywill tell you how long it takes. Since perfection is achieved by completing every single thing in the game - including some pretty tedious and expensive end-game tasks - it’s no wonder players might want to skip ahead and see the cute cutscene with Lewis at the Summit.
You can normally only trigger the Summit cutscene in Stardew Valley by achieving perfection, but carefully using your scythe can break your farmer out of bounds and allow you to get up to the Summit early. It just won’t be Lewis waiting for you there…
It’s helpful to do this whilenot wearing a hat, since you’ll need touse the very top of your farmer’s hair as a guidefor this. Also, if you’re able,use audioto help guide yourself here - your footsteps in the grass are a big help in figuring out where your sprite is off-screen.
Glitch Out Of Bounds To Trigger The Summit Cutscene Before Reaching Perfection
Every new patch for Stardew Valley comes with a plethora of new content, and some of that content includes things we maybe weren’t supposed to do, but this time,ConcernedApe added a new cutscene. Normally, when youglitch your farmer out of boundson the map, you’ll either wander aimlessly through untamed grassy areas for a while, or maybe even find a few of the game’s well-hidden secret paths.
But if you’re trying to seethe cutscene at the Summit of the mountain, the one that takes place with your farmer and MayorLewisafter you’ve reached perfection, typically, you’d think you’d be in luck here. As ofthe 1.6 update in March 2024, we’re able touse theScythein specific places in the mountainsto get there a little early, but the cutscene is now a bit different.
First,empty your pocketsof anything valuable- you’ll end the cutscene at the hospital, so expect to lose some gold and items, if you have items on hand. In testing this, we lost anIridium Sprinkler, of all things.
How To Perform The Summit Glitch
If you’ve already unlocked the train track area of the mountains, you can skip the part that allows you to bypass the blocked entrance. However, we’d still recommend reading through this section of the guide, as it helps you get a better handle on the exact kind of thing you’ll need to do in the train track area ahead - the glitch involves going out of bounds, but if you’ve already unblocked the path to the train tracks, you don’t need to go out of bounds to get there.
To perform the glitch, get ready to do awhole lot of scythe swinging. You’ll begin bygoing to the mountainsand venturingas close to the path to Pelican Town as you’re able to stand before triggering the change of screensto bring you into town as normal. There are a lot ofslow and careful movementsahead, so get ready!
Once you’ve gotten yourself as close to this edge of the map as you’re able to,begin swinging your scytheas much as you can, spamming the button to do it repeatedly several times over. When you use the scythe,your farmer moves forward a very, very tiny bit, but it’s enough toinch toward the bottom of the screen without triggering the map change.
When you canjust barely see a pixel or two of your farmer’s hair, you’re likely in the right place. From here,walk leftuntil you can’t anymore, and thenwalk upwards. If done correctly, you’ll see asthe screen moves up past Robin’s houseand toward the entrance to the train tracks. Your farmer is in the top left corner of the screen, so carefullynavigate into the closed entrance to the train tracks.
Here, we’ll be doing much the same thing to get ourselves out of bounds.Stand as close to the entrance back to the mountains as you canwithout triggering the map change back down the way you came. When you may see just as much hair as before,walk to the right. The screen moves with you, as if you were on the regular map.
Once you’vewalked all the way to the right, you’ll now need towalk straight uptoward the top of the screen.The screen moves up past the boundary of the areawith you if done correctly, toward the path to the summit.
You’ll still be on the far right side, unable to see much of your character.Walk as far to the top as possiblebefore they stop walking, thenwalk leftinto the loading area for the Summit cutscene in Stardew Valley, and prepare for one of the spookier moments in the game!
