How to Animation Cancel in STARDEw VALLEY

On PC, there is a trick to be able to cancel the animations of tools and weapons in Stardew Valley. This enables you to dig, chop, axe and water much quicker than you would be able to normally as you don’t have to wait for the swing to complete. You can get straight back into it!

In Stardew Valley there is a default combination of keys that will cancel and animation for you. All you need to do is press the Right-Shift, Del, and R keys at once. Unfortunately this is quite difficult to do repeatedly so most people rebind this key combination to a single key instead using a simple script.

To be able to do this yourself like a pro, you’ll need to do the following. This will enable you to use the space bar to cancel all animations.

Install AutoHotKey V2

  • On your desktop you should right-click anywhere and select new then AutoHotKey script. You may have to select Notepad as your editor

  • It should then create an empty file on your desktop with a .ahk file extension. The script can be called anything you want

  • Right click the script to ‘edit script’, paste in the following and save

SetTitleMatchMode, RegEx

;3:1 Pulse
#IfWinActive, i)^Stardew Valley$
Space::
    SendInput {Del down}{RShift down}{r down}
    sleep 25
    sendInput {Del up}{RShift up}{r up}
    Return

#IfWinActive, i)^.*running SMAPI.*$
Space::
    SendInput {Del down}{RShift down}{r down}
    sleep 25
    sendInput {Del up}{RShift up}{r up}
    Return

This is my version of the script but you can change it to work for your needs. There are also countless other scripts online you can find and refer to if this one doesn’t quite work for you.

Now all you need to do is run the script by clicking on it. Make sure this script runs background as you’re playing Stardew Valley, you can usually find it hidden in the system tray in the bottom right.

The above script will also support both vanilla and modded and should only rebind when the windows is active. This means your space bar will still be fine in other applications.

This may take a bit of practice to get used to but eventually you’ll pick up the speed and cadence and be able to take your Stardew gaming to the next level!