If there’s one factor that Stardew Valley gamers and Lego builders have in frequent, it is a powerful stage of dedication to executing a inventive imaginative and prescient. Stardew gamers are identified for optimizing farm layouts which are equal elements magnificence and effectivity, so it is no shock that one among them went and constructed everything of Pelican City in Lego. The feat took about 2 years to finish, its creator instructed PC Gamer.
Steve Jensen has been posting in-progress images of the construct over on the Stardew Valley boards since final 12 months, and introduced it out to the Lego fan exhibition BrickCon 2024 final weekend. It is a tremendous construct with tons of element, protecting all the pieces in Pelican City from the participant’s farm over to JojaMart and the forest right down to the seaside. It even has the enormous “Stardew Valley” title display screen within the again. You may see a view of the complete construct up above or take a look at this video by Past The Brick, which quotes the construct at a complete of 75,000 items and zooms in on varied elements.
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As for favourite elements of the construct, Jensen has a couple of. “One is the Hat Store, as a result of I used to be capable of make [it] nearly totally hole, so you may look by means of the cracks and damaged elements, and see by means of to extra such openings on the opposite aspect. Simply as a rundown, deserted construction can be.
“One other fav is the wizard’s tower. I used to be capable of get the form I needed, together with a peaked door, and vines rising up the perimeters, the cone-shaped roof in blue, all the pieces!”Â
I simply can’t cease zooming in on all of the great little particulars: the pink touring service provider cart, Pam’s bus, all of the equipment popping out of Clint’s workshop. All of the characters are there too, which Jensen has additionally shared images of. My favourite half may really be the elevation adjustments. This is not all laid out flat. It begins at its lowest level on the seaside and builds as much as the hills and mountain move within the again.
What boggles my thoughts is simply how a lot familiarity this took with Stardew Valley but in addition with particular Lego units. Wanting again by means of the discussion board posts, I noticed Jensen explaining which units sure items got here from, just like the leaves on the principle Stardew Valley signal which have been apparently from a comparatively new Lego set final 12 months.
Jensen’s construct received a well-deserved “Folks’s Selection” award on the conference, and Stardew Valley’s developer, Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone, even made a shock look. Which, as Jensen put it on the boards, is “even BIGGER information than an award.” There is a charming picture of the 2 of them posing behind the 75,000 piece Pelican City.
Jensen is planning to share extra concerning the particular person buildings over on Instagram.