Overview
A guide for remapping Stardew Valley’s keyboard controls to a configuration that is more comfortable, closer and consequently reduces execution time.BONUS FEATURE: Dvorak configuration
Introduction
Welcome to the Stardew Valley – Super Effective Ergonomic Keyboard Remapping guide, SEEKR for short. It is the second in what is now a series of guides.
The purpose of this guide is to remap Stardew Valley’s controls to what I, the author have personally selected and playtested, and deem a significant improvement to comfort, reach and by extension execution time.
Even the most obscure actions such as accessing the map, and the most difficult to reach such as Inventory Slot #12 can now be performed without moving your hands off of the home position. And in the case of multiplayer chat messages, the chat action is mapped to the home position of touch typing itself. However, it would be possible to find the bump and press this key (J) from WASD using one’s left thumb if desired.
Usage
For optimum results I recommend that one has the centre of the monitor aligned with their nose, WASD aligned to the left arm rest and the mouse aligned to the right arm rest.
By extension, when playing certain minigames that make use of the cursor keys, such as Journey of the Prairie King, and the Fall Fair Slingshot Game it is best to center the keyboard such that WASD aligns with the left arm rest and the cursor keys align with the right arm rest.
The Remapping
∎NOTE: With the implementation of multiplayer, the Chat action can now be remapped in-game from the Options menu, I recommend J. Consequently, Inventory Slot #7 can now be mapped to T without having to remap the Chat action from within the save file itself.
The modified keyboard controls are as follows:
Check/Do Action: Right-Click, Space
Use Tool: Left-Click, LeftAlt
Access Menu: Escape, E
Access Journal: Z
Access Map: Q
Move Up: W
Move Left: A
Move Down: S
Move Right: D
Chat Box: J
Run: LeftShift
Inventory Slot #1: 1
Inventory Slot #2: 2
Inventory Slot #3: 3
Inventory Slot #4: 4
Inventory Slot #5: 5
Inventory Slot #6: R
Inventory Slot #7: T
Inventory Slot #8: F
Inventory Slot #9: G
Inventory Slot #10: X
Inventory Slot #11: C
Inventory Slot #12: V
The multiplayer Chat action can now be remapped from the Options menu, consequently T can now be remapped in-game. This subsection is retained for continuity:
By default T is bound to the multiplayer Chat action. This process details remapping T to another action from within the save file:
1. Open the save file with your text editor, such as Notepad (For Windows I recommend Notepad++). On Windows the save file is located in: %Appdata%StardewValleySaves
Keep in mind, the file will likely be massive at over a million characters in length, so it may be a little slow.
The save file is easier to read with Word Wrap turned on.
2. Hit CTRL+F (or equivalent) and search for: <key>T</key>
If bound to the Chat action you will see similar to the following:
3. Change <key>T</key> to an unused key, I recommend <key>J</key> then save the file. For those using the Dvorak keyboard layout I recommend <key>H</key> as being the equivalent of J on QWERTY, its placement is slightly more optimal than T on the Dvorak keyboard — especially if one desired to enter chat messages with the hand still on WASD. This can be achieved by finding the bump on the key with one’s left thumb, and then pressing the key.
The Chat action is now rebinded.
Dvorak Compatibility
Stardew Valley is fully compatible with the Dvorak keyboard layout, however, keys will have to be remapped to their Dvorak equivalents. The Dvorak remapping of the above section’s controls are as follows:
∎NOTE: It is slightly more optimal to remap the multiplayer Chat action from T to H and so is recommended. The Chat action can now be remapped in the Options menu. Alternatively, it can still be remapped in the save file itself and this process is detailed in the previous subsection.
Check/Do Action: Right-Click, Space
Use Tool: Left-Click, LeftAlt
Access Menu: Escape, Period
Access Journal: Semicolon
Access Map: Quotes
Move Up: Comma
Move Left: A
Move Down: O
Move Right: E
Chat Box: H
Run: LeftShift
Inventory Slot #1: 1
Inventory Slot #2: 2
Inventory Slot #3: 3
Inventory Slot #4: 4
Inventory Slot #5: 5
Inventory Slot #6: P
Inventory Slot #7: Y
Inventory Slot #8: U
Inventory Slot #9: I
Inventory Slot #10: Q
Inventory Slot #11: J
Inventory Slot #12: K
Also in This Series
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