How to Record Stardew Valley with DOR: Official Guide (2026)

Stardew Valley records automatically once DOR is installed: launch the game and the AI handles the rest. You never press a record button or draw a capture area. From the moment Stardew Valley starts through Steam until you quit to desktop, every day you spend on the farm lands in one video. This guide walks you through the whole routine for Stardew Valley in order: installing DOR, checking that recording is running, saving the moments you care about, finding them later, building a farm diary and sending it to friends. In game days fly by, but the recording does not break at each new morning, so you can keep planting parsnips and heading into the mines exactly as you normally would.

• Keep your whole Stardew Valley session in one video, from planting parsnips on the first morning of Spring to heading to bed at night.
• Save the moments you will want to rewatch, like a legendary catch, a villager's heart event or your wedding, as separate clips.
• Use AI Voice Notes to find what your co op partners said and jump straight to that part of the recording.
• Combine your first harvest, the bottom of the mines and the restored Community Center into one year one farm diary.
• Send a tour of your finished farm to your Discord server or family group chat with a single dor.gg link.

Before you record Stardew Valley: install and recording mode

Stardew Valley is light on hardware, so getting ready to record takes very little. DOR is a free Windows app and never puts a watermark on your videos. Stardew Valley uses full session recording, which means the video keeps running across every in game day until you close the game. You do not need to know in advance when a festival or your wedding will come up, because it is already being recorded. If you farm on a laptop or an older desktop, also read recording games on a low end PC. The table below lists what is worth knowing before your first Stardew Valley recording.

Record Stardew Valley with DOR: step by step

1. 1Install DORDownload DOR and install it. Setup takes about a minute, and the app is free to use. Once it is installed, leave DOR running. There is nothing else to prepare each time you sit down to play Stardew Valley.
2. 2Launch Stardew ValleyStart Stardew Valley from Steam and load your farm as usual. When DOR detects the game, recording starts right away. If you are starting a new farm, everything from the character creator to your first arrival at Grandpa's old plot ends up in the recording.
3. 3Check that recording is runningWhen your first morning on the farm begins, glance at the DOR app once to confirm the recording is in progress. If the game is not picked up, follow what to do when the recorder does not detect your game. After that, play however you like, whether that means a rainy day in the mines or fishing from dawn until dusk.
4. 4Save the moments you will rewatchRight after you finally pull up a legendary fish following a long fight with the fishing bar, or right after a villager's heart event ends, press the clip save shortcut. The last 30 seconds are stored as a separate clip, so you will not have to scrub through hours of footage later.
5. 5Quit and open My ClipsFinish the day, go to bed, then close the game. The full session video and every clip you saved along the way appear together in My Clips in the DOR app. Nights you passed out at 2 AM and the day of your wedding are kept the same way.

Find your recordings

Your recordings live in My Clips in the DOR app, also called the library. Each time you open and close Stardew Valley becomes one session, and anything you grabbed with the clip save shortcut shows up as its own clip. To find a specific day inside a long session, use two landmarks: the season and date in the top right corner of the screen, and the moment your character goes to sleep and the next day begins. Once you find the day, set a start and an end point to trim just the part you need, then export it as 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1. The full walkthrough is in how to trim game clips. Like the videos you want to keep for good, such as your wedding or the day the Community Center was restored. When space fills up, older videos you have not liked are cleared first, so your liked year one memories stay put.

Save the moments you want to keep

Even though the whole session is recorded, saving the moments you care about as clips on the spot makes them much easier to find. Press the clip save shortcut and the last stretch of gameplay is saved as a clip. The default length is 30 seconds, and you can choose 15, 30, 45 or 60 seconds in settings. In Stardew Valley, good times to press it are right after you land a legendary fish, the moment someone accepts your Flower Dance invitation, the first time you reach the bottom of the mines, and right after you complete the last Community Center bundle. Long scenes like a wedding fit better if you bump the clip length to 60 seconds beforehand, so the whole ceremony is captured. To change the shortcut or pick the right length for each kind of moment, see saving the last few seconds instantly.

Find what was said with AI Voice Notes

Running a co op farm with friends means a steady stream of lines like 'It's raining, skip the watering', 'What floor did you reach in the mines' and 'What are we putting in the Luau soup'. DOR records game audio and your microphone together, and AI Voice Notes writes what was said onto the recording timeline as text. When you want to rewatch the moment everyone laughed at 'I gave him a gift and he hated it', find that line in the timeline text and select it to jump straight to the scene. The friend who promised to hit the mines tomorrow and then fished all day will have it on record too. If your mic sounds quiet in the recording, check your input device with recording games with mic audio.

Build a montage with AI Highlight

Once you wrap up a full year on the farm, turn your saved clips into a montage. In the library, check your first Spring parsnip harvest, reaching the bottom of the mines, the legendary catch, your Flower Dance invitation, the restored Community Center and your wedding day, then select AI Highlight. DOR joins them into a single video that reads like a year one farm diary, which is worth keeping before you start your next save. If you would rather arrange the clips season by season yourself, see how to merge game clips.

Edit in DOR Studio

DOR Studio opens in your browser with nothing to install. Trim the wedding cutscene on its own, add your own background music and a text line with the in game date, and you have a keepsake video of the farm. Try a punch zoom on the moment the legendary fish comes out of the water, and a glitch transition where one season cuts to the next. A walking tour of your farm works well in 9:16 for Shorts, while 1:1 fits an Instagram post. For framing tips on vertical video, read recording games for vertical Shorts. When you are done, download the result as an mp4 or share it as a link straight away.

Share with a dor.gg link

Send trimmed moments as dor.gg links. Whoever opens the link plays the video right in their browser without installing anything, which makes it easy to drop your wedding video into a family group chat with relatives who have never played the game. For co op partners, pick the festival scenes their character appears in and post them in your Discord server. Tips on choosing seasonal moments to send are in sharing Stardew Valley farm videos, and posting to Discord is covered in sharing clips on Discord.

Stardew Valley recommended settings and troubleshooting

Stardew Valley is a light 2D pixel art game, so the default 1080p at 30fps already captures your fields and farmhouse crisply. If you want the fishing bar and mine combat to look smoother, switch to 60fps. If you play for long stretches on a laptop, the 720p/30fps mode keeps the load low. Fullscreen, windowed and borderless windows all record, so keep whatever display mode you already use in the game's settings. DOR uses GPU hardware encoding, so its effect on your in game frame rate is small. Stardew Valley sessions tend to run for hours once you start, so for steady long recordings see recording long gameplay without stutter. DOR has no cheat features and never touches your game files or play data.