Tornado
Summons the game’s storm: rain, gales and a tornado that rips up trees, eats loose hay and tosses the crew.
Integration supportedLet viewers turn the search into chaos: summon storms, reshape the haystack, drop tools, help the crew or restart the run. The Steam integration brings your live events into the field.
These are the 40 commands currently available in the Needle In A Haystack integration, using the names and behaviour supplied by HypeMyStream.
Storms, rain, wind and darkness across the field.
04 eventsSummons the game’s storm: rain, gales and a tornado that rips up trees, eats loose hay and tosses the crew.
Heavy rain: the field darkens, puddles form and the wet ground gets slippery.
A howling gale shoves the crew across the field.
Night falls early: the sky eases into darkness and stars, then the day returns.
Change the workday or pay the crew overtime.
02 eventsNight falls early for a while. On runs with a daily quota, it pushes the workday towards sunset instead.
Pays the crew overtime wages. On runs with a daily quota, it adds time back to the workday instead.
Swarming animals, loose-hay raids and explosive surprises.
05 eventsAn angry bee swarm appears nearby and chases the streamer. Run!
Snakes slither out of the grass and hunt the streamer.
A herd of pigs charges in around the streamer and gobbles up any loose hay they find.
A lit bomb drops at the streamer’s feet. Throw it or run!
A bomber drops a line of bombs across the haystack. Waits for any storm to clear first.
Launch, slow, rescue or disorient the streamer.
08 eventsLaunches the streamer high into the sky. Queues if they’re already flying.
The streamer slips, drops what they’re holding and flops over.
The streamer swallows the unlabeled pills: 40 seconds of swirling colours, saloon music and fake needles falling from the sky.
The streamer runs at 1.8x speed.
The streamer trudges at under half speed.
Floaty moon gravity: huge, slow jumps.
Drops whatever the streamer is holding and teleports them back to the crew van.
Heals the streamer to full, or revives them on the spot if they have just gone down.
Flip the streamer’s view.
01 eventsTurns the streamer’s view upside down.
Carve and sell hay, or fill the dug-out stack back in.
12 eventsCarves a crater out of the haystack where the streamer is looking and sells the hay on the spot.
Dug-out hay grows back into the stack in its original places, nearest the streamer first.
A black hole opens in the haystack where the streamer is looking and swallows hay in a swirl, then sells it.
A laser beam from the sky cuts a canyon through the haystack, then sells the hay.
Shaves the haystack from the top down so it gets shorter, then sells the hay.
A giant drill bores a shaft from the top of the haystack down, spraying hay out of the hole, then sells it.
A swarm of bugs circles the haystack and eats its outer layer everywhere at once, then the hay sells.
A glowing orb sprays hay back into the dug-out holes nearest to it.
Hay rains down from the sky and fills dug-out parts of the stack.
Dug-out hay comes back from the ground up, all around the stack at once.
The tunnels and craters nearest the streamer collapse shut with a rumble.
A supply plane flies over and drops hay bales that burst open and fill the stack.
Add to or take from the crew’s wallet.
02 eventsAdds cash to the crew’s wallet.
Takes cash from the crew’s wallet.
Drop valuable hay, free tools or a mystery present.
03 eventsA rare gold, lapis or diamond hay piece appears in front of the streamer, worth far more than normal hay.
Drops a free tool in front of the streamer: jetpack, laser, fan, magnet, vacuum or metal detector.
A wrapped present appears. Unwrap it for a surprise, which might be treasure or might be a snake.
Restart the run, or save it before the reset countdown ends.
03 eventsStarts a 60-second SAVE THE HAYSTACK? countdown. Unless Save Game is sent first, the run restarts on a fresh haystack.
Immediately restarts the run on a fresh haystack.
Saves the run and cancels a running reset countdown.
HypeMyStream supports Needle In A Haystack from Steam on Windows PC.
Use the Windows PC build from Steam. Other operating systems and console editions are not supported.
Availability links to Steam. HypeMyStream support applies only to the listed Windows PC builds.
Choose NoGlyph’s Needle In A Haystack on Steam for Windows PC to use the HypeMyStream integration.
Provider availability last checked October 2026. Prices and subscriptions can change.