diff --git a/StardewModdingAPI/Events/Game.cs b/StardewModdingAPI/Events/Game.cs
index 6290d2c7..60531dd8 100644
--- a/StardewModdingAPI/Events/Game.cs
+++ b/StardewModdingAPI/Events/Game.cs
@@ -11,7 +11,34 @@ namespace StardewModdingAPI.Events
         public static event EventHandler GameLoaded = delegate { };
         public static event EventHandler Initialize = delegate { };
         public static event EventHandler LoadContent = delegate { };
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Fires every update (1/60 of a second)
+        /// </summary>
         public static event EventHandler UpdateTick = delegate { };
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Fires every other update (1/30 of a second)
+        /// </summary>
+        public static event EventHandler SecondUpdateTick = delegate { };
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Fires every fourth update (1/15 of a second)
+        /// </summary>
+        public static event EventHandler FourthUpdateTick = delegate { };
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Fires every eighth update (roughly 1/8 of a second)
+        /// </summary>
+        public static event EventHandler EighthUpdateTick = delegate { };
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Fires every fifthteenth update (1/4 of a second)
+        /// </summary>
+        public static event EventHandler QuarterSecondTick = delegate { };
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Fires every thirtieth update (1/2 of a second)
+        /// </summary>
+        public static event EventHandler HalfSecondTick = delegate { };
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Fires every sixtieth update (a second)
+        /// </summary>
+        public static event EventHandler OneSecondTick = delegate { };
 
         public static void InvokeGameLoaded()
         {
@@ -53,5 +80,35 @@ namespace StardewModdingAPI.Events
                 Log.Error("An exception occured in XNA UpdateTick: " + ex.ToString());
             }
         }
+
+        public static void InvokeSecondUpdateTick()
+        {
+            SecondUpdateTick.Invoke(null, EventArgs.Empty);
+        }
+
+        public static void InvokeFourthUpdateTick()
+        {
+            FourthUpdateTick.Invoke(null, EventArgs.Empty);
+        }
+
+        public static void InvokeEighthUpdateTick()
+        {
+            EighthUpdateTick.Invoke(null, EventArgs.Empty);
+        }
+
+        public static void InvokeQuarterSecondTick()
+        {
+            QuarterSecondTick.Invoke(null, EventArgs.Empty);
+        }
+
+        public static void InvokeHalfSecondTick()
+        {
+            HalfSecondTick.Invoke(null, EventArgs.Empty);
+        }
+
+        public static void InvokeOneSecondTick()
+        {
+            OneSecondTick.Invoke(null, EventArgs.Empty);
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/StardewModdingAPI/Extensions.cs b/StardewModdingAPI/Extensions.cs
index c504f470..28eb2d7d 100644
--- a/StardewModdingAPI/Extensions.cs
+++ b/StardewModdingAPI/Extensions.cs
@@ -60,5 +60,10 @@ namespace StardewModdingAPI
             }
             return hash;
         } 
+
+        public static T Cast<T>(this object o) where T : StardewValley.Object
+        {
+            return o as T;
+        }
     }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/StardewModdingAPI/Inheritance/SGame.cs b/StardewModdingAPI/Inheritance/SGame.cs
index 735cd58a..9082d695 100644
--- a/StardewModdingAPI/Inheritance/SGame.cs
+++ b/StardewModdingAPI/Inheritance/SGame.cs
@@ -173,6 +173,8 @@ namespace StardewModdingAPI.Inheritance
 
         public Farmer PreviousFarmer { get; private set; }
 
+        public Int32 CurrentUpdateTick { get; private set; }
+
         private static SGame instance;
         public static SGame Instance { get { return instance; } }
 
@@ -182,6 +184,7 @@ namespace StardewModdingAPI.Inheritance
         {
             instance = this;
 
+            /*
 #if DEBUG
             SaveGame.serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof (SaveGame), new Type[28]
                 {
@@ -215,6 +218,7 @@ namespace StardewModdingAPI.Inheritance
                     typeof (SObject)
                 });
 #endif
+            */
         }
 
         protected override void Initialize()
@@ -252,6 +256,29 @@ namespace StardewModdingAPI.Inheritance
 
             Events.GameEvents.InvokeUpdateTick();
 
+            if (CurrentUpdateTick % 2 == 0)
+                Events.GameEvents.InvokeSecondUpdateTick();
+
+            if (CurrentUpdateTick % 4 == 0)
+                Events.GameEvents.InvokeFourthUpdateTick();
+
+            if (CurrentUpdateTick % 8 == 0)
+                Events.GameEvents.InvokeEighthUpdateTick();
+
+            if (CurrentUpdateTick % 15 == 0)
+                Events.GameEvents.InvokeQuarterSecondTick();
+
+            if (CurrentUpdateTick % 30 == 0)
+                Events.GameEvents.InvokeHalfSecondTick();
+
+            if (CurrentUpdateTick % 60 == 0)
+                Events.GameEvents.InvokeOneSecondTick();
+
+            CurrentUpdateTick += 1;
+            if (CurrentUpdateTick >= 60)
+                CurrentUpdateTick = 0;
+
+
             PreviouslyPressedKeys = CurrentlyPressedKeys;
             for(PlayerIndex i = PlayerIndex.One; i <= PlayerIndex.Four; i++)
             {