Field Farming

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🚜 Field Farming

Real farming on open fields: paint your fields anywhere, then watch tractors plow, fertilize and seed them while combines bring in the harvest, straight into your trucks if you like.

Lay out fields of any size and shape on fertile ground, pick what grows on them, and let a fleet of farm machines do the work, row by row in clean straight passes, just like a real farm. A field yields about three times as much per tile as a vanilla farm.

🌾 Fields anywhere

• 🖌️ Paint fields on any fertile ground, like the tree-planting tool: drag to add 4 × 4 tile squares, right-drag to remove
• 🌽 Five crops: wheat, corn, potatoes, soybeans and canola, with up to three crops per farm
• 🔄 Crop rotation: give a field up to three crops in turn, every harvest moves on to the next one
• 🔁 A full cycle per field: plow → fertilize → seed → harvest when everything is ripe → plow again
• 🚧 Fields are off limits for all other vehicles: trucks drive around them, nothing flattens your crops, and a truck that still ends up on a field always gets a way off
• 📈 Big harvests: about 3× a vanilla farm on the same area, plus up to +100% with fertilizer

🚜 Machines that do the work

• 🚜 Farm tractors plow, seed and fertilize, and swap between plow, seeder and sprayer at the farm
• 🌾 Combine harvesters harvest ripe fields and unload at the farm
• 🚚 Harvest into trucks (optional): the trucks assigned to the farm drive alongside the combine, take the harvest straight to the farm and take turns without the combine stopping
• ↩️ Picks up where it stopped: after unloading or refilling, machines continue exactly at the spot they left
• ↔️ Bigger machines, wider passes: level I works 1 row per pass, level II 2 rows, level III 3 rows (7.4 / 15.4 / 23.4 m wide)
• 🔧 Folding wings: plows, seeders and sprayers fold up for driving and unfold on the field
• ⛽ Real vehicles built at the vehicle depot: diesel, a driver, exhaust smoke and lights at night

🏡 The farm

• 🏠 Three levels that upgrade in place: 2,000 / 4,000 / 8,000 storage per crop
• 📦 Three crop storages, each with its own truck sliders and output port (A, B, C)
• 🏚️ Farm machine shed: keeps up to 8 idle tractors and combines out of the way and lets them out when there is work
• 🧪 Fertilizer port: organic +40%, chemical +70%, chemical II +100% harvest
• 🚧 Fenced yard with parking bays, implement stand, unloading grate and a 44 m gate
• 📊 Farm window with crops, stock, every field's state and every machine, plus productivity like other buildings

How to start

1. Research Field farming (after Wheat in the food branch).
2. Build a Field farm (Food category) and pick its crops in the farm window.
3. Paint fields with Paint fields in the farm window or Farm fields in the Food toolbar. Click a field to choose its farm and crop.
4. Build farm tractors and combine harvesters at a vehicle depot. With diesel and drivers they get to work by themselves.
5. Optional: build a Farm machine shed near the farm; assign trucks to the farm (farm window, Assigned trucks) and switch on Harvest into trucks in a combine's window.

Good to know

• 🌍 Speaks all 21 languages of the game: it follows your game's language (translated with care; corrections are welcome on the forum).
• Can be added to existing saves, but not removed once you have built farms or machines.
• Level II and III need Field farming II / III (after Vehicle assembly II / III); a farm only uses machines up to its own level.
• Settings in Options → Mods → Field Farming: harvest per area, growth speed and keeping other vehicles off fields.
• Vegetables are not offered: they are a unit product, and the combine carries loose crops.
• Made for Captain of Industry 0.8.7.

All models and icons are original. No game files included. Contains Harmony (MIT).