Watch the presentation below if you missed it! Gameplay Programmer Jos Kuijpers explains, what’s new to build in the game. After that, QA Lead Ken Burgess and Gameplay Developer Stefan Maurus test the features in a short gameplay session.

Which improvements can you look forward to?

We decided to overhaul the construction system from Farming Simulator 19 for two reasons: First, we needed to improve the usability. We got a lot of feedback from you in the past, and we’re improving the build mode to make it more user-friendly.

On the other hand, we have new features like the production chains that require an extended build mode. Basically, we revamped the whole thing by increasing the number of placeable items drastically and redesigned all the controls.

You can now quickly switch between placing buildings and objects, landscaping, and removing objects. As for landscaping and sculpting, we added new tools to edit your terrain. It’s easier than ever before to build your farm just how you like it.

What new features are added to the build mode?

You probably know about our new crops in Farming Simulator 22, already. Grapes and olives have to be planted by building vines. So, if you want to build a vineyard, you have to open build mode, and stripe your fields with vines, first.

If you are more of an animal farmer, you can also build the fences yourself (in addition to the many new pens we got). Similar to the vines, you just put down a pole and pull the fence to create it. There are ten different types of fences, plus gates.

What type of new placeables are there?

Overall, everything is put in one of the following categories:

• Buildings are split further into sheds, silos, silo extensions, containers, and tools. Here, you find buildings like the new sheds by Rudolf Hörmann, each with functionality and things like vehicle services points or solar panels.
• Production contains all the buildings needed to start your production chains or earn you additional money another way. There are factories, selling points, greenhouses, orchards and generators.
• Animals contain all the pens for your animals – in different shapes, sizes, and some additional functionality.
• Decoration contains fences, (street) lights and more. With this set of items, you can provide your farm with a lot of details.
• Landscaping contains… well, the landscaping tools for sculpting, painting, trees, and plants. Here, you find everything to make your farmland more individual.

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Mind the fact, production chains are still work-in-progress. So, some things may change until release of Farming Simulator 22 on November 22nd.

Starting your productions

Let’s take the grain mill, for example: The grain mill isn’t just a place to sell your wheat, now. It’s a production plant and a placeable that processes your grains. Either visit a mill that’s already placed on the map, or build one yourself on a piece of land you own.

Instead of just selling your wheat after harvesting, you can also transport it to the mill to get some fine flour. Deliver that to the bakery, and you have the option to produce bread, or cake. Most production plants have multiple production chains available, with varying inputs and outputs. They’re listed as recipes, showing you what’s possible and what’s required.

Let’s make some cake!

At the production plants, you can also store ingredients: If you want to make something that requires several ingredients, you can start the production as soon as you got all of them delivered. In case you want to make some delicious cake, you’ll need a whole set of ingredients. Flour, eggs, sugar, milk, butter and strawberries.

This rather complex production chain requires you to deliver a lot of ingredients which need to be harvested or even produced themselves, first. Like butter, you need to produce at the dairy plant by delivering fresh milk. Maybe you just start with bread, instead, to get the hang of it. Don’t worry. You’ll get multiple production chains started simultaneously in no time. The delicious (and valuable) cake will be worth it. Take a look:

Move the product, and step up production!

After production, you have several options on how to sell it. Either the production plant sells it automatically right away and takes it off your hands, or generates a palette you can move yourself (to generate more money, of course). In most cases, you have the choice where to sell the goods: the supermarket or the farmer’s market, for example.

Maybe, to get rid of bottle necked production chains, you even have to build multiple mills, dairies, and bakeries at once to make up for resources not piling up fast enough. Also, you need to think about storage and seek different ways to make most of your resources. Soon enough, you own a whole empire if you’re able to manage it efficiently. Get some help by cooperating with other players in multiplayer if you need it!

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