Farming games are the new thing keeping everyone busy these days. People are tired of repetitive shooters with toxic communities. Unwinding after a long day by doing some virtual farming and decorating is the best self-care you can give yourself as a gamer.
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Farm Together is a game made by people who know what farm game enthusiasts really want. Not only do you get your tycoon farming experience, hoarding materials, and cashing out loads of money, but the game also supports more casual gamers. Casual gamers who play games like Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley, where decorating is at the forefront before grinding materials are.
In Farm Together, you can share a farm with up to six friends and decorate and fund your own open world by the countryside. The game is neverending. Find out the basics to understanding your farm below.
Earning In-Game Currency
There are four different types of currency in the game. You have your regular coins, medals, tickets, and diamonds. All of them will allow you to buy buildings, decorations, and crops for your farm.
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Coins
Earning regular cash is easy, you just have to farm and harvest high-value crops. Each time your farm levels up, more crops, animals, and others are unlocked. You should take note of which available crops will give you the most amount of money. You also start off with one well on your farm. This well can be harvested for 25 coins every two minutes and you can purchase more wells for four diamonds each.
Diamonds
When you level up your farm, you're rewarded with diamonds. Diamonds are generally used to purchase decor and useful machines. Starting at level two, you'll be able to buy stalls that exchange extra resources for diamonds.
This means that when your storage is full, you can go to these stalls and exchange some of your vegetable stock for a couple of diamonds. The larger your farm, the more you'll be able to farm diamonds this way by using these stalls. You can check your storage by holding down TAB.
Medals
To earn medals, which look like pink ribbons, you need to complete quests. You periodically get quests where other people you'll never meet ask you for some produce. Upon completion, you'll get experience and a couple of medals. At level 18, you will be able to buy stalls that exchange different resources for medals.
Tickets
Tickets are end-game currency. You start using them to pay for expensive things like farmhands. To earn tickets, you need to farm recipes. Recipes are like planting and harvesting crops, but inside your house on a stove or with other types of furniture.
To buy and place furniture, you have to be inside your house and use the interact button to bring up the furniture store. Most furniture items provide tasks that will reward you with tickets. You can also purchase and place a Pawn Shop for five medals. The Pawn Shop allows you to exchange Gold Nuggets for tickets and other resources.
TIP: Gold Nuggets are a valuable material that have a rare drop chance from harvesting. You get a higher chance of dropping them by using Farmhands and by harvesting high-level crops. Crops have an experience level that raises each time you harvest them.
How To Farm Crops Faster
When you first start the game, you have a couple of plots given to you and everything must be done by hand. It's cute at first but becomes tedious very quickly. After completing the tutorial you'll have immediate access to a tractor, which can save a life if you know how to use it right. By leveling up your farm, you'll be able to unlock even more items to help you farm faster.
Tractors
Tractors can highlight up to nine squares. All you have to do is click your interact button to harvest, plow, plant, water, and create plots. This makes harvesting and creating land quick and easy. You can also highlight crops with the tractor and press X to recycle and remove all squares. The tractor makes everything faster-paced. That's not all, though. You can harvest trees, animals, and flowers when riding the tractor.
Sprinklers
Sprinklers are another efficient way to speed up crop growth. At farm level five, you'll be able to buy one small sprinkler at the cost of one medal. One sprinkler reaches two squares. For crops like watermelons that need a day to grow, installing sprinklers will cut down the hours spent waiting for growth by a lot. One medal can seem costly, but at the time that you unlock sprinklers, there's not much else to spend medals on anyway.
Farmhands
The best option for efficient farming is by buying farmhands. Farmhands are farmer NPCs you can buy and place around your farm. These NPCs will harvest, water, and feed anything near it. Because the game runs while you're not logged in, they will be able to maintain the farm for you while you're away. The game does not become fully automatic. You'll always have some work to do yourself, but when you expand your farm to all four corners of the world, you'll need farmhands for extra help. Farmhands unlock at farm level 20 and one farmhand costs tickets to purchase.
Friends
Whether you have all the fun gadgets listed above for efficient farming or not, you can always invite friends. Other players can join your farm and harvest, plant, and water your crops as well as feed your animals. They can only join if you're hosting a game and logged on. In the settings, while you're logged into your farm, you can edit friends and guest permissions. This allows you to decide whether other players can water flowers, only harvest items, or doing nothing at all.
Customizing Your Farm
Aside from money and food, you can decorate anything you want to your heart's content. In the main menu, you can click Customize to find options not only for your character, but for a pet cat or dog, and for your tractor and farmhand. You can change the colors, paint job, and accessories on your tractor for an individual feel. Farmhands' outfits can be changed as well. By leveling up your player, you can unlock pets in this menu.
TIP: You level up your player by performing actions around the farm.
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After you're rich and famous, all that's left to do is rearrange and decorate everything. This is as much of a life decor simulation as it is a farming simulation. By spending diamonds, you can create entirely new biomes and create cities instead of countrysides. The possibilities are endless, especially when you're at a higher level and more items are available to you. There are things like hedges, archways, garden lights, festival stands, camping gear, and more.
Expanding Your Farm
You start off with a generous amount of space that you can pour hours into. But 20 hours doesn't stop there. If you look out into the horizon, you'll notice other plots of land with some crops here and there and lots of potential. You can expand your farm into these plots and go big or go home.
By walking to the edge of your farm, each square face will have a wooden sign. This sign will tell you how much it costs to remove the wall, at the bottom left of your screen. By clicking on the sign, you'll be asked for payment confirmation. Each of the four walls your farm is stuck inside can be removedover and over again until you're living in your own city. Taking down walls costs anywhere from 25 to 100 diamonds.
How To Play Multiplayer Co-Op In Farm Together
Playing with friends in Farm Together is pretty easy. You can click Find Farms in the main menu to visit a lobby of servers. These will be other people's farms and on each lobby, you can see what permissions you'll have when entering. To play with your friend on Steam, all you have to do is enable the Steam overlay by pressing Shift+TAB, right-clicking a friend, and pressing Invite To Lobby or Join Game.
The other great thing about this multiplayer farming game is that it also supports Remote Play on Steam. This means that your friends do not have to own the game to play with you. If you or a friend has bought a copy, you can start up Remote Play and play together without the other friends spending a dime.
Farm Together Rules
There are some basic rules the game has that you should be aware of before starting.
Seasons
First, seasons change every 17 minutes. This may sound a bit unusual, especially when realistically that means crops go bad every 17 minutes — but they don't go bad in Farm Together. What this means for your farm is that some seasonal crops only become available to purchase every 17 minutes in rotation. Some things will be available all year round, like apple trees. Others, like pumpkins, can only be purchased during Autumn. If you've planted a mono-season crop and its season has left, it will still grow normally.
Housing
The other important thing to understand is housing. Houses aren't a one-and-done purchase in Farm Together. It takes money and effort. The first available house, unlocked at level five, is a treehouse. The treehouse costs 15,000 to purchase. Once it's placed, you have to wait a certain amount of hours for construction. After those hours, you'll have to play 15,000 again.
You will have to keep paying the same original price for every stage of construction. So, when saving up for a house, understand it's technically more than the showing price. If you only have 15,000 coins to spare, there's no harm in placing the house down and paying the rest later.
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