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The Precision Farming Project, led by EIT Food and John Deere, continues with a new and improved DLC for Farming Simulator 22. We talked to Thomas Engel, Manager Technology Innovation Strategy at John Deere, about the upcoming version of Precision Farming for the game.

Watch the interview by Stefan Maurus, our Gameplay Programmer and Lead Integrator of the Precision Farming features, down below!

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Let’s get into production chains! QA Lead Ken Burgess and Gameplay Programmer Marius Hofmann presented the new feature for Farming Simulator 22 at FarmCon. Watch the recording below!

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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Farming Simulator 22 introduces three new crops: Grapes, olives and sorghum. Thanks to the new production chains, you can even process them further. Let’s take a first look at the new crops and what you can do with them. But wait, have you seen our brand-new trailer, yet?

Farming Simulator 22 releases on November 22nd for PC, Mac, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Stadia. Pre-order now to receive the CLAAS XERION SADDLE TRAC Pack! For PC, there will be a Collector’s Edition available.

Start your juicy business – with grapes!

You will be having fun planting countless grape vines on the hillsides and curved fields. Just like you do on a real vineyard with rows and rows of vines, you stripe your farmland with them and make it look really idyllic – as if your farm was a vacation spot. To fully enjoy the scenic view on your own vineyard, you will need to take care of your grapes, of course. With special equipment, the fruit needs to be fertilized and the ground loosened and mulched.

If you’re playing Farming Simulator 22 with seasonal growth activated, you’ll have to take a look at the crop calendar, too: Plant your grapes between March and June and don’t waste time harvesting them in September and October with the New Holland Braud 9070L. Also, don’t forget to prepare what’s left for the next season the following year!

Olives for more Mediterranean charm

If a farm full of grape vines isn’t Mediterranean enough for your delicate taste, take it a step further and plant olive trees on your fields. Looking like a dense carpet of little trees from afar, it’s definitely just as beautiful of a sight, too. In case of doubt, just go with both!

There are some differences when it comes to taking care of olives. For example, the planting season for olives is the same as for grapes, between March and June. But, you will have to harvest them a little bit quicker – harvest season for olives is only in September. Again, New Holland will give you the right machine to harvest – this time, it’s the New Holland Braud 9090X.

New type of grain: Nutritious sorghum

We also added a new type of grain with sorghum. A member of the sweet grass family, sorghum is one of the most important foodstuffs in the world. It’s highly nutritious because of its dietary fibers and is used in a lot of different forms for human consumption. It’s mostly cultivated in dry climate areas and is therefore steadily becoming more and more important in the world.

Production chains with grapes, olives and sorghum

Since we introduce production chains with Farming Simulator 22, you can process the new crops after harvesting. Only if you want to, though!

What do you make out of grapes? Fine and tasty grape-juice, of course (what else would you do with this delicious fruit that’s enjoyable for all ages?). But dried grapes are tasty, too – don’t you think? With olives, you can produce high-grade olive oil. That shouldn’t be a big surprise. Sorghum you can deliver to the grain mill to produce fine flour.

There’s more to tell when it comes to the three new crops and the production chains. We’ll go more in-depth, soon, and show you how to handle them in the game. If you missed our announcement of production chains – check it out, now!

And as usual, stay tuned – especially for FarmCon! We’re streaming live from July 21st to July 23rd and show a lot of new material. It’s broadcasted on our official GIANTS Software Twitch channel.

Farming Simulator 22 releases for PC, Mac, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Stadia on November 22nd. Depending on the region, the cover depicts a Case IH AFS Connect Magnum, Fendt 900 Vario, Massey Ferguson MF 8S or Zetor Crystal.

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Farming Simulator 22 will feature two brand-new maps as well as an updated Erlengrat – the map featured in our Alpine Farming Expansion. Let’s take a look at one of the new ones: Elmcreek. It’s still in development, so we can only show you a glimpse. But of course, you can expect to see more soon!

Farming in the Midwestern

Elmcreek is inspired by the US Midwest region and offers large fields and vast open space to build your farms on. Look forward to numerous fields with varying shapes and sizes, authentically embedded in a scenic landscape!

We’re going for an out-of-town charm with Elmcreek. Meaning, there will be rivers cleaving their way through the terrain, underpasses in the hilly areas, even a gushing waterfall and a proper highway – just like in the US.

Home of the Elmcreek Wolves

There’s your typical out-of-town gas station, huge grain silos shaping the skyline visible from your expanding farmlands and a lot of other buildings. One of the sightseeing highlights in Elmcreek is the baseball stadium – home of the Elmcreek Wolves.

Stay tuned for more!

Enjoy the following screenshots. We’ll show you more very soon. When? Mark July 21st to July 23rd on your calendar! Over the course of three days, there will be multiple hours of streams when FarmCon 21 is broadcasted on our official GIANTS Software Twitch channel. You don’t want to miss when we present new material and loads of info about Farming Simulator 22.

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Get your own Farming Simulator beacon light and let it illuminate your room as soon as you turn it on in-game! So, there’s even more reason to get excited for Farming Simulator 22: If you’re quick, you’ll be able to score a limited PC Collector’s Edition!

Pre-Order will start soon, and we’ll tell you as soon as the game is available to pre-order. For now, let’s find out what’s inside the Collector’s Edition.

Farming Simulator 22 Collector’s Edition content

Modding Video Tutorials
PC Game
2x A2 poster
USB Beacon Light
24 Brand Stickers
Get your working beacon light and more!

With the Collector’s Edition comes a working beacon light. Plugged in via USB, it will respond to the beacon light of your tractor in-game as soon as you turn it on in Farming Simulator 22.

On top of the beacon, there are new video tutorials for modders – whether you thought of starting to mod or want to refine your modding skills. New tutorials show you how it’s done. Using the free 3D creation suite Blender, you’ll be able to integrate an existing 3D model into Farming Simulator 22 step by step.

We learn about the Material UV Array, nodes, seperating, skinning, animations and more.Two fancy posters to hang up on your walls and a set of stickers featuring various agricultural brands are also included.

Stay tuned for Pre-Order!
Available for PC, the Collector’s Edition releases alongside the standard edition of Farming Simulator for PC, Mac, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Stadia this Fall. The Collector’s Edition will be available while stocks last. Pre-Order starts soon. And, don’t miss this year’s FarmCon from July 21st to July 23rd!

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We have good news and we have bad news. The good news is, FarmCon 21 is officially announced, and you should keep your schedule free from July 21st to July 23rd. Sadly, one of the community team has to say goodbye…

Content of Episode

FarmCon announcement
Answering your questions
A Goodbye from the crew
Community questions answered
What will be the differences in the game between current and last-gen consoles?
Are we able to make suggestions for Farming Simulator 22? If so, where?
Is it ok to listen to the podcast and stream it whilst on Twitch?
How long was the new game in production before an announcement?
Besides community feedback, how do you decide what to fix/change?

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You want a new Farming Simulator, don’t you? You’ll get it: Farming Simulator 22 will come to PC, Mac, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Stadia this Fall!

Once again, the new game takes a big leap forward with new features and improvements as GIANTS Software grows with the series, and we will for the first time self-publish the new title. Watch the CGI reveal teaser-trailer below, it offers a small glimpse of the new game!

Let the good times grow!

Prepare for new crops, new maps, new machines, new brands and more. Oh, and it’s getting snowy, too: The addition of seasonal cycles is also included – as well as other features to be announced soon!

Two new maps plus an updated Erlengrat map will allow for different kinds of farming operations. More than 400 machines and tools from more than 100 authentic agricultural brands including new machine categories will make agriculture, animal husbandry and forestry even more fun than ever.

In short: Farming Simulator 22 will offer more depth thanks to a big variety of new additions and more freedom than ever before.

Engine upgrade boosts performance and realism

Farming Simulator 22 is based on GIANTS Engine 9 and comes with a variety of improvements  like a more realistic AI behavior and richer worlds. With graduated reverberation of motors, gear selection and tonal variations depending on the load, the sound shifts towards more realism. Just to give you an example.

And performance? That’s going to improve, too: DirectX 12 support for Windows, multi-threading optimization, texture streaming, occlusion culling and temporal anti-aliasing amidst other optimizations will give Farming Simulator 22 a boost on all systems – laying the foundation for even more complex mod customization and even pushing the limits of last-gen consoles to enjoy with improved slot usage.

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