Top 10 Tips for Beginners in Farming Simulator 19

Hopefully if you are new to the game these tips will help you get off your feet!

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[Bergyn]

Another tip if using a helper :
In settings turn off helper refill fuel, seed, fertilizer. But most importanrly fuel since you start the game with a full fuel tank. Will save a lot of money.

[autumnpixiedust]

I am new to FS19. I bought the game because I was a HUGE Harvest Moon addict back in the days. I love seeing all those glorious fruits/vegetables grow as days went by, plucking them and selling them.
But dang, when I first started FS19 I was so overwhelmed by how much more realistic the farming mechanics are. The tutorial at the beginning of the New Farmer mode was superficial to say the least. They looked like they are made for veterans of the game rather than newbies

[craigsayner]

Another tip, when selling equipment sell it at the shop, you get more money for the equipment rather then selling it from your garage.

[bucketofsteam]

I got this game for my son who is 3. He loves farm and construction videos on YouTube so I figured if he can drive a tractor around it's better than just watching videos. My plan was to just get him a tractor, but that was already available first thing so I started looking into how to actually play and before I knew it, it was 1 AM.... Thanks for the tutorials.

[gamesguitarsandcars]

Couple friends and I started playing FS19 about a week ago. So far we are digging it and even rented a server to play on together. Really like your tip video and tests, I've been learning a ton from your other series as well. Keep up the great content!

Side note, thank you for your service. I know its a tough time to be an officer but there are tons of people out there who respect and appreciate what you do daily.

[oseh]

Advanced hints: Look after your money.

Leasing things with engines can get pricey very quickly - leasing equipment not so much, something like a plow is only used after you have harvested certain crops (or when you buy a field), so they're quite cheap to lease and just leave sitting around. But if you're not growing those "certain crops" then lease and return when you buy a new field is certainly acceptable.

Workers cost money - when you start out you might be running a tight budget, do as much of the work for yourself as you can (even sell all but 1 starting tractor, just so you're not tempted). I usually wait until the first harvest before I start hiring workers, because when the harvest is coming in the farm is making money!

Avoid loans for equipment - taking out a loan to buy a bigger tractor and bigger equipment is generally a bad idea, the equipment will lose value almost immediately, so if you get in trouble you'll never get that investment back, stick with the smaller equipment you started with. Yes it takes longer, but what else do you have to do in the mean time?? However, sometimes it is ok to buy equipment as you need it, and the closer you are to harvest, the closer you are to making money to pay down that loan - so borrow money for a corn header, then use the corn proceeds to pay back the loan!

Loans for land might be ok - Land does not lose value, so if you find yourself cash strapped, you can sell the land you just bought for the same amount as you paid for it, and eliminate that part of the loan.

When you start going for the more advanced starts - farm manager and start from scratch - buy what you need as you need it, and spend as little as possible to get the job you need done. Small is not bad, it just means each task you're doing will take longer - it's a fine balance between field size, equipment size and tractor capability to make a start. You can worry about more/bigger later when the farm is making money - but until that first harvest is in and sold, you don't know your profit and cannot gage what new stuff/land you can afford to add. If you did it right your starting equipment will last you a long time, but eventually you'll get more land (more land = more income!) and you'll start to feel that your equipment now takes too long to do stuff - that is the time to start upgrading.

And a throwaway tip: Make sure your biggest 2 tractors can work all of your equipment - the last thing you need is having only 1 tractor that can do the mowing, cultivating and planting, because then jobs will be queuing for when it frees up. Note that doesn't mean the tractors have to be the same size, just that the equipment you have needs to be compatible - and they won't be the same size when you start upgrading.

[Jamie-vore]

Just getting started cheers for the advice

[truegameplay]

I remember when I got fs17 it was out for a while and in like a week Of owning it I had 20gb of mods installed

[ericd]

I suggest buying a seeder that lets you seed directly without cultivating. Saves you a step. Also, buy one that fertilizes while you are seeding. With the precision farming update, usually you don't have to fertilize again after you seed, you just have to lime.

[redturbo]

I have been playing FS19 for just over a year, & still enjoy the challenge of playing a map with no mods. Great videos like this helped me greatly when I started playing. 👍👍

[SteveW-K]

Definitely do contracts! I am fairly new (less than 40 hours) and I do contracts. I drive the equipment to the field and hire a worker to complete the job while I work the home farm. I only do $7k and up contracts, and have many running at once. I can make $100, 000 to $250, 000 in 1 game day just in contracts.

[nortalian]

Two things I’ve noticed from my short time playing, one which sort of contradicts your #10.

1. When doing contracts that involve harvesting, harvest and sell EVERYTHING before you mark it as finished- especially if you are borrowing equipment. Oftentimes you will find that you still have some extra harvest on the field/in your truck once the contract is marked as complete. If you sell the leftovers, you will get money as if you were selling your own harvest, but as soon as you mark the contract as complete, you will lose access to the field and any borrowed equipment, including whatever was inside them.

2. You can do mowing contracts to see how to complete them. This way you will get everything you need to actually fulfill the contract. But make sure you do it in the proper order. I remember the time I baled the grass before I dried it and then had to cancel the contract.

[SuperDriver]

I’m fairly new to farm sim, lost about a week into this game. I started out of the gate watching some coop series plays on YouTube and growing up on a farm figured this game was worth the $29 quickly started stacking in hours. I started as farm manager, but with small equipment, very basic stuff and a few small fields and keep them producing, I got two small tractors and small implements and whatever I’m not using I throw out on bigger paying contracts with a helper in it while I’m cutting and selling all my perimeter grass as silage. So far I’ve had lots of success with it. But the game has very little in the way of help in it. Fortunately YouTube exists.

[hassandabo]

Never really played Farming Simulator but loved watching vids back in the day. now I'm trying to get into the ggame

[alexanderhutse]

This video give me the courage to start over this game. Played it for 5minutes when we received it on ps plus. But after little big workshop I’m back in this kind of games. But looks difficult

[TheOrangeDealer]

A am a veteran from fs11 and i just wondered how what tips other people would give to new players
Ok tips i recommend get some mods made by giants at the start

[markhackett]

To start with different mods, go filter to the GIANTS ones, just to see how to deal with the mod system. Frequently they just give another thing that is like all the others, however. E.g. "another 3m cultivator" or "another medium tractor that gets 120-180HP and goes 31mph", but for many other mods (non-GIANTS) they bring things that are really so much cheaper than the base version but do the same thing, you're left with a no-brainer which can make your games all seem the same. If you keep using the trailer that is 1/3 the price of the Krone but just as big, the harvester that is 1/2 the price and enough power for a 9m header, etc, then you lose the reason to use anything else: you "lose" so much because a mod just is "too cheap to not use". So most mods you should start with should be of machines you like the look of or ones you know or have seen and want to play with. And GIANTS do a decent job of adding more of those to the mix in their mods.

[maurorodriguez]

Awesome tutorial! I would say to start with canola and soybeans because the straw thingy, at first it's kinda hard to pick up, specially bales and all that, unless you have an automatic bale loader you're going to lose a lot of time and get frustrated quickly. I know I did when I first started and I returned to the game during quarantine because I wanted a long one

[chiefersutherland]

Yesss! Thank you so much for this❤ immensely grateful. You surely stopped me from completely bailing on this series.

[goosemcgoosey]

A big tip for people. If u have seed on the ground after dumping it from your trailer. Buy the elevated belt system and use it to feed seed from the ground into the back of the seeder. Make sure u lower the seeder