Farming Simulator 22 Beginners Guide: 5 Things I WISH I Knew When Getting STARTED!

[@bobbywelch6035]

I found out by accident, borrow equipment for one contract and use the same equipment to complete other contracts after accepting contracts. Don't complete the borrowed equipment contract until you have completed the others.

[@MisledPlays]

That’s always a great way to approach those contracts!

[@andrewlynham606]

Does that work? I always see a warning popping up saying that this equipment is not contracted for that field..

[@bobbywelch6035]

@@andrewlynham606 it works on contract fields, not on the fields you own. I have seen that message also, but it will stop after the worker gets into the field. I am using the PS4 version of the game.

[@abaa1707]

Lol... I just stumbled into this by chance also as I accidentally accepted a second contract... Regardless to say, this is how i do things now..

[@kariolm2579]

I'd extend this and say always use contract equipment unless yours is better (bigger but not impractically big or, for example, have a wrapping baler). The cost of teaking contract equipment is always cheaper then the maintenance costs.

[@danielcampbell3686]

Great intro, like you when I started. I knew nothing was just looking for something different to play. I love it now. I've been playing since FS 15, and every new version it gets better and better. My mates were like a "farming game", no way would I play that. Now, 4 of them play, and I could have sworen I saw my wife trying to plow a field, the other night lol.

[@anilgopie]

I started on FS19 on PS4, was a free game on PS Plus. Had to watch a good few tutorials. Didn't think I would get FS22, I ended up buying that. Thought I would stop there, but recently the new stuff coming out in FS25, I had to pre-order that! lol...but there are things that are still difficult for me, love watching tutorial, tips videos

[@REDRAIDER83]

Really good starter video! I started with this farm and didn't have a clue where to start. I cropped and sold all my wheat. (Big mistake) In my opinion.... Buy 20-30 chickens Buy bakery to send all eggs to. Sell 2 tractors and buy a second tractor so you only have 2x tractors. Sell your car as its worth a fortune and by the jeep. Make sure you upgrade the jeep to pull a large trailer then download a autoload trailer from the mods. In my opinion at the beginning the speed of transporting goods was a problem. After that do a few contracts but rent the equipment until you have enough for the grain mill...then purchase that.

[@MisledPlays]

All are some solid starting options, thats for sure!

[@robinhodgkinson]

All good advice..mostly. : ) Starting in farm manager…. If you want to get rich quick so you can buy bigger “toys” and have develop a big farm... Borrow as much money as you can - the interest is low. Don’t spend it all - keep a couple of hundred thousand- you have to pay workers, interest, keep enough to replant etc etc. Buy big fields of the crops that return the most. Lease larger equipment for those larger fields. (Especially a good idea if you use the “lease to own” mod - you’re basically paying it off and can pay the balance and buy it at any point in the future). Fill your silo, cash in when prices max, pay back some loan, buy some of the gear, repeat for next season. Then if you want to go over to the dark side you can do some field flipping… it’s a soft cheat, but the game makes it easy. On purpose I think. Buy field, harvest, sell field…buy new field, harvest it…. You get the idea.

[@MisledPlays]

Definitely a great way to start, Farm Manager is nice to give people the chance to buy a lot of fields with some mid equipment, or, go big on equipment with a few mid fields and to your point… have some money left over! I plan on doing another video showing some various ways you can begin the game (mainly for newer players) and share some techniques to help with early game progression! I appreciate the comment and sharing some techniques with the community!

[@mattsmith5421]

Downloaded this and went straight on start from scratch hard mode clueless bought a huge field in middle of Alps mowed grass for my animals I'm going to have eventually found out I've made silage bails bought stuff for delivering logs found out I can't load trailer without knocking it on its side sold it bought a wood chipper can't find anywhere to sell chips apart from fellsbrun which after an hour of driving round I think is a mythical land don't own a delivery trailer for bails nor have any money and owe 500k to bank. Currently ploughing other people's land to get 55k for a woodchip selling place to sell chips to get a trailer to deliver my 200 bails and complete my path to redemption and get back in the game.

[@MisledPlays]

The game can be a beast to learn in the early stages!

[@midnite]

As a beginner with no farming knowledge, I’ve watched a couple other videos before this and yours is the best one! Thank you for the context around the processes and tips.

[@SoberDon74]

Useful information. My 5 year old son actually got my wife and I interested in this game lol. It has become quite addictive but very fascinating and interesting in how the game works. This game is just good clean family friendly fun fun fun. And, the base game is free on playstation plus this month 👍 Good job man!

[@MisledPlays]

It’s such a fun game that can be enjoyable in a variety of ways! Glad y’all are enjoying it as a family, that’s awesome!

[@nexxtekk]

19:15 If you don't see all filter options under Soil composition - check you havn't enabled Precision Farming. Xlnt vid - today I learn 😊

[@KTT1985]

I recommend that those on farm manager go into build mode and place a generator based on what income you want to bring in. I always place the government funded sign which gives 8.4 million per month. Fast forward one day then delete the sign. But there are other signs or things in the mod hub you can install to quickly generate income

[@MisledPlays]

The government subsidy signs are clutch for some big bucks!

[@paulhudson8321]

Thanks for taking the time to help us new farmers out. I really enjoy the game I’m a real farmer too. But lately my game crashes a lot getting really frustrating. If giants tests these mods then why all the conflicts. They should make a way of identifying which mod or script is the problem so we can report it and have it removed. I don’t use any 3 rd party mods only through mod hub.

[@MisledPlays]

I’m glad the video was helpful! I sometimes come across glitches with some mods at times. I think one of the next few episodes I’m going to work on is going to discuss installing mods and managing those. Like you said, they can be frustrating when it affects gameplay value!

[@DanimalUpchurch]

I like that, "there's no wrong way to play this game" from ultra realistic to infinite money and everything in between, I got a few completely different saves myself...

[@MisledPlays]

Only limited by your imagination for the game is all! It’s just fun to have that flexibility in a game!

[@waithatscrazy]

Thank you for this video. I have watched multiple at this point and they bypass everything you went over, and get straight to strategies or it is implied we know the basic steps leading up to what they demonstrate. This was super helpful to someone who tried to figure it out alone on Easy and it was ... not so easy lol. Simulator games really just throw you in there!

[@CoryAY82383]

Another thing I will suggest early on is keep an eye on used market (%). That is a great place to get budget equipment and I'll use an example of my current game. I have the MF 8700 mod installed and including maintenance was half price of new for a 400hp tractor. Also I've focus on oil mill and lumber mill.

[@theclosetcarpenter7172]

Great job! Finally, I found a channel with a great way of explaining things. Thanks!

[@TG-Maverick22]

Thank you so much for this guide which is not the generic tour guide the game offers.

[@so-roadkill]

Great tutorial vid but 1 thing i noticed is you were slightly wrong about the sell point you can purchase this via the buildings menu under production sell points this is because some of the maps wont have sertain things sutch as the map you are on may not have the quary but it can be built and for this u will need a sales point.. i hope this helps you aswell as others

[@weztankersley2293]

Thank you for your excellent gameplay breakdown. I’ve been playing for quite a while and still picked up some great tips. Nicely done.

[@MisledPlays]

Glad to help!

[@goldengrain9851]

When i first started i was running around in the field stacking my bales by hand.

[@connorsawyer2418]

Putting baby bales in the back of my pickup we’ve all been there

[@goldengrain9851]

@@connorsawyer2418 exactly my little red pick up was loaded, bales falling off when, I hit the brakes.😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@wmgthilgen]

Your field ready for harvest state's it only going to yeild some 38%, and at the bottom, states zero fertilizer. However, being on the bottom mean's you should have fertilized prior, doing it now will ruin yield when running over it with the tracktor and fertilzer, thus adding it after the crop is grown becomes a moot point. Some field's ready for harvest will at the bottom have a zero plowing which should be zero "PLOWED". Becaues plowing after it's grown, will simple plow the entire crop under, thus zero yield. If and when you are going to harvest a field, what ever the yield state's, is like it or not, what that current yield will be. Thus prior to planting, "ALWAYS" utilze the map, which will inform you as to it needing plowing, fertilizing, etc. etc. etc. first. Once seeded, except for weeding in it's earily growth, basically to late to do anyting else that wont't crush the product, and thus cause less yield. In real life one see's or can view, field's with numerious tractor mark's. Basically there row's of seeding's are in row's. Thus allowing a farmer to do what ever they wish to the field without lessing any of the prospected yield. But then this is a game, so real physic's are not an issue. In the day's of old, north of the frost line, no one cultivated, they only plowed. Plowing with 12 inch teeth would bring rock's to the surface, that the frost, which goes some 6 feet deep, push up near and to the top of the surface. Plowing brings them up, destone, get's rid of them for the year. But then next winter's frost will push more up. South of the frost line one can utilize either a shallow or deep cultivator, which when there's no frost, after the first time plowing, there's never going to be large rocks or stones. And thus a shallow or deep cultivator will bring up if there are any, to be destoned. Once a filed south of the frost line has been deep plowed and the rock's and stones removed. The field never need's to be "PLOWED" again, simply using a cultivator, and picking which like a roller, will push small stone back down a bit. Which then make any and all damage to a harvestor, considerably less. In my youth some 75 year's ago, I use to assit in destoneing field's after plowing, and in as much as I lived in the middle of Minnesota, cultivation didn't work, one plowed each and every year. Which had to aspect's to it. One it plowed the last year's growth under, and brough up stones, rock's and even boulder's, Which then when there wasn't a machine, had to be picked up by hand and tossed into a trailer which at the time was a horse drawn wagon. Needless to say it was a long endevor doing 40 acre's every single year. When the farmer I worked for, finally bought a tractor, the first attachment he bought along with it was a destoner. Paid me the same, but taking less time, I ended up making less money and had to get another farmere to hire me to drive and destone his field. Cultivator's are only of any usefullness, basically south of the frost line, where once the big boulder's, rock's and smaller stone's have been removed. They stay removed, which then one generally only roll's and add's fertilzer prior to planting. Weeding when first noticed, mean's not needing any herbicide. Which saves a lot of money and good for the enviroment when it doesn't seep into the water table or in part end up in your food.

[@thetristateangler8886]

I thought you did a good job on the points you were making. I will admit I’m new at this game and I helped me understand the chart of the price fluctuation and storage of grain for a later selling date.

[@chadmarsolais2247]

Good video I like to start from scratch and pay back the loan I do contracts and work my way up starting with used equipment and go from thrre

[@SuspiciousActivity871]

The best place to build a farm on Elmcreek is between the covered bridge and field 11. I’ll die on this hill…

[@MisledPlays]

I’m going to further investigate this, and perhaps a future Elmcreek series may be in order!

[@shawnanderson1622]

You can go into setting an turn everything off. So getting stressed about lime an plowing is not necessary

[@MisledPlays]

It’s a necessary step with using precision farming. I don’t mind doing it at all, just was weird how those couple spots had issues was all.

[@chernoawe7894]

Dude you explained it perfectly I was able to pick up lot from this video thank you 🙌🏾

[@MisledPlays]

Happy that the video helped you out so much! More guides are in the works as well!

[@felippejonsson6078]

Ty 👍 The game is abit lacking in the tutorial. Ive got this game for free on ps+ a few days ago. Played it a few hours with my daughter and ended up staying up way to late after she went to bed. Its really fun 😂

[@MisledPlays]

That’s awesome! Once you get the hang of it, the game can absolutely end up keeping you up far too late lol!

[@Nails_19]

Thank you for this video. It was very informative, and it made me want to play the game even more.. With fs19, i didn't know what on earth to do (no pun intended, lol), and fs22 is a lot easier imo, i could be wrong, though. But your video was very enlightening. Thanks for the upload!!

[@soundbeam]

Great video! Didn't need to watch really, but did enjoy watching even tho I did not learn anything new (not that I expected to). Really well made!

[@jaye68313]

Oilseed radish is good it counts as 1 fertilizer. It only takes 1 day to grow an then you cultivate an that's your fertilizer.

[@MisledPlays]

I haven’t messed with Oilseed Radish yet but, knowing this now, I think we may have to venture into it!

[@troybalster3687]

Usually the best time to sell is the month before it says is the best. If I wait till the month the price is already dropping. Usually the best time is the month before late in the day.

[@CS-Benji2020]

Well done, quick question have you played any of the earlier versions of this game.

[@QuisUtDeus828]

Nice video i just got it so im trying to figure out what to do

[@mikescott6247]

I ain’t gonna lie. I’m not playing fs doing things from scratch like the grind time to do that on this game is forever, I got whole life to life an jobs to work. I only plays fs 19 an 22 now if I’m doing a money cheat ab buy whatever an do whatever that’s only way I’ll play

[@MisledPlays]

I totally get that, the grind early game can be very tough! Many different ways to enjoy the game, that’s what’s so cool about FS

[@christopherwells4253]

I look through the contracts that have large/expensive tractors and/or multiple tractors and I take them. then I forget the contract and use the hell out of the "barrowed" Equpment. 5 mill in tractors... FOR FREEEEEEEE!🤣

[@Axalotal]

Off to see it now ❤

[@MullyAKL]

If you own the production, do you only process your own inputs? YOu don't take wheat (for example) from everyone?

[@MisledPlays]

I will work on getting you an answer for this!

[@DarkVoidIII]

This game gets pretty grindy, I turned off a lot of the settings to do with weeds or the extra stuff. Not because I don't understand it, it's because I can't get the Helper to do the rolling. Why, Giants? Why? Why? Why? AI Helper is cool and all but if it won't go do a task I allocate it, I'm done trying to understand that aspect of the game.

[@MisledPlays]

AI workers need a tweak for sure. Oddly shaped fields are absolute nightmare fuel for AI workers, you mentioned it, rolling can be painful, and they just run into trees and everything else. Course Play (mod) works ok, but truthfully, they need some work in future FS titles to make them more reliable, dependable, and efficient.

[@thehomelessmongoose2579]

I found that doing all the edges where the workers might get messed up and let them do a nice square they tend to do good. But I mostly babysit them while they work

[@jaye68313]

Alot of the rolling is a bug in the game. That's why Ai won't roll the only do what is needed you can't force them to do something that doesn't need done.

[@CoryAY82383]

Great video and prefered medium to be honest.

[@Robert-pl1gd]

I have a question. Rolling the field will give you 3-5% bonus. Will that bonus justify spending the money on a roller. Roller costs 40k+ but field bonus only adds couple hundred. Is it worth rolling your fields.

[@josephspruill1212]

I like to buy the land. Harvest the field, and cut the grass. Sell the field back. Sell the yield to the mill. Buy the mill sell the flower to the bakery. Sell the mill, buy the bakery and wait the next month. Talk about maximizing your profit…. My $30k field of wheat turns onto $180-200k. Just from harvesting the wheat and canola fields the first month I make $200k. So that $200k can turn into a million after all the said and done. It’s too easy to make a MILLION in one year game time.

[@borntodrumgaming7880]

What is the best thing to grow for beginners? It seems obvious with things like soy making the most, so is there any reason not to? Why would I grow wheat instead?

[@SandboxJ]

Last night I tried to lime a field that crops were already growing in, it seemed to not work. It still said, it needed Lime and it was not covered in white.

[@MisledPlays]

I believe sometimes if done out of order that can happen. I feel like that’s happened to me before. I tend to do the order of plow-lime-seed-fertilizer-harvest, repeat!

[@Neakco]

This was helpful, thank you

[@MisledPlays]

Glad it was helpful!

[@TheRustDominatorTN]

Looking to make a team, start from scratch playthrough

[@heathclark318]

PC or console

[@TheRustDominatorTN]

@@heathclark318 console

[@birddog0]

How do you walk so fast! I'm on PS4, and my dude walks so slow!

[@rachelpratt-b3j]

how do u open build mode on ps4?

[@MisledPlays]

Try the touchpad on the PS4 controller. This should open the menu where you can also view the shop, scroll down the left side of the screen and there should be a construction page there, you can enter build mode from there. I also would try L1+Touchpad at the same time, I think that is a shortcut to launch you right into build mode. Hope this helps!

[@DarkVoidIII]

You did an okay job of going through the basics, but you should probably have made each of your points a lot clearer. You might want to do a totally new video and properly annotate each point in the video. You can actually set up segments in the video playback bar which separate out each part, and if you figure out how to do that on KZbin, it will make your presentation a whole lot better.

[@MisledPlays]

Solid point and truthfully, I did think about that after I watched it back after uploading. Solid advice and much appreciated! I’ll make a note to do another guided series where the delivery is more precise!

[@sixangrygoons]

@@MisledPlayshow to take feedback 101🫡 salute farmer

[@TheRustDominatorTN]

You on ps5 ?

[@MisledPlays]

I’m on PC, I greatly appreciate the offer. Sounds like it will be a blast!

[@Bob_Piss]

Short?

[@MisledPlays]

Lol, exaggerated short

[@roni1326]

I have no idea how to play this game

[@JW-wr4ep]

Just a hint. 50 min. Video for 5 tips is WAY TOO LONG

[@Robyo12121]

50 minutes for 5 things?! If you're going to make a tips video make it short. If you're making a let's play, make a let's play.

[@MisledPlays]

Thanks for your input

[@kiptanoi4422]

How the hell do you got time for this game then @Robyo12121, if you dont even got time for good content like this.