Farming Simulator 22Â is an amazing game where everyone can do farming the way they want. At the same time, many auxiliary elements can speed up the extraction of useful resources and increase income. One of these is workers and transport, which not all players use effectively. We decided to make a guide on these two components of the game that will take your farm to a new level of profit, of course, if you follow all our tips.
Farming Simulator 22Â is the latest instalment in the most popular farming simulation ever, bringing urban dwellers back to nature, surrounded by cow patties and the hellish heat of the planting season. The novelty adds new categories of agricultural equipment, American and European locations, and even the mechanics of arranging a farmhouse to rural life.
Of the absolute novelties in the game, the system of changing climatic seasons debuts, which radically changes the gameplay – in different seasons, you can plant certain types of crops and harvest at the allotted time. All core mechanics have been updated in an expanded format, including animal breeding, forestry and hunting for wild animals, and new ways to cultivate the soil.
Co-op play for 16 farmers will be more relevant than ever due to the large farm and cultivated fields. Each player can control agricultural equipment, whose model range has reached 500 units – for sowing and harvesting potatoes, wheat, corn, cotton, beans, etc. Equipment can be bought, rented or borrowed from neighbours who have already prepared several dozen tasks and tests.
Release date: November 22, 2021
Developer, publisher: Giants Software
Genre: Simulation / Sandbox
Platform: PC, PS4, PS5, X-One, Xbox X|S, Stadia
Language: English
Use of outsourced employees
Let’s start with the fact that employees in Farming Simulator 22 are the basis for a thriving enterprise. These ” workhorses ” will help you earn and expand the scale of your farm. You will have the opportunity to give subordinates any job for which they will receive a certain salary. At the same time, not everyone understands that before hiring workers for outsourcing, you should pay attention to the settings for your farm. In offline mode, employees themselves can charge for seeds, fertilizers, and even fuel for personal vehicles. Without control, your workers from assistants easily turn into a real disaster that only ruins the business.
In the work settings, you can specify a variety of parameters. For example, always prevent employees from buying products offline on their own. The fact is that AI is often stupid and can mindlessly order you already have resources. It is quite possible to run into a situation where you have enough manure, but employees automatically start spending your money and buying more. Naturally, they need to be banned from doing this. Otherwise, your farm will quickly go bankrupt. So watch your settings carefully.
Hiring
To hire workers, you need to click on the button H. It also makes it possible to stop the actions of your assistants. At the same time, before giving virtual employees work, you must position the combine or any other machine in front of the area to be processed.
Periodically, you will encounter a situation where a virtual employee considers your team to be stupid. I still do not understand why this happens, but something needs to be done about this because you will start wasting time giving commands to the workers and only then will you find that they have not even begun to carry out your order.
For example, workers often refuse to plow a field if they see that at least something is growing on it. It can even be one plant, and you, for example, decide to plant free areas on the field and first want to plow it, but the employee refuses to do it. In this case, get into the car yourself and process a few cells of the field. After that, immediately activate the worker, and then he is already guaranteed to continue plowing the area.
Suppose you find yourself when a worker does not want to use a mulcher or any other module for a certain type of work on the ground. In that case, it is worth doing the same as with the refusal to cultivate the land where at least something grows. This is likely a bug that will disappear in the future, but for now, you have no choice but to show the virtual employee an example immediately. After that, it will continue to work on the machine with the additional module without further questions. Now you know exactly how to make employees work more efficiently, and I hope you will use this advice.
Work with worker settings
As for the work settings, you can find them in the general settings section. In this menu, they are at the very end. By default, all settings are active, and the first thing you should do when starting to play Farming Simulator 22 is to turn it all off. The fact is that initially, employees are set up so that they will spend a lot of your money for nothing. They automatically start buying seeds, fertilizers, fuel and more.
Naturally, at the beginning of the game, you have practically no money, and it makes no sense to spend it on those resources that already give out. In addition, employees automatically buy all this at market prices, and sometimes even more. Why this happens is not clear, but on the other hand, what did you want from AI? In general, remove all automatic purchases in the settings and start managing employees yourself. After some time, when your holdings will increase in scale, and there will be significantly more money, it will be possible to return some settings for employees.
Vehicles
Now we have the turn of transport, which has become a very important part of the game. You have the opportunity to order transport tasks and thus not waste time on self-cultivation of the land. When you order such a task, the employee is automatically given a certain type of transport and a task, for example, to plow a field using a special combination.
As soon as your assistants receive such a task, they immediately get to work. Thus, each player in Farming Simulator 22 it became possible to delegate a lot of monotonous and monotonous work to employees and do only what they like. I recommend ordering transport tasks regularly, and then your farm will not only flourish, but you will also get a lot of pleasure from the gameplay.
How to correctly issue a transport task?
First, you need to go to the menu and find the icon with the steering wheel there. We click on it and select the transport, after which we click “Create task”. Now it remains only to indicate the place on the map where the transport will be delivered and where your employee will start working accordingly. It is also important to indicate the turn so that the worker automatically starts moving in the right direction and completes the task correctly. After everything is selected, you just have to click “Start task”, and you can safely observe the work of your subordinates.
The only problem that may arise during such automatic motor tasks is the worker getting stuck in a certain place. To avoid this, you need to attach some object to the car that is easy to transport. For example, use a trailer that easily accommodates everything you need and won’t confuse the worker.
As a rule, employees move only on paved roads, which is also worth considering. Accordingly, you need to determine the route to solve the problem on the vehicle, taking into account this feature. Well, you should not worry about your buildings, because employees always go around any structures on the farm on the machine to not demolish them.
Common Problems
The employees did their job crookedly in the previous parts of the series, but not everyone remembers this. The following issues have migrated to Farming Simulator 22 :
- An employee may freeze if the ground is full of trees or uneven;
- If a worker is stuck or waiting for the machine to be completely unloaded, he continues to get paid, and you waste your money. In such a situation, he should be fired or rearranged to another task;
- Very often the workers do not perform the tasks under the contract, and you have to do them yourself;
- Notifications about employee problems appear in the upper right corner of the screen, but they quickly disappear. In this regard, it is more convenient to view these notifications in a special menu. You should do this periodically so as not to miss anything and start receiving losses from unfortunate workers.
Why is the field still not processed?
It is also worth noting that employees experience many problems with different types of soil. Workers do not process some fields in the game, and here this is the norm, which in Farming Simulator 22, you just have to put up with and start doing certain tasks instead of your employees yourself. For example, workers will generally not ride on the edges in fields that take up little space, leaving them uncultivated. Naturally, you need to remember this and bring the work to the proper level on your own.
Remember that an employee on a combine can stand in one place if he passes next to a trailer. He does not have access to it, but this bug will supposedly force the virtual dummy to unload the combine, but he will never start it. As a result, such an employee will continue to receive a salary for nothing and never complete the job. So, when giving tasks to employees, try to make sure that they do not meet random trailers on the field.
Employees who work on a sown field can easily damage the crop because they move quite chaotically. To avoid such problems, it is worth installing narrow tires on their vehicles or not sending AI to fertilize or clean the sown field and solve such problems on their own.
And finally, keep a close eye on workers who use machinery with a manual transmission. They usually can’t handle it if the field is uneven. Thus, you should monitor such situations. Otherwise, you will not get the desired result of the work.
Just use the second menu item with the steering wheel icon to keep track of all employees. You can even switch to your subordinates’ machines to get a closer look at their work, and it won’t stop them.
After reading this material, I hope that you have learned a lot about Farming Simulator 22 and started playing it differently. If you follow all our advice, you will have a powerful “assistant” on the farm in the person of employees who will take on most of the routine work and begin to make a profit.Â
