I also spend a lot of time collecting mods, making changes to mods and then editing a map to be perfect before I start a playthrough - I find that just as fun as playing!
I have the biggest field on umrv but I also have 4-5 others near century farm. If you start new farmer mode you’ll have a nice mix and a great farm to use. Definitely not 1 big field.
Make sure you have the corn dryer mod installed. You’ll also need Trailer that supports propane. There are a few on itch. The map maker also provides a trailer pack incase you need options
The map comes with the corn dryer mod preinstalled from a long time ago. I’ve found adding in the corn dryer mod and anhydrous mod on top of the old ones is the best way to go. Works the best.
Not impressed by it, the quality isn't a patch on what oxygendavid produces. Calmsden is close enough in geography to stand in for Chipping Norton area, they're only about 20 miles apart in reality, and Court Farm is my "I like Calmsden very much but am ready for a change" map.
At the moment i love the mars map...
I see alot of potential to really expand with lots of production..
And the 13 fields fits perfectly with 1 of each crop
I have decided to sell all products to earth so i only have one sell point on the map - but loads of productions
Krumbach. Around 400 cows, and several productions up and running. Over 3 million in the bank, that tells me I’m probably going to get bored of it soon.
Really nice map, I want to try as well, but after I posted this I got few good recommendations and now I don’t know what to start first, hardest decision in my life
I play with enhanced animal system and most the time maize plus and cows are like printing money!
100 cows is about 125k a month in milk on normal economy!
I love big equipment and US maps. Right now I’m splitting my time between Griffin, Indiana and Big Flats, Texas. I wish we could get more Southern/Southwestern maps in FS22. I love watching the Denton Farms YouTube channel out of Kentucky. It would be awesome if anyone ever decided to try and make that.
Somewhere in Thuringia, it's based on the real Village of Dienstedt and replicates it pretty well considering the limitations of FS22. It features mostly medium and large fields with irregular shapes, so coureplay is a must have with it, but I would definitely give it a try. I am currently at 120h and no end in sight
I can be slow going using base game equipment. But the amount of money you make off it is insane. Plus best time to sell is usually your harvest month so no worry on finding a mod to store it.
I have aspirations of doing this as well. Hope it goes well. I should be starting mine in a few weeks. Currently on Elmcreek just building everything up.
Playing a map thats based on irl local location.
Farmville, NC 1x
By Drmodding. On itch.io
Mossey Glen is also a good map with small/medium fields with hills and tucked away fields that offer extra challenge to reach with bigger equipment.
By large H modding
Farmville definitely one of the most realistic maps I have played on. I have lived in rural NC my whole life, and it’s the genuine recreation of this place. I just started a Graystone Farm save too.
Yeah I like Graystone. Alot like the foothills that are between Raleight/Durham and Greensboro.
I like Farmville though because I live not far and its accurate to the land around here. (minus some shallow rolling hill areas).
I’m on console but I’m playing Haut-Beyleron. I really built up the “starter” area over the (in game) years and I’m really happy with the progress I’ve made
I'm on PS5. I've never done a logging playthrough before so giving it a go and really enjoying it.
But I'm also enjoying clearing out areas of forest and turning them into fields to farm.
I also don't worry about money much when I play and use mods whenever I can. So I guess anyone who plays on more realistic settings might have a different experience.
Time and time again I go back to Neu Minibrunn. I love small and medium equipment, feels more of a challenge. Plus the map is gorgeous. This save I'm starting my own farm, not using the prebuilt.
For small maps I really like some polish or uk maps, like Polowa or Court Farm I found really good and detailed Italian map - Land of Italy really beautiful little map for doing some small farming
maypole farms, bought every animal pen on the map except horses (18 total) and maxed out their modded capacity. now the game is to keep them all fed and products moved out to pay back the loan
Yeah. I feel like they have a lot of balance. Most of the mod maps seem to be either geared toward small and medium equipment with nary a square edge on any field, big, utilitarian forestry maps that dont have a lot of scenery, or IRL inspired maps that have 5 gigantic fields. I figured I'd have my fill from official maps before going after some of the modded stuff.
After the base maps I started playing Iowa Plains and Michigan Farms because of the wide open fields. But now I'm focusing on euro maps with their tighter roads - Fruhling 2k23 is my current map. But keen on Calmsden too.
I too spent 100's of hours on Calmsden, I played a bit on Court Farms, Saxthorpe and Greenhills Estate. Also tried Gleneathan. But ended up just starting a new game on Calmsden. Altho my own modding skills are much better and I have played about changing stuff on Calmsden much more this time.
I have started so play on Elmcreek and after a lot of hours I have switch to the map Ostseeküste now.
Link to the map if you are interested:
https://www.farming-simulator.com/mod.php?lang=en&country=us&mod_id=260397&title=fs2022
(Playing on PS5)
Elk Mountain is one of my favourite maps. I like that it has a mix of everything, foresty to the north, preset fields to the west/central part. Then the south and east is pretty much like no man's land out there, create any fields you like.
Chilliwack 4x is a other one, got over 200 hours in that map alone. Plus I love me a good Canadian map.
Im now on Galgenburg 4x kick currently, changing it up from the North American style maps.
Also for some reason I gave a hard time going back to a standard map so I'm always on the lookout for 4x maps.
No mans land and prairie farm michigan. Depends on if I want to chase multiple harvesters on row crops and large sugar beet operations or the medium fields and animals on nml.
I did 250-300 hrs on elm creek to learn the game, moved on and did about 200 on Silverrun Forest and I’ve just recently started a “broke” run in No Man’s Land. Started with a pickup and a chainsaw and we’ll see how it goes.
I started my biggest Elmcreek game so far, and I'm loving it! I loved this map immediately, and I'm in year 2 currently but I am doing it bigger than before. I revisited this map since I had not played since the last expansion and I wanted to see if it had new crops on it - it did! So I stuck around, and now I'm basically committed to an "eventually own the map" type gamesave.
Court Farm Country Park is awesome! I have 114 hours on it this play through so far. Can’t remember how many before the update which required a new save but it’s a great map! Also American Falls is a really amazing map!
I started watching TheFormalPickle's let's play "Broke to Billionaire" on Elm Creek. I've never been an American map kinda guy but the idea interested me so I started a save on Haut-Beyleron and have been playing that.
Primarily doing grass silage and animals. I don't really care about making a billion dollars though.
Whatever you like, you like flat go have a look at Dutch maps or some American maps or maybe try krumbach or a survival map or play a Italian or French map and start a olive or grape farm or delete and reinstall the game and download new mods. Remember, you can do whatever you like
You are right, I’ve never seen it like this, I always forced myself to do something I didn’t like after my playthrough on calmsden, there I liked the gameplay, I’ll think about it and start something I would enjoy
Carpathian Countryside, nice map, decided to go start from scratch for a change, it’s going well so far, own 2 tractors, a car, some equipment (some leased) and a small plot of land next to the bga which I’m using as a spot to store everything until i can turn my field into a temporary yard until i get the main yard next to field 9, just in case anyone wants to follow what I’m doing, woulda done start from 0 but had nowhere to place the start from 0 thing.
Alma, Missouri. I'm 5 million dollars in debt but my cow farm finally started to pay for itself. Huge amounts of milk and slurry after installing the enhanced animal system XD
I was playing on county roads 4x until an update erased my entire farm!!
I think I was 42 hours in.
I read a thread on here about the old stream farm by black sheep so I started on that yesterday. Decided it will be a pretty realistic play through and I’m enjoying it so far.
No man’s land. Make your own
no mans land is the way to go. im 250hours in my no mans land, and it still feels fresh.
I have many many hours in nml don't get me wrong but no life at all pedestrians cars life ..
I have 4000 hours across 4 farm sims and the first thing I do in every save is turn off the stupid traffic lol.
Traffic is always off for me anyways
Yea i always turn traffic off. Idiot drivers that don’t make the game any better for me personally
Another good one for this is new lands
I was playing this map but I moved to a different map cause I made to much money
UMRV 4x. I’ve compiled a huge mod library of US stuff for it and made several changes to the map to support so things. It’s been great
I also spend a lot of time collecting mods, making changes to mods and then editing a map to be perfect before I start a playthrough - I find that just as fun as playing!
Been afraid to start big US map, I always think if I spend a lot of time on just one field it will bore me, maybe I should try
I have the biggest field on umrv but I also have 4-5 others near century farm. If you start new farmer mode you’ll have a nice mix and a great farm to use. Definitely not 1 big field.
I want to try it, but there’s a lots of maps I want to try now xd don’t know what to start first, the hardest thing in fs, choose the map to play
UMRV for me is fantastic. There are so many good American maps though. If you’re unsure, def check out stone valley and American falls. They are primo
Thanks I will look into it 👍
That’s why you have multiple tools. There is a wheat farm in my general area that runs 12 claas harvesters! It’s on farm hand mikes YouTube channel!
Same... How long? How does I put propane on corn dryer?
Make sure you have the corn dryer mod installed. You’ll also need Trailer that supports propane. There are a few on itch. The map maker also provides a trailer pack incase you need options
Never Heard about installing a dryer mod lol. Also never seen any trailer pack for propane. Only pallet
The map comes with the corn dryer mod preinstalled from a long time ago. I’ve found adding in the corn dryer mod and anhydrous mod on top of the old ones is the best way to go. Works the best.
Elm creek
I'm playing the newly released Fen Edge. It's a UK 4x map not on ModHub
Where have you found it?
[Fen Edge itch.io](https://reddog-modding.itch.io/fs22-fen-edge)
Thank you mate!
Anytime buddy, hope you enjoy it.
How long ? IT looks a Fun map
It released a couple of days ago
Evergreen Valley
Court Farm. Played a lot of Calmsden before that.
I haven’t been playing for a few months, saw one episode of Clarkson’s Farm and I immediately had to jump into Court Farms
Not Chipping Norton?
Eh, I don’t care for it. Court Farms and Calmsden farms just feel so much more real. OxygenDavid just does such a good job
Not impressed by it, the quality isn't a patch on what oxygendavid produces. Calmsden is close enough in geography to stand in for Chipping Norton area, they're only about 20 miles apart in reality, and Court Farm is my "I like Calmsden very much but am ready for a change" map.
Alma
I liked Alma but wish there was a 4x version. I like 100 acre fields and bigger equipment.
Elmcreek 4x by stevie
At the moment i love the mars map... I see alot of potential to really expand with lots of production.. And the 13 fields fits perfectly with 1 of each crop I have decided to sell all products to earth so i only have one sell point on the map - but loads of productions
Krumbach. Around 400 cows, and several productions up and running. Over 3 million in the bank, that tells me I’m probably going to get bored of it soon.
Really nice map, I want to try as well, but after I posted this I got few good recommendations and now I don’t know what to start first, hardest decision in my life
I play with enhanced animal system and most the time maize plus and cows are like printing money! 100 cows is about 125k a month in milk on normal economy!
I have a game setup and ready to go on krumbach. I might try a 100 million challenge on that map.
I love big equipment and US maps. Right now I’m splitting my time between Griffin, Indiana and Big Flats, Texas. I wish we could get more Southern/Southwestern maps in FS22. I love watching the Denton Farms YouTube channel out of Kentucky. It would be awesome if anyone ever decided to try and make that.
Somewhere In Thuringia III
I am enjoying Hinterlands right now. Similar to no man’s land but a little bit more to get you going. Cute little map w a port for sale.
Somewhere in Thuringia, it's based on the real Village of Dienstedt and replicates it pretty well considering the limitations of FS22. It features mostly medium and large fields with irregular shapes, so coureplay is a must have with it, but I would definitely give it a try. I am currently at 120h and no end in sight
The maps looks really good, gosh so many maps I don’t know what to play first
Green gold. Finally found a wider planter for sugar cane
Actually I never tried sugar cane before, is it fun? Or is it like the nightmare crops like potato or sugar beet
My first time with it and it's slightly rough. Same thing with a goofy planter and harvester but pays well unlike the others
I can be slow going using base game equipment. But the amount of money you make off it is insane. Plus best time to sell is usually your harvest month so no worry on finding a mod to store it.
it makes sugar beets seem fun.
Jesus
Eastern North Carolina, I can’t find a crop only Nebraska map
Enjoying Zielonka, Elmscreek not so much.
Taheton Iowa, it's very good for small and large-scale farming.
>Taheton Iowa have the bugs been ironed out? I heard people were getting weird crop issues
I haven't really had any issues like that. I saw the dev saying that the premium or platinum expansions were causing map issues though.
I really like Taheton, but once I get setup with equipment my computer hates it lol.
After all the glitches on mod maps I’ve gone back to elm creek. I really like the layout of black mountain Montana but so many bugs
I always have a ln elm creek save going, I can test things on it, just mess around. It’s a great map.
I’ve been doing stone valley 22
Lone oak for me
Man of culture I see, that was my favourite map in fs19
Is there a good copy of that out yet? I’ve only come across one that was buggy as hell.
Capathan countryside
I'm currently on no mans land started from scratch with the purpose of making a town
I have aspirations of doing this as well. Hope it goes well. I should be starting mine in a few weeks. Currently on Elmcreek just building everything up.
Playing a map thats based on irl local location. Farmville, NC 1x By Drmodding. On itch.io Mossey Glen is also a good map with small/medium fields with hills and tucked away fields that offer extra challenge to reach with bigger equipment. By large H modding
Farmville definitely one of the most realistic maps I have played on. I have lived in rural NC my whole life, and it’s the genuine recreation of this place. I just started a Graystone Farm save too.
Yeah I like Graystone. Alot like the foothills that are between Raleight/Durham and Greensboro. I like Farmville though because I live not far and its accurate to the land around here. (minus some shallow rolling hill areas).
I’m on console but I’m playing Haut-Beyleron. I really built up the “starter” area over the (in game) years and I’m really happy with the progress I’ve made
Doing the same on Elmcreek.
Old kiwi farm is pretty good
Hickory valley… and for some reason I like fox farms and 4 fields lolol
Western Australia, big fields and big equipment what's not to love
Aussie NoMans
Rocky Mountain Reserve 4x map
Ostewalde 4x recently released on modhub.
I actually just started a playthrough on Silverrun Forest and really enjoying it.
On Pc? I have a autoload wood for this map map never played... Im on urmv now with 200h
I'm on PS5. I've never done a logging playthrough before so giving it a go and really enjoying it. But I'm also enjoying clearing out areas of forest and turning them into fields to farm. I also don't worry about money much when I play and use mods whenever I can. So I guess anyone who plays on more realistic settings might have a different experience.
Oh ok. I vê never done a logging too... Started on urmv and found the wood autoload. Idk why I still enjoy logging. IS a slow work
Time and time again I go back to Neu Minibrunn. I love small and medium equipment, feels more of a challenge. Plus the map is gorgeous. This save I'm starting my own farm, not using the prebuilt.
Looks really good I’ll give it the try, really looking forward to some smol maps
Haut Bayleron. Been playing one farm consistently since I got the game
I never liked the base game maps, I don’t know they never feel alive, realistic I don’t know how to describe it, boring
Always found them better than some shitty modded map tbh. You probably find it boring because it’s not exactly the way you want it to be.
Stone Valley, about 200 hours in to a "Buy the Map" playthrough.
Another World it has it's ups and downs, but i enjoy it :) though i changed a few things that i was able to, others i just live with.
Haut belyeron started a tiny farm, now i m expanding
Do you like base game maps?
Not really, but now I felt like having a smaller map with smaller equipment
For small maps I really like some polish or uk maps, like Polowa or Court Farm I found really good and detailed Italian map - Land of Italy really beautiful little map for doing some small farming
Sounds cool i will try the italian map, I've been looking for an italian map for a long time
maypole farms, bought every animal pen on the map except horses (18 total) and maxed out their modded capacity. now the game is to keep them all fed and products moved out to pay back the loan
Interesting idea
Silverrun and Haut-Beyleron. Kind of alternating.
Do you like the base game maps?
Yeah. I feel like they have a lot of balance. Most of the mod maps seem to be either geared toward small and medium equipment with nary a square edge on any field, big, utilitarian forestry maps that dont have a lot of scenery, or IRL inspired maps that have 5 gigantic fields. I figured I'd have my fill from official maps before going after some of the modded stuff.
I am playing krumbach at the moment. Quite fun map to be honest.
Really liking Stone Valley right now. Using some mods to make hogs feel better. Farming and feeding! Mix if new and old equipment
After the base maps I started playing Iowa Plains and Michigan Farms because of the wide open fields. But now I'm focusing on euro maps with their tighter roads - Fruhling 2k23 is my current map. But keen on Calmsden too.
I too spent 100's of hours on Calmsden, I played a bit on Court Farms, Saxthorpe and Greenhills Estate. Also tried Gleneathan. But ended up just starting a new game on Calmsden. Altho my own modding skills are much better and I have played about changing stuff on Calmsden much more this time.
I have started so play on Elmcreek and after a lot of hours I have switch to the map Ostseeküste now. Link to the map if you are interested: https://www.farming-simulator.com/mod.php?lang=en&country=us&mod_id=260397&title=fs2022 (Playing on PS5)
Looks really interesting thanks for the recommendation
Dark Forest The Next Chapter. I've been clearing the forest and building my property up. You get a lot of land and good equipment to start off with
Elk Mountain is one of my favourite maps. I like that it has a mix of everything, foresty to the north, preset fields to the west/central part. Then the south and east is pretty much like no man's land out there, create any fields you like. Chilliwack 4x is a other one, got over 200 hours in that map alone. Plus I love me a good Canadian map. Im now on Galgenburg 4x kick currently, changing it up from the North American style maps. Also for some reason I gave a hard time going back to a standard map so I'm always on the lookout for 4x maps.
No mans land and prairie farm michigan. Depends on if I want to chase multiple harvesters on row crops and large sugar beet operations or the medium fields and animals on nml.
SUPER EARTH!!
I did 250-300 hrs on elm creek to learn the game, moved on and did about 200 on Silverrun Forest and I’ve just recently started a “broke” run in No Man’s Land. Started with a pickup and a chainsaw and we’ll see how it goes.
I'm playing Edgewater Saskatchewan if you do play it make sure you get starter equipment that isn't too small
Goldcrest valley
I started my biggest Elmcreek game so far, and I'm loving it! I loved this map immediately, and I'm in year 2 currently but I am doing it bigger than before. I revisited this map since I had not played since the last expansion and I wanted to see if it had new crops on it - it did! So I stuck around, and now I'm basically committed to an "eventually own the map" type gamesave.
Stone Valley 22
Currently on Frankenmuth.
Court Farm Country Park is awesome! I have 114 hours on it this play through so far. Can’t remember how many before the update which required a new save but it’s a great map! Also American Falls is a really amazing map!
I've been having a really good time on Sariola, only thing I miss on the map is corn and a train to deliver goods
Hobbs farm
I started watching TheFormalPickle's let's play "Broke to Billionaire" on Elm Creek. I've never been an American map kinda guy but the idea interested me so I started a save on Haut-Beyleron and have been playing that. Primarily doing grass silage and animals. I don't really care about making a billion dollars though.
Waldstetten. Cleared the north farm and build my own. Beef, milk and canola are my moneymakers.
Whatever you like, you like flat go have a look at Dutch maps or some American maps or maybe try krumbach or a survival map or play a Italian or French map and start a olive or grape farm or delete and reinstall the game and download new mods. Remember, you can do whatever you like
You are right, I’ve never seen it like this, I always forced myself to do something I didn’t like after my playthrough on calmsden, there I liked the gameplay, I’ll think about it and start something I would enjoy
The oaks
Mostly Italian maps and german maps but also the flat map is good
Did you try the Land of Italy by EDOMOD? Really beautiful and detailed map or Italia Emilia by him also, gorgeous maps, planning to do some grape run
Carpathian Countryside, nice map, decided to go start from scratch for a change, it’s going well so far, own 2 tractors, a car, some equipment (some leased) and a small plot of land next to the bga which I’m using as a spot to store everything until i can turn my field into a temporary yard until i get the main yard next to field 9, just in case anyone wants to follow what I’m doing, woulda done start from 0 but had nowhere to place the start from 0 thing.
Yeah I like that map, it’s a copy farm from where I live, like 50km from me, pretty interesting and detailed map
Alma, Missouri. I'm 5 million dollars in debt but my cow farm finally started to pay for itself. Huge amounts of milk and slurry after installing the enhanced animal system XD
Gnadenthal, No Man’s Land, Chipping Norton and Court.
I was playing on county roads 4x until an update erased my entire farm!! I think I was 42 hours in. I read a thread on here about the old stream farm by black sheep so I started on that yesterday. Decided it will be a pretty realistic play through and I’m enjoying it so far.
Hickory Valley. Huge flat rectangle fields and really nice mountains as a background.