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How do I spend 1.3 million dollars trying to bake a cake in Farming Simulator 22, part 1
The holidays are here, and it’s time for gifts, family gatherings, off-tune carols, and huge, dense, disgusting fruit cakes, no one wants and doesn’t need it. In order to enter the festival, I decided to make my own fruit cake-not in cooking games or bakery management simulation games, but in Farming Simulator 22. I will bake the cake completely from scratch.
Making cakes in Farming Simulator 22 (strictly speaking they are strawberry cakes, not fruit cakes, but strawberries are fruits, so close enough) you need eggs, milk, butter, flour, sugar and strawberries. It also means having a bakery to store and mix all these ingredients, a dairy product that turns milk into butter, a mill that turns wheat into flour, a sugar mill that turns beets into sugar, and a greenhouse that grows strawberries. Of course, there are also all the labor and equipment for growing wheat and sugar beets and feeding cows and chickens. There are many problems that need to be solved, especially for newcomers to “Simulation Farm 22”, but starting the game with $1.5 million in cash feels enough. For the cake. right?
When I said I made this cake from scratch, I was serious. I even want to buy a piece of land with no existing fields. I want to create my own damn realm. The land I finally chose was located between the baseball field, the highway exit, and a pile of trees, and it was worth $470,000. Putting in a tractor and a pickup truck, I just spent a third of my starting capital, all I have is a parking lot and some grass next to the highway. It’s time to farm!
Egg
I first built a chicken coop for six people, and then purchased 10 chickens (and a rooster), which can be easily transported to the fence. I bought some chicken feed and a huge trailer, filled it up, and then dragged it to the back of my tractor to Off-Ramp Ranch. Driving a tractor on the highway is strange, but no one seems to mind. I pour the food next to the pen (it always feels good to pour things from the trailer in “Farm Farm 22”) and my chicken is ready. They don’t even need water! After all, it might be easy.
Trees
It will not be easy. I envision clearing all the trees on my land, because what is a farm without negative environmental impact? Facts have proved that this plan is a direct disaster. It involves renting a tree chopper, and I drove to my farm until I found it was “incompatible” with the trees on my land. So, I returned it and bought a chainsaw, but even though I cut a tree, it did not actually tip over. I hit it with my pickup truck (license plate ILOVECAKE). It still hasn’t tipped over.
There is another tree cutter that looks cool, so I rented it and hired an AI assistant to drive it to my farm. The artificial intelligence failed and got stuck repeatedly after hitting a roadside billboard. I started to drive it myself, but the machine was very slow, so I rented a tractor and flatbed trailer, and then labored to pull the machine to my house.
It works, a bit, chewing trees and logs, but it takes forever. My funds have fallen below one million, and I only have 10 chickens and a tree. I have knocked down but have not completely turned into a cover. The clock is ticking. The date in the game is August. I have been until December, and each game day is actually a game month. I can’t try to murder trees all month.
I gave up the trees and started to create my first field, about 6 inches from the edge of the interstate highway. This is where I will make wheat.
wheat
I rented a plow and found that I was not good at straight-line plows. I am also not good at ploughing with crooked lines. I can let artificial intelligence workers handle the field work, but it is not a field, so I have to do this part by myself. It was slow and messy, and I always had to go back to plow the tufts of grass I missed. But after a long and hard day of farming…I am less than half.
I’m leaving Wheat for a while.
Cows
Since my field was half created, I decided to add some cattle products to my work. I should do this first, because when I was defeated by trees, they could have produced milk, and I needed it to make direct milk and make butter. I built a bullpen, and although I can pay extra to transport cattle to it, I really want to bring them here by myself in order to maintain the “from scratch” atmosphere. It’s time to rent more expensive equipment, such as a huge cattle trailer and an honest truck to tow it and drive it to the animal dealer. I spent a long time trying to return to the pick-up point correctly, and then loaded my five cows into a trailer that might be big enough for 50.
As the cows were sent to their enclosure, I noticed that the chickens had laid some eggs! it’s too hot! I have just started my farm and I already have my first ingredient! There are so few eggs that I can lift the pallets without renting a forklift, so I threw them into my pickup truck, drove to the bakery, bought the bakery for $50,000, and stuffed the eggs in it. The bakery will store all my ingredients until I have enough cakes, and then it will start baking them.
I am very happy that I have produced something on my farm, but I suddenly realized that I only have one kind of raw material, I only have half of the arable land, I have not even fed or watered my cows, and I actually don’t. Plant anything. I have spent 700,000 dollars, and I have… some eggs.
Facts have proved that beef food is more complicated than chicken food. You need to buy a bunch of different ingredients, such as hay, grass, and silage, and then pour them all into a huge mixer, and then feed them. It all took me about a hundred years, because I eventually bought another tractor and installed a bag grabbing attachment on the front so I could pour different bags into the mixer I rented.
It turned out that my mixture was not so balanced, but when I drove it to the farm and dumped it in front of the cowshed, it seemed edible. Unlike chickens, cows also need water, so I rented a large water tank, dragged it to the lake with a tractor, filled it up, and hired an AI worker to drive it to the farm. I’m already shocked by how many different equipment I have to rent. At the same time, my field has been completely plowed, and I rented a planter to actually plant my first wheat crops, but I haven’t finished it yet. This worries me because it is September and my bank account has been reduced to 500,000 US dollars. I spent a million! one million.And i still only have Some eggs.
But damn it, all this is still very satisfying. When I grow wheat, the game map registers my field as an actual wheat field. I was identified as a legal crop by the game in a lame, deformed field next to the highway. Technically speaking, I am a farmer.
Strawberry
There is no end to the things I need to spend money to buy a flimsy cake. I built a greenhouse, filled it with water from my tank, and asked it to grow strawberries. It was completed very quickly, and soon there was a complete pallet outside. The greenhouse does not seem to be as complicated as the cows. I spent a while on a rented forklift trying to load a pallet of strawberries into another rented trailer (I now have about 700 pieces of different equipment), then gave up and drove my tractor (still connected to the planter) to the strawberries The bakery held onto the bag grabber. Farmer Chris began to fall apart at the seams.
I finally realized that I could let the greenhouse automatically distribute the strawberries to the bakery instead of making it myself, even though I did get fun from the things on the map. On the bright side, my bakery now has eggs and strawberries, and it’s just… my goodness, it’s October. I have two months to create wheat and turn it into flour, grow beets and turn them into sugar (which means creating and growing another piece of land), and make my cows produce enough milk to produce milk and butter.
I think I might be messed up. Listen to Part 2 tomorrow.