The farm - buildings and starting machines Farming Simulator 15 Guide
Last update: 11 May 2016
The starting farm is the most important place on the whole map. Here you can find your supplies, places in which you can refill fuel and your vehicles. Below, you will find a list of the most important buildings and machines that you can find on the farm.
Buildings
Silo - a place, where you can store your grain (wheat, barley, canola and corn). You can check the current amount of each kind of grain in the warehouse tab, using the PDA [I]. In one of the parts of the building, you can load the grain onto a tipper, by placing it under a pipe sticking out of the central silo. If there's already some kind of grain on the tipper, the same kind will be added to the load. Otherwise, you can choose the kind yourself. At the other side of the silo, there is a place where you can unload the crop, if you don't want to sell it at the moment.
Warehouse - Here you can find the rest of your products - potatoes, sugar beets and wood chips. You place them there by simply driving near the appropriate place and unloading the product. To load it on a tipper, you have to drive to the other side of the building, where the conveyor belts are. However, in the case of wood chips, you have to use a front loader.
Seeds - opposite the Warehouse, you can find bags filled with seeds. Here you can load your sowing machine, before setting out onto the field.
Fertilizer tank - in the corner of the square, you can find a blue tank. It is used for refilling your sprayers and fertilizer spreaders, before they start their work.
Chicken coop - All the new chickens that you buy end up here. Here you will also find eggs, which you should collect and sell.
Straw and hay barn - if you have too much of these products, you can sell them here. In order to do that, unload the wagon inside the building and you will automatically earn money. You can sell it also in form of bales.
Fountain - here you can refill water in your water tanks.
Helpline - here you can learn a few important information about the mechanics of the game.
Machines
When beginning the game, you already have all the machines needed for running a farm, but it's not a very good equipment. You possess the most basic versions from all the categories, so your work will be slow and difficult at the start. Collecting newer and better tools is one of your most important tasks. Better machines means more efficient work, which is followed by faster development of your business.
Owned starting equipment (Bjornholm and Westbridge Hills maps):
- 2x H448 tractor;
- 2x AgroStar 6.61 tractor;
- Comia 6 harvester and C6 harvester;
- E8041 tipper;
- Trio 300 M cultivator;
- Vitasem 302 ADD sowing machine;
- SB 700 weight;
- Vari Master 153 plow;
- 6135 A tractor (only on the Westbridge Hills map).
Owned starting equipment (Sosnovka map):
- Crystal 12045 tractor
- Major 80 tractor
- Acros 595 combine with Power Stream 700 harvester
- TDK 1600 trailer
- Qualidisc Farmer 3000 cultivator
- DL seed drill
- SB 700 weight
It should be pointed out here that there is much fewer equipment on the map added with the Farming Simulator 2015 Gold version (2 trailer, versus 4/5 on the previous maps).However, all told, equipment available on this map is a tier better than on the rest of the maps. Playing on this map, in itself, is more difficult, simply due to more scanty resources.