Start with the minimum necessary to make any money, zero dollars, hard economy, and build up an impressive farm from “nothing”!

Setup

• Choose a map (generally maps with minimum existing things such as Calm Lands, No Man’s Land, and New Frontier are recommended)
• Set the economy to hard
• Starting money doesn’t matter as you’ll be manually removing it.
• Start the map and buy one of the cheaper farmlands

Option 1 (Lumberjack) *this is the most common / recommended start

• Buy the smallest vehicle that can move logs (truck, 4 wheeler, smallest tractor with smallest trailer, or similar)
• Buy a chainsaw

Option 2 (grass)

• Buy the smallest tractor
• Buy smallest foraging wagon or Bailer
• Buy smallest vehicle or trailer to be able to move bails

Option 3 (green house)

• Buy the smallest tractor
• Buy the smallest water trailer
• Buy the smallest greenhouse

Setup part 2 (after you bought everything)

• Close the save file and open C:/Users/UserName/Documents/my games/FarmingSimulator25/savegame#/Farms.xml in your preferred text editor *note UserName will be your windows username, if running farming simulator 22, 19, etc swap that number in the farming simulator directory, savegame# the # will be whatever save slot you’re using (from left to right)
• Change the loan and money to 0.000000 (I also like to change all of the other details to 0 as a starting point, but that’s personal preference)