Farm Town - Plow multiple fields

There's a new update in Farm Town and it introduces the ability to plow multiple fields. Regular readers of my Farm Town Blog might recall that I suggested this is exactly how multiple plowing might work back in June when the "watering" feature was introduced.

While we're looking at the image take note - if they ever do add the ability to plough and sow large areas in Farm Town this is how it may well look: a large "cursor area" rather than the "drag selection" that some have suggested.

You can read that post here.

So how does it all work, well you click the plowing tool and you are presented with three options: x1, x2 and x4



you then hover over the spot you want to plough and away you go.



This is going to be a real time saver for all of those industrial farm town farmers out there... though of course it will now mean you have more free time on your hands and might actually have to go and do some real life stuff, like wash the dishes, the kids or even yourself!

A number of my friends have however reported problems when farmers that you hire use these tools, often they don't get paid coins or xp and in some cases it deletes the harvested field and returns it to it's "grassy" state.

So now we just need to sow multiple fields!

Farm Town - Ploughing and Seeding Trick

Ploughing a large farm in Farm Town can be a real pain, especially when your avatar decides to walk around your entire farm and fields to get to that one little patch that he needs to work on. There is however a little trick. It's not a Farm Town cheat - but it will help you on your way.

As this Farm Town video shows what you need to do is stand on the left or top side of the field and plough or sow in a neat line, be careful to only sow or plough each adjacent field or your avatar will start walking around.

Hopefully at some point the makes of Farm Town will release a patch that allows us to plough and sow by dragging a selection box over our fields. But until then this is the fastest trick I could come up with!

Farm Town - Crops and Space

There are two ways to plant crops in Farm Town, both have pros and cons. The default way puts space around each "Field" This is good as it enables your Avatar (Character) to easily navigate around the field. However it doesn't make best use of the space in your farm.

The second method actually grew out of a "Soft Exploit" in which users found they could overlap fields. Although you're no longer able to completely overlap fields in Farm Town you still can align them directly next to each other. However the drawback to this is that your Avatar may often struggle to get around big farms... they'll get there eventually it can just take time!

To take advantage of this feature load up Farm Town. Click on the Preferences icon (Image of a spanner) and tick the "Remove Space Between Fields" tick box. Then when you next plough your farm simply line the fields up next to each other.