Show us your farms!

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It only makes sense to start a post about farms and agriculture.

 

Here are some farms from Tamboria to kick start this thread.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[jesper107 113]

Those wouldn't be the fields I uploaded to the workshop, would they? 

 

Very nice pictures indeed! I made a small farming community as well, but went on a completely different approach. The forum won't let me link the image so here is the link instead: http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/707402399198656686/53A3D2382756237D8BBAB5964303D9C9631B7D58/

 

If only I had a smaller train station and some nature tools besides a bunch of trees 

[89James89 1,169]

That looks lovely Jesper107. A little bit bright for my tastes but I know you can't really help it with eh options the asset editor gives you.

 

Cheers

 

James

[iviaarten 534]

Some of you might have seen these from my CJ already, but here goes;

 

edit: if anyone is interested in my irrigation ditches, you can find them here (a set of 4 lengths): http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=410391936

 

 

 

 

 

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Those wouldn't be the fields I uploaded to the workshop, would they? 

 

Very nice pictures indeed! I made a small farming community as well, but went on a completely different approach. The forum won't let me link the image so here is the link instead: http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/707402399198656686/53A3D2382756237D8BBAB5964303D9C9631B7D58/

 

If only I had a smaller train station and some nature tools besides a bunch of trees 

 

Yes they are your fields! But in your picture they look more golden yellow, I guess it is the different terrain type.

[TEBB_Dipsy 13]

Love this game! After getting the hang of it I'm starting to create areas that seem realistic/ beautiful so here is my farm land.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Azurespecter 506]

Holy smokes! These look amazing!

[jesper107 113]

It feels extremely flattering and very strange to have people use your assets seeing that I am a complete 100% amateur when it comes to modding!

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TEBB_Dipsy those wind turbines work so well amongst the farmland. Great job!

[ReneXL 16]

Farms look good, however fields without functionality, only eye-candy, cannot offer much. Waste of space.

[MINIggy03 227]

I just started dabbling in farms.  I don't like the futuristic looking buildings!  I bulldoze them until they're gone.  There should be 3 levels to farming and those buildings should be level 3.

 

 

I wonder if someone could mod farming so more fields grow instead of buildings?  That could help a lot.  Even when I bulldoze obsessively, there seems to be a lock on field/building ratio. 

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Farms look good, however fields without functionality, only eye-candy, cannot offer much. Waste of space.

 

Eye-candy trumps functionality, that's what a lot of the great SC4 city journals do.

[rpc180 9]

How'd you get the water trenches?

[iviaarten 534]

How'd you get the water trenches?

 

I made them in the asset editor. I've put them in a collection on the Workshop:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=410391936

[rpc180 9]

Thanks!  I'm going to try those out

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A look at my Tamboria farms with a different colour filter and much sharper anti-aliasing.

 

 

[Turjan 1,048]

I wonder if someone could mod farming so more fields grow instead of buildings?  That could help a lot.  Even when I bulldoze obsessively, there seems to be a lock on field/building ratio. 

 

Like with forestry, the ratio seems to depend on how strong the color is. If there isn't any in the "resources" tab, then you get only buildings. If the color is maximally strong, you get mostly fields. This is a stretch with relatively strong color:

 

[Koriolanis 14]

Here is a look of Agora's glorious farmland !

 

 

 

 

[Dazzyls 576]

Looks great, but aren't those farms a bit too close to the city centre? I like the Dutch windmill BTW!

[Koriolanis 14]

True But the tallest buildings were supposed to stay midrise and I left them without supervision while I was working on something else, so they grew

I have some serious bulldozing to do now.

[Dazzyls 576]

Bulldozing won't help. They will grow back again a couple of seconds after you delete them.

[akot378 0]

How do I get large farms fields? My lots are turning out to be very small ones.

Do I need to have a mod?

[cromabianca 158]

How do I get large farms fields? My lots are turning out to be very small ones.

Do I need to have a mod?

Some of the fields you see in these pictures are in fact parks (assets downloaded from the workshop) which look as agricultural fields but don't function as such. The farm fields in this game are in fact very small, so the rest is made of eye-candy assets... and a little of creative genius! (some of these guys are real geniuses! )

[jisgr8 0]

all my farms are yellow in colour, how do i get more variation such as brown, dark green or grey?

[cromabianca 158]

I think it has to do with the type of map you are using: they're yellow in the tropical theme. If you want more color, you should try "simulated" fields (ie: eye-candy parks that look like agri fields) from the workshop or "paint" your (simulated) fields with brushes, using the "ruined" and "gravel" brush from this collecton: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=416082909

 

Otherwise, I don't know if there's a mod that lets you change the kind of agricultural field that grows on tropical maps...

[namspopof 117]

[pieuponieu 70]

I took a stab at making a farming district, with a few custom fields of my own, but after looking at what everyone else has done, my farms seem so vanilla and so corporate!  When the building eye-dropper mod is fixed, I will be putting it to use here.

[1131989 223]

Hope you like your crops a bit crispy!

[boformer 3,169]

I took a stab at making a farming district, with a few custom fields of my own, but after looking at what everyone else has done, my farms seem so vanilla and so corporate!  When the building eye-dropper mod is fixed, I will be putting it to use here.

I could make a farm field Building theme that contains only fields and almost no farm buildings. Are there any good farm assets on the workshop?

[pieuponieu 70]

I took a stab at making a farming district, with a few custom fields of my own, but after looking at what everyone else has done, my farms seem so vanilla and so corporate!  When the building eye-dropper mod is fixed, I will be putting it to use here.

I could make a farm field Building theme that contains only fields and almost no farm buildings. Are there any good farm assets on the workshop?

There's an idea!

Steam user @kei_em has started building some Japanese themed farm fields, and in fact has a nice little collection of other Japanese buildings too. 

http://steamcommunity.com/id/kei_em/myworkshopfiles/?appid=255710&p=1&numperpage=30

Also, user @kidhedera has focus a lot of his custom lots on farming, but he includes a lot of buildings.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/kidhedera/myworkshopfiles/?appid=255710&p=1&numperpage=30

I think a lot of us are unhappy with the standard farm buildings.  Those big futuristic factory-farms grow at level 1, when they should probably be level 3.  There's a decided lack of little family farms and barns and stables.