Realistic Farming

An FS25 mod suite by TheCodingDad

Realism, one system at a time: income, costs, soil, livestock, labor, and markets, on a shared core-services foundation. Built to work together.

The suite is built by four people:

| 🌐 FS25 Portal | Changelogs, the roadmap, and posts from the team. |

| 🐙 GitHub org | All the mods and core services, here. |

The suite has a center of gravity: Farm Tablet. Open it in-game (default T) and it auto-detects the other mods, turning each one into an app. Your whole farm economy, soil, livestock, labor, and market data live in one place.

Underneath the mods you play with sits a set of core services: shared plumbing for saving, multiplayer sync, settings, on-screen HUD, economic time, and weather. You do not interact with them directly. They just make the rest of the suite fast, reliable, and safe in multiplayer.

New here? Install Farm Tablet first, then add the systems you want. Each mod works on its own, but together they form a single connected farm-management layer.

Open the Esc menu and the Realistic Farming entry is one suite home, not a row of separate mod tabs. The shared chrome keeps a side column with the module list and lime arrows to switch, and a main pane showing the active mod's glance. It looks and behaves the same whether you have one mod or many.

• One door. When a mod joins this system, its old separate Esc/PDA tab is replaced by the single Realistic Farming entry. No second icon, no duplicated suite story.
• Grows with what you have. The module list only shows the mods you have installed. One mod means one entry; several combine into one menu.
• Any capable mod can host. The chrome is peer-hosted: a capable companion hosts when it is alone or elected, and the others register into it. Soil Fertilizer ships the reference implementation today; the rest of the suite joins as its module briefs are approved.
• Glance, not a rebuild. The pause-menu PDA is a quick look while you are stopped. Deep workflows stay in Farm Tablet. The two complement each other; neither replaces the other.

Shared infrastructure that every companion mod can lean on. Each companion runs fine without them and simply gains reliability when they are present, so you only ever add what you want.

Note: the Soil Layer Installer is no longer needed. Soil Fertilizer builds its per-pixel soil layers at runtime on any map, so the old one-click map patch is retired. If you already ran it, your map keeps working as a fallback; new installs should just skip it.

Farm Tablet is the front-end. The companion mods are the engines. The core services are the shared foundation they all sit on.

flowchart TB
    T["📱 Farm Tablet<br/>(the hub)"]

    subgraph APPS["Companion mods"]
        direction LR
        subgraph ECO["💰 Economy & Finance"]
            I["💵 Income"]
            X["🧾 Tax"]
            F["⛽ Fuel Costs"]
            W["👷 Worker Costs"]
            M["📈 Market Dynamics"]
            WT["🏷️ Workplace Triggers"]
        end
        subgraph LAND["🌱 Land & Crops"]
            S["🧪 Soil Fertilizer"]
            C["💧 Crop Stress"]
            FD["🏭 Fertilizer Depot"]
        end
        subgraph LIV["🐄 Livestock"]
            D["🐄 Dairy Core"]
        end
        subgraph WORLD["👥 Life & World"]
            P["🤝 Pro Staff Co-Op"]
            N["👥 NPC Favor"]
            R["🎲 World Events"]
        end
    end

    subgraph CORE["🧱 Core services (the foundation)"]
        direction LR
        SL["🗂️ State Ledger"]
        NS["🔌 Network Sync"]
        SH["⚙️ Settings Hub"]
        MH["🖥️ Master HUD"]
        TG["⏱️ Time Guard"]
        WG["🌦️ Weather Guard"]
    end

    T ==>|auto-detects and launches as apps| APPS
    APPS ==>|lean on when present| CORE

    classDef hub fill:#e8f5e9,stroke:#2e7d32,stroke-width:2px,color:#1b5e20;
    class T hub;

Each companion is optional. Farm Tablet shows an app only when that mod is installed, so the tablet grows with your setup. Core services are optional too: a companion detects them when present and runs on its own quiet fallback when they are absent, so nothing hard-breaks if one is missing.

1. Download the latest release .zip from each mod's Releases page (links above).
2. Drop the zips into your FS25 mods folder: Documents\My Games\FarmingSimulator2025\mods\
3. Enable them in-game. Start with Farm Tablet, then add the rest. If you run several economy mods together, add the core services too for the smoothest multiplayer and save behavior.

Every mod is standalone. Install only what you want. No master pack required.