Literally just got into farming sim on both Xbox and switch and your guides have been a godsend...never felt so lost in a game even on easy mode 😂.got yourself a new sub too 👍

As a noob to the game & totally lost, this tutorial is one of the best I’ve come across. Thank you so much. This will help me get going now

this is one of those games that even teach you something about life

Wasn't sure how to really start my farm out until I watch this video. Thank you Arthur for making a video bec I'm a noob at this game and want to get into it.

I got the game a week ago and have been struggling I didn't even know there was mods and two maps untill now thanks I'll be subscribing

This is what I needed Arthur. Make more of these. I love them

Thanks. I like to do the fields for ppl and get some extra money. Edit: thanks for the heart ur the best, Arthur!

Just a point if you are running low on funds doing the mowing run to start you can always lease the Bail Trailer for your first mowing and selling run and the buy it after getting the money.

Just discovered your channel as I'm leaping into Farming Sim for the first time on Monday - Some helpful vids so far 👍

And the extra steps are why I stay with FS 15. Just wish it had more crops with out the extra hassle of 17.

you dont need to plough when you are planting grass cos after you get the first cut it adds the 10% anyway and removes the red for it to be needed to be ploughed. also get a weeder to fertilize the grass cos you can use it after you mowed it and after the first growth stage to fully fertilize cos after you mow the grass it leaves a fertilization stage

This is the best help as far as videos for this game goes and I have watched a few.

Thank you Arthur! This tutorial really helped me!

Well.. Bought FS17 Night Before Last, About To Watch This Whole Playlist. Thanks For Posting In Depth Tutorials.

Not easy for newbs, but it's worth investing time and effort to install and learn how to use the GPS mod. It really helps minimise the time spent on contracting jobs.

I like watching your videos while playing keeps me entertained 😂

I discovered the goldmine directly east of the villa/farm you start out with on the expansion in the form of all those tall palm trees that require minimal trimming and the sawmill in close proximity. I cleared every single one out in that field ending at the dealership. Made at least $30k per Timber Runner load for a total well over $500k for some much needed cash. Screw using that crane-I just unstrap the load, unhitch the Timber Runner then knock the whole thing over in the unload box with my front loader. The Timber Runner even rights itself automatically when it empties!

37:23 I wasn’t expecting that and it scared the hell out of me

That's exactly why I love the vultra. The T series I use alot. I haven't used the S series yet only because the T series is big enough for what I need right now.

Nice Tutorial, very useful. Love your channel.

Hey bud i just started watching yr vids. Really like yr vids. I sub also. I am hoping to start a channel soon. I am a big farm simulator fan. Finally got the game and man I cannot stop. I am around your age and never thought I would like this type of game but man I really do. So thx for the tute,I also watch a lot of other vids so keep up good work. Look forward to watching more. Peace

Thanks a lot, I was so confused playing F.S for the first time :/ its relaxing and fun though

This tutorial was very helpful thank you so much, Arthur.

Only farm sim dude I can watch, Thank you Arthur!

Also don't forget that leasing is an option if you don't have enough money

Love the videos Arthur, I personally love using the included starting equipment and working my way up to better gear. You example on Goldcrest Valley of starting gear is a good path and I'd opt for the Valtra N Series, I agree it's epic value for money and I use that one for my animal areas for all work needed. Thanks for doing the Sosnovka map as it'll be the next map I play on. Cheers!

Just got the game and this was a big help, thank you!

I just bought this game for ps4 and your tutorial really helped me 👍🏼 thank you i will subscribe to your channel

Excellent info Arthur, great vid.

I used that tecnic and worked pretty well

I was thinking the cheapskate approach to selling the bales. You grab a bale with the wrapper, drive over to the barn while it wraps, then unload the wrapped bale into the barn - maybe shunt the bale into the barn by ramming it with the tractor if you miss the unload point. Sure it takes a bit longer (maybe), but it saves the cost of a mechanical pick up trailer. Then add a chainsaw and trailer (or keep the starter trailer), and chop up trees while you wait for the grass to grow!!

Arthur, love your videos. I always sell everything except 1 tractor. Then Lease logging equipment and spend weeks deforesting the map. My daughter calls me Agent Orange…

I do have to say, when I first played fs I was really confused, for newcomers, fs is pretty challenging

Great video arthur, found it very helpful!

thanks for a great video!

I accidentally downloaded this game and my dad really wants to play it so here I am

arthur, with domesticated grass in a field, you want to get a weeder and a fertilizer, as with domesticated grass (grass in a field as opposed to "wild" grass) fertilization state DOES AFFECT YIELD. NOTE: this applies ONLY to DOMESTICATED GRASS, it DOES NOT apply to wild grass, thus you want to keep that fertilization state maxed out at all times to get max yield.

You actually lost money doing what you did here. Just taking the loan would have put you in a better place. Keep everything you have, but sell the combine and header, crappy seeder and crappy cultivator. Buy a the seeder that Arthur recommended and buy a weeder. Also lease a bigger combine with a bigger header. The weeder will save you far more in fertilizer than you will save/make selling the original equipment. With the original 3 tractors, you can fully cycle all of your fields 3 times in 2 game days if you keep everything moving. Plant soybeans in all of your fields and sell at 1700-1800. Sell all of your crops that you have and stack up on soybeans for your first couple of harvests. Sell that and buy a bigger tipper, mower and liquid truck. Lease a bailer. Buy sheep. You are now self sufficient and can just make money every day and buy bigger and better things. The above process should take no more than 2-3 game days. I also never add to the loan and just pay it off over the first week or 2.

Most people I've watched start by harvesting the fields they own, but on the default settings the fields are unplowed and unfertlised so you don't really get much. I always start a new map (without seasons) by setting fertliser to 1 stage and turning off ploughing required, then I fertilise all the fields i can harvest, *THEN* I harvest them and get a much bigger yield than if I'd just harvested them. Once the crops are in I set fertiliser and plowing back to the normal settings for playing forward.

Just got this game and there’s a lot to farming! I don’t even know what machine does what and then when I figure it out, I forget what does what by the time I go to hook up again and do what I need to do. Unreal. Lots of fun though

Thx this helped me so much 👍

You deserve more likes! Realy nice video👌

Just got it and wanted to get the best out of it thanks so much ps awesome vid

Arthur Chapman: Think you could do a video about what all you can customize in FS17?

Arthur you can skip the fertilizer stuff with that cultovator you have save even more money

Finally was able to get FS (chose 17 over 19 because it seemed to be something I didn't want to miss!) and I've been binging your videos as I play. Would you say your choices and selections here still hold up in 2019? Thank you for such awesome tutorials! I would be lost without you!

I wouldn’t sell the pickup truck because it is an easier and faster way to deliver crops to other farms.

My hardest challenge is how to get all the equipment needed for a no-bale cow farm, and enough cows to turn a profit without going broke. Your advice makes sense now, cows are endgame content lol.

Hey Arthur, Quick question: Are you having trouble with A.I. worker pathing with the mowing/windrower combo?

The forage harvester is the best lawn mower. Equip the X Disc header and mow multiple lanes at once, while simultaneously collecting it in a massive trailer. No fancy windrowers, balers, or collecting wagons required. Just buy a forage harvester, the appropriate header, and a large tipper. If you want to make hay really quickly, dump your full trailer onto the ground and run over the pile with a tedder. You can equip a different header to "vacuum" up the grass on the ground back into a trailer. Regardless of how much you spend on premium mowing equipment, you will never beat the forage harvester for productivity, because you don't have to come back after you're done mowing to pick up the grass left on the ground. I also highly recommend this setup if you intend to get serious with raising cattle.

I might do a combination of selling grass and Forestry grow and sell wood.

I actually prefer the Same with 190hp over the Valtra with 185hp...also don't forget you can sell off the storage sheds and vehicle shelter as well

great video!

Great guide. I play on Xbox One and use the Massey Ferguson pack by bsm to start off without spending a lot. I know this was more base game though.

Ok I did everything you said but once it was ready to harvest the wheat or whatever looked really grayish and whenever I tried to harvest it wouldn’t do it.

you would need the workshop placable to change valtra tires from standard to narrow you need narrow tires to fertilize (if you want to be realistic)

I just started playing fs17 and I was wondering if when I use the harvester and I make it spray everywhere is that fertilizing the field or am I better off making bales

Thx for tips ne usiful and usiful tip with money cut trees

Ty you so much rlly helpful

Thanks very helpful

I subbed I love your channel

I have laptop with Intel core i5 8 GB RAM Intel hd graphic (1696mb) Can run farming simulator 17 on settings??

What would you upgrade there with the extra money, if anything, (from the items you've chosen 10:30) if you had to pick one or two things? I'm talking about the roughly $70-80k total, the 30ish you currently have plus the extra 40k or w/e if you had sold the starting grains. Thanks in advance for your time. I just got this today. Been watching a lot of your vids, trying not to fail on day one. 🚜

very helpful video.

I’ve just started play farming sim and this vid was AWESOME! I’m wanting to switch over to 19 but can’t find a video advising on the best way to start and with what crop. Do you have one for that?? 👍

Great video. I was wondering what was different with this version. So I got a question..I noticed when I harvested my wheat there were still rooted plants left behind. Do I need to replant everything or just fertilize it to make it grow again?

I LOVE IT

dude I've done exactly what u said in the video and it's worked pretty well for me, thank you! I'm now trying different maps and approaches of my own to see how I do but wouldn't be able to do without ur help, thanks a lot it's so fluid now I know what I am doing. I an trying to find the barn to sell the bales in the "de terra italic" map, but cant find it do you know?

A small tip for maps such as Sosnovka, American Outback, and other maps with grass lands if you want to do hay or silage bales you can and probably should plow to create fields their first. You will already have the plow rented and a seeder to replant grass. However if it is grass on an actual field you can fertilize it for the extra yield. This way you can also get a couple free fields, and with some of the grass lands on American Outback and Who Dat Who Der Ranch that are a decent size you can get quite a few free fields.

Btw don’t mess with the Kuhn plow go with the salford plow, it’s cheaper and has the same width

You are best Arthur chapman

Would I have to buy a steering wheel for my pc for this game or can I use the arrow keys?

pickup trucks are something that I like, even though gameplay-wise they might be useless

just bought the game, i am a noob in this.. following your tuts. thanks

Hey Arthur quick question that’s probably a dumb one but what are the steps to start your fields? Cultivate, sow, harvest? In which order is it supposed to go? Thanks in advance.

Having a hard time connecting both mowers on the front. Help?

Arthur...when you went to second map then came back to first map, you started over selling equipment. Did I miss something or did you mean to do that?

I just put it on easy then change it to hard sittings

I just started FS 17 and I've spent 2 days trying to connect the 2 Potting and Lely together without any luck thus forth

so I sell everything in the beginning and get the equipment to plant and get grass, then I sell everything again later on to buy the equipament to plant other stuff ? or do I keep the grass equipament and gradually buy the equipament to plant other stuff ? thanks a lot for the help bro

I'm gonna try with the grass and sell silage till I get enough money to buy other fields to start on crops. What do you think?

Is there a follow up video after this showing how to use the equipment (complete noob)

Do you hafta activate every single mod you have at the beginning of each game? In fs 15 I have hundreds of mods. I can see where this might be a drag. I may reconsider buying fs 17.

nice video bro

When I was watching this video I realize that I had a mod tractor called the 800 favorit so I bought that it has more horsepower for a cheaper price but otherwise I did the exact same thing and also Arthur you forgot to get a harvester

I don't watch these for the tutorial I watch them because I like watching Arthur

I did a test and bailing grass, wrap it and sell it at bio gas plant for £5,008 a bail.

New sub

Farming simulator is a great game, you do have to put in a lot of time in to the game to get the hang of it i have put in a good few hours myself lol

Okay so I was playing this earlier and I flipped my truck on the way to the lumber yard and well I didn’t quite know how to play so I was like backing up traffic and then I realized you could reset the vehicle😂

Hey Arthur, I love your videos and style of gameplay and commentary! I am new to the game on PC, have only played FS15 on PS4 until now. I believe I will be getting the FS17 for PC for Christmas, if not I'll go buy it after Christmas ;) I would like to be able to play local multiplayer games with my son over our LAN. I believe this is possible through a host/join situation from what I have read, but I have not been able to find any content explaining the process. Could you recommend or create a video showing what is needed to make this possible, ie. port forwarding, static IPs, etc.? Thanks!

You dident make the trackter have a front loader on the second russian map

Do I need to fertilise the grass?.

I have played this game this entire time, plowing before seeding every time

so basicly what i do already but minus the solar panels.

Im totally new and considering trying the game out, but is this advice in the video also good for simulator 19 as i consider buying that one offcourse.

You can always look for mods of what your looking for that is cheaper and maybe better

can u make a vid of the equipment uses in part 1

Yes. Ollie

Would you believe I have a strategy for starting the farm WITHOUT taking out ANY loans and with keeping the stock equipment?