Best single player map that changes the way the game is played

[Frutz]

I don't play multiplayer, it's mostly due to the few times I tried the lag was frustrating and I just dont know people who play this game in my friendslist.

So, I stick to single player maps for the most part. The vanilla game bores me pretty fast so I rely heavily on mods to spice things up to keep things interesting. I like the business aspect of the game the most with the actual farming being something that I do as a means to an end.

My ideal map is the new pleasant valley which completely changes the way the game is played with a gazillion new crops, things you can build, all kinds of product chains and all kinds of buyable objects. You have to make your own fuel, seeds, fertilizer, factories etc. I absolutely love it but holy crap is the map huge and a ton to handle for a single player.

Is there anything similar to that for the single player? Something well done that has a lot of playstyles accomodated and preferably something courseplay friendly that doesnt have annoyingly narrow roads or choke points to get stuck on.

I like to build up from virtually nothing as well. I don't usually like maps that give you every piece of equipment right off the bat. I want to have that carrot at the end of the stick, a reason to keep playing.

Have you guys found any single player maps like this? Or have you found something close to it? Talking about the new OGF USA map got me thinking about this as to me that was a great single player map from FS13 but the new version to me doesnt have the same single player experience to me.

[Sekkho Asmadi]

Admittedly this is probably not the map that checks all of your boxes, but I still think it would be worth you checking out (if you haven't seen it already) as it does add some crops with animal breeding (soil mod enabled as well): Two Rivers v1.3

[Frutz]

Originally posted by orangetayo:

Admittedly this is probably not the map that checks all of your boxes, but I still think it would be worth you checking out (if you haven't seen it already) as it does add some crops with animal breeding (soil mod enabled as well): Two Rivers v1.3

If I had to put a ranking of what boxes I'd like checked as a priority i'd say a map that uses the map buyable object mod (but actaully utilizes it for progression) would be at the top. When done right that mod really makes for a fun map that gives you a very different playthrough than a typical farming sim map.

Different crop types are nice but not that important to me because if it's still the base game they add little to a different playstyle other than what your fill type is for a brief moment.

Animal breeding can be interesting, Is that similar to what Pleasant Valley has on it's placeable cow/pig/chicken barns? Right now those are the most involved of any of the animal management that I have done yet in this game and I'd recommend people checking that out if they're looking for a bit more involvement in that area.

I like the soil mod, that'd be a plus for a single player map.

I remember playing a hagenstadt modded map for FS15 that had orchards and brewery/distillery where you made beer and various spirits and then sold those. That was a nice and manageable single player map the only problem is it didnt work all that well lol.

Something like that but with those features working and done in an interesting manner would be nice.

It's hard to sort through all the mod sites since most of the good ones are all in german and a good portion of them seem to be people stealing someone else's work and renaming it. The comments provide no information. FS-UK is a great site but I notice the vast majority of their maps are all very few mods involved and narrow windy roads with gated fields and tight yards that make things more annoying than fun. American Eagles Modding is good but there's too few maps to choose from and often when there are ones to choose from they're just giant square fields with huuuuuge yards filled with the top of the line equipment and it's clearly set up for multiplayer. I feel like Goldilocks and looking for something juuuustt right!

In the meantime I am a glutton for punishment and playing the new Pleasant Valley in single player.

[Ferrus]

Originally posted by orangetayo:

Two Rivers v1.3

I second this

I ment to comment on this topic a while ago. Alot of the stuff your are looking for in a map like PV for SP just isnt there as PV was made with MP in mind and most other maps like PV are the same. Good map makers usually dont clutter up their maps with 101 differant things to do like in PV.Sure they add a few things here and there like extra crops and fattening livestock but thats about it

One of the biggest killers of this game, at least in my mind, is that if you try to do too much you're going to have a bad time. When your going from rags to riches it can be a massive chore just to start making use of the extra features

The soil mod is a great bit of kit, but be prepared for a long haul if you are playing legit. I had one save a while back that took me 72hrs of game play to get to my usual style, which is a dairy farm. But even if I wasnt playing that style it would have been 50-60hrs before I could afford to get any decent equipment

Being British I feel the need to defend those narrow lanes and tight farmers daughters...I mean farm yards, because thats what they are actually like. 70-80% of the farms and areas surrounding them in the UK are pretty much the same as they are portrayed in the maps on FS-UK. The map makers, for want of a better word, are keeping it real

[Frutz]

Originally posted by Ferrus:

Originally posted by orangetayo:

Two Rivers v1.3

I second this

I ment to comment on this topic a while ago. Alot of the stuff your are looking for in a map like PV for SP just isnt there as PV was made with MP in mind and most other maps like PV are the same. Good map makers usually dont clutter up their maps with 101 differant things to do like in PV.Sure they add a few things here and there like extra crops and fattening livestock but thats about it

One of the biggest killers of this game, at least in my mind, is that if you try to do too much you're going to have a bad time. When your going from rags to riches it can be a massive chore just to start making use of the extra features

The soil mod is a great bit of kit, but be prepared for a long haul if you are playing legit. I had one save a while back that took me 72hrs of game play to get to my usual style, which is a dairy farm. But even if I wasnt playing that style it would have been 50-60hrs before I could afford to get any decent equipment

Being British I feel the need to defend those narrow lanes and tight farmers daughters...I mean farm yards, because thats what they are actually like. 70-80% of the farms and areas surrounding them in the UK are pretty much the same as they are portrayed in the maps on FS-UK. The map makers, for want of a better word, are keeping it real

That's all well and good for your playstyle, it's just not mine. Photo-realism isnt all that important to me as much as gameplay is.

I don't see the 101 different things to do as "cluttering things up" and I'd say that the people who made PV have made a far more interesting map than any other I have come across.... it's just sooooo big for one person to handle. I want an experience like that but on a map size that is easier to handle for one person. I honestly can't be the only person who enjoys that map and plays single player, someone has to have insight into some good maps that make solid use out of the map buyable object mod.

[Sekkho Asmadi]

Holzhausen is a fun map that I remember playing on FS13 for awhile. It has that "module" purchasing mod I believe, and a pretty unique feel comparatively. But the killer on that one might be the super narrow alleys/roads. It's also geared toward smaller equipment.

And although unrelated, this whole topic reminds me of a mod for another game. If you ever played Banished, there's a new version of a mod called Colonial Charter that seems to add production chains, new resources, and a staggering amount of new construction options.

[Ferrus]

Originally posted by orangetayo:

there's a new version of a mod called Colonial Charter that seems to add production chains, new resources, and a staggering amount of new construction options.

Is that the 1.6 version?

[steve-2012]

haven't played for a while but ringwoods was a good map. cant think of the author but he's made a few very nice maps.

[Frutz]

Originally posted by orangetayo:

Holzhausen is a fun map that I remember playing on FS13 for awhile. It has that "module" purchasing mod I believe, and a pretty unique feel comparatively. But the killer on that one might be the super narrow alleys/roads. It's also geared toward smaller equipment.

And although unrelated, this whole topic reminds me of a mod for another game. If you ever played Banished, there's a new version of a mod called Colonial Charter that seems to add production chains, new resources, and a staggering amount of new construction options.

haha, funny you mention that. I love the colonial charter mod, that's exactly what I am talking about, without that I wouldve prob put in a total of a half an hour into banished.

I've seen Holzhausen a lot on modhoster, it's always featured and I think it's the most downloaded. I am not 100% positive but I believe I played it a bit but had issues but we are more getting into the areas that I want. It still doesnt have close to the complexity that PV15 has though. I might re-download it though to give it another shot.

[steve-2012]

just checked on https://www.modhoster.com/suche?utf8=%E2%9C%93&s=ringwoods&search_in=mods looks like hes got an updated version to his ringwoods map made by "stevie".

ps im also playing colonial charter 1.6 in banished beta

[bigjohn]

map delta del is a great map to play single player,various things to do from farming,weed growing,road construction,fishing.loads of fruits and crops,good map for 1player.need to find on modhub then go on link to facebook and download 2 files for delta map.all files to run map are there.and even comes with soil mod if u wish to use it or not.

[Dan]

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[Sekkho Asmadi]

Originally posted by Ferrus:

Originally posted by orangetayo:

there's a new version of a mod called Colonial Charter that seems to add production chains, new resources, and a staggering amount of new construction options.

Is that the 1.6 version?

Yep! That's the one, not shiny fresh still wet new, but newish I guess :D

[Head Hunter]

I for one play the PV map BG79 and injoy it the only problem I'm having right now and I don't know if it is a bug or that I'm not doing something right. Every time I have enough money to buy a project and get it up and running, I save my game and when I go back into it the project is at the buyable stage again and I have buy it all over again, other than that all love the the multi fruit farming. cheers

[Llogeyr]

Wish there was a way to shrink it down to a manageable size for one person without remaking the whole map.

[Frutz]

I heard the makers of PV are making a new map that is more capable for the single player. I will be looking forward to that release.