Resetting a plot of land

[Essedus]

So I used a plow and messed with the largest plot of land I have, tried to make it bigger and it's just all shaped funny now because I suck. So I grabbed that piece of equipment that lets you remove plowed land, started going over it but I didn't know it would eat preset plots of land. I thought it would only erase stuff you used the plow to make, so now the plot of land is all mishapen and hired workers stop halfway now, they don't cover the whole plot. It's a huge freakin mess.

I was reading some info related to farming sim 15 ( couldn't find info about this on 17) and I read that in 15 you could start a new game, take a file that had the default plot sizes on there and use it to replace the one on your good save and it'll reset all the plots of land.

Does something like that work in 17? I can only find examples of it being done in 15 to fix land.

[Alshain]

Yep.

The important parts of your career progress are stored in a series of xml files...

careerSavegame.xml - The career information
vehicles.xml - This is the bulk of your save game, it includes vehicles you own and their various attributes, but also includes olaceables, contents of your silos/stations, animals, trees you've planted, and probably a few other things.
exonomy.xml - Your bank account and stats and field ownership.

If you preserve these 3 files into a newly created save game, you will have saved most of your game and the map should reset. I'm not certain if you can just remove one of the terrain files or not for an easier way, but this should work. I would do it in a separate slot just in case, you can always delete the original after you know it works.

[Essedus]

Thank you muchly, everythings fixed now, and I was also able to find some more documentation about it in the meantime.

To add to what you mentioned, it seems that cultivator_density.gdm keeps track of how plots are set up, replacing that file with a fresh one from a new game will set plots to their default shapes if they've been messed with. And fruit_density.gdm keeps track of what you've got growing, replacing that with a new file gets rid of anything crop related you have on a plot. I had to replace fruit_density.gdm to get grass to grow again on the areas of land I had messed with before, those spots had become grass tiles again but still had the left overs from a harvets on it preventing grass from growing.

[bigsnag]

and one can edit those two gdm files with grle converter available from giants developer network.

[Spindles]

Can't you buy a roller at the store to fix this?

[Willow Rivers]

Originally posted by Spindle:

Can't you buy a roller at the store to fix this?

Read carefully they used the roller but didn't realize it would also remove the plowed area of the normal field and they messed up removign part of the normal field and not just the new part they tried to plow to expand.

[Essedus]

Originally posted by Willow Rivers:

Originally posted by Spindle:

Can't you buy a roller at the store to fix this?

Read carefully they used the roller but didn't realize it would also remove the plowed area of the normal field and they messed up removign part of the normal field and not just the new part they tried to plow to expand.

Yeah I tore the land all up, huge mess. I haven't been playing for very long and I can never seem to make a perfectly straight line when it comes to anything requiring precision.

[JasperL]

Originally posted by Essedus:

Originally posted by Willow Rivers:

Read carefully they used the roller but didn't realize it would also remove the plowed area of the normal field and they messed up removign part of the normal field and not just the new part they tried to plow to expand.

Yeah I tore the land all up, huge mess. I haven't been playing for very long and I can never seem to make a perfectly straight line when it comes to anything requiring precision.

You would find the GPS mod very useful for doing straight lines.

[Essedus]

I remember reading about that mod but I couldn't find the name of it, all the discussion I found talking about it no one ever called the mod by name. It was turning me gray, thanks JasperL.