Overview:
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 2/10
- Offline: 16 [1000]
- Online: 0 [0]
- Approximate amount of time to 1000: 30-40 Hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
- Number of missable achievements: None
- Do cheat codes disable achievements ? None
- Does difficulty affect achievements? No
- Glitchy/unobtainable achievements?: No
- Extra equipment needed? No
Introduction
Farming Simulator is an easy, but time consuming game to max out. Most of your time will be spent driving your extremely slow vehicles around in a relatively small area. The Farming Simulator franchise has been around a while on the PC, and is relatively popular. Anybody familiar with the series will know what they are dealing with; but for those that don't, there seems to be a lot to take in as there are different types of farming, dozens of vehicles and tons of ways to make money. If you are playing for the achievements though, you will only be focusing on growing and harvesting one crop, so there is hardly anything to learn.
Step 1
Start up a new game and knock out the "Financial Folly" achievement.
Step 1.5
The most grindy achievement in this game is "Very Frequent Driver" for driving a total of 1000km (621.37 miles), so make sure when you are not doing anything, be it waiting for crops to grow, building up your finances, etc, just drive. Unlike the harvesting and sowing achievements, these miles have to be done by yourself, workers miles do not count.
Step 2
Start up a new game on the Hagenstedt map and start your grind towards the full 1000. Set the mission frequency to the smallest value (2 minutes) and then go for the horseshoe collectibles. Don't do any farming yet, it only makes sense once you have enough money to buy the most expensive vehicles.
All collectibles in the game are on the Hagenstedt map, make sure you start your game on this one. While picking them up, accept all mission requests where you need to mow the lawn for the golf club. Drive your starting tractor with the blue cultivator to the golf club and leave it there once you have done the first side mission. Every time such a mission comes up, you only need to accept it, switch to the vehicle and drive around for a few minutes. To make it even quicker, you can drive a vehicle to the camp in the top right corner of the map. That is the other location for lawnmower missions. I strongly recommend to decline the transport missions as they are a lot more difficult to complete and take longer as well. Whenever a mission comes up to mow the lawn at the golf course, go and do that. You can use and to cycle through your vehicles at anytime to pick up where you left off on the collectibles.
Once you have all horseshoes find the $1,000,000 pot of gold lying at the end of the rainbow as described in the "Pots of Gold" achievement description. In the same description you will also find the quickest way to grind to $10,000,000 using wind turbines. Getting up to $10,000,000 will be pretty easy to do by the time you have finished the other achievements, although feel free to leave your Xbox running to build up vast finances.
Step 3
Buy yourself the equipment recommended in the solution for "Harvest King". You will have two tractors with sowing machines, two harvesters and a truck with a trailer. Buy field #1, and set to work on it. You will need roughly ten full cycles of sowing, growing and harvesting on this field to get all four of the sowing/harvesting achievements as it is roughly 10 hectares in size.
Step 4
All you should have left to do now is drive your remaining kilometers. If you have not fully paid back your loan, then do this now, you should have more than enough cash. It is up to you whether you want to drive the miles yourself, possibly falling asleep at the low speeds, or rubberband your controller so that your vehicle drives in circles. Once you have hit the magic number, your final achievement will pop and you will have your 1000
Conclusion
Farming Simulator appears to be a very in depth farming...simulator. I'm sure if you decided to play it as the developers intended, you could spend weeks or months playing it as there are a lot of options, vehicles and ways to play the game. From a purely achievements stance, it is a relatively easy 1000, albeit a lengthy one.
[xba would like to thank Corrupt. and olcsi2 for this roadmap]