LAYERED FARM TECHNIQUE
ADVANTAGE: Can increase potential Farm Yield; can improve Farm Appearance.
This trick fools the game into letting you plant crops under Trees, Flowers and Buildings*. I found it by accident while trying to recreate a more realistic landscape with pines and wheat and then used it on one of my other farms. Later, I found the how-to buried within the Slashkey Farm Town forum. Here's how you get the trick to WORK EVERY TIME.
Let’s use Fruit Trees as an example of how to do it.
TO PLANT CROPS UNDER TREES:
- (1) You MUST start in EMPTY GREEN SPACE. (Go ahead and Bulldoze if you need to.)
- (2) PLANT your Trees there.
- (3) HIDE your Trees in your Preferences.
- (4) REFRESH the game.
- (5) When you return to your farm, DELETE one Field on your farm—it doesn't matter which one.
- (6) PLOW your now "empty" spots.
- (7) TURN ON TREES. Your trees will now be layered on top of your plowed fields.
Turn off Trees and plant your crop Seeds as normal.
CAUTIONARY NOTES:
There is one small issue with this technique when you hire someone to plow your layered farm. It will appear on your end as if they are deleting the harvested field instead of plowing it--IF they have trees turned ON when they are hired. They should not see any little red “hidden tree” squares when they are plowing.
This is NOT the same as layering using Dirt Paths, or as troublesome afterward. It's a trick that we hope the developers won't change, so please don't share this with complainers.
About Using Dirt Paths to Layer Stuff:
I only recommend using Dirt Paths to layer stuff with IF that area will not affect normal farming activities.
I don't recommend planting a tree and a flower on the same exact spot because you might not be able to harvest that tree; using Dirt Paths to layer trees can cause similar problems and causes harvested fields to become deleted when plowed.
Furthermore, planting a tree “through” a building with a Dirt Path can make the game “think” that the building is now a tree in the Preferences settings.
*The game does not recognize every type of tree or building as such. When in doubt, “Hide” the item in question in the Preferences Settings. If it doesn’t hide, then the game “sees” the item in question as an “Item” (and there is no “Show Items” radio button in the Preferences Menu.)
Have Fun! ~Jimmy
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