John Deere oh dear: share your greatest mishaps from any Farming Sim game

Posted by Rich in Farming Simulator 25

There's an awful lot that can go awry in the precarious world of agriculture. Although Farming Simulator has the considerable advantage of taking place in the comfort of your home, it wouldn't be a proper simulator if it ironed out all that potential for misfortune, nor would it be a proper video game without introducing some that's digital-exclusive. That's what this reward is all about.

We know you've all got a story or two from your Farming Sim career about that time you blew half a mil on the wrong type of harvester, or when a strange physics glitch launched your trailer of freshly chopped trees 1,000 feet into the air.

Tell us those tales - your noob mistakes, your costly bugs, your greatest farming mishaps - and give us at least 30 words of all the embarrassing detail. If you can illustrate your stories with original images or videos, you'll be eligible for the higher reward tier!

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Created at 12:35pm, 30th December, 2024. Page last updated at 9:26am, 28th March, 2025.
Deadline at 12:00am, 28th March, 2025.

Submissions (16)

Konquest1/28/2025

Won$4

So In the begining as a new player I tried making money in unconventional ways, other than crop farming, e.g selling grass, rocks and trees that I didn't plant. Then I learnt that the bee hives produce honey passively the next question I had was how to transport it.

The moment I realized that I could use the forklift to stack pallets upon pallets. That's when things start getting weird, I start challenging and defying physics. Muahahahahhaah!!!! Sure you can stack pallets in 4x4 squares and make even the spread to make it balanced but where is the fun? why not stack them as high as you can? Gotta love how physics work in this game!

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Sturmer3/27/2025

Won$4

When doing forestry with a chainsaw, never park your tractor too close. Trees will fall - and if you’re just starting out, they’ll likely fall in ways you don’t expect.
Cut first, then drive in to collect the logs. Otherwise, get ready for repair bills.

Limal3/26/2025

Won$2

My lettuce epic journey continues! I kept advancing to medium-sized greenhouses and lettuce production. What I learned today: 32,000 liters of water weigh quite a lot! My trailer is stuck, and I can't even move it. I need a bigger truck or to wait until nearby greenhouses empty the container.

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Merlinux743/20/2025

Won$2

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while trying to record the noise in Farming, I crashed the mf8570 into a tree, but I couldn't move it from that position because it doesn't go forward because it had the tube, and it doesn't go backwards because it had the thresher forward. And even lowering the thresher and retracting the tube, nothing doing. It died there.

JuanCyt3/12/2025

Won$2

How do I end this here? I was getting everything ready to go to work, I bought these trailers and they automatically appeared here for no reason. It was probably a game error. I tried to get them out but I couldn't. What I had to do was sell them and make a small loss, but this had never happened to me, it was very strange.

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