Farm Together 2 left Early Access on 30 May 2025, a little over a year after Milkstone Studios opened it on 7 May 2024. It keeps the first game's real time clock, so crops keep growing while the game is closed and a full in-game season passes in roughly 17 minutes. There is no combat and no fail state; the entire game is one levelling curve where Farm Level gates every seed, animal and building you can buy.
Starting Farm Together 2 can feel overwhelming. This guide tells you exactly what to focus on during your first hours so you don't waste time on things that don't matter yet. For the full progression path, see our walkthrough.
What Kind of Game Is This?
Farm Together 2 is a simulation game built around Real time growth with offline progress and Three currencies: coins, diamonds and medals. The core loop involves mastering these systems to progress through increasingly challenging content.
What to expect: Time investment in learning mechanics, experimentation, and gradual mastery. The game rewards patience and knowledge.
Choosing Your First Build
| Build | Beginner Rating | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Crops | Excellent for beginners | Balanced approach |
| Trees | Excellent for beginners | Balanced approach |
| Animals | Excellent for beginners | Balanced approach |
| Fish | Excellent for beginners | Balanced approach |
| Flowers | Excellent for beginners | Balanced approach |
Our recommendation: Start with Trees. It offers the most forgiving experience while teaching core mechanics.
Avoid Flowers as your first pick. It requires deep knowledge of game systems to use effectively. Once you're ready, check our classes guide for all options.
First Session Step-by-Step
Step 1: Learn Real time growth with offline progress
Crops, trees and ponds advance on the wall clock rather than on turns, and progress continues while the game is shut. Seasons rotate roughly every 17 minutes, which is what makes seasonal crops and fruit trees worth planning around.
This is the foundation. Spend your first 15-30 minutes getting comfortable with how Real time growth with offline progress works before worrying about anything else. Our combat guide breaks this down further.
Step 2: Head to Your farm plots
The grid you actually build on. It grows from a single starting plot toward a 7x7 arrangement of 49 plots, roughly 39,200 tiles at full size.
Clear the main content here before moving on. Everything teaches fundamentals you'll need later. See our maps guide for all locations.
Step 3: Get Your First Upgrade
Look for Sprinklers: it's the most accessible early upgrade. Automatic watering that removes the most repetitive job in the game. Watering cuts crop growth time substantially, so sprinklers turn into a direct throughput gain.
Step 4: Understand Three currencies: coins, diamonds and medals
Coins come from harvesting and selling. Diamonds come from town stalls that convert surplus harvest, and from Farm Level rewards. Medals come from quests. The bank trades between them at deliberately poor rates, roughly 2,000 gold per diamond and 125 diamonds per medal.
This is the system most new players overlook. Invest time here early. It pays off throughout the entire game.
Step 5: Push to The town
Where stalls and specialty buildings live. Stall size and count scale with Farm Level, and this is the diamond faucet the rest of the game depends on.
Essential Mechanics Explained
Real time growth with offline progress
Crops, trees and ponds advance on the wall clock rather than on turns, and progress continues while the game is shut. Seasons rotate roughly every 17 minutes, which is what makes seasonal crops and fruit trees worth planning around.
Three currencies: coins, diamonds and medals
Coins come from harvesting and selling. Diamonds come from town stalls that convert surplus harvest, and from Farm Level rewards. Medals come from quests. The bank trades between them at deliberately poor rates, roughly 2,000 gold per diamond and 125 diamonds per medal.
Farm Level gates every unlock
Almost nothing is bought with money alone. Beet opens at Farm Level 2 and Strawberry at 38, Lemon Tree at 2 and Mango at 53, Landrace Pig at 6 and Holstein Cow at 19. Farm Level and Character Level share the same experience pool.
Tractor automation from the Garage
The Garage unlocks at Farm Level 2 and gives you a tractor that works a 3x3 block at a time, plus an automatic mode. Every plot design decision after that should assume 3x3 blocks.
Terraforming and plot expansion
The Terraforming Agency opens at Farm Level 30 and lets you reshape terrain for diamonds. Full expansion to the 7x7 grid of 49 plots is a long game project measured in millions of diamonds, not thousands.
Common Beginner Mistakes
1. Laying out fields in odd shapes that the 3x3 tractor sweep cannot cover cleanly
2. Digging one huge pond and losing roughly half the per tile fish yield to the size penalty
3. Grinding coins while ignoring diamonds, then being unable to buy the next plot
4. Mixing crop species across a single field, which turns every quest into a search
5. Buying decorations before the Garage, the Warehouse and stall upgrades
First 5 Hours Checklist
- Understand Real time growth with offline progress and Three currencies: coins, diamonds and medals
- Choose Trees as starting build
- Clear Your farm plots main content
- Acquire Sprinklers or equivalent upgrade
- Reach The town
- Buy the Garage the moment you hit Farm Level 2. The tractor changes how every later decision plays out, and a farm laid out before you own one usually needs replanting to line up with the 3x3 work area.
- Plant in blocks of one species and put a sign on each block. Quests ask for specific goods, and hunting for four scattered pumpkins across a 39,200 tile farm is how sessions get wasted.
Tips for New Players
- Buy the Garage the moment you hit Farm Level 2. The tractor changes how every later decision plays out, and a farm laid out before you own one usually needs replanting to line up with the 3x3 work area.
- Plant in blocks of one species and put a sign on each block. Quests ask for specific goods, and hunting for four scattered pumpkins across a 39,200 tile farm is how sessions get wasted.
- Flowers are the experience crop. Flower beds keep producing after planting, so a large flower area you only water and harvest levels the farm faster than rotating vegetables does.
- Water flowers only when you want coins. Watering roughly doubles the money from a flower harvest but leaves the experience unchanged, so a pure levelling pass can skip watering entirely and go twice as fast.
- Keep individual fish ponds small. Yield per tile falls once a pond passes roughly 36 tiles, and a very large pond returns around half the per tile yield, so several modest ponds beat one lake.
- Treat diamonds, not coins, as the real currency. Coins pile up on their own; diamonds gate expansion and terraforming and mostly come from town stalls, so upgrading stall capacity pays better than another crop field.
- Avoid the bank as a routine converter. At roughly 2,000 gold per diamond and 250,000 gold per medal it exists for emergencies, not for income.
- Run long quests from the quest board when you can. Community reports put long duration quests at 20 medals, doubling to 40 once your farm passes level 50, which is a real step change in medal income.
- Trees need no watering and bear seasonally, so plant them before a break rather than before an active session. Crops reward attention; trees reward absence.
- Sprinklers are worth building before decorations. Watering cuts growth time by a large margin, so covering a big field with sprinklers raises harvests per hour more than adding more tiles does.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Farm Together 2 still in Early Access?
No. Early Access ran from 7 May 2024 and the 1.0 release landed on 30 May 2025. Note that a lot of the widely circulated community data was compiled during Early Access, so specific unlock levels and prices are worth double checking against your own game.
Do crops keep growing when I am not playing?
Yes. Growth runs on real time, and the game advances while it is closed. Seasons cycle roughly every 17 minutes of real time, which is why seasonal crops and fruit trees reward planting before you log off.
What is the fastest way to level up?
Flowers per tile, backed by sprinklers so you are harvesting rather than watering. Fast crops like lettuce and carrots work early because you can fit several harvests into one session. Each category, from crops to flowers, has its own level that caps at 250 and gains a point of experience per harvested tile.
How big can a farm get?
The grid tops out at 7x7, which is 49 plots and roughly 39,200 tiles. Buying every additional plot runs into the millions of diamonds and needs a very high Farm Level, so treat it as a hundred hour goal rather than a mid game one.
Can I play with friends?
Yes. Farm Together 2 supports online co-op, shared and split screen local co-op, and cross-platform play. Visitors work your farm alongside you, which is the fastest way to clear a large harvest before a season flips.
More Farm Together 2 Guides
- Farm Together 2 Farm Together 2 Overview
- Farm Together 2 Best Builds
- Farm Together 2 Tier List
- Farm Together 2 Walkthrough
- Farm Together 2 Tips & Tricks
- Farm Together 2 Weapons Guide
- Farm Together 2 Combat Guide
- Farm Together 2 Boss Guide
- Farm Together 2 Maps & Locations
- Farm Together 2 Crafting Guide
- Farm Together 2 Classes & Characters
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