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Farming Simulator 25

Guides and news for Farming Simulator 25 on PC: installing mods and the zip-name rule, ModHub versus manual downloads, map mods and the new-savegame rule, reading log.txt, resolving conflicts, backing up savegames and hosting multiplayer with mods. The news covers GIANTS’ patches and the Beans & Alpacas expansion, with the modding changes each one brings, such as the Lua functions removed in patch 1.24. For modders there is an overview of the GIANTS Editor pipeline.

Farming Simulator 25

How to Make FS25 Mods: GIANTS Editor Guide

The Developer Network, the editor and exporter, what i3d, i3d.shapes and the vehicle XML do, a typical vehicle workflow, scripts after patches 1.24 and 1.25, maps, and ModHub versus your own release.

Farming Simulator 25

FS25 Multiplayer With Mods: Hosting Guide

The host's mods download to everyone who joins, DLC does not, and some scripts cannot run in multiplayer. Six rules for hosting, what to check when a friend cannot join, and when a dedicated server is worth it.

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How to Back Up FS25 Savegames

Where FS25 keeps savegames, what careerSavegame.xml remembers, the two folders to copy, how to restore, how to test the expansion on a copy instead of your career, moving to a new PC, and multiplayer.

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Why FS22 Mods Don't Work in FS25

The descVersion check, the new engine, the changed scripting API and game systems; what converting a vehicle, a map or a script takes; who may do it; and the signs of a conversion done badly.

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FS25 log.txt: Find Why a Mod Failed

Where the log is, its structure, seven searches that answer most mod problems, common lines translated, from log to fix, and the five lines an author actually needs from you.

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FS25 Mod Conflicts: What the Errors Mean

Conflict, missing dependency, the yellow warning, 'unsupported' and the silent missing mod: what causes each, the two-mods-that-both-work-and-still-fight case, multiplayer, and how to prevent them.

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FS25 Map Mods: Why You Need a New Savegame

A savegame belongs to a map. Installing and starting on a map mod, required mods, safe and unsafe updates, performance, servers, and what to read on a map's page before downloading two gigabytes.

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FS25 ModHub vs Manual Mods: Which to Use

GIANTS tests ModHub mods and updates them in-game; manual zips are newer, broader and PC-only. Testing, updates, consoles, multiplayer, safety, and the duplicate-name conflict when you run both.

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FS25 Beans & Alpacas: Release Date and Features

A South America-inspired map, coffee and bananas as new crops, alpacas and Brahman cattle, 25-plus machines from a new brand, and the patch that will come with it. Everything confirmed before launch week.

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How to Install Farming Simulator 25 Mods on PC

FS25 reads zips only, rejects file names with spaces or brackets, and since September disables Lua loadstring. The whole PC routine, from the folder to the mod selection screen and the log file.

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FS25 Patch 1.25: Animal Workers and Vineyards

GIANTS' 20 October patch adds animal workers, year-round vineyard planting and a requiresPower option for tool mods, and it follows a September patch that disabled Lua loadstring. What script-mod users need to know.