Hill-top Farm Casual Year 1 Farm

[Benhimself]

I see a lot of end-game farms, and while the work on those farms IS impressive, I thought it might be fun to share some early game builds. What does your farm look like when you're still gearing up?

 

[ArtifactSpot]

Looks great! You can really fit a lot on speciality farms you just have to be creative like you are. Pigs work great on Hill Top when you can afford them. Place barn just below cliff in front of house. If I remember you can fit 4 deluxe barns there.

 

[REtroGeekery]

Hill-Top is still my favorite farm map. I like where you put the coop and the ponds! The pathing around the owl statue is really cool.

Here is New Racoon Farm, fist day of Summer of Year 2 compared to Summer Year 1. It's come a long way!

 

[Gardening Spirit]

Thank you for the great idea of sharing early game farms @Benhimself

I'm always curious about what other farms at the same level as me look like!

I like how you've made a dedicated area for the barn/shed/silo.

Here's my Year 2 Winter farm. Just got the greenhouse repaired and my first Big Shed built by Robin.

 

[Benhimself]

Just unlocked Ginger Island (Spring Year 2) so figured it would be a good time for a progress shot. Small but incremental.

 

[REtroGeekery]

Just unlocked Ginger Island (Spring Year 2) so figured it would be a good time for a progress shot. Small but incremental.

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I really like that little cluster of sprinklers under the quarry! That's such a great idea. ^_^

 

[ThePerfectGarden]

Here is New Racoon Farm, fist day of Summer of Year 2 compared to Summer Year 1. It's come a long way!

I like the random diversity of your design. But I have to admit, Beach Farm looks nice even without anything. True enough, landscaping is a long way. You need a lot of money which only comes slowly over time, and the days are short.

Here's Balsamic Moon Farm in Spring Year 3 (to the right), compared to Spring or Summer Year 2 (to the left). The first design was copied from a farm by Igorferreira, but it turned out to be impractical, and I didn't want do copy someone else's farm anyway. I thought about starting a new save for a while, but the current one was such a stroke of luck, that it would be a shame to abandon it, so I stayed and redesigned the whole farm. Tore everything down and rebuilt it.
I'm on Ginger Island since Summer Year 2, already built the house and even the resort last winter. Now I'm preparing for meeting Qi on level 100 in the Skull Cavern.


Spring/Summer year 2 - Spring year 3

 

[Sockpuppet]

One of my old beach farm designs that I never did finish

 

[FilthyGorilla]

Chill Hilltop farms are super underrated, one of my first farms I played on for an extended amount of time was a hilltop farm I covered in trees and stone brick paths (it's where I got my addiction to them)

 

[ArtifactSpot]

I really like hilltop as long as I don’t have big plans for a save. Normally I don’t so save its lack of lumber it makes a great canvas for those who are creative. Plus it gives you a mini quarry to help build your metals and occasional gem stash up in the beginning months when you don’t always have time to get to mines and back. You also can find more artifacts digging there than normal farms it seems.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

It’s very nice for decorating too, natural rivers and cliffs offer a good terrain breakage and natural separation of areas without being annoying like riverland