Terralife Plus: The Farming Agency pushes the limits of Farming Simulator 22

Expected since Farming Simulator 19, it is finally at the end of life of Farming Simulator 22 that the mod is released Terralife Plus from the Farming Agency team. This mod aims to add much more realism regarding animals, the crop calendar, mixed ration recipes as well as crop behavior with no less than 51 crops available. Players demanding a "PRO" version of Farming Simulator will be delighted.

4 Cards available at launch including a 4x

Since the Terralife mod uses new crops and changes the core of the game in depth, it is only available on specially modified maps. For now, you will have the choice between the following 4 maps, all in TerraLifePlus edition: Pallegney, Holzer, The Eifel, Somewhere in Thuringia III

More maps will be coming soon depending on the workload available at the Farming Agency with the preparations for the FS25 edition. For now, Bally Spring, Oberschwaben, Ostsekküste and another map to be released are confirmed. That's a total of 8 maps.

Installing mods

The TLP mod (TerraLife Plus) is composed of several dependencies and is itself divided into 4 mods in order to allow easy updates. An integrated script will take care of warning you if you are missing mandatory mods and will also take care of disabling mods that would be duplicates (Animal Grazing being for example directly integrated into TLP).

Advanced animal management

While Giants Software announces the arrival of baby animals for the next FS25 opus, the Terralife Plus mod already offers you 4 different growth stages by breed and sex. Each stage will have its 3D models as well as its specific dietary needs. Below is an example in bovids with 4 growth stages for males and 4 growth stages for females for the Angus breed.

You will find 5 breeds of cows, 2 breeds of sheep, 2 breeds of poultry, 2 breeds of goats. All have their own growth stages, feeding needs and rations. If you do not have access to certain animals on the map where you are playing, do not forget to add the appropriate placeables (for example the goat enclosure on Pallegney).

The TLP introduces a brand new menu specially dedicated to animals allowing you to visualize their needs at a glance as well as access special functions such as insemination or cleaning the troughs.

A wide variety of rations

Depending on the growth stages of your animals, you will need to make specific rations using your mixer. You will need to choose the recipe, then approach the mixer on foot to get the details of the ingredients used in the composition of the mixture.

45 crops, a realistic growing calendar and division into 48 weeks

The biggest change for your games is that now the annual division will no longer be done simply in months, but in weeks. In the game options you will be able to choose how many days per week depending on the desired speed of your game.
As you will have understood, TLP offers above all a slow gameplay in order to give you time to take care of the animals as well as to admire the 24 growth stages of each crop.

Direct seeding and cover crops

TLP allows you to sow a wide variety of cover crops depending on the season so as not to leave your soil bare between sowings. NOVAG seeders will allow you to sow directly over the cover crop. However, due to the current limitations of Precision Farming that the Farming Agency has not been allowed to change, crushing cover crops will not provide nutrients to the soil as is the case with oilseed radishes in the base game, for example. This feature will appear with the future edition for FS25.

A wide variety of products available

To avoid being stuck in the preparation of rations for your animals, you can buy a wide variety of products in the store, the packaging of which you can choose (in bags, by pallets, in big bags). New with the TLP, you can now interact with the bag pallets to extract one and take it by hand.

A large quantity of placeables for the new stables and pastures of the new animals

To be able to take care of animals that do not necessarily have stables or pastures already present on the map, do not hesitate to place them via the construction menu. The TLP also offers many new placeables for both animals and production lines. For example, you can build a hay cleaner for calves.

A sneak peek at the upcoming TerraLife on FS25

The Farming Agency has already warned that its mod on FS25 will be even more complete by taking advantage of the improvements of the Giants Engine. Expect features like soil compaction management (moreover, you can already play with Terra Care for tire pressure in this version of the TLP), plant covers and why not the return of a Seasons mod.