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Discussion: What is a Farm?
jadonbakes
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I do know what farms are, but there are a lot of different kinds. But this discussion is What does a farm mean to you? And what type of farming do you hope for in a farming pack?
Urban Farming? A few space-saving modernist chicken coops for harvesting eggs.
Corporate Agriculture? Huge fields of crops, hundreds of farm workers. Would this take up an entire lot type?
Livestock? Raising animals to be turned into food.
Dairy Farm? A vegetarian (but not vegan) option
Dude Ranch? Horses, fence-mending, cowsims, a vacation destination
Hobby Farm? Lots of machinery repair, lots of invested simoleons for very little payoff
What other types of farms can you think of? What type do you think TS4 would include in their farming pack?
[I hope this works as an Ideas post, as I assume we will be generating some!]
Urban Farming? A few space-saving modernist chicken coops for harvesting eggs.
Corporate Agriculture? Huge fields of crops, hundreds of farm workers. Would this take up an entire lot type?
Livestock? Raising animals to be turned into food.
Dairy Farm? A vegetarian (but not vegan) option
Dude Ranch? Horses, fence-mending, cowsims, a vacation destination
Hobby Farm? Lots of machinery repair, lots of invested simoleons for very little payoff
What other types of farms can you think of? What type do you think TS4 would include in their farming pack?
[I hope this works as an Ideas post, as I assume we will be generating some!]
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@Briana2425: What's the difference between a pig and a hog?
I think a hog is bigger than a pig.
Also there should be a mixture of these kinds of farms, like a farm that specializes in growing crops and nectar making, but also has some chickens and cows.
You can mix and match, even a giant farm with all these features: farm animals, crops, nectar making and horses!
I'll be amazed if farming is done in a more modern method, like the rack where you can plant crops on each levels, or even a rooftop plantation. It gives a whole new meaning of eco-living.
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Farm for me includes:
- Large fields of harvestables
but also small ones for more hobby farmers
maybe some machine to help with that or ability to hire farmhands
- Farm animals like cows , sheep , chickens... maybe even llamas
main reason to have animals should be to get usable things like
eggs, milk, wool, meat.. (ok maybe meat aint ts4 style)
since at farm animals are not just there to be petted they are there to make living
but also it would be nice to be able to make friends with them and name them because fav cow is fav cow
there should be aspect of cleaning after your livestock. mending fences and making sure they don't get sick or injured
and obviously you'd have to feed them
also I feel following subjects tie in with farming and would be great addition
- Canning /Preserving food
- Making nectar
- Making butter
- or hey they could also make cheese or something
- Maybe knitting or something to use the wool you get
new venue type or festival to bring farmers market where sims could sell things they made or farmed and buy livestock
what comes to urban style I am not that big fan
but also it would be nice to have few planters and such that allow more modern style of doing it for city sims
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This is basically my idea of a farm, too. Horses (in my mind) belong on a ranch, which is a completely different thing.
One: 64x64 Lot, Their Family Estate that overlooks the entire farm on a hillside.
Three: 50x50 Lots, that house the Live Stock: Barns and Stables. They do raise livestock, Cows, Pigs, and Chickens.
Six: 40x30 Lots, 1 = The Wheat Field (Wheat Maze), 2 = Vineyards, 3 = Orchards, 4 = Flower Fields, 5 = Herbs 6 = Vegetables.
In this pack i wouldn't want anything pre grown. I know I can delete lots, but I want to be the one to sow the first seed.
If it came down to what I was looking for In this packs game play wise:
- Raising Bulls/Cows, Hogs/Pigs, Roosters/Chickens because I think they're cute.
- Using resources from My Vineyard and Orchard to supply my Winery and Brewery. Using large Quantities of Grapes to create a bottle of wine.
- Being able to craft custom bottles of wine and beer, storing them in a cellar in Barrel/kegs, under my sims mansion let them age, tasting them, naming the crafts. then shipping them out to stores, and restaurants to then be sold.
I'd like the mechanical/industrial side of Crafting Wine and beer, as well as the manual.
- The Bourbons would host Harvest Festivals, with neat contests, like Bake-offs, Pie-Eating Contests, The Largest Pumpkin, Music, and Wandering the Wheat/Corn Maze
My Mood:
So I'm thinking this farming pack would need its own irrigation system (which, didn't we get something similar in Seasons? At least a sprinkler? I don't really garden in the sims--not sure, but even if a huge sprinkler system were part of seasons, they would need a new one for TS4 Untitled Farming Pack) and we may also need a roomba-esque harvester machine... (because I couldn't see EA providing a driveable combine to harvest crops). But even planting--in real life, my dad would plant a few fields of corn or soybeans, and it would take him hours. I couldn't imagine traveling to an empty field lot and watching a sim circle the lot in a tractor for over 12 hours.
I want TS4 to feel real and offer well-rounded simulation, but I also worry about multiple packs feeling repetitive. So for me, farming would definitely have to focus more one farm animals rather than plants... Unless it's about making products OUT of plants (like nectar--and pickling/jamming, good suggestion).
Let‘s ask ourselves: how do farmers do it in real life? Maybe we could hire harvest helper NPCs that harvest the plants for us for a fee or we could use a tractor.
But I do agree, there should be a bigger focus on farm animals and nectar making/ canning. Maybe just include some new types of harvestables, especially corn stalks and turnips!
yeah I feel like horses could be in their own gp
or they could tie them in some old times ep too which would be really cool
horse carriages and fancy horserides and such
(obviously not forgetting that they are pets too though)
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And we could get dedicated riding paths with a country world.
I grew up in a farming community, where most were mixed farms. That is, that grain crops were grown, and livestock grazed on the same farm. Once the crops are harvested, the livestock get to graze on the stubble. Cattle for meat, sheep mostly for wool, but some farms also have specific breeds for meat.
Nothing gets irrigated.
But there are other regions, with other types of farms. Inland there are the cattle stations, where cattle is grazed on whatever grows out in the almost desert.
The river-land region where most of our fruit and nuts come from, along with a lot of the wineries. Then there's the market gardens, where most of the veggies come from.
There's also greenhouses in the desert. This wacky concept they're planning on building one in my city too. It's a pretty good way to get fresh produce to places that are no good for conventional market gardens.
Typically, a farm is where the primary production of produce occurs.
As to the topic of horses, they are pretty common on the larger livestock farms. On many smaller farms, they've been replaced by quad bikes.
Canning is not farming. Canning is factory work, produce is processed, taking it beyond primary production.
If the Sims were to make a farming pack, what would you expect to be included? What type of world (climate/geography/culturally) would you want?
I mean they could put them in ofc
id have nothing against it really
its more like pack shouldn't center around horses but the actual farming if its farming pack
like surely they could add horses and you could use them to do field work and u could ride them if they were in farming ep
but i am not sure if horses should have their own pack so they could really focus on horses properly like there is loads of equestrian sports they could add in game for example and horse related competitions and all but I feel like we would not get much of those in farming pack because there is so much to farming itself
so that is why i rather feel there should be separate pack so these 2 concepts can exist without being half baked
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Traditional canning, the one you can make at home at a stove. In Sims 3 Store as well as Sims 1 there was a cooking station where you could can your fruits and veggies you‘ve grown on your farm! Could be a great hobby for elders as well! It‘s a popular request.
We already have a rural European world, the Countryside in Windenburg, so no that isn‘t needed anymore.
With StrangerVille we got a rural desert neighborhood.
We haven‘t got a rural country world in general, I‘d like a Mid-Western lush country world with those classic red barns, silos and tractors, kind of like Appaloosa Plains, but more green. I‘d like to have a world where there are 4 seasons, including winter, since you‘d have to adapt your farm to all 4 seasons!
Pig, hog and boar essentially describe the same animal, but there are some distinctions. A boar is an uncastrated male domestic pig, but it also means a wild pig of any gender. A hog often means a domestic pig that weighs more than 120 lbs. (54 kilograms). Pigs are also called swine.Oct 5, 2018
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idk i mostly put canning as its a way of preserving food i wouldnt say what i want is exactly canning (idk what is the english term anyways) but just some way to preserve food so you could farm at summer and still have food for winter
maybe more like bags of potato and self made jars of food kind of situation? would be what i really want
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I think the biggest thing I care about with world would be that it has no FX houses
because at countryside its rather usual to not have another house in sight really and that is just my idea of countryside
ofc there should be some lots though but just leaving out the fake houses would be fantastic
and yeah it should have 4 seasons as that affects farming big time
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