FS25 Judith Plains, Montana 4X
A downloadable map
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Map Release Version - 1.0.0.1
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This 4x map is inspired by the vast, open landscapes of central Montana, USA, with a strong emphasis on agriculture. It features expansive farmland, rolling plains, and realistic terrain. It features 2 towns, a vast train system connecting two of them, and a route that begins in the highlands, winds through dense forests, and descends into the valley, covering a significant portion of the map. Scattered bridges, two creeks, and a river cutting across the terrain add to the immersive experience.
Key Features:
New Crops: Alfalfa and Clover, mowable like grass, wrapable for silage and baled for animal feed.
Custom Harvestore Silo: Produces silage from grass, alfalfa, clover, and chaff (requires land ownership).
Inbuilt Corn Dryer: Converts Corn into DryCorn (requires land ownership).
New Straw Types: Corn and soybeans now produce cornstalks and bean straw, which can be baled to be sold or used as animal bedding.
Custom Productions: Whiskey, Beer, Wine, Ethanol, Soymilk, Pasta, Pizza, Cornoil, Cornflour.
Enhanced Crop Features:
- Custom corn textures with stubble destruction.
- Crop destruction effects added for all major crops.
- Grass planted will now have seasonal color change effects
- Custom geo based on the Northern United States, featuring spring planting of wheat, barley, and canola, with extended harvest periods for corn, soybeans, sorghum, and sunflowers.
Expanded Terrain Options: Additional ground textures added for paint mode.
Custom Lighting: Orange sunrise/sunset and darker nights.
Land & Farming:
- 122 arable fields, ranging from medium to large, with a few meadows.
- A Custom soil map included to support Precision Farming DLC.
- All of the map can be purchasable.
Custom Built Farms:
- 6 custom built farm areas scattered across map
- 7 empty land areas for players to build their own farms
- Each farm have color themed barns, animal pens and silos
- Custom buildings: 10 dairy barns, 6 sheep pastures, 2 pigsties,and 4 hen pens (land purchase required).
- Each farm have Custom Grain bin silos (requires land ownership).
- Each farm have a separate Corn Dryer & Harvestor (requires land ownership).
Sell Points & Economy:
- 12 sell points with varying product acceptance.
- 3 Train silos and Train sell point included.
- Bulk feed shop for seeds, lime, herbicide, fertilizer, anhydrous, and propane.
Added Realism:
- Custom Montana license plates.
- Anhydrous ammonia as a new fertilizer type. (Should work with any anhydrous applicator mods out there)
- Propane added as a resource for productions. (Map includes modded tankers for transport)
- Animal dealer have live animals at display .
- Animated airplane flying over farms and the city.
- Two fire stations with animated doors and interiors.
- Gas stations, Vehicle dealer with interiors.
Immersive Details:
- John Deere dealership with demo equipment for players to borrow.
- Custom environmental sounds and building smoke effects.
- Multi-Terrain Angle (32 angles) for better field realism.
Performance:
- Completely error-free, with only minor, harmless warnings.
Enjoy farming in the Judith Plains, Montana!
Version 1.0.0.1:
Fixed issue where loading map in dedicated server gets struck at 100% compiling shaders. Updated the property type of store vehicles now so map works with Courseplay on Multiplayer
Note: After launching map for first time, Please fly around map for shader cache to generate, This will help lowend PC.
Thank you to all my followers and supporters for believing in me over the years. Your support means everything!
If you think I deserve some reward for my hard work, please buy me a coffee or a drink. It’s completely optional, but truly appreciated.
Any donations however small are always very much appreciated & this would be an extra motivation for me to bring better maps to FS 25.
Mod Conflcits:
Thundr's Better winches mod, or Default Types mod. Detailed info in this Post
I don’t take full credit for the models and objects, as some were originally from FS22 maps. I converted them to FS25 and made modifications to the models and textures.
Credits:
Map Models & objects:
Giants Software,MRG Mapping,CBJ Midwest Modding,Lancyboi,CCS101,DR Modding,Bcbuhler Farms,MB Farms,Central Ohio Modding,AW Modding,Seriousmods,Txzar Mapping,NoCreekFarms,Louisiana Mapping,NEFG Modding,Antler22,TK Farms,Biggins,DS-Power,HD Modding,Dyjo modding,Piotr75,Bradley Bronestine,Pascal Fs Modding,BUBBER DRUMM,TeamRheinlandpfalz,Markus,Wowek12,TFSGROUP,BZH,Schultz Modding,Wowek12,Crusty_Farmer TTV,Miczko,Bumsnudel93,CSA Modding,ShowMeDirt,PM-Modding,RW Modding,Fatian and TSM,blueweb, Rory Kain,bhModding,NorthSimulation,cjwilksy,IB055,ThompsonM06,Fendt512,Basti_66,Amy Hertzler,Eric Borman,Edwards Modding,Phantom Modding, Jinkou89, Crownzilla, LMoonlight,Piesel.
Scripts:
LS-Modcompany/kevink98,modelleicher,TracMax,W_R,PixelFarm, StrauntMaunt,ZenJakey/DJ-Modding, KR-Softwares,Sven777b,Evgeny Zaitsev,CCS101,Nicolas Wrobelezaitsev, Schluppe,Achimobil, Ifkonator, Andy,LKX/Stegei,GTX.
- I apologize if there are objects on the map that are not credited properly. Please drop me a message so that I can update the credits. I would always credit people's work properly.
- I would always be grateful to Will(CCS101) for helping me with my maps, scripts, and much more when needed for FS19.
- I would always be grateful to CCS101, DR Modding, MRG mapping, Serious Mods, Txzar Mapping, Lancyboi for letting me use models from their maps.
- I would always be grateful to Klutch Simulations, DjGoHam Gaming,The FarmSimGuy, Farmer Klein,Scroft, Farmer Sim, Farmer Cop, Argsy Gaming, Kederk Farms, FSClub, Trucket Matzy, Mighty Mike Farms, TonyMif for the support and map reviews.
I would like to thank you for your time. Hopefully, you will enjoy playing this map as I do. Please report to my FB page for any issues.
Required Mods:
More Productions Possible (120)
More Animal Husbandries Possible (64)
Optional Mods:
GamePlay and Map Reviews:
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Development log
- Issues or Possible Mod Conflcits22 days ago
- Judith Plains, Montana 4X | JD Dealer, Traffic, Montana License, Airplane37 days ago
- Farm 1 Showcase43 days ago
- Judith Plains, Montana 4X Dev Log 853 days ago
- Judith Plains, Montana 4X Dev Log 758 days ago
- Judith Plains, Montana 4X Dev Log 658 days ago
- Map Name Reveal72 days ago
- New Crops, Alfalfa and Clover !93 days ago
Comments
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Hello, I want to say that the map is amazing and your attention to detail is outstanding.
One Question: Can you edit the map to allow more trees? Or am I doing something wrong? Thank you for all your hard work!
does this update require a new save
can you get rid of the tracks through the fields they are really annoying
Hi there,
Compliments for the map quality and details, enjoy playing on it :-)
I merged fields 86, 80 and 90, in the PDA they show up as 1 fields and also when using courseplay it works well.... only the strips between the fields are not added as a part of the combined field
been stuck on "compiling shaders" for at least 20 min.... also I have errors on my server log files:
Script error: 'streamWriteUIntN': Argument 1 has wrong type. Expected: UInt. Actual: Nil
Yes, Will fix those tight conrners in next version
awesome map, love the look of it havent played on it for very long just kind of checking it out, my only complaint and minor as it is, not being able to sell buildings, but great work looks like an awesome map im gonna jump back in it and get lost for a few hours
i did want to say however, i love the dealership set up, all the equipment lined up out front was a nice touch, a detail most of the time left out that really grabbed my attention
Thank you, At that time its hard to make farms as placables, Lot of learning and work involved, But i will learn this new way for my next map.
right on man, yeah like i said its a minor thing i just snapped up field 94 i think and built my farm, actually just remembered i had a reply so i just came off your map to reply to you, so far loving it, roads are nice and wide for big equipment its a really nice layout
Is there a way to limit the snow height? At the moment it's been snowing for days and the snow is so thick it's lagging my game to 10FPS whereas before is 60 steady.
I have not edited base game settings for snow, so its how game works, if you like you can edit the environment.xml file to adjust snow levels.
do you have the realistic weather mod cause that will make very deep snow
Yeah I do, might have to investigate that mod instead...
Another contract problem. Took a job to clear stones from field 116. Quick travelled to the vehicle shop with me inside it. Not able to get out because all the doors are closed and I can not open them. Cycled through vehicles just to get out of the building. Got to the field, started to use the tool.. message popped up saying: "The vehicle/tool is reserved for contract work". Tried to get A,I to do the job but was told: "A.I worker J has quit unexpectedly, field not owned".
Unable to continue or complete contract. Was forced to abort contract.. but still got paid £27,000. Crazy!!
I have reported multiple issues when using this map but seems they are being deleted, Two other bug reports are missing. This map is a mess of bugs.
Thanks for report, I have not changed anything for Contracts specific to my map, So they should be behave how base game work, only difference i see is the field sizes are large as this being 4X map. So may be the contracts do not behave properly for a 4x map i guess.
I'm having the weirdest glitch. so on one of the potatoes contracts for a big field if i accept the contract the game completely freezes. I have to restart my computer or log out because I cant even close fs25. I tried leasing equipment and without leasing as well. never fails to completely lock my system up. all the fertilizing contracts work. Also i noticed irrigation contracts freeze the game as well but I can close fs25 when it freezes like that. I have better contracts mod on but it doesn't seem to affect any other contracts.
field 61
after much experimenting it seems all potato contracts lag the game out. waited 5-10 minutes and it unfroze and let me play. eliminated all contract mods and no change so im assuming its a map bug.
also upon finishing the field 64 contract i was missing like 800,000 l of potatoes to finish the contract
Thanks for report, I have not changed anything for Contracts specific to my map, So they should be behave how base game work, only difference i see is the field sizes are large as this being 4X map. So may be the contracts do not behave properly for a 4x map i guess. On top of it, since potatoes and beets yeild more per hectar so i guess game is taking more computing power for those contracts.
I was curious if there is a separate trigger at the Ethanol plant for Propane. I've used your supplied trailer, plus tried to use the pallet of propane but am not been able to get an unload trigger. Unloaded dry corn, corn and Sorghum with no trouble.
At this moment trigger not working correctly, i will fix that for next version
Thank you for your response. Been enjoying the map.
@DJ Modding: any chance you might tweak slurry and manure prices or the usage of them in the future to make it more viable?
Of course US is not like Europe, since here we have to pay between 30-35 euros to get rid of 1000 litres of slurry (prices have gone crazy because of nitrogen problem). When we buy it we pay between 13-18 euros.
Don't know how it is in the US, but on this map it is a problem for me. On my field 4 (120-119-115) I used 500.000 litres (bought at animal dealer) and bought 795.000 dollars of equipment for it. Guess I should have checked the cost difference in guides before, but can't imagine anyone using manure/slurry when this is realistic.
Edit: so far I have 120 hours on this map, I really love it. Can't wait for Autodrive guy to make his route available so I can start expanding. Thumbs up again for this great map!
Thanks for that, I have not changed the prices for the Slurry or manure, its same as how base game works.
Just started a brand new save.. zero mods installed except the Lizard caravan which I towed to a tiny plot of land I bought. Same issue. I can not open the door, I can not enter it and it has now sleep trigger either. There's something strange going on with this map in that it's locking me out of all buildings, houses, homes, caravans etc. Unplayable.
Its strange that triggers do not work with out any mods, We all tested and works for us, Either dowload file must be corrupt. Re download and try. Also reset your game controls in setttings, Clearly its not map issue as its working for many folks.
New major problem... started a new save as a new Farmer at Big Sky Farm. Can not open any gates nor the doors to any of the vehicle and machinery storage buildings even though I own them! If I press TAB I can spawn into the various vehicles, start and drive them but I am not able to exit get out the buildings as the doors are all locked. I'm trapped inside. These same buildings although in the game.. on the map they are completely missing and the vehicles are just sitting in the open air. Was looking forward to playing this map but currently not possible.
Its strange that triggers do not work with out any mods, We all tested and works for us, Either dowload file must be corrupt. Re download and try. Also reset your game controls in setttings, Clearly its not map issue as its working for many folks.
Problem with contracts.. first when I accept one there's no red gps with distance. location icon untill I get within a certain close range of job location. Also when I completed a log pickup contract it would not tell me the specified location where they were meant to be sold. Only after driving from selling point to selling point did it siddenly pop up on the map but only when I was very close and again in a specific range. Maybe this map is too big for the gps to work propery?
Thanks for report, I have not changed anything for Contracts specific to my map, So they should be behave how base game work, only difference i see is the field sizes are large as this being 4X map. So may be the contracts do not behave properly for a 4x map i guess.
The map is great. But recently I noticed that all lighting during dusk and night has a square glow. I think the defect is the wrong angle of lighting set in GE. I had a similar thing with my lantern that I was making, I changed the angle of light and it was ok.
Thanks for the information, I have used the base game Settings for Sun in GE. May be my map elevation is high than base game it’s causing that, I will check more on that !
Square lighting shadows appear around street lights at night when you are moving in a vehicle.
My saved game keeps getting deleted and the one time the whole map was covered in dirt and I really wanna play on it but keeps doing this.
if the stuff is covered with dirt that means your graphic settings or too low
can you please check if it’s mod conflict ? It works fine for many players !
Decals on tractors, harvester and dash get blurry after entering them. When the map first loads all is good until entering then exiting vehicle. Issue doesn't go away until exiting FS25.
think it can be issue with game settings itself not map or can be mod conflict, please check on your end
I had no mods, only other map that did this was Elk Mountain in FS22. I ended switch my GPU from 6650XT to 9060XT 16G, issue is resolved and also the lag/rendor delay when plowing, lime, bailing etc. is all fixed too. Awesome Map!
This is due to poor graphics options settings with weak graphics cards, not the map's fault. Set graphics options to high and play around with individual settings.
Waterplane stops too early.
i found this floating brick decal thing
cant get anhydrous to load in pull cart. Curious as to what anhydrous mods guys are using.
I paid for the map but I cannot download it.
map is free and donations are optional. You can see the link to file once you click on download button
so I trying playing the map, it’s fun so fun.. until I go to save the game and when I press the button to save the game, something comes up and says “This Game Cannot Be Saved” can someone help me with this issue?
check the issue link pinned on the post
Have you started working on a way to remove the preplaced buildings?
Yeah, this map looks like th best one I have found so far, but I really want to make my farm in the same spot snowcap farms occupies
i cant bale alfalfa is anyone having the same problem i need help fixing i
Can you confirm if base game baler is working? I added them as filltypes so most of the balers work, even mods, unless its the mod that is causing issue.
ya i wil see if bace game baler works
Hey just wanted to let ya know the town in the upper part of the map has chickens on the highway. Not sure if this is you asking why the chicken crossed the road or if its a glitch lol
Free KFC?
Yeah, that is happening sometimes, its on issue that is reallly hard to track
is Judith plains going to be coming to the modhub. Only required mods installed and it doesn’t recognize it once I’m in the game except to tell me to get it from modhub. I’ve already downloaded it from DJ’s website on both my server and steam deck
it’s not on modhub, for server you should be able to see in mod list right ? We tested with many players. Once check your game settings or server settings
yeah I know it’s only on your website I’ve downloaded it to my (steam deck) “maybe that’s the problem (Linux) but I’ve downloaded mods to it before from the desktop on steam decks desktop or computer page. I’ve checked server setting an and unchecked the mod only hub mods, I use gportal. I’ve also downloaded the two required mods. I’ve even updated the map to your most recent update but once I load up the server and get into farm sim and goto our server it shows the map but has an exclamation ❗️ point and says it’s not on my system. I’ve even made sure I’ve unzipped the folder for the map and put it into the mod folder for fs25. 🤷♂️
sorry to hear that, First to check the mod, is it working in single player? were you able to load and play, I am not sure if the server has any file limit size, map is around 975MB, I have no expertise on the steam deck or gportal servers. Please Google if that can help you to solve this issue.
Thanks DJ I really appreciate your taking the time to respond to my issue. I’m sure there is nothing wrong with the map obviously plenty of people are playing it. I have tried loading it on single player without any other mods except for the required ones but the game is just not recognizing it on my system. Maybe I just don’t have it in the right file. I’ll continue to try and research how to properly load mods on the steam deck (Linux system). Either way I will donate becuse I appreciate the work you do.
I love the map but when i tried to make my own farm it told me that I couldn't place my cow pasture because there was to many animal pens
There is a required mod list (2 mods long) - install those and this problem goes away...
ok thank you
were is the mod list
on the same page you downloaded the mod
Love this map!! Just a few small complaints
1 - not being able to sell buildings
2 - not being able to switch between farms without closing out and reloading the game - we have a dedi server with a co op and switching to the co op and/or back to farm requires us to close out and reload every time
aside from that amazing job!!!
Thanks, Sorry its a huge work for making them all placables, I will learn that and apply for my future map.
No need to apologize! Keep up the amazing work!
Is alfalfa(or clover)-hay better than the usual grass? I take if for a huge waste, if I just turn it into silage - then I could just as well have used regular grass, or chaff then??
I also struggle to find storage accepting it? - atm. I store it all in a trailer..??
There should be a blue tower kinda like the grain storage bins that accepts alfalfa and clover.
I'm not sure about making it straight to silage since I baled all mine.
Hopefully someone else more knowable can help you.
I have changed the output of the alfalfa and clover to be more than grass, so they can be used to make more silage per cut, also you can give them to animals, the harvestor silo I have in farms that has storage for them ! Their value is also bit more if you prefer to sell, Again my intention is to provide with variety, players have their own choice end of day
this was a great decision and really helps. Thanks for providing a use for alfalfa and clover beyond just selling it.
The map is great and really well made. I had a few issues like all of the modified productions have invisible textures, but that's more likely caused by all the mods I'm playing with (300+ of them).
There is something that's not mod related that I don't really like though. Almost every product can be sold everywhere, and it's kind of stupid that a gas station is willing to buy my 40 pallets of cement bags etc. I know this can be ignored with a few self imposed rules, but it's not easy to enforce them in multiplayer. For sure it breaks the immersion.
I also think it would be more fun to actually plan your road from a production point to a specialized place where you sell some of your goods instead of just dumping everything in the closest selling point.
thanks for suggesting, in my previous maps I have done the same thing, but the problem is, if players have more mods for productions other than what i have, then those products can’t be sold in my map, hence to support those I made my selling points to accept standard types, that’s why gas station accepts production types of all kind, least thing player can do now is check name of selling station of you think it’s not valid to sell there, better to sell at other place by skipping this one
I see, it's not a big issue anyway. Thanks for the answer.
Nevertheless, the map is great. Some places are really well designed like the dredge barge, or the beer & whiskey production. It's really fun to play on this map.
Thanks for making it and sharing with us.
First off I love the map, you did amazing!
Secondly, I found a minor texture glitch when driving around the south part of the map near the Oil Plant, ( floating piece of a brick wall only visible from some angles. ) is there anywhere besides here I can share protentional issues for future updates?
Thank you for your hard work DJ!
Thank you for a beautiful and wonderfully made map. I have also found an issue is when I hired an AI worker to continue to harvest one of the starting fields that I own in New Farmer Mode (Field 20) but it doesn't continue where I stopped and processed to drive to the other end of the field so something with the AI workers got messed up but over all it's an amazing and awesome map
so far i like the map its well made the only think that i dont like is that if i want to replace something on the main farm or any other farm i can`t do it in my opinion it will be better if you make them placebles.
maybe it could work with object hider to sell the buildings ?
Thanks, Sorry its a huge work for making them all placables, I will learn that and apply for my future map.
Thank you for a beautiful and wonderfully made map. I cannot imagine how much effort it took to put this all together.
I am also impressed at the patience you are showing in dealing with all the inevitable bug reports and the dedication you have to fix even the small points. You are truly a treasure for the Farm Sim community.
Thanks so much, Feels great to read this comments once in a while
the map loaded for me but once I tried to save it, it said game could not save and I don't know why.
For 4X map, Game save file is 130MB, Seems to only be an issue happening for 4X maps with the Microsoft store version, the steam version or Giants direct install doesn't have this problem. There is a Ticket created in Giants Forum - https://forum.giants-software.com/viewtopic.php?t=213158&sid=a72978717db2be81abe3a1a555026ed6
can't play on the map because it say its compiling shaders and then the game wont let me in and crashes.
Try loading map alone and see once,Think its is because of mod conflcit, check the release notes once which has link to modconflicts
I had the same problem but in multiplayer. No one could join due to the infinite shaders loading.
Turns out it was caused by a few mods.
The problem was that this only appeared AFTER someone bought the machine from a given mod. So, in the end, we bought every machine available and checked after buying every ten or so if others could join or not.
Out of our 200+ mods, 4 were causing an issue. I don't remember the exact names, but it was a barrel, a front loader, a round baler, and a cotton harvester. No idea why those were problematic though.
love the map but would be awesome if your buildings were placeable
Thanks, Sorry its a huge work for making them all placables, I will learn that and apply for my future map.
i want to place down another animal barn but i cant because there are too many existing pens can you allow me to sell some so i can place mine
I had the same problem. Make sure you download the required mods and that should fix it.
LOVE the map and truly impressed with the work you've put into it - however, I've noticed something that no one has mentioned yet. Under construction -> factories, the included "Country View Dairy" doesn't have a building. Just three triggers, still for the full $210k. Is that an overlay that's meant for some existing building somewhere?
I may have forgotten to take them off from build menu, those are just empty placables