In the first part of my diary I used to be within the midst of making an attempt to bake a cake from scratch by Christmas in Farming Simulator 22, although with solely two months left within the in-game 12 months, I might managed solely to provide some eggs and strawberries whereas spending… let me verify my notes… ah, sure. A million {dollars}.
I nonetheless want wheat to show into flour, sugar beets to make sugar, and an entire bunch of milk as a result of I would like to show a few of it into butter whereas leaving the remainder of it as milk. Whereas my prospects of finishing a single cake appear dim, no less than there’s been a little bit progress within the cow division.
Milk and butter
A farmer’s work isn’t accomplished, particularly when he hasn’t even begun 80% of his work. As I am operating previous my cow pen panicking about every thing, I see they’ve really produced some milk. Naturally, I am unable to use my water tank to move milk, so it is time to lease a distinct goddamn tank and tow it to the farm. With 649 liters of contemporary milk, I head to the dairy, which I purchase (for $70,000). I then inform it to start out making butter and to ship that butter to the bakery, please and thanks.
Frazzled as I’m, it by no means stops feeling good to truly produce one thing from my silly little incomplete freeway farm. However regardless that I’ve received milk for butter, I additionally want extra milk for simply plain milk, so I spend about $10,000 on extra cows (this time I’ve them delivered). I now have eggs, butter, and strawberries sitting in my bakery, ready for every thing else.
Beets
In the meantime, I get some discouraging information. After plowing a second small discipline on the opposite aspect of the exit ramp and renting a distinct seeding machine (every thing appears to want its personal specialised gear) and filling it with beet seeds, I get a notification that I am unable to plant beets in October. They must be planted earlier within the 12 months. Effectively, shit. Beets had been my avenue to sugar, a reasonably vital ingredient in cake. I actually needed to develop my very own, however after sitting at my desk with my head in my palms for some time, I begin questioning if there is a shortcut I can take.
I verify the map for present beet fields, and because it turns on the market’s one proper subsequent to the baseball stadium throughout the freeway. I do know I needed to make every thing from scratch, however I’ve received two months till Christmas, and my cake at present consists of strawberries floating in uncooked eggs subsequent to a stack of butter and I’m careworn. I purchase the beet discipline for $146,000, I lease a large beet-harvesting truck the dimensions of an plane provider for $24,000, and I drive to the beet discipline.
Your entire discipline is withered. The beets are lifeless. What kinda shitty farmer lets his beets die so one other shitty farmer cannot harvest them? I drive my harvester everywhere in the discipline, but it surely gathers no beets. Sheeit. I head again to my farm and stare angrily at my wheat discipline, which hasn’t grown in any respect. Sheeit.
Beets, nonetheless
It’s now December. My cows have produced extra milk, which I drive glumly to the bakery. I offered the silly lifeless beet discipline, recouping my loss, however I am nonetheless right down to about $350,000, and my cake prospects aren’t trying good. I’ve loads of milk and tons of strawberries within the bakery, I’ve a good quantity of butter and my chickens are making extra eggs, however I’ve zero wheat to make flour or beets to make sugar and no time to develop them, anyway.
However what if I simply purchase wheat? I purchased wheat grain to feed my chickens, so does that imply I can simply purchase a ton of hen feed, drive it to the grain mill, and have them make flour out of it? It is not making it from scratch like I needed, however I’ve gotta do one thing. I take my trailer to the shop, fill it with a number of huge baggage of hen feed, then drive to the mill, which I purchase for $96,000. Certain sufficient, it permits me to dump my grain into it and begins producing flour.
Okay. Okay! My desires of rising every thing from scratch are in shambles, however possibly I can nonetheless get some desserts out the door by Christmas. I search the shop for beets, however they do not promote them. They do, nevertheless, promote pallets of sugarcane stalks, which will be put in a sugarcane seeding machine and planted. I’ve no time and even much less ability to do this, however can I simply take the sugarcane stalks to a sugar mill as a substitute?
I purchase a couple of thousand {dollars} value of sugarcane to fill my trailer, after which understand I am unable to discover a sugar mill wherever on the map. So, I construct one on my property for $80,000. That is how determined I’ve change into, I am simply constructing totally new industrial buildings 6 inches from the freeway on land I had deliberate to make use of for farming. I drive my sugarcane to my brand-new sugarmill, dump all of it out entrance, and… sure, the plant begins producing sugar.
There’s very, little or no time left in December, however for the primary time, my bakery has each ingredient it wants: flour, sugar, milk, eggs, butter, and strawberries. As I stand outdoors the bakery, staring intently at my display screen with pleading eyes, I see the cake manufacturing change from “Lacking Components” to “Operating.” The sugar has arrived. They will bake the desserts.
I verify the bakery’s storage. It says Cake: 1.
Cake
I’ve baked a cake. I’ve baked a cake! I’ll have added some audio to the gif above! However I’ve baked a cake! I spent $1,327,348 and did not really develop a single factor on my silly farm, however I’ve baked a single goddamn fruitcake.
The one factor souring the temper is the bakery will not really launch my cake till I’ve a whole pallet stuffed with desserts, as a substitute of only one. And I haven’t got practically sufficient elements for an entire mess of desserts.
So, I spend the remainder of December in a mad rush to ship extra milk to the butter manufacturing facility, extra sugarcane to the mill, extra eggs to the bakery, and extra wheat to the opposite mill. I entrust an egg supply to an AI employee however he actually drops the eggs alongside the best way—I blame myself for telling him to drive a forklift on the freeway—so I fireplace his ass and take over myself. Then I am hit by a automobile, the eggs go flying, and my forklift falls over. I simply decide up the eggs and run down the sidewalk to the bakery, dropping them a number of extra occasions. These are gonna be some scrumptious desserts.
It is dusk, the ultimate hours of December are ticking away, and I am sitting outdoors the bakery in my truck, headlamps pointed on the cargo space.
After which, magically, they seem. A correct pallet of strawberry desserts I can really see with my drained farmer eyes.
I am unable to transfer them—my forklift remains to be mendacity on its aspect down the block—so I simply bounce in my trunk and honk the horn. I did it, and given there’s 2 hours left within the gameday of December, I am gonna go forward and say I did it by Christmas. I’ve $70,884 left in my checking account, which suggests I spent $1,429,116, nearly my total financial savings, to bake a pallet of desserts sorta kinda from scratch. I didn’t, at any level, efficiently carry out any precise farming.
Only for kicks, the following day I take my pallet of fruitcakes to a neighborhood restaurant to promote them. They’re value $2,674. Merry Christmas.
