Realistic Soil & Fertilizer

Enhance your farming experience with the Realistic Soil & Fertilizer Mod. This mod adds depth and realism to soil management and fertilization. It introduces dynamic soil fertility, nutrient cycles, and realistic fertilizer economics, making farming more challenging and strategic.

Key Features:

• Dynamic Soil Fertility: Tracks nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium levels for each field. Soil nutrients deplete as crops grow and recover when fields are fallow.
• Realistic Nutrient Cycles: Different crops extract different nutrients. Organic matter content affects long-term fertility. pH levels impact nutrient availability.
• Fertilizer Economics: Three fertilizer types with varying costs and effectiveness:
  • Liquid Fertilizer: Balanced nutrients, moderate cost
  • Solid Fertilizer: Higher phosphorus, standard cost
  • Manure: Improves organic matter, lower cost
• Customizable Difficulty:
  • Simple: Reduced nutrient depletion, lower costs
  • Realistic: Balanced gameplay, standard settings
  • Hardcore: Rapid nutrient depletion, higher costs
• User-Friendly Interface: Integrated into game settings menu, console commands for advanced control, real-time notifications for low nutrients, field-specific soil information.
• Fully Compatible: Multiplayer supported, works with all maps, no conflicts with other mods, save game compatible.

Gameplay Impact:

• Makes fertilizer management more important
• Encourages crop rotation strategies
• Adds economic planning element
• Increases realism without excessive complexity

Console Commands Available:

• soilfertility (show all commands)
• SoilEnable/Disable
• SoilSetDifficulty 1/2/3
• SoilFieldInfo <fieldId>
• SoilShowSettings
• SoilResetSettings

Installation: Extract to your mods folder. Configure in-game settings under “Soil & Fertilizer” section.

This mod is perfect for players who want more depth from their farming experience without overwhelming complexity. It strikes a balance between realism and playability, making soil management a meaningful part of your farm strategy.

Note: This mod does not affect crop growth rates directly – it adds management layers around soil health and fertilizer economics.

Enjoy more realistic farming!

Version 1.1.1.1 Update:

Two bugs were quietly causing fertilizer application and crop tracking to produce wrong results with no obvious error in-game. This update ensures your work in the field is actually being counted.

What’s fixed:

• Dry fertilizer spreaders (Pelletized Manure, etc.) now correctly update your soil values — previously the mod silently failed to register the application.
• Crop detection now always reflects what’s currently growing in a field, not what was there last season.

No save migration needed — existing saves load normally.