Overview
🧭 Frontier opens at stage 6 (Master Grower) in the Legacy hub. It ties many farm systems together: contracts create demand, chains and equipment set your capacity, expeditions link goals together, and discoveries build long-term collections. Your Frontier "farm world" profile (soil, terrain, water, market and challenge) is named after your own plot.
Tabs
| Tab | What you do |
|---|---|
| 🧭 Command | Overview: active contracts, discoveries, expeditions, season records, your farm world and a recommended objective |
| 📜 Contracts | Accept and deliver regional contracts (see Frontier Contracts) |
| 🏭 Chains | Upgrade five production chains: dry, oil, hydrosol, honey and plants |
| 🚜 Equipment | Buy, lease and service ten machines |
| 🏕️ Expeditions | Five-phase campaigns with rewards (see Frontier Expeditions) |
| 🔎 Discoveries | Scan and document cultivars; rare observations are Wonders |
| 🧬 Genetics | Make simulated crosses and name retained selections |
| ⚡ Events | Respond to farm alerts with a choice |
| 🤝 Reputation | Six relationships: Growers, Beekeepers, Chefs, Makers, Florists, Visitors & Educators |
| 🚐 Market Rig | Add up to eight modules to your mobile farm shop |
| 🎚️ Difficulty | Six Frontier modes that scale Frontier costs, rewards and event risk |
| 📕 Legacy | The farm legacy book: a page for each season |
Production chains
Each chain (dry, oil, hydrosol, honey and plants) goes from level 0 to 5. An upgrade costs 150 + 110 × the current level coins and adds 8% efficiency per level.
Equipment
- Leasing costs 16% of the price per season, and leases end when the season changes.
- Machines lose 1–4% condition each week (never below 20%). Servicing costs 8% of the price and restores 100%.
| Machine | Buy (coins) | Throughput |
|---|---|---|
| Walk-behind cultivator | 180 | +8% |
| Compact tractor | 900 | +22% |
| Bed transplanter | 1,250 | +18% |
| Mechanical harvester | 1,900 | +20% |
| Climate drying room | 1,450 | +15% |
| 20-gallon still | 1,700 | +17% |
| 100-gallon still | 5,200 | +35% |
| Bottle filler | 1,100 | +12% |
| Label applicator | 850 | +10% |
| Refrigerated trailer | 2,300 | +18% |
Events and reputation
- Each week there's a chance of a farm event (late frost, standing water, a swarm, a viral product video, an equipment breakdown, an unusual flower color, a festival rainout or a record honey flow). Each offers two choices with different coin and reputation results.
- An open house costs 60 coins and raises all six relationships by 2.
- Expired contracts lower your reputation.
Market Rig modules
| Module | Coins |
|---|---|
| Refrigeration | 500 |
| Mobile workshop | 420 |
| Demonstration still | 750 |
| Lemonade station | 300 |
| Passport desk | 250 |
| Beekeeping exhibit | 350 |
| Premium displays | 400 |
| Solar power | 600 |
Frontier difficulty
Frontier difficulty only affects Frontier costs, rewards and event frequency. It never erases the farm.
| Mode | Costs | Rewards | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garden Mode | ×0.7 | ×1.25 | ×0.45 |
| New Farmer (default) | ×0.85 | ×1.1 | ×0.7 |
| Farm Manager | ×1 | ×1 | ×1 |
| Michigan Realism | ×1.08 | ×1 | ×1.25 |
| Legacy Farm | ×1.15 | ×0.95 | ×1.1 |
| Business Survival | ×1.25 | ×0.9 | ×1.4 |
In 3D
- Frontier command (expeditions, regional standing, farm alerts, the season book and Frontier difficulty) is at the Heritage Gazebo.
- The regional contract board is at the Market Pavilion.
- Equipment and production chains are at the Workshop Barn workbench.
- The market rig is at the farm truck.
- The cultivar scanner is at the Lab Book stand in the Cultivar Lab.
See also
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