Seasonal Crop Stress V1.2.3.1

May 22, 2026 in Scripts and Tools

FS25 farms look lush even when your crops are quietly dying of thirst. This mod changes that.

Real soil moisture physics. Heat evaporates. Rain replenishes. Sandy soil drains fast; clay holds longer. When moisture drops below critical thresholds during the windows that matter most — wheat during heading, corn during pollination — stress accumulates and your yield shrinks. Place a center-pivot irrigator, schedule it, and protect what you’ve grown.

Singleplayer • Multiplayer (host-authoritative) • Persistent saves • EN / DE / FR / IT / NL / PL

✨ Features

💧 Soil Moisture Simulation

Every field independently tracks its moisture level (0–100%) driven by real in-game conditions.

	Feature	Description
💧	Per-field moisture tracking	Each field has its own moisture level driven by weather
🌡️	Seasonal evapotranspiration	Heat and season affect how fast fields dry out
🪨	Soil type modifiers	Sandy drains 40% faster · Clay retains 30% longer · Loam is baseline
☁️	Weather integration	Rain events replenish moisture automatically
💾	Full persistence	Moisture and stress state saves with your farm

🌾 Crop Stress & Yield

Eight crops have critical growth windows where water is essential. Let them dry out and pay at harvest.

Crop	Critical Window	Moisture Threshold
🌾 Wheat	Heading (Stage 3–4)	35%
🌾 Barley	Heading (Stage 3–4)	30%
🌽 Corn	Pollination (Stage 4–5)	40%
🌼 Canola	Flowering (Stage 2–3)	45%
🌻 Sunflower	Head fill (Stage 3–4)	30%
🫘 Soybeans	Pod fill (Stage 3–4)	40%
🟣 Sugar Beet	Bulking (Stage 2–4)	50%
🥔 Potato	Tuber fill (Stage 2–4)	55%

Stress accumulates each in-game hour when moisture is below the threshold during a critical window. At harvest, yield is reduced proportionally — up to 60% loss at maximum stress. Fields with no stress harvest at full yield.

💦 Irrigation Infrastructure

Three placeables in Shop → Buildings → Tools:

Placeable	Description
Center Pivot	Large circular coverage up to 200m radius
Water Pump	Powers nearby irrigation systems — place near any water source
Drip Line	Precise linear coverage along a field row

Set irrigation schedules per system (active days and hours), including overnight wrap-around schedules. Use Irrigate Now for instant manual activation.

📊 Moisture HUD

Press Shift+M to open the field overlay. Shows every field growing a stress-tracked crop with:

Color-coded moisture bar: green (≥40%) · yellow (≥25%) · red (<25%)
Current growth stage
Stress indicator (!) when drought stress is actively building
5-day moisture forecast strip for the selected field

Drag the panel anywhere on screen by right-clicking to enter Edit Mode, then left-click dragging.

🌿 Crop Consultant

Press Shift+C for a risk-ranked field summary with plain-language recommendations.

Three alert tiers fire automatically as fields dry out:

💙 INFO     (40–50%)  "Field X getting dry — monitor conditions"       4s
🟡 WARNING  (25–40%)  "Field X moisture low — irrigation recommended"  6s
🔴 CRITICAL  (<25%)   "Field X at drought threshold — irrigate NOW!"   10s

12-hour per-field cooldown prevents alert spam. Alerts can be disabled or adjusted in Settings.

⚙️ Settings

Open via ESC → Settings → Game Settings → Seasonal Crop Stress.

Setting	Options	Notes
Enable mod	On / Off	Stops simulation and hides HUD when disabled
Difficulty	Easy / Normal / Hard	Scales stress rate and evaporation speed
Evaporation Rate	Slow / Normal / Fast	Fine-tune independently of difficulty
Max Yield Loss	30% / 45% / 60% / 75%	Cap how much drought can hurt your harvest
Critical Threshold	15% / 25% / 35%	Moisture level that triggers stress accumulation
Irrigation Costs	On / Off	Enable or disable hourly running costs
Crop Alerts	On / Off	Toggle the alert system entirely
Alert Cooldown	4h / 8h / 12h / 24h	Control how often the same field can alert
Debug Mode	On / Off	Verbose simulation logging to `log.txt`

Note

Settings are server-authoritative in multiplayer — the host’s settings are pushed to all clients on join.

🔌 Optional Mod Integration

All integrations are detected at runtime and fail gracefully if the mod is not installed.

Mod	What it adds
FS25_RealisticWeather	Moisture sourced from RW’s density map. Irrigation writes back to RW. Harvest penalty deferred to RW — no double-dipping.
FS25_NPCFavor	Alex Chen appears as an Agronomist NPC with favor quests: soil samples, irrigation checks, emergency water calls.
FS25_SoilFertilizer	Soil pH and organic matter adjust evapotranspiration per field.
CoursePlay / AutoDrive	Vehicle positions used for irrigation coverage refinement.
Precision Farming DLC	Moisture overlay layer visible on the PF soil analysis map.
UsedPlus	Irrigation costs tracked in UsedPlus finance manager. Equipment wear degrades pump output.

🎮 Quick Start

1. Load your farm — moisture monitoring activates immediately
2. Press Shift+M   → open the Field Moisture HUD
3. Click a field   → see its 5-day moisture forecast strip
4. Press Shift+C   → open the Crop Consultant for risk summary
5. Green = healthy · Yellow = needs attention · Red = irrigate NOW
6. Place a Water Pump near water, then a Center Pivot within 500m
7. Press E near the pivot (or Shift+I) → set your irrigation schedule
8. At harvest, drought-stressed fields yield less — plan ahead

Tip

Open ESC → Help → Seasonal Crop Stress for a full in-game guide covering everything from reading the HUD to understanding growth stages.

⌨️ Key Bindings

Keys	Action
`Shift+M`	Toggle the Field Moisture HUD
`Shift+I`	Open Irrigation Schedule dialog
`Shift+C`	Open Crop Consultant dialog
`E` (near pivot)	Open schedule for that specific system
`RMB` (on HUD)	Toggle Edit Mode — drag with `LMB` to reposition

🖥️ Console Commands

Open the developer console with the ~ key:

Command	Arguments	Description
`csHelp`	—	List all Crop Stress commands
`csStatus`	—	System overview: fields, moisture, stress totals
`csSetMoisture`	`<fieldId> <0-1>`	Manually set a field’s moisture level
`csForceStress`	`<fieldId>`	Force maximum stress on a field
`csSimulateHeat`	`[days]`	Simulate N days of extreme heat (no rain)
`csDebug`	—	Toggle verbose debug logging to `log.txt`

⚠️ Known Limitations

Issue	Details
🎨 Placeholder 3D assets	Irrigation placeables use minimal geometry. Center pivot arm does not rotate visually. Final art is in production.
🔮 Weather forecast	5-day forecast uses linear projection — does not reflect FS25’s internal rain forecast events.
🌐 Multiplayer	Simulation runs on host only. Clients see synced state but have no direct simulation authority.
🤝 NPCFavor progress	NPC favor quest progress does not persist across savegame reloads in v1.0.

Changelog: +

V1.2.3.1

– New: Center pivot irrigation arm now visually spins when irrigation is active. Speed is configurable via the armMinPerRev attribute in XML (default: 30 min/revolution).
– New: Terrain-following support — pivot spans rise and fall as the arm rotates over uneven ground (requires updated model with span_N nodes).
– New: Wheel animation — wheel rotation is physically tied to how far the arm travels. Inner towers spin slower than the tip, which is correct.
– Fixed: Replaced a broken node lookup function that was silently failing, preventing the arm from animating at all.

V1.2.3.0

This update fixes the long-standing issue where players on dedicated servers
saw no field data in the mod’s menus, and brings a major new way to monitor
your fields: the in-game Crop Moisture Monitor.

What’s new / what’s fixed:

• DEDICATED SERVER FIX — field moisture and stress data now syncs to all
clients when they join. The Crop Moisture Monitor no longer shows a blank
screen on dedi servers.

• CROP MOISTURE MONITOR — a new tab in the ESC pause menu (look for the
crop icon). Shows every field’s moisture level, stress %, and irrigation
status at a glance. Includes a farm-wide overview with average moisture,
yield loss estimate, and healthy/warning/critical counts. No more needing
to open the HUD overlay — everything is in the menu.

• IRRIGATION TAB — the monitor’s second tab lists all fields sorted by
driest first. Click any irrigated field to jump straight to its schedule
dialog.

• FIELD FILTER — toggle between all fields and only your owned fields using
the filter button in the monitor.

• MAP OVERLAY — soil moisture is now shown as a colour-coded overlay on the
in-game map (green = healthy, yellow = warning, red = critical).

• RANDOM WORLD EVENTS — if you run FS25_RandomWorldEvents, heat waves and
droughts now increase crop stress accumulation dynamically.

• ALEX CHEN — the Agronomist NPC’s relationship level now saves and loads
correctly across game restarts (requires FS25_NPCFavor).

• SETTINGS PANEL — press Shift+S to open the mod settings panel without
going into the ESC menu.

• DANISH TRANSLATION — full Danish localisation added (thanks to community
contributor West).

• Various fixes to the HUD overlay, translation files, and UI layout.

Save compatibility: no migration needed — your existing save loads normally.

What’s new in 1.2.2.0

FS25_RandomWorldEvents integration — Active RWE world events now modulate the crop stress accumulation rate:

Negative field events (crop_yield_penalty, harvest_penalty, fertilizer_penalty, seed_growth_penalty) increase stress rate up to 1.4×
Positive events (crop_yield_bonus, fertilizer_bonus, harvest_bonus, seed_growth_bonus) reduce stress rate down to 0.80×
Layered on top of your difficulty settings — no existing values are overwritten

FarmTablet compatibility fix — The Crop Stress app in FarmTablet now correctly displays per-field moisture bars (previously showed “Moisture data not yet available”).

PDA improvements — Clicking an irrigated row in the Irrigation tab opens the schedule dialog for that system; non-irrigated rows show an info message.

i18n — Missing help dialog and PDA screen translation keys added for all supported languages.

No save migration required.

V1.2.1

What’s fixed

Help dialog now closes properly — the Close button works correctly and shows “Close” text
PDA footer is now clean — three buttons only: Back, Help (C), Filter (X). Eliminated the UsedPlus “TAKE LOAN” and “CREDIT REPORT” buttons that were appearing due to slot conflicts
Filter button — relocated to the X key slot; label correctly updates between ALL FIELDS and MY FIELDS
Log error fixed — removed a nil function call that was firing on every PDA update tick

Save compatibility

No save migration needed — all changes are UI only.

V1.2.0.1

Font warning gone: The moisture map legend and PDA stats panel showed >=40% and 25-40% with unsupported characters in some builds. Now uses plain ASCII — displays cleanly in all languages.
XML load warnings cleared: The new Crop Stress PDA screen triggered harmless-but-noisy position attribute warnings on every load. Fixed — log is clean.

These are purely log-cleanliness fixes. No gameplay changes. Saves are fully compatible — no migration needed.

V1.2.0.0

A lot has been added since the last release. The mod now has a proper in-game interface so you can monitor your farm’s moisture situation without relying solely on the HUD overlay.

What’s new:
• Crop Moisture tab added to the PDA map — each field shows a colour-coded dot: green (healthy), amber (getting dry), red (irrigate now)
• New Crop PDA screen in the InGameMenu — Overview tab shows average moisture, stress level, and estimated yield loss across your whole farm; Irrigation tab lists every field sorted driest-first so you can triage at a glance and see which fields already have irrigation coverage
• “Open Crop PDA” button on the map sidebar for quick access
• Alex Chen (Agronomist NPC) now remembers your relationship level across save reloads — no more starting from scratch every session
• Custom Settings panel added (Shift+S) — adjust stress thresholds and irrigation behaviour without leaving the game
• Fixed: moisture HUD scroll, right-click, and field count display bugs
• Fixed: Shift+S keybind not showing in controls menu for all languages
• Ukrainian language support added
• FS25_SoilFertilizer integration improvements

No save migration needed — fully compatible with existing saves.

V1.1.0.1

What’s Fixed

Irrigation systems now actually irrigate fields.

Three bugs were blocking moisture from ever being applied:

Fields not detected — Center pivots and drip lines were registering 0 covered fields. The field lookup used the wrong API that returns an empty list when a placeable is placed. All systems now find the correct fields.

Irrigation gain applied one hour late — Schedule activation was happening after the moisture simulation ran, so gains were always deferred to the next in-game hour. Fixed — gains now apply in the same hour the schedule activates.

“Irrigate Now” did nothing — The manual button activated the system but the schedule check on the next tick would immediately deactivate it before moisture updated. “Irrigate Now” now directly applies one hour of water to all covered fields, with immediate effect visible in the HUD.

Saves

No save migration needed.

V1.1

What’s New

Custom Settings Panel (Shift+S)

All mod settings have moved into a fully custom-rendered overlay panel. Press Shift+S in-game to open it. The ESC > Game Settings page now shows a single hint line pointing there.

The panel has two category pages:

Simulation — mod enabled, difficulty, evaporation rate, max yield loss, critical threshold, irrigation costs
Display & Alerts — HUD visibility, crop alert toggle, alert cooldown, debug mode

An Admin page gives server admins quick access to system status, a 3-day heat-wave simulation, and reset-to-defaults.

SoilFertilizer Integration Fixed

If you run both FS25_SeasonalCropStress and FS25_SoilFertilizer, soil pH and organic matter will now correctly affect moisture simulation. Three bugs that silently prevented this from working have been fixed.

HUD Improvements

Stress indicator (!) now only appears for crops currently inside their growth stress window
SoilFertilizer pressure icons (W/P/D/F) appear per field row when SoilFertilizer is active
All tracked fields are shown in the HUD regardless of whether the current crop is in a stress window

Save Compatibility

No save migration needed — existing saves load normally.

V1.9.0.1

Improved forecast logic: season-typical daily mean temperatures replace snapshot-temp evap (eliminates midday/dawn bias); rain duration persistence heuristic added for days 1–2; day-2 signal decay blends near-term and seasonal baseline

Added ~ visual indicator on HUD forecast strip — header shows 5-Day Forecast ~, projected columns (D+1–D+4) render in desaturated blue-grey with ~47% format; “Now” column shows live data unmodified

V1.0.9.0

– Added mission.cropStressManager cross-mod bridge for FarmTablet integration
– Bumped version to 1.0.9.0

V1.0.8.1

– Added cz translation

Thanks to @Kynuska for providing the translated version of the mod 🙂

V1.0.8.0

– Added getLocalFarmId() and isFarmlandOwnedByFarm() to CropStressManager.lua for reliable ownership checks across singleplayer and multiplayer.
– CropStressManager now re-scans for all map fields once per in-game day, ensuring newly purchased fields are correctly tracked.
– The HUD and Crop Consultant dialog now correctly filter field lists to show only owned fields, with a fallback to all tracked fields to prevent blank menus.

V1.0.7.0

– Center pivot now reconnects to a pump regardless of placement order — fixed the “pump not connected” bug when pivot is placed before pump

V1.0.6.0

Drip irrigation lines were computing their coverage area locally on each machine, meaning clients in multiplayer could have a different coverage zone than the server — crops would dry out or be watered incorrectly for some players. This hotfix syncs the coverage data from the server to all clients.

What’s fixed:
– Drip line start/end points and coverage zone now correctly sync to all players when joining a multiplayer or dedicated server session
– Irrigation works consistently for everyone in the game

No save migration needed.

V1.0.5

New Features:

Sprayer-Based Watering: Standard vehicle sprayers can now be used as manual irrigation. Fill them with WATER to boost field moisture.
Enhanced Effectiveness: Manual watering has been balanced with a 5x effectiveness multiplier for better gameplay.
Realistic Weather Integration: Water applied via sprayers is fully synced with the Realistic Weather moisture system.
Mod Compatibility: Added detection for Ozz’s Moisture System mod with a warning about the Shift+M keybind conflict.
In-Game Documentation: Added a new ‘Sprayers & Watering’ page to the Help menu.
Localized Translations: Updated English, German, and Dutch translations.

V1.0.4 Bug Fixes

#48 — HUD in vehicles: Moisture HUD now displays while driving. Shift+M and Shift+H work in both on-foot and vehicle input contexts. RMB correctly only enters edit mode when on foot.
#52 — Owned fields only: HUD and all consultant alerts (INFO/WARNING/CRITICAL) now filter to only show fields owned by your farm. Unowned and other-farm fields are silently skipped.

v1.0.3.3 – Critical Hotfix

Settings section disappearing with FS25_RealisticHarvesting — The Seasonal Crop Stress section in ESC → Settings was silently dropped when Realistic Harvesting was loaded alongside.

RealisticHarvesting hooks onFrameOpen on the live settings page instance, which shadows the class method our hook was patching. Fixed by switching to instance-level hooking to match, and aliasing generalSettingsLayout → gameSettingsLayout so both layout naming conventions are handled regardless of load order.

applySettings() was writing self.hudOverlay.isVisible directly, bypassing toggle() and all its side-effects (rebuildDisplayRows, firstRunShown,
forecast init). Since hudVisible defaults to true, every mission load left isVisible=true with an empty displayRows — HUD rendered blank. Pressing the keybind then toggled it to false (logging “HUD toggled: false”), making it appear as if the toggle worked but nothing showed.
Fix:

Compare current isVisible against the desired settings value and call toggle() only when they differ, so state transitions always go through the proper path regardless of call site.

V1.0.3.1
– Added scrollwheel and row selection to the HUD overlay

V1.0.3.0

Moveable HUD, Forecast Fix & More Crops

The forecast strip was overlapping itself, and right-clicking to move another mod’s HUD was accidentally dragging this one too. Both are fixed.
The HUD can now be freely repositioned and resized.

What’s fixed:
– Forecast strip day labels and percentage bars no longer overlap each other
– Right-clicking NPCFavor or SoilFertilizer HUDs no longer affects this panel
– Settings now sync correctly to all players in multiplayer

What’s new:
– Right-click directly on the moisture panel to enter move mode, drag it anywhere on screen
– Drag any corner handle to resize the panel (60%–160% scale), position is saved between sessions
– Crop library expanded to 34 entries with corrected soil moisture absorption values

V1.0.2

A couple of bugs slipped through that affected multiplayer servers and NPC Favor compatibility. This update addresses both.

What’s fixed

Settings changes on multiplayer servers now sync correctly to all connected players
If you don’t have admin/master rights on a server, the settings will now properly revert instead of appearing to change but doing nothing
Fixed a conflict that prevented the Crop Consultant NPC (Alex Chen) from registering correctly when NPC Favor is installed
Fixed cross-mod detection so NPC Favor is now reliably detected when both mods run together

No save migration needed — existing saves continue to work as normal.

Credits:

TheCodingDad-TisonK

5/5 - (17 votes)

Download mod

File	File size
FS25_SeasonalCropStress	9 MB

Seasonal Crop Stress V1.2.3.1