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How to use Shortcuts



At the top right corner of the game screen is the Preference Bar. Shown above.


To place tools into shortcuts you need to click on the icon that looks like a curved arrow and a window will open, example below:
NOTE: For the Tools you own to show up in this section they must be placed into Item Storage. Farm Cash tools do NOT use any of your Item Storage capacity, you can store as many of them as you want.



These arrows will show at either the top or bottom of each column when there are more tools in the column than can be displayed all at once, just click on them to scroll the column up or down. If you have a lot of tools you will need to do this to see more tools.


To place a tool into the game bar spaces:
  1. Click on any tool showing in the upper section to pick the tool up, area indicated with a green box.

  2. The upper area will then grey out and show you the 5 game bar spaces that you can place that tool into. You will already have some tools there, this farmer likely has different ones than you have there.

  3. Move the tool over one of the spaces that isn't greyed out until a slim green box appears. You can just make out the chainsaw is touching the green combine and there is a green box around that area.

  4. Click inside the green box to set the tool down and the upper section will show up again to all the tools you own. You will see that the tool you moved is now in the shortcut space.

  5. To place more tools just click on another tool in the upper area and repeat the steps.

  6. When you are done click on the blue close shortcut editor to close the window and save your changes.


You can add more shortcut spaces by using some of the Neighbour bar to open up 2 or 4 more spaces:

  1. The curved arrows are where the extra neighbours slots are that you could use:



  2. Click on one of the curved arrows and An Additional Shortcuts Menu will appear.

  3. Click on the option you want to use.


    Use 1 Neighbour Slot will give you another 2 shortcut spaces.

    Use 2 Neighbour Slots will give you 4 additional shortcut spaces.

    Do not use Any Slots will remove the extra spaces if you no longer need them.


  4. Using the extra spaces is exactly the same as putting the tools in the game bar spaces. Click on any tool showing in the upper section to pick the tool up.

  5. The upper area will then grey out and show you the 5 game bar spaces plus the extra spaces you just added that you can place that tool into.

  6. Move the tool over one of those spaces until a green box appears.

  7. Click in the green box to set the tool down.

  8. To place more tools just click on another tool in the upper area and repeat the steps.

  9. When you are done click on the blue close shortcut editor to close the window and save your changes.
    When you add more spaces using this method and close the window you will see one or two less neighbours in the neighbours bar as you used those spaces for the extra shortcut spaces.


To remove the extra neighbour bar spaces or reduce them:
Click on the shortcut icon.

Then click on any of the tools you have in the extra neighbour bar spaces, for example the tool furthest left, doesn't matter if it's the top one or the one underneath, then you will see the menu for Additional Spaces.

To remove all the extra spaces you click on Do Not Use Any Slots
To reduce from 4 extra spaces to only 2 extra spaces click on Use 1 Neighbour Slot.

When you are done click on the blue close shortcut editor to close the window and save your changes.



Replacing a Tool with another Tool:
  • To replace a tool with another one, after opening the shortcuts editor click on the new tool in the upper area that you want to replace it with.

  • Then move it over to the space where the tool you want to replace is located. When the green box appears, click inside it to replace the tool.




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