Preferences / Wrench Icon
This is one of the most important icons in the game and will reflect and make a lot of changes to how the game is played and how efficient your computer can possibly play the game as well. The items below will work on your farms and some of them will work on farms that you visit/work.
In the picture below we have numbered all the options in red.
The list below the picture is also numbered for the description of what that setting does.
1. Show Crops
With this option you can toggle on/off the viewing of crops that is growing, ready to harvest or withered on your farm. It won't hide plowed or harvested fields.
2. Show Trees
With this option you can toggle on/off the viewing of trees.
3. Show Flowers
With this option you can toggle on/off the viewing of flowers.
4. Show Ponds
With this option you can toggle on/off the viewing of pond.
5. Show Farm Pass Decors
With this option you can toggle on/off the viewing of seasonal items, this includes holiday items.
6. Show Seasonal Items
With this option you can toggle on/off the viewing of seasonal items, this includes holiday items.
7. Show Ships
With this option you can toggle on/off the viewing of the yellow, pink, brown, purple, green, orange, blue cargo ships. Currently this only prevents ships from showing when on other farmers farms.
8. Show Ground Covers
With this option you can toggle on/off the viewing of the ground covers. This includes the Grass with Guidelines and the Snow cover in the Winter section of the Store.
This setting does NOT include Paths or the bridges in the Paths/Grounds section of the store. There is not a setting to prevent those from showing, but you can click on them and use an option in the menu that shows to hide them OR use the Hide tool in your tool box to temporarily hide individual items.
9. Show Decorations
With this option you can toggle on/off the viewing of decorative items, available to buy all year round, that are not Buildings. The Paths from the Paths/Ground section of the store will not be hidden.
10. Show Buildings
With this option you can toggle on/off the viewing of decorative buildings.
11. Show Tools
With this option you can toggle on/off the viewing of tools. This includes the Semi Trailer as well as all other Tools.
12. Show Regular Facilities
With this option you can toggle on/off the viewing of all the Regular Facilities and Non-Workable Facilities. It also includes the Oil Pump which used to be categorised as a Tool.
13. Show Service Facilities
With this option you can toggle on/off the viewing of all the Service Facilities.
14. Show Animal Buildings
With this option you can toggle on/off the viewing of all of the Animal Buildings like the dairy shed, chicken coop, stables, wool shed etc.
The
All and
None blue buttons allow you to toggle all the above selections on or off.
Additional Notes for Items 1 through 14:- When you hide items on your farm you will see little red squares where the items was located, there could be some items like asphalt road pieces that might hide the little red squares. If you refresh your game these squares will disappear and may cause you some confusion cause there would be nothing showing where any of the hidden items are located. Always check if you are unsure if you have anything hidden or not.
- If you have an older computer or have been struggling to load the much bigger heavier farm to work them, you can try hiding all the items that you are not working on. Less for your computer to load can help.
When you are working facilities for friends the game will automatically hide everything for you to make loading the farm faster unless there is no work left in the facilities. If for some reason you wanted to see the items you can click on the white Show Items button that you will see bottom right of the game screen.
- Taller and bigger items can hide much smaller items and things like crops that you may be working on. Hiding items like the larger trees, facilities, buildings, decorations can help you see more of them especially when working for others.
- When buying anything from the store it's advisable to show all items on that farm so that you can see exactly what is on the farm, what is there and how much space you have to place what you are buying. Placing something by mistake on top of another item can make things go missing.
15. Show coins and XP animations - (disabled at this time)
With this option you can toggle on/off the coins and XP animations.
16. Show Feedback when Farming
With this option you can toggle on/off whether to show less text feedback. This option is ON by default. If you remove the check mark you will see less text feedback on mouseover tooltip information, clicking on items or on empty space. This can also help when you find those are in the way or those who may have internet issues.
17. Show Animals When Not At Home
With this option you can toggle on/off whether to show loose animals that is on other players farm when you go to visit/work their farms. A lot of loose animals can put a huge amount of strain on a computer and can make it run really slow so if you don't need need to see them, leave this setting off.
NOTE: When visiting farms with this setting on you won't see all the possible animals on a farm, only the farm owner will be able to see them all.
18. Transparent Dispatched Train
With this option you can toggle on/off whether you want your trains to be transparent when Dispatched.
19. Freeze animals
With this option you can toggle on/off whether you would like to freeze animals from moving around either when you visit other players farms or on your farms it could be helpful if you are having a hard time clicking on animals because they are moving around. Keeping the check mark added to this option can also help if you are experiencing slowdowns particularly on farms with animals on them. It is also possible to set animal behaviour or each of your farms if you wish. For a reminder on how to do that
CLICK HERE
20. Compressed Graphics
If your farms are too slow to load because they have too many *different* items or because of a slow internet connection you can try enabling this setting. The graphics will have a bit less quality but will load faster.
If you decide to try this, remember to click the green check mark to save the setting then reload Farm Town.
21. Remove Spaces between fields
With this option you can toggle on/off to remove spaces between plowed plots. When you first begin playing Farm Town the default setting is to have a space between the plots. By putting a check mark here, you can delete the current fields and then plow new ones without the spaces between them.
For a reminder on the differences
CLICK HERE
22. Skip funeral facilities
With the check mark added, this will hide all funeral facilities when working your neighbour facilities and also from your quests.
23. Enable Ships.
With this option you can participate in the ships feature of the game (check mark added) or you can close your port (remove the check mark) so you do not get any ships coming to your port. When this is disabled your seaport will not receive any more ships from other players and other players will not be able to load your ships.
Please remember that if you are participating in the Farm Pass feature that some of the goals to reach do involve the Ships and for your Port to be open.
24. Autoselect Tools
This will allow you to enjoy the same experience as when you are farming while hired for multiple jobs, when there is no more work available in the farm for the tool you are currently using the game will switch you automatically to the next job available on that farm and will select the best tool for you. This feature will not work on Quest Farms because is difficult to know the best tool the user would like to use.
NOTE: Once you land on one of your farms with work available the system will not automatically select a tool for you, you will always have to select the first tool yourself.
25. Skip Religious Facilities
With the check mark added, this will hide all religious facilities when working your neighbour facilities and also from your quests.
26. Enable NCC
If you do not wish to participate in the Neighbourhood Chains Contest you can remove the check mark here. This will allow you to not get automatically enrolled in the Neighbourhood Chains Contest when working your facilities. If you are participating in the Farm Pass feature some of the goals to reach do involve participating in the NCC. If you change your mind and want to enable it again, along with adding the check mark back, please see this post in Chapter 31
How to Enable and disable the NCC for more details.
Language
With this option you can change to the Language you want. The English (US) setting is currently the most commonly used one and is likely to have more people at the markets if you're going there to hire or be hired. To change the language, click on the drop down arrow and select the one you want then click the green check mark to save the change. This setting will remain set for the game until you change it.
The Language setting you can change via the MAP is ONLY a temporary change allowing you to visit other markets where users may prefer another spoken language. That is only remembered for the session. When you reload the game it will reset to your preferences language setting.
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