Farm Together 2 Update #33 — Mac version

Update #33 tidies up a few gremlins. The big one is a memory leak when switching between farms: that could lock things up or crash the game outright. You also get tweaks to quest medal rewards, a toggle for that harvest absorption sound, and a fix for your avatar twisting about after hopping off a swing. Under the hood it is steadier.

• Farm solo, with mates behind a password, or open to anyone — permission settings keep strangers from wrecking the place.
• Time doesn't stop when you quit. Crops grow and shops tick over while you are away.
• The farmhouse is not just a prop. Go inside, knock walls about, decorate it properly.
• Terrain isn't permanent. Terraforming lets you add hills, flatten land, or dig out a pond to suit a new layout.
• Town requests give you something to aim for — complete deliveries for rewards that push the farm forward.

Performance on a Mac is solid. The studio tested it on macOS Tahoe with an M4 Mac mini, and it runs natively on both Apple Silicon and 64-bit Intel machines. No fiddly wrappers or translation layers. If you have an older Intel Mac, expect the fans to kick in once the farm gets busy with decorations and visiting players. Dial the draw distance down a notch and it'll purr along just fine.

Plant tight blocks of carrots and lettuce first

Don't try to unlock everything at once. The shop tabs are overwhelming on purpose. Pick three crops you can harvest in under ten minutes and plant those in tight blocks. Carrots and lettuce are cheap, fast, and keep the coin flowing while you figure out what you actually want the farm to look like.

Spend your first medals on a fuel pump. You'll run the tractor dry faster than you think, and walking back to the shop every time eats into short harvest windows. A second pump near the far edge of your plot saves real frustration later.

Leave terraforming alone for the first few sessions. Flattening a hill costs more than you'd guess, and undoing a bad dig when you're skint is painful. Let the land sit as it is until you've got a healthy cushion of diamonds.

Worked example: turning town requests into steady expansion

You'll need: a mix of fast crops, at least one fruit tree, and a coop with two chickens.

1. Check the town board first thing. Look for requests that ask for what you already have growing or can harvest right now.
2. Ignore 4-box quests early on unless you happen to have all four items ready. Update #33 bumped up their item counts, so they're trickier to complete on a whim.
3. Grab a request for something simple — carrots, eggs, apples. Harvest exactly what's needed and sprint to the sell box in town.
4. Take the medals and buy a new crop tile plot. Lay it near your existing fields so the tractor's auto-mode can sweep across everything in one pass.
5. Repeat with a second request. By the third cycle you'll have added six or eight new tiles and a small orchard, all funded by deliveries rather than grinding the same patch for hours.

The rhythm sticks: a request funds a plot, the plot feeds the next request. After a couple of evenings the farm grows outward without feeling like a chore. And because the game ticks along offline, you'll come back to a field full of ready-to-harvest crops that can knock out tomorrow's board in one trip.

• Quest medal payouts got a bump across the board.
• Box quests now ask for more items in one go.
• New toggle in settings silences the harvest-items-sucked-up sound.
• Switching farms no longer leaks memory — fixes the crashes and long hangs that came with it.

• Mac with Apple Silicon or 64-bit Intel processor.
• Tested on macOS Tahoe and Mac mini (2024, M4).