Farming Simulator 25 will get a full-on maritime career path when the Highlands Fishing expansion arrives on November 4 for PC and consoles. The DLC turns some of your pastoral chores into something saltier, with fish breeding, offshore aqua farms, and new transport boats joining the usual tractors and trailers.
The expansion starts at the granular level: fish fodder. Players can either buy pallets of feed from warehouses or build a production chain by claiming a fish food factory that turns flour, soybeans, and oil into feed. With supply sorted, you can place a Breeding Facility from the dealership’s Construction menu under Production Chain – Aquaculture, unload feed at the intake, and collect boxed juvenile trout and salmon ready for sale or further processing.
If selling boxed juveniles at the fish market sounds boring, you can take the expensive and slightly more risky route: load those boxes onto a cargo boat and deliver them to offshore aqua farms. There, the juveniles and additional feed grow into adult trout and salmon, which you then harvest into boxes for sale or export. The harbor will also offer cargo vessels equipped with ramps and cranes, allowing you to transport products by sea instead of by road.
For players who prefer something smaller-scale or decorative, Highlands Fishing includes a buyable fishpond you can place on your land and a sporty boat for cruising. The expansion is pitched as a new business line that sits alongside agriculture, animal husbandry, and forestry, and it even ties into the factory/production chain side of the game that fans of similar sim tweaks will recognize. If that sounds familiar, we wrote about how machine systems can expand farming loops in games like Core Keeper in a past journal, which is worth a skim for anyone who likes production chains in their simulators – Core Keeper journal #6.
Pre-orders are available now with a 10% discount, and a Year 1 Season Pass bundle includes this expansion with three additional packs. Farming Simulator 25’s Highlands Fishing will release on November 4th on PC and consoles.
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