Farmhand Go!

Farmhand Go! is a casual game about growing and selling crops. In this active farming game, your goal is to pay off a debt in as few days as possible by growing seeds and selling the harvested crops. Days move quickly in Farmhand Go! and the crows are always waiting and watching for some tasty crops to nibble on! Buy low, sell high, and try to keep the crows at bay in this brand new farming game unlike any other you've played!

Farmhand Go! is being developed by Luke Stebner and Jeremy Kahn, AKA Rainbow Cow. It's an offshoot of Farmhand, an open source, turn-based farming game.

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If you find bugs, or have feedback, please let us know. Good luck and happy farming! 👩‍🌾🐮👨‍🌾

How to play

In Farmhand Go! time is constantly moving while you work to raise and harvest crops. There is no need to rush against the clock, but there are time based events for shop discounts and harvest bonuses you can use to your advantage with some practice. 

In order to grow crops you need to purchase seeds from the shop, and then plant and water them while they grow. Once they are ripe, they can be harvested. When harvested the crops are immediately converted into cash in your bank account! If you harvest the current bonus crop while the bonus is active you earn 3x the harvest value!

The shop bonus changes every day (there may not be any bonus some days), and harvest bonuses rotate every MON and THU-day of the week.

In order to grow enough crops to pay off the farm's debts, you'll also need to upgrade your tools and field. Upgrades are available for purchase in the shop and are applied immediately. You can currently upgrade the watering can, which affects how long plots stay wet before needing to be watered again, and also the size of the field.

You can choose to pay off your debt at whatever pace you please, but you can also compete to see how few days you can accomplish the goal in! There are no leader boards yet, but there will be eventually.

That's it! Farmhand Go! is meant to be casual paced and relaxing. We hope you enjoy your time on the farm!

Controls

The game is best played on a touch screen device, but there is full support for keyboard, mouse, and also controllers.  When playing with keyboard or a controller, you must move your "focus" between the shop and field before interacting.

Touch:

Everything can be tapped, or held for repeat interactions. For the plots, you can swipe to interact instead of having to tap over and over.

Mouse (this is probably the simplest way to play)

Select inventory item	Left click, or scroll mouse wheel
Interact with plot	Left click; click and drag  across plots to continuously interact
Interact with shop	Left click; click and hold to continuously purchase
Attack crow	Left click, or Right click
Pay Debt	Left click on the pay debt icon; click and hold to quickly pay down large chunks
Pause	Left click on the pause icon

Keyboard

Select inventory item	Use the hotkeys 1, 2, 3, 4 to select that inventory slot
Change focus	Press tab to toggle focus between the shop and the field; you can also press Q to go to shop, or E to go to the field.
Interact with plot	Use arrow keys to select while the field is focused, and then space to activate. space can be held while navigating to interact with multiple plots in quick succession
Interact with shop	Use arrow keys to select an item and then space to purchase it; hold space to purchase in quick succession
Attack crow	Press R to target a crow; press R again to target the next crow; press space to attack the selected crow
Pay Debt	Press F to pay down your debts; hold to pay in quick succession
Pause	Escape

Controller (any names are Xbox controller based)

Select inventory item	Use shoulder buttons to select next/previous inventory slot
Change focus	Press L2 or Y  to focus on the shop; R2 or B to focus on the field
Interact with plot	Use the left joystick or directional pad to select a plot, use A to interact with it; hold A while moving to interact with multiple plots in quick succession
Interact with shop	Use the left joystick or directional pad to select an item, then press A to purchase; hold A to purchase in quick succession
Attack crow	Flick the right joystick to select a crow and then press A to attack the selected crow
Pay Debt	Press Select to pay debt; hold to pay in quick succession
Pause	Start