Forestry Squad

Tired of missing out with your friends because there’s always work to be done on the farm? Too busy managing your fields, animals and other farm work to deal with your forestry operation?

Well, look no further!

Introducing Forestry Squad — a realistic forestry management mod for Farming Simulator 25 that allows you to take control of your time and let your employees handle the forestry work for you.

With Forestry Squad, you can hire forestry employees, create teams and assign vehicles to those teams. Once a team is sent out to work, their assigned vehicles will leave your farm and disappear while they are away. When the team returns, their vehicles will reappear, ready for their next assignment.

But not every team is created equal!

Each employee has their own skill level, which affects how productive their team can be. Build up experienced teams and send them out to tackle your forestry operations while you concentrate on the rest of your farm.

Depending on the team's skill level and performance, they will return with forestry materials, helping keep your sawmill production supplied without you having to personally manage every tree.

Features

• Hire forestry employees
• Create and manage forestry teams
• Assign vehicles to individual teams
• Send teams out to work independently
• Vehicles disappear while teams are working and return with the team
• Employee skill levels affect team performance
• Teams can bring materials back from their forestry operations
• Materials can be used to supply your sawmill production
• Spend less time managing forestry and more time enjoying the rest of your farm

🚧 Beta Release

Forestry Squad is currently in Beta.

The core systems are working, but this project is still actively being developed. You may encounter bugs, unfinished features or changes as development continues.

Ideas, suggestions and feedback are always welcome! Your feedback can help shape the future of Forestry Squad and decide which features are developed next.

🗺️ Development Roadmap

Forestry Squad has an ongoing roadmap for future development, with new features, improvements and additions planned for upcoming updates.

The goal is to continue expanding the mod into a complete forestry management system while keeping it realistic, enjoyable and useful for your Farming Simulator 25 farm.

Have an idea? Let me know! Your suggestion could become part of a future update.

Hire your squad. Build your teams. Keep the sawmill running.

Forestry Squad — your forestry operation, managed your way.

Forestry Squad 2.0 

Forestry Squad 2.0 is coming along nicely.

What's New

• Employee roles can now be changed after hiring.
• Drivers can now be retrained from existing employees.
• Skills and XP are kept when changing roles.
• Transport jobs can now be created even if you have no drivers.
• Log truck and trailer compatibility has been fixed.
• Physical-log trailers are now detected correctly.
• Employee portraits have been added.
• XP progression and experience bars are working.
• Employee history has been added.
• Save migration from older versions is supported.
• Workforce balance has been tested across different team setups.

Fixed

• Transport jobs getting stuck with no available drivers.
• Vehicles incorrectly being treated as trucks.
• XP being calculated incorrectly after shifts.
• Employees being unable to change roles.

Still To Do

• Final in-game testing of the new UI.
• Further UI improvements and graphical employee cards.
• Dedicated Work Areas and Sawmills sections.

The core systems are now in place. Next step is getting everything into FS25 and testing it properly in-game.

More testing, more fixes and more features to come.