Run A Farm Expansion Guide
What to buy from the $15 bike to Storage, Garage, and Farm Office hires.
Run A Farm! expansion is a shopping list, not a mystery. Farm CStudios starts you at a chicken coop on a six-player server and expects you to buy structures, raise egg prices, hire help, then haul crops to town. This page is the buy order: what each pad costs, what it unlocks, and what to skip until the loop is already paying. If you have not restocked the stand once, read Getting Started first, then come back with cash in hand. The full-guide video on this page shows the same pads in motion. Use the tables below as the numbers to check against your screen, because patches move prices.
Price board
Every figure below is the on-screen cost players see in the current build. Treat the sheet as a plan, not a forever contract.
| Purchase | Cost | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Egg price step | $15 | Sell price climbs $2 → $2.50 → $3 |
| Farm Bike | $15 | Faster trips between coop, fields, and town |
| Flower Planters | $15 | Cheap decor, not a worker |
| Seed Market | $50 | Stand to buy and unlock seeds |
| Field 1 | $120 | First plot you can sow |
| Sprinklers | $120 | Crops grow 30% faster |
| Farm Office | $500 | Hire panel for every worker role |
| Planter | $400 | Sows empty fields |
| Stocker | $550 | Moves eggs from nests to the stand |
| Storage Racks | $800 | Holds 120 crops |
| Farmhand | $1,020 | Harvests ripe fields |
| Garage | $1,200 | Opens a TRUCK BAY |
| Walk Speed | $1,500 | Office upgrade, about +5% per worker at LV 0/10 |
| Carry | $1,800 | Office upgrade, about +20% per worker at LV 0/10 |
| Tractor Driver | Locked | Stays locked until you own a Tractor Barn |
Flower Planters are not the Planter worker. One is a $15 decoration. The other is a $400 hire that actually sows. Mixing them up wastes a session.
Buy in this order
Spend in stages. Jumping to the Garage because the number looks impressive is the usual way a new farm goes broke.
Stage 1 — make eggs worth more. Step on the egg price pad. Each step is about $15 and lifts the stand from $2 to $2.50, then to $3. Early quests often pay about $15, so one claim is one price step. Buy more hens while you do this. Redeem any working code from the codes list before you touch mid-tier buildings. The launch code is the usual early boost. Grab the Farm Bike ($15) in the same window. Fifteen cash saves more walking than it costs. Flower Planters ($15) can wait; they do not raise income. If you like the look and the egg loop is already stable, buy them. If you are still short of Field 1, skip the flowers.
Stage 2 — open crops. Buy the Seed Market ($50) so the seed shop exists, then Field 1 ($120) so seeds have a home. Wheat is the first loop, about 30 seconds and about $2. Carrot waits behind a separate unlock near $400. Crop timers, harvest, and town drop-off are on crops and farming. Sprinklers ($120) cost the same as the field and advertise 30% faster growth. Buy them once you are reseeding on purpose, not while the stand is still empty. Growth speed cannot fix a broken egg loop.
Stage 3 — hire the chore that hurts. Build the Farm Office ($500) and open the hire panel. Default order, also ranked on the tier list:
- Planter ($400) after Field 1 and seeds exist, if plots sit empty.
- Stocker ($550) as soon as you leave the stand to plant, haul, or dig. A Stocker carries eggs toward the stand, about 12 per trip, with up to 3 slots.
- Farmhand ($1,020) when ripe crops sit ignored. That hire is expensive on purpose. Do not buy it before a field exists.
- Tractor Driver only after a Tractor Barn. The row stays locked until the barn is yours. Barn and truck routing live on the vehicles guide.
Stage 4 — store, then haul. Storage Racks ($800) hold 120 crops. Buy them when hand-carrying is the bottleneck. Garage ($1,200) creates the TRUCK BAY you drive to Town Park. A Garage before Storage means partial loads and extra trips. A Garage before Sprinklers and a Planter means an empty bay. Fund the $1,200 from stacked egg sales, Wheat cycles, and quests, not from skipping the office.
Stage 5 — upgrade workers you already keep. Walk Speed ($1,500) and Carry ($1,800) sit on the office panel for crew you have hired. At LV 0/10 the screen lists roughly +5% walk speed per worker and +20% carry per worker. Later levels can cost more; read the button. These are not starter buys. A $1,500 speed upgrade before a $400 Planter is backwards. Put speed on Planters who cover distance, and carry on Stockers and Farmhands who move stacks. Slot caps and hire logic are on the workers guide.
How the pieces pay each other back
Egg price steps are the highest return per dollar on the board. Three $15 taps change every future egg, including ones a Stocker stocks while you are in town. Seed Market plus Field 1 plus Sprinklers is a $290 bundle that creates the second income stream. The office at $500 does nothing alone; its value is the first hire. A Planter at $400 is cheaper than a Stocker and only useful once a field exists, which is why crops come before hires even though $400 is less than $500. Storage at $800 and the Garage at $1,200 are logistics, not production. They convert crops you already grow into town cash. If fields are idle, those two buildings are a shelf and a driveway.
The greenhouse is a later crop building with its own seeds. Do not raid the Garage fund for it. Finish the field loop, the truck bay, and at least one hire first. The guides hub lists the rest of the walkthroughs if you want eggs, mining, or vehicles in more detail.
Mistakes that stall expansion
- Buying Flower Planters, or saving for Walk Speed, while egg prices are still $2.
- Hiring a Farmhand with zero fields.
- Building the Garage before Storage racks and before Sprinklers.
- Staring at a locked Tractor Driver and spending the barn money on Carry instead.
- Letting the stand hit zero during a town run because no Stocker is hired.
- Treating every $15 quest payout as spare cash and never stepping on the egg price pad.
What to do this session
If your wallet is under $200: price steps, bike, Seed Market, Field 1. If you are around $500 to $1,000: Sprinklers, Farm Office, then Planter or Stocker depending on whether fields are empty or the stand is. If crops are piling up in your hands: Storage, then Garage. If workers already run the surface: Walk Speed or Carry on the bottleneck role, then save for the Tractor Barn. Check codes every time you load. One working code often covers a $50 market or a $120 sprinkler outright.
Expansion in Run A Farm is repeatable. Raise the price of what you already sell, add the plot that makes a new product, hire the person who does the walking, then buy the shelf and the truck that turn that product into town money. Follow that order and the $1,200 Garage shows up as a tool, not a setback.
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers to the most common questions.
What should I buy first when expanding the farm?
Raise egg prices ($15 a step, from $2 to $2.50 to $3) and grab the $15 Farm Bike. Then buy Seed Market ($50), Field 1 ($120), and Sprinklers ($120) before the Farm Office.
Are Flower Planters the same as hiring a Planter?
No. Flower Planters are $15 decor. The Planter is a $400 Farm Office worker who sows empty fields. Buy the worker only after you own seeds and Field 1.
Should I buy Storage racks or the Garage first?
Buy Storage Racks first ($800, 120 crops), then the Garage ($1,200) for the TRUCK BAY. A truck without racks means partial loads and wasted town trips.
Why is the Tractor Driver hire locked?
Tractor Driver stays locked until you build a Tractor Barn. Fund the barn from the crop and egg loop, then return to the Farm Office panel.
When are Walk Speed and Carry worth buying?
After you already have the workers you plan to keep. Walk Speed lists about $1,500 and Carry about $1,800 at level 0. They are poor buys before a Planter, Stocker, or Storage.