Mechanics

Orchards and growing fruit

Orchards are production buildings where you load in fertilizer and, once the production time is up, you get fruit plus a…

Fields and crops on the farm

The field is the basic patch of worked ground on the main farm, and through the Sow menu you plant everything from corn …

Quests and the story of the farm

Quests on the farm are not just a checklist to tick off, they are also the conversations with neighbors and characters t…

Missions and reputation points

Missions are short contests against other players where you have a limited amount of time to do as well as you can at ha…

Subscriptions in Goodgame Big Farm

A subscription in Goodgame Big Farm is a monthly package of bonuses and handy features, and unlike the usual packages yo…

Boosters and handbooks

Boosters and handbooks are two different systems for pushing your output up in Big Farm, and plenty of players mix them …

Cooperative

The cooperative is a group of Goodgame Big Farm players where you can chat, work on shared projects and research benefit…

Farmhouse

The farmhouse has been standing on your farm from the very beginning, and without it no other building goes up. It decid…

Obsidian and technology research

The research tree at the Professor is where you gradually unlock upgrades for buildings and animal pens on the mainland,…

Organic research

Organic research is an upgrade tree tied to one specific piece of construction - a cowshed, chicken coop, pigsty, sheep …

Inventory and temporary storage

The inventory in Big Farm gathers everything you build, collect or win but don't currently have out on the farm. It spli…

Deep sea fishing

Deep sea fishing is the alternative to ordinary fishing at the lake - instead of a rod you send out specialized boats th…

Animal buildings

Animal buildings are the core of production on your farm - the chicken coop, pigsty, cowshed and the other stables turn …

Mills and feed production

The mill is the building almost every crop from your fields passes through before it ends up as feed in your animal buil…

Silo, manure and fertilizer

Manure and fertilizer are raw materials without which the orchards on my farm simply don't keep turning. Manure comes ou…

Houses and workers on the farm

Houses are the only thing you can build to get more of the workers your production and processing buildings need. Beside…

Leaderboard

In Goodgame Big Farm the leaderboard is a shared window where I can see the standings of every player and every cooperat…

Titles, avatars and flags

A farmer profile in Big Farm is more than just a name above the farm. It shows your profile picture, your collection of …

Horse tournaments and seasons

The horse tournament season is a separate competitive mode on the horse ranch, kept apart from the usual battles on the …

Horse breeding at the horse pasture

Horse breeding takes place at the cooperative's horse pasture, where every member can send one of their horses to be cro…

Game controls and settings

Anyone who has ever played a farming strategy picks up the Big Farm controls in a couple of minutes – the camera, zoom a…

Messages, chat and ignoring players

Messages in Goodgame Big Farm work like private mail between players, and on top of that there is a broadcast message fo…

The cooperative tree

The cooperative tree is a cooperative building that grows along with its level and that all the members water together. …

Job center and specialists

The job center is a cooperative building where you hire seasonal specialists to repair fields damaged by hedgerow plants…

Building, upgrading and demolishing buildings

Building, upgrading and demolishing make up the basic cycle that every farm revolves around - first I put something up, …

The economic cycle and production chains

A farm in Goodgame Big Farm is one connected system, not a pile of separate buildings - what I harvest in the fields oft…

Joker tokens

I slot joker tokens into selected production buildings on the farm to push their yield up. Each token boosts the product…

Premium feed and super feed kick-start production in your animal buildings

I don't use premium feed and super feed as an ordinary ingredient in a recipe, but as a quick shortcut to start producti…

Themed buildings and skins

Themed buildings are among the strongest rewards you can get in Big Farm – they do the same job as ordinary buildings, o…

Player level and experience points

Your player level is the gauge that tells you how far you've got with your farm in Goodgame Big Farm. It grows thanks to…

Dollars

Dollars are the basic Big Farm currency that every farmer needs for the day-to-day running of the farm. You pay with the…

Greenhouse

I build the greenhouse on the main farm only at a high level - it unlocks at level 34. In it I grow unusual fruit, apric…

Certificates

Certificates are an in-game currency I earn for completing missions in Goodgame Big Farm. They aren't a resource I harve…

Horse equipment and the horse workshop

The horse workshop, officially called the Saddlery, is the place where the old saddler crafts equipment for your horses.…

Farmers' Union

The Farmers' Union is a system that runs alongside your farming and rewards regular activity with its own levels, tasks …

The friendship tree brings rewards for inviting friends

The friendship tree is the place in the game where I invite farming friends and collect rewards together with them, both…

The market hall and customer contracts

The market hall, which the game shows on the farm under the name Organic Market, is where I take the crops I grow and th…

The market hall and selling products

The market hall in Goodgame Big Farm is run by Eva Apple and it's the main place where I take my crops and other goods t…

The Series Production Manager

The Series Production Manager is a tool that lets you start production in several buildings on a farm at once instead of…

Joker tokens and dairy contracts

Joker tokens are upgrades you slot into production buildings on your farm to boost their output. You get them by complet…

Nursery and seed breeding

Greta's nursery center brought two connected things to the farm - mysterious trees that grow from seeds on a free 1x1 pl…

Gold in Big Farm

Gold is the premium currency in Big Farm, and it is tied to special buildings, decorations and the option to instantly f…

Nursery and forest trees

A farm isn't only about fields and animals, a bit of the space belongs to the forest and the nursery as well. Alongside …

Airport, harbor and shipping your products

The airport and the harbor are the two buildings where the time-limited event farms, their own currencies and the regula…

Farm expansions grow your land and unlock more farms

Farm expansions are the neighboring plots I buy to add to the main farm so I have more room for growing crops and keepin…

Barn and storage on the main farm

The Barn is a building you'll only find on the main farm, and it stores the products and farm supplies you make. How muc…

Fence and gate

I sort out the fence and the gate on my farm right at the start, because both buildings raise worker satisfaction by giv…

Efficient buildings you buy with gold

Gold on the farm doesn't go only into decorations, it also buys upgraded versions of the regular production buildings – …

The composter and humus production

The composter is a building on the Main farm that turns collected leaves into humus. Humus then raises the yield from cu…

Worker satisfaction on your farm

Satisfaction is a number that every farm has of its own, and it tells me how cheaply I can get production running there.…

Daily login bonus

The daily login bonus is a reward you get on every visit to your farm, and each one is a little more generous than the l…

Achievements in Goodgame Big Farm

Achievements in Big Farm are a separate system of long-term goals that tick along next to normal play - all I have to do…

Library and cooperative research

The Library is where a cooperative improves the perks for every single one of its members through research. It isn't a b…

Horse training on the ranch

Horse training takes place in a building on the horse ranch, where you spend horseshoes to raise your horse's endurance,…

Fishing gear

Fishing gear in Big Farm comes in two separate sets - the boat crew with the add-ons for sea expeditions, and personal e…

Tournament transporter fuel

Fuel is the resource consumed by the tournament transporter - the vehicle that carries your horses to tournaments. Witho…

Collectibles and the Decoration Collection

Collectibles turn up in the game in two different roles. One kind is needed to kick off cooperative projects and simply …

Cooperative projects and mastering teamwork

Cooperative projects are shared tasks I tackle with the whole cooperative at once - first we all have to finish collecti…

Farm League

The Farm League is a long-running seasonal event that every player joins automatically and for free once their farm reac…

Farm dog and cat

The dog in the doghouse and the cat in the cat tree are pets that give your farm extra happiness as long as you look aft…

Garage and farming machines

The garage is the building where you construct what the game officially calls agricultural machines, and what players ha…

Mystery boxes

Mystery boxes are collectible inventory items that hide a random reward, from ordinary resources to diamonds or special …

Textile production on the gourmet farm

Textile production on the gourmet farm links three buildings, the dye factory, the spinning factory and the clothing fac…

Logging in to Big Farm

You do not log in to Goodgame Big Farm on this wiki but directly in the game. When you launch it with the Play button, t…

Big Farm in full screen

You can play Big Farm in full screen right in your browser, with no download. The Play page on this site opens the game …

Cheats, hacks and codes for Big Farm

A lot of people ask about cheats, hacks and gold codes for Big Farm, so I will say it straight. There are no official ch…