US Map Builder

Build a Farming Simulator 25 map of any real place in the United States, or a made-up one, in minutes.

Pick a spot on the map (or let Fiction Mode invent a county). The app downloads the real elevation, aerial photos, fields, crops, roads, rail and towns, then builds a complete, ready-to-play FS25 map mod: farmsteads with houses, barns and bin sites, a working co-op elevator with scale and probe, towns with their businesses, churches, schools and water towers, fences, ditches and culverts, and a finished map edge.
Note: As I work toward a potential update at the end of November, I would greatly appreciate any feedback. While I continue testing on my own, feedback of any kind, positive or negative, is welcome and may help identify additional improvements or fixes that can be included in the update if time allows. Thanks!

Features

• Real mode: any US location, 1X to 16X map sizes, real fields and crops (USDA), real roads and towns.
• Fiction mode: a made-up farm county with its own town, co-op and map names, different every time.
• Working farm bin sites and co-op elevators (sell, store, scale), sized to each farm.
• Uses the base game and the mods in your own mods folder for buildings and decorations.
• Bonus store mod: our farm bin sites and co-op elevator sets to buy and place on any map.
• Optional: a free web-search key (Tavily) for real business names, and a local AI (Ollama).

Install

1. Download FS25_US_Map_Builder_Setup_1.0.0.exe and run it. If Windows shows "Windows protected your PC", click More info then Run anyway (the installer is new and not code-signed).
2. The app opens in your browser with a setup wizard: it finds your game and mods folders, indexes them, and offers the optional extras.
3. The full user guide is in the app (the ? button) and in the Start menu.

What your PC needs

	Minimum (maps up to 4X)	Recommended (every size)
Windows	10 or 11, 64-bit	10 or 11, 64-bit
Memory	8 GB	16 GB (32 GB with the local AI)
Processor	4 threads	8 threads
Free disk	10 GB	30 GB, SSD

A 4X map takes about 13 minutes to build, a 16X map about 45 minutes. Farming Simulator 25 must be installed.

Notice: I have not yet gotten permission to use the below creators amazing Grain Bin mods, so hoping they will be ok with the below, but if not, I will remove them and replace them with my own parts.
- Bin and leg parts from community mods by River Bottom Customs, River Bottom Custom Farming, Adub Modding ABP Team, American Outback, Diniz Farms, Bcbuhler, Crooked Creek Modding and AG Farms.

- Map data: USGS 3DEP, USDA NASS, OpenStreetMap contributors and others: see CREDITS.txt in the app folder.

Free to use. If it saves you hours of map making or just allows you to finally play on your farm or the farm of your choosing, you can donate to help with possible future upgrades or new projects.  Thanks for stopping by!