Map Progress Update: Ray County Beta 2.0 Arrives Saturday evening 2/8/25!

Hello all! As most of you know, FS25 Ray County is progressing well and it is time for another beta version to be sent out to testers. First of all, thank you to all of those who are supporting me and who have been giving feedback through Discord. I'm happy to say that nearly every single issue that has been brought up has been addressed for the next version as well as tons of additions.

A lot of mapmakers are bringing previous projects forward, but I'm excited to give the community something brand new and fresh! Ray County Beta 2.0 will be available to members of the Exclusive Tier on Saturday evening, February 8th.

Let's talk about what to expect from the latest version. Ray County Beta 2.0 will have one completed custom farm, a custom cattle pasture, as well as a custom dealership. There is still a ton of work to be done to complete the second farm as well as all the buy/sell point areas.

Here is a list of all the things that have changed, been fixed, or have been added since the early beta:

 -Fixed all floating trees that have been found.

-Modeled and textured a bridge to match the real-life one in the area.

-Reworked the blacktop road to have smoother edges/curves and fit the new bridge.

-Added traffic.

-Gotten rid of NPC's throughout the map that were walking around or floating.

-Fixed areas around ponds that would not plant due to the elevation being too close to the pond level.

-Fixed the issue of having two random strips of wheat appearing on the map when starting in New Farmer mode.

-Deleted trees left in one of the fields.

-Added a train to the map (latest Giants update makes the train jerk an glitch through the map now which Giants will have to address with all maps).

-Added yellow lines to the road to indicate passing and no passing zones just like they are in real life.

-Added decals to the blacktop to simulate patching and cracks (if you've been to Missouri, you know this is a must).

-Modeled, textured, and placed custom railroad crossing signs.

-Removed floating decals from the map that were there to indicate the map edges on Riverbend Springs.

-Added mutli-angle terrain.

-Edited a model and textured a completely custom house for the South Farm.

-Added a custom dealership.

-Custom corn and soybean textures added (still more to do here).

-Completed the "South Farm" with house, buildings, and decorative objects, and seasonal items.

-Made everything placeable on the South Farm so that it can all be sold by the player.

-Adjusted Farmland so that the entire South Farm is purchased with one parcel of land.

-Added powerlines throughout the map.

-Edited the sound file to fit the map (this was originally set for Riverbend Springs). Now dogs bark around the farms, frogs croak at the ponds, etc.

-Fixed pond seasonal weed textures that were hovering above the surface of the ponds.

-Added Alfalfa and Alfafla bales.

-Edited the environment to get much darker so it doesn't seem like daylight in the middle of the night.

-Added stubble destruction when harvesting.

-Added trash when harvesting corn.

-Adjusted animal food to allow Alfalfa to be fed to horses and cows.

-Greatly reduced the rate at which cattle consume food to be more realistic.

-Modeled, textured, and in-gamed a custom cattle building.

-Fixed bridge collisions so traffic travels smoothly over.

-Adjusted the crop calendar to allow long harvest into winter for corn and soybeans as well as adjusting some planting times. Now you can double crop wheat/soybeans.

Look for release information tomorrow evening sometime. As always, please read through ALL the instructions that will come along with the beta 2.0 release.

There is still a ton to do on this project, but you can really see it start to take shape. Thanks for your continued support! Until release, check out a couple pictures of some updates!

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