Farming Simulator 25's Beans & Alpacas expansion brings a connected production economy to Catuaí. It adds coffee and banana goods, alpaca products, material-based items, and Fungicide for wider crop care. Some recipes support optional ingredients, adding flexibility to selected production chains. New constructions on Catuaí require you to deliver resources, so you can build a business network around roasted beans, fruit and more. Beans & Alpacas DLC details

Coffee starts with harvested Coffee Cherries and moves through the Coffee Processing Plant. It expands into Coffee Bags, Packed Coffee, Roasted Coffee, Coffee Capsules and Coffee Beverage. The chain also connects to Coffee Yogurt and Tiramisu, with the Roastery, Coffee Shop, Dairy and Bakery involved.

Bananas move through the Banana Washing Station and are collected in Banana Boxes before becoming Banana Snacks, Banana Milk, Fried Banana, Banana Jam, Banana Cake and Banana Chips. The Canning Factory, Banana Drying Station, Dairy and Bakery connect to the branch.

Alpaca Fleece goes through the Spinnery to create Alpaca Wool. The Tailor Shop turns alpaca materials into Alpaca Plush, Alpaca Pillow and Alpaca Socks, while Carpentry adds Alpaca Chair and Alpaca Stool. Alpacas are introduced as a new animal type; a separate animal preview covers them.

Copper Ore, Resin and Pigments lead into Paint Production, creating Paint Buckets. The Sawmill provides Resin, the Pigment Factory produces Pigments, and the paint can be delivered to select houses in need of a repaint, helping to repaint the town. This adds another practical use for establishing production chains on Catuaí.

The Research Station is a new construction project at the edge of the map, away from the main road and surrounded by lush rainforest. When completed, it adds a traditional regional architectural style with wooden construction and a thatched roof to Catuaí. Once finished, you can enter and learn more about the region; inside, informational posters cover trees and bushes, sugarcane, coffee, alpacas, traditional instruments and other regional characteristics.

Multiple dinosaur bones are hidden in the soil all over Catuaí and can be uncovered by working the fields. Collected bones go to a skeleton display at the local museum. Completing the skeleton earns a special wearable reward that is fluffy, though you have to find out the rest yourself.

The Pumps N' Hoses Pack is out now for Farming Simulator 25 as a free addition, with Patch 1.23.0.0 released alongside it to guarantee compatibility. Developed by Creative Mesh and published by GIANTS Software, the pack adds new manure, fertilizing, and biogas systems plus more than 40 machines, tools, buildings, and other items. The free drop lands as Farming Simulator 25 passes five million players.

• Umbilical systems: Connect and combine hoses around your farm to supply ultra-light drag hose injectors directly in the field, avoiding conventional slurry tanker hauling.
• Manure separation: Separate manure into liquid and solid components for more flexible storage and application of the resulting materials.
• Configurable biogas plants: Build your biogas facility from different components instead of relying on one predefined setup, matching it to your farm's infrastructure and operation.

The new equipment roster draws heavily on specialist brands: more than 30 of the items come from Schouten, Stallkamp, BvL, and 2G Energy.

• Improved steering behavior of the CLAAS Xerion 12
• Fixed an issue on Steam where disabling XeSS Frame Generation could cause the game to crash
• Fixed Precision Farming yield calculations when harvesting multiple crop types
• Added Lizard destinationFarm tires
• Added Michelin XLD 65 tires

Farming Simulator 25's upcoming Beans & Alpacas DLC adds bananas as a full crop with a brand-new cultivation system when it launches October 27th on PC and consoles. Pre-orders are open now with 10% off.

In Catuaí, the new South American region, bananas can be planted and harvested year-round, and they can also be grown in other regions.

Bananas get a dedicated setup built around rails and washing stations. You can lay individual rows by hand or paint a field boundary to auto-generate the whole layout, with the system calculating row direction, rail count, area, and cost.

Harvesting can be manual with a machete: cut the bananas, hang them on the rails, move them through the system, and take them to washing stations, where they're processed into pallets. Hired workers can automate the harvest instead.

Maintenance is part of the loop too. Diseased plants need fungicide treatment with a tractor and a specialized sprayer before they recover. After harvest, banana trees are cut back rather than removed, then regrow for the next cycle.

Bananas aren't just for selling. Boxes of bananas can be processed into banana milk, chips, jam, cake, and more at the drying station, dairy, canning factory, or bakery.

Beans & Alpacas also brings Catuaí, coffee estates, new crops, animals, and production chains, plus more than two dozen new machines.

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GIANTS Software restated its position on Farming Simulator mods in no uncertain terms in a statement released August 24, 2026: "Mods have to be free."

The studio says modding has always been an important part of Farming Simulator, and that modders' creativity, passion, and countless hours have helped shape the series and its community. Creators may still receive donations, build communities, monetize videos and other content, and benefit from official ModHub opportunities — but access to a mod itself must not require payment.

• Patreon or other paid memberships
• Paid Discord roles or channels
• "VIP" access
• Paid early access
• Donations required to receive a download
• Shops or marketplaces selling individual mods or mod packs
• Restricted download speeds
• Paid downloads and additional paid assets, such as shaders or textures

GIANTS says an open modding ecosystem drives creativity, makes the game accessible to everyone, and encourages collaboration. Players should be able to discover, share, learn from, and enjoy mods "regardless of their ability or willingness to pay," and a donation should always be voluntary — never a condition for access.

The studio also says it will keep looking for new ways to support and reward creators while keeping mods free to the whole community. Its principle: "Support creators. Reward great modding. Keep mods free."