fs25-adsmartpickup/docs/USER_MANUAL.md

AD Smart Pickup — user manual

Version 1.61.0 · Farming Simulator 25 · add-on for AutoDrive

Dansk version: BRUGERMANUAL.md

AD Smart Pickup makes your AutoDrive tractors think for themselves. You say what goes where, and the mod decides trip by trip which good to fetch, from which silo, and where to deliver it. It can also run the farm's fields with Courseplay and bring field silos home. Everything is set up in the Smart Pickup menu in the ESC menu.

Main features:

• Supply (into building): keeps barns and factories filled. Each trip the tractor fetches the good the target lacks most, from a silo anywhere on the map.
• Outbound (out of building): empties factories, silos, barns and pallet sheds. Goods are taken to storage or sold when the price is near the yearly top.
• Field work: mowing, harvesting, preparation, sowing and crop care. AutoDrive drives the machines to the field, and Courseplay works the field.
• Field silos: goods in field silos are brought home to the farm's storages.
• Machine pool: free tractors fetch detached trailers and implements themselves and park them again.

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Contents

1. Requirements and installation
2. Basic concepts
3. Prepare the map: AutoDrive markers
4. The Smart Pickup menu
5. Supply: keep barns and factories filled
6. Outbound: empty, store and sell
7. Tractors, trailers and the machine pool
8. Start, stop and saving
9. The storage tabs: stock and "Needs attention"
10. Field work
11. The Month tab
12. Field silos
13. Names of buildings and machines
14. Recipes
15. Troubleshooting
16. Testing and feedback
17. Glossary

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1. Requirements and installation

Required

• FS25_AutoDrive. The mod builds on AutoDrive and does not change AutoDrive itself.
• An AutoDrive road network connecting silos, barns, factories, selling points, fields, parking spots and Wait points.

Recommended

• Courseplay for field work. Without Courseplay, supply and outbound work, but field work does not.
• Universal Autoload (UAL) on the trailers that carry pallets. Without UAL the mod can only haul bulk goods such as grain, milk, silage and TMR.

Installation

1. Download FS25_ADSmartPickup.zip from Releases: https://git.powerdata.dk/masterdraco/fs25-adsmartpickup/releases
2. Put the zip file in the mods folder. Do not unpack it: Documents/My Games/FarmingSimulator2025/mods/
3. Enable the mod together with AutoDrive (and Courseplay) when you choose your savegame.
4. The mod switches on the AutoDrive setting "Use folders" itself when a flow starts. The setting is global, so it applies to the whole game.

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2. Basic concepts

Flow. A named recipe with a direction, buildings, goods, rules and a list of tractors. All tractors in a flow are started and stopped together. Older versions called it a run, and the word still appears in a few texts, for example when you delete a flow.

Building. A barn, factory, silo, object storage (pallet shed) or selling point. You choose buildings, not markers. The mod finds the AutoDrive marker that belongs to the building's trigger by itself. Only the farm's own buildings are listed. Fixed map facilities tied to the land, such as a biogas plant, count as the farm's once the land under them is bought.

Marker. An AutoDrive destination. Each building needs a marker within 40 m of its loading or unloading trigger. The mod also uses markers with special names for parking, hitching and fields (see chapter 3).

Wait point. A marker in an AutoDrive folder with the word Wait in its name. Tractors that are waiting for room, a good price or a need hold here.

Need. How much of a good a barn or factory lacks. For factories it is calculated as time to empty: the good that runs out first is fetched first.

Reserve. What the farm's own barns and factories will use in the next day. The reserve is never sold.

Set. A tractor with an implement or trailer attached, or a self-propelled machine. An implement or trailer is bound and never lent out when it belongs to a flow (the flow's tractors and trailers, also while the flow is stopped), or when it has no Connect marker (a fixed set, e.g. a vineyard tractor with its vineyard implement).

Machine pool. Detached implements and trailers with a parking spot and a Connect marker, plus free tractors without an implement. The mod pairs them up when needed.

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3. Prepare the map: AutoDrive markers

Markers at the buildings

Place an AutoDrive marker where the tractor's nose stops when the trailer is in the trigger. The marker must be at most 40 m from the building's trigger.

• Silos in tight rows: the mod picks the silo whose trigger lies behind the tractor's nose in the driving direction. This stops the neighbouring silo from getting the load.
• Barns with several loading points: give each point its own marker, e.g. Cow 1 Milk and Cow 1 Slurry. The mod shows them all next to the barn.
• Object storages (pallet sheds): place the marker so the trailer's autoload zone covers the storage's output area, exactly as when you load by hand.
• Separate drop and pickup: if a factory has both a pickup and a drop marker, drop is used for unloading, even when pickup is closer to the unloading trigger. The drop marker must be within 25 m of the trigger. Silos and pallet sheds always use their own nearest marker.
• Marker names at buildings are free. The menu shows the building's name and the marker's name.

Wait points

1. Create an AutoDrive folder with Wait in its name, e.g. Cow Wait or Wait.
2. Put as many markers in the folder as you have room for. One per tractor is plenty.
3. Connect each Wait point to the road network in both directions, from the buildings and back.

It is the folder's name that counts. A marker called F91 Wait inside a field folder is not a Wait point. Wait markers are never used as a source or target. A Wait point counts as occupied when it is reserved, or when another vehicle stands within 6 m of it.

Important: parking and fetching only work by reversing. The tractor has to reverse the implement into its parking spot and reverse up to the drawbar when it fetches it. So build the AutoDrive route to both P <name> and Connect P <name> as a reverse route (AutoDrive's reverse connection) for the last stretch, so the tractor ends with its hitch facing the implement's drawbar. If the tractor drives in forwards, its hitch points away from the implement, and it can neither drop it properly nor hitch it.

Parking: "P "

The mod uses AutoDrive's own park destination on each vehicle and implement (set in AutoDrive). Finished machines drive there, and trailers and implements are dropped there. The convention is to name the parking marker P <name>, e.g. P Cow Food vogn 1. The console command spuNameFleet uses the same convention (see chapter 13).

Hitching: "Connect "

A Connect marker is where the tractor stops to hitch an implement or trailer.

• The name is Connect followed by exactly the name of the implement's parking marker (upper and lower case do not matter). For a trailer parked at P Cow Food vogn 1, the marker is called Connect P Cow Food vogn 1. Kobl <name> also works.
• Place the marker right at the trailer's drawbar, so the tractor can reverse up to it.
• When the tractor has arrived, it hitches within about 3 m. If the trailer's drawbar is 3–8 m behind the tractor and almost in line, the tractor slowly reverses the last bit by itself.
• If you drive a tractor with AutoDrive's "Drive to" to a Connect marker yourself, the mod hitches too.
• If you rename a parking spot, rename the Connect marker as well.

An implement or trailer without a Connect marker is a fixed set and is never lent out. The same goes for a flow's trailers, even when they have a Connect marker (see Flow trailers).

Detaching: "Afkobl"

A marker called Afkobl (or starting with Afkobl , Kobl af, Detach or Disconnect) detaches the implements behind the tractor when it drives there with AutoDrive. Front weights and front loaders stay on. A plough and similar tools are unfolded first if the game requires it. If you drive a tractor with "Drive to" to a pool implement's own parking spot, the implement is dropped there as well.

Fields: "F"

Every field the mod should work needs a marker at the field edge named F + the field number, e.g. F109, at most 400 m from the field. See chapter 10.

Tight silos and AutoDrive's trigger distance

AutoDrive tips at the first unloading trigger within its global "Max trigger distance", which is 25 m by default. If silos are closer together, the neighbouring silo may get the load. In that case set the option to 10 m. The mod writes a warning to the log the first time it sees a storage target with a neighbouring trigger.

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4. The Smart Pickup menu

Press ESC. The Smart Pickup menu sits just above the game's Settings. It has nine tabs:

Tab	Contents
Overview	Table of all flows, the Wait pools, and the buttons that start and stop everything
Flows	Colour-coded list of flows with Start/Stop per row and an edit window
Fields	Colour-coded list of fields with Start/Stop per field, the "Set up field" guide and the field fleet
Month	Field work in progress and whether anything must finish before the month ends
Field silos	Automatic hauling home from field silos
Factories	Stock and statistics for the farm's factories
Silos	Stock and statistics for the farm's silos
Barns	Stock and statistics for the farm's barns
Pallet sheds	Stock and statistics for the farm's object storages

Overview

At the top it says Click a flow to edit it. The table has the columns Flow, Goods, From, To, Running and Status, split into · Into building · and · Out of building · and sorted by name. Click a flow to select it and switch to the Flows tab.

• Goods shows by need when the flow chooses the goods itself, otherwise the chosen goods.
• From shows all silos for supply. A ! after a building name means the building has no marker.
• Running shows tractors at work out of the flow's tractors, e.g. 2/3.
• Status shows a warning (!!), the reason the tractors are holding, or the flow's rule, e.g. by need — lowest first, price >= 90 %, storage > 80 %, or just storage > 80 % for a pure storage flow.

Below the table is Wait pools: each Wait folder with its number of points, how many are occupied, and by whom. The status line at the bottom shows e.g. Running: 3 of 5 tractors · 2 of 4 flows active.

Buttons on Overview

Button	Function
Start all flows	Lifts a pause from "Stop all and park" and starts every flow that has tractors. The tractors start one at a time, every 10 seconds. Flows already running are left alone
Stop all flows	Stops all flows. The trailers are emptied and parked, and the tractors drive home
Stop all and park	Stops everything and pauses, even after reloading (see below)
New flow	Opens the "Set up flow" guide for a new flow

Afterwards the status line shows what happened, e.g. Start all: 6 tractors start one at a time (every 10 seconds), 1 flows already running, 1 skipped, and up to three reasons for skipped tractors. While the queue runs it shows Starting tractors: 2 of 6 ….

Stop all and park

Stop all and park is for when you want the farm to go quiet, e.g. before you save and take a break:

• All flows are stopped. Flow tractors empty their trailer, drop it at its parking spot and drive home.
• All field work is stopped. Implements are switched off, raised and folded for transport. Pool implements are dropped at their parking spot and the tractor drives home. Field progress is kept.
• Field silo loans are stopped.
• Other vehicles drive to their AutoDrive parking spot.
• Harvesters you have to drive to the field yourself (too wide) are not moved. They are listed as fetch yourself (too wide): …. Vehicles without a parking spot are listed as no park destination: ….
• The mod pauses. The pause is saved in the savegame, so no field work or field silo loan starts by itself after reloading. The status line shows Paused — press Start all to continue, and the Fields tab shows a line about the pause at the top.

Start all flows lifts the pause and starts the flows again, one tractor at a time. A single field can be resumed with [Start] on its row without lifting the pause for the others.

Flows

The Flows tab is a colour-coded list with one row per flow:

● Cow Food · by need · 2/2 · by need — lowest first                 [Stop]
● Milk Sale · Milk · 1/1 · MILK 78 % af top (kræver 90)                    [Stop]
● Egg Store · Eggs · 0/1                                            [Start]

Each row shows a coloured dot, the name, the goods, tractors running/total, the status and [Start] or [Stop] on the far right. The list is split into Into building and Out of building.

Colour	Meaning
Green	The flow is running without problems
Yellow	The flow is started but waiting, e.g. at a Wait point, for a trailer or for a price
Red	Problem: a warning (!!), or the last start rejected every tractor
Grey	Stopped or never started

By need means that each trip fetches the good the target is lowest on.

• Click [Start]/[Stop] on the far right to start or stop the flow directly. If tractors are skipped, the reason is also shown as a message on the right of the screen (red if none started).
• Click anywhere else on the row to open the edit window.
• The New flow button at the bottom opens the guide. The status line shows Flows running: 2 of 4.

The edit window

The window Edit flow: opens on top of the list. Under the title is the flow's status in the same colour as in the list. Below that is the flow's summary, one line per step with [Edit] at the end, e.g. Direction: Into building [Edit]:

• Click a line to change just that step. Save saves without starting the flow.
• Click Name to rename the flow.
• The line Set up flow opens the whole guide inside the window.

Button	Function
Close (also ESC)	Closes the window. If a step or the guide is open, the first press closes it and the second press closes the window
Start flow / Stop flow	Starts or stops the flow
Delete flow	Deletes the flow after confirmation. Running tractors are stopped. Cannot be undone

If you switch tab or close the menu, unsaved changes are discarded.

The "Set up flow" guide

The guide asks one question at a time: Step 3 of 8 — Goods. Steps that do not apply are skipped, so a flow has up to 9 steps. The buttons are Next, Back and Cancel. Nothing is created until you press Start flow or Save without starting on the last step.

Step	Shown when	Choices
Name	new flow	Change name … opens the text field. Tractors are named after the flow
Direction	always	Into building (supply) or Out of building (outbound)
To / From	always	The buildings (see The building list below)
Goods	always	Supply: Automatic (what the building needs) or Choose myself. Outbound: per good Off, Store, Sell or Sell, else store
Storage	outbound with a good on Store	Automatic (nearest with room) or Choose myself among the storages
Rules	always	Supply: loops and Return from Wait below. Outbound: Sell from, Drive to storage above, Always sell when source is above and Collect in one trip, but only the rules the goods' policies use (see chapter 6)
Wait at	always	All (nearest free) or a specific Wait folder
Tractors	always	See below
Summary	always	The summary. Click a line to change it. Start flow or Save without starting

The Tractors step

• The list shows the flow's own tractors first and then the free ones, with capacity and what the trailer can carry: JCB 1 — 32,000 l — can carry: … — OK.
• Solo tractors (no trailer attached) can be chosen when there is a free trailer. The row reads — no trailer attached: fetches a free trailer. A free trailer is detached, has an AutoDrive parking spot with a Connect marker, does not belong to another flow, and can carry the flow's goods.
• When you choose a solo tractor, the guide suggests a trailer. First trailers whose parking name contains the flow's name, then trailers whose parking name contains Disponibel (Danish for "available"; only this word is recognised), then the rest alphabetically.
• Below the tractor is the line ↳ Trailer, where you can switch to another free trailer. If there is none, it reads ↳ no free trailer (detached, with a Connect marker, able to carry the goods).
• The flow remembers the pair tractor → trailer when you save. The trailer's parking spot therefore does not need to be named after the flow.
• Tractors in other flows are hidden: N tractors run in other flows and are hidden.
• Tractors whose trailer does not fit are folded into the line N tractors cannot be used here (trailer does not fit) — click to see why. Click to see the name and reason for each.

The mod never asks about the marker at the building, route checks, best feed first, load swap, source choice, distribution across several targets, resting empty sources, or tractor names.

The building list

Each building is shown on one line with its markers and their distance to the trigger:

Kostald 1 — Cow 1 Milk 6 m · Cow 1 Slurry 4 m
Silo 7 — NO MARKER within 40 m — place an AD marker at the trigger

Set Yes for the buildings the flow should use. Buildings without a marker are hidden until you turn on Show all buildings. The list is sorted by name, so Silo 9 comes before Silo 10. A building you have sold appears as Removed building (no longer exists) — set NO.

Status window

Press numpad * (the multiply key on the numeric keypad) to toggle a small status window in the top right corner of the screen, just below the game's info box. The key works both on foot and in a vehicle and can be changed under Settings → Controls (AD Smart Pickup: status window). The window refreshes every second and only shows sections that have something in them:

• Flows — one line per tractor in a running flow: tractor · action · fill % (e.g. Milk Collect 1 · fetching Milk at Cow Barn · 45 %). Green = running, yellow = waiting (Wait, trailer), red = the flow has a warning, grey = stopped.
• Fields — one line per field with field work in progress: F92 Harvesting · Beet harvester · 45 % (colours as in the Fields tab).
• Chains — one line when chains have a missing link: Chains: 3 missing links.
• Warnings — factories the farm depends on that are switched off (Switched off but needed: Fermenting silo 3, see Warning when a needed factory is switched off), vehicles that have stood still for more than 2 minutes (without Smart Pickup holding them at Wait/outbound; sold vehicles are not shown) and pending chain suggestions (Chain: 2 suggestions).

At most 18 lines; the rest is summed up as +k more. The window is hidden while a menu or dialog is open, when the HUD is hidden and while you sleep. Whether it is on is saved per user in Documents/My Games/FarmingSimulator2025/modSettings/FS25_ADSmartPickup/status.xml (not in the savegame); it is off by default.

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5. Supply: keep barns and factories filled

A supply flow keeps one or more buildings filled with everything they use.

Setup

1. New flow, and choose Direction Into building.
2. Under To: set Yes for the barns and factories that should be filled. The list also shows silos that can only be filled and not emptied, e.g. drive-on bunkers feeding a biogas fermenter. For those, Choose myself with the goods the fermenter needs works best.
3. Under Goods: choose Automatic or Choose myself.
   • Automatic fetches everything the building accepts. For factories that is the inputs of the productions that are switched on.
   • Choose myself lets you tick specific goods.
4. Set Loops and Return from Wait below under Rules, and pick a Wait folder under Wait at.
5. Choose the tractors and press Start flow.

From always reads all silos. The tractor fetches from any silo on the map.

How each trip is chosen

Before each loading, the mod looks at the targets and chooses:

1. Neediest good. For factories it is the good that runs out first. For barns it is the lowest fill level relative to capacity.
2. Full load first. Goods where a whole load can be unloaded go before goods where only part fits.
3. The target that needs it most. If the flow has several targets, the neediest gets the trip. Targets with the fewest other trailers on the way go first.
4. Which silo. Own silos are used before borrowing from neighbours. Among silos with plenty of the good (at least 5,000 l or a quarter of a load), the least filled one is emptied first, so leftovers are cleared. If no silo has plenty, the fullest is used. Milk, slurry and digestate are always fetched from the fullest source, so production does not stop.

A factory's own inputs are never fetched from the factory itself. Straw in a TMR factory stays where it is. A barn's loading points are only used for the barn's own production: milk, slurry, manure, eggs and wool.

Factories follow their productions. If you switch on TMR in a factory, the tractor starts fetching silage, hay, straw and mineral feed by itself. Switch it off and the tractor stops. Productions the map has switched off because of missing input count as wanted.

Wrong load on the trailer

If a tractor has a good on its trailer that is not one of the flow's goods, it is first taken to a silo that accepts it. It is not delivered to the flow's target. With Choose myself only the ticked goods count. With Automatic everything the target accepts counts.

Best feed first

Feed in a barn trough shares space. If better feed such as TMR is on the list, lower feed such as silage and hay is only fetched when the trough is at least 75 % empty.

Animals that eat from several feed groups at the same time, such as chickens with grain and beet pulp, do not follow that rule. Each group gets its share of the trough according to how much the animals eat from it. Both groups must be ticked under Choose myself for the chickens to reach 100 %.

Several tractors for the same barn

The mod remembers what is already on the way to each barn. If you have four trailers on the same barn, they spread across goods and barns instead of fetching the same thing.

Leftover loads and Wait

If the target cannot take the whole load:

1. The tractor unloads what fits.
2. If the flow has several targets, the rest goes to the other target with the most room for the good (at least 1,000 l free).
3. If none of the targets has room, the rest is taken to the nearest free Wait point, so the trigger is not blocked.
4. It drives back when the target can take the whole rest, or has dropped below Return from Wait below.

A leftover of less than 100 l that the target cannot take counts as empty.

Load swap

If a tractor is waiting with a good the target is full of, while the target lacks another good on the list, it swaps loads: the rest is unloaded in an ordinary storage silo with room, and the tractor fetches the good the target lacks. This only happens when the target lacks at least a quarter of its capacity of the other good, and there is a road to the silo and on to the target. If no suitable silo exists, the tractor stays at Wait.

Supply rules

Rule	Meaning	Values
Loops	Trips per tractor, after which it parks	0 = endless, otherwise 1–99
Return from Wait below	A waiting tractor drives back when the target is below this fill level	10–90 %, default 50 %
Wait at	Which Wait folder the tractors wait in	All (nearest free) or a folder

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6. Outbound: empty, store and sell

An outbound flow takes goods out of buildings and hauls them to storage or to a selling point.

Sources

Under From you can choose:

Source	What is fetched
Factory	The factory's outputs, both bulk and pallets from the pallet spawner
Silo	The silo's contents
Barn	Milk, slurry and manure from the barn's loading points, including attached extension tanks. Eggs and wool are fetched as pallets at the barn's pallet spawner. Place a marker at the spawner
Object storage	Pallets and bales. They are taken out one at a time
Storage	Other buildings with a loading station, e.g. a separator hall with digestate

Sources with shared storage: some storages share their stock with their neighbours, e.g. milk tanks in a row. The mod detects this and treats them as one stop. Choosing one tank as the source is enough.

Policy per good

Each good the sources hold is shown with its amount and current price. Choose a policy:

Policy	Meaning
Off	The good is left alone
Store	Taken to a silo, a pallet shed or one of the farm's own factories that uses the good, when there is a full load or the source is getting full
Sell	Sold when the price is close enough to the yearly top
Sell, else store	Sold at a good price. Otherwise taken to storage when the source is getting full

Bulk goods need a tipper or tank. Pallet goods need a trailer with Universal Autoload. Liquids (slurry, digestate, milk, water and more) are never tipped into a factory's intake automatically, only into silos and tanks, unless you choose the factory yourself under Storage.

Outbound rules

Rule	Meaning	Values
Sell from	Sell when the price is at least this share of the good's top price of the year	50–100 %, default 90 %
Drive to storage above	Store goods are hauled away when the source is filled above this share	50–95 %, default 80 %
Always sell when source is above	Sells regardless of price when the fullest source is above this share. The reserve is still not touched	Off or 50–100 %, default Off
Collect in one trip	Collection round, see below	Yes/No

The rules are only shown when a good uses them. Sell from and Always sell when source is above are shown when at least one good is set to Sell or Sell, else store. Drive to storage above is shown when at least one good is set to Store or Sell, else store. If no good has Store or Sell yet, all rules are shown. The same applies to the summary and the status in Overview: a pure storage flow shows e.g. just storage > 80 %.

Storage: forced unloading place

The Storage step only shows the silos, own factories and pallet sheds that can take at least one of the flow's store goods. If you choose Automatic (nearest with room), the mod finds the nearest silo or own factory that uses the good. If you choose one or more storages yourself, storage trips only go there. The first in the list that accepts the good, has room and can be reached gets the load. If none of the chosen ones can take the load, the tractor waits at Wait, and the status says why.

With a storage chosen, the flow counts as feeding: the tractor leaves as soon as the source has at least 10,000 l of the good, without waiting for a full load. That way a plant such as a biogas fermenter does not run dry.

How each trip is chosen

Before each loading, and every five seconds while the tractor is holding, the mod evaluates:

1. Sell. If a Sell good's best reachable selling point pays at least the threshold, the tractor goes to sell regardless of amount. The highest price % goes first.
2. Store. If a Store good has a full load, or a source is above the threshold, it is taken to the nearest silo with room for the whole load. The fullest source goes first.
3. No trip. The tractor holds at a Wait point and tries again. With Wait at: All the free Wait point nearest the flow's sources is chosen. The status shows why, e.g. SUGAR 78 % af top (kræver 90), lager 41 % (SUGAR at 78 % of top, 90 required, source 41 % full). These reason texts are currently shown in Danish only.

The price

Selling points are the map's real selling points and factories the farm does not own, such as the map's dairy. Deliveries to the farm's own factories and barns do not count as sales. Price % is the good's current price compared to the highest of the year according to the game's seasonal curve (the same as in the price graph). Goods with a flat curve count as 100 %. The selling point with the best price wins, as long as the road network reaches it.

Reserve: never sell what the farm needs itself

Before selling, the mod subtracts what the farm's own factories and barns will use in the next day. It only sells when a whole load can be taken without touching the reserve. The status shows e.g. SUGARBEET: 196.0k reserveret til TMR-fabrik (reserved for the TMR factory; shown in Danish only). The Store policy does not touch the reserve.

Collection round

With Collect in one trip switched on:

• Tipper: the same good is collected from several sources until the trailer is full. The next source is only visited if at least 10 % of space is left.
• Autoload trailer: several pallet goods with the same destination are taken in one trip.

Pallets and Universal Autoload

• The mod switches on AutoDrive's AL unload on the trailer when the flow starts.
• Straps are tightened after loading and released 25 m before the unloading target.
• A full load of pallets is at least four pallets.
• Pallets for storage go to the nearest pallet shed that accepts the good and has room.
• From an object storage, one pallet at a time is taken out. If the storage gets stuck, loading ends after 30 seconds with what has been loaded.
• A tipper with AutoLoad switched on is rejected in a supply flow, because AutoDrive then treats it as a pallet/bale trailer only. Switch AutoLoad off on the trailer.

Warnings on screen

If a selling point cannot be reached, or there is no silo with room, the mod shows a red AutoDrive message, e.g. 'MT635' kan ikke nå salgssted 'Grain Elevator' for SUGAR – tjek vejnettet ('MT635' cannot reach selling point 'Grain Elevator' for SUGAR – check the road network; shown in Danish only). The message also appears in AutoDrive's message history, in log.txt and in the flow's status. The tractor waits at Wait and continues by itself once the road is connected.

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7. Tractors, trailers and the machine pool

Tractors in a flow

• A vehicle can only be in one flow. If you choose it in another flow, it is moved.
• If you remove a running tractor from a flow, it is stopped.
• Names: the tractors get an AutoDrive driver name after their flow, e.g. Milk Collect 1 and Milk Collect 2. If the tractor is alone in the flow, it is named just like the flow. When it leaves the flow, it gets its model name back. Names you have given yourself are not touched when the tractor leaves the flow.
• Sold tractors: about two minutes after loading, tractors that no longer exist are removed from their flow. A message appears on screen: Flow 'Cow Food': 1 tractor(s) no longer exist and were removed (1 left). If the flow is left without tractors, the message is red: Flow 'Cow Food' has no tractors left and won't run — assign one in Flows.

If a tractor cannot start, the reason is shown in the list and in the status line:

Reason	Meaning
no trailer (attach one, or name the trailer's parking after the flow)	The tractor has no trailer, and the flow knows of no trailer for it
trailer cannot carry the run's goods	The trailer accepts none of the flow's goods
pallet goods need Universal Autoload on the trailer	The flow has pallets, but the trailer has no UAL
AutoLoad is on for this trailer …	Tipper with AutoLoad switched on. Switch it off on the trailer
too far from the road network	The tractor is too far from AutoDrive's road network
no target / no recognised source	The flow has no buildings
no good selected	Outbound with no good set to Store or Sell
no Wait point in the pool	Outbound needs at least one Wait point
the load on the trailer has no destination …	The trailer carries a load that can neither be sold nor stored right now. Empty the trailer

Flow trailers

A flow remembers which trailer each tractor uses. It does so when you choose a trailer in the guide, and while the flow is running.

• On start, a solo tractor fetches its trailer itself. It drives to Connect <trailer's parking>, hitches and carries on with the flow. If the trailer is lent out, the tractor waits and tries again.
• If the flow knows of no trailer, the mod looks for a detached trailer whose parking name contains the flow's name, preferably with the same number as the tractor (the tractor Cow Food 3 gets the trailer at P Cow Food vogn 3).
• On stop, the trailer is emptied first: at the flow's target, and if the target cannot take the rest (the load does not drop for 45 seconds), at a silo or own factory that accepts the good. Field silos are never used. The mod tries up to 3 silos. If that fails, it parks with the load. Then the trailer is dropped at its own parking spot, and the tractor drives to its own.
• If the flow is started again during emptying or the trip home, the tractor simply carries on with the trailer.
• If you drive the tractor to the Connect marker yourself and hitch the trailer, the tractor starts if the flow is running.
• A flow's trailers are never lent out for other work, not even when the flow is stopped. A stopped flow's tractors, on the other hand, can be borrowed as solo tractors by the machine pool.
• After reloading: an implement attached to a tractor with no job (e.g. fetched just before you saved) is taken back to its parking spot after a few minutes, and the tractor drives home. A tractor standing within 30 m of its own parking spot is left alone.

The machine pool

The machine pool is used by field work and field silos when no ready-made set is free.

• Pool implement/trailer: detached, owned by the farm, with an AutoDrive parking spot and a Connect marker for that parking spot, and not bound to a flow. Implements without a Connect marker are fixed sets and are never lent.
• Pool tractor: an ordinary tractor with nothing attached at the rear, with its own AutoDrive parking spot, on AutoDrive's road network and not driven by you. Field implements are only hitched behind tractors. Unloading trailers can also be pulled by other vehicles.
• Best fit: the mod chooses the smallest tractor with enough hp for the implement. Tractors with more than 2.5 times the required power are only used if nothing else fits.
• Sequence: the tractor drives to the Connect marker, hitches, folds the implement for the road, goes to work, afterwards drops the implement at its parking spot and drives home to its own.
• If hitching fails, the machine at fault is skipped for 10 minutes.

The field fleet view in the Fields tab shows pool tractors and pool implements with their status (see chapter 10).

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Production chains

Important: Every production you switch on in a factory counts as something you want produced. The mod then tries to supply it: fields marked free switch to the crops that are short, other fields get suggestions, intermediate productions are switched on, and flows are created with tractors from the machine pool. So only switch on productions you actually want running. To stop a chain, switch the production off or press [Pause] in the Chains tab.

What is a chain?

A chain keeps a production running all the way back to the field. You switch on a product in a factory. The mod then works backwards: what the production needs, which of your own factories and barns make it, and which crops are needed. The factory you switched on is the root production.

• The mod looks 12 months ahead. It acts only when a crop is short by more than 10 % and more than 0.5 ha.
• Fields you marked Free for chains change crop by themselves (at most 2 changes a minute).
• Other fields get a suggestion that you approve or reject.
• A crop you chose on a field is never changed automatically.
• The chain does nothing during the first 2 minutes after loading. If the mod cannot read all data, nothing is switched off or stopped.
• Fields are changed and suggested only once the field scan has seen all your fields. With many fields this can take a few minutes; meanwhile the tab says Fields still being scanned at the bottom.
• The mod uses your own running productions as a source first. It switches on a new one only if they are not enough.

The Chains tab

The Chains tab shows one tree per root production: the root at the top, and below it each link with the columns Goods, Source, l/mo, Status and Stock. With no chains it says No chains: enable a product in a factory.

• The root's status is covered, short, waiting or paused. The number of suggestions follows the name.
• A coloured dot shows the status: green running, yellow waiting, red error, grey stopped. The status text gets the same colour.
• Rows fold out and in. Fold out to see the links, sources and fields.
• Warnings in the rows: bottleneck: -X/mo, must buy: X/mo, loop, short X ha, stock < 3 mo and no field.
• Field goods that are not a crop's main product — for example hay, dried alfalfa and clover, chaff, whole-crop and straw — have the source from fields. You harvest or mow them yourself, so the chain makes no crop plan and no warning for them; the stock is shown in the Stock column.
• [Pause] stops the chain's new actions for that root production. What it uses is not switched off. Other chains carry on. [Resume] continues it.
• At the bottom: Automatic switches since load.

Missing links (red messages)

If a link in a chain is missing, the mod explains why and what you can do. The text appears in three places:

• In the Chains tab: fold the chain out; the reason is shown in red below the red goods row.
• In Needs attention: one combined red line for all chains, for example Chains: 3 missing links. It is listed below the storage's red lines (running out / almost full). Clicking opens the Chains tab with the chains folded out.
• As an on-screen message: the first time a new link goes missing, with the chain's name in front (for example Bread: …). The same message only returns after the problem has gone away and come back. At most 3 messages come at a time; the rest are combined into one message: +5 more missing links — see the Chains tab. No messages during the first 2 minutes after loading or while fields are being scanned.

The messages:

• None of your factories makes Flour — build one or buy it: no factory, barn or field supplies the goods.
• Barns make too little Milk — buy the rest or more animals: the barn makes the goods, but too little.
• Mill can only make 800 of 1.0k/mo: the factory cannot keep up (bottleneck).
• Mill (Flour) was turned off by you — turn it on or pause the chain: you switched the production off yourself.
• Loop around Flour — the chain cannot be calculated: the goods are needed to make themselves.

Warning when a needed factory is switched off

If you switch off a production the farm depends on, the mod warns you — also when no chain is running. A production is needed when one of its goods is used by the farm:

• a running supply flow has the goods chosen as goods,
• a running flow in auto goes to a target that takes the goods, and the farm consumes the goods,
• a barn is eating the goods right now, or
• an active chain has the goods as input (if only chains use the goods, it is reported as a missing link instead, see above).

For auto flows and barns the farm's consumption of the goods must be known; otherwise the goods do not count as needed.

Example: you switch off the fermenting silos, but the flows Cow Food, Goat Food and Biogas Silage fetch silage. You then get the message Warning: you switched off Fermenting silo 3 (Silage) — Cow Food, Goat Food +1 uses it. Stock lasts about 12 days. (days from the farm's stock and consumption; left out when unknown). The message comes once per switch-off, at most a minute later.

As long as the production is off and still needed, Needs attention shows a red line: Switched off but needed: Fermenting silo 3 (at most one line — the most urgent; if more are off, the number follows: Switched off but needed: Fermenting silo 3 +2; also in the status window under Warnings). Clicking opens the storage tab Factories.

No warning when:

• another recipe in the same factory makes the goods and is on (you chose which recipe runs — for example one silage recipe in a fermenting silo),
• another running production makes the goods with enough capacity,
• the farm has stock for more than 60 days,
• the chain switched the production off itself, or
• the production was already off when the game was loaded (then only the Needs attention line is shown).

Productions that no flow, barn or chain uses (for example a bakery without a flow) never give a warning.

Mark a field free for chains

Open the field in the field guide and switch on Free for chains (mod may change the crop). Only such a field changes crop automatically. The tab lists them under Fields free for the chain.

Permanent crops (vine, olive, poplar) and grass fields are never changed, even when marked.

Suggestions: Approve and Reject

If the chain lacks area on a field that is not free, the chain tree shows a suggestion: Suggest [Approve] and [Reject]. At most 3 suggestions are shown per crop. Needs attention shows one combined entry, for example Chain: 3 suggestions; clicking it opens the Chains tab.

• [Approve] changes the field's crop.
• [Reject] removes the suggestion. It returns if the crop's shortage changes by more than 25 %.
• An outdated suggestion says The suggestion no longer applies.
• Fields the mod changed on its own are marked switched (free field).

Intermediate goods

If a chain needs an intermediate good (for example flour for bread), the mod switches on the production that makes it.

• The mod switches a production off again only if the chain switched it on.
• If you switch off a production a chain uses (even one you switched on yourself), the chain leaves it off and does not count it as a source. Only when you switch on a new production in a factory may the chain use it again.
• If you switch off the root production, the chain's flows are stopped (see below), unless another chain still uses them.

Chain flows

For each link the mod creates a flow named Chain: → (at most 2 new per minute).

• The flow gets a free pool tractor and a tipping trailer. The mod never takes a tractor that belongs to another flow.
• If none is available, the flow is created stopped and the chain shows no tractor/trailer.
• Flows with pallets are always created stopped and the chain shows pallet: UAL trailer: choose a UAL trailer yourself.
• When the chain is switched off, its flows are stopped and released by the chain. They are not deleted. If you start one again, the chain lets it run.
• Status in the chain: flow running, flow stopped, no tractor/trailer, pallet: UAL trailer or no flow.

Limitations

• The mod tries to supply every production you switch on in a factory. Only switch on what you want produced.
• The mod does not buy goods and does not buy animals. What must be bought shows as must buy.
• Permanent crops (vine, olive, poplar) and grass fields are never changed.
• The plan uses the base yield without fertiliser bonus, so it errs on too many hectares rather than too few.
• The chain uses only your own factories and barns.

8. Start, stop and saving

Start flow does the following for each approved tractor:

• Fetches the trailer if the tractor is solo (see Flow trailers).
• Sets AutoDrive to Pickup & Deliver with the flow's goods and loops.
• Switches on Use folders globally and sets rotation to pickup only.
• Sets the flow's markers. They are chosen anew for each trip.

This overwrites the tractor's own AutoDrive settings. Tractors outside flows run as before.

A flow starts even if one of the chosen buildings has no marker. The status then names the building. If all buildings lack a marker, the start is refused with '<building>' has no AD marker at its trigger.

Stop flow stops the flow's tractors, folds the implements, empties and parks the trailers and drives the tractors home. The tractors stay in the flow, so it can be started again.

Saving. The mod saves to the savegame folder when the game is saved:

File	Contents
ADSmartPickup_runs.xml	Flows, whether they are stopped, and the remembered trailers
ADSmartPickup_names.xml	Building names
ADSmartPickup_fields.xml	Field setup, the field fleet, the pause from "Stop all" and Courseplay courses
ADSmartPickup_fieldsilos.xml	Field silo setup
ADSmartPickup_cpresume.xml	Machines Courseplay was running, to be restarted

After loading, AutoDrive itself restarts the tractors that were running, and the mod takes them over again. A flow you have not stopped and that has running tractors is shown as running. Tractors that were waiting at a Wait point resume waiting. If a flow is stopped, press [Start].

Flows from older versions are loaded automatically.

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9. The storage tabs: stock and "Needs attention"

The Factories, Silos, Barns and Pallet sheds tabs each show one building type and work the same way. At the top you choose Show: Goods | Buildings. The tab remembers the choice. Figures update every second.

The Goods view

Key figures for the tab's goods:

Key figure	Meaning
Stock value now	The stock's value at the best price right now
Extra at top price	How much more it is worth at the year's highest price
Running out soon	Number of goods that last less than 3 days
Almost full	Number of produced goods that are at least 85 % full

— Needs attention — shows up to four lines, most important first:

Line	When
Wheat runs out in … — farm has …, uses …/day	The farm uses more than it produces, and the good lasts less than 3 days (red below 1 day)
Milk is 92 % full — full in …	A produced good is at least 85 % full (red from 95 %)
Sell Canola now: price is 94 % of the yearly top — …	The price is at least 90 % of the yearly top, the stock is worth at least 10,000, and the farm does not use it up
Chains: 3 missing links	One or more chains are missing a link (see Missing links); listed below the storage's red lines; clicking opens the Chains tab
Switched off but needed: Fermenting silo 3 +2	You switched off a production that a flow, a barn or a chain uses (see Warning when a needed factory is switched off); clicking opens the Factories tab

Click a line to act on it:

• Runs out:
  • If a supply flow already brings the good to one of the buildings that use it, it opens (→ click: open flow '…').
  • If the farm has enough of the good elsewhere, a supply flow is created (→ click: create flow). The guide opens on the summary with the name to , the buildings that use the good as targets and the good selected. Check the tractors and press Start flow or Save without starting.
  • If a flow will not help because the farm has too little in total, it says → produce/buy. Clicking shows A flow won't help — the farm only has … in total. Produce or buy more.
• Sell now: opens an existing sell flow, or creates a new one (→ click: create sell flow) named Sell , with direction Out of building, the tab's buildings holding the good as sources and the good set to Sell.
• Almost full: for information only.

Below that is the goods list with the columns Item, Stock, Value now and Farm net · lasts, plus a fill bar. Click a good to expand it into the buildings that hold it, with each building's share (62 % of the good). Bar colours: red/yellow for problems, green when the good is used or produced, blue for plain storage.

The goods list shows the tab's buildings, but consumption, production and "lasts" are always calculated for the whole farm.

The Buildings view

Choose a building in Show building. The table has one row per good:

Column	Meaning
In building	Amount and capacity in the building plus fill level. Pallet sheds show pallets out of free slots
Value now	The value at the best price right now
At top price	The value if you sell at the year's highest price
Farm	The farm's total stock of the good in all buildings
Lasts	How many days the farm's stock lasts at consumption minus production. rising means the farm produces at least as much as it uses
Use/prod. per day	Consumption per day with minus and production per day with plus

At the bottom is Building total, and below that a grid of all the tab's buildings and their contents. Factory outputs are marked with *.

The Rename building button (only in the Buildings view) gives the selected building a new name. An empty name brings back the shop name.

What is counted

• Factories: consumption and production of the productions running right now.
• Barns, consumption: feed, straw and water. Water is not counted when the barn has automatic water.
• Barns, production: each animal's production by age times the number of animals: milk, manure, slurry, eggs, wool and more. Young animals below production age do not count.

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10. Field work

The Fields tab runs the farm's fields: mowing crops (grass, clover, alfalfa), harvest crops (grain, canola, maize, beets, potatoes …), preparation and sowing after harvest, and crop care while the crop grows. AutoDrive drives the machines by road to the field, Courseplay works the field, and Smart Pickup decides which field, which step and which machines. Requires Courseplay in addition to AutoDrive.

Field type	Chain
Mowing crop, Silage	Mowed → (Raked) → Collected → fermenting silo/silo
Mowing crop, Hay	Mowed → Tedded → (Raked) → Collected → silo
Harvest crop	Harvested (+ unloading trailers) → (straw chopped, collected or baled) → After harvest
After harvest / bare field	(Mulching) → (Liming) → Plowing or Cultivating → (Sowing) → (Rolling)
Care while the crop grows	Fertilizing · Weeding · Liming — when the field needs it

Vines and olives are never mowing crops. They are harvested, and sprayers and spreaders drive in the aisles between the rows.

Preparation

1. One marker per field. Create an AutoDrive marker at the field edge named F + the field number, e.g. F109, at most 400 m from the field. The machines drive there by road before Courseplay takes over. If it is missing, the field shows ! in red, and nothing is sent out.
2. Machines. Use fixed sets (the implement stays on the tractor, or the machine is self-propelled) and/or the machine pool (detached implements with a parking spot and a Connect marker, see chapter 7).
3. Parking. Give every set, pool implement and pool tractor an AutoDrive parking spot. Finished machines drive there.
4. Refilling. Seeders, sprayers and spreaders are refilled by AutoDrive at a place that has the product and an AutoDrive marker (the farm's own storage before a buying station).

The field list

The tab is a colour-coded list with one row per owned field, sorted by number:

Column	Example
Field	F22, or ! F22 when the marker is missing
Crop	Wheat, bare soil or stubble (Wheat)
Plan	-> Wheat (target crop), Silage + rake, Harvest + sow, Preparation
Mode	Auto or Manual
Status	The step and a short reason, e.g. Ready 93 %, Harvesting, Fertilizing: waiting for machine
Running	The machines on the field

[Start] or [Stop] is on the far right. The colours mean the same as in Flows:

Colour	Meaning
Green	The field is being worked
Yellow	The field is waiting, e.g. for a machine, for dry weather, or for you to move a harvester
Red	Problem: the marker is missing, the machine is too wide/narrow, the width is unknown, no machine can do the job, or no crop to sow is chosen
Grey	Stopped or paused

• [Start] starts the field now (requires the marker). If the field is growing, crop care starts if it is needed. The status line shows F22 starts when a machine is free.
• [Stop] stops the machines. Implements are folded for transport, and pool implements are parked.
• Click anywhere else on the row to open the field's edit window.
• If field work is paused after "Stop all and park", the top reads: ! Field work is paused since "Stop all" (saved with the savegame) — press Start all in Overview, or [Start] on a single field. The fields are grey with (paused), and [Start] resumes only that one field.
• If the field fleet is set to "only ticked" with no machine ticked, a warning is shown at the top, because nothing can be sent out.

At the bottom are the Field fleet button and the status line Fields in progress: 3 of 24.

The field's edit window

The window Field F22 shows the field's summary, one line per topic with [Edit]:

Line	Example
Crop	Keep what grows / -> Wheat
Crop options	Silage, rake / straw chopped
Preparation	Automatic / Plow, lime
Crop care	Automatic / fertilizer, weeds
Machines	2 dedicated / free machines, 1 at a time, 1 unloaders
Storage	Field silo / Automatic / 2 chosen silos

Click a line to change just that step, and press Save. Below the summary are the full status text and the marker (Marker F22, 35 m from the field). The line Set up field opens the whole guide. The buttons are Close (also ESC) and Start now / Stop field. A field cannot be deleted.

The "Set up field" guide

The guide asks one question at a time (Step 3 of 7 — Preparation). Steps that do not apply to the field are skipped. The buttons are Next, Back and Cancel.

Step	Shown when	Choices
Field	the guide is opened with no field selected	The field, e.g. F22 — Wheat — Waiting
Crop	always	Keep what grows or a crop to sow (target crop). With Keep on a harvest field: Sow the same crop again after harvest
Crop options	mowing crop or crop with straw	Mowing crop: Silage or Hay and Rake the swaths before collecting. Straw: Chopped (spread on the field), Collected to a silo or Baled and collected
Preparation	not for a mowing field that keeps its crop	Automatic (recommended): plows when the soil needs it, otherwise cultivates, and limes at low pH. Choose myself: soil work (Auto/Cultivate/Plow/None), lime, mulching, rolling after sowing
Crop care	a crop grows, or is going to grow	Automatic (recommended): fertilizer up to max, weeds, and lime at low pH. Choose myself: fertilizer, weeds (not on mowing crops), and lime when there is no preparation step
Machines	always	Machines at a time (multi-tool) 1–5, Unloading trailers during harvest 1–3, Dedicated machines for this field? + the list
Storage	not on a bare field	Use the field silo? when there is one, otherwise Automatic (nearest silo with room, silage to a fermenting silo) or Choose myself among the 8 nearest
Summary	always	The summary. Run automatically (Auto) or Save without starting (Manual)

Nothing is saved until Run automatically / Save without starting (or Save when you change a single line). If the menu is closed or you switch tab, the guide is discarded. If the marker is missing, the field can still be set up, but work waits for the marker.

Dedicated machines: a dedicated machine is only used on this field, and the field would rather wait for its own than borrow another. Machines dedicated to other fields are not shown: N machines are dedicated to other fields (F22) and not shown here.

Crop care only happens when the field needs it: fertilizer up to max, weeds only on harvest crops and only when there are enough weeds, and at most twice of each kind per growing season. A weeder only handles small weeds.

Pick and forget: a crop on the field

Choose a crop (e.g. Wheat) in the Crop step, and the mod takes care of the rest; the field runs automatically:

• If something else is growing now, it is left to finish growing and is harvested or mowed. Then the field is prepared and sown with your crop.
• If your crop is already there (grass → grass), it is mowed and collected every time it is ready.
• A bare field is prepared right away, whatever the season. Only sowing waits for sowing time (waiting for sowing time for …).
• After that the cycle runs by itself: growth → care → harvest → preparation → sowing → …

Choose Keep what grows to run the field yourself with Run automatically or Save without starting.

Field fleet and machine pool

The Field fleet button shows the shared field fleet (Back to fields returns):

• Use all free machines (No = only ticked ones). With Yes (default) the mod finds the machines itself. With No, only ticked machines are used.
• One row per machine with role and width, e.g. Læssevogn 2 — loading wagon, 40.8 m, and possibly seeds ok, !! out of seeds, !! over 50 m, !! width unknown — set in Courseplay, dedicated to F22 or working on F108.
• For harvesters: drives itself on the road (No = too wide, you drive it to the field). See Wide harvesters below.
• Machine pool — tractors with hp and status: free, needs its own AD park destination, player is driving, job F22, AutoDrive/Courseplay active, not in field fleet (tick), off the AutoDrive network, has an implement attached (detach it to use the pool) or dropping implement and driving home.
• Machine pool — implements (park "X" + marker "Connect X") with status: parked at …, on …, reserved — a tractor is on its way, belongs to flow '…', could not attach — retry in … min, not in pool — needs an AD park destination or not in pool — needs marker "Connect …".

Vehicles in a running flow, vehicles AutoDrive or Courseplay is already driving, and vehicles you are driving yourself are never used. A sprayer or spreader gets its role from what it can take.

When no ready-made set is free, the mod sends a free pool tractor to fetch a pool implement with the right role (best fit, see The machine pool). The status shows fetching implement. The tractor hitches, folds the implement for the road, works the field, drops the implement at its parking spot and drives home. This also applies to unloading trailers at harvest: a free tractor fetches a pool trailer that can carry the crop, follows the harvester until the harvest is done, and parks the trailer.

Fields waiting for a machine are served in turn, longest-waiting first. At most one machine is sent out every 10 seconds, and nothing is sent out during the first 2 minutes after loading.

Width

• Courseplay can work at most 50 m wide. The mod uses Courseplay's own width.
• Machines with a working width below 1.5 m are not sent out (width unknown — set in Courseplay).
• Tedders, rakes, soil work, sowing, care and harvesting work the field at their own width.
• The loading wagon must hit the swaths:
  • without Rake it drives the mower's course and must be at least as wide as the mowing width.
  • with Rake it drives the rake's course, and its width does not matter. The mod measures where the rake drops the swath and offsets the loading wagon to match.
• If you only have narrow standard wagons, switch Rake on.

Wide harvesters

If you set a harvester to No under drives itself on the road, the mod does not drive it by road. When the field is due for harvest, the mod asks you to drive the harvester to the field, mount the header and get out (with a reminder every 5 minutes). When the harvester is on the field with a suitable header and you have got out, the mod takes over. Start now takes over immediately if the header fits. Afterwards the mod asks you to unmount the header and drive the harvester home. These messages are currently shown in Danish only.

Courseplay courses and reloading

• The mod reuses Courseplay courses. If the machine's own course fits the field and the width, it is used. Otherwise a matching course is copied from another machine, and only then is a new one calculated. Large fields can take up to 5 minutes to calculate. If the field changes, its courses are forgotten.
• Restart after loading: the game stops all helpers when it saves. The mod remembers on every save which machines Courseplay was running, and restarts exactly those from the nearest waypoint after loading (after 2 minutes, and not while paused from "Stop all"). If the machine stands on a field whose step matches its role, it is signed back onto the field.

Weather, refilling and messages

• Rain: harvesting, mowing, tedding, raking, hay collecting, straw collecting and baling are not sent out while it rains (waiting for dry weather). Machines already working carry on. Soil work, sowing, care and silage collecting run in the rain.
• Refilling: when a seeder, sprayer or spreader is empty, AutoDrive drives it to the nearest place with the product and an AutoDrive marker, refills and drives back, and Courseplay continues. A sprayer with a wrong leftover is emptied first.
• Sowing period: a crop that cannot be sown in the current period waits with the reason … cannot be sown in this period.
• Messages: Smart Pickup: F22 is done when a field is finished, a red message on errors.
• Harvest done: the harvest is done when less than 5 % of the field is standing. If the harvester still has grain in its tank, an unloading trailer is sent out before the field moves on.
• Preparation done: cultivating and plowing are measured on the ground. When at least 95 % is prepared, the field moves on, also after reloading.
• Field silo: a silo within 150 m of the field can be used as storage (see chapter 12).

Status and reasons

Status	Meaning
Waiting / Ready	Growing / ready (Manual waits for [Start]). With — needs … when crop care is needed
Mowing, Tedding, Raking, Collecting, Harvesting, Cultivating, Plowing, Sowing, Rolling, Fertilizing …	The step is in progress
Done	The chain is finished. The field becomes Ready again once it has grown
waiting for machine / waiting for a free …	All sets with the role are busy
waiting for tractor	A pool implement is free, but no pool tractor
fetching implement	A pool tractor is on its way to fetch the implement
too few free	Too few free sets for Machines at a time
none can do it	No machine can do the job, e.g. wrong header or a seeder that cannot sow the crop
too wide / too narrow / width unknown	See Width above
choose crop	The field is to be sown, but no crop is chosen
not sowing time	The crop cannot be sown in this period
waiting for regrowth	The grass must grow back to full height after an interrupted mowing
waiting for dry weather	Rain

The full explanation is in the field's edit window. Log lines in log.txt start with ADSmartPickup: F109 ….

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11. The Month tab

The Month tab answers the question: can I safely sleep to next month?

• The top shows the period, the day and the time, e.g. (Aug) · day 2 of 3 · 14:30.
• Below that is the verdict: Nothing urgent — safe to sleep to next month, or NOTE: 2 fields must finish before the month ends.
• The table only shows fields with work in progress (otherwise No fields have work in progress):

Column	Meaning
Field	The field number
Work	The step in progress
Crop	The crop, or the one to be sown
Done	Progress in percent. Harvesting and mowing are measured over the whole field area
Next	The next step, or –
Window	ok, NOTE: withers soon (the crop withers at the next period change) or NOTE: last sow month (the sowing window closes after this month)

Rows with a NOTE come first. Below the table is Can be sown now, not started: with bare fields whose target crop can be sown now, e.g. F14: Wheat — NOTE: last sowing month or F9: Canola — can also be sown next month.

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12. Field silos

The Field silos tab hauls goods from field silos home to the farm with free unloading trailers. A field silo is a silo within 150 m of one of the farm's fields. Silos used in a flow, silos chosen as farm storage and silos close to a farm storage (the same cluster) are not field silos.

Settings

Setting	Meaning	Values
Bring field silos home automatically	Switches the feature on	Yes/No, default No
Max. vehicles out	At most this many trailers on a trip at once	1–10, default 2
Minimum amount per product	A good is only fetched when the silo has at least this much	5,000–50,000 l, default 10,000 l
Send surplus to production (barn feed first)	Once the farm has enough feed, the surplus goes to the farm's factories	Yes/No, default No
Feed reserve: barn consumption for	This many days of barn consumption stay on the farm before anything goes to a factory	3, 7, 14 or 30 days, default 7
Farm storages (where products are brought home to)	Yes for the silos that should receive the goods	Choose at least one

If you choose no farm storage, it says Select at least one farm storage below — otherwise nothing is brought home.

Status and table

The status line shows e.g. 1/2 vehicles out · 3 silos waiting. The table Field silos with products has the columns Silo, Crop, Liters, En route and Status:

Status	Meaning
ok	Ready to be fetched
missing marker	The field silo has no AutoDrive marker
no farm storage takes …	No chosen farm storage accepts the good
paused (did not get going)	A trip got stuck. The silo and good are skipped for 10 minutes
→ factory	The trip goes to production

Trailers

• The mod borrows free unloading trailers from the field fleet every minute. They must have an AutoDrive parking spot. Trailers in flows are never borrowed. If none is free, the status line explains why, e.g. No free unloading trailer: 1 without AD park destination, 2 busy, 0 with a player in it, 0 not in the fleet.
• The mod also uses the machine pool: a free solo tractor fetches a pool trailer at its Connect marker, makes the trip and parks the trailer again.
• Harvest first: as many unloading trailers as working harvesters need are held back (1 unloading trailer(s) held back for working harvesters).
• The largest stock is fetched first with the nearest trailer that can carry the good. The trip is driven with AutoDrive's Pickup and Deliver, after which the trailer parks.
• If the field silo is empty before the trailer is full, the rest is driven on. If the farm storage is full, the trailer drives on to another storage.
• Nothing is planned while field work is paused after "Stop all and park".

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13. Names of buildings and machines

FS25 cannot rename buildings itself, so the mod keeps its own names. They are saved in ADSmartPickup_names.xml in the savegame and used everywhere in the menu.

• New buildings are named automatically (in Danish): barns by animal type (Kostald 1, Svinestald 2, Hønsehus 1 …), farm silos (Gårdsilo 1), field silos after the nearest F marker (F118 marksilo), other silos (Silo 3), pallet sheds (Palleskur 1) and factories by their shop name. Numbers continue from the highest that exists. Names already given are never changed.
• Rename building in the storage tabs gives a building your own name. Empty name = the shop name.
• Field machines that still have their model name are named after their role (in Danish): Læssevogn 5, Såmaskine 2, Mejetærsker 1, Roeoptager 2 etc. Names you have given yourself are not touched.
• Flow tractors are named after the flow (see chapter 7).

Console commands

Open the game's console to use them:

Command	Function
spuNameFleet	Gives all tractors and trucks outside flows their shop name (Fendt 942 1, Fendt 942 2 …) and renames their own parking spot to P <name> if nobody else shares it. Overwrites custom names on those vehicles. Save the game afterwards. Note: an existing Connect <old name> marker no longer matches
spuConnect	Hitches the nearest implement (within about 3 m) to the machine you are sitting in
spuDetach	Detaches the implements behind the machine you are sitting in
spuSellBlock [part of name]	Without a name: lists all selling points and which ones are switched off. With a name: switches off/on the selling points whose name contains the text (e.g. spuSellBlock market price). A switched-off selling point is used neither for outbound trips nor in prices. Saved per savegame. For selling points where unloading keeps stalling
spuTrip A > B > C	Drives a trip over several markers: Connect markers hitch, Afkobl or the implement's own parking detach, and at other markers it stops for 10 seconds. Mostly for testing

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14. Recipes

Keep a cow barn fed

1. Wait folder Cow Wait with 2–4 markers close to the barn.
2. New flow, Into building, To = the barn, Goods = Automatic.
3. Loops = 0, Wait at = Cow Wait.
4. Two tractors with tippers, Start flow.

The tractors spread feed, straw and water by need and prefer TMR to silage.

Solo tractor with its own trailer

1. Park the trailer and give it an AutoDrive parking spot, e.g. P Cow Food vogn 1.
2. Create the marker Connect P Cow Food vogn 1 right at the trailer's drawbar.
3. Set up the flow and choose the tractor without a trailer under Tractors. Check that ↳ Trailer shows the right trailer, and save.
4. Start flow: the tractor fetches the trailer. On Stop flow the trailer is emptied and parked again.

TMR factory feeding several barns

1. Flow A: Into building, To = the TMR factory, Goods = Automatic.
2. Flow B: Out of building, From = the TMR factory, TMR = Store.
3. Flow C: Into building, To = all cow barns. The neediest barn gets the trip.

Sell milk at a high price

1. New flow, Out of building, From = barn(s) or milk tanks.
2. Milk = Sell, else store, Sell from = 90 %, Drive to storage above = 80 %.
3. One tanker, Start flow.

The tanker waits at Wait until the price is high. If the tank fills up first, it takes the milk to storage.

Empty a pallet shed for sale

1. New flow, Out of building, From = the object storage.
2. The goods = Sell, Collect in one trip = Yes.
3. One UAL truck, Start flow.

A good is running out

1. Open the storage tab, e.g. Barns, view Goods.
2. Click the line … runs out in … under Needs attention.
3. The guide opens with a ready-made suggestion. Choose tractors and press Start flow.

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15. Troubleshooting

The mod writes all its decisions to log.txt with the prefix ADSmartPickup:. The log is in Documents/My Games/FarmingSimulator2025/.

Problem	Solution
The building shows NO MARKER	Place an AutoDrive marker within 40 m of the trigger. Wait markers do not count
A barn's slurry or milk point is missing	Give each loading point its own marker
The tractor cannot be chosen in the guide	Click the line N tractors cannot be used here to see the reason
The solo tractor cannot be chosen	There must be a free trailer: detached, with an AutoDrive parking spot and a Connect <parking name> marker, and able to carry the flow's goods
The tractor does not fetch the trailer	Check that the Connect marker is named exactly Connect + the parking's name, and that it sits at the drawbar with room to reverse
The tractor just holds at Wait	Read the status. It is usually waiting for a price, room or a need
The neighbouring silo gets the load	Set AutoDrive's Max trigger distance to 10 m
cannot reach selling point	Connect the selling point to the road network in both directions
The pallet shed does not hand out pallets	Move the marker so the trailer's autoload zone covers the output area
The tractor does not fill at the silo	After 30 seconds without filling, the mod lets go and AutoDrive drives on
No field work starts	Is there a pause from "Stop all"? Press Start all flows in Overview, or [Start] on the field
The field shows !	The field is missing its F<no> marker
A flow does not run after loading	Press [Start] on the flow
All tractors fetch the same thing	Only tractors in the same flow spread out

Useful log lines (the log text is in Danish)

ADSmartPickup: 'JCB 1' bytter læs: 2400 l STRAW tilbage i Silo 3, målet mangler FORAGE
ADSmartPickup: 'Virtus' holder ved Wait 3: MILK 82 % af top (kræver 90), lager 41 %
ADSmartPickup: F109 …

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16. Testing and feedback

The mod is being tested continuously, and bug reports are very welcome.

1. Tell the developer — or open an issue in the repository if you have an account: https://git.powerdata.dk/masterdraco/fs25-adsmartpickup/issues
2. Describe what you did, what you expected, and what happened. Mention the version (shown in log.txt and in the mod list).
3. Attach log.txt from Documents/My Games/FarmingSimulator2025/log.txt. If the file is too big, attach at least the lines starting with ADSmartPickup.
4. A screenshot of the Smart Pickup menu often helps.

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17. Glossary

Term	Meaning
AD	AutoDrive
CP	Courseplay
Flow / run	A named recipe with buildings, goods, rules and tractors
Marker	AutoDrive destination
Trigger	The area at a building where loading or unloading happens
Wait point	Marker in a folder with Wait in its name, where tractors wait
Parking spot	AutoDrive's park destination for a vehicle or implement, e.g. P Cow Food vogn 1
Connect marker	The marker Connect <parking name>, where a tractor hitches an implement
Afkobl marker	Marker where implements behind the tractor are detached
Solo tractor	Tractor with no trailer or implement attached at the rear
Fixed set	Implement without a Connect marker. It stays attached and is never lent out. A flow's trailers are never lent out either
Machine pool	Detached implements/trailers and free tractors that the mod pairs up as needed
Field fleet	The machines field work is allowed to use
UAL	Universal Autoload, a mod that loads pallets automatically
Object storage	Pallet and bale storage
Top price	The good's highest price during the year according to the game's seasonal curve
Reserve	What the farm's own barns and factories use in the next day
Time to empty	How long a factory's stock of a good lasts at the current consumption
Field silo	A silo near a field used as intermediate storage
Chain	The whole path from a production back through factories and barns to the crops in the fields
Root production	The production you switch on yourself, which the chain keeps running
Switched off but needed	A switched-off production whose goods a flow, a barn or a chain uses — the mod warns once and shows a red line in Needs attention
Free for chains	A field marking that lets the mod change the crop automatically