Farm Tablet

In the dairy year

The tablet is the desk you sit at in every season. Spring: Weather and the drilling window. Summer: Irrigation and the milk clock. Autumn: rotation planner and the harvest you can explain. Winter: the Financial Cockpit, the one place the year becomes numbers.

Esc is the glance while paused. The tablet is sit down and run the farm. Same facts. You are never sent to the tablet to finish an Esc job, or the other way around.

The feel

Vanilla FS25 buries the farm in menus. Balance means pause. Field status means digging. The tablet is a full-screen command centre. Open with T (you can change that). Slide to unlock if you want the lock screen. The home grid is the apps you actually have.

Companion apps appear when that mod is loaded. No XML. No load-order puzzle. Take Soil out and the Soil app goes quiet. The tablet does not look broken.

How it works

It behaves like a phone. Lock screen, then a home grid, then the app you tap. A dock along the bottom keeps Dashboard, Weather, App Store, and Settings in reach. When companion mods are loaded you get extra pages of icons. Page dots and the mouse wheel move between them.

There are three kinds of app:

• Core apps run the tablet itself. Always there.
• Farm apps cover the day-to-day farm. Always there.
• Companion apps appear on their own when that mod is in the save. No empty placeholder.

That is 20 apps in the box, and up to 12 more that show when companions are loaded. Add a companion mid-playthrough, restart the session, and the app is there next time you open the tablet.

Apps in the box

Core

App	What it does
Dashboard	Balance, income, fields, vehicles, time, and weather at a glance. You can hide widgets you never use.
App Store	Every installed app, grouped. Companion rows that are not loaded stay dim so you can see what you would unlock.
Settings	Position, scale, open key, lock screen, background, sounds, startup app.
Updates	The changelog, newest first.

Farm

App	What it does
Weather	Current sky plus a five-day forecast: temperature, cloud, wind, rain.
Field Manager	Every owned field with crop, hectares, and a colour-coded state.
Animals	Every pen with food, water, and cleanliness.
Workshop	Nearby vehicle diagnostics and one-click repair.
Storage	Silo inventory and the best sell price per crop.
Fleet Manager	Owned vehicles sorted by fuel.
Production Buildings	Production chains, inputs and outputs.
Contracts	Active contracts with completion and reward.
Time Controls	Time scale and skip to a time of day.
Notes	A simple farm todo list.
Farm Admin	Money, time, and vehicle controls. Host only.
Farm Stats	A full farm snapshot.
Field Jobs, Digging, Bucket Tracker, Hotspot Manager	Work logs, terrain depth, loader cycles, and map pins.

Companion apps that appear on their own

App	Needs
Soil Fertilizer	Soil Fertilizer
Field Sentry	Soil Fertilizer with the Field Sentry bridge
Crop Stress	Seasonal Crop Stress
Market Dynamics	Market Dynamics
Worker Costs and Personnel	Worker Costs
Tax Mod	Tax Mod
Income Mod	Income Mod
NPC Favor	NPC Favor
Random World Events	Random World Events
Invoices	Built in. Extra features if Roleplay Phone is loaded.

UsedPlus also has a tablet app if that third-party pack is in the save. It is not a Realistic Farming companion.

How you use it

What you want	How
Open or close	T, or Esc to close. Rebind in Settings.
Unlock	Slide the knob, or turn the lock screen off.
Open an app	Tap its icon.
Home	Tap HOME in the top bar.
Help inside an app	The small i button, bottom right.
Move and resize	Edit mode in Settings. Position and scale save with the savegame.

Deep Space is the default look. Slate Grey and other backgrounds are there if you want them.

The outs

The tablet mostly reads. It does not rewrite another mod’s farm. Money, soil, milk, and wages still belong to their engines. What you see on the tablet should match the cab and the Esc glance. If it does not, that is a suite bug, not a skin issue.

On a dedicated server the tablet does not run. It is client-only. Hosts still need the companions that write money and sim. Players who want the desk install the tablet on the client.

What you need

Nothing else. The tablet is useful on a vanilla farm. Cores enrich settings and overlays. Companions add apps. Ritter and RealisticWeather deepen weather and animals if you already run them. Neither is required.