FS25 Mining Layers 1.9: free release Friday, 8 pm CET

🔑 Important: grab your Download Key too! Mining Layers stays free, but it checks your key. The .xml goes next to the zip in your mods folder, otherwise the features stay locked.

👉 Go to Mining Layers

On Friday, 6 November, at 19:00 UTC (20:00 CET) Mining Layers 1.9 lands for Farming Simulator 25 (FS25), free for everyone. The countdown is on the front page.

Until now every layer sat at the same depth below the reference height everywhere, on the hilltop just like in the valley. With 1.9 the ground gets some character.

Dynamic layers

The boundaries between layers rise and fall across the map. In one spot you hit the next material early, a bit further on only much deeper. You choose how strong that is in every savegame: Flat, Gentle, Medium or Strong, which means up to 1, 2.5 or 5 metres of shift.

• Flat stays the default. Your running savegame digs exactly like before after the update, until you change it yourself.
• It works on every map, no rebuild needed. Map makers can still ship their own preset with their map.
• In multiplayer the server decides, and every player sees the same boundaries.

Transition band

Every layer boundary now has a band of ±25 cm. Instead of switching hard, you keep digging the material you started with, and the readout tells you how much is left before the next layer.

Friday, 19:00 UTC. Until then: fill the tank, sharpen the bucket, and start guessing where the paydirt sits highest on your map.