The main menu of Rusty's retirement with pictures of the various possible maps.
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How to Unlock Alternate Farm Types in Rusty’s Retirement

Learn how to unlock new farm types in Rusty's Retirement.

Rusty’s Retirement is an adorable idle farming game that sits at the bottom of your PC screen. To many players, this game doubles as a virtual pet or an interactive background screen. However, the endless green fields of the game’s main map can get stale after a few hours. Fortunately, Rusty’s Retirement has plenty of alternative farm types to unlock. Here is how.

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Unlocking Alternate Farms in Rusty’s Retirement

The Flower Swamp map from Rusty's Retirement on the default Windows XP desktop.
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To unlock new maps and farm layouts in Rusty’s Retirement, you must “complete” a farm. What this means in practice is clearing all the rubble on both sides of the map. To do so, click on the appropriate bulldozer icon. The increased space will lead to faster production times, generating the money necessary to buy the farm’s next extension.

If you want to unlock a new farm fast, make sure you’re not using focus mode. This alternate game mode halves production times, making every development much slower. While focus mode is useful if you find the game too distracting, I suggest keeping it off and simply ignoring the game if you can. Unlocking new farms is already slow enough as it is.

All Farm Types in Rusty’s Retirement

Curious about all the unlockable farms in Rusty’s Retirement? Here are all of them, from the default one to the last unlock:

Open RangeClear wasteland to reveal open grass plains
Flower SwampBuild in between flowing ponds and rivers
Sandy DesertCrops dry out if left unattended
Blossom ForestBuild in between blossoming cherry trees
Desert OasisA dry landscape with pools of water
A list and description of every map in Rusty’s Retirement

With that out of the way, you know all there is to know about unlocking new farm types in Rusty’s Retirement. For more guides about the game, visit our Rusty’s Retirement’s content hub.


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