The “Used Machinery Auction” mod brings bidding for used equipment into Farming Simulator 25. You go up against AI buyers and other players while chasing tractors, combine harvesters, headers, trailers, and implements. The machines come with different ages, amounts of use shown as engine hours, and technical conditions, so every auction has its own setup.
YOU NEED:
- The “Advanced Damage System” (FS25_AdvancedDamageSystem) add-on
- Its dependency, “Vehicle Years”
Both must be installed and activated. The ADS mod itself is not included.
Use Left Alt + U to bring up the auction menu. If you want, change the key bindings in the control settings. You also need to belong to a farm before you can take part.
Features
- Equipment from the in-game shop can show up in auctions, including content from DLCs and other mods. Pallets, big bags, and consumables do not appear. Every so often, rare equipment with very low usage hours can turn up.
- You can have multiple auctions running together. AI buyers look at each listing through their own budgets and needs, answer your bids, and may fight for the equipment until the final seconds. Their activity level can be changed.
- Quick-bid buttons make bidding direct, while custom bid amounts are also supported. You get an auction history log, plus an automatic timer extension when somebody bids in the final moments. Your settings decide the commission fees and delivery costs.
- The auctions follow in-game time, including pauses, time acceleration, and character sleep. There is no separate control for auction speed.
- At first, you only see general details about the machinery’s condition and paintwork. For self-propelled equipment, the ADS system lets you choose visual, standard, or full inspection. The chosen inspection type controls how detailed and accurate the report is.
- Inspection costs come from dealership workshop rates through the ADS system. The more detailed inspections are charged as separate services. Towed or attached equipment gets a general diagnostic for condition and paintwork, but engine components are not assessed.
- Once equipment is purchased, its inspection results are saved and transferred to the ADS system. The reports use colors to show component condition. You can scroll with the mouse wheel or drag the scroll bars.
- “My Auctions” keeps your bidding results, expenditure details, the equipment condition from the purchase, and paid inspection reports together. Purchased equipment stays listed in your history. The condition-viewing window can show up to three reports at the same time.
- Win a machine and it is delivered to the dealership with its accumulated engine hours, age, technical condition, and paintwork state still recorded.
- Check photographs and technical specifications, compare prices with new models, then use sorting options and filters to find what you need. Save files and multiplayer are supported, with an administrator handling server settings.
BETA 3
- The “Advanced Damage System (ADS)” is now compatible.
- Some bugs have been fixed.
BETA 2
- AI buying behaviour is more realistic now, and you can customise it for your needs.
- Paid-for equipment that has not been collected no longer disappears because of history limitations.
- New prices now factor in other leading prices, commission, and delivery costs. You can also see the available funds.
- The server checks whether the player is eligible to buy equipment.
