Realistic Water & Soil Management (RWSM)

--Coupling significantly simplified: The water pump can now be connected to the Rainstar from many more positions. The laborious, precise alignment at the coupling point is largely eliminated.

---Automatic traction control: During retraction, the pump or hose reel detects how much traction is actually required and automatically adapts it to the terrain and the current resistance. This means the sprinkler is drawn in more evenly.

--Improved stability after loading: Physics and hose connections have been reworked so that the Rainstar should no longer tip over due to stored tension or joint forces after loading a save.
Hose connection optimized: The connection between the water pump and Rainstar has been simplified and made more stable, without transferring unnecessary rigid mechanical forces to the device.

-fixed version

Major performance conversion, event-based vehicle register, work area optimization, weed cache, shared RWSM/VMT wheel contact core and fix of the critical wheel contact Lua error

-Comprehensive reconstruction of the actual soil model: three-layer water balance, infiltration, runoff, deep drainage, Kc, TAW/RAW/Ks, dynamic root depth, frost, soil structure and seasonal yield

-Multiplayer/Sync level B, quantized network data, terrain/density callback broker with VMT, only purchased real fields, streets hidden and event-driven ground calculation instead of permanent full field queries.

-Consistent conversion against the seed machine FPS drops. Chunk-based processing and finally no more RWSM WorkArea geometry for Seeder/Planter

-Field info revised: nFK, three water layers in mm, irrigation requirements, understandable soil status, adaptive scaling and concrete soil improvement recommendations. The Lua syntax error has been fixed.

-Field info stabilized; in particular root health 0↔100% and changing compaction values were stabilized

-New ground-following Rainstar hose and distance-independent auto-reel, so that the move continues even without a player right next to it.

-Savegame start stabilization for Rainstar. 5-second protection phase prevents pulling impulses and the problem of the machine standing on its back or being unstable after loading.

-GIANTS hose as a visibility fallback in case the new ground hose is not initialized correctly.

-Fixed missing externalShapesFile reference so that the IrriFrance hose mesh actually loads

-Major performance conversion, event-based vehicle register, work area optimization, weed cache, shared RWSM/VMT wheel contact core and fix of the critical wheel contact Lua error

-Comprehensive reconstruction of the actual soil model: three-layer water balance, infiltration, runoff, deep drainage, Kc, TAW/RAW/Ks, dynamic root depth, frost, soil structure and seasonal yield

-Multiplayer/Sync level B, quantized network data, terrain/density callback broker with VMT, only purchased real fields, streets hidden and event-driven ground calculation instead of permanent full field queries.

-Consistent conversion against the seed machine FPS drops. Chunk-based processing and finally no more RWSM WorkArea geometry for Seeder/Planter

-Field info revised: nFK, three water layers in mm, irrigation requirements, understandable soil status, adaptive scaling and concrete soil improvement recommendations. The Lua syntax error has been fixed.

-Field info stabilized; in particular root health 0↔100% and changing compaction values were stabilized

-New ground-following Rainstar hose and distance-independent auto-reel, so that the move continues even without a player right next to it.

-Savegame start stabilization for Rainstar. 5-second protection phase prevents pulling impulses and the problem of the machine standing on its back or being unstable after loading.

-GIANTS hose as a visibility fallback in case the new ground hose is not initialized correctly.

-Fixed missing externalShapesFile reference so that the IrriFrance hose mesh can actually be loaded

Work mode FIX

Seed machine and implement performance
Processing of seed drills, direct seed drills, planting machines and seedbed combinations has been fundamentally optimized.
Multiple sowing rows within the same RWSM soil cell are only calculated once.
Duplicate and overlapping work areas are detected early and skipped.
Grid cells that have already been reached are not completely processed again with each calculation run.
Device and WorkArea discovery is cached.
Several active vehicles are processed over different frames.
Short FPS drops significantly reduced on wide seed drills and devices with many individual work areas.
Normal sowing, no-till, planters, rotary harrows, seedbed combinations and simultaneous fertilization remain fully supported.
More realistic topsoil compaction
Topsoil compaction is no longer calculated primarily based on total weight.
Tire pressure, tire width, contact patch, ground contact pressure, slip and ground moisture now have a greater influence.
Even light vehicles can cause topsoil compaction on loose or wet soil.
Low tire pressure and wide tires protect the topsoil more clearly.
The first pass continues to cause the majority of topsoil compaction.
Further passes increase the compaction increasingly slowly.
Cornering, slipping and repeated trips in the same lane increase the stress on the ground.
The compaction effect depends more on the field capacity and bearing capacity of the respective soil type.
More realistic root zone compaction
New sliding load assessment between topsoil and subsoil.
The root zone reacts particularly to medium to high wheel loads.
Depending on the moisture and soil type, the compaction effect begins with medium machine weights.
High tire pressures, slippage and repeated passes increase root zone compaction.
Subsoilers can loosen the root zone much more than normal cultivators or plows.
More realistic subsoil compaction
Previous blanket underbody compaction caused by light vehicles removed.
Damage to the underbody no longer occurs automatically with every crossing.
Low risk with axle loads below approximately 5 to 6 tonnes on stable ground.
Significantly increasing risk between approximately 6 and 10 tons of axle load.
High underbody impact with an axle load of around 10 to 12 tonnes, especially on damp or wet ground.
Underbody compaction is primarily determined by wheel and axle loads.
Low tire pressure continues to protect the topsoil, but cannot completely prevent high depth loads on heavy machinery.
Tracked vehicles reduce the surface pressure, but retain a large part of their actual load effect in the underbody.
Multiple passes in the same lane increase permanent depth compaction.
Severe subsoil compaction can no longer be completely removed in a single operation.
Soil cultivation and loosening


Cultivators, disc harrows, rotary harrows and plows mainly loosen the topsoil.
Normal tillage does not remove severe subsoil compaction.
A plow can loosen topsoil and parts of the root zone.
Repeated plowing at the same depth can create or reinforce a plow sole.
Plowing when soil moisture is too high can cause additional shear and structural damage.
Subsoilers and subsoilers work on the topsoil, root zone, plow sole and subsoil.
The effect of a deep loosener depends heavily on the soil moisture.
Best loosening effect in dry to moderately moist soil.
If the ground is very wet, the effect is greatly reduced as the ground is more likely to be smeared and plastically deformed.
A trailing packer or roller can specifically reconsolidate the loosened topsoil.
Compaction in all field conditions
Compaction works independently of the plant population.
Topsoil, root zone and subsoil compaction also address:
harvested areas
stubble fields
dug soil
plowed ground
seedbed
uncultivated field
Only additional plant, shoot and root damage requires an active plant population.
Soil cultivation equipment can partially loosen the topsoil compaction that occurred immediately beforehand.
Subsoil compaction remains intact unless a suitable subsoiler is used.
Global field simulation
Time-dependent ground values no longer only update near the player.
Existing and saved ground cells continue to run on the server side even without a player nearby.
Distant fields continue to develop in terms of:
soil moisture
Drainage
Surface drying
Soil structure
Soil life
Weed development
root stress
Yield factorsRemote helpers, AI vehicles and active machines are recorded regardless of the player position.
The previous limit of a maximum of six active computing centers has been removed for vehicle and device operations.
Newly created soil cells are permanently included in the global simulation after their first capture.
Round robin calculation
The global ground simulation is distributed in small packages over many frames.
Not all stored ground cells are calculated simultaneously in a single frame.
Each cell is updated one after the other and then placed back in the calculation order.
Elapsed time between two updates is fully taken into account.
This means that distant fields remain correctly simulated in time, without creating a large calculation block or severe FPS drops.
Compatibility and unchanged functions
WaterSoilAPI remains completely intact.
Compatibility with Visual Mud Tracks remains.
Saving and multiplayer support remain.
Existing soil, moisture, crop and yield systems remain integrated.
Rainstar, sprinkler cart, hose reel, manual attach, auto-reel and 3D model have not been changed compared to the new basic version 1.36.73.0.
The author remains solely Sherman.

Changelog – Version 1.36.76.0

Seed machine and implement performance
Processing of seed drills, direct seed drills, planting machines and seedbed combinations has been fundamentally optimized.
Multiple sowing rows within the same RWSM soil cell are only calculated once.
Duplicate and overlapping work areas are detected early and skipped.
Grid cells that have already been reached are not completely processed again with each calculation run.
Device and WorkArea discovery is cached.
Several active vehicles are processed over different frames.
Short FPS drops significantly reduced on wide seed drills and devices with many individual work areas.
Normal sowing, no-till, planters, rotary harrows, seedbed combinations and simultaneous fertilization remain fully supported.
More realistic topsoil compaction
Topsoil compaction is no longer calculated primarily based on total weight.
Tire pressure, tire width, contact patch, ground contact pressure, slip and ground moisture now have a greater influence.
Even light vehicles can cause topsoil compaction on loose or wet soil.
Low tire pressure and wide tires protect the topsoil more clearly.
The first pass continues to cause the majority of topsoil compaction.
Further passes increase the compaction increasingly slowly.
Cornering, slipping and repeated trips in the same lane increase the stress on the ground.
The compaction effect depends more on the field capacity and bearing capacity of the respective soil type.
More realistic root zone compaction
New sliding load assessment between topsoil and subsoil.
The root zone reacts particularly to medium to high wheel loads.
Depending on the moisture and soil type, the compaction effect begins with medium machine weights.
High tire pressures, slippage and repeated passes increase root zone compaction.
Subsoilers can loosen the root zone much more than normal cultivators or plows.
More realistic subsoil compaction
Previous blanket underbody compaction caused by light vehicles removed.
Damage to the underbody no longer occurs automatically with every crossing.
Low risk with axle loads below approximately 5 to 6 tonnes on stable ground.
Significantly increasing risk between approximately 6 and 10 tons of axle load.
High underbody impact with an axle load of around 10 to 12 tonnes, especially on damp or wet ground.
Underbody compaction is primarily determined by wheel and axle loads.
Low tire pressure continues to protect the topsoil, but cannot completely prevent high depth loads on heavy machinery.
Tracked vehicles reduce the surface pressure, but retain a large part of their actual load effect in the underbody.
Multiple passes in the same lane increase permanent depth compaction.
Severe subsoil compaction can no longer be completely removed in a single operation.
Soil cultivation and loosening


Cultivators, disc harrows, rotary harrows and plows mainly loosen the topsoil.
Normal tillage does not remove severe subsoil compaction.
A plow can loosen topsoil and parts of the root zone.
Repeated plowing at the same depth can create or reinforce a plow sole.
Plowing when soil moisture is too high can cause additional shear and structural damage.
Subsoilers and subsoilers work on the topsoil, root zone, plow sole and subsoil.
The effect of a deep loosener depends heavily on the soil moisture.
Best loosening effect in dry to moderately moist soil.
If the ground is very wet, the effect is greatly reduced as the ground is more likely to be smeared and plastically deformed.
A trailing packer or roller can specifically reconsolidate the loosened topsoil.
Compaction in all field conditions
Compaction works independently of the plant population.
Topsoil, root zone and subsoil compaction also address:
harvested areas
stubble fields
dug soil
plowed ground
seedbed
uncultivated field
Only additional plant, shoot and root damage requires an active plant population.
Soil cultivation equipment can partially loosen the topsoil compaction that occurred immediately beforehand.
Subsoil compaction remains intact unless a suitable subsoiler is used.
Global field simulation
Time-dependent ground values no longer only update near the player.
Existing and saved ground cells continue to run on the server side even without a player nearby.
Distant fields continue to develop in terms of:
soil moisture
Drainage
Surface drying
Soil structure
Soil life
Weed development
root stress
Yield factorsRemote helpers, AI vehicles and active machines are recorded regardless of the player position.
The previous limit of a maximum of six active computing centers has been removed for vehicle and device operations.
Newly created soil cells are permanently included in the global simulation after their first capture.
Round robin calculation
The global ground simulation is distributed in small packages over many frames.
Not all stored ground cells are calculated simultaneously in a single frame.
Each cell is updated one after the other and then placed back in the calculation order.
Elapsed time between two updates is fully taken into account.
This means that distant fields remain correctly simulated in time, without creating a large calculation block or severe FPS drops.
Compatibility and unchanged functions
WaterSoilAPI remains completely intact.
Compatibility with Visual Mud Tracks remains.
Saving and multiplayer support remain.
Existing soil, moisture, crop and yield systems remain integrated.
Rainstar, sprinkler cart, hose reel, manual attach, auto-reel and 3D model have not been changed compared to the new basic version 1.36.73.0.
The author remains solely Sherman.

-Fixed tires from the sprayer that was partially not turning
-Performance update for field scanning of individual values

-Sprinkler Fix
Stop beforehand and no longer hit the hose reel when you stop.

More performance fixes

-Manual Attach Fix

couple mechanically
get out
Connect the hose to the hose button Y assigned to you
Before uncoupling, loosen the hose again with Y
then uncouple mechanically

++Without manual attach++
normal coupling and uncoupling with Q
LS25 automatically connects and disconnects the water hose

The pump only reads the real vanilla hose status:

Hose not connected → Pump does not start
Hose disconnected while pump is running → Pump switches off immediately


-Weather Hud 3 size adjustment options now available.
Normal, small, very small
And Vanilla Hud

-Performance fixes

New weather HUD
Added modern weather HUD in weather app style.
Multi-day weather forecast supplemented with symbols for sun, clouds, rain, heavy rain, thunderstorms, snow, hail and frost.
Added current temperature and daily high and low temperatures.
Probability of rain and forecast amount of precipitation in millimeters for today and the following days added.
Added two weather icons for weather changes within a day.
Weather region and climate region added.
Added understandable month names instead of internal game periods.
Account balance, time, date, year and time acceleration integrated into the display.
Added choice between the original LS25 weather HUD and the enhanced RWSM weather HUD.
Weather texts added in all existing languages.
New RWSM in-game map menu
Added custom RWSM category in existing LS25 map view.
The following map levels added:
soil moisture
Navigability
Topsoil compaction
Root area compaction
Subsoil compaction
Waterlogging and drought stress
Root health
Earning potential
Irrigation history
Added custom color legends for all map layers.
Local representation of actually irrigated, compacted or damaged areas added.
Active crops are recognized directly from the game's existing fruit and growth data.
Added new neutral map class “Culture present – ​​not yet locally assessed”.
This class realistically indicates that a culture exists, but there is not yet enough local RWSM data for a reliable assessment.
Once sufficient information on soil, water, compaction and plant development is available, the neutral condition is automatically replaced by the actual local assessment.
Missing data is no longer represented as optimal root health or 100 percent yield.
Added persistent card values ​​for savegames and multiplayer.
Map, tab and legend texts added in all existing languages.

* Shader queries are now only executed on suitable shape nodes. Bad queries on LOD, Transform or other inappropriate nodes have been removed.
* The warning about invalid entity types for `getShaderParameter` has been fixed.
* The storage system has been linked to the regular LS25 storage process.
* The previous independent full memory timer has been removed.
* Manual save, autosave and regular exit are supported.
* RWSM data remains temporally consistent with the actual save game.
* Unnecessary XML, sorting and caching operations have been reduced.
* Natural low areas and depressions in the fields are analyzed when the map starts.
*Added adaptive topography grid for standard, 4x, 8x and larger maps.
* Repeated elevation queries during gameplay have been replaced with cached topography data.
* Several separate sinks can be recognized per field.
* After rain and irrigation, water collects more in natural low areas.
* Depressions dry more slowly and can develop permanent waterlogging.
* Waterlogging affects bearing capacity, subsidence, slippage, compaction, oxygen supply, root development and yield.
* All field info languages ​​have been unified to a common complete key set.
* Mixed German and English fixed texts have been removed from the field info.
* Units and placeholders for percent, millimeters, hours and temperatures have been standardized.
* Soil types, weather conditions, regions, compaction, seedbed and root conditions have been fully localized.
* Rain, thunderstorms, hail and irrigation are passed on to other systems as tire and surface moisture.
* A permanently stored surface wetness memory has been introduced.
* Fields remain superficially wet for a long time after the end of precipitation, depending on the type of soil, depression, compaction and drainage.
* Drying no longer takes place using a fixed timer.
* Temperature, wind, humidity, sunlight, evaporation and seepage determine the actual drying rate.
* Load capacity, tire moisture, mud intensity and sinking behavior use the saved surface condition.
* Direct API fallbacks now also provide moisture, climate, evaporation, seedbed, plow sole, crossing and root values.
* The Water-Soil API has been expanded and versioned.
* Soil parameters for loamy sand, sandy loam, loam and silty clay have been revised.
*Field capacity, wilting point, pore saturation, infiltration, drainage and water retention were separated by soil type.
* Precipitation intensity, pre-moisture, soil structure and compaction influence infiltration and surface runoff.
* Compaction is stored separately for topsoil, root zone and subsoil.
* Vehicle weight, payload, level, wheel load, axle load, tire width, tire pressure, slip and multiple passes affect the ground load.
* High slip can cause permanent shear and track depth damage.
* Plow, cultivator, disc harrow, rotary harrow, subsoiler and roller work at different soil depths.
* Deep loosening is only fully effective if the soil moisture is suitable.
* Tilling on soil that is too wet can cause lubrication damage and loss of structure.
* Root area compaction affects water flow, plant development and yield.
* The nFK display has been limited to 0 to 100%.
* Complete pore saturation is shown separately.
* Water above field capacity is displayed as excess water in millimeters.
* Live temperature, wind and current weather values ​​are taken directly from the game.
* Evaporation responds to actual playing conditions.
* Maximum possible sinking depth was differentiated according to soil type.
* Vehicle mass, load and axle load have a greater influence on the possible ground load.
* Empty and loaded vehicles cause different compaction effects.
* Crop Vitality Visuals 2.0 has been introduced.
* Each active agronomy cell receives permanently stored values ​​for vigor, height, density, lodging slope, emergence quality and damage.
* Water balance, drought, waterlogging, nutrients, pH value, compaction, plow sole, roots, seedbed, weeds and crossings influence the visible population.
* Young stands react more strongly to gaps, developed stands react more strongly to changes in plant height.
* Mature plants remain technically ready for harvest.
* Growth states and original fruit density maps are not overwritten.
* FoliageBending has been removed from the plant visualization.
* A foliage copy-only interface has been prepared.* Mature copy classes for different plant heights and stand densities have been added.
* A flat field edge penalty has been removed.
* Field edge effects only arise in conjunction with compaction, drought, wind, waterlogging or other real stresses.
* Different effective ranges for corn, grain, oilseeds, legumes, root crops and grass have been added.
* Tire moisture has been completely separated from nFK and plant-available water.
* 100% nFK can be displayed on a dry surface without wet tires.
* Old lanes and dry compaction no longer create an artificial wetness effect.
* The field information for inventory development has been structured more clearly.
* Long and overlapping field info texts have been corrected.
* Technical abbreviations have been removed from visible labels.
* Fixed outdated nFK values ​​after rain, sprinkling and when loading older save games.
* Water values ​​of the three soil layers are now always the relevant basis for calculation.
* nFK, saturation and excess water are currently being recalculated for field info and API access.
* Irrigation updates soil moisture immediately.
* A switch between Celsius and Fahrenheit has been added.
* Internal calculations remain metric.
* Climate, pump and field info displays use the selected temperature unit.
* RWSM remains the significant source of local soil and tire moisture after rain.
* A separate mud memory prevents tires from immediately appearing dry.
* Local values ​​for saturation, surface moisture, mud intensity, carrying capacity, sink factor and possible track depth are passed to Visual Mud Tracks.
* Artificial ground patches and permanently altered terrain textures have been removed.
* Improved connection with native FS25 wet and tire materials.
* The moisture class in the field info is only determined from the current pore saturation.
* The wetness memory continues to influence tires, mud, appearance and drivability, but no longer the visible moisture description.
* “Soil moisture” was more precisely referred to as “topsoil moisture 0–10 cm”.
* A separate surface condition has been added.
* Water values ​​for topsoil, root zone and subsoil are displayed separately and with depth ranges.
* The soil structure is now clearly represented as a quality value: 100% corresponds to a very good structure, 0% to a severely damaged structure.
* Traffic compaction now directly uses the ratio of actual tire pressure to recommended field pressure.
* Excessive tire pressure increases topsoil compaction and shearing effects.
* A low tire pressure appropriate to the wheel load reduces topsoil damage.
* Deep compaction remains mainly dependent on wheel load and axle load.
* Topsoil, root space and subsoil compaction continue to influence root health, soil structure, plant development and actual yield.
* Savegame schemes and multiplayer synchronization have been expanded several times and remain compatible with older RWSM savegames.
* Pump, irrigation, water, soil, compaction and vitality data is permanently stored and server authoritatively synchronized.

Performance update

- RWSM now saves its full state along with the real LS25 save operation via FSBaseMission.saveSavegame.
- Manual saving and autosave are supported together.
- Unnecessary complete table sorting and XML writing processes between real game states are no longer necessary.
- The existing force save when leaving the map normally remains as a safety net.
Thanks for the help goes to @Keana

Bug Fixes and Performance Fix

Lua errors