Farm Together Updates

[Arabella Kochanski]

Manageyour farm all by yourself, allow entrance only to your friends, or open it to the public and start cultivating together! A simple permission system allows you to limit what strangers can do, so they can help with it without risks of vandalizing.

The ultimate farming experience!

From the creators of Avatar Farm comes Farm Together, the ultimate farming experience!

Start from scratch, with a small plot, and end with a huge farm that extends further than the eye can see!

Grow your farm

Grow crops, plant trees, take care of the animals, and much more! Spend your hard-earned money in new buildings and facilities for your farm! Earn experience to unlock hundreds of new items!

Hop onto your tractor and speed up the tasks, but watch out or you'll run out of gas!

Chill out

Stay for as long as you want! In Farm Together time advances even if you're not online, so you can be sure you'll have something to do when you come back later.

Manage your farm all by yourself, allow entrance only to your friends, or open it to the public and start cultivating together! A simple permission system allows you to limit what strangers can do, so they can help with it without risks of vandalizing.

Customize your farm and your looks

You'll have plenty of customization items at your disposal: Fences, roads, buildings, decorations... Show your gardening and decoration skills to your neighbours!

And don't forget about your clothes! Customize your avatar and your tractor to your liking, and go visit your friends' farms!

Take your pet anywhere

Are you a cat person or a dog person? No problem, we got you covered!

Your loyal friend will always be there to show you some love! Customize its looks however you like and have fun with it!

Build your own house

Want a change of pace? No problem! Just enter your house and relax!

Decorate the house interior however you like, and spend some time cooking some recipes, painting, or even composing music!

Nintendo Switch Online membership (sold separately) and Nintendo Account required for online play. Not available in all countries. Internet access required for online features. Terms apply. nintendo.com/switch-online

Farm Together's new update comes out on console today exclusively on Xbox One (these changes are already in the PC version), and adds in local co-op for up to four players. While split-screen is the largest new addition in this update, it also comes with a slew of new items for your farm and general bug fixes. According to the developer post on Reddit, the game is getting these new items:

Farm Together is a surprisingly fun and relaxing game to play with your friends, so split-screen co-op is a welcome addition. There's still no word yet on when these updates will find their way to the PlayStation 4 or Switch versions of the game.

Except that instead of a simple lottery, users have to actually farm in the game and get the most in-game crop yields to win the prize. The in-game farming part is similar to the games like Stardew Valley and Harvest Moon. But, in Farm Together users have to also strategically select their seeds and trade them to match the seed properties with the land they have acquired, which will allow them to get the most crop yields. Randomness and chance of seeds and land properties are determined using Chainlink.

It's a 2D farming RPG that uses Chainlinks VRF, Alarm Clock, and AAVE. It creates a collective pool of user deposits using the AAVE aDAI token. Then generates NFTs based on user game performance with a proportion of randomness generated by the VRF. These NFTs can then be burned for access to a proportion of the interest. Users can also withdraw their initial stake after the game is finished.

A new game play mechanic was created. Very few people have attempted what we did by game-ifying yield farming. By adding the NFTs as a certain portion of the interest we created a different sort of game play than a simple win-all-take-all type game play.

We intend to expand FarmTogether and add more complex game play mechanics. For example, the ability for genetic mutations on plants in order to breed new crops with different values, the ability to interact with other people's farms, the ability to add weather as a randomness factor to game play, and much more.We're hoping to go live and do a token sale. www.farmtogether.finance

I wanted to take a moment and provide a brief update on some of my activities in recent weeks. First, however, if you don't already, please take a moment to follow me on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. You can also view occasional video updates on my YouTube Channel here.

As a New Yorker, I am proud to hail from a City that has long embraced immigrants. Many of you recently called my office expressing concern over this Administration's zero tolerance policy, which has resulted in the separation of children from parents and family detainment. I believe we are a better nation than this and, to that end, have actively opposed this policy.

I also believe that this Administration's anti-immigrant policies and rhetoric are meant to distract us from important issues that we all collectively care about. To that end, I'm fighting to ensure all working New Yorkers can thrive. Whether it is greater economic opportunity, a stronger safety net, more affordable housing or programs assisting seniors, or protecting the local environment, our City is at its best when we care for our most vulnerable neighbors.

Despite the challenges ahead, I remain hopeful that our City's spirit of resilience will help us build a better future for everyone. I can assure you that in the halls of Congress, I will not stop advocating for the values we share.

Rep. Velzquez believes immigrants make our nation and New York City great. That is why she is at the forefront of the fight in Congress to protect immigrants who she believes have been unjustly targeted by the President. She recently voted against H.R. 4760, a House Republican Leadership bill that she believes would have further dismantled protections for migrant children and imposed drastic cuts to legal immigration.

The Congresswoman is also standing up against the Trump Administration's zero-tolerance policy which, according to NPR, has resulted in the separation of thousands of children from their parents at the border. In mid-June, Velzquez visited several detention facilities at the U.S. border in San Diego. Describing the conditions as "heart wrenching," the Congresswoman is taking several actions in Congress to press for an end to family separations.

She joined 193 other Members of the House of Representatives in cosponsoring legislation that would put an end to family separations, establish means for reuniting families and enforce the argument that detention is not in the best interests of families and children. The bill is called the "Keep Families Together Act," and it was originally introduced in the United States Senate by Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and in the House by House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY).

After the President signed his executive order in response to family separations, the Congresswoman said the order is insufficient, noting that the Administration does not have in place a feasible plan to reunite children with their families and arguing that the entire zero tolerance policy must be reversed. She believes that the President's zero tolerance policy must be completely reversed.

While the recent situation on the border has received the lion share of media attention, the Congresswoman continues advocating for DREAMERs, young immigrants who came to the U.S. years ago with their parents as children. As the top Democrat on the House Small Business Committee, she authored a report highlighting how these young immigrants strengthen our small business sector by founding startups. You can read more about the report and DREAMERs' entrepreneurial contributions in Inc.com.

Rep. Velzquez is also leading legislative efforts to protect another at-risk group, recipients of Temporary Protected Status (TPS). For decades, TPS has been embraced by Administrations from both political parties to grant legal protections for immigrants fleeing violence or natural disaster. However, since January of last year the Trump Administration has begun removing TPS eligibility for six previously designated countries. According to Vox, these changes will have turned 400,000 current legal U.S. residents into unauthorized immigrants by 2020.

In response, the Congresswoman has authored, the American Promise Act, legislation that would expand lawful permanent status for TPS holders and also provide a pathway to citizenship. The American Promise Act has been endorsed by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and currently has 110 cosponsors in Congress. You can read more about bill in the Queens Times Ledger, Vox and The Nation.

Finally, the Congresswoman believes that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is no longer performing the role Congress intended. She has agreed to cosponsor legislation that would dismantle ICE and establish a commission offering recommendations to Congress on how the federal government can put in place a humane immigration enforcement system that upholds all individuals' dignity, while moving necessary functions to other agencies. You may read her statement regarding ICE online here.

The Congresswoman believes that all New Yorkers deserve enough to eat. To that end, she will continue working to protect programs like the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP). In New York's 7th district alone, 5,672 households count on SNAP benefits for nutritional help. That is why the Congresswoman voted against the House Republican Majority's Farm Bill that she believes threatens deep cuts to SNAP and why she will continue pressing Congress to return to its history of crafting a bipartisan farm bill.

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