Tiger
Jun 08 2019, 07:46 AM
Farm Town is not officially supported for playing on iPads, tablets and mobiles.
To be clear: Slashkey recommends you play Farm Town using a laptop or a computer using a browser that will enable WebGL and Hardware acceleration.
Farm Town is now far bigger than it used to be 15 years ago. There will be devices that would struggle with loading the much larger and heavier farms if they will load at all on them. Some browsers that were compatible with mobile devices and Farm Town have been discontinued or may not be capable of loading the game any more.
We don't advise buying a new mobile or tablet if Farm Town won't load on what you currently have.
If you are viewing this post on a mobile device you can try clicking on this link to take you to the website where you will need to use your registration details to log in to be able to play:
https://farmtown.com/
OR you can click on the Play in Farmtown.com button at the top of the forum.
Known Issue - Version 18.4 iOS was released end of March 2025.
Currently this is preventing the game from being loaded. We do not know at this time if this can be resolved.
If you wish to see if your mobile device will load your game and decide to look for a browser compatible with your mobile device, please also take the following information into consideration:
Before you try browsers on your mobile devices, especially if you have large or heavy farms, turn off everything in your preferences like show crops etc so you have far less to load while you try. You could also try making your default farm one that is either the smallest size or has the least amount of items on it so there is less to load when you try.
Update software and optimise your devices so that are as up to date as they can be.
Browsers for mobile devices don't always give you access to use a keyboard on them so if you can't access one or it doesn't work, you won't be able to chat/send messages, you won't be able to use keyboard shortcuts to copy paste.
If you already own a portable keyboard like a Bluetooth keyboard that is compatible with your mobile devices and you can link it to your mobile device, you might be able to use that to type in various areas within the game, but to be crystal clear we do not know if that would work on every type of mobile device or if it will prove easy to do! If you don't already own one, see if you can borrow one to try before you go to any expense of buying one incase you find it's not worthwhile to get one!
We do not provide instructions for using portable keyboards on mobile devices as there is no way for us to determine what method or keyboard would work on every type. There are also no guarantees that those would continue to work.
If your game will load, you may find it much slower, you may only want to be doing basic things like sending ships, boosting friends trains, co-ops rather than working large and heavy farms. This is something you will have to try and see if what you can and like to do on your mobile device is possible.
The browser you try must be up to date. Cookies and Popups must be allowed in the browser.
If on first load if it's taking quite some time to load the game even with nothing showing in your game preferences like crops etc, or the game won't load or crashes, you can try requesting the desktop version of the browser which is usually in the browser settings (usually 3 dots or 3 horizontal lines top right of the browser address bar). You can also try refreshing the browser.
Check the browser you are using on your mobile doesn't have any other tabs open as well. You could try only having one tab open in the browser to load the game.
Please remember that browsers in general and those that you might find will work for mobiles/tablets are updating frequently. There are NO guarantees that they will continue to work for Farm Town using those devices.
To be clear: Slashkey recommends you play Farm Town using a laptop or a computer using a browser that will enable WebGL and Hardware acceleration.
Farm Town is now far bigger than it used to be 15 years ago. There will be devices that would struggle with loading the much larger and heavier farms if they will load at all on them. Some browsers that were compatible with mobile devices and Farm Town have been discontinued or may not be capable of loading the game any more.
We don't advise buying a new mobile or tablet if Farm Town won't load on what you currently have.
If you are viewing this post on a mobile device you can try clicking on this link to take you to the website where you will need to use your registration details to log in to be able to play:
https://farmtown.com/
OR you can click on the Play in Farmtown.com button at the top of the forum.
Known Issue - Version 18.4 iOS was released end of March 2025.
Currently this is preventing the game from being loaded. We do not know at this time if this can be resolved.
If you wish to see if your mobile device will load your game and decide to look for a browser compatible with your mobile device, please also take the following information into consideration:
Before you try browsers on your mobile devices, especially if you have large or heavy farms, turn off everything in your preferences like show crops etc so you have far less to load while you try. You could also try making your default farm one that is either the smallest size or has the least amount of items on it so there is less to load when you try.
Update software and optimise your devices so that are as up to date as they can be.
Browsers for mobile devices don't always give you access to use a keyboard on them so if you can't access one or it doesn't work, you won't be able to chat/send messages, you won't be able to use keyboard shortcuts to copy paste.
If you already own a portable keyboard like a Bluetooth keyboard that is compatible with your mobile devices and you can link it to your mobile device, you might be able to use that to type in various areas within the game, but to be crystal clear we do not know if that would work on every type of mobile device or if it will prove easy to do! If you don't already own one, see if you can borrow one to try before you go to any expense of buying one incase you find it's not worthwhile to get one!
We do not provide instructions for using portable keyboards on mobile devices as there is no way for us to determine what method or keyboard would work on every type. There are also no guarantees that those would continue to work.
If your game will load, you may find it much slower, you may only want to be doing basic things like sending ships, boosting friends trains, co-ops rather than working large and heavy farms. This is something you will have to try and see if what you can and like to do on your mobile device is possible.
The browser you try must be up to date. Cookies and Popups must be allowed in the browser.
If on first load if it's taking quite some time to load the game even with nothing showing in your game preferences like crops etc, or the game won't load or crashes, you can try requesting the desktop version of the browser which is usually in the browser settings (usually 3 dots or 3 horizontal lines top right of the browser address bar). You can also try refreshing the browser.
Check the browser you are using on your mobile doesn't have any other tabs open as well. You could try only having one tab open in the browser to load the game.
Please remember that browsers in general and those that you might find will work for mobiles/tablets are updating frequently. There are NO guarantees that they will continue to work for Farm Town using those devices.