Set up your community, step by step
A start-to-finish walkthrough of every website page you use to set up a community on Farm Sim Game: create it, list it, build its page, add staff, open the chat and add your game servers.
On this page
- Before you start
- 1. Create or pick your community
- 2. Look around the dashboard
- 3. List your community
- 4. Build your community page
- 5. Add your game servers
- 6. Open your website chat
- 7. Add your staff
- 8. Fill your page with things to do
- 9. Share it
- Checklist
- Troubleshooting
- My community isn't on the Communities page
- My Discord server isn't under My Communities
- A page in the menu says "Not part of your role" or "View only"
- Related
This guide takes you through setting up a community on Farm Sim Game from nothing to a public page with your game servers, chat and news. Each step names the page to open and the settings that matter, and links to the full guide for that page. Everything here is free unless it says otherwise.
Before you start#
- Sign in to Farm Sim Game (with Discord, Google or Facebook). See Signing in.
- Decide what your community is:
- A Discord server: add the FSG Bot to it and the community comes with it. You get every website feature here plus the bot's Discord features.
- A website community: no Discord server needed. You get the page, listing, chat, game servers and fan support. You can connect a Discord server later.
- If you have a dedicated server, have its Link XML ready. See Find your Link XML.
1. Create or pick your community#
Open My Communities from your account menu (your avatar, top right).
Under Discord servers without the bot, click Add the bot next to your server and approve it in Discord. Back on Farm Sim Game the page waits for the bot to join, then makes it your active community. Only servers where you're the owner or have Administrator or Manage Server are listed. See Add the bot.
Under Create a community, type a Name (3 to 50 characters) and an optional Short description, then click Create community. You can own up to 5. You land on Page & look.
Click Manage on its card under Your communities to make it your active community and open its dashboard.
Each card shows whether you're the Owner or a Manager, its supporter tier, how many game servers it has and whether it's Listed or Not listed yet.
2. Look around the dashboard#
Manage Community opens on the Dashboard. The sidebar has every page, in groups: Community, Community page, Website chat and, for Discord servers, the Discord · … bot pages. Each page has a How this works link to its guide. See Dashboard tour.
A website community's Dashboard shows a Welcome card and shortcuts to Page & look, Community listing, Game servers, Channels & server feeds, News & polls and Staff & roles. Once you have a game server, it also shows the Get found on FarmLink checklist.
Most pages save with the bar that appears at the bottom of the screen when you change something: You have unsaved changes, with Reset and Save changes. One press saves every changed form on the page.
3. List your community#
Open Community listing. Until you list your community, players can't see its page.
Set Enable Discovery to Enabled.
Paste a Discord Server Invite that never expires. A Discord community needs one to show on the public list; for a website community it's optional.
Fill in the Short Description (up to 255 characters) and Long Description (up to 2,048), add Tags (press Enter after each, like FS25 or Crossplay) and pick a Community Country.
Upload a Listing banner: JPG, PNG or GIF under 5 MB, shown at 724 × 400.
Press Save changes. Your community now shows on Communities and its page is public.
Full details: Community listing.
4. Build your community page#
Open Page & look. The preview beside the tabs shows your page as players will see it.
Upload a Background image (about 2400 × 600, under 8 MB) and an Icon (square, at least 400 × 400). With a Supporter tier, also pick a Theme, Accent colour, Heading font, Corners, Layout, background pattern, header video, Header height and Header style.
Write a Tagline, pick Status badges such as Looking for farmers or Weekly events, add your Socials and write the About text. Switch on Show a Join Discord button on our page if you want one.
On Sections, drag the home tab's sections into order, rename them or move them to the sidebar. On Blocks, add your own: rules (Text), a Schedule, a Countdown, a Video, a Gallery, FAQ, Buttons or a Callout.
Your page lives at Community/@your-name (and your-name.fsg.gg). Change it on Address if you need to, but only once every 30 days, so pick carefully.
Press Save changes in the bar at the bottom.
Every setting is explained in Your community page › Page & look, tab by tab.
5. Add your game servers#
Open Game servers and click Add a server. The steps are Name & game, Connect (paste your Link XML), Listing, Discord alerts or Website chat, and Farm stats. Each step saves on its own. See Add your game server.
Then open each server's Edit server page (the pencil on Game servers) to finish it:
- Listing tab: add a Server Image and Server Icon, choose whether to Show Mods List, and (Premium) give FSG your web login under Server Access and Savegame so it can read your savegame.
- Website chat tab: choose which notifications post in your chat and where.
- Discord tab: choose what the bot posts in your Discord server.
Every setting is in Game servers and Edit server. Each server gets its own page under your community page's Servers tab; see Your game server's page.
How many servers you can add depends on your supporter tier: 1 for free communities. See Game server limits.
6. Open your website chat#
Every community has a chat on its page's Chat tab and in the FSG app, starting with #announcements, #general and #server-help, plus a feed channel for each game server.
Open Channels & server feeds and fill in Welcome and rules (up to 2,000 characters). Players see it on the Chat tab before they join.
Click Channels, roles & permissions. Add categories and channels (up to 10 of your own with a Supporter tier), roles, and who may view or post where.
Under Game server feeds, click Choose this server's alerts for each server.
For a Discord community, link a website channel to a Discord channel under Sync with Discord, so messages go both ways.
Set the Chat filter, add a welcome message and auto responses in Chat tools, and set Warnings.
Full details: Community chat, roles and server feeds. Optional extras: Self-pick roles, Counting channel, YouTube alerts, Tickets and Applications.
7. Add your staff#
Open Staff & roles. Staff are picked from your friends, so add each other as Friends first.
Every community starts with Admin, Game Server Admin, Moderator and Page Editor. Open a role to set None, View or Edit for each area, or add your own (up to 15).
Under Add staff, search your friends, pick one, choose a Role and click Add to staff. They get a notice and pick the community under My Communities.
People who manage your Discord server always have full access. Full details: Website communities and staff.
8. Fill your page with things to do#
| Page | What to do | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| News & polls | Write a first post (News, Event, Server update, Mod list, Giveaway or Recruiting) and start a poll. Followers get a notice. | News and polls |
| Events | Add your next farming session or new save, once or repeating. Players RSVP and get a reminder. | Community events |
| Roadmap & changelog | List what's coming and log what changed. | Roadmap and changelog |
| Fan support | Let players support you with monthly tiers or one-time payments (the owner sets it up). | Fan support for communities |
9. Share it#
- Open your page with View page on Page & look and use Copy link.
- Ask players to Follow your community and to Vote for it once a day (see Monthly votes).
- For a Discord community, keep it near the top of the list with
/bump(see Bumps). - Players who play on your servers can leave verified reviews. Link their game players to their accounts from your server's Players page.
Checklist#
Everything above, in one list
- Community created or the bot added (My Communities)
- Enable Discovery on, descriptions, tags and banner set (Community listing)
- Background, icon, tagline, badges, socials and About (Page & look)
- Game servers added, with image, icon and savegame access (Game servers, Edit server)
- Each server's chat alerts chosen (Edit server › Website chat)
- Welcome and rules, channels and roles (Channels & server feeds)
- Chat filter and chat tools checked
- Staff added with the right roles (Staff & roles)
- First news post, poll or event published
- FarmLink checklist finished for each server (Dashboard or Game servers)
Troubleshooting#
My community isn't on the Communities page#
Check Enable Discovery is Enabled on Community listing. A Discord community also needs a Discord Server Invite. Listings with no activity for 30 days show lower ("Quiet lately").
My Discord server isn't under My Communities#
Only servers where you're the owner or have Administrator or Manage Server show. If you just added the bot and it hasn't shown up, click Check again, or Add the bot again.
A page in the menu says "Not part of your role" or "View only"#
Your staff role doesn't allow that area, or allows looking but not changing. Ask the owner to change your role on Staff & roles.