The gates mod is so that the gates show up in the map. You will need to put the map and other two mods in your mods folder to get the best experince. There is plenty of trees for people who want to do some logging including large clumps of pines and spruces hidden in some of the forested areas (I hid them in the other trees because they are not there in real life). The terrain varies from flat to rolling prairies, hills, and creek bottoms. There is several individual fields to purchase but most are clumped together in tracts like they were in real life (so a lot of the fields you want you will have to buy the whole farm) There is a 119 fields total all with missions and quite a few of them can be plowed together. The only thing starting on the low or beginner level will gain you is around a $2 million land tract. No matter what level you start at you will have starting equipment ready to go along with a lot of animal husbandries and grain silos. There is about a half dozen playable farms, several smaller farms, and a couple horse farms. This is the area that I grew up farming with my father and grandfather. The map is loosely based aroung the early to mid 1990s. This is a real terrain 4X map based in Madison County Illinois a few miles north of the town of Edwardsville.