Rancher A new life Rancher Tools Hub

The Tools Hub collects interactive helpers for Rancher: A new life — the cozy ranch simulator from Sim Farm S.A. that launches into Steam Early Access on August 6, 2026. These pages do not replace the in-game Skills app, Animal registry, or Finances app. They give you a browser-side notebook you can open beside the game while you learn movement, food, sleep, repairs, cooking, and animal routines.

Steam describes a wide single-player ranch loop: renovate the house, cut boards in the workshop, grow vegetables, catch fish, unlock cooking recipes from books scattered around the map, and care for cows, chickens, bees, a dog, and a horse. Early Access ships with 29 cooking recipes across the stove, barbecue, and campfire, plus 3 preserves-station recipes, while goats and sheep are listed for Full Access later. Our tools focus on the systems you will touch in the first week — not every late-game feature.

First Day Checklist

The First Day Checklist tracks eight high-value tasks: tune settings for comfort, learn inventory and the toolbelt, secure food and sleep, complete one meaningful repair, cook a meal, add one animal only when feed and water are ready, visit the workshop for a simple project, and save before quitting. Each checkbox persists in your browser so you can spread the list across several real-world sessions or in-game days.

This mirrors public beginner advice: learn the survival loop before spending at the animal market, gardening shop, or agricultural shop. The demo already teaches smaller versions of cooking, cleaning, chickens, wood processing, and workshop steps — use the checklist to carry those habits into a long save.

Recipe Finder

The Recipe Finder groups recipe themes by cooking station — Stove, BBQ, Campfire, and Preserves — using information from the official Steam page and developer updates. It is not a datamined unlock table. Recipes in the full game are discovered through cooking books planted around the ranch, quests such as brewing coffee, and ingredients you grow, fish, or milk yourself.

Use the filter chips to narrow by station or ingredient theme (vegetable meals, fish bakes, milk-based drinks, campfire staples, preserved goods). When you need narrative context — where to find books, how bills affect the kitchen, or how fishing ties into meals — read How to Cook and Recipes.

Photohunting

The Photohunting page explains camera use and animal, plant, and mushroom atlases so recreation does not replace chores. Pair it with forest trips after feed and bill checks.

Animal Care Planner

The Animal Care Planner is a daily chore board for Chickens, Cows, Dog, Horse, and Bees. Steam highlights feeding with fodder or pasture access, keeping water available, collecting eggs and milk, caring about animal mood (including stroking), and using a dog to herd livestock. Horses support riding and accessories; beehives add collection and shelter checks.

Toggle each task when finished. Progress saves locally under rancher-wiki-animal-care so morning and evening rounds stay visible. Pair the planner with How to Raise Animals for breeding, illness, and market timing — topics the toggle board intentionally skips.

When to use wiki tools vs in-game apps

Situation	Use wiki tools	Use in-game apps
First real-world hour on the ranch	First Day Checklist	Tutorial prompts
Planning tomorrow’s animal rounds	Animal Care Planner	Animal registry
Browsing what stations exist	Recipe Finder	Cooking UI after unlocks
Tracking cash and bills	—	Finances app

Related guides

• Getting Started — day-one priorities before expansion.
• Demo Guide — practice systems in the free demo.
• How to Make Money — safer pacing once chores are stable.
• Controls — keyboard, mouse, and controller basics.

Limitations

These tools run entirely in your browser. Clearing site data resets checklists. They reflect public Early Access feature lists as of wiki publication and may lag behind patches — confirm critical details on the Steam store page or patch notes in Updates after launch.