Forza Horizon 6 players are flooding the Estate with pointless XP and Skill Point farms

Forza Horizon 6 introduced the Estate as one of its headline features — a house with a massive empty lot where players can build whatever they want using the game's new creation tools. What most people built first, it turns out, was XP and Skill Point farms.

At launch, low-effort farms dominated the community Estate browser. A typical Skill Point farm is a long row of destructible objects with small jumps scattered in, letting you chain destruction and air skills back-to-back and hit the 10 Skill Point maximum in about a minute. XP farms are even simpler — just dense clusters of 5,000 XP bonus boards and oversized beach balls. According to Polygon, the situation has improved since launch: you can now find mansions with parking garages, elaborate cherry blossom arrangements, custom drift and race tracks, and one player even built a full-size recreation of Laguna Seca Raceway.

The reason farms feel so hollow is that XP and Skill Points don't mean much in Forza Horizon 6. Your experience level doesn't unlock anything meaningful — just a Wheelspin every few levels, which might hand you some credits, a collectible, or occasionally a rare Forza Edition car. Wheelspins aren't hard to come by through normal play anyway. Skill Points are marginally more useful since they unlock perks in each car's Car Mastery tree — but the overwhelming majority of those perks just make it easier to earn more Skill Points. It's a loop that feeds itself and goes nowhere.

This is a familiar Forza Horizon dynamic: players will optimize whatever progression system exists, even when that system offers almost nothing in return. The Estate was meant to be a creative outlet, but it briefly became a farm depot instead. The community is slowly finding more imaginative uses for the space, which is at least a better advertisement for the feature than a wall of XP boards.