How to Farm Steam Trading Cards Automatically
Card Farming is Steam Game Idler's free Steam card farmer. It finds every game in your library with trading card drops remaining and idles them until their card drops run out, without you downloading or playing anything. Use the cards to craft badges and level up your Steam profile, or sell them on the Community Market.
Each game drops about half of its card set from playtime, so once Card Farming finishes, a game's remaining cards come from trading, the Market or booster packs. How Steam trading cards work explains the whole system, and Card Drop Times covers what affects when cards drop.
Because Card Farming is a bit more complex than other features, it is recommended to read the How It Works page first.
You must add your Steam Credentials before you can use this feature.
Users using Steam Sign-in with a Gamer tier subscription do not need to manually enter their Steam credentials.
How to farm Steam trading cards
Farm All Games With Drops Remaining
Click Card Farming in the sidebar, then click Start
Card Farming will automatically work through all games with card drops remaining in an optimized order, with no extra setup needed
Farm Specific Games Only
If you'd rather farm specific games instead, add those games to your whitelist. While any games are in the whitelist, only those games will be farmed, ignoring all other games.
Click Card Farming in the sidebar
Go to the Games With Drops tab and click the button on individual games to add them to your whitelist
Switch to the Whitelist tab to review what you've added, then click Start
Card Farming Tabs
- Games With Drops: shows all games in your account with card drops remaining
- Whitelisted: games you've chosen to farm specifically. Leave it empty to automatically farm every game with drops
- Blacklisted: games excluded from farming entirely, read more
Sell or craft your cards
Once the cards are in your inventory, the Inventory Manager can list them on the Steam Community Market, accounting for Steam's marketplace fees for you. To level up instead, craft a full set into a badge from your Steam profile's Badges page.
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