Now that you’ve got one or more Duck Ponds teeming with ducks, what else can you do with them? Well, it’s time to start breeding some brand new ones!

Every time you harvest the Duck Pond (once every 24 hours), you have a chance of getting a Yellow or Brown Duckling out of it in addition to the general coin reward for harvesting. The color of the Duckling is determined by what kind of ducks are in your Duck Pond, and the color also determines what kind of ducks can be bred from it. If you just use previous ducks, like the Ugly Duckling or White Swan, you’ll almost always get a Yellow Duckling. If you use a mix of duck types, you may get a Brown Duckling.

You have the option to share this Duckling on your feed:

After this your Duckling will be placed in the Gift Box. You can then choose to place the Duckling on your farm or straight into your Duck Pond at any time from the Gift Box:
Placing the Duckling on your farm will start the breeding process. If you put the Duckling in your Duck Pond, it will stay a Duckling only and the breeding process will be on hold. Once you place the Duckling, a new window will appear (in this case, let’s assume it’s a Yellow Duckling):


Breeding ducks is a factor of both time and friendship. You can see a line of seven (7) Ducks here: the rarity of the Ducks increases as you go from left to right. However, the time you have to breed that kind of duck decreases while the number of friends you need to breed that duck increases (as you go from left to right). Over time you lose the ability to breed certain ducks for that particular Duckling.
Sounds complex? First, here’s a chart to map it all out:


For a Yellow Duckling, in order to get the valuable Indian Runner Duck I need seven (7) neighbors to help me over the next twenty-four (24) hours (the timer starts as soon as I put the Duckling on the farm).
If I only manage to get the help of five (5) neighbors, the best duck I can breed with the Yellow Duckling is the Goldeneye Duck for the next seventy-two (72) hours. However, if I don’t breed the duck within that period, I lose the ability to get the Goldeneye Duck and then the best duck I can get is the Red Billed Duck. A day later if I still don’t breed a duck, the best duck I can get is the Scoter Duck.

Alternatively, let’s say I get a Brown Duckling but can only get two (2) neighbors to help me out. I can only breed the Red Billed Duck or the Goldeneye Duck for the next six (6) days. But if a day passes and four (4) more neighbors help me out, I can still breed the Wood Duck.

To grow the Duck, just find the one you want and click on “Choose” beneath its picture. You’ll get the new duck in your Gift Box:


You can get help from your neighbors by just clicking on the “Ask For Help” button and choosing which neighbors you want to ask. This sends a standard request through the Zynga Message Center (ZMC) which the recipient can easily respond to. You can also choose to speed up the growth process by paying Farm Cash, which will let you breed whatever duck you want that hasn’t already been expired (if pay Farm Cash after two days, you can only breed five of the seven duck types).

After seven days the duck will just grow into the last available duck (the Ugly Duckling for the Yellow Duckling for example); if you’d rather keep the duckling as is you can close the window and you’ll be asked if you just want to keep the Duckling the way it is permanently.

Valentine’s Day is just a few weeks away so it’s time to get started collecting those Valentines in your Mailbox! As you collect Valentines through your Cupid’s Castle or by gifting, you can then redeem them for exclusive rewards like the Giant Teddy. Stay tuned because more prizes are on the way!

Valentine’s Mailbox works like many of our other item-gathering style events in FarmVille. You acquire Valentines through various methods, then “Use” them to place them in your Mailbox. As you accumulate Valentines in your Mailbox you can redeem them for exclusive Valentine’s Day-related items.
You can acquire Valentines by:

• Harvesting your Cupid’s Castle.
• Requesting a Valentine from your neighbors directly (by clicking on the “Ask for More” button).


• Receive a Valentine from a neighbor who uses the Free Gifts page (or click on “Send Valentines”).


• Purchase 5 Valentines at a time by clicking on the “Buy Valentines” button (for 5 Farm Cash).


• Click on a Valentine-related feed from a neighbor.

As you put Valentines in your Mailbox you’ll see the gift meter on the left fill up. The physical look of the Mailbox also changes as you stuff it full of Valentines.

There are five different types of Valentines you can give or receive from your friends:


They all count as a single Valentine in the Mailbox.
You can also click on the “Comparison” tab to compare how many Valentines you’ve accumulated with your neighbors.
To get one of the special exclusive prizes, simply click on the “Redeem” button next to the prize you want—if you have enough Valentines (the available number of Valentines that are redeemable is at the top of the window) you’ll be asked to confirm the purchase.

If you hit “Accept” the prize will be stored in your Gift Box and you can share an extra prize with your friends.


There’s also a brand new quest called Love is in the Air! If you manage to get your favorite pig the sow of its dreams you can get some great rewards!




Stay tuned, because many more exclusive gifts are on the way!

The Model Farm is now available in FarmVille! What is a Model Farm you ask? Think of it as a showroom for Limited Edition and other thematic items where you can see a wide variety of buyable goods arranged in a display farm (that you can visit at any time and even get rewards for doing so).

You can visit the Model Farm at any time by clicking on the Model Farm card, which you can see on the far right-hand side of the neighbor bar:

Once you click on it, you’ll be taken to the Model Farm, which works similar to visiting your FarmVille neighbors. You’ll see a farm similar to this, showing a fair number of unique items:


Here there are quite a few Limited Edition items; some of them may not be available (they might have expired in the Market, or could be coming soon), and a few may be regular Market items. Each item that can be purchased will have a glowing price tag next to it that fades in and out over time. Move your mouse over that item and you can see what it is and if it’s available. If you want to know more, just click on it and you’ll see a preview window similar to what’s currently in use in the Market:




For example, here we’ve clicked on the Icelandic Horse. You can see that it’s a Limited Edition item (with just 11 days left), that can be harvested for 84 coins every 3 days and will earn you 2,040 XP on purchase. The purchase price is 24 Farm Cash, though you can purchase more by clicking on the up and down arrows on the bottom left (the default is 1).


If you click “Buy” you’ll get a confirmation window:




If you click “Send” you’ll get a window showing all of your Farmville neighbors (note this option may not be available for some items). Now pick which of these neighbors to send this item to.

As a special bonus, every day you visit the Model Farm you can get a special prize—just for showing up!



Enjoy the Model Farm! Every so often it’ll be refreshed when we have new Limited Edition themes or other things we want to show off.

Love is in the air! FarmVille is gearing up for Valentine’s Day, and we’re starting off the festivities early with Cupid’s Castle! It’s a multi-level constructible building that you can build up now, and later you can harvest it for Valentines (which you’ll be able to redeem for special goods at a later date).
Building the Castle
You will get the initial frame for Cupid’s Castle for free the first time you play FarmVille after the update, and you will immediately be entered into Placement Mode. You can place the Cupid’s Castle frame on your farm now, or you can choose to place it in your Gift Box for use later. You must be at least Level 5 to place a Cupid’s Castle.

The Cupid’s Castle is a multi-level constructible building where each level requires more building parts to complete it:

• Level 1 - 12 parts total: 4 Wooden Boards, 4 Nails and 4 Bricks


• Level 2 – 45 parts total: 15 Wooden Boards, 15 Nails and 15 Bricks


• Level 3 – 60 parts total: 20 Wooden Boards, 20 Nails and 20 Bricks

Like many constructible building parts, you can acquire these items by:

• Asking your neighbors for these parts by posting a help request to your feed (click on the “Ask For More” button for each type of part).


• Give parts to your neighbors via the Free Gifts page or the “Send Gifts” button.


• Acquire individual parts by spending Farm Cash (click on the “Buy” button for that particular part). Each part is 1 Farm Cash.


• Acquire all needed parts for the building by spending Farm Cash (click on the “Complete Now” button to purchase parts for the rest of the building). The Cost is X Farm Cash, where X is the amount of parts left needed to finish the building.


• Potentially through the use of Special Delivery Boxes.


• Using individual parts already available in your Gift Box.

As you complete each level of Cupid’s Castle, it becomes bigger and grander visually:

If you do not get Cupid’s Castle initially or wind up deleting (or otherwise losing) it, you can purchase it in the Market (under Buildings). Note that you will be able to buy a fully constructed Cupid’s Castle for Farm Cash.

Soon you will be able to harvest Cupid’s Castle for Valentines that you can redeem for exclusive gifts, so stay tuned!

Sure, ducks are beautiful animals generally (though don’t get me started on the Ugly Duckling), but what’s a little quacking without having a body of water to call home?
Well, that home is now available in FarmVille: the Duck Pond!


Duck Ponds are constructible buildings that can house up to twenty (20) ducks (or similar animals like swans). You can also customize the look of your Duck Pond by selecting which five ducks you’d like to see on the Pond in your farm. Soon we’ll add the ability to do some fun duck breeding.
Fillin’ up the Pond
You will get the initial frame for the Duck Pond for free the first time you play FarmVille after the update, and you will immediately be entered into Placement Mode. You can place the Duck Pond frame on your farm now, or you can choose to place it in your Gift Box for use later. You must be at least Level 5 to place a Duck Pond.

The Duck Pond is a constructible building, though it will require some different building parts than most of constructible buildings. The full build the Duck Pond you’ll need a grand total of forty (40) parts: twenty (20) Watering Cans and twenty (20) Shovels (you’re digging up a hole in the ground and putting water in it, after all):



Like other constructible building parts, you can acquire these items by:

Asking your neighbors for these parts by posting a help request to your feed (click on the “Ask For More” button for each type of part).

• Give parts to your neighbors via the Free Gifts page or the “Send Gifts” button.


• Acquire individual parts by spending Farm Cash (click on the “Buy” button for that particular part). Each part is 1 Farm Cash.


• Acquire all needed parts for the building by spending Farm Cash (click on the “Complete Now” button to purchase parts for the rest of the building).



• The Cost is X Farm Cash, where X is the amount of parts left needed to finish the building.


• Potentially through the use of Special Delivery Boxes.


• Using individual parts already available in your Gift Box.

Here’s a partially built and fully constructed Duck Pond:






If you do not get a Duck Pond initially or wind up deleting (or otherwise losing) it, you can purchase it in the Market (under Buildings -> Animals) for 5,000 coins. Note that you can purchase a fully-built Duck Pond for 40 Farm Cash. If you already have a Duck Pond on your farm, you will not be able to place another Duck Pond (for coins). However, you will be able to place a new, fully built Duck Pond if you buy the Farm Cash version.

Putting the Quack in your Duck Pond

This is what you’ll see when you finish your Duck Pond (you can see this screen at any time by clicking on the Duck Pond and choosing the “Look Inside” option):





Admittedly an empty Duck Pond is rather placid and boring. It’s time to relocate some ducks! Hopefully you have some on your farm you can move into your Duck Pond, but if you don’t, you can ask your neighbors for ducks by clicking on the Free Gifts page and selecting the Duck:




Some types of ducks will also be available by other means, such as the Market or by a gifting icon in the game.

In this example below we’ll look at how you can re-arrange the look of your Duck Pond on your farm. After I fully built out this Duck Pond, I added ten ducks to it in random fashion:





There’s a number of Green Mallards and a variety of other ducks. You’ll see that five Green Mallards are standing on the rocks at the bottom of the window, while the rest of the ducks are in the water. Those ducks on the rocks also show up on the pond as you see it on the farm:







I’d rather have some of my more colorful ducks showing up, rather than these five Green Mallards. If I click on a duck on the rock, I can return it to the pond quickly. Then when I click on a duck on the water, I will see this:








Clicking on “Feature” will move that duck over to a rock (if there’s a free rock). If I choose “Remove” I will remove the duck from the Duck Pond (and can then put it back on the farm). After some rearranging, here are the ducks now standing on the rocks:







And this is how the Duck Pond now looks on the farm:







Only these five ducks will show up on the farm this way, so you can easily choose which ducks you want to show off.



Finally, you can harvest the Duck Pond once every twenty-four (24) hours for coins. Soon enough we will be adding the ability to breed new ducks, so stay tuned!

Limited Edition Winter Wonderland Items:

• Fjord Horse - 13 Farm Cash
• Dall Sheep - 9 Farm Cash
• Ski Resort - 15 Farm Cash
• Dog Sled - 9 Farm Cash
• Eskimo Gnome - 9 Farm Cash
• Iced Reindeer - 2 Farm Cash
• Snow Fort - 80,000 Coins
• Iced Rabbit - 40,000 Coins
• Snow Shoes - 10,000 Coins
• Chestnut Tree (Level 1) - 3 Farm Cash
• Hazelnut Tree (Level 2) - 7 Farm Cash
• Caribou - 20 Farm Cash
• Fiordland Penguin - 14 Farm Cash
• Ski Shop - 30 Farm Cash
• Pink Ski Suit - 10 Farm Cash
• Blue Ski Suit - 10 Farm Cash
• Winter Creek - 30 Farm Cash
• Ski Jump - 28 Farm Cash
• Winter Fire Pit - 120,000 Coins
• Totem Pole - 50,000 Coins