Note: We are rolling out this feature today so please be patient; you'll get it soon!



It’s springtime! That means you’ve been collecting those Flowers from your Spring Gardens and your neighbors and you’re ready to redeem them for some cool new gifts, right? That’s good, because the Spring Basket is now here!







You’ll get your empty Spring Basket free the first time you play FarmVille after the update, where you will immediately be entered into Placement Mode. You can place the Spring Garden on your farm now, or you can choose to place it in your Gift Box for use later (by switching to the Multi-Tool for instance).







Once the Spring Basket is on the farm you can click on it, then select “Look Inside” to see this window:








The Spring Basket works like many of our other item-gathering style events in FarmVille. You acquire Flowers through various methods, then “Use” them from your Gift Box to place them in your Spring Basket. As you accumulate these Flowers in the Spring Basket you can redeem them for exclusive items.



You can acquire Flowers by:

• Harvesting your Spring Garden.
• Requesting Flowers from your neighbors directly (by clicking on the “Ask for More” button).
• Receive Flowers from a neighbor who uses the Free Gifts page (or click on “Send Flowers”).
• Purchase 5 Flowers at a time by clicking on the “Buy Flowers” button (for 5 Farm Cash).
• Click on a Spring Basket-related feed from a neighbor.
• Harvest a neighbor’s Spring Garden.

Here are the five different types of Flowers (note they all count as the same when you put them in the Spring Garden):







As you put the Flowers in your Spring Basket you’ll see the meter on the left fill up. The physical look of the basket also changes as you fill it with wonderful, blooming Flowers.







You can also click on the “Comparison” tab to compare how many Flowers 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 Flowers (the available amount of Flowers that is redeemable is at the top of the window, “You have X available to use!”) 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.







Note: Like the Pot of Gold, there will not be a second page of exclusive prizes added. These six items are all that will be available for this event.

Note: We are rolling out this feature today so please be patient and you'll have it soon!



Spring is in the air, and what better way to celebrate it than with a garden? The Spring Garden is the perfect answer—it’s a multi-level constructible building where you will be able to choose which visual state of the garden you wish to see on your farm.



You’ll get the Spring Garden frame for free the first time you play FarmVille after the update, and you will immediately be entered into Placement Mode. You can place the Spring Garden on your farm now, or you can choose to place it in your Gift Box for use later (by switching to the Multi-Tool for instance). If you put it into your Gift Box, you’ll be able to place it on either your Home Farm or English Countryside farm.







If you lose or sell your Spring Garden, you can purchase it again in the Market. It is listed under Buildings and is available for 5 coins. (If you see that it is Locked, make sure you don’t already have one by checking your Gift Box.) Note that a Farm Cash version is available, though it is for a fully constructed Spring Garden. You can only have one coin version of the Spring Garden at any one time, though you can have multiple Farm Cash versions. You also must be Level 5 or higher in order to use or purchase the Spring Garden.




Once the Spring Garden frame is on the farm you can click on it, then select “Look Inside” to see this window:







The Sheep Pen 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 – harvest for 1 Flower once every 24 hours
• Level 2 – 48 parts total: 12 Wooden Boards, 12 Nails and 12 Bricks – harvest for 2 Flowers once every 24 hours
• Level 3 – 90 parts total: 30 Wooden Boards, 30 Nails and 30 Bricks – harvest for 3 Flowers once every 24 hours

Like many constructible buildings, you can acquire these parts 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 parts by spending Farm Cash. Click on the “Buy” button for that particular part to purchase all of the particular part that you need (the cost is X Farm Cash, where X is the number of parts left that you need), or buy those parts individually in the Market (you can find them in Farm Aides -> Other).
• 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 total number 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 the Spring Garden it becomes bigger and grander visually:







The Spring Garden is harvestable once every 24 hours for Flowers; the bigger the Garden, the more Flowers you’ll get out of it. Flowers can also be gifted to other neighbors via the Free Gifts page, and you can also acquire Flowers by harvesting neighbors’ Spring Gardens. There are 5 different types of Flowers available (they all do the same thing):







You’ll be able to use the Flowers soon so save them up!



Finally, one new addition we’re trying out with the Spring Garden is the ability to let you choose how it’ll look on your farm. When you complete Level 2, you’re given the option of choosing how you want the Spring Garden to look:








Simply click the Choose button underneath the Spring Garden you like the best. Note that you won’t be able to change it again until you hit Level 3, when you can change the look of the Spring Garden any time you want by clicking on it, then selecting Look Inside to get the selection window.

Note: We are rolling out this feature this afternoon so not all of you will have it yet. Please be patient and you'll get it soon!



Think you can handle the crop cycles and other day-to-day activities of both your Home Farm and your English Countryside farm at the same time? Now you have the option to turn off Pausing for your other farm!



When you travel between to your other farm, you’ll get a pop-up window confirming your travel request (in this example we are moving from the English Countryside to the Home Farm):







Right now Pausing is selected, meaning that when I go to the Home Farm, my English Countryside farm is Paused. If I go back to the English Countryside, my Home Farm will be Paused. At the bottom right there’s a link to “Change Options”. Click on that and you’ll see the Travel Options screen:








As you can see “Pause current farm” is selected. Now, however, you have the option to “Play both farms” meaning crop cycles and other items on a timer (like stables, orchards, etc.) will keep growing no matter which farm you’re on. If you want to do that, click on the option for “Play both farms” and click Save. (If you don’t want to make a change, just leave it the way it is and select Save.)



Back on the original window you’ll now see a change:







Now FarmVille asks if you want to switch farms while reminding you that both farms will continue to grow. Note that you’ll get this travel window every time you travel between your Home Farm and your English Countryside farm. To go ahead and move between farms, select Travel Now! or Cancel to not make the trip just yet.