Farmville Tips Tricks and Secrets

The Spring Basket Guide

2011-04-13T03:56:00.000-07:00

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.

Time to start redeeming those Flowers!

The Spring Garden Guide

2011-04-13T03:51:00.000-07:00

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.

Get your Spring Garden in FarmVille today!

English Countryside farm

2011-04-13T03:47:00.000-07:00

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.

English Countryside: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

2011-03-29T02:01:00.000-07:00

FarmVille English Countryside is here and we’re sure you have a lot of burning questions about how it impacts you, how to get there, and what you need to know. Here are some answers! Q: How do I start getting the quests to go to English Countryside? A: If you qualify (must be Level 20) you’ll get a pop-up with the text, “Look! Up in the Sky!” An animation of a crashing Airship will happen, and you’ll start the quests on getting the Airship fixed and will soon you’ll be able to go to England. The quest icons show on the left-hand side of the FarmVille game window. Q: I’m not seeing the Airship crash animation. What's wrong? A: It may take awhile to load on your system, or there may be cases where it can get “stuck” before playing. If you refresh the game and wait a little bit, the animation should play. Q: Do I have to go to England? A: No! You don’t have to complete any of the quests and you can continue on your own farm at any time you want. We want you to go to England to experience all the new features, items, and quests but you don’t have to. Q: Is storage universal between farms? Can I transfer items between farms? A: Storage is not universal between farms. Each farm has its own individual unique storage space. Once an item is placed on one farm, it cannot be moved to the other farm. Q: What about the Gift Box? A: Many items stored in the Gift Box can be placed/used on either farm. This includes many decorations, buildings and animals. Unique quest items, collections, and certain consumables may only be used on one of the farms, depending on the item. This also means purchases made from the Model Farm, which go straight into the Gift Box, can then be added to whichever farm you wish. Once you place that item, however, it cannot be moved to the other farm. Q: When I visit one farm my crops and trees don’t grow in my other farm. A: Inactive farms—the farm that you are currently not on—are Paused while you work on your active farm. Crops won’t wither, but they won’t grow either. Timers on animals, buildings, trees and other objects will also not advance until you go back to that farm. Q: The “Cotton To It” quest requires me to plant and harvest 50 Cotton crops before finishing. This is unfair! A: The quest requires you to just plant the Cotton, not to harvest it. Q: Why do I need to add 35 neighbors before I can go to England with the Bon Voyage Party? A: You don’t need to add any neighbors to qualify for the Bon Voyage Party, you just need to invite 35 (and they need to accept the invitation) in order to go instantly. You only need to have 4 neighbors to come to your party in order to start the 4-day countdown timer, and 15 neighbors are needed to be eligible to go in 2 days. Alternatively you can pay Farm Cash to skip this set altogether. Q: Will the England quests expire? A: No they won’t. Q: Where can I get a ram to start sheep breeding? A: You can get a ram by starting the Sheep Pen quests on your English Farm; finishing the “Et Tu, Brutus?” quest will get you Brutus the Ram, which you can breed with. Other rams can be acquired by purchase in the Market or through your neighbor’s feeds if they are sharing newly bred rams. Q: Do I need to buy Farm Cash sheep in order to breed? A: You can breed with most types of sheep; they don’t need to have been purchased in the Market. Q: Why are the lamb colors produced by sheep breeding totally random? A: The colors (and potential patterns) aren’t totally random, but they are based on a range of colors based on each of the parents. Q: Where can I learn more about Sheep breeding? A: Check out our Sheep Pen guide at http://forums.zynga.com/showthread.php?t=964444 for all the details! Q: How come I can’t sheep breed on my Home Farm yet? A: We’ll be adding this ability at some point in the future. Q: People are sending me Postcards for the “Make It Your Own” quest but they’re not registering as progress. A: The Postcards are stored in your Gift Box—you need to look in your Gift Box, then choose “Use” to apply them towards your quest goal. Q: I can’t see my neighbor’s Home Farm when I visit. Why not? A: When you visit a neighbor’s farm, you can only see the farm they are currently active on—the Home Farm or the English Farm. You can see which they are on in the neighbor bar—a flag will denote if they are on the English Farm or not. Q: I finished all the quests. Now what? A: Stay tuned! There’s a lot more coming to English Countryside in the near future!

English Country Side How To get There

2011-03-29T01:58:00.000-07:00

The English Countryside is currently only available to a randomly selected group of users as we are beginning a slow release of this feature. We will announce when this update is live to 100% of users in the near future. By now you’ve heard all about FarmVille English Countryside, but how do you get to this second farm where you can embark on new adventures and experience an all new farm theme? This guide will show you the way. Look! Up in the Sky! The only real requirement you need to begin your journey to England is that you need to be Level 20. If you already are Level 20 (or as soon as you hit Level 20) you’ll see this message pop up:

Once you click “Check it Out” you’ll get an amazing animation of The Duke’s Airship crashing on your farm:

Followed by The Duke declaring that he’s just brought you a deed:

Which entitles you to a new farm in England!

Clicking on “Place Airship” will immediately put you into Placement Mode. You can choose to place the damaged Airship on your farm now, or you can place it in your Gift Box for use later (by switching to the Multi-Tool for instance). Note that placing the Airship (which triggers the quests) is completely optional. If you’d rather not bother with England right now, you can keep the Airship in your Gift Box and pull it out when you’re ready. This is how the Airship looks on your farm:

When you place it, you’ll be launched into the first quest. If you don’t see the quest window pop up, you can always find the quest icon on the left-hand side of the screen:

The icon shows which quest you’re on as well as what part of the quest (part 1, part 2, etc.).

A note about quests: Usually each quest has between two and four objectives that need to be met in order to complete it. Many objectives can be skipped by paying Farm Cash (simply click on the “Skip” button located next to the objective you wish to skip by paying Farm Cash and you’ll be asked to confirm your decision). As an objective is completed, a green check mark will appear next to it. You can close the quest window at any time by clicking on “Okay” at the bottom of the window. Once all of the objectives for that quest are completed a reward consisting of a set of prizes will be awarded to the player. This can include XP, coins, and a special item or two. If you haven’t done so already, click on the quest icon to bring up the quest window.

Quest: Drop Anchor! The Duke needs something heavy to hold down his airship. This first quest has just one objective: buy three crates and simply place them on your farm. Click the Get Crate button and you’ll be taken to a Market screen which shows a single entry for a Crate. Each Crate costs 150 coins.

Click Buy, and then place it on your farm by clicking on an open spot. You’ll see the “Progress!” banner open up next to the quest icon, which indicates you’ve made progress in the quest.

Crates, like certain other items such as fences, are set to auto-purchase, meaning when you buy one and place it, you’ll automatically be given the choice of placing another for the same amount of money. This way you don’t have to go back into the Market each time you want to buy something. (If you want to get out of this mode, just click on the Multi-Tool icon.) Now all you need to do is place two more crates and you’ll see the quest complete window pop up:

Good job! The quest rewards are:

100 XP

5 Farm Cash

2,500 Coins

You can choose to share in your good fortune with some of your friends by clicking on the Share Coins button (this will make a post to your feed), or you can just close the window by clicking on the red X at the upper right. Now you’re ready for the next part of your quest! Quest: Cotton To It

The Duke wants to bring you back to England to see the new farm, but the Airship has sustained some damage. Cotton will be needed to help patch it up.

This quest deals entirely with planting the Cotton only (not harvesting it). Simply plant 50 plots of Cotton by hand or with a vehicle and the quest will automatically complete. Alternatively you can skip the act of planting Cotton by clicking on the Skip button and paying 15 Farm Cash.

The quest rewards are:

100 XP

1 Flag

2,500 Coins

Quest: Nice Supplies

To prepare for your journey you’ll need some supplies. One should do the trick! Click the Get Cow button and you’ll be taken to a Market screen which shows a single entry for a Cow.

The cost is 300 coins for a single Cow. Click Buy, and then place it on your farm by clicking on an open spot. That’s all you need! The quest complete window will now pop up.

The quest rewards are:

250 XP

Aviator’s Cap

2,500 Coins

Quest: Bon Voyage Party

You’re ready to go for England, so it’s time to throw a party and all of your neighbors can be invited—the more you get to come, the faster it’ll take for you to be able to leave. Clicking on the quest icon will bring you to the Bon Voyage Party window:

Click on the Invite Friends button to start inviting your neighbors. When they accept, the meter on the left will begin to fill, and their avatars will show up at the party. Here’s how many you’ll need:

0-3 neighbors: unable to travel to England

4-14 neighbors: depart in 4 days

15-34 neighbors: depart in 2 days

35 neighbors: depart right now

Once you get four neighbors, you’ll see a 4-day countdown timer show up underneath the Bon Voyage Party banner at the top of the window. If you manage to get 15 neighbors, the countdown timer will decrease by 2 whole days or will hit zero (whichever is better for you). Getting 35 will instantly zero the countdown timer.

Note you also have the option of foregoing the party with the use of Farm Cash. Click on the “Unlock” button to pay 60 Farm Cash and get ready to travel to England instantly.

Once the countdown timer reaches zero or is otherwise unlocked, you’ll see this banner show up at the top of the window:

Now click on “Go to the English Countryside”. You’ll see this informational pop-up:

You can click on Okay and The Duke will show you how to travel to England; otherwise you can hit Cancel. In any case, the way to travel to England is in the upper right-hand portion of the game window. Right now you can see you’re on “My Home Farm” and there’s an Airship icon right next to it:

Simply click on the icon, and you’ll see the option showing “To the English Countryside”. Click on that and away you go! When you’re in England you can use this to come back to your Home Farm at any time. Note that when you are on one farm, the other farm is “paused”—that is to say, all timers are stopped. Your crops will not wither on a paused farm, but they will not grow either (animal or tree timers will also remain the same). A neighbor can only visit whichever farm you are currently active on; they cannot visit a “paused” farm.

You’re ready for England!

Sheep Pen Guide

2011-03-29T01:49:00.000-07:00

The English Countryside is currently only available to a randomly selected group of users as we are beginning a slow release of this feature. We will announce when this update is live to 100% of users in the near future. Welcome to the brave new world of sheep breeding! With the Sheep Pen you can begin to breed ewes and rams to produce some startling new offspring--the likes of which have never been seen before in FarmVille.

The breeding possibilities are nearly limitless, so what are you waiting for? Let's get started! Getting Your Sheep Pen Currently you can only get a Sheep Pen if you’re on your English Countryside farm. You’re first introduced to the Sheep Pen with the Et Tu, Brutus? quest, though you can purchase the Sheep Pen at any time from the Market (it is listed in Buildings, for 5,000 coins) if you’re on your English farm. You can only have one Sheep Pen on your farm at any one time.

The Sheep Pen is a multi-level constructible building where each level requires more building parts to complete it:

Level 1 – 30 parts total: 10 Wooden Boards, 10 Nails and 10 Bricks – includes 1 stall, sheep capacity: 20

Level 2 – 45 parts total: 15 Wooden Boards, 15 Nails and 15 Bricks – includes 2 stalls, sheep capacity: 30

Level 3 – 60 parts total: 20 Wooden Boards, 20 Nails and 20 Bricks – includes 3 stalls, sheep capacity: 40

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 Part” 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 the Sheep Pen it becomes bigger and grander visually (sheep not included):

Once you get the first level of the Sheep Pen constructed, you’ll be presented with the Sheep Pen window:

You will see up to three sheep in the Sheep Pen—these are the sheep that you last put into the Pen. Now it’s time to breed! Breeding Sheep Breeding works by pairing together a ram and a ewe. The result will hopefully be a baby lamb, which once fully grown will take on some of the characteristics of its parents, such as colors, patterns, etc. There will more than likely be somewhat of a variation of the colors, depending on the colors the parents possess. Lambs may inherit patterns and other traits from their parents as well. Right now your Sheep Pen is empty, so first move some sheep into it (note: not all types of ewes or rams can be put into the Sheep Pen, and specialized shapes like the Babydoll Sheep are not reproducible). If you completed the Et Tu, Brutus? quest you would have already received Brutus the Ram, a two-tone purplish ram. You can acquire rams by other means, including purchase through the Market. For this example, we’ve moved Brutus, a Babydoll Sheep, a Brown Sheep, a Clover Sheep and 3 White Sheep into the Sheep Pen:

Let’s select the sheep we want to breed with—the Brown Sheep should be a good mix. If you click on it you’ll see you have the option to Breed it, or Remove it from the Sheep Pen (click on the X to close this pop-up).

After clicking on Breed, the ewes will turn transparent and the rams will remain in full color, so you’ll know exactly what rams you can breed with.

Selecting Brutus will give you nearly the same options as above, so just select Breed again. Now you’ll see the breeding display:

Breeding a new lamb is a 24 hour process and carries (by default) a 50% success rate, meaning if you’re not successful you have to start all over again. You can improve your chance of success (while decreasing the amount of time it takes to breed) by using Love Potions. You can acquire Love Potions by:

Buying them via the Buy Potions button in the Sheep Pen window.

Asking your neighbors for Love Potions via the Ask for Potions button in the Sheep Pen window.

Here’s the impact of using Love Potions:

No Love Potions used: 50% success rate, breed time: 24 hours

1 Love Potion used: 60% success rate, breed time: 12 hours

2 Love Potions used: 70% success rate, breed time: 6 hours

3 Love Potions used: 80% success rate, breed time: 3 hours

4 Love Potions used: 90% success rate, breed time: 1 hour

5 Love Potions used: 100% success rate, breed time: instant

You can use the up and down arrows to choose how many Love Potions you want to spend. If you don’t have enough, you’ll be prompted to buy more. When you’re satisfied with your chances, click on Breed (or Cancel if you don’t want to try breeding at this time). You may have to wait a few seconds… So now the ram and ewe are, um, doing their thing:

You’ll see the stall at the upper left is occupied and their places in the Sheep Pen pasture are replaced with helpful signs. If there’s a timer, a clock in the stall will show how much time is left to go. If they’re done (or you used instant breeding), the Ready! button will show up over the stall. Click on it.

With any luck, you’ve bred a new lamb! You can choose to name your lamb (choose anything within the Terms of Service), choose to Give it Away (this will make a post to your feed) or you can keep it. At this moment, you still don’t know how the lamb will turn out—you’ll need to grow it up. Once you click on “Keep Lamb” you’ll get the option to place it on your farm.

Click anywhere on your farm to place it. You can click on the lamb at any time to get a menu of options:

A lamb can be fully grown using 10 Baby Bottles. You can acquire or give Baby Bottles by:

Asking your neighbors directly by clicking on “Ask for Bottles”

Purchasing Bottles in the Market for 1 Farm Cash each

Acquire all the needed Bottles by spending Farm Cash (click on the “Complete Now” button to purchase the remaining Bottles). The Cost is X Farm Cash, where X is the number of Bottles needed to grow the Lamb.

Gifting the bottles via the Free Gifts page.

Also note you can change the name of the lamb at any time by choosing Change Name (even after the lamb is fully grown). Selecting Feed Bottles will give a Bottle to the lamb. Once you’ve applied 10 Bottles the lamb will now grow up into a full ram or sheep:

And you’ll get this pop-up asking you to celebrate by sharing this exact type of sheep with your friends via feed post:

As noted above, sheep breeding can be a somewhat random process, based on the colors and patterns of the ram and ewe used. Each color a parent possesses has a certain color range to it that can be applied to the lamb in question, so you never really know what you’re getting exactly. In this example of using Brutus and a Brown sheep, these varieties were produced:

So as you progress in breeding different sheep types, the chances of producing more color variations increases dramatically. Other Sheep Pen Notes Sheep Pens can also be expanded. Click on the Expansion button in the Sheep Pen window to start the expansion process. Each expansion increases the sheep capacity by 10, while adding an extra breeding stall to the Pen (this will let you breed another lamb simultaneously using a different ram and ewe combination). If you don’t have any handy ewes or rams to work with, you can buy some specific English Countryside ones in the Market. You can find them in the Animals category. You’ll notice a button for the Family Tree. It’s not active yet, but soon we’ll be adding a fun breeding mini-game for Sheep Pens so stay tuned! __________________

Get A Second Farm Now.....

2011-03-29T01:40:00.000-07:00

English Countryside Some Guidelines and Q & A

2011-03-29T01:36:00.000-07:00

Will our neighbors be able to visit our English Countryside farms? Will they be able to “help” on my farm? All your neighbors will be able to visit you in the English Countryside to see your new English Farm, and we think you’ll be eager to show it off. They will also be able to help you by fertilizing your English crops, tending your chicken coop full of English chickens, and so on. We’ve tried hard to make farming in England feel new and exciting, while preserving the gameplay our players love, and making it super-easy to get started and build your farm up right away. We hope it will seem fresh and fun, but also familiar and comfortable.

Why do we need so many boards, bricks, and nails? I'm running out of room in my gift box. You’ll need boards, bricks, and nails to build things in the English Countryside, just as you do at home, but if you’re running out of room in your gift box you probably have enough! Will there be new crops/animals/decorations that are only available on the English farm? Lots! Almost everything on your new English farm will be something you’ve never seen before. Your second farm in the English Countryside will offer the chance to grow new crops like English Peas, King Edward Potatoes, Blue Bells, English Roses, and many others. In fact, all the crops you can grow in the English Countryside are brand new. New animals include the Shorthorn Cow, Shire Horse, and Dorking Chicken, but we think some of the most exciting new animals will be the sheep you can breed for yourself in your Sheep Pen. There are some fantastic new decoration items, and many of the best ones can be earned as rewards for participating in the story to help the Duke’s village in the English Countryside. Of course there will be plenty of terrific things available in the marketplace too, but now players also have the option to earn some really impressive items through gameplay, without spending any Farm Cash or coins. The amount of new content is truly amazing. We hope every player will find something to enjoy in the English Countryside.

Will it be linear and task driven (aka quests), or will it retain a lot of the free-form creativity that is found in FarmVille? The English Countryside will offer the chance to participate in a storyline with the characters who live around your English Farm. You don’t have to participate in the story in order to work on, decorate, and expand your second farm. We hope that players will like these additions and will enjoy engaging with these new features and earning the rewards they offer. We think the rewards for participating in the storyline will really knock your socks off. We’re giving away unique decoration items like the English Police Call Box, great new avatar clothing and costumes to let you dress up as a Dashing Aviator or English Lady, and of course some shiny new animals like the adorable English Rabbit. Sheep breeding questions... Will the resulting lambs be able to grow up? If so, will they all be ewes or will some become rams? You’ll be able to breed your own Rams and Ewes to create unique lambs with characteristics from both parents. You get to name each baby Lamb and have the choice to keep it or let a friend adopt it to raise on their own farm. When the lamb grows up, you can breed it as well, to create family trees and new combinations. Every baby lamb has a chance to be a Ram or a Ewe. Baby Lambs will get their coloration from the Ewe, while the pattern will come from the Ram, but they won’t develop their full coloration or pattern until they grow up.

Will only specific sheep be able to be bred or can we use any? Will it be similar to the greenhouse in which only certain pairs can be bred together? Any existing ewe can be bred, including special holiday ewes like the Love Ewe or the Clover Ewe. If you have an ewe on your farm right now, then you�ll eventually be able to breed that ewe in the Sheep Pen. Existing rams will not be compatible with the new Sheep Pen, but new rams look different from the older ones, so it should be easy for you to tell which ones are breedable. You won�t be able to take your current sheep to the English Countryside, but once you learn the ropes of breeding sheep on your English farm, you�ll have the chance to build a Sheep Pen at home. Think of the possibilities! Will there be a lot of room [for sheep breeding], or will we be able to have multiple buildings? The Sheep Pen will start with one “Breeding Suite” with the ability for players to expand it up to three. Once you select the Ram and Ewe to breed, that suite will be occupied for a day while the sheep “get acquainted”. You can speed the process along, and increase your chance of successfully producing a Lamb, by using Love Potions. We think the expanded Sheep Pen will be big enough for most players’ needs, but like everything in FarmVille, we will pay attention to how you use it. If there’s a need for more space we’ll try to find a way to do that. Will we have to purchase the English Countryside with Farm Cash or add new neighbors if we want to play? No! You won’t have to add new neighbors in order to travel to the English Countryside. Everything you need to do can be accomplished with your existing friends and neighbors. It won’t cost you Farm Cash, either. We want all of our players to try farming in the English Countryside, so we’re making it as easy and fun as possible to get there. The deed to your second farm might literally fall out of the sky and land on your farm! Will this be energy-based like FrontierVille? Or will it be the same as FarmVille? You won’t need energy or anything like it. We’re committed to keeping FarmVille’s gameplay just as our players have always enjoyed it. We want to add more ways to play and more things to do, without taking away anything you like about the game now. Farmers are some of the hardest-working people around, so they should never run short of energy! Will the English Countryside be flat like FarmVille or will it have some rolling hills and streams or maybe even mountains? Your farm in the English Countryside will be surrounded by gentle hills and green plains of grass. We’re looking forward to hearing how FarmVille players like the new look, and we’re eager to hear feedback about it while we’re thinking about how to bring this sort of thing back to your home farm. Will we be getting new background music? Yes! Farming in the English Countryside will be accompanied by all-new background music. Remember Farmers, if you are looking for the latest news and information about FarmVille English Countryside, make sure to “like” the Official Fan Page! For every million ‘Likes’ we get we’re adding another grand prize trip to England to our upcoming sweepstakes. Happy Farming!

Spring Countdown!

2011-03-12T00:25:00.000-08:00

It’s time for the Spring Countdown! For the next twelve days in a row play FarmVille and ask your neighbors for a special gift. Once you get all twelve you unlock a super-secret bonus prize! (For those of you who have seen the Winter and Valentine’s Countdown, this works pretty much the same way.)

You can access the Valentines Countdown via a special icon on the right-hand side of the FarmVille display.

Just click on it and the Spring Countdown window will open. Here’s how it works: every day for twelve days in a row, starting March 10, you will have the ability to get a new item in the Countdown. As you can see in the image above, the first item available is the Pastel Hay Bale. You can acquire these items by clicking on the “Ask/Share” button.

From there you’ll be asked to make a post to your own wall asking for this item. If a neighbor or friend gives you this item, they’ll get one in return. The criteria for acquiring that item of the day is met when you get the item from a neighbor or you get one by answering one of these feed posts. Each new day a new item will appear, and the process will start all over again.

What happens if I miss a day? you may inquire. That’s okay, you can catch up. For example, if I miss getting the first item on the first day, I see that I can still ask one of a number of particular friends for that item (click “Ask”), or I can just buy it outright for Farm Cash (the “Buy” button).

On the twelfth day all of the items will be visible. If you have received (by asking for or gifting to someone else, thereby getting one in return) all twelve items, the special bonus prize will unlock. The ability to acquire these items, as well as the special bonus prize, will remain for a few days after March 21 (the twelfth day), so even if you miss most of the days you still have a chance to catch up and unlock the special bonus prize.

You also have the option of bsuying the complete set ahead of time using Farm Cash. Just click on the “Complete Now” button at the bottom of the Spring Countdown window and you’ll be asked to make the purchase for the appropriate amount of Farm Cash (which is the total accumulated Farm Cash cost of all of the items minus what you’ve already acquired).

It’s time to start the Spring Countdown!

Duck Pond Expansion

2011-03-12T00:21:00.000-08:00

Note: We are rolling out this feature today so all of you will hopefully have it before long!

Is your Duck Pond filled to capacity and your farm is now overrun with a plethora of colorful ducks? Save up those Watering Cans and Shovels then, as we’ve just released the new Duck Pond Expansions!

When you get this message, you'll get a second Duck Pond frame in your Gift Box when you refresh the game. Yes, you can put it on your farm and build it out. It should be okay. Really!

The Duck Pond can now be expanded twice; each expansion will increase the capacity of the Duck Pond by ten (10) and require twenty (20) Shovels and twenty (20) Watering Cans. The visual look of the Duck Pond on the farm will not change, and there will still be only five ducks you can display at any one time. However, the probability of getting a Duckling from the Duck Pond will increase with the number of ducks in the pond.

You can expand your Duck Pond by clicking on the Duck Pond, selecting “Look Inside” and then choosing the new “Expand” tab. From there you can see how many materials you need and what you’ve already used in the current expansion:

Like other constructible building parts, you can acquire these two types of parts by:

Asking your neighbors for these parts by posting a help request to your feed (click on the “Ask For Help!” 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.

Once you complete that expansion you’ll get a notice asking to Share some materials with your friends in celebration:

And that’s about it for expansions. Have fun expanding your Duck Ponds!

Pot OF Gold Have u got it Filled as Yet

2011-03-12T00:14:00.000-08:00

Been collecting all those special gold items for St. Patrick’s Day? Well the wait is over and the Pot of Gold is now available! Just put your collected Gold Pieces into it and then redeem them for St. Patrick’s Day-themed unique prizes!

You’ll get your somewhat empty-looking Pot of Gold free the first time you play FarmVille after the update, and you will immediately be entered into Placement Mode. You can place the Pot of Gold 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 Pot of Gold is on the farm you can click on it, then select “Look Inside” to see this window:

The Pot of Gold works like many of our other item-gathering style events in FarmVille. You acquire Gold Pieces through various methods, then “Use” them to place them in your Pot of Gold. As you accumulate these items you can redeem them for exclusive items.

You can acquire Gold Pieces by:

Harvesting your Leprechaun’s Cottage.

Requesting Gold Pieces from your neighbors directly (by clicking on the “Ask for More” button).

Receive a Gold Piece from a neighbor who uses the Free Gifts page (or click on “Send Gold”).

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

Click on a Pot of Gold-related feed from a neighbor.

Harvest a neighbor’s Leprechaun’s Cottage.

Here are the five different types of Gold Pieces (note they all count as the same when you put them in the Pot of Gold):

As you put Gold Pieces in your Mailbox you’ll see the gold coin meter on the left fill up. The physical look of the pot also changes as you stuff it full of gold.

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 gold (the available amount of gold that is 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.

Note: unlike a few of our previous item-gathering events, there will not be a second page of exclusive prizes added. These six items are pretty much it for this event.

That’s it for the Pot of Gold! Good luck!

AVG BI PLANE

2011-02-25T00:36:00.000-08:00

Please know this feature is currently only available to a randomly selected group of users.

FarmVille has teamed up with AVG to give players a free specialized biplane and three uses of Instant Grow with every purchase of AVG’s PC Tuneup 2011 software! All you need to do is play FarmVille and you may see this informational window pop up at the bottom of the display:

You can click on the Market and see a promotional card for AVG as well. Either way by clicking on it you will be shown this window:

FarmVille players can get a special discount on AVG’s PC Tuneup 2011—the normal $29.99 US retail price has been slashed to just $9.99! Once you purchase PC Tuneup 2011 through AVG, you’ll receive a special new AVG biplane and three free uses of Instant Grow.

If you want to take advantage of this offer, just click on “Visit AVG Now” and you’ll be taken to a special AVG web page with more information about this product and how to start the purchasing process. You have to go from FarmVille to this page in order to get the special offer. The purchase will take place on AVG’s website and is not controlled by Zynga or Facebook. Once this purchase process is complete, you’ll get a notice that you won the item.

Now you’ll need to refresh FarmVille (by reloading the game) and you’ll see a special pop-up notice saying you’ve gotten the biplane (if you don’t that’s okay, it’ll still be in your Gift Box). You can choose to place it on your farm now or wait until later (simply click on the Multi-Tool to keep it in your Gift Box for now).

Note that you can take advantage of this offer as many times as you want during the promotional period—you’ll receive a new special biplane and three more uses of Instant Grow per transaction (which means multiple purchases at the same time will not work, you will need to go back to FarmVille and go through the normal flow in order to get another biplane). Also note that you don’t have to use the AVG biplane to use the three free uses of Instant Grow; any of the biplanes will work with them just fine.

This special promotion with AVG is going to last for just one week and will end on Wednesday, March 2 at 9PM PST, so take advantage of it right now!

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AVG Antivirus Promotional Plane coming soon

2011-02-25T00:22:00.000-08:00

It looks like Zynga will be teaming up with AVG (a virus protection software) for a promotion in FarmVille in the near future, as we've come across an image and animation for a new AVG Biplane. While we all know that the original Biplane in FarmVille allows you to use instant grow on your crops in trees, we have a feeling this plane will serve a different purpose.

As AVG Antivirus software protects your computer from viruses, it would only make sense that this plane would offer some sort of protection to your farm as well. The most likely scenario is that the AVG Plane will come packaged with a timed wither protection boost - perhaps lasting up to a week, which is how long the effects of other promotional items have lasted in the past.

Of course, the official purpose of this Biplane remains to be seen, but be sure to check out the plane in all of its animated glory below. We'll make sure to let you know when the plane launches in the game, what it does, and how you can get one for your own farm.

St. Patrick's Day Clover Rabbit and Clover Sheep

2011-02-25T00:11:00.000-08:00

Are you're looking forward to the next holiday in FarmVille, that being St. Patrick's Day, as much as this farmer, you'll want to know all about these two new St. Patrick's Day animals that we believe will be coming to the game as part of this year's celebration.

The two animals are the Clover Chicken and the Clover Sheep, with both being lovely shades of pale green, along with some clover accents in a darker green color. If green is your favorite color, you'll simply love these cute little fellas, let's put it that way.

As of right now, there's no known details as to how these animals will be released in the game, but with the Clover Rabbit being released as part of the Wishing Well feature, the likelihood that this pair will join it is rather high. Perhaps these items will be prizes in the (what we assume is) upcoming Pot of Gold feature? Or maybe they'll simply be available to purchase from the game's store for coins or Farm Cash.

Whatever the case, we'll make sure to let you know all of the details about these animals as soon as we have them, but for now, check out their animations above.

FarmVille St. Patrick's Day Sneak Peek: Clover Gnome, Clover Fountain & Harp

2011-02-25T00:03:00.000-08:00

Along with the newest set of unreleased animals we've found in FarmVille, we've also come across a trio of new decorative items that we believe will be launched in the game, which will come as part of the St. Patrick's Day celebration (that should be kicking off strong any day now - perhaps this weekend?).

There are three decorative items to take a look at here: the Harp, Clover Gnome, and Clover Fountain. With Zynga's love of Gnomes (and players' love to collect them), the release of this one seems like a given in the game, while there is no guarantee officially that any of them will see the light of day. The Harp, meanwhile, seems like the perfect decorative item to include in the upcoming Pot of Goldcollection feature, but again, that is all speculation as well. For all that is known about these items as of this writing, they could very well be released as free gifts or as part of an upcoming Mystery Game, although the former possibility is incredibly unlikely.

While there is no official release date for these items, we do have a fun animation of the Clover Fountain in motion, as green water cascades over the themed tiers. You can check that out below.

While we wait for these items to officially release in the game, let us know how much you'd be willing to pay for them in comments. Just coins? Farm Cash? We'd love to know what you think!

Leprechaun's Cottage!

2011-02-24T23:48:00.000-08:00

St. Patrick’s Day will soon be here and the second stage of our celebration (following the Wishing Well) is now here with Leprechaun’s Cottage! This storable multi-level constructible tree house can be harvested every twenty-four hours for golden items (which you will be able to redeem for gifts soon).

Building the Cottage

You will get the initial tree for Leprechaun’s Cottage for free the first time you play FarmVille after the update, and you will immediately be entered into Placement Mode. You can place the Leprechaun’s Cottage tree 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). You must be at least Level 5 to place a Leprechaun’s Cottage.

The Leprechaun’s Cottage 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 – 48 parts total: 16 Wooden Boards, 16 Nails and 16 Bricks

Level 3 – 90 parts total: 30 Wooden Boards, 30 Nails and 30 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 Leprechaun’s Cottage, it becomes bigger and grander visually:

If you do not get Leprechaun’s Cottage 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 Leprechaun’s Cottage for Farm Cash in the Market at a discount (compared to if you were to buy each part individually for Farm Cash), and you can purchase multiple cottages for Farm Cash only.

Currently you can harvest the Leprechaun’s Cottage for golden items that you will be able to redeem for exclusive gifts. As the size of the cottage increases, so does the amount of items you can get per harvest. You’ll be able to redeem those items soon so stay tuned!

Wishing Well Guide

2011-02-17T23:40:00.000-08:00

Ever see a well where according to tradition you could toss in a coin and make a wish that would come true? Well, you now have one in FarmVille!

Simply place the Wishing Well on your farm, toss in a Lucky Penny or two, and complete collections to get a special reward!

Everyone will get the Wishing Well for free the first time they play after FarmVille updates, and you will immediately be entered into Placement Mode. You can place the Wishing Well 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 you place the Wishing Well click on it, and then choose “Look Inside” and the Wishing Well window will pop up. Every time you throw a Lucky Penny into the Wishing Well, something will pop back out, depending on which Collection you’re working on. You’ll start off with the St. Patrick’s Day Collection, which is Level 1. You’ll see there are six different items you’ll need to collect in order to complete the collection and move on to the next level. You won’t know which item will come out, however, as it’s totally random.

Everyone starts off with one Lucky Penny. Click on the green “Throw Lucky Penny” button at the center of the window to start. You’ll see the penny get tossed into the well and one of the six collection items pop back out. If you don’t have any Lucky Pennies, you’ll see two green buttons instead:

Here’s how you can give and receive Lucky Pennies:

Asking your neighbors directly for Lucky Pennies by clicking on “Ask For More”.

Give Lucky Pennies to your neighbors via the Free Gifts page.

Spending five (5) Farm Cash (click on the “Buy Pennies” button) for five (5) Lucky Pennies.

Possible extra Lucky Penny bonuses when you throw (these can also be shared).

Check marks will appear next to the boxes for those items you collect. Note that these are not actual in-game items that show up in the Gift Box or anything (in this fashion they work a lot like regular Collections). You can get multiple numbers of the same items, though you’ll get XP for each Lucky Penny toss you make.

Once you get all six items in that Collection, the “Throw Lucky Penny” button will grey out and the “Claim Reward” button at the lower right will appear underneath the Collection prize. Click the button to collect that prize (it’ll go into your Gift Box) and then you’ll move on to the next level. There are four Collection levels altogether.

Note you may also get a random bonus that can appear during a Lucky Penny toss. This bonus will show up in the Bonus box on the right, and usually consists of getting a few extra Lucky Pennies. The bonus is applied (one time only) as soon as you get it.

Happy wishing!

Limited Edition Valentine's Day items

2011-02-17T01:21:00.000-08:00

Limited Edition Valentine's Day items:

Black Cherry Tree - Level 1, 5 Farm Cash
Black Cherry Horse - 26 Farm Cash
Skunk - 16 Farm Cash
Broken Heart Cottage - 18 Farm Cash
Broken Heart Gnome - 15 Farm Cash
Valentine Willow Tree - 6 Farm Cash
Black Rose Arch- Rerelease item - 10000 Coins
Dark Heart Topiary I - 10000 Coins
Barbed Heart Topiary - 10000 Coins

Double Mastery

2011-02-17T00:37:00.000-08:00

Valentines Countdown

2011-02-12T01:50:00.000-08:00

It’s time for the Valentines Countdown! For the next twelve days in a row play FarmVille and ask your neighbors for a special gift. Once you get all twelve you unlock a super-secret bonus prize! (For those of you who have seen the Winter Countdown, this works pretty much the same way.)

You can access the Valentines Countdown via a special icon on the right-hand side of the FarmVille display.

Just click on it and the Valentines Countdown window will open:

Here’s how it works: every day for twelve days in a row, starting February 10, you will have the ability to get a new item in the Countdown. As you can see in the image above, the first item available is the I Love You Stand. You acquire these items by clicking on the “Ask/Share” button.

From there you’ll be asked to make a post to your own wall asking for this item. If a neighbor or friend gives you this item, they’ll get one in return.

The criteria for acquiring that item of the day is met when you get the item from a neighbor or you get one by answering one of these feed posts. Each new day a new item will appear, and the process will start all over again.

What happens if I miss a day? you may inquire. That’s okay, you can catch up. For example, if I miss getting the first item on the first day, I see that I can still ask one of a number of particular friends for that item (click “Ask”), or I can just buy it outright for Farm Cash (the “Buy” button).

On the twelfth day all of the items will be visible. If you have received (by asking for or gifting to someone else, thereby getting one in return) all twelve items, the special bonus prize will unlock. The ability to acquire these items, as well as the special bonus prize, will remain for a few days after February 21 (the twelfth day), so even if you miss most of the days you still have a chance to catch up and unlock the special bonus prize.

You also have the option of buying the complete set ahead of time using Farm Cash. Just click on the “Complete Now” button at the bottom of the Valentines Countdown window and you’ll be asked to make the purchase for the appropriate amount of Farm Cash (which is the total accumulated Farm Cash cost of all of the items minus what you’ve already acquired).

Land Expansion Guide

2011-02-10T02:33:00.000-08:00

Land Expansion:

It’s time for some leg room, Farmers! The 28 x 28 Expansion can now be purchased from the Market for 4 million coins! You will also need:

1) add 10 new neighbors
2) have a minimum of 45+ neighbors.

For example. If I have 25 Neighbors, I will need to add an additional 20 to unlock this expansion. However, if I already have 45 Neighbors, I will only have to add 10.

Licensed Crops:

You can now plant the Limited Edition Cupid Corn crop when you purchase a one week license from the Market! The Cupid Corn Crop can be mastered and grants additional coins and experience when harvested!

License Cost: 10 Farm Cash. (Please know that this license will grant you an unlimited amount of Cupid Corn Crop seeds for one week only.)

Changes to Orchards:

We have made some adjustments to Orchards! When you collect from your Orchard and do not receive a seedling, you will get two watering cans to keep for yourself, and one watering can that you can share with up to 10 Neighbors.

We have also reduced the amount of watering cans required to grow a seedling from 10 to 8.

Breeding Your Ducks

2011-01-28T00:26:00.000-08:00

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.

Happy Valentines Soon in Farmville

2011-01-28T00:25:00.001-08:00

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!

You’ll get your little Valentine’s Mailbox free the first time you play FarmVille after the update, and you will immediately be entered into Placement Mode. You can place the Valentine’s Mailbox on your farm now, or you can choose to place it in your Gift Box for use later. You’ll need to be level 5 or higher in order to place and use the Valentine’s Mailbox.

Once the Valentine’s Mailbox is on the farm you can click on it, then select “Look Inside” to see this window:

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!

Model Farm

2011-01-21T00:56:00.000-08:00

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.

Cupid’s Castle for Valentines

2011-01-21T00:53:00.000-08:00

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!

The Duck Pond Guide....

2011-01-12T00:24:00.000-08:00

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

2011-01-10T02:01:00.000-08:00

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

Special Delivery Boxes easy way to open Them.....

2011-01-10T01:58:00.000-08:00

Farmers now have the ability to open more than one Special Delivery Box at the same time, see the results of what they get, and have them inserted all back into the Gift Box. No more massive amounts of clicking to see what’s inside!

We’ll walk you through an example so you can see how it works. In your Gift Box you have forty-seven Special Delivery Boxes (or SDBs):

If you click on Use, you’ll see a new window open up asking me how many SDBs you want to use (ie. open) at once. The default is all of them; however, let’s just say you want to open just forty. Clicking on the up and down arrows will adjust how many you want to use:

Now all you need to do is click on “Use” to open up all those SDBs. Note that you can click on “Cancel” to stop this process before you get started opening (once you click on “Use” there’s no going back).
Okay so now click on “Use” and you can see that FarmVille is diligently working on opening these 40 SDBs:

As a word of warning, please wait until you see this message close before doing anything else (like refresh your browser or something). Opening up SDBs can take a little bit of time, so you may have to wait a few moments (especially if you’re opening a lot of SDBs).
When FarmVille is finished opening up all the SDBs the next window pops up showing what you got:

If there are more than six items you’ll need to use the arrows on the right (or left) to scroll through everything. Click on “Okay” and you’ll be sent to the Gift Box where all of your newly opened goodies will be waiting for you.

A note on usage: the game evaluates your item needs when you start the opening process only, not during the process. So you may only get items for one particular building, or enough Watering Cans for just one seedling (although you may have multiple seedlings on the farm), with the rest being various things (like collection pieces, cans of fuel, etc.). This can result in some extreme cases depending on what you have available on your Farm at the point when you open your SDBs.

For now, the best way to assure that you get what you need at that appropriate time is to open up an appropriate amount of SDBs each time. So, for instance, if you open up more than fifty at one time you may not get everything that you really want (or need).

Limited Edition New Years Items

2010-12-30T01:46:00.001-08:00

Limited Edition New Years Items:

Disco Sheep – 14 Farm Cash
New Year Gnome – 18 Farm Cash
Firework I – 3 Farm Cash
Firework II – 3 Farm Cash
Firework III – 3 Farm Cash
Disco Ball Tree – 15 Farm Cash

Winter Countdown Guide.......

2010-12-30T01:32:00.000-08:00

The Winter Countdown is on! For the next twelve days in a row you can play FarmVille and ask your neighbors for a special gift. Once you get all twelve you unlock a super-secret bonus prize!

You can access the Winter Countdown via a special icon the right-hand side of FarmVille.

Just click on it, and the Winter Countdown window will open:

Here’s how it works: every day for twelve days in a row, starting from December 27, you will have the ability to get a new item in the Countdown.
As you can see in the image above, the first item available is the White Soldier. You acquire these items by clicking on the “Ask/Share” button:

From here you’ll be asked to make a post to your own wall asking for this item. If a neighbor or friend gives you this item, they’ll get one in return. The criteria for acquiring that item of the day is met when you get the item from a neighbor or you get one by answering one of these feed posts. Each new day a new item will appear, and the process will start all over again.

What happens if I miss a day? you may inquire. That’s okay, you can catch up. For example, if I miss getting a White Soldier on December 27 and I’m already on December 28, I see that I can still ask for that first item (click “Beg”), or I can just buy it outright for Farm Cash (the “Buy” button). If “Beg” is clicked on you’ll be shown six of your FarmVille neighbors and friends you can ask for this item.

On the twelfth day all of the items will be visible. If you have received (by asking for or gifting to someone else, thereby getting one in return) all twelve items, the special bonus prize will unlock. The ability to acquire these items, as well as the special bonus prize, will remain for a few days after January 7, 2011 (the twelfth day), so even if you miss most of the days you still have a chance to catch up and unlock the special bonus prize.

Limited Edition New Years Items and Winter Holiday Items

2010-12-27T05:11:00.001-08:00

Limited Edition New Years Items:

New Year Horse – 22 Farm Cash

Party House – 25 Farm Cash

Gold Party Dress – 10 Farm Cash

Purple Party Dress – 10 Farm Cash

Silver Party Dress – 10 Farm Cash

Silver Tuxedo – 10 Farm Cash

New Year Band – 20 Farm Cash

Cider Fountain – 15 Farm Cash

Happy New Year – 4,800 Coins

Black Tiara – 5 Farm Cash

Silver Tiara – 5 Farm Cash

Black Top Hat – 5 Farm Cash >

Silver Top Hat – 5 Farm Cash

Confetti Tree – 5 Farm Cash

Limited Edition Winter Holiday Items

Candy Cane Chicken - 25 Farm Cash

Winter Castle - 42 Farm Cash

Polar Bear costume - 10 Farm Cash

Snowman costume - 10 Farm Cash

Holiday Ducks - 15 Farm Cash

Reindeer Gnome - 12 Farm Cash

Reindeer Balloon - 50,000 Coins

Lighted Saguaro - 30,000 Coins

Chili Pepper Lights - 10,000 Coins

Stocking Planter - 5,000 Coins

The New Years Ball Drop Party Barn 2011 Guide

2010-12-27T04:38:00.000-08:00

The New Year is right around the corner, and what better way to celebrate it than with your friends and neighbors in FarmVille? We’re providing you a way to do just that with our New Years Ball Drop and Party Barn. It’s party time in FarmVille and you’re all invited!

The Party Barn is where you’ll be hosting your party—just build it up, then invite your neighbors over for the big party. The more neighbors you invite, the better the prizes you get (there’s no redeeming for this shindig, you automatically get the prize). Then on New Years the ball drops!

Party Prep Work

You’ll get the frame for the Party Barn for free the first time you play FarmVille after the update, and you will immediately be entered into Placement Mode. You can place the Party Barn frame on your farm now, or you can choose to place it in your Gift Box for use later. You can be any level to place the Party Barn.

The New Years Ball Party Barn is a constructible building, so you’ll need a grand total of 24 parts (8 bricks, 8 nails and 8 wooden boards) to finish it:

Like other 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 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.

Parts awarded through Special Delivery Boxes.

Using individual parts available in your Gift Box.

When you first place the Party Barn on your farm it’ll look fairly lifeless and boring:

There’s no party. However, once you get it fully constructed you can now see where the party will be going down:

You can only have one Party Barn on your farm at any one time. If you happen to sell your Party Barn or never got one, you can buy a new Party Barn frame in the Market under the Buildings tab before the end of the promotion (it should be under “New Years Ball”). The cost is 5,000 coins.

Getting the Party Started

Now you really need to invite some neighbors over for a real party. Well, you can invite them over before the Party Barn is fully built as well, but it won’t be as fun. Click on the Party Barn and select “Go to Party!”

With this display you can see how the party is going in the “Progress” tab. Right now, not too well—there’s no one to keep the pig and duck company. You can change that by clicking on the “View Guest List” tab. From here you’ll see all your FarmVille neighbors and friends all lined up, ready to be invited:

Click on the “Share” button under the ones you want to invite, and you’ll be prompted to make a post to their wall. A purple “Invited” label will appear over their profile picture if they’ve been invited, and if they’ve accepted you’ll see a green checkmark and a “Coming” label under their profile picture.

Once they accept, you will see their avatar on your farm, standing next to the Party Barn (this shows they’ve accepted your RSVP—you can click on them and the avatar will go away). When you look in your Party Barn you can see them in all their glory on the party floor! Note that if the people you invite are not your FarmVille neighbors (but friends that play), a default avatar will be shown on the party floor. Now’s a good time to become neighbors!

You will also see a button below your neighbors/friends display asking if you want to make use of extended permissions called “Allow Permissions”. By allowing this setting this will allow you to post feeds on neighbor’s walls without another prompt—it’s automatic as soon as you hit the “Share” button.

As your participants increase, you will unlock the special prizes available for the Ball Drop. No you don’t need to collect items and redeem them for these prizes; you get them automatically as you add partygoers (they’ll get added to your Gift Box).

After the Party Ends

You won’t be able to invite people to your New Years Ball Drop after January 1, though you will still be able to access it, re-watch the Ball Drop, or purchase the prizes in the Market for the month of January (if not longer). You also won’t be able to purchase a Party Barn frame in the Market. It will be storable, however.

Limited Edition Winter Holiday Items

2010-12-13T05:01:00.000-08:00

Sugar Plum Tree - 5 Farm Cash
Mind Candy Tree -30 Farm Cash
Mini Candy Cane Horse - 26 Farm Cash
Winter Teddy - 100,00 Coins
Winter Sweet Shop - 30 Farm Cash
Winter Manor - 42 Farm Cash
Winter Home - 360,000 Coins
Winter Pond - 30 Farm Cash
Winter Fireplace - 10 Farm Cash
Stockings Arch - 5 Farm Cash
Giant Nutcracker - 80,000 Coins
Snow Flake - 1,500 Coins

Limited Edition Winter Holiday Items

2010-12-10T00:40:00.001-08:00

Here is some information regarding tonight’s release. Enjoy!

Limited Edition Winter Holiday Items

Ornament Tree I - 20 Farm Cash
Ornament Tree II -15 Farm Cash (This is the level 2 tree for Ornament Tree I.)
Mistletoe Donkey - 18 Farm Cash
Winter Goat - 14 Farm Cash
Winter Manor - 42 Farm Cash
Winter Cottage - 350,000 Coins
Bunny Slope - 28 Farm Cash
Polar Bear Globe - 25 Farm Cash
Pointed Ornament - 10,000 Coins
Heart Ornament - 10,000 Coins
Lighted Fence - 5,000 Coins (This fence does not have the snow and lights functionality)

Amex Centurian Statue earn Double Mastery Points

2010-12-10T00:01:00.000-08:00

Please note: The promotion should be back and working now!

Visit Amex to get your free limited-edition Centurion Statue. Earn double Mastery Points for a week after you place the statue on your farm! This promotion is available to all users.

(Bushels will still only add +1 point to Mastery during this event. This means if you harvest a crop and use the applicable bushel, you will receive 3 Mastery Points in total, not 4.)

Winter Wonderland Quest

2010-12-03T23:47:00.000-08:00

We are slowing rolling out this feature. Some of you may not see it for some time, so please be patient while we test it out.

Coupled together with the introduction of the Winter Workshop, the Winter Wonderland Quest is a mission to make your farm into a beautiful wonderland. And you’ll get some cool gifts for finishing this multi-stage quest, so why not get started?

You can see the quest icon at the lower left-hand side of the game. It’ll look something like this:

Click on the quest icon will bring up the quest window, which will display your current quest, your quest progress and objectives. The first Winter Wonderland Quest window looks like this:

As shown, the quest objectives are to:

* Place a Winter Workshop on your farm and
* Buy 1 Candy Arch, which you can get in the Market.

You’ll see a green checkmark by the objectives you’ve already finished. You can click “Okay” to close the window; the icon will still appear on the lower left.

Once these objectives are all reached you’ll see the completion window:

And once you close that window, the prizes will automatically be given to you (in this instance, the Pine Tree will go into your Gift Box) and you’ll return to your farm. You also have the option to Share the special gift (the Pine Tree) with your friends by making a post to your feed.

A new icon will show up if there is a next part to the Winter Wonderland Quest (there are a few more to do):

Here you can see three quest objectives; for this one you can see I’ve already added some parts to my Winter Workshop but haven’t gotten the new snow blanket for my farm, or acquired the holiday lights. For these, you can see that you have the option of posting a request to your feed, asking for Holiday Lights (“Ask Friends”) or you can simply purchase these lights for 10 Farm Cash (“Skip FV 10”). These should show up in your Gift Box (they won't be immediately credited against the quest objective if you get them from friends).

The rest of the Winter Wonderland Quests are similar in structure, but we don’t want to give it all away—you should experience it for yourself!

Go on a wintry quest today in FarmVille!

The Winter Workshop

2010-12-03T23:42:00.000-08:00

The Winter Workshop is now available in FarmVille! This new constructible building is the first major step to our FarmVille holiday season and soon enough you’ll be able to harvest special Holiday Gifts from the Winter Workshop for special use later. But first, however, just worry about getting them built as much as you can. (Updated for a little clarity.)

Workin’ on the Workshop

You’ll get the base for the Winter Workshop for free the first time you play FarmVille after the game update, and you will immediately be entered into Placement Mode. You can place the Winter Workshop base on your farm now, or you can choose to place it in your Gift Box for use later.

You’ll only be able to have one Winter Workshop at a time. If you sell yours and want another, you can find it in the Market in the “Buildings” tab for 5,000 coins. You’ll need to be level 5 in order to place and use the Winter Workshop.

The basic Winter Workshop looks pretty but you'll need to level it first before you can start to harvest it for Holiday Gifts (when Holiday Gifts are implemented). Twelve (12) parts (4 bricks, 4 nails and 4 wooden boards) will be needed to complete construction of the first level:

Like other 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 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.
* Parts awarded through Special Delivery Boxes.
* Using individual parts available in your Gift Box.

Once you complete construction of the first level you’ll see this new window:

There are two more levels of construction; the second level requires forty-five (45) total parts (15 bricks, 15 nails and 15 wooden boards), where the meter will be halfway filled, while the third level requires an additional sixty (60) parts (20 each of the 3 above). The bigger the level of the Winter Workshop, the more Holiday Gifts you’ll get when you harvest it.

Here’s how the Winter Workshop will look:

Harvesting for Holiday Gifts will begin soon. Your neighbors will be able to harvest your Winter Workshops for Holiday Gifts as well. Enjoy!

Get your Winter Workshop today!

Limited Edition Winter Holiday Items

2010-12-02T00:58:00.000-08:00

Limited Edition Winter Holiday Items

Candy Cane Cow – 24 Farm Cash
Snow Goose – 16 Farm Cash
Toy Shop – 20 Farm Cash
Winter Café – 250,000 Coins
Santa Costume – 10 Farm Cash
Eggnog Fountain – 15 Farm Cash
Dancing Snow Lady – 20 Farm Cash
Mrs. Claus Gnome – 18 Farm Cash
Pink Holiday Tree – 80,000 Coins
Winter Planter – 5,000 Coins

Limited Edition Winter Holiday Items

2010-11-29T01:18:00.000-08:00

Limited Edition Winter Holiday Items:

Gypsy Horse- 26 Farm Cash
Winter Station-20 Farm Cash
Winter PO-250000 Coins
Holiday Train-20 Farm Cash
Holiday Car-120000 Coins
Holiday Flatbed-12 Farm Cash
Holiday Cart-7 Farm Cash
Snowy Crossing-80000 Coins
Snowy Track I-8000 Coins
Snowy Track II-5000 Coins
Snowy Track III-5000 Coins
Snowy Track IV-5000 Coins
Snowy Track V-5000 Coins
Winter Carriage-20 Farm Cash
Santa Gnome-18 Farm Cash

Mystery Game:

A new Mystery Game is available in the Market!

Unwither Ring:

Give the gift of Unwither this Holiday Season! The Unwither Ring is now available in the Market for a Limited Time!

Thanksgiving and Winter Holiday Limited edition items.

2010-11-29T01:03:00.001-08:00

Thanksgiving Limited Edition Items:

Paint Horse - 26 Farm Cash
Black Turkey - 18 Farm Cash
Fall Nursery - 15 Farm Cash
Harvest Store - 300000 Coins
Autumn Falls - 30 Farm Cash
Pocahontas Gnome - 12 Farm Cash
Orange Pumpkin - 1500 Coins

Limited Edition Winter Holiday Items

Gray Goose - 16 Farm Cash
Lighted Train - 22 Farm Cash
Candy Cane Gate - 7 Farm Cash
Candy Cane Arch - 2000 Coins
Candy Cane Fence - 800 Coins
Reindeer Avatar Costume - 10 Farm Cash

Expanding your Chicken Coop Super Coop

2010-11-29T00:45:00.000-08:00

We’ve introduced an additional two rounds of expansions to the Chicken Coop! Previously you could expand your Coops twice so it could hold sixty chickens; now with an additional two expansions your Chicken Coop can now hold one hundred!

Making your Super Coop

The mechanic for expanding the Coop has not changed. Click on the Chicken Coop, and then choose “Expand Storage”:

You’ll be shown this Storage Expansion page, where you can see all of the storage buildings currently on your farm, as well as access to your stored Inventory and the option to expand that storage (you can also get to this screen by accessing your Storage Cellar/Barn):

Expansion for the Chicken Coop can happen one of two ways:

* The “Expand” button – asks you to make a post about a barn raising. Ten of your neighbors will need to click on the feed post over the next three days to create the expansion.
* The “Buy” button—instead of the barn raising, you can purchase the next expansion for ten (10) Farm Cash.

Each expansion increases the number of chickens the coop can hold by twenty (20). If you had previously expanded your coop to sixty before the added expansions, you can now expand two times more, each expansion adding the ability to hold twenty more chickens.

Once you have the ability to store one hundred chickens, your Chicken Coop now becomes the Super Coop.

Start expanding your Chicken Coop now!

Updated Market Guide

2010-11-24T04:18:00.001-08:00

The Market has been completely updated! We’ve integrated a lot more functionality to the FarmVille Market, added some new features, and streamlined the user interface to give you a much more enjoyable shopping experience.

Note: Currently only some of you will see the new Market while we make sure everything is working properly. Don’t worry, soon enough you will all get access to it!

Black Rose seeds: Right now the giftable Black Rose seeds are not showing up in the updated Market. You haven’t lost them, they’re just not displaying—we’ll get that fixed soon.

Navigating the Updated Market

You can access the Market by simply clicking on the Market button at the bottom right of the FarmVille screen as always. The Market is now divided into seven categories:

* Specials
* Seeds & Trees
* Animals
* Buildings
* Decorations
* Farm Aides
* Clothes

The first time you see the Market you’ll be on the Specials tab by default, though afterwards you’ll be first shown whichever tab you were on the last time you used the Market. The Specials tab is arranged a little differently than the others; you are shown three special items we’d like you to know about, like the Mystery Game, specific Limited Edition theme sets, or other new features. If they are sets of items you can click on the “View” button to look through those selections; other features like the Mystery Game will have a “Play Now!” button that’ll bring you directly to it.

All purchasable items (including Limited Edition theme and other timed items) are split up into the other six categories. You can easily navigate between these categories just by clicking on them. Each category is also split into a number of sub-categories, depending on the category. By default you’ll always be on the “All” subcategory, which displays everything in that category.

Each Market display page shows up to six items; if there are more than six, you’ll see arrows on the right- or left-hand side of the window that you can click on to move between the pages of items. Each item entry has all the information you’re used to seeing in the old Market, including Buy and Sell prices, harvest times, XP gain, how much time left to purchase that item (if it’s on a timer), the Limited Edition theme it’s a part of (if applicable) and an icon representing the item. If the icon has a “?” symbol on the upper left, it’s usually a special item (like a buildable structure) and you can move your mouse over the “?” to see the longer description. An item that cannot be purchased will show the “Locked” image in place of the “Buy” button; moving your mouse over this will tell you why you can’t buy it. The “Send” button will also appear for certain items that you can buy and immediately send to a neighbor.

You’ll also see a “Preview” button under the icon for many of the items.

Clicking this will pop up a new window and show the item on a farm field next to a typical avatar, empty farm plot and a hay bale (for size purposes). This way you can see exactly what it’d look like on your farm.

For Clothes we use the “Try On” button, which will bring you to the Character Customization window.

To the right of the line of sub-category boxes you’ll see the “Sort By” pull-down menu. Here you can select how you want to sort and display the items in that sub-category. For instance, if I click on “Seeds & Trees” and then “Sort By”, I’ll see that I can display all of the seeds and trees in ten different ways such as Lowest Price, Longest Harvest Time, etc. Here we’ve sorted everything by Shortest Harvest Time:

Not all categories will have all of these sorting options, however. The sort method will stay the same as long as you stay in the sub-category, so if you select to sort by “Mastery Level” for “All” on “Seeds & Trees”, this type of sorting will stay as you move through “Fruits”, “Grains”, etc. until you change the way the information is sorted or you change categories.

The last new feature you’ll see with the new Market is the “Best Sellers” strip at the very bottom. Here you can see some of the top selling items in FarmVille at that moment. Moving your mouse cursor over each item will show all the standard information about that item mentioned above, including the “Preview” and “Buy” buttons.

Thanksgiving Limited Edition Items:

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Thanksgiving Limited Edition Items:

Autumn Cow - 22 Farm Cash

Silkie Chicken - 20 Farm Cash
Squash Home - 200000 Coins
Pilgrim Carriage - 15 Farm Cash
Pilgrim Girl - 12 Farm Cash
Turkey Balloon - 50000 Coins
Pumpkin Planter - 8000 Coins

Winter Holiday Limited Edition Items:

Gum Drop Tree - 20 Farm Cash
Mini Train Set - 25 Farm Cash
Santa Scarecrow - 100000 Coins

Mystery Game:

* A new Mystery Game is now available in the Market!

Limited Edition Collections:

The new Holiday Limited Time Collection is now available!

Limited Edition White Pumpkin Recipe:

Harvest those Limited Edition Pumpkins, Farmers! Now you can use your White Pumpkin bushels to make an exclusive Limited Edition recipe for your Bakery, Spa, and Winery! But start crafting soon, as these recipes will only be available for a limited time!

Thanksgiving Limited Edition Items Autumn Harvest Edition Items

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Thanksgiving Limited Edition Items:

Harvest Horse - 26 Farm Cash
Silver Turkey - 18 Farm Cash
Fall Home - 15 Farm Cash
Cow Balloon - 5 Farm Cash
Horse Balloon - 5 Farm Cash
Autumn Gourds - 2 Farm Cash
Gourds - 1 Farm Cash
Wreath Fence - 5000 Coins
Black Pumpkin - 2500 Coins
White Pumpkin - 2500 Coins
Agricultural Alchemy Limited Edition Items:

Griffin - 40 Farm Cash
Wizard Lab - 36 Farm Cash
Sorcerer Pig - 18 Farm Cash
Magic Books - 10 Farm Cash
Mystery Game:

A new Mystery Game is now available in the Market!

Limited Edition Crops:
White Pumpkin (Level 5) - Grows in 8 hours, grants 1 XP, costs 100 coins to plant and yields 150 coins when harvested. This crop can be mastered and will be available until 12/17.

New Trees:

Bubblegum Tree (Level 2 Tree) - Can be grown from the level 1 Cotton Candy and Snow Cone tree or purchased for 30 Farm Cash.

Thanksgiving Basket Guide

2010-11-19T00:50:00.001-08:00

Thanksgiving Basket Guide

It’s the season to give thanks in FarmVille and what better way of doing that than distributing some tasty Dishes to your neighbors and collecting enough to redeem some exclusive prizes along the way? Place your Thanksgiving Basket today and start the feast right away!

You’ll get your Thanksgiving Basket for free the first time you play FarmVille after the update, and you will immediately be entered into Placement Mode. You can place the Thanksgiving Basket on your farm now, or you can choose to place it in your Gift Box for use later. You’ll need to be level 5 or higher in order to place and use the Thanksgiving Basket.

Dishing Out the Goods

Once the Thanksgiving Basket is on the farm you can click on it, then select “Look Inside” and you’ll see this window:

The Thanksgiving Basket works like many of the other “basket”-type events in FarmVille. You can gather various Dishes and put them into the basket and then redeem these Dishes for one of six exclusive prizes like the “Thank Ewe” and “Harvest Fountain”.

You can acquire Dishes by:

* Requesting a Dish from your neighbors directly (by clicking on the “Ask for Dishes” button).
* Receive a Dish from a neighbor who uses the Free Gifts page.
* Purchase 5 Dishes at a time by clicking on the “Buy Dishes” button (for 5 Farm Cash).
* Opening a Special Delivery Box.
* Harvesting your Turkey Roost.

As you gather the Dishes in your Gift Box, just click on the “Use” button and they’ll go into your Thanksgiving Basket. The corn meter will fill up on the left side of the basket window as you add in more Dishes. You can click on the “Comparison” button to compare how many Dishes you’ve accumulated with your neighbors.

The five Dishes that are available (and can be gifted) are:

Each counts as a Dish and it doesn’t matter which you Redeem for prizes. To get a prize, simply click on the “Redeem” button next to the prize you want—if you have enough Dishes (the available number of Dishes is at the top of the window) you’ll be asked to confirm the purchase, and if you hit “Accept” the prize will be stored in your Gift Box:

The look of the Thanksgiving Basket on the farm and your event “title” also changes depending on how many Dishes you’ve accumulated:

If you sell the Thanksgiving Basket, you can purchase a new one for 5,000 coins in the Market. After December 1, 2010 you will no longer be able to gift additional Dishes, ask for additional Dishes, or purchase Dishes with Farm Cash from the Market. The Thanksgiving Basket will also be removed from the Market and Dishes will no longer be available with the Special Delivery Box.
Get your Thanksgiving Basket today!

Fun House.....

2010-11-16T02:26:00.001-08:00

The Fun House Limited Edition buildable is now available in FarmVille! You can now use your building parts to construct this addition to your Country Fair Limited Edition collection for a limited time.

Building your Fun House

You can purchase your Fun House frame for 5,000 Coins in the Marketplace, and will then be entered into Placement Mode:

You will need a grand total of 54 parts (18 bricks, 18 nails and 18 wooden boards) to complete your Fun House:

Like other constructable 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 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.

* Parts awarded through Special Delivery Boxes.
* Using individual parts available in your Gift Box.

The Fun House appearance will change as you build it:

You can only have one Fun House on your farm at any one time. If you happen to sell your Fun House, you can buy a new frame in the Market under the Buildings tab before the end of the promotion (at the end of the month). The cost is 5,000 coins.

* You can neither expand, or collect items from Fun Houses.
* The Fun House is storable.

End of Event Notes

After the end of this limited edition event (November 30, 2010) you will not be able to purchase a new Fun House frame in the Market. However you will still be able to complete a Fun House still in construction.
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Some More Limited Edition Items

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Country Fair Limited Edition Items:

Pinto Pony - 24 Farm Cash
Dwarf Goat - 14 Farm Cash

Festival Band - 42 Farm Cash

Garlic Stand - 250000 Coins

Deluxe Carousel - 35 Farm Cash

Giant Slide - 30 Farm Cash

Racing Booth - 3000 Coins

Cotton Candy Machine - 2000 Coins

New Market Items

* Forest Horse - 30 Farm Cash
* Autumn Horse -30 Farm Cash
* Wild Turkey - 18 Farm Cash
* Evergreen Train - 20 Farm Cash
* Green Car - 120000 Coins
* Green Caboose - 7 Farm Cash

New Free Gifts

* Orange Mums- Level 1
* Yellow Mums- Level 1 (FV.com exclusive)

Turkey Roost!

2010-11-11T00:09:00.000-08:00

Please note: This feature is currently only available to a randomly selected group of users. We will be slowly releasing this feature to all users to ensure the health and stability of the application.

It’s Turkey time in FarmVille! We’ve introduced a whole new limited edition building to house your Turkeys: the Turkey Roost! Now you can store (after expansion) up to 40 turkeys in one building, share new Baby Turkeys with your neighbors, and collect Fruit Cake for use in the near future.

Building your Roost

You’ll get the frame for the Turkey Roost for free the first time you play FarmVille after the update, and you will immediately be entered into Placement Mode. You can place the Turkey Roost frame on your farm now, or you can choose to place it in your Gift Box for use later. You’ll need to be level 5 in order to place and use the Turkey Roost.

The Turkey Roost is a constructable building, so you’ll need a grand total of 30 parts (10 bricks, 10 nails and 10 wooden boards) to finish it:

Like other constructable 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 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.

* Parts awarded through Special Delivery Boxes.
* Using individual parts available in your Gift Box.

The look of the Turkey Roost changes as you build it:

You can only have one Turkey roost on your farm at any one time. If you happen to sell your Turkey Roost, you can buy a new frame in the Market under the Buildings tab before the end of the promotion (at the end of the month). The cost is 5,000 coins.

Using Your Roost

Turkey Roosts basically need turkeys in order to work—they don’t do much sitting empty by themselves. Click on your completed Roost—you’ll see an option to “Ask For Turkeys”, which will make a post to your feed asking your neighbors for turkeys, and to “Look Inside”. Looking inside right now will show you this:

As you put various turkeys into your Roost, they’ll show up inside. You can acquire turkeys by:

* Posting in your feed asking for turkeys (see above)
* Buying turkeys in the market (like the Wild Turkey)
* Grabbing a Baby Turkey from a neighbor’s Turkey Roost feed (see below)
* Through in-game events (like the Lonely Turkey, or as a flash gift, or maybe even the Animal Feed Trough).

You can put turkeys in the Turkey Roost simply by placing them directly in your Roost if you buy them or are placing through the Gift Box or Storage Cellar. If the turkeys are already on your farm you can just use Move and click on the Turkey Roost to move them in.

The Turkey Roost is harvestable once every 24 hours. When it’s at 100% ready (move the mouse cursor over the Roost to check on it), click on the Turkey Roost to harvest. You will get:

* The total amount of coins you can get for harvesting all of the turkeys in the Roost at once.
* The possibility of getting some Fruit Cake.
* The possibility of being able to give your FarmVille neighbors a Baby Turkey.

The Fruit Cake is a special item that you will need in the near future (so be on the lookout). Note that you do not get a Baby Turkey yourself, but just the possibility of giving one to your neighbors by posting a notice to your feed. The higher the number of turkeys in your Roost, the better the chance of getting the Fruit Cake/Baby Turkey rewards.

Also note that Baby Turkeys do not grow up while in the Turkey Roost.

Expanding Your Roost

A standard Turkey Roost can hold up to twenty (20) turkeys and may look like this when you click “Look Inside”:

However you may expand your Roost if you wish by clicking on “Expand Roost”. You can expand your Roost twice, and each expansion will allow you to hold ten (10) more turkeys. The first expansion will cost a total of forty-five (45) building parts, while the second expansion will cost sixty (60) building parts. You can acquire, purchase, and ask for more building parts in the exact same way when you were building the Turkey Roost.

End of Event Notes

After the end of this limited edition event (December 1, 2010) you will not be able to purchase a new Turkey Roost frame in the Market, nor will you be able to acquire Fruit Cakes from harvesting your Turkey Roost. You’ll still be able to complete a Turkey Roost still in construction, expand it, receive Baby Turkeys from neighbors, and ask for turkeys in your feed.

Some More Country Fair Limited Edition Items:

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Country Fair Limited Edition Items:

Emu - 20 Farm Cash
Rex Rabbit -12 Farm Cash
Ferris Wheel - 42 Farm Cash
Roasted Corn Stand - 300000 Coins
Swing Ride - 36 Farm Cash
Farm Float - 17 Farm Cash
Test Strength - 100000 Coins
Fair Sign - 20000 Coins
Popcorn Stand - 2500 Coins

Limited Edition Country Fair Items:

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Limited Edition Country Fair Items:

Cotton Candy Tree - 5 Farm Cash
Pinto Mini Horse - 26 Farm Cash
Carnival Tent - 120000 Coins
Ticket Booth - 40000 Coins
Drop Zone - 50 Farm Cash
Pirate Boat Ride - 25 Farm Cash
Dunk Tank - 200000 Coins
Balloon Stand - 90000 Coins

The Animal Feed Trough Guide

2010-11-08T00:15:00.000-08:00

With the introduction of Animal Feed Troughs you can now purchase a new building for your Farm that, once full of animal feed, can attract one of a number of atypically available animals which you can adopt for your farm. Once you adopt one, your Feed Trough will need to get filled up again in order to attract another farm animal.

Feeds and Troughs

The next time you log into FarmVille after the update you’ll receive an Animal Trough to place on your farm. If you do not choose to place it now it will go into your Gift Box for placement later. Once you click on the Animal Trough and choose “Look Inside” you’ll see this window:

Next you’ll need to get the Animal Trough filled—it’ll take 20 units of Animal Feed to top off the Trough. You can acquire Animal Feed one of two ways—you can buy it by clicking on the “Buy Feed” button and purchasing Animal Feed one unit at a time for 1 Farm Cash each.

When your neighbors visit your farm, they can click on your Animal Trough to give you one unit of Animal Feed (or, if you visit them, you can click on their Animal Trough and gift them a unit of Animal Feed). If you click on the “Ask For Feed” you’ll be prompted to put a notice up on your Facebook feed asking for more Animal Feed. You can also acquire more Animal Feed through feed posts.

The Animal Feed Trough window shows visually how full your Trough is, and has six mug shots of the animals known to be nearby that may wander onto your farm. Animals will drop out of the rotation eventually and new animals inserted, so the six won’t stay the exact same for long.

The visual state of the Animal Trough changes as it fills up with Animal Feed:

Adopting a new farm animal

Once the Animal Trough is filled with Animal Feed you’ll get this notice:

Sometime in the next day or so an animal will stop by and enter the Animal Trough. You’ll be able to tell by the fact that the light above the building entrance is green, the doors are closed, and the feed has been drained (see comparison image above). If you visit the Animal Trough in time, you will be successful in adopting the animal for your farm (and you’ll have the option to share one with your neighbors):

All of your Animal Feed will be used up and you’ll need to fill your Animal Trough back up again to get another animal.

However, if you wait too long (more than a couple of days), the animal will go away. You’ll see this window instead:

By losing the animal you’ll only lose 2 units of Animal Feed, so you’ll have 18 units instead. The mug shot board in the Animal Trough will reflect which animals you’ve adopted and which still remain to be adopted.

Black Rose Crop: New Gifting Seeds!

2010-11-08T00:05:00.000-08:00

Black Rose Crop: New Gifting Seeds!

Giftable seeds have come to FarmVille! Now you can gift your neighbors seed packets to grow the new Black Rose crop. Head to the FarmVille Marketplace and click the GET button under the Black Rose crop to request Black Rose seeds for your farm!

Orchards...........

2010-11-07T23:56:00.000-08:00

With the introduction of Orchards farmers can now group their trees into a new type of building that can be harvested for special mystery seeds. Tree Mastery has also been added for those who truly love their trees. Unlike other buildings where you can place items inside, all of the different trees are visible within, so you can make colorful and compact unique displays.

Building Orchards

You’ll get your first Orchard frame for free the first time you play FarmVille after it updates, and will immediately be entered into Placement Mode. You can place the Orchard frame on your farm now, or you can choose to place it in your Gift Box for use later. There are no level restrictions for the Orchard.

The Orchard is a constructable building, so you’ll need a grand total of 30 parts (10 bricks, 10 nails and 10 wooden boards) to finish it. Like other constructable buildings, you can ask your neighbors for these parts by posting to your feed, give parts to your neighbors via the Free Gifts page, or acquire new parts by purchase (with Farm Cash) or through Special Delivery Boxes. If you have some leftover parts in your Gift Box you can also use those.

Once an Orchard is fully complete, you can choose to start building another one by buying an incomplete Orchard frame in the Market (for 1,000 coins) or a fully complete Orchard (30 Farm Cash). You can have as many Orchards as you have farm space for, provided you are building only one at a time.

Making Your Orchards Pretty

Each Orchard can hold up to 20 trees, which you can move into the Orchard simply by clicking on tree, selecting Move, and then clicking on the Orchard you want to move the tree in to. Visually the Orchard will show each of the individual trees you put into it. You cannot directly choose where the trees are placed in the Orchard, but you can choose the order by which they go into the Orchard, and that order determines how the Orchards look visibly.
This means that the look of the Orchard can change wildly depending on the trees you put into it. Orchards can also be lined up and arrayed quite easily, so making large colorful displays is entirely possible.

You can also look inside the Orchard by clicking on it and choosing “Look Inside”. Here you can see all the types of trees currently in the Orchard, and lets you remove trees individually from the Orchard. If you click on “Buy More Trees” you’ll be taken to the Market page for Trees; “Ask for Trees” will make a post in your feed asking for more trees. You’ll also see 3 stars by each type of tree as well as a separate button for Tree Mastery—see that section below for more details!

The Mysterious Seeds

An Orchard is harvestable once every 48 hours. When you harvest it, you’ll gain the total amount of coins each of the trees would normally give during a harvest if they were placed individually on the farm.

Harvesting an Orchard may also give you a Mystery Seed. When this happens you’ll get a notice, and the Mystery Seed will be placed in your Gift Box. The Mystery Seed is a new tree—the exact identity of the type of tree depends on the makeup of the Orchard. For example, if your Orchard has 15 Apricot Trees and 5 Guava Trees, chances are the Orchard will produce an Apricot seedling rather than a Guava seedling. In addition, the Mystery Seed is an upgraded version of tree that produced it. To continue the example used above, if the seedling comes from an Apricot tree then it will produce an Apricot Golden tree (a Level 2 tree). Note that some Level 2 trees may already be available in FarmVille in one form or another, and they do not produce anything better than Level 2 trees (there are no Level 3 trees… yet). That doesn’t mean you can’t have them in your Orchard though!

You won’t know what kind of tree it is until it’s fully grown. In order to grow a Mystery Seed into a tree, you’ll need to first place it on the farm and then water it ten times. You can gift individual Water Cans through the Free Gifts page (and that’s how you can receive them from your neighbors), or you can buy them from the Market for 1 Farm Cash each. To water the sapling, simply click on it and choose the Watering option (if you don’t have any Water Cans, you can use the menu to ask or buy for more).

Once watered ten times, the Mystery Seed will now be fully grown into the new tree. This new tree acts like any other tree—you can harvest it individually, move it, store it, or put it back into the Orchard.

Master Your Trees

Harvesting trees will also now contribute to Tree Mastery! That’s right, you can now Master all of the different Tree types and receive Mastery Signs for them. In this fashion they work just like crop mastery—each time you harvest a tree it leads towards mastery of that tree (whether the tree is on the farm or in an Orchard). You can earn 3 stars for each tree type, which is also reflected in the Tree Mastery Sign (which you’ll earn for getting the first star for that tree). Level 1 and Level 2 trees are both masterable. Once you’ve harvested a tree type enough to get the first star, you’ll see a reward window and the Mastery Sign will show up in your Gift Box.

You can check on how far along your Mastery is in a couple of ways. When you look inside the Orchard you can see how many stars you’ve earned for each tree as well as the progress bar that shows how far you have to go to get the next star. You can see the same level of information by clicking on the revised “Collections” button in the UI menu on the bottom right.

Previously you were able to select from “Collections” or “Ribbons” but now you have a third option for “Masteries”. That will bring you to the new Masteries windows, which visually shows all of your Crop and Tree masteries. This is also the window you’ll see if you click on the “Tree Masteries” button in the Orchard window.

More Halloween Limited edition Items

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Halloween Limited Edition Items:

Candy Corn Pony - 24 Farm Cash
Haunted Tower - 28 Farm Cash
Haunted Lake - 32 Farm Cash
Super Chicken - 20 Farm Cash
Gargoyle Statue - 6,000 Coins
Pilot Pig - 18 Farm Cash (Hunts for white truffle)
Spooky Cave - 30 Farm Cash
Palm Monster -10 Farm Cash
Sheep Tomb Stone - 8,000 Coins
Super Chicken - 20 Farm Cash
Pumpkin Cottage - 34 Farm Cash
Haunted House - 60 Farm Cash (Re-Release)
Ghost Gnome - 12 Farm Cash
Spooky Forest - 10 Farm Cash
Tombstone - 6,000 Coins (Ghost cow)
Candelabra - 70,000 Coins
Spooky Tree - 5,000 Coins

Halloween Limited Edition Items:

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Halloween Limited Edition Items:

Nightmare - 26 Farm Cash (Produces Nightmare Foals)
Clever Cub - 20 Farm Cash
Frankenstein Lab - 42 Farm Cash (Animated, Not rotatable)
Halloween Train - 25 Farm Cash
Halloween Car - 120,000 Coins (Rotatable)
Halloween Cart - 7 Farm Cash (Rotatable)
Franken Gnome -12 Farm Cash
Franken Bride -100,000 Coins
Ghostcrow - 12 Farm Cash
Jack O Lanterns - 3,000 Coins
Dreadful Fence - 5,000 Coins

The Animal Feed Trough Guide

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Autumn Theme Limited Eedition Items gifts and Crops

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Limited Edition Autumn Items:

Pumpkin Sheep - 10 Farm Cash
Pumpkin Market - 36 Farm Cash
Autumn Pond - 28 Farm Cash
Sugar Maple - 4 Farm Cash
Hayride Wagon - 80,000 Coins
Autumn Fence - 5,000 Coins
Corn Fence - 4,000 Coins
Castle Fence - 5000 Coins

New Gifts on Farmville.com:

Red Maple Tree
Red Maple Leaves

New Crops:

Columbine (Level 44) – Grows in 4 hours, grants 1 XP, costs 340 coins to plant and yields 380 coins when harvested. This crop can be mastered.

Orange Daisies (Level 59) - Grows in 1 day, grants 2 XP, costs 410 coins to plant and yields 590 coins when harvested. This crop can be mastered. (You must have mastered Gladiolus to unlock this crop.)

More Halloween Items and Free Gifts

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Limited Edition Halloween Items:

Skeleton Horse - 24 Farm Cash
Haunted Hut - 36 Farm Cash
Pumpkin Fountain - 24 Farm Cash
Scaredycrow - 22 Farm Cash
Mummy Gnome - 12 Farm Cash
Pumpkin Fence - 5,000 Coins

Free Halloween Gifts:

Orange Round Hay
Jet Black Round Hay
Purple Round Hay (Farmville.com only)

New Crop:

Candy Corn (Level 5) – Grows in 4 hours, grants 1 XP, costs 20 coins to plant and yields 60 coins when harvested. This crop can be mastered. Available until 11/9/10.

Limited Edition Haloween Items

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Limited Edition Halloween Items:

Caramel Apple Tree - 5 Farm Cash
Count Duckula - 14 Farm Cash
Candy Corn Home - 38 FarmCash
Pumpkin Tower -18 Farm Cash
Giant Spider Web - 8 Farm Cash >
Spooky Bush - 4 Farm Cash
Witch Scarecrow - 80,000 Coins
Cat-O’-Lantern - 40,000 Coins
Plant Monster - 30,000 Coins

Halloween Candy Quick Guide....

2010-10-18T01:20:00.000-07:00

The wait is finally over and Halloween Candy Baskets are now available! With these Baskets you can redeem your accumulated Candy for special Halloween items unavailable anywhere else. Plus, if you still don’t have enough, you can still get more!

If you’ve seen our other collection baskets before (like the recent Haiti backpack) this one works very much the same way. Put the Halloween Candy in the basket, and you can then redeem the Candy for one of six cool new Halloween-themed items. Be sure to use your Candy now, because they could be going away soon after Halloween.

Using your Candy Basket

You’ll get your Candy Basket the next time you launch FarmVille after the update, and you’ll be put right into Placement Mode (alternatively you can also buy it in the Market). Once you’ve placed the Candy Basket on your farm, click on it, then select “Look Inside” to open up the Candy Basket Window.

Here you can see how much Candy you’ve placed in the Basket (at first there won’t be any because you have to put them in the Basket from the Gift Box), the prizes you’ve unlocked and how much Candy you’ll need to redeem for them, the option to Buy additional Candy or ask friends for more, and a button to the Comparison window.

Once you start putting Candy in the Basket, the meter on the left will grow. Total Candy indicates how much Candy you’ve put in all together, while Candy Available shows how much you have left to spend. Click on the green “Redeem” button on each item you wish to purchase (assuming you have enough Candy, if you don’t the button will be greyed out). All purchased items will go straight into the Gift Box—and you’ll get the option to share an extra one with your friends!

The Candy Basket on the farm will also grow in size depending on how much Total Candy you’ve accumulated. Here are the sizes and the titles that go with them:

If you didn’t manage to collect enough Candy, don’t fret. You can still get more by visiting your own or neighbors’ Haunted Houses. In addition, you can use the “Ask For Candy” button in the Candy Basket window to ask your friends for more, or the “Buy Candy” button which will confirm that you want to spend 5 Farm Cash for 5 pieces of Candy. Finally you can give your friends and neighbors Candy with the Free Gifts button and finding the Candy option:

Finally, the Comparison button will show you how your ability to accumulate Candy compares with all your neighbors.

Make Your Farmer Look beautiful

2010-10-18T01:10:00.000-07:00

You now have the ability to more fully customize your FarmVille character with all new types of clothing, including shirts, bottoms, shoes, accessories and a variety of costumes, just in time for Halloween!

A few basic clothing types will already be in your inventory, and the rest you can browse through before purchasing. You can even see how they look on you before cracking open that wallet (or purse). All you need is to be level 4!

The Revised Character Customization Window

You can still get to the Character Customization window at any time by simply clicking on your character on the Farm. We’ve also added a little reminder icon on the left side of the screen. The window itself has been re-arranged and revised to reflect the addition of Clothing:

The Gender button lets you change your gender as usual. Once you move your mouse over the Facial Features or Clothing buttons, a pull-down menu will appear with all of the different categories for each:

The Facial Features section works much the same as before: you can change your face type, hair, eyes, eyebrows, nose, ears, mouth, skin tone and facial hair types in a variety of manners, all for free.

Gettin’ Some New Digs

The Clothing section is split into two halves: what you have currently in your inventory (which does not count against Gift Box or storage space) for each Clothing category, and what’s available for purchase. Remember that what’s available for purchase also depends on your Gender.

You have a few clothing options already provided in your inventory for each category. Just click on the Use button to change clothes on your character (which you can see on the right). To acquire new clothing you can easily check to see what’s available for that clothing category (use the right and left arrows to scroll through the selections if there are more than three). Most categories have a selection of both coin and Farm Cash items:

If you want to see how it looks on your character, click the “Try On” label. If you just want to buy it outright, go ahead and click on the “Buy” button. Make sure you double-check what you’re doing—you don’t want to accidentally buy something you’re merely trying on.

When you’re trying on new clothes the “Purchase Total” counter on the bottom right shows the total accumulated cost of new clothes you’re “trying” out. You can only try out one piece of clothing per category at a time, so you can’t have five bottoms tallied up, for instance. However, you can have one bottom, one shirt, one shoe, one accessory, etc. selected at any one time. Moving your mouse cursor over “Purchase Total” will also show an itemized total of what you’ve selected:

If you want to purchase all that, just click on the “Buy Now” button and everything will be bought. If you don’t, click on the “Reset” button and everything will be returned back to the market (your clothing will return to the state you were in before you starting trying on clothes).

If you’re just changing your clothes around, the changes won’t take until you click on “Save and Close” at the bottom of the window.

Outfits and Costumes

Outfits and Costumes are essentially one-off clothing choices—when you put it on you wear the whole thing, with the exception that you can change your shoes with an Outfit, but not with a Costume. Typically Costumes will also be tied to Limited Edition sets or themes and only available for a certain period (but not always). Here are some Costumes available for Halloween:

In the Market

You don’t have to go into the Character Customization window to buy new clothes—they’re all available in the Market. We’ve added a new Clothes tab in the Market at the far right. Click on that, and you can see all of the Clothing categories and purchase options. If click on the “Try it on?” label you will be transported to the Character Customization window.

New Ribbon Added

We’ve also added a new Ribbon to collect for the purchase of clothing: the Style Maven!

Autmn Release........Latest Updates

2010-10-06T05:58:00.000-07:00

Here's some information about autumn release. As you may have already seen Haunted Houses and Trick or Treating is now available, as well as the start of our Autumn Limited Edition theme:

Autumn Horse - 26 Farm Cash

Autumn Cottage - 34 Farm Cash

Autumn Gazebo - 20 Farm Cash

Autumn Gnome - 12 Farm Cash

Autumn Arch - 7 Farm Cash

Rake on Leaves - 2,000 Coins

Maple Leaves - 1,000 Coins

Maple Tree - 5 Farm Cash

The Mystery Game has also been refreshed with the Best of the Mystery Animals theme. This includes some of your favorite Mystery Animals, like the Coyote Pup.

Haunted House.............

2010-10-06T05:53:00.000-07:00

Haunted House........Haloween Candy...........

That scary time of the year is coming once again and we have some great Halloween treats in store for you! Today marks the release of the multi-stage buildable Haunted House and the ability for your neighbors to stop by for some Trick or Treating. Save the Candy, you'll be need it soon!

Guide:
You’ll receive the frame for your Haunted House the first time you launch FarmVille after the update and you’ll be placed immediately in Placement Mode, so you can put it down on your farm now or just store it for later use. Once you have it placed, you can begin construction.

The Haunted House has three tiers where each tier requires successively more materials to make it complete. You can check how on your progress by clicking on the Haunted House frame and selecting “Look Inside” from the options. From within the Haunted House window you can see the progress bar as well as the materials needed to finish the next tier. Each Haunted House tier has a scarily-appropriate name attached:

* Eerie: 8 of Wooden Boards, Nails and Bricks
* Frightening: 10 of Wooden Boards, Nails and Bricks
* Spine-Chilling: 12 of Wooden Boards, Nails and Bricks

Like other constructible buildings, you can acquire Wooden Boards, Nails and Bricks by having your neighbors gift them to you, through Special Delivery Boxes, or by purchase in the Market. You may even have some left over in your inventory.

Each tier of the Haunted House looks different and scarier than the previous one:

However, your new Haunted House is not just a mere decoration. This is Halloween after all! Aside from looking fearsome, you can interact with Haunted Houses in two ways:

* You can visit your Haunted House once every 24 hours to collect Halloween Candy.
* You can visit your neighbor’s Haunted House once every 24 hours to collect Halloween Candy.

This is the Trick or Treat part. How much Halloween Candy you receive depends on the tier of the Haunted House you’re visiting (it doesn’t matter if it’s yours or your neighbor’s):

* Eerie: 1 Halloween Candy
* Frightening: 2 Halloween Candy
* Spine-Chilling: 3 Halloween Candy

So what’s Halloween Candy good for? Well we thought it’d be obvious! For now, just collect them—soon enough you’ll be able to use them for something cool. They’ll be in your Gift Box:

Play FarmVille now to get your Haunted House started!

Crafting Co-op Farming Updates

2010-10-05T05:17:00.000-07:00

This feature is currently only available to a randomly selected group of users. To ensure the health and stability of the application, we will be gradually releasing this feature to all of our players in the near future.

Please note: Due to the gradual release, if you have a Neighbor who has access to this feature, you will be able to participate in their co-op, but not be able to start one of your own.

Crafting Jobs for Co-Op Farming!

With today’s update we’ve added the ability to take on Crafting Co-Op Jobs as well as your Basic Jobs. The Crafting Jobs are all based on the crafting recipes available with their respective Crafting Buildings in FarmVille; each Job requires that a certain number of recipe ingredients need to be planted and harvested before a certain time period in order to get the reward.

The process you go through to start and finish Crafting Jobs is essentially the same as Basic Jobs. Crafting Jobs generally have a longer time limit to complete, and if the availability of which Crafting Jobs you can take depends what recipes you have unlocked with the crafting building(s) you currently own. For example, if you own a 3-star Winery only the first nine Crafting Jobs can be started (the other six are locked) by you. However, you can still participate in a Crafting Job started by a neighbor even though you can’t start it yourself (this means all crafting recipes). Finally, Crafting Jobs can reward XP, coins, and bushels (and goods for those that only have market stalls).

We’ll go through the major differences below.

Access to Crafting Jobs is through the same Co-Op window. Currently you default to “All Jobs”, which shows all available Crafting Jobs. You can also see there is a new Crafting Jobs tab, which will just show you what Crafting jobs will be available for you to start:

Here we have all the Crafting Jobs that associate with winery recipes. If you have unlocked these recipes with your crafting building (in this case, a winery) then you will be able to Start a co-op job for that recipe. If you haven’t unlocked those recipes, the Start button will be grayed out with a “Locked” notice:

Click on the green Start button if you want to see more about that particular Crafting Job:

Here you can see what you’ll need to complete the co-op, how soon to get the medals, and if you move your mouse cursor over the Gold Reward symbol at bottom left and you’ll see the major reward for that Crafting Job. Many Crafting Jobs will reward sets of bushels related to that crafting recipe.
To begin the Crafting Job, click on the Start button.

The rest of the process is almost entirely similar to regular co-op jobs—you can ask your neighbors to join your co-op in order to hit your job deadlines. Your neighbors do not need to have access to those crafting recipes in order to participate in a Crafting Job. As you and your co-op friends seed and harvest crops, the meter is updated accordingly in your Active Jobs listing and as a pop-up in the game itself:

The Crafting Job ends when you meet the goals within the given amount of time, or you run out of time (in which case the reward is nothing). Note that you can purchase additional time with Farm Cash via the green Purchase button on the bottom left of the Active Job window.

As with Normal Jobs the more you contribute to the Crafting Job, the better your reward.

Some More Limited edition Items Oktoberfest

2010-10-05T05:08:00.000-07:00

Greetings, Farmers!

Here is some information regarding latest Farmville release. We hope you enjoy!

Limited Edition Oktoberfest Items:

Black Pied Pig - 18 Farm Cash
Festival Wheel - 38 Farm Cash
Festival Tent - 34 Farm Cash
Festival Carriage - 22 Farm Cash
German Gnome - 18 Farm Cash
Festival Gnome - 18 Farm Cash
Festival Pavilion - 240000 Coins
Cider Stand - 120000 Coins

Mystery Game:

A new Mystery Game is now available in the Market!

Super Combines......One Click Does It All

2010-10-05T04:46:00.001-07:00

Welcome to the amazing world of Super Combines! This new vehicle for FarmVille is a major time-saver, allowing you to harvest, plow, and seed a farm plot all in one fell swoop. The days of individually using plows, seeders and harvesters is now a thing of the past—the future in farm efficiency is here!

“Hey, I want to experience the future!” you cry. With this guide, we’ll show you how. And you won’t even need a time machine. (Unless you think of the Super Combine as a time machine.)

Getting the Future

You can buy acquire your time machine—I mean, Super Combine—in one of two ways. You can purchase the Hot Rod Combine in the Market (under Vehicles) for 110 Farm Cash. If you don’t feel like spending that amount of Farm Cash, you can purchase the Combine Chassis for 500,000 coins instead. Note that the Hot Rod Combine is fully constructed and ready to go—the Combine Chassis is not. You’ll only have these purchase options if you’re level 31 or higher.

Once you purchase the Combine Chassis and place it on your farm, you’ll need to build it out. A fully operational Combine requires 40 vehicle parts, of which 1 is already provided for you. Vehicle parts can be acquired by purchasing them in the Market (for 1 Farm Cash each), or through gifts from other players. You may have a few left over from upgrading your previous vehicles. In any event, you’ll need another 39 vehicle parts to complete the Combine.

Once you’ve built up your Combine, it’s now ready to rumble.

Super Combine Usage

Essentially you use the Super Combine like any other vehicle, with a few exceptions. Click on the Super Combine and choose “Farm All”. The Market display window will pop up so you can choose which seed you’d like to plant. Once you’ve selected a crop, move the cursor over to the plots you want to plant the new crop on and click.

Every time you use the Super Combine on a plot, the overall end result will be that the new crop will be in place. This means that it will automatically harvest, plow, and re-seed the farm plot if those actions can be done. If the plot has a crop on it that is not yet ready for harvesting then you can’t do anything with it. If the plot is fallow (or the crop is withered), the Super Combine will plow and seed it, and if it’s been previously plowed, then the Super Combine will simply seed it. The Super Combine will do this in any combination of plots as well, so if some are fallow, plowed or harvestable—it’ll process them all.

What the Super Combine won’t do however is work on un-used earth—if it hasn’t at least been plowed yet the Super Combine won’t do anything. The Super Combine will also not earn you more XP and coins, or help you save fuel—all of those factors remain the same.

Improving your Super Combine

The regular Combine (level 0) processes 4 plots at a time; the Hot Rod Combine (level 2) will do 9 as it starts off at a higher level. Both are upgradeable via vehicle parts so that they can process more plots at one time. Here’s a chart to show you how many vehicle parts you’ll need to upgrade for each:

Like other vehicles, in order to upgrade you’ll need to move your Super Combine into the Garage. Then click on Look Inside and you’ll see which vehicles you have stored inside. From there you can ask your neighbors for vehicle parts or buy them for 1 Farm Cash each, then apply to them to whichever vehicle you choose.

Farmville Relese 30/09 Latest Limited edition Items

2010-10-05T04:35:00.000-07:00

Here is some information regarding 30/09 release. We hope you enjoy!

Limited Edition German Items:

Black Forest Horse - 26 Farm Cash
German Castle - 50 Farm Cash
Monopteros - 30 Farm Cash
Swan Lake - 30 Farm Cash
Falcon - 18 Farm Cash
Ruins - 200000 Coins
Lamp Post - 5500 Coins
Castle Fence - 5000 Coins

New Dog and Accessories

Dachshund - 65 Farm Cash
Water Bowl - 4 Farm Cash
Red Water Bowl - 5 Farm Cash
Toy Bone - 4 Farm Cash
Dog Toy - 5 Farm Cash

Additional Information:

The following items have been added to the Mystery Eggs:

Wax Apple Tree
Orange Butterfly

Some More Wild West Limited Edition Items

2010-09-03T04:01:00.001-07:00

Limited Edition Wild West Items:

Palouse Horse - 26 Farm Cash
Armadillo - 14 Farm Cash
Wild West Barn - 30 Farm Cash
Wild West Shed - 100000 Coins
Trading Post - 34 Farm Cash
Cactus Garden - 7 Farm Cash
Town Statue - 100000 Coins
Corral Gate - 10000 Coins
Corral Fence - 5000 Coins
Horse Post - 150000 Coins

Additional Information:

* The Potato Onion Bread recipe has been changed from 30 minutes to 6 hours.

More Wid West Limited Items Details and Neighbour visit options

2010-09-03T03:46:00.001-07:00

Personalized Neighbor Visits:
Your neighbors can now help you plow fallow plots, collect from animals and harvest trees.

Your Neighbors CANNOT harvest your crops. They can only plow fallow plots.
Your Neighbors can only harvest your trees, collect from your animals and plow fallow plots. (In addition to the old Neighbor interactions)
If your Neighbor helps you on your farm, they are not "stealing" your coins and XP. When you log-in or refresh, you will get the same amount of coins/XP as you would if you had done those actions yourself.
You have the ability to approve or deny any help your neighbors give you. If they harvest a tree or animal you do not want them to, simply select "deny" and no action will be taken on your farm.
You will not see anymore than 4 friend avatars on your farm at one time, so there is no reason to be concerned about seeing too many of them.

Limited Edition Wild West Items:

Cottontail Rabbit - 12 Farm Cash
Wild West Home - 380,000 Coins
Wild West Hotel - 42 Farm Cash
Ironwood Tree - 4 Farm Cash
Stagecoach - 200,000 Coins
Wagon Wheel Bench - 80000 Coins
Red Tailed Hawk - 18 Farm Cash

Latest Wild West Limited Edition Items

2010-09-03T03:37:00.001-07:00

Truffle Hunting:

It's time to send your pigs on a hunt! Now you can feed your pigs Slop and send them to your Neighbors' farms to find Truffles you can trade in for special items!

Limited Edition Wild West Items:

Buckskin Horse - 26 Farm Cash
Wild Turkey - 16 Farm Cash
Wild West Bank - 36 Farm Cash
Sheriff Station - 380,000 Coins
Wild West Tower - 18 Farm Cash
Saguaro Cactus - 3 Farm Cash
Barrel Cactus - 2 Farm Cash
Wild West Wagon - 90,000 Coins

Storage cellars

2010-08-20T05:07:00.000-07:00

Need more space? Now you can store up to 500 items with the new Storage Cellar! For more information on how this feature works, please review the guide below:
Storage Cellar:

The new storage cellar will allow you to store up to 500 items on your Farm once it is fully expanded. If you are level 16 or above, you will receive the following pop-up upon logging into FarmVille:

The Storage Cellar can be found in your Gift Box, or it can be purchased from the Market for 10,000 coins. To get started with this feature, open your gift box and place the Cellar on your farm.

Once you have placed your Storage Cellar, click on “look inside” from the Cellar’s menu. From here, you can see your progress, how you compare to your friends and your overall storage inventory.

To expand your Storage Cellar, you will need to collect shovels from your friends. Each Shovel that you collect will count as 1 storage space in your new Cellar.

You can collect materials for your Cellar in three different ways:

1. From neighbors via the Free Gifts Menu

Neighbors can send you the Shovels you need to expand your storage from the Free Gifts Page. Each gift sent from the Free Gifts Page will grant you two Shovels. When neighbors send you Shovels, it works exactly like any other free gift. After you accept the gift it will appear in your gift box. After clicking the "use" button under the gift it will automatically be added to your Storage Cellar.

2. Ask For More

When viewing the interior of your Storage Cellar you will see an “Ask for Shovels” button, that when clicked will take you to the Friend Selector page where you can select friends to send Gift Requests to for Shovels. Each gift sent from your Neighbors will grant you two Shovels.

3. Completing with Farm Cash.

If at any time during your construction process you decide that you’d rather simply purchase the Shovels required for the Cellar, you can do so by clicking the “Buy Shovels” button from the Garage’s menu. You can purchase Shovels in packs of 10 for 5 Farm Cash.

Using your Storage Cellar:

With the release of the Storage Cellar, we have increased the total storage capacity to 500.

As all storage on your Farm is part of one shared inventory, if you already have items stored in other buildings, they will count towards the new 500 limit. (For example, if you already have 100 items stored on your Farm in existing Storage Buildings, you will only be able to store 400 additional items in the Cellar once it is fully expanded.)

If you choose to not use the Storage Cellar, your Storage limit will still have increased to the new limit of 500. However, using the Storage Cellar will take up less room and provide more storage than using existing Storage Buildings.

If you wish to transfer your items from your other Storage Buildings into the Cellar, you will first have to increase the capacity of the cellar to make room for the items. If you have enough room in your Cellar, you can simply delete your other Storage Buildings and the items will automatically be placed in your Cellar. However, you will not be able to delete a Storage Building if the number of items stored within is greater than the number of spaces you have available in your Storage Cellar.

Redeeming Shovels for Items:

Shovels can be used for more than just increasing the capacity of your Cellar! As you collect Shovels, you will also gain “points”. As you gain points for trading in Shovels, you will be able to unlock new items. Clicking the “progress” tab in your Cellar’s information page will show you what items you can redeem with your points. As you collect points, each item you can unlock will be revealed as you collect the proper amount, and the "redeem" button will become available for each item. Clicking "Redeem" will award you the gift in return for the proper amount of points.

Additional Information:

Once placed on your Farm, the Storage Cellar cannot be sold or deleted.
The Comparison Button in the Cellars menu will show how many shovels you have collected in comparison to your friends.
You may only have one Storage Cellar on your farm at a time.
You cannot store Storage Buildings in your Storage Cellar.

Latest Limited Edition items and Crops

2010-08-07T03:59:00.000-07:00

Limited Edition Items:

Miniature Horse -
26 Farm Cash (This horse has a chance of producing a Miniature Foal when placed in your Horse Stable. Miniature Foals will grow into the new Cream Miniature Horse when placed in the Nursery Barn.)
Heirloom Apple - 10,000 Coins
Stone Villa - 50 Farm Cash
Village Center - 36 Farm Cash
Flower Bridge - 42 Farm Cash
Rose Arch - 7 Farm Cash
Quilts – 10,000 Coins

Crops:

Lady Slippers (Level 15) – >
Grows in 6 hours, grants 1 XP, costs 70 Coins to plant and yields 115 Coins when Harvested. This crop cannot be mastered.

Landscape:
The new Beach Landscape can be purchased for 1000 Coins from the “Upgrade Farm” section of the Market.

Mystery Game:

The Mystery Game has been restocked with brand new prizes! Throw a dart... win a prize. It's that simple! Start playing for your chance to win a Miniature Stallion or other rare “mini” animals!

Limited edition Items Latest

2010-08-07T03:48:00.000-07:00

Limited Edition Items:

Cliff II - 60,000 Coins
Coastal Hideaway - 350,000 Coins
Coastal Mansion - 42 Farm Cash
Goldfinch Birds - 14 Farm Cash
Coastal Picnic - 70,000 Coins
Hydrangea - 10,000 Coins
Cord of Wood - 2,000 Coins

Garages

2010-08-07T03:39:00.000-07:00

You can now store and upgrade your Vehicles in the new Garage! For more information on how this feature works, please review the guide below:

Please note: This feature is currently only available to some users. We will be slowly rolling this feature out to all of our users soon.

Garages:

Garages are used to store Tractors, Harvesters and Seeders. You can also use the Garage to upgrade your Vehicles so you can farm faster than ever before! If you are level 22 and above, you can purchase a Garage Frame from the Market for 50,000 Coins.

Building the Garage is very similar to building a Japanese Barn. To construct your Garage, you will need to collect 10 Boards, 10 Bricks and 10 Nails.

Once you have placed your Garage Frame, click on “look inside” from the Garage’s menu. Doing so will open a page that displays what you need to complete your Garage. You can collect materials for your garage in three different ways:

1. From neighbors via the Free Gifts Menu

Neighbors can send you the components you need to build your Garage. Your Neighbors will be able to send you one of the three types of building components to help you finish your Garage.

Please note that the components displayed on the Free Gifts Page are randomized. As such, the components displayed on the Free Gifts Page may be different for each player. Each player should be able to send one component specific to the Garage.

When neighbors send you a building component, it works exactly like any other free gift. After you accept the gift it will appear in your gift box. After clicking the "use" button under the gift it will automatically be added to your Frame.

2. Ask For More

When viewing the interior of your unfinished Garage Frame, each component that you have not yet received 10 of has an ‘Ask For More’ button, that when clicked will take you to the Friend Selector page where you can select friends to send Gift Requests to for your chosen component.

3. Completing with Farm Cash.

If at any time during your construction process you decide that you’d rather simply purchase the individual items required for the Garage, you can do so by clicking the “buy” button underneath a component in the Garage’s menu. Alternatively, if you do not wish to buy the parts for the Garage individually, you can click the “Complete Now” button.

Once your Garage is complete, it can be used to hold up to 20 vehicles on your Farm. Completing your Garage also unlocks the ability to upgrade your Vehicles.

To upgrade a Vehicle, place it in your Garage and click “look inside”. You will see the following menu that will display all of your stored vehicles.

Upgrading your Vehicles will increase the amount of plots they affect (2x2, 3x3 etc). The higher level your Vehicle is, the more plots it will affect. Currently, the highest you can level your Vehicles to level 4.

Upgrading Vehicles requires Vehicle Parts. You can obtain Vehicle Parts two ways:

1. Ask For More

When viewing the Garage’s menu, you will see an ‘Ask For Parts’ button, that when clicked will take you to the Friend Selector page where you can select friends to send Gift Requests to for Vehicle Parts.

2. Completing with Farm Cash.

If at any time during your upgrade process you decide that you’d rather simply purchase the Vehicle Parts, you can do so by clicking the “Buy Parts” button that can be found in the Garage’s menu.

Once you have parts, you will see the following menu. From this menu you can select which Vehicle you would like to apply the Vehicle Part to.

Each Vehicle Level requires the following:

* Level 1: 2 Parts
* Level 2: 5 Parts
* Level 3: 10 Parts (Must be level 26 or above)
* Level 4: 15 Parts (Must be level26 or above)

Once you complete a level on your Vehicle, you will receive a pop-up that will allow you to post a feed to your wall. The first 10 Neighbors who click on this feed will receive 1 Vehicle Part.

All Vehicles that are stored in your Garage can still be used as normal. At the time, you may only have one Garage on your Farm and Biplanes cannot be stored in them.

Happy Farming!

Update on 27/ July Latest Items and Crops

2010-07-30T06:39:00.000-07:00

Limited Edition Items:

Morgan Horse - 24 Farm Cash
Vacation Estate - 50 Farm Cash
New England Barn - 30 Farm Cash
New England Shed - 24 Farm Cash
Covered Bridge - 400,000 Coins
White Pine Tree - 4 Farm Cash
Cliff - 70,000 Coins

Crops:

Red Clover (Level 8) – Grows in 6 hours, grants 1 XP, costs 50 Coins to plant and yields 100 Coins when harvested.

Mystery Game:

The Mystery Game has been restocked with all new prizes! Start playing for your chance to win an Ornate Cottage or other rare items!

Additional Information:

The Goji Berry crop is being moved from the first page of the Market. It can now be found with the fruits.
Animal Buildings can now be harvested with one click! When your Animal Building is ready, simply click on it to collect from your animals. If you wish to move your Building, simply use the “Move” Tool.
The Daily Fuel Boost promotion is now a permanent feature!

New Limited Edition Items!

2010-07-30T06:23:00.000-07:00

Limited Edition Items:

Puffin - 14 Farm Cash
Antique Shop - 42 Farm Cash
Crab Shack – 350,000 Coins
Trawler Gnome - 18 Farm Cash
Coastal Beach - 16 Farm Cash
Nelly Moser – 50,000 Coins

Limited Edition Crops:

Hollyhocks (Level 39) – grows in 18 hours, grants 2 XP, costs 210 Coins to plant and yields 350 Coins when harvested.

This crop is Masterable.

Crafting Buildings..if you haven't got one you 'll get this week..

2010-07-24T03:49:00.000-07:00

Crafting Buildings are now here! For more information on this feature, please review the following guide.

Please note: This feature is slowly being rolled out to everyone over the next few days. As such, not all users will be able to access this feature immediately.

Crafting Buildings:

If you are level 25 and above, you will be able to turn your bushels into crafted goods with the new Crafting Buildings feature.

Upon logging into FarmVille, you will see the following pop-up.

This brief tutorial explains the basic functionality of this feature. Scroll your cursor over each of the boxes within the pop-up to see more detailed information about how Crafting Buildings work.

Now it is time to pick your profession. There are three types of Crafting Buildings available; The Winery, Bakery and Spa. Each building features its own unique set of recipes you can use to create crafted goods.

If you did not pick a profession when the Crafting Buildings preview was released, you will see the following pop-up.

This pop-up shows you how many of your friends have selected each type of building. Clicking “What is this” will give you more detailed information on each of the buildings. Once you have decided on your profession, clicking “Yes, Place” will close the pop-up and let you place your new building on your Farm for free.

If you already selected a profession in the Crafting Buildings preview, you will receive a different pop-up. If you are happy with your initial selection, simply click “yes, place”. If you would like to choose a different profession at this time, click “choose another”. This will bring you to the menu mentioned above where you can select the building of your choice.

Upon placing your building, you will be able to post a feed to your wall informing your friends of your new business. The first 5 friends who click on this feed within 24 hours will receive 1 of the following items: (Please note: The item your friends receive from your feed depends on the profession you selected)

Baker : Lvl 10 Triple Berry Pie
Spa Host: Lvl 10 Relaxation Candle
Wine Maker: Lvl 10 Tropical Wine

Your Buildings Recipe menu will automatically appear once you have posted a feed.

In this menu, you will start with one level 10 good that is 1 minute from completion. You will also see one empty crafting spot.

Clicking on “Make a good” will bring you to your recipes menu. Here, you will be able to make your first crafted good. Depending on what profession you have selected, your default recipe will be different. Click “Make it” from the bottom of the menu to create your good.

Remember, to make recipes, you need to collect bushels from your friends. These bushels are the key ingredients for your goods.

Once you have made your good, it needs time to cook. Click on “Make Goods” to return to the main menu. Once you have done this, you will see that the level 10 good you started with is now complete. Click on the “Finish it” button.

Once you have done this, you will receive the following pop-up that will allow you to post a feed to your wall. The first three neighbors who click this feed within 24 hours will get 1 of the type of good made.

Clicking on “goods I am selling” from the crafting menu will show you the goods you currently have for sale. Selling goods improves existing recipes and unlocks new ones! Each time you sell a good to your Neighbors, you will receive 1 recipe experience point.

Down the bottom of this menu is your “Sales Report”. This report shows you what goods you have sold and how many were purchased. If Neighbors purchased from your store while you were away, a bouncing arrow will appear over your building. Clicking on this will show the following menu.

You earn 90% of the sale price of items sold. The Daily Sales Report will display the amount of total coins and experience earned in your absence.

If you wish to make a thriving business, you will need to level your Building. The level of your Building determines the number of crafting spots you have available for use. Leveling your building will also unlock new recipes.

You can level your Building with Farm Cash by clicking the “Cash Upgrade” option or you can level with coins by unlocking the option. To unlock the coin option, you have to level a certain amount of recipes. Please see the requirements below:

1 Star: Level up recipes 6 times + 50,000 coins
2 Star: Level up recipes 18 times + 100,000 coins
3 Star: Level up recipes 27 times + 400,000 coins
4 Star: Level up recipes 36 times + 1,000,000 coins

Leveling a recipe is quite simple. Each time you make a recipe, it will count towards your level progress. Simply keep making goods of that type to level your recipe up. The higher level your recipe is, the better your crafted goods will be. There is no limit on how high you can level your recipes.

Currently, your Crafting Building can only be upgraded to 5 Stars. Once you have a 5 star Building, the buttons to level with coins/cash will disappear.

When you level your Building, you will receive a pop-up that allows you to post a feed to your wall. The first three neighbors who click this feed within 24 hours will receive a level 3 crafted good.

In addition to selling your crafted goods to your friends, they can also be traded for rewards. To access goods that you have in your inventory, click “Use” from the crafting menu and select “Goods”.

This menu will display how many crafted goods are in your possession. Please note that you can only have 200 Crafted Goods in your inventory at a time. This capacity limit only pertains to your Crafted Goods. Your Bushel inventory does not count towards this capacity.

If you click the “use” button underneath a good, you will trade it for fuel. The higher the level of the crafted good you use, the more fuel you will get. You can see your fuel gauge increase within the inventory menu.

Now that you know how to use your own crafted goods, it’s time to move on to purchasing goods and bushels from your friends. There are two different ways you can visit your Neighbors Buildings.
From the Crafting menu, click “Buy”. You will then see the option to select “Shop for Goods” or “Shop for Bushels”. Clicking “Shop for Goods” will bring up the following menu.

From this menu, you can select the type of good you would like to purchase. Clicking “select” underneath a good will bring up another menu that will automatically display the highest level goods for sale first. Select the good you want to purchase and you will be brought to the following screen:

From this screen you can not only purchase your desired good, you can also shop for bushels from your Neighbor’s store if they are available.
When visiting a friends Farm, simply click on their crafting building to open the menu(s) mentioned above.

Upon purchasing an item from your Neighbor’s store, you will receive a pop-up allowing you to post a feed to their wall informing them of your actions.

The first 3 Neighbors to click this feed within 24 hours will receive 1 good of the same type as the one you purchased.

Remember, Goods purchased from your Neighbors can also be traded for fuel, so make sure to visit their shops often.

If for some reason you wish to delete your Crafting Building, all progress on the level of the Building and recipes will be saved. However, you will lose all goods that are being sold in your store. If you wish to purchase a new Crafting Building, it can be purchased from the “Buildings” section of the Market for 100,000 coins, provided you do not have any other Crafting Buildings on your farm at the time. If you wish to purchase the two additional Buildings, they can be bought for 80 Farm Cash apiece.

You may only own one of each type of Building at a time.