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!

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.

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!