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).

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

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

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


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


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


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

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

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


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

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


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




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

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


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

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



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

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

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


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


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



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


• Potentially through the use of Special Delivery Boxes.


• Using individual parts already available in your Gift Box.

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






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

Putting the Quack in your Duck Pond

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





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




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

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





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







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








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







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







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



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

Limited Edition Winter Wonderland Items:

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

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).

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:

• 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!