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.

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.)

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.

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

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.

Get your Animal Feed Trough in FarmVille now!

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.

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.