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Sunday, May 30, 2010

HOw to get your foals and calf to grow up in your farmville nursery

When you now harvest your nursery it will say tend instead of collect like it used to.  This is because now your foals and calf can grow into adults.  Today my baby green calf grew into a chocolate cow and this is how I think it worked:

Since Saturday I have been trying to get my baby animals to grow into adults for a few days, than somebody told me it works for them all the time.  The person who told me this has a smaller farm and her horse stable is nearly empty.  I decided to see what would happen so I bought another dairy farm and took out 20 of my horses.  Sure enough today my green calf became the chocolate cow.  Although it was disappointing because I really wanted a grown Clydesdale, or even possibly a black pony foal.

If you haven't  done so, you need to either buy your nursery and horse stable, or build it.  For more information on building your nursery click here, these instructions apply also for the horse stable. To gift all the items needed for building click here, this is a list of gifting the Wooden Board, brick, nail, horseshoe and Harness.


Missing those white pony foals or Clydsdale foals, than get the snag bar courtesy of gamers unite!

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Information about the Tuscan Wedding

Farmville usually has a type of theme I have noticed and the start-up of the Tuscan Wedding was a big theme that left all kinds of hints.  Like the golden egg having a school house and a week later the nursery barn's baby animals grow into adults.

For weeks farmville has been leaving hints that where leading up to the tuscan wedding, here is a list of ones that came to mind:

1. Mystery gifts:
    a) the black pig
    b) the siberian goat
    c) Olive Tree

2. The co-op's Frantic Flower's job - need tulips for a wedding, the prize being a wedding Gazebo.

3. The morning glory Co-op job - you received the flower statue that just so happens matches the Tuscan gate arch perfectly.

4. The new chicken, Scot's gray, Cornish, rhode island chickens are hints.  Eggs for cooking and a Cornish hen sounds  pretty tasteful for a wedding reception meal.

4. Even the spring eggs left a trail of hints with hatching giving a flower fountain to friends, although, this is a great item to decorate your wedding scene with if not a hint in the beginning.

Hope you saved that butter churn and milk crate that just happened to be in your gift box one day, those where a great hint as well.  Even the baby nursery seems to be a little bit of a hint, I wonder if somebody has two big events coming up in their personal life...ehem?

Well anyways, you need to send your friends the following gifts.  Also,
Olives can be found from harvesting Olive Trees, Truffles from Pigs, Goat Milk from Goats, and Eggs from chickens!"

  1. Wedding Cake - Cost 10 Favor
  2. David Pig - Cost 20 Favor
  3. Apallo Butterfly's - Cost 35 Favor
  4. Tuscany Fountain - Cost 50 Favor
  5. Spaghetti Sheep - Cost 75 Favor
  6. Tuscany Pisa - Cost 100 Favor
Level 0 - ? - Sedate

Requires 4 of each (i.e. 4 olives, 4 truffles, 4 goat milk, 4 eggs) to turn in 1 completion.
  • Trading in 1 completion earns 5 Favor.
  • All 4 items are giftable.
  • All 4 items are available to be purchased in the market for 5 FarmCash (quantity of 5 in one purchase).
  • The Snag Bar has been updated to snag all our wedding cake needs. Quick work Gamer's Unite, love ya!
NOTE:
  • Truffles now able to gift - via Farmville
  • Olives able to gift in 2 days - via Farmville
  • Goat Milk able to gift in 4 Days - via Farmville
  • Eggs able to gift in 6 days - via Farmville


To earn all prizes, a minimum of 58 completions is required. This translates into 232 of each item (olives, eggs, goat milk, truffles).

Friday, May 28, 2010

Tend your baby foals - Calf and Foal are now going to harvest into adults

Another new happy thing, your baby animals are finally going to harvest into adults, so now when you harvest your nursery it will say tend nursery. .  The fast few days, thanks to the snagbar, I have been snagging exotic foals like crazy.  Having now at least two of each foal, Clydesdale, mustang, etc..., I can finally have those full grown exotic horses that I have been longing for.  What is even better is this morning the snagbar grabbed a few new baby animals, like the Mouflon Sheep and Holstein Calf.

When I saw the message this morning with the nursery saying adult animals are finally here, I assume that now your nursery will harvest from foal to adult or calf into cow, but am unsure if that is exactly it yet until I harvest my nursery this afternoon. As a nice little gesture farmville has also released playground items, I made sure to grab something from the coin collection.  I figured lastweek when the schoolhouse became the new golden egg item that it was leaving a nice little hint.

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Farmers Market is finally here!

Hey everybody take a look in your gift box and you will see a new stand.  When you place it on your farm, the following message box will open:



You can click on the tabs to learn more about what the farmer's market is all about.  If you want to go back to it later to read more just click on your stand and select farmer's market to see more.  Who is excited? 

Just like when you harvest bunches of flowers, you will also be harvesting bushels of fruits and vegetables.  Once you have harvested the bushels, your stall will start a 24 hour timer.  You than have 24 hours to sell those bushels. Once you master the crop, than the stall will stay open longer, the more bushels you find the more your timer will increase.


A nice little incentive is the fact that you can buy more than one stall, there is no limit.  Every time you fill your stall up with items, when you come back to your farm you will see an arrow pointing to your stall.  Click on your stall and it will show that you earned either so many coins, fuel or xp for each number of free bushel's that you grabbed from other neighbor's in the news feed.  For every bushel of crops you snag from a neighbor, you can redeem of your choice, 400 coins, 15 units of fuel or 10xp.  If you already have mastered the crop than instead of earning 2 mastery for each square of your crop you will instead earn  2 xp instead.

Click The Farmer’s Market Has Launched in FarmVille to learn more

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Co-op Cheat How to prepare your farm for a co-op job

First you need a farm with a total of 450 plots and two players to do this successfully.


Most people lately have been complaining about wanting bigger farms, which would be great for co-op jobs...but...will cause one big problem for many.  The bigger a farm is the slower it loads.  This means that most likely Zynga may possibly have to upgrade it's internet speed for other users and this can be expensive.

There is a way to complete a co-op job for the gold without having to have a great big farm, still decorate your farm with simply 450 plots.  What you need to first do is seed half of your farm, that would be 225 plots with whichever co-op crop you choose "BEFORE" you join the co-op.  Here is a breakdown of what you need to do:

  1. Seed 225 plots with carrots
  2. Wait until your 225 plots are ready to harvest
  3. Join the Baby Bunny Rescue Co-Op Job
  4. Seed your other 225 plots with carrots
  5. Harvest the first 225 plots of carrots, since you seed the other 225 plots they will be counted.
  6. Seed your now empty 225 plots

Now that you have done these steps this is what you have:

  1. You have 225 Carrots already harvested for the Baby Bunny Rescue Job
  2. According to farmville's co-op stats you have seeded 450 carrots, although, really 675 have been seeded since you did this before starting the co-op job.
  3. Since two of you are doing this that is a total of 1,350 already seeded and a total of 450 already harvested.
  4. You now have an entire day left, meaning you are going to finish the job in 12 hours, that is way ahead of time and you are going to earn the gold.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Aged mystery eggs produce better prizes? Cornish eggs produce FV cash? Golden eggs produce Hens?

I was reading TheFaceGamer and from what it says mystery eggs that sit on your farm produce nicer things.  One person told me they left a golden egg on their farm for four days and it produced a hen.  The best part is you can put the hen in your chicken coop, awesome!

Although, aren't all the chickens considered hens since they lay eggs?  Also, aren't the Cornish chickens really considered to be Cornish hens?

Another rumor is that the Cornish eggs will produce fv cash if left to age so I am going to find out how true this is.  Today I received my first Cornish egg and it is sitting on my farm now, aging.  For a little extra nitch I am leaving all my eggs on my farm and am going to hatch each one in four days, the next in five and so-on.  Could this be why people leave those mystery gifts sitting on their farms?

Have you done this, or are you doing it?  Leave your comments, what did you hatch in your eggs by waiting four days?  Did it work and have you tried this so-called easter egg yet?  Comments are welcome :)

Update - Hoarding gives you better chickens:

If you read my comments, I figured out in a few days that saving my eggs on my farm for more than two days gave me better chickens.  If I opened an egg that day usually I got the same gifts, gold chicken, school house, gold gnome, etc...

What really sucked was when after hatching a golden egg the same day my prize was a farm helper, ack!  So if you want a rhode island, Cornish and/or scots grey chicken, I suggest hoarding those eggs for at least three days.

Is there really Farmville cash?  I am unsure and what I need to do is be patient and try to save an egg for a longer amount of time.  Mystery gifts do seem to give neater gifts if you wait.  For example after a few days I got another chinchilla and different color pinwheels.  The same goes for these as well though, I need to wait more than four days to see if I get better gifts than that.

Earn $25 FV Cash for installing the Zynga game bar

Well a few days ago this screen popped up when I was loading my game, I was so excited I installed the bar.  After everything was complete a message opened up that my $25 FV cash was in my gift box, you can imagine how happy I was, until my gift box did not have $25 fv cash at all.  After emailing them these are the instructions I was given:





Click image to get your $25 FV  Cash
"Recent Issue with Game Bar:
FarmVille Game Bar Promotion - some users have reported that they have not received their 25 FV Cash reward after downloading the Game Bar using Mozilla Firefox. "
Please follow these steps to clear this issue:
1.In Firefox, open Preferences > Privacy Tab.
2. Click on "remove individual cookies."
3. Scroll down to zynga.com.
4. Select zynga_toolbar_hash, then click "Remove Cookie."
5. Select zynga_toolbar_fb_uid, then click "Remove Cookie." 


Did it work?  Not for me!  Has anybody had any success with this?  Let me know, and here is the link to get the cash or the goat for installing the farmville bar.


http://toolbar.zynga.com/install/farmville/?var=Cash
http://toolbar.zynga.com/install/farmville/?var=Goat


I figure you probably want the cash.  Many people have said it worked for them, so maybe I will try it on a pc with IE   Has anybody had the same problem as me?  Please comment because right now I feel ripped off big time!

Farmville introduces the Wild Mustang

Farmville has introduced the Wild Mustang, but, in order to keep the mustang, you need the help of five friends in order to keep her.

So......when ideling on your farm, if you come across the mustang, just accept and get five of your friends to help. What do you get from this mustang?  A baby foal mustang of course, so get playing start idling and have fun farmvillers!

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Links to gift collectibles

Here are all the links to send the  common collectibles to your friends so that they can gift them back to you.  Simply click the link and than send the collectible to your friend so that they can send them back.  Farmville only allows 10 collectibles for each item.  These are the only collectibles than can be gifted, all other collectibles need to be found in a variety of ways.



Emperor Butterfly
Butterfly collection





Dragonfly
Bug Collection





Green Plume Feather
Feather Collection




Gloves
Gardening Tools collection




NeedlePoint
Country Kitsh Collection

Thursday, May 20, 2010

My Farmville Farm - Earn 25 FV Bucks

Farmville has a weekly contest for the best farm.  Win 100 Farmville cash for your farm photo.  Also, there was an add to earn 25 FV cash by installing the zynga bar.  Well I installed it but my FV money was not in my gift box like it said.  I am quite upset, they should have told me that I better make sure I have under 50 items in my gift box!

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Get your horse stable items in less than an hour with the snag bar

YAY we can now add more horses to our stable!

If you haven't gotten the snag bar now is the time with the new stable expansion.  The snag bar allows you to snag items, such as, golden eggs and coin bonuses.  It also allows you to snag items from the nursery, horse stable and botanical garden.  If you are using the snag bar it is than a good idea to turn these options on to grab because you can use these for your horse stable expansion.

Now you have completed your horse stable expansion in less than an hour!

Click here to gift request horse stable items to your farmville friends.
Click here to gift request botanical items to your farmville friends.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Farmville Co-Op farming Error- Job no longer exists or has ended

I've looked and looked all over the net for why there is this error and there just may be a reasonable explanation as to why you are seeing this when you try to join a friends co-op.


You need to share the jobs, not always be the boss of the co-op jobs.  It seems that farmville gives everybody a fair chance.  You can keep being the boss of jobs and than eventually you will need to find new neighbors to do co-op jobs with. 

How do I know this?  A friend of mine was always wanting to do co-op jobs but never wanted to be the helper.  After doing two jobs with him as the helper it seemed that this error kept happening.  When I would go into the co-op job list his job also did not show up on my end.  Anybody who never did a job with him before of course could join, although eventually, they also received the same error

How to buy more items with farmville cash that you do not have!


This cheat is for informational purposes only. If you try this and lose your farmville account I am not responsible. I am only explaining it so that you can see the pros and cons as to why zynga has made these game strategies the way they are in co-op farming.

During my brief few weeks of playing farmville, I came across a farm that was only for harvesting trees and crops. My first though was the person had issues, like from the show "Monk". Than I realized that this is actually a perfect way to cheat. You of course need the patience and the smarts not to get caught and have your farmville account shut down unless this is allowed.
What the player does is opens a second facebook account just for farmville. They than get pretty much the same friends and neighbors as on the other account, but this account is a bit different. They don't chat on this account, they just have a farmville. Next they just use trees and plots for crops only, no animals, no decorations nothing that doesn't earn money, not even as much as a plow, because than you have to search for fuel and as you may know is a chore in itself as your farm grows. You only can receive so much fuel in the newsfeed before your cut off and get 100 coins instead.

Now you have your 1500 plots of land growing only the most expensive crop and a bunch of trees. You can of course have the arborists, they are the tree harvesters, that makes it much easier when you have to take into consideration that you are stuck plowing, harvesting and seeding your land square, by square, by square. This of course will jump you up in levels quickly earning that FV cash that can be used for those neat gifts. You can also send those FV gifts to a friend (your other cool farm) to decorate the farm with.

Monday, May 10, 2010

How to chat in facebook while playing farmvile on farmville.com

Like many of you, like myself, enjoy is playing farmville on facebook.com instead of farmville.com because, of course, you can't instant messenger (IM) chat with your facebook buddies while playing.

There is a way to play on farmville.com and chat with your buddies at the same time.  You just simply need to install an outside chat program that supports the facebook IM chat.  My favorite one is Pidgin because of the different chat programs it supports.  Pidgin supports AIM, Myspace, yahoo and all the other well known instant messenger chats that are out there.

Personally, my preference with using pidgin is how you can use your favorite  it is possible to IM chat all in one program instead of in several.  Instead of having to run AIM, Yahoo and Jabber all at the same time you can run them all in one chat program instead of several.  The more programs you are running on your PC, the slower it will begin to run.  Now what can be cooler than to be able to chat with all of your Friends in more than one chat program at the same time.

The downside is that you are unable to use facemoods in pidgin.  I have to admit though that facemoods has it's quality but the only time I used it was when it first got installed than just sat there forgotten.


Pidgin was originally written to run in ubuntu but is available for Mac OS, Linux and windows.

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Sunday, May 9, 2010

How to get 200xp when hatching golden eggs!


When you hatch a mystery egg, especially the golden ones, you may get a pink or black cottage, gold chicken and a gold gnome.  The cottages are cute but you only need so many and will find yourself just selling them.  It's not such a bad deal since the cottages are worth 3,000 coins each.

I noticed that every now and than when I opened an egg that sometimes my XP would go up 50 or 200.  Tonight I decided to watch and discovered that when you hatch, usually a gold egg, and find a gold chicken or gold gnome you will also receive extra experience.  The gold chicken you will earn 50xp and the gold gnome you will earn 200xp.

If you are using the snagbar like myself you probably have already noticed that you only will get one gold gnome a day, but several gold chickens will make your xp go up just as quickly.

Remember though, the quicker you reach level 70, the quicker the game is basically over.  You can always earn all of the ribbons and mastery's when growing crops but unless you have plenty of FV cash you will quickly become bored.  After level 70 you do not earn anymore FV cash and 70 is the end of the line.

NOTE:  Collectibles and quite a few other items found in golden eggs will up your XP as well.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Grow you perfect boutiques for mother's day on your farmville farm!

Tomorrow is mother's day and what better way to celebrate it is by growing a variety of mother's day boutiques.  You will need to start growing now if you want to share a boutique variety, or start growing the one day flowers to pass out tomorrow morning.

The best deal are growing the limited time carnations for mother's day.  For only 11 coins you can seed the carnations and harvest them for 111 coins (that is an earning of 100 coins per plot).

Right now I am growing the 8-10 hour boutiques so that when those are done I can grow the one day boutiques that I can pass out tomorrow evening.  Want to get more neighbor's or new players, than start passing out those boutiques now if you haven't done so.

Here is a list of the best flowers to grow and have available to share with those mother's who are playing farmville.



Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Sending gifting items just got easier on farmville?

Is this an error or is zynga being generious with their gifting lately?  It seems to have gotten so easy to request and be sent back gifts that nobody seems to even be requesting items, they are just sending them and are able to get them back and forth several times, no limit on how many thank yous that are sent out.

Lets say you send somebody a request for every item you need for your botanical garden, you can actually request it more than once to somebody, they can accept and send you a thank you for every item without having to wait at least two hours like you had to before.  Is this an error on zynga's behalf, or are they just being generous?

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Farmville Wedding Gift Links


Farmville caught on to what we where doing to fill up our tent, but what can I say.  I got everything but the Leaning Tower, so now I just have to snag from my friends/neighbors and wait every two days to be able to gift the next item.

NOTE: The egg link does work!


Eggs






Truffle




Olives

 


 




Goats Milk

 


How to accept golden eggs and collectibles without loosing your spot in your newsfeed

Don't you just absolutly hate it when you click on a link in the newsfeed to receive that golden egg, you accept the golden egg, than you say OK than you have to go back and search to where you left off. Some of you may already know that liking an item you accepted, such as the golden egg or collectible, helps you know where you left off. Wouldn't it be so much easier though if you didn't have to even go and search for that? This is how, it's quick, simple and you will be able to go all the way back to the last time you logged into facebook and played farmville.

On the link that says, "Hatch Egg" or "Get Collectible", right mouse click on the link and then select the open link in new tab. There you go, the link will open up in a new tab and your newsfeed window will still be open to the spot where you left off. Depending on your internet speed and computer speed you may only be able to open so many tabs before you notice things will start to slow down.




One thing you will have to take into consideration is the amount of time you have to accept the item you selected. With farmville's new Yes/No choice, you have to go to each tab and select yes or no. If you are not quick enough, somebody else can and will beat you to the punch, and you will than get a message that will say sorry your friends eggs have all been claimed.


This trick is great for farmvillers who have 100+ neighbors and know quite a few do not have that many neighbors and that their items are usually available to claim, even eight hours after they posted it in the newsfeed.

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Farmville - Botanical garden, what is it for?

On April 30, 2010 farmville introduced the botanical garden project.  What is it for, another decoration taking up room?  This is what it seems to be once the limited time project is finished.  One rumor has it that the garden is going to be for the farmers market, otherwise it looks as if we just have another item using up much needed space for growing crops.

Well, if you are gung-ho on building this cool looking botanical garden, for what looks to be in celebration of going green month, you might be bummed out.  Of course you can always store it in hopes that zynga will make something out of it one day, don't get your hopes up to much.

This time around it is easier to get the parts for the garden by simply sending a help request to your friends, they can than accept and it doesn't give them the parts as a gift that they may not need.  If you do want to gift the items or just request a friend to help you with the items you need, here are the links:

Gift Floral Bracket to a friend

Request a friend to Help with the Floral Bracket





Gift Green Pillar to a friend

Request a friend to Help with the green pillar





Gift Irrigation Pipe to a friend

Request a friend to Help with the green pillar





Gift Glass Sheet to a friend

Request a friend to Help with the Glass Sheet




Gift the White Trellis

Request a friend to Help help with the white trellis



NOTE:  It only costs 5,000 coins for the start-up of the garden, than you have friends gift you the items you need.  You can than sell the garden for 6,000 coins and build another one if you want.  I'm not sure what the point is but did decide to store my first garden and start another one.  Getting the items I need for it is easy enough as it is.