The last of the German Limited Edition theme updates is now available! New items include the German Castle, Black Forest Horse, Swan Lake, Lamp Post, and more.
Get these Limited Edition items now before they go away! http://zyn.ga/1BY
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September 2010
09/30/2010
Dachshund Days
There's a new breed of dog in town! The Dachshund (65 Farm Cash) is now availabe in the Market in three colors! We also have a few new accessories for you dog lovers out there:
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Visit the FarmVille Channel on Youtube!
Hey Farmers!
Did you know there’s a FarmVille Channel on Youtube? That’s right, you can check out all of our official video clips, podcasts and other related videos all in one easy place. Check out the newest items and learn more about what’s coming up. And while you’re there, why not become a Subscriber too?
Visit the FarmVille Channel today!
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09/29/2010
Crafting Building UI Updated
We've updated the user interface (UI) of the three crafting buildings in order to make it more user-friendly and streamlined. Everybody should be able to see it now:
As you can see instead of moving to multiple windows just to get access to find bushels or craft goods, you have easy access to it all right here. From this one window you can:
* Get Goods from your neighbors
* Use Goods to get Fuel
* Observe what you are making at the moment
* Check out your Crafting Building level (and Buy an upgrade for coins or Farm Cash)
* Check out your Sales
* Look at your Recipes and see what you can craft and what you'll need bushels for.
All of the following windows have been streamlined too. When you're looking around for bushels for a specific recipe you'll get a window like this:
Aside from this, all bushel management functions have been moved to the Market Stall window (also re-designed):
From here you can see a list of available bushels and a button for when you want to use a bushel for a Mastery or XP bonus, as well as buttons for getting and using Goods.
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The Guide to Super Combines
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 need to be level 31 to get the Combine.
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.
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Take a Look at the Festival Wheel
FarmVille’s newest Decoration is sure to make you celebrate! Bring some extra festivity to your Oktoberfest theme with the Festival Wheel! Head on over to FarmVille and check out this new addition today!
Play FarmVille and buy your Festival Wheel today!
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09/28/2010
It's Time for Oktoberfest
We're celebrating Oktoberfest with some Limited Edition items including all new animals, buildings and decorations such as the Alpine Goat, Festival Wheel and a pair of garden Gnomes!
Play FarmVille Now!
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This Week's New Mystery Game
We've refreshed the Mystery Game with some all new themed items based on the back yard, like the Backyard Deck and the Opossum.
Play the all new Mystery Game today!
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Interested in Getting a Mule?
Interested in getting this adorable Limited Edition Mule? Head on over to FrontierVille and complete a special FarmVille quest to obtain this Mule for your Farm! Watch for the in-game pop-up or click the link below to get started!
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FarmVille Mobile v1.07 Released
The newest update for FarmVille Mobile is now available on the iPhone. v1.07 features a number of bug and crash fixes.
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09/27/2010
FarmVille Podcast!
Evening, farmers!
This week's podcast is now live. Check it out to get information on our new features, as well as an exclusive peek at things coming your way soon!
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09/24/2010
Spotlight on: the German Black Forest and Moss Cabin
This week we've introduced some beautiful new German Limited Edition theme items into the Market, including this gorgeous Black Forest tree set (22 Farm Cash) and the forest-like Moss Cabin (300,000 coins).
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This Week's Farm of the Week
Once again, we'd like to thank everyone who participated in our Farm of the Week event! This week's featured farm is brought to you by Anne33! Check out their farm down below and be sure to enter next week's contest for your chance to win!
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Crafing Recipe Co-Ops Now Fully Available
Currently everyone now has the capability of starting the crafting recipe co-ops introduced in yesterday's update.
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09/23/2010
Limited Edition German Items!
Hey Farmers!
We have several new German Theme Limited Edition items now available in the Market, including the Lynx, Gelbvieh Cow, and Mountain Tavern!
Get them today! http://zyn.ga/198
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Haiti Charitable Campaign!
Hey Farmers!
The FarmVille community has sent 400 MILLION school supplies since the start of the Haiti Charitable Campaign.
In support of this achievement, Zynga will donate $100,000 to build the School of Choice in Haiti! Given your enormous support, we're extending a new community goal: Send ONE BILLION school supplies and we'll donate a total of $200,000!
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Having trouble accessing FarmVille?
If you're having trouble accessing your farm, please try FarmVille.com while things get sorted out!
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Crafting Jobs for Co-Op Farming
With Wednesday’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.
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.
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.
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.
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09/22/2010
Check out the Barrel Tub
Have you seen the Barrel Tub yet? It's part of our German Limited Edition theme items and features a rather cute bathing sheep:
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09/21/2010
Today's Update: New German Theme Items and Mystery Game Refresh
Howdy Farmers!
Our Limited Edition German theme continues today with new Buildings, Decorations and a Crop!
The Mystery Game has also been restocked and is loaded with brand new feathered friends for your farm, including the beautiful Pied Peacock and Black Barn Owl!
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