Posted in Decorations, New Features, Tips and Tricks | January 9th, 2010 by farmersue | No Comments »
Tags: barn raising, storage
A new barn raising feature has been added to Farmville which allows you to expand the amount of storage your barns and sheds can hold.
To use this, first click on the gift box/storage button on the lower right corner of the screen and select the storage icon.
Then click on expand storage near the top of the dialog box.
Then click on the expand button underneath the storage item you want to increase capacity on.
Note that you can only have a barn raising on one item at a time. Once you click the expand button, a prompt will come up allowing you to post this to your Facebook feed. Then you’ll need to get 10 people to participate in the barn raising by clicking the “click here to help” link on your feed within 3 days.
Posted in Decorations, Limited Time Offers | January 7th, 2010 by farmersue | No Comments »
There’s a new yellow mystery box and a bunch of limited edition cow print items are available in the market.
Some of these are pretty cute. Especially the cow print outhouse.
Posted in Decorations, Limited Time Offers | December 23rd, 2009 by farmersue | No Comments »
Tags: Decorations, mystery box, rock stream
Today, Farmville introduced another limited time Yellow Mystery Box. I went ahead and spent the 16 FVCash on it and got an item that isn’t even listed in the market!
I won this lovely rock stream decoration and 400 XP.
This is a really nice decoration. Not sure if it will ever appear in the market. It’s possible this item is only available from a Mystery Box. If you have the farmville cash to spend, I suggest you get a Mystery Box. I’m willing to bet there are other rare items inside of other boxes too.
Just look at it. Ain’t it pretty? I bet it makes you jealous! It’s mine, I say. MINE!
This Mystery Box is only available for 5 days and can be purchased for 16FV cash.
Posted in Decorations, Limited Time Offers | December 19th, 2009 by farmersue | No Comments »
Tags: gifts
A few new gifts I noticed for the holidays. Be sure to share them with your friends.
Posted in Decorations, Gaining Experience | December 18th, 2009 by farmersue | No Comments »
Tags: experience, santa's work shop, xp
If you mostly care about decorations for their experience value, then the mystery box might be a good deal for you.
Today, I had some extra farmville cash and thought I’d take a chance on the limited edition Holiday Mystery Box for 16 farmville cash. I ended up winning the Santa’s Workshop, which I would have never bought ordinarily because I think it’s ugly. However, this is a great deal because I ended up getting an item that would have cost 38FV Cash for only 16 FV Cash. I earned 1000 XP rather than the 2000 I would have got if I purchased the normal Santa’s Workshop but overall it’s still a good deal.
If you compare other items that cost about 16 FV cash, you’ll get anywhere from 20 to 400 XP, but I ended up with 1000XP. It’s a good deal in the end. Hopefully you will be as lucky with the Mystery Box. You never know what you’ll end up with.
The Holiday Mystery Box is only available for another four days so you better get yours quick.
Here’s a shot of the sparkly dust that appears when you open up your mystery box.
Posted in Decorations, Seasonal | December 18th, 2009 by admin | No Comments »
Tags: christmas, holidays
There is even more holiday related decor available for dressing up your farm today. Only 15 days left though. The new items are: Lighted Snowflake, Lighted Train, Lighted Bells, Happy Holidays sign, Season’s Greetings sign.
Posted in Decorations, Gaining Experience | December 11th, 2009 by farmersue | No Comments »
Tags: 700 experience, experience, hay bale
The quickest way in farmville to climb levels is to buy your experience through decorations. The best experience for your money comes from the hay bale. Read on for instructions.
Buy the regular hay bale and place 144 of them in a grid like in the picture below. This will cost you 14,400 coins and gain you 720 experience points. Then just sell back all those hay bales and you’ll get 720 coins back. The 720 experience points will only end up costing you a total of 13,680 coins and 5 minutes of your time.
Posted in Buildings, Decorations, Limited Time Offers | December 6th, 2009 by farmersue | No Comments »
Tags: Buildings, seasonal
Oh… my… god…
When I saw this I just had to have it. I actually paid real money for it. Don’t laugh! Look at it! Just look! It’s just too darned cute!
Limited time only for 32 Farmville Cash.
Posted in Decorations, Tips and Tricks | October 13th, 2009 by farmersue | 5 Comments »
Tags: fences, hedges, stacked fences
Farmville recently started showcasing farms on the loading screen. One farm in particular has many farmers scratching their heads…
This farm depicts what looks to be hedges and fences stacked upon one another. This is in fact an optical illusion caused by the isometric perspective of the game.
Isometric perspective is an unrealistic perspective in which parallel lines do not converge at vanishing points. Most games use this type of perspective so that sprites don’t have to be changed based on their placement on the playing field.
If you want to achieve this effect, the way to do it is simple. Just place multiple fences behind one another with one unit of space between them and align the posts of the fences. There’s nothing fancy to it!
View the work of MC Escher for some inspiration on perspective related optical illusions.
Posted in Decorations, New Items | October 7th, 2009 by farmersue | No Comments »
Tags: Decorations, halloween, topiaries, topiary
Zynga has added a new set of decorations recently.
Over the next 7 days you can buy spooky trees and hallow trees. Zynga has a neat strategy going on with limited and unique items for sale around the holidays. I’m betting this strategy will be successful in boosting sales of farmville cash. Check out the trees here:
Also new (and permanently added to the decorations market) is the topiaries collection. I’d argue that this is also Halloween related as it reminds me a lot of Edward Scissorhands.
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