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 Tips and Tricks | December 27th, 2009 by farmersue | 1 Comment »
Tags: fuel, tractor
Once you purchase a tractor, harvester, or seeder, you’ll learn about the lovely ways of fuel. However, if you have a large farm like the more experienced players, you’ll quickly learn that one tank of fuel is not enough to even plow all your plots. You could purchase 1 fuel refill for 3 FV cash. Or you could just wait until later in the day for your tank to replenish on its own.
Up until today, I had not experienced refueling in Farmville. Like most people, I wasn’t willing to spend my hard earned Farmville cash on something that could be replenished if I just waited long enough.
But again, like many people, I received a lot of free fuel from the holiday gifts Farmville gave us under the Holiday Tree. So I thought I’d give you an explanation on how the refueling process works.
First, you’ll likely have this fuel in your gift box. Fuel refills typically come in sets of 1, 5, or 10 tanks from the holiday freebies.
You do not have to be low on fuel before you can add a tank to your gas gauge. You can start ‘using’ your tanks from your gift box and adding them to your fuel gauge even when you don’t intend to use them. The tanks will then stay there until they are used. Below is a shot of the gas gauge after I used one of the 5 fuel refills. Note the little “+5.”
Once you use up the currently active tank, you’ll then be switched to the next tank automatically. So be sure to keep an eye on the fuel gauge. But the process of adding tanks should not waste any gas for you. I suggest you add all of your fuel to the gauge now, rather than letting it sit in your gift box. Don’t spend all that fuel in one day!
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 Beginners, Gaining Coins, Tips and Tricks | October 5th, 2009 by farmersue | No Comments »
Tags: coins, plowing, tractor
Have you ever been plowing away on your farm and noticed a giant yellow coin popping out of the ground? Ever tried running after it with your avatar to catch it? What does it all mean?
If you’ve ever asked yourself these questions, you’re not alone. Every time you see one of these coins pop out of the ground, it’s worth 50 coins in your bank. If the coin appears, you’ve received the bonus. You don’t have to run after it to get the money. The faster you plow, the more likely you are to get these bonuses. Having a tractor helps.
Note that Zynga’s official Farmville FAQ states that the flipping coin is worth 100 coins but this is incorrect. It’s actually only worth 50.
Posted in Tips and Tricks | September 20th, 2009 by farmersue | No Comments »
Tags: messages, sign posts
In the upper right portion of the Farmville interface, there’s a chat bubble icon that allows you to post little sign posts on your farm. While these posts may seem rather pointless, they can actually come in handy on your farm. Use these sign posts to label your crops with the date and time they were planted. This allows you to easily determine when the crops need to be harvested.
Posted in Tips and Tricks | September 14th, 2009 by farmersue | 2 Comments »
Tags: farmer, faster, hay bales, speed
Typically when you command Farmville to plow, harvest, harvest trees, etc, your cute little farmer will walk up to the place where it needs to perform that action. This can waste a lot of time. But a nifty trick is to trap your farmer within 8 hay bales so they can’t reach any part of the farm. All actions are then performed very quickly without your farmer having to walk there. Hay bales can be purchased for as little as 100 coins a piece at the Market under Decorations.
Posted in Gaining Coins, Ribbons, Tips and Tricks | September 12th, 2009 by farmersue | 10 Comments »
Tags: activity stream, ribbons, share the wealth, stream
Yesterday we posted an article about gaining coins from the successes of your friends. Here’s another tip to make getting those freebies even easier.
On your Facebook home page which shows the activity stream for all of your friends, click on more on the left column, then click on Farmville. This will show you all Farmville related activity for all of your friends. Be sure to check it every day so you can share the wealth before the celebrations expire.
Posted in Tips and Tricks | September 7th, 2009 by farmersue | No Comments »
Tags: full screen, ui, user interface, zoom
Are you having trouble seeing all the lovely details of your farm? Do you wish you could utilize the entire realestate of your monitor to play Farmville? Then you may want to direct your attention to the lower right section of the farmville screen.
There are three buttons that allow you to control your view. The first two icons allow you to zoom in and zoom out. The third allows you to go full screen mode.
zoom in, zoom out, full screen
Posted in Tips and Tricks | September 4th, 2009 by farmersue | 2 Comments »
Tags: 12x12, 14x14, expand, farm land
If you are around a level 10 with a fair amount of coins, you may want to consider expanding your farm. The farm size you start out with is 12×12 which allows for 144 squares to plant fruits and veggies. Upgrading to a Homestead (14×14) will give you an additional 52 plots to work with.
10,000 may seem like a lot of coins for just moving up from 12×12 to 14×14, but consider this; If you plant rice in those 52 squares, you’ll get 1872 coins of profit in the first harvest. So it pays for itself within 12 hours!
Here’s a screen shot showing my farm after I expanded:
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