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FarmVille Crafting to the Max Loading Screen

FarmVille has made some improvements to the Craft Shop menu and organization.

You will notice, recipes are now organized by categories. You can also sort and search recipes using the search bar. There’s also a “Specials” tab where you can find limited time recipes.

Check out some of the images below and when you try out the upgraded feature, please let us know what you think in the comments below.

What do you think, FarmVille Freaks? Are you excited about the FarmVille Craftshop makeover?

FarmVille New & Improved Craft Shop Preview

FarmVille New Craftshop Recipes Coming Soon:

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Some of the crafting goods recipes will be retiring from the FarmVille Craftshop.

The goods will be replaced with new items soon. Until then, you will have about 25 more days to make and master the retiring recipes.

The recipes (and their crafted goods) getting the ax are listed below.

FarmVille Craftshop Recipes Retiring

• FarmVille Beach Ball
• FarmVille Bright Yellow Tractor
• FarmVille Castle Bridge
• FarmVille England Postcard
• FarmVille Evergreen Train
• FarmVille Horse Sculpture
• FarmVille Lamp Post
• FarmVille Mechanic Scarecrow
• FarmVille Milking Stool
• FarmVille  Moat Corner I
• FarmVille Moat Corner II
• FarmVille Moat Corner III
• FarmVille Moat Corner IV
• FarmVille Moat I
• FarmVille Moat II
• FarmVille Moat III
• FarmVille Moat IV
• FarmVille  Modern Table
• FarmVille Post Office
• FarmVille Puppy Kibble
• FarmVille Scythe
• FarmVille Swiss Cabin

Thanks to FarmVille Freak Craig for the info!

Are you sad to see any of these FarmVille Craftshop recipes go or are you excited they will be replaced with new ones? 

FarmVille Craftshop Survey

FarmVille is conducting an official survey asking FarmVille Freaks how they would revamp the FarmVille Craft Shop. Everyone who takes the survey will receive a free Fertilize All. There is a limit of one per farmer and this survey does have an expiration.

The survey will be available until February 8th 2013 at 3 PM PST.

“Take the survey, help revamp the FarmVille Craft Shop, and get a free Fetilize Hey Farmers! Do you use the Craft Shop? Want to help us revamp it? Take this survey and share your thoughts! You’ll get a free Fertilize All when you complete it–and the satisfaction of helping us make FarmVille better!

Take the survey here: http://zynga.tm/jUe

Limit 1 Fertilize All per Farmer. You can claim it until Feb. 8 at 3 PM PST.”

How would you improve the current FarmVille Craft Shop, FarmVille Freaks? Please take the official survey and tell us your thoughts in the comments below!

FarmVille Zombie Bushel

There’s a Bushel problem in FarmVille. Would you agree, FarmVille Freaks?

Not enough room in our Market Stalls.

Where are all my neighbors to purchase Bushels from?

Bushel requests are broken.

Crafting struggles for scarce ingredients.

Growing crops just for bushels sake.

“If crafting in FarmVille is leaving you frustrated, a glimmer of hope arrived last week. Zynga has now increased the maximum storage capacity of our Market Stalls to 800 bushels. We still need more room.

Market Stall Expansion

The new 800 maximum storage capacity is only 25 more bushels than previously allowed, but I’ll take anything. To take advantage of the new 800 bushel limit, you will have to expand your Market Stall by completing expansion construction phases. Each phase requires 30 parts and will only increase your bushel capacity by 25 bushels per completed stage. In other words, to expand your Market Stall to the full 800-bushel capacity – be prepared to expand multiple times and collect tons of parts.”

You can read the rest of the article about the Bushel shortage, Crafting struggles, and what Zynga has done to fix the problem so far by continuing reading about the Bushel problem in FarmVille at my weekly column on AOL’s Games.com by clicking here.

FarmVille Artichoke Spirit Recipe

FarmVille Freak crafters will be happy to see new recipes added to the crafting buildings! Each crafting building got three new recipes. The new recipes can be found in your Bakery, Spa, Winery, Tiki Bar, and Tea Garden.

Now, if only we could get bushels easier! If you’ve noticed, crafting has become more difficult than ever. There are very little active neighbors to buy bushels from, no room to store them if you are lucky enough to find them, and if you prefer to grow it yourself? Be prepared to re-grow some old crops that you’ve probably already mastered. Some of these new recipes require very old ingredients. Artichoke bushels (for Artichoke Spirit recipe), now? Yep, that’s a four day crop! Please Zynga, give us more crafting options and solutions to make our crafting more successful.

BAKERY:
Zucchini Muffin – 3 x Zucchini,  1 x Red Wheat, 3 x White Grape
Ginger Pumpkin Pie – 4 x Ginger, 4 x Pumpkin, 4 x Wheat
Saffron Falafel – 6 x Saffron, 6 x Chickpea, 6 x Onion

SPA:
Dreamy Scented Oil – 1 x Lavender, 1 x Pink Rose, 5 x Raspberry
Rejuvenating Mask – 4 x Cucumber, 4 x Pumpkin, 4 x Green Tea
Calming Bodywash – 6 x Lemon Balm, 6 x Peppermint, 6 x Aloe Vera

WINERY:
Artichoke Spirit – 1 x Artichoke, 3 x Elderberry, 3 x Rhubarb
Chardonnay Wine – 4 x Chardonnay, 4 x Sugar Cane, 3 x White Grapes
Sweet and Spicy Liqueur: 6 x White Roses, 2 x Potatoes, 6 x Peppers

TIKI BAR: (FarmVille Hawaiian Paradise farm)
Grilled Ono – 1x Ono, 3 x Hawaiian Ginger, 3 x Soy Beans
Taro Croquette – 4 x Taro, 4 x Onion, 4 x Wheat
Pineapple Daiquiri – 6 x Hilo Pineapple, 6 x Golden Sugar Cane, 6 x Lemon Balm

TEA GARDEN: (FarmVille Jade Falls farm)
Onigiri – 3 x Nori, 3 x Sesame, 3 x Rice
Tom Yum Soup – 4 x Lemongrass, 3 x Saba, 4 x Pepper
Kimchi Pancake – 6 x Green Onions, 4 x Sesame, 3 x Cabbage

Are you excited to craft these new recipes? How would you make crafting better in FarmVille?

FarmVille Bakery

FarmVille Spa

FarmVille Winery

Just yesterday FarmVille released additional Crafting Buildings (Bakery, Spa, and Winery) for free and now there’s new Recipes for us to craft! There’s also new recipes in English Countryside, Lighthouse Cove, Winter Wonderland, and Hawaiian Paradise farms.

In case you missed it… you can now have all three Crafting Buildings on each of your FarmVille farms. Previously, you could have one Crafting Building for free, and then had to pay 80 Farm Cash for the other two buildings. Read more details about the free Crafting Buildings by clicking here.

Thanks to FarmVille Freak Jacquie Z for the heads up on the new recipes!

FarmVille New Winery Recipes:

• Daffodil Spirits: 4 Daffodil, 4 Raspberry & 4 Gladiolus bushels
• Saffron Brandy: 6 Saffron, 6 Blackberry & 6 Zinfandel bushels

FarmVille New English Pub Recipes:

• Turnip Stew: 3 Turnip, 3 Field Bean & 3 Cara Potato bushels
• Foxes Ale: 4 Foxglove, 4 Hops & 3 Royal Hops bushels

FarmVille New Lighthouse Cove Restaurant Recipes:

• Cove Cooler: 3 Cove Cranberry, 3 Red Clover & 2 Watermelon bushels
• Rollieberry Pie: 3 Chandler Blueberry, 3 Cove Cranberry & 4 Wheat bushels

FarmVille New Winter Wonderland Sweet Shoppe Recipes:

• Fruit Cake: 4 Candied Yams, 4 Gingerbread & 2 Watermelon bushels
• Elf Surprise: 3 Mint Candy, 4 Red Iceberry & 4 Cantaloupe bushels

FarmVille New Hawaiian Tiki Bar Recipes:

• Steamed Crab: 4 Rock Crab, 3 Hawaiian Ginger & 4 Bell Pepper bushels
• Luau Cooler: 3 Hawaiian Orchid, 4 Golden Sugar Cane & 4 Cranberry bushels

FarmVille Free Crafting Building Notice

FarmVille Bakery

FarmVille Spa

FarmVille Winery

 

You can have one of each building on your FarmVille farm. Previously, you had to pick one building (at a free cost) and pay 80 Farm Cash each for additional crafting buildings if you wanted all three on one farm. Now, this new and welcomed change allows you to have all three crafting buildings on your farm without having to pay Farm Cash.

Each of your FarmVille farms can have three crafting buildings. Home Farm Can have one Bakery, one Spa, and one Winery. However, destination farms’ unique Crafting Buildings do count towards the three per farm limit. For example, if you have an English Pub Crafting Building on your English Countryside farm, then you can have two additional Crafting Buildings from the choice of Bakery, Spa, or Winery. You will not be able to have the Bakery, Spa, Winery, plus the English Pub (or other destination farm crafting building).

To get started, all you need to do is visit your FarmVille Market and keyword search works “Bakery”, “Spa”, and “Winery”. Clear up some green space to place your new crafting building and get crafty!

You will still need to level-up your crafting building by crafting Recipes and paying Farm Coins or you can opt to pay Farm Cash of course.

FarmVille Bakery

FarmVille Spa

FarmVille Winery

Now that additional crafting buildings are free, will you be getting one of each for your FarmVille farm?

FarmVille's Gilda Crafting Bushel Neighbor

FarmVille introduced Gilda this weekend and she’s here to help with our FarmVille Crafting! Please note, this feature is on a slow rollout and only a select group of players have early access at this point.

Think of Gilda as your go-to Bushel gal, who always has the Bushel you need when your neighbors don’t.

To check out what Gilda has to offer, simply visit your farm’s Winery, Spa, Bakery, etc. crafting building where you craft Recipes (although we haven’t seen Gilda in Jade Falls yet). When creating a Recipe, you’ll need specific Bushel ingredients and Gilda has them all! Think of Gilda as another FarmVille neighbor who always has what you need, the girl you can always depend on. As great as Gilda is for helping you out in a bind by letting you obtain obscure bushels on demand, you can only use her every 30 minutes with a maximum of 3 Bushels at each time. We like Gilda and think it definitely beats  paying 1 Farm Cash per hard-to-find Bushel or growing them yourself.

Are you happy to meet Gilda and do you like what she has to offer? 

FarmVille Jade Falls Farmgoddess' Tea Garden (Level 1)

FarmVille Jade Falls introduces us to our new crafting restaurant, or Tea Garden!

In our new Tea Garden, you will have access to craft new Jade Falls Recipes. Everyone is given a free Level 1 Tea Garden to start with and upon your first visit to your Tea Garden you’ll find that you have one recipe of Milk Tea at 100% ready. Don’t click it just yet, make sure you are fulfilling the first quest requirements before you click.

If you’d like to prepare your bushel supply for the new recipes (even if you aren’t going to Jade Falls early) then you’ll want to plant or collect some ingredients from regular crops. Stock up on some regular (non- Jade Falls) bushels below which are ingredients you will need to start crafting the new recipes.

• Rice bushels
• Jalapeno bushels
• Green Tea bushels
• Wheat bushels
• Ginger bushels
• Basil bushels

Jade Falls Tea Garden Recipes

Level 1 Tea Garden Recipes (can access at Level 1 Tea Garden) 

Hamachi Maki: 1 Hamachi bushel, 2 Nori bushels, and 3 Rice bushels

Milk Tea: 3 White Cloud Tea bushels, Azuki bushels, and 3 Green Tea bushels

Pho Soup: 3 Jade Bamboo bushels, 3 Sichuan Pepper bushels, and 3 Jalapeno bushels

FarmVille Jade Falls Level 1 Tea GardenCrafting Recipes

Level 2 Tea Garden Recipes (can access at Level 2 Tea Garden)

Egg Roll : 1 Edamame bushel, 3 Azuki bushels, and  3 Wheat bushels

Bao: 2 Chinese Daikon bushels, 3 Grouper bushels, and 3 Ginger bushels

Chow Mein: 3 Jade Bamboo bushels, 1 Sticky Rice bushel, and 3 Basil bushels

FarmVille Jade Falls Level 2 Tea Garden Crafting Recipes

Are you excited to get your craft on in FarmVille Jade Falls with these new recipes? 

FarmVille Market Stall 600 Bushel Notice

FarmVille released an update to our Market Stalls today that includes upgraded storage to a capacity of 600 Bushels! You can start upgrading your Market Stalls immediately with the help of neighbor help by sending/receiving free supplies. Market Stalls require three building parts which are: Awnings, Baskets, and Price Cards. The new 600 storage capacity is for all your FarmVille farms’ crafting needs.

“Great News! We have opened up another round of Market Stall expansions! You can now store up to 600 bushels across your farms for your crafting needs! Don’t forget to send your Neighbors Awnings, Baskets, and Price Cards to help them expand today!” (Source: Official FarmVille Fan Page)

Will you be upgrading your Market Stalls today?