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FarmVille Love Potion

FarmVille has updated your English Countryside Pubs with the amazing ability to craft Love Potions!

That’s right, you can now craft Love Potions using the Love Potion Recipe in your Pubs. It’s a good thing because with the existing shortage of Love Potions needed for Sheep Breeding, you will now also be needing Love Potions for the new Pig Breeding. With the introduction of Pig Breeding, the Pig Pen has also been upgraded as well. Since you won’t be needing slop anymore, you can trade in all your existing slop for extra love Potions.

FarmVille Freak Angela's Pig Slop for Potions

Get ready to craft some Love in your Pub! Other crafting buildings have also been updated with new limited time recipes that allow you to craft useful construction or building materials such as Wooden Boards, Bricks, and Nails. So what’s actually in these magical Love Potions? Read below for the ingredients on all the new recipes.

Crafting Building – English Countryside Pub

• Recipe: Love Potion
• Ingredients: 4 Field Beans, 3 Pink Asters, and 5 English Peas

FarmVille Freak Kristine's Love Potion Recipe

Crafting Building – FarmVille Winery

• Recipe: Nail
• Ingredients: 5 White Grapes, 4 Rice, and 3 Grapes

FarmVille Freak Jennifer's Nail Recipe

Crafting Building – FarmVille Bakery

• Recipe: Brick
• Ingredients: 5 Coffee, 3 Peppers, and 4 Ginger

FarmVille Freak Akshari's Brick Recipe

Crafting Building – FarmVille Spa

• Recipe: Wooden Boards
• Ingredients: 4 Morning Glory, 5 Lilac, and 3 Sunflower

FarmVille Wooden Board Recipe

Do you like that you can now craft Love Potions? What do you think of these new crafting recipes?

FarmVille A Berry Good Drink

Oh, Olivia! She’s back again and in the final (for now) quest of the English Countryside called A Berry Good Drink, Olivia shares with us the recipe for her best drink ever. Her special brew boasts bragging rights as being the best drink ever made in the village which is quite an accomplishment.

FarmVille English Countryside A Berry Good Drink Quest Notice

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FarmVille Lagerheads

Now that we are proud English Pub owners it’s time to make sure our Pub is a success and Olivia is back to steer us in the right direction. After all, she knows all about owning Pubs (except for how to keep mice away). The FarmVille English Countryside Lagerhead Quest has us actually placing the Pub on our English farms, buying a Pub Cat to protect it from those pesky mice, and finally crafting some brew that happens to be a favorite of our friend The Duke.

FarmVille English Countryside Lagerheads Quest Notice

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FarmVille Pumpkin Cider 5-Star

Attention FarmVille crafters! Starting tonight, you will have access to a new Limited Edition Pumpkin Cider recipe.

This recipe puts use to the Limited Edition Pumpkin Cider crops now available in the FarmVille Market. You will use Pumpkin Cider bushels to make an exclusive recipe for your Bakery, Spa, or Winery.

FarmVille LE Recipe Pumpkin Cider

FarmVille Pumpkin Cider Get Bushels

Remember the White Pumpkin recipes will only be available for a short time so craft while you can!

Thank you to FarmVille Freak Linkaholic for finding these unreleased FarmVille Orchard Tutorial Images, Orchard Brick, Orchard Nail, Orchard Board, & Orchard Menus!

FarmVille Orchards Tutorial Image 0

FarmVille Orchards Tutorial Image 1

FarmVille Orchards Tutorial Image 2

FarmVille Orchards Tutorial Image 3

FarmVille Unreleased Orchard Brick

FarmVille Unreleased Orchard Board

FarmVille Unreleased Orchard Nails

Our voices were heard! The Big Z seemed to have listened to us and conceded to drop the tax on Crafting Goods.

The new Crafting tax is 20%.

Originally the tax was 10%. However, last week the rate jumped to 50% without notice and caused an uproar from crafting savvy farmers. Many farmers threatened to quit crafting, as they were unhappy with the unannounced changes.

Does the new 20% tax seem like a fair compromise, what do you think?

FarmVille Increases Crafting Goods Tax

Did Zynga unintentionally kill Crafting?

Farmers are outraged at recent changes made to Crafting Goods. The new FarmVille tax takes 50% of the proceeds from Crafting Goods you sell. The previous number was only 10% thus leaving you with 90% of the profit from sold Goods.

While Zynga has been mum on the issue and vague at the least, today a FarmVille forum moderator called the changes “intentional”. This decision has left lots of farmers upset with the new tax which means less coins and less fuel for everyone.

“Apparently this change is not a bug, so I’m going to move this over to the Feedback forum now. Any discussion/feedback about this change should be addressed over here now, please. Thanks for understanding.” – FarmVille Forum Moderator PlainD

The main issues of concern include:

• There is a dramatic decrease in the return (Coins) of Goods produced.
• If there is less profit to be made producing Goods, farmers may stop producing.
• The amount of Fuel for trading Goods also seems to have decreased.
• If there are less Goods being produced, there will be less Goods to buy (and less Coin available Fuel).

How do you feel about the changes made to Crafting? Do you think this new tax is fair? Will you continue to make Crafting Goods?

Although it is currently “Disabled” status for the moment, tonight FarmVille improved the Crafting Building feature by upgrading its user interface (UI).

Lots of farmers will be excited to know that this will make their crafting profession run much smoother with easier to navigate functionality.

As mentioned, this new upgraded feature is currently disabled and will probably be rolled out in phases.

Here are some screenshots we grabbed from the new UI.

FarmVille Freak Elz's Crafting Building User Interface

Are you excited about these new improvements?

FarmVille Crafting Mastery for Strawberry Shortcake Recipe

As you know FarmVille Crafting Mastery is now available for all farmers.

To begin your Crafting Mastery just continue making your Goods. When your Recipe levels increase you will unlock more levels of mastery which will give you more XP and Coins.

Each Recipe is organized by Star Levels. The higher tier level of your Crafting Building, the higher the Craft Mastery will be for that Recipe. Each Recipe will have five Mastery or Star Levels available per each Crafting Recipe. If it seems confusing, refer to the chart below, provided by Zynga, that displays what Recipe Level is required before you can unlock a specific Mastery Star.

FarmVille Crafting Building Recipe Mastery Levels Chart

Zynga’s Example: “If you have a 1-star Bakery on your farm, the first recipes available to you were Pumpkin Bread, Strawberry Shortcake and Spicy Muffin. You can earn your first Mastery star in those three recipes once that you reach recipe level 20. If you upgrade your Bakery to 2-star, you unlock a new slew of recipes: Patty Pan Tart, Triple Berry Pie and Peanut Butter Cookie. For these recipes you need to reach recipe level 23 to get your first Mastery star.

In order to get a second Mastery star for Pumpkin Vinegar (which requires a 4-star Winery) you will need to raise your recipe level to 39.”

If you would like to check your current progress for a specific Recipes Craft Mastery, ..

Craft Mastery Rewards & Craft Mastery Signs

So, you may ask what is the point in participating in Crafting Mastery? Just like with Crop Mastery, mastering a Craft Recipe rewards you with additional XP (experience points) and bonus Coins. Not to mention, you get a cool Crafting Mastery Sign for your farm to let everyone know that you are a master crafter. 

After earning your first star with a Crafting Recipe, you will be rewarded with a Recipe Mastery Sign. You can find the Craft Recipe Mastery Sign in your FarmVille Gift Box. By placing your sign on your farm you can simply hover over the sign to check your Mastery progress and what you need to reach the next Star Level.

Whenever you earn more star levels, your sign will automatically update to reflect your current mastery status.

Crafting Building Mastery Signs can also be placed in storage.

The chart below reflects the specific Recipe Mastery level with coordinating XP and Coin Rewards.

FarmVille Crafting Mastery Recipe Rewards

Upon earning each star level, you will be given the opportunity to share a FaceBook newsfeed notice with your FarmVille neighbors.  Up to 5 neighbors can receive a free good from your post.

Remember, that any progress up to this point is retroactive, meaning that all your hard work will automatically count towards your Crafting Mastery.

Some of you may find as soon as Crafting Mastery was released you immediately earned Crafting Mastery for some Recipes by finding the Crafting Mastery Signs in your FarmVille Gift Box.

What do you think of Crafting Mastery so far? Do you like this new feature?

In another minor update tonight, the Potato Onion Bread Recipe time has been changed.

The time of the Recipe has increased from previously 30 minutes to now the cook time of 6 hours.