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Grimwell hosts this week’s podcast. This podcast reveals a little more details about the upcoming FarmVille Orchards and how they will work as well as some exciting news about new limited edition giftable seeds, like this Halloween’s Black Rose crop! Read more in the coming soon section for all the details.

You can listen to the podcast video above, read the FarmVille Freak Summary below, or read the entire transcript, provided by Zynga, at the bottom of the post.

What do you think about the news from this week’s podcast? Discuss!

FarmVille Freak October 23rd 2010 Podcast Summary

Halloween in FarmVille
Can “trick” your neighbors by covering their fences, barns, or trees in cobwebs or by turning their animals into ghosts.
5 times on each of your neighbors famers
Spooky effect can be purchased for 2 FV$
Re-releases like the Haunted House and new LE Halloween items

Avatar Upgrades
You can now purchase clothing for your farmer avatar with coins or farm cash
Halloween Costumes for Avatars
Will only be in the market until Halloween theme expires
If you purchase, you can keep costumes forever and can wear year-round

Farmer’s Insurance in FarmVille
Limited promotion lets you place the Farmer’s Insurance Airship on your farm for wither protection
For farmers located in the United States only
Ends October 28th 2010

Mobile Farming Update
New exclusive app for iPad
Makes use of the iPad’s large display to show more of the farm
Improved mobile interface
Free through iTunes Apple app store
New Apple only gifts will be coming soon (free Apple giftables)

FarmVille Youtube channel
The release of each major theme will have previews
Features animations of new items
Located at youtube.com/FarmVille

User-submitted questions
FarmVille reveals that Chicken coop expansion could be in the future.
Country fair theme could be returning to FarmVille.

COMING SOON

Orchards are coming soon
Orchards will be a constructible buildings
You can place up to 20 trees in each Orchard and you can have more than one.
The appearance of your Orchard depends on the trees you put inside.
Orchards can be harvested once per day for coins.
Harvesting your Orchard yields the possibility of receiving a Mystery seed.
Mystery Seeds can grow into any type of tree in your Orchard and must be planted and watered before they mature into a fully grown version of their parent tree.
Enhanced trees will be part of the Tree Mastery.
You can progress as you harvest Orchard or individual trees.
There will be 3 levels of mastery with rewards for each level.
There will also be mastery signs given after mastery is complete.

Gifted Limited Edition Seeds
You will be able to gift your neighbors packets of 20 seeds.
Once you accept a gifted seed it can be found in the market.
You can then plant the seeds on your farm and will also be able to master!
The seeds will also be available for farm cash.

The Black Rose Crop coming soon!
-For Halloween as the first giftable Limited Edition seed crop.

FarmVille Ugly Duckling

Last week’s official FarmVille Podcast was rescheduled until day. It is hosted by FarmVille Community Manager, Lexilicious.

You can listen to the video below, read the FarmVille Freak Summary, or read the entire transcript at the bottom of the post.

FarmVille Freak Podcast Summary

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This week’s (biweekly) official FarmVille Podcast has been delayed.

The next FarmVille Podcast is scheduled for Monday, September 25th 2010.

“Hey Farmers!

As the FarmVille Community Team has spent all day in our Player Luncheon, we will be unable release the Podcast today.However, we will make sure to release the podcast on Monday (September 27th). We sincerely apologize for the delay! (And a big thank you to all the players who attended our luncheon today!)

Happy Farming!”

This week’s official FarmVille Podcast is hosted by Lexilicious.

Some exciting news featured in this week’s podcast includes Nursery Barn expansion and a new feature that will allow farmers to collect XP and coins by helping out on their neighbors farms!

You can listen to the video above, read the FarmVille Freak Summary below or read the entire transcript provided by Zynga at the bottom of the post.

FarmVille Freak Podcast Summary – August 27th 2010

Pigpens Released

• Constructible building.
• Stores up to 20 Pigs.
• Only one Pigpen per farm.
• To read more details about Pigpens read on FarmVille Freak by clicking here.

Crafting Recipe Mastery

• Gain XP, Coin Rewards, and Crafting Mastery Signs for your farm.
• Do not have to “do anything” to start, just continue making Goods.
• Crafting Mastery is retroactive meaning you will be rewarded for your progress thus far before the release.
• Mastery Signs can be found in your Gift Box.
• To read more details about Crafting Mastery visit our FarmVille Freak Guide by clicking here.

LE Wild West Theme

• New theme released this week.
• More items will be coming next week.

Where do you mobile farm, Photo Constest?

• Win up to 500 FV$ farm cash.
• Ends at 11:59 PM on August 31st 2010.
• Take a picture of yourself playing your FarmVille on your mobile device.
• Visit the FarmVille Mobile Forums (zynga.com) for more details.

Coming Soon to FarmVille

• Nursery Barn expansion will be debuting in the coming weeks.
• Wild West themed Mystery Game.
• More LE Wild West theme.
• Improved neighbor visit. This new feature will allow you to complete functions on your neihgbors’ farms, you can harvest their trees, collect from their animals, and plow fallow land. Not only will you be rewarded XP and Coins for helping out on their farm, so will your neighbor. (Similar to neighbor visits on FrontierVille).

Official FarmVille Podcast Transcript click here.

What was your favorite piece of news from this podcast? FarmVille Freak is interested in the new neighbor function! This is where having good FarmVille neighbors could really pay off! Although some workaholic (or click-a-holic) farmers may not like their animal and tree harvests done for them. What do you think? Do you like having extra help on the farm? Discuss!

This week’s podcast was on time as schedule (two weeks in a row) and hosted by FarmVille Community Manager, Lexilicious.

The majority of this week’s podcast is a recap on the specific details of Storage Cellars, but there is also some exciting news regarding the release of Pig Pens! We all saw the Pig Pen teasers on the FarmVille loading screen and now we have a little more information about it as we anticipate its release.

You can listen to the video above, read the FarmVille Freak Summary below, or read the entire official transcript provided by Zynga at the bottom of the post.

Storage Cellar

• Store up to 500 items. (As part of a shared inventory. 500 maximum for all combined storage buildings).
• Available to Level 16 and above.
• Can build for free or purchase with farm cash.
• You cannot sell or delete Storage Cellars once placed on your farm. You can however move them to a new position on your farm. O
• Please read the complete details on Storage Cellars on FarmVille Freak by clicking here.

LE Summer Theme

• A new Summer theme was introduced this week.
• Matches well with the past LE Beach and New England themes!

Coming Soon to FarmVille

• Pig Pens will be coming very soon. It will be released in 2 phases. The first part will be a construction building period. Then the second phase will introduce “Truffle Hunting” which will allow you to trade in Truffles for new items. To gain Truffles you will have to feed your Pigs Slop, which is made from Bushels! Once your Pigs eat Slop, they will hunt for Truffles on your neighbors’ farms! Those Truffles can then be traded in for new exclusive prizes, including new Pigs!
• A new charitable campaign for Haiti will be coming. The goal of this campaign is to build a school in Haiti for children. An exciting new feature of this campaign is that there will be opportunities for you to participate and not may money.

Official FarmVille Podcast Transcript- August 20, 2010

What was your favorite news from this Podcast? We are looking forward to the much needed Pig Pens!

FarmGoddess summary coming shortly!

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It’s time for another official FarmVille Podcast! Today’s August 6, 2010 podcast is hosted by Lexilicious.

You can listen to the video above, read the FarmVille Freak Summary below, or read the transcript provided by Zynga at the bottom of the post.

FarmGoddess’ FarmVille Freak Summary for August 6th 2010 FarmVille Podcast:

Garage

• Unlocked to Level 22 and above farmers.
• Building with Purpose
• Use the help of your friends to build or purchase with farm cash.
• Garages store Vehicles and also Upgrade your Vehicles to make farming faster!
• To Read more details about Garages and Upgrading your Vehicle read here.

New Releases This Week:

• England themed decorations
• Updated Mystery Game Prizes that includes Mini animals
• Miniature Horses and Foals introduced

User-Submitted Questions:

Q: Where is the Wondering Stallion? A: There was a bug occurring last week that was limiting the Wondering Stallion. This glitch has been fixed and the Wondering Stallion has returned to normal.

Q: Has the drop rates for Bushels been lowered? A: No, it may seem like you are getting less Bushels because of their usage in Crafting Buildings. Remember that you can get more Bushels by Crop Mastery and you can also purchase a total of 300 Bushels from your neigbors in a 24 hour period.

COMING SOON to FarmVille

A very special sale! Limited edition items will be returning next week for only a short period of time. Each day will have a different LE theme that will only be available for 24 hours in the FarmVille Market. The following is a schedule for what theme will be for sale each day.

• Monday = Yukon and California theme
• Tuesday = French Chateau theme
• Wednesday = Adobe theme
• Thursday = Tuscany theme
• Friday= Island theme
• Saturday = Japanese Garden theme
• Sunday = UFO theme

Best of Mystery Animal Game

• Will feature best of past Mystery Animals.
• The WHITE OWL will be one of the featured prizes.
  

What is your favorite part of this week’s podcast?

There will be no official FarmVille Podcast tonight.

Friday’s FarmVille Podcast was rescheduled until today, and has been delayed again until further notice.

FarmVille announced there will be NO official FarmVille Podcast tonight.

Due to “unforseen circumstances” of technical issues the podcast has been delayed until Monday, August 2nd 2010.

Hi Farmers,

Unfortunately, there will be no FarmVille Podcast today. Due to unforeseen circumstances we will have to delay until next Monday. We apologize for the inconvenience this causes listeners and thank you for your understanding.

- Lexilicious

FarmVille Lexilicious Podcast Delayed

This week’s Official FarmVille Podcast for July 23rd 2010 is live! FarmVille’s Community Manager, Lexilicious, is this week’s host.

While this week’s Podcast mostly covers a summary of the tutorial on Crafting Buildings and how they work, some more exciting news from the Podcast reveals that FarmVille will be making an effort to concentrate on technical issues and bugs, instead of releasing enormous amounts of new content. Many disgruntled farmers will be happy to hear this news considering that oftentimes new content overshadows the annoying bugs and errors that slow down our farming.

You can listen to the Podcast by playing the video above, read the FarmVille Freak Summary below, or read the entire official transcript provided by Zynga at the bottom of the post.

FarmVille Freak FarmVille Podcast Summary (July 23rd 2010)

Crafting Buildings

Why do some users have access and others don’t? To insure the stability of the app and to be sure that it is being used as intended. Eventually all farmers will have access.

• Farmers Level 25 and above will have access.
• Pick your profession from Winery, Bakery, or Spa. Each building has their own unique Recipes and required Goods.
• Everyone starts with a Good that is one minute from completion.
• To make Recipes will need to collect Bushels from your friends or collect your own.
• After making Goods, they will need time to “Cook”.
• Selling Goods improves existing Recipes and unlocks new ones.
• Selling Goods to your neighbor gives you 1 XP for your Recipe points.
• All farmers earn 90% of items sold.
• Leveling your Crafting Building unlocks new Recipes and also improves your business’ success.
• Higher level Recipes yield higher Goods.
• Crafting Buildings currently can only be leveled up to 5 star levels.
• You can trade in crafted Goods for Fuel rewards.
• You may only have 200 crafted Goods in your inventory at one time.
• Additional rewards, besides Fuel, will be added in the future.

Shopping for Goods/Bushels

• Goods purchased from neighbors can also be traded for fuel rewards.
• You may purchase a different building from the FarmVille Market for coins, but you may only have one building for coins.
• If you want both buildings you can purchase with farm cash for 80 farm cash.

COMING SOON

• FarmVille has finally listened to lots of farmers including FarmVille Freaks requests! They are planning to release a smaller amount of content and fix bugs instead!Especially since the release of the Crafting Buildings, they want to give users adequate amount of time to absorb this feature and start using it before we are bombarded with more stuff!
• More New England themed limited edition items including: New England Mansion, Minature Horse, and Coastal Beach.

Are you happy with FarmVille’s decision to work on quality control and improvement of in-game errors and bugs over providing new content?

FarmVille Official Transcript for July 23rd Podcast (more…)