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We have received many questions regarding the name change that some FarmVille Freaks, like FarmVille Freak Jessica, are experiencing regarding their FarmVille Crafting Building Winery. Please note, not all farmers are experiencing this change yet.

As you know, the FarmVille Winery produces various alcoholic beverages such as Japanese Sake and Wine. In recent weeks some farmers have reported that their Winery no longer produces Goods that are alcoholic beverages. The names of the alcoholic Goods have been replaced with kid-friendly PG versions such as  “Sweet Energy Drink” for the previously named “Sweet Sake”.

FarmVille Market Good Name Change

So why did FarmVille make this change and how come farmers weren’t informed of this change? According to FarmVille, its users include a broad spectrum of players which also includes a large audience of underage users under the age of 21. In the United States, the legal drinking age for consuming alcohol is 21. An official statement from Zynga about the Winery name change can be read below:

“…Thank you for contacting Zynga Customer Support.

My name is Steve and I will be happy to assist you today.  I
am sorry to hear that you are not happy with the recent changes in the
Winery cottage. Let me apologize if this has caused you any
inconvenience. Rest assured that I will be doing my best to help you
get to the bottom of this issue.

Recently, FarmVille decided to change the products that are produced
in the Winery Cottage. The change was from alcoholic products to,
well, Non-alcoholic beverages. The reason behind this change is that
since FarmVille is a game, we have a lot of underage players. In
connection with this, FarmVille does not want to promote alcohol
consumption among the underage.

Hoping for your consideration and understanding.

Kind regards,
Steve L.
Zynga Customer Support”

Here is a list of the Winery’s Goods with new non-alcoholic names:

• Sweet Energy Drink (previously Sweet Sake)
• White Grape Cooler (previously White Sangria)
• Rich Grape Juice
• Fruit Punch
• Spicy Tomato Juice (*No Change)
• Spiced Lilac Tea
• Blackberry Explosion
• Strawberry Cranberry Juice (*No Change)
• Raspberry Energy Drink

Even though, functionally, the Winery works the same, the unannounced name changes have angered some farmers. However, the name changes seem necessary for Zynga, as I’m sure they want to remain legally responsible and not promote alcohol consumption to the underage as well as avoid the in-game placement of legal disclaimers, some alcohol-loving farmers like myself are still upset over the name changes because after all, what good is a Winery without wine?

What do you think FarmVille Freaks? Are you upset that FarmVille changed the names of the Winery Goods without notice? Would you have picked a Winery as your Crafting Building if you knew that it would not produce alcoholic beverages?

The new FarmVille Garage feature provides storage for your FarmVille Vehicles and also allows you to upgrade all your FarmVille Vehicles, which improves their productivity and thus your farming time!

Although not everyone has access at the moment, in the future everyone will have the opportunity to build their own Garage.

Here is a guide on how this new feature will work.

FarmVille Garages

Function:

• Garages provide storage for your FarmVille Vechicles including Tractors, Seeders, and Harvesters.
• You can also use Garages to upgrade your Vehicles, which makes farming faster.
• Vehicles that are stored in your Garage can still be used as normal.
• You may only have one Garage per farm.
• Biplanes cannot be stored in Garages. 

Requirements for Garages

• Unlocked at Level 22. Level 22 farmers and above will be able to purchase a Garage frame.
• Cost is 50,000 coins from the FarmVille Market.

Building a Garage:

• Similar to other Buildings with purpose i.e. Japanese Barn.
• Building the Garage is very similar to building a Japanese Barn.
• Required Construction materials include:
  -10 Boards    -10 Bricks     -10 Nails

FarmVille Garage Parts

3 Ways to Collect Garage Buildings Supplies:

1. Free Gifts from Neighbors

• Neighbors can send you materials via the FarmVille Gifting Page.
• Gift Page supplies are randomized.
• After accepting, Free Gift can be found in your Gift Box.

2. Ask For More Option

• When “Looking Inside” the interior of your Garage, each building supply will have the option to “Ask For More”.
• Using the “Asking for More” option will let you select friends to send Gift requests to.

3. Farm Cash.

• Click the “Buy” button for each supply that you wish to purchase with farm cash.
• You can chose to purchase supplies individually with farm cash at any point in the building process.
• There is also a “Complete All” button that will buy the entire completed Garage.

FarmVille Complete Garage

Garage Storage

• Garages can store up to 20 Vehicles.
• After completing your Garage, it will unlock the “Upgrade Vehicle” function.

Upgrading Vehicles:

• After completing your Garage, you can upgrade your Vechicles, by clicking the “Look Inside” button on your Garage.
• Upgrading your Vehicles will increase the amount of plots they can cover.
• The higher level your Vehicle is, the more plots it will be able to work at one time.
• Currently, the highest Vehicle Level is 4.
• Completing your Vehicle Level will allow you to post a FaceBook newsfeed and share a part with your first 10 friends that click.

Vehicle Parts for Upgrading Vehicles:

FarmVille Garage Vehicle Part

• Upgrading your Vehicles will require you to collect Vehicle parts. Vehicle parts can be obtained 2 ways:

1. Ask For More Option

• Garage Menu will have “Ask for More” option under each part that allows you to select friends to send your gift request to.

2. Farm Cash.

• Purchase Vehicle parts directly with farm cash.
• You can purchase parts individually at any part in the building process.

Upgrading Vehicle Level Requirements:

• Level 1: 2 Parts
• Level 2: 5 Parts
• Level 3: 10 Parts (Level 26 and above)
• Level 4: 15 Parts (Level 26 and above)

FarmVille Garage Tractor

Do you like this new Garage feature and will you participate in it?

Where is our FarmVille Underground Storage?

You may remember from a past official FarmVille Podcast (dated May 21st 2010) that FarmVille Community Manager, Lexilicious, mentioned that farmers would soon be introduced to a new FarmVille storage system. This new Underground Storage would provide a new method of storing all of our FarmVille decorations and buildings.

According to Lexilicious, the Underground Storage would be:

• Coming Soon
• Available through coins or farm cash as Cellars.
• You can store up to 200 items in the same size area (footprint) of one plot of land.
• You will start out with a smaller number of slots and will need your friends to help grow crops for them.
• These crops will give you energy to dig underground and increase the size of your cellars.
• You will be allowed a maximum of 2 Cellars.
• Having 2 Cellars will mean that you have a storage capacity of 400 items for your combined Cellars! All in the space of 2 plots.

FarmVille Underground Storage
Status: “Coming Soon”
Function: Store up to 200 items per Cellar
Cost: ?
Release Date: ?

FarmVille Unreleased Underground Wooden Storage

FarmVille Unreleased Underground Steel Storage

Since lots of farmers and many FarmVille Freaks reported missing Honeybees, FarmVille is “turning off” the “fly away” Honeybees.

The way that is supposed to work is that if you do not visit or tend to your Bee Hive each day, then you will lose some Honeybees that “fly away”. However, there were many reports of missing Bees even from the most diligent farmers that tended to their farms and Beehives several times in one day.

FarmVille is investigating this problem and for now, Honeybees will not fly away.

FarmVille's Missing Honeybees Notice

FarmVille Farm Cash

Several FarmVille Freaks are reporting that they have received unexplained free farm cash.

They are receiving the free cash and do not know what has triggered the extra FarmVille dollars.  So far, reports have been in increments of 5 FV$, 10 FV$, 20FV$, 22 FV$.

As everyone knows, farm cash is hard to come by, so it is unlikely that the big Z is intentionally rewarding random farmers with free cash.

How about you, have you received free random farm cash?

With tonight’s update, FarmVille has added new in-game social Pop-Ups.

You may have noticed these Pop-Ups that appear much like the neighbor suggestion pop-ups. However, these new Pop-Ups will focus more on your FarmVille neighbors’ in-game play.

There is also a new HUD icon that is located on the left sidebar of your farm’s in-game screen. This new icon will tell you which one of your FarmVille friends have recently been farming or are “active player” status. Additionally, if you click on the icon you will be able to send items to those active players.

What do you think about these new in-game pop-ups? Are they helpful or an unintentional annoyance?

Some FarmVille Freaks have reported that you have “lost” your Crafting Building during an attempt to either place it on your farm or when some other in-game error occurred.

The problem with Crafting Buildings is that you cannot select one after you missed or ignored the initial pop-up notice. Now, if you buy a Crafted Good or if you “adopt” one from one of your FarmVille neighbor’s FaceBook newsfeed and you do not already have a Crafting Building, you will receive a notification that offers you to place a Crafting Building on your farm.

These notices will serve as a quick fix for whatever glitch you may have experienced when “losing” your Crafting Building and allow you to place a new one on your farm.

FarmVille has turned on the Unwither function for all farmers.

As technical glitches are worked out and resolved, Unwither protection will remain on and will end around 10 AM (PDT) tomorrow, July 28th 2010.

During Unwither your crops will not wither.

NOTE: FarmVille is slowly rolling out this feature for everyone over the next few days. Not everyone will be able to access Crafting Buildings at this point.

Crafting Buildings are a more complex feature in FarmVille. It utilizes several existing FarmVille features such as Bushels, Farmer’s Market, and the usual harvesting and neighbor interactions. If you would like to understand how the Crafting Building works or for those of you who do not have access to Crafting Buildings yet, you can get a jump start by reading this FarmVille Freak Guide.

FarmVille Freak Crafting Building Guide

Previous to their official release, FarmVille and FarmVille Freak referred to Crafting Buildings as “Crafting Cottages”. The name was changed to Crafting Buildings upon their release.

Crafting Buildings are accessible to Level 25 Farmers. Level 25 farmers and above will be albe to turn their Bushels into Crafted Goods to use with the Crafting Building.

Upon logging into FarmVille, you will see a pop-up that alerts you that Crafting Buildings have arrived and if you did not participate in the “Crafting Cottage Preview,” you will have a new opportunity to pick your building.

Step 1: Pick your profession by choosing the coordinating Crafting Building.You have three choices:

1. The Winery – Make Wine
2. Bakery – Make Baked Goods
3. Spa – Make Perfume

• Each building has its own unique set of recipes you can use to create crafted goods.
• You can view how many of your FarmVille neighbors picked each specific building (as shown below).

Clicking “What is this” will give you more detailed information on each of the buildings. Once you have decided on your profession, clicking “Yes, Place”  allow you to place your Crafting Building on your Farm for free.

For those who have already chosen a Crafting Building by participating in the Preview, you will be prompted with a different pop-up. At this point you will have the chance to change the Crafting Building you initially selected or keep the one you already chose.

Step 2: Placing your Crafting Building on your Farm.

Upon placing your building, you can share a FaceBook newsfeed that will inform your friends of your new business and give them the opportunity to adopt some supplies. The first 5 neighbors who click on this feed within 24 hours will receive 1 of the following items: (Note: Item depends on the Craft you have chosen).

• Baker : Level 10 Triple Berry Pie
• Spa Host: Level 10 Relaxation Candle
• Wine Maker: Level 10 Tropical Wine

Your Buildings Recipe menu will automatically appear after posting the newsfeed notice.

Step 3: Making Goods

• Everyone will start with one Level 10 Good that is 1 minute from completion.
• Clicking on “Make a good” will bring you to your recipes menu.
• Your recipe to make a Good will depend on the profession you selected.
• Click “Make it” from the bottom of the menu to create your Good.

Recipes will require you to have Goods. Goods will require you to collect Bushels from your friends, because Bushels are the key ingredients for Goods. Remember, that you can obtain Bushels the following ways:

How to Obtain Bushels:

1. Harvesting your own Bushels from crops you have planted.
2. Visiting your neighbors’ Market Stalls.
3. “Adopting” Bushels via the Facebook newsfeed from your friends.

After “Making your Good” it will need time to Cook. Clicking the “Finish it” button will complete the Level 10 Good. It is now ready to use for your Recipe.

After completing your Good, you will receive the pop-up below and also have the opportunity to share a newsfeed and give the first three neighbors who click within 24 hours to get 1 type of Good made.

Step 4: Selling Goods

• Clicking on “Goods I am selling” from the crafting menu displays the goods you currently have for sale.
• Selling goods improves existing Recipes and unlocks new ones!
• Each time you sell a good to your Neighbors, you will receive 1 Recipe XP.
• Access your “Sales Report”at the bottom of the menu. This report shows you what Goods you have sold and how many were purchased.
• If neighbors purchased from your store while you were away, a bouncing arrow will appear over your building. Clicking on this will show the following menu:

• You earn 90% of the sale price of items sold.
• The Daily Sales Report will display the amount of total coins and experience earned in your absence.

Leveling Your Crafting Building

If you wish to make a successful and thriving business, you must Level-Up your Crafting Building.

• The level of your Building determines the number of crafting spots you have available for use.
• Leveling your building will also unlock new recipes.
• You can level your Building with Farm Cash or coins by unlocking the option.
• To unlock the coin option, you have to level a certain amount of recipes. (See requirements below):

Amount of Recipes Required for Crafting Building

• 1 Star: Level up recipes 6 times + 50,000 coins
• 2 Star: Level up recipes 18 times + 100,000 coins
• 3 Star: Level up recipes 27 times + 400,000 coins
• 4 Star: Level up recipes 36 times + 1,000,000 coins

Recipes are leveled up by fulfilling the requirements above. Basically each time you make a recipe it will count towards your level up progression.  Continue making the required Goods your Recipe requires.

• The higher level your Recipe is, the better your crafted Goods will be.
• There is no limit on how high you can level your recipes!
• Currently Crafting Building can only be upgraded to 5 Stars. Once you have a 5 star Building, the buttons to level with coins or cash will disappear.

When you level your Building, you will receive a pop-up below and the opportunity to share a FaceBook newsfeed with your friends that will allow the first three neighbors who click this feed within 24 hours to receive a level 3 crafted good.

Step 5: Trading Goods for Rewards:

In addition to selling your crafted Goods to your friends, they can also be traded for rewards. To access Goods that you have in your inventory, click “Use” from the crafting menu and select “Goods”.

This menu displays how many crafted goods you possess.

• You can only have 200 Crafted Goods in your inventory at a time.
• This capacity limit only pertains to your Crafted Goods.
• Your Bushel inventory does not count towards this capacity.

If you click the “use” button underneath a good, you will trade it for fuel.

• The higher the level of the crafted good you use, the more fuel you will get.
• You can see your fuel gauge increase within the inventory menu.

Step 6: Purchase or Sell Goods

You can purchase or sell Goods from your FarmVille neighbors.

You can purchase/sell by visiting your neighbors by two ways:

1. From the Crafting menu, click “Buy”. You will then see the option to select “Shop for Goods” or “Shop for Bushels”. Clicking “Shop for Goods” will bring up the following menu.
   
   • From this menu, you can select the type of good you would like to purchase.
   • Clicking “select” underneath a good triggers another menu that automatically displays the highest level goods for sale first.
   • Select the good you want to purchase and you will be brought to the following screen:
   

2. By visiting a neighbors farm.

• Simply click on their Crafting Building to see what they have available for you to buy.
• Upon purchasing an item from your Neighbor’s store, you will receive a pop-up allowing you to post a feed to their wall informing them of your actions.
• The first 3 Neighbors to click this feed within 24 hours will receive 1 good of the same type as the one you purchased. (see below)

• Goods purchased from your Neighbors can also be traded for Fuel.

Deleting Your Crafting Building and Buying a New Crafting Building:

If for some reason you wish to delete your Crafting Building or purchase a new one…

• All progress on the level of the Building and Recipes will be saved.
• You will lose all Goods that are being sold in your store at the time.
• If you wish to purchase a new Crafting Building, it can be purchased from the “Buildings” section of the Market for 100,000 coins, provided it is the same building you initially signed up for.
• If you wish to purchase the two Buildings you did not sign up for, they can be bought for 80 FV$ Farm Cash each.
• You may only own one of each type of Building at a time.

* Facts were sourced directly from the Official FarmVille Forum.

So what do you think? Do you like this new Crafting Building feature in FarmVille? Do you invite new complex features like this or do you find yourself wishing for the simplicity of the beginning FarmVille days?

As we previously mentioned in our new levels post, FarmVille cash can only be earned up to level 100.  What happens after level 100?  FarmVille Freak Julie S. shared her pop up below with us.

The pop-up states that no rewards of farm cash are given after Level 100, but it also hints at “rainbows after rain,” possibly meaning that in the future more levels will be added, with more incentives.

What do you think the reward should be for leveling up after 100?