If you would like to view all of the Recipes currently available for your specific building, check out the spreadsheet below.  It lists the Recipes for each Crafting Building and also the required ingredients, cook times, and yield for each Recipe.

You can view the spreadsheet on Google Docs, the author is unknown.

Link: FarmVille Crafting Building Recipes

FarmVille Crafting Building Spreadsheet

FarmVille Sponsored Link: Toy Story 3

A new sponsored link for Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story 3 movie which opens Friday, June 18th, is appearing at the bottom of your FarmVille loading screen.

Upon clicking on the sponsored link, you can watch the Toy Story 3 trailer and answer a question, “What was your favorite toy as a kid?” and then be rewarded with 2 free farm cash!

Simple enough, and worth the free farm cash.

Please note, there is NO direct link to provide. The advertisement for this offer appears underneath your FarmVille Farm home page once you access FarmVille on FaceBook.

Will you participate in this sponsored link? If so, did the free farm cash work for you? Who is going to see Toy Story 3?

There is no set price as it dependent on several factors including what crop you are growing, the time remaining, and how many plots you have.

FarmVille Freak Ingeborg hypothesizes that there is a formula used to calculate the cost of Biplane flights. Here is her thoughtful explanation described below. Thank you for sharing with us FVFreak Ingeborg.

“Hi,

I know the calculation for costs on the Biplane:

• 2000 first hours = 1 FV$ (farm cash)
• +1 FV$ for every additional 1000 hours.
• Use 24 hours for 1 day, not the 23 hours Zynga usually uses.

→ Example: 100 plots of watermelons =9600 hours= 9 FV$.  If they are 50% ready it’ll be 4800 hours= 4FV$

It’s a theory, but it works every time I checked! A lot of people keep asking on the forums how to calculate the costs and I can keep answering but i think it’s more effective if FarmVille Freak makes a post about it!

The exact formula will be : (X*H*P)/1000-1= # FV$     ( round up! )
in which:
X= Number of plots
H= Grow time of the crop in hours (Carrots=12, Watermelons=96, Peas=24 etc.)
P= (100-percentage of the crop)/100. This means: if a crop is 50% ready P= (100-50)/100=0.5
If the crop is freshly planted P=1. If a crop is at 90% ready P=0,1

Happy farming
FarmVille Freak Ingeborg”

Did this Biplane Flight Formula work for you in calculating the cost of your flight?

Here is some background information about FarmVille Freak Randy’s farming experience:

“My girlfriend got me started on Farmville because she had been playing since August of 2009. Eventually, I gave in to her FarmVille invitations and joined in October 2009. Some of my neighbors and my girlfriend were at around Level 30. I was only looking for fun but when I saw my Level increase so quickly through the lower Levels, I started getting into it. In time, I decided I would try to overcome my neighbors that were 30 levels (so about 50,000 points) ahead of me. Now I am the first of my neighbors to reach Level 70. My closest competitor (my girlfriend) is at Level 68. The next highest neighbor is at Level 51 200,000 points behind me. How did I do it? Read my tips below.” -FarmVille Freak Randy

FarmVille Freak Randy’s Strategies Found Useful & to Keep Interest on Way to Level 70:

Says FarmVille Freak Randy, “However, this is only important if you want to reach Level 70. If you’re more interested in playing the game for decorations, that is also a legitimate reason to play. But if you’re looking to compete with your neighbors, you may find these or other strategies helpful. Be forewarned: If you’re not interested in anything else but leveling up, Level 70 will be very bittersweet for you. My interest has waned, but I’m still trying to master every crop available.

If you’re already at Level 70 or speeding your way towards it, these tips may seem elementary. However, they may not come as easily to every farmer. So these tips are especially designed to help out farmers who are struggling to get to Level 70.”

• The Most Important Point: Planting 4 Hour Berries

o   The marginal benefit (for points—not coins) is highest for the four hour crops. It seems obvious, but none of my neighbors have considered it. Even if you plant Peas and get 3 XP + 1 XP for plowing per plot, in the same amount of time you could plant 4 rounds (in 16 hours if you have the free time, 6 rounds if you are an insomniac) of Strawberries and receive more points.

o   If you plant four rounds of Strawberries in sixteen hours, you will get 4 XP + 4 XP for plowing= 8 XP per plot. If you have a field of 450 plots, that adds up to 3,600 XP in one day or 25,200 XP in a week.

o   Thinking this way, the fastest way to Level 70 (without spending your way there) is to constantly plant Strawberries, Raspberries, Blueberries, and/or Blackberries.

o   Yes, even Raspberries. Though you don’t get any points for planting the crop, you will still get 1 XP per plot for plowing, which leads to 2 XP per plot every 4 hours which is the same amount of points that you get from the 4 hour berries.

• Plowing most of your farm

o   I have the largest size farm available and at one time had all but one row plowed. The more plots, the more points per planting and plowing.

• Mastering Crops

o   It brings in a decent amount of XP points and coins and it kept my interest. I made a fence out of my mastery signs. I have 38 of them now.

• The Ribbons

o   The reasonable ones, at least kept me interested.

• Close competition

o   Several times my girlfriend passed me and our friendly competition kept me interested in the game.

o   If you are in close competition with one of your neighbors, buying decorations may give you an edge. I usually chose to buy windmills (100,000 coins, 1,000 XP points). However, my girlfriend took this strategy too far. When I reached Level 70, I had about 5 million coins. She is at Level 69 and only has 160,000 coins. When she reaches Level 70, she won’t have enough money to buy a Villa or any other buildings or decorations.

• Blocking your Farmer Avatar

o   Setting up a farmer block to trap your farmer saves so much time and keep your neighbors happy when they come to visit.

–> Read more about Blocking your farmer here.

Things I found unhelpful on my way to Level 70:

• Neighbors

o   I only have 35 neighbors and only 5 of them are active. They were, however, useful for the Christmas, St. Patrick’s Day, and Easter events. You only need the pre-requisite amount to be able to expand your farm and buy certain items (For example, with 35 neighbors I can’t buy a second Market Stall with coins).

• Decorating

o   It wastes valuable space that could be used for planting.

• Spending real money on Farmville Cash

o   I didn’t spend any real money on Farmville Cash on my way to Level 70.

o   The only Farmville Cash I spent (that was earned from leveling up) was to expand my farm when I was in the low levels and for one of the Seeds for Haiti events. I now have 49 Farm Cash and can’t find anything I want to buy.

Note: Purchasing items that are farm cash only tend to yield higher amounts of XP based on the farm cash purchase and exclusivity.

• Animals

o   They don’t give much money and don’t give any points

o   Golden Chickens and the three new chickens are the exception because they bring in a lot of money—but still no XP points. I have a Huge Coop full of Golden Chickens and a few of the new Chickens that brings in 3,840 coins a day.

Source: (FarmVille Freak Randy)

♣

Thanks again for sharing your tips with everyone FarmVille Freak Randy! FarmVille will be celebrating its very first birthday soon when it turns one on June 19th 2010. Within this year many farmers have already reached Level 70 and are anxious for more levels and more challenges. Upon reaching Level 70 there is no special celebration or reward. After all that clicking, plowing, planting, harvesting and thousands of XP later the event proves to be under-whelming and slightly disappointing. There are no new items to unlock, no more new levels (yet), and no more 1 free farm cash for leveling up.

Has Zynga forgotten about their most prized players? No, we already know that they have intentions of adding more levels in the future, but exactly when is unknown. FarmVille Freak supports the introduction of new levels and all the Level 70 farmers out there still waiting. As their XP continues to accumulate, reaching way beyond the  minimum for Level 70, we can only hope that when new levels come out they will automatically level up based on the obtained XP that is quietly waiting to be counted.

"Sad Farmer, Relationship of Our Emotions to Land" Photo Credit: NewDayNewLife Photography

What tips do you find useful for leveling up and reaching your goal of Level 70?

Developers have been alerted

Thank you all for the reports thus far, we’ve passed along this information to our developers and they are currently working on isolating the cause.

In the meantime, we apologize for the inconvenience and hope to have your houses returned to you as soon as possible.

Please watch this thread for more information as it becomes available, including further instructions should we require more information from you to help solve this problem.

Source: Official FarmVille Forum

How long do you think it will take for Zynga to replace or return Modern Homes to farmers?

FarmVille Freak Ramona's Missing Modern Home

Due to some unforeseen technical difficulties (bad URL in the Mustang email, pop-up for the Mustang not appearing but displaying the progress icon, etc.) the Mustang has been disabled for the time being. Once these errors are corrected, the Wild Mustang will be enabled once more. We apologize for the inconvenience, and will update you via this thread as soon as we have more information.

Source: Official FarmVille Forums

FarmVille Freak Dave_NC's Help Wrangle Wild Mustang Notice

Although not everyone has access to the Wild Mustang feature, those that do are experiencing problems when they try to get help from friends to wrangle the Wild Mustang.

To get help from friends, you choose 5-15 friends. The friends that you have selected are sent an email that contains a link to help you wrangle the Wild Mustang. The problem is that the link within the email is broken. However, there is a quick and easy fix! Just follow the steps below and you can get all the help you need.

Note: This should only be a temporary problem until Zynga addresses the broken link issue, but for the time being, you will have to fix your links for help.

Steps for fixing Broken Wild Mustang Link:

1. Right Click on “Help Friend” link.
2. Copy the link address location.
3. Paste the link address into Word, Notepad, browser, etc.
4. There are two URLs. Only one is needed. From the beginning of the URL addresss, delete the first http:// all the way to the end, stopping right before the second http://______FriendReward.
5. If you see two %% at the end of your link, delete those as well.
6. Copy your new link (should be only 1 URL) and send this to your friends so that they can help you wrangle the Wild Mustang!
7. The friends that you send the new corrected link to, only need to copy/paste your link into their browser and hit enter.

Did this work for you? Make sure to tell all your friends about this post so that you can help them too.

http://toolbar.zynga.com/install/farmville/?var=Cash

A similar offer is now being reported. FarmVille Freak Rainexel came across the following popup but unfortunately did not recieve the bonus offer, the Toggenburg Goat:

FarmVille Tool Bar with Toggenburge Goat Reward

It seems that this offer is still in the works but will be coming our way soon. The Toggenburg Goat will be a new addition to FarmVille, a lot of FarmVille Freaks will certainly be trying to get their hands on one as soon as the offer goes live!

Do you use the Zynga/FarmVille Game Bar?

Check out this hilarious FarmVille post on our Partner Site at AOL! Games.

It’s not just national media figures like Dr. Phil that are looking at the supposed epidemic of “Farmville addiction.” The fine folks at KDSA in Sioux Falls, South Dakota filed the above report (partial transcript here) on the 82.4 million people that are “spending real time which is part of [their] real life … harvesting virtual crops, caring for virtual animals … and none of it is real.” (it helps if you read those quotes in the jaded, ‘can-you-believe-it?’ tone that the newscaster uses)

The report focuses on a single Farmville player, mother and cardiac nurse Stacy Rothstein, a self-admitted “addict” who plays the game for five hours a day. Thankfully, the addiction expert the network consults clarifies that an interest in the game turns into an addiction only if it negatively impacts the player’s real life. Still, the whole piece has that overly broad, accusatory tone that often comes along when media outlets cover something they don’t fully understand.

Despite this, the entire piece is worth watching just to hear the main reporter give the following anecdote at the end: “I was talking about this [game] with my wife, just how I didn’t understand it, how I thought it was a little annoying, and she says ‘How about the hours you’ve spent playing NCAA football,’ and I got real quiet.”

You have about 1 hour to finish building your Botanical Garden, be sure to help your neighbors.

Here is the FarmVille Freak link for Botanical Garden Building Supplies:

Glass Sheet

Floral Bracket

Irrigation Pipe

Steel Beam

Green Beam

http://farmvillefreak.com/farmville-freaks/farmville-botanical-garden-materials-gifting-links

From FarmVille:

“FarmVille Hey Farmers! You only have a few hours left to finish building your Botanical Garden. Make sure to finish yours while you can!”

FarmVille Freak Brian's How can you tell if a post on your News Feed is a REAL or a FAKE FarmVille post? (Click to Enlarge)

Just to reiterate, the word FarmVille and the ear of corn must both be visible in a post’s footer for it to be authentic.

Another great way to check for a fake or scam post is by clicking the ‘hide’ option on homefeed. Simply, hover your mouse over the upper right hand side of a post and click hide.  If it says anything other then “Hide FarmVille”, it is a fake!

FarmVille Hide Function for Scams I

FarmVille Hide Function for Scams II

Are you annoyed by these fake posts filling your home feed? Make sure to share this post on Facebook to let your farming friends know.