FarmVille Mystery Game Dart

Many FarmVille Freaks are reporting that FarmVille has once again gifted us with another free Mystery Dart to play in the FarmVille Mystery Game! We like that this has become an almost weekly routine, don’t you?

To find out if you’ve been gifted a free Mystery Dart from FarmVille, simply visit your farm and you should receive a pop-up like the one shown below or you can also try visiting the Mystery Game.

This week’s FarmVille Mystery Game theme is packed with Valentines Day animals. To find out which prizes you can receive you can visit this FarmVille Freak article by clicking here.

Please note, although many FarmVille Freaks have reported that they’ve received a free Mystery Dart, this may vary.

FarmVille Free Mystery Game Dart Notice

To check out all the prize spoilers for this week’s FarmVille Mystery Game, be sure to visit this FarmVille Freak article.

Did you receive a free dart for this week’s FarmVille Mystery Game? If so, which prize did you get?

FarmVille Freak English Countryside Master Quest Guide

So since the FarmVille English Countryside is quest driven, what better way is there to prepare for your quests than knowing about them in advance?

Use this FarmVille Freak Quest Master Guide to help you plan out your farming in the English Countryside.

Here is a handy list of the Quests in the order that they will appear on your farm. You must complete the quests in succession or one after the other in order to unlock the next quest. Each quest below lists the name of the quest, the requirements or objectives for completing the quest, and the rewards that you will receive.

If you’d like all the details on each individual quest such as actual screenshots of the quests and tips on completing them, simply click on the link which will take you to its FarmVille Freak article. Enjoy and happy farming, FarmVille Freaks!

FarmVille English Countryside Quests 1-13 (March 22, 2011)

 Quest 1: Make It Your Own
 Requirements: Collect 6 Post Cards and Plow 10 plots of land
 Rewards: 100 XP and 1,500 Farm Coins plus a Dorking Chicken
 Link: FarmVille Freak on FarmVille Make It Your Own Quest

 Quest 2: Getting Started
 Requirements: Repair the Broken Combine and Harvest 25 English Roses
 Rewards: 150 XP and 1,500 Farm Coins, plus 1 Chicken Coop
 Link: FarmVille Freak on FarmVille Getting Started Quest

 Quest 3: Et Tu, Brutus?
 Requirements: Buy 1 Sheep, Visit 6 neighbors in the EC, and View your progress on Village Map
 Rewards: 200 XP and 1,500 Farm Coins, plus Brutus the Ram
 Link: FarmVille Freak on Et Tu, Brutus? Quest

 Quest 4: Please Fence Me In
 Requirements: Complete 1 Sheep Pen, Buy 8 Country Fences, & Expand farm to English Homestead
 Rewards: 200 XP and 1,500 Farm Coins, plus an Old Garage
 Link: FarmVille Freak on Please Fence Me In Quest

 Quest 5: I’ll Get Ewe
 Requirements: Buy 1 Ewe
 Rewards: 250 XP an 2,000 Farm Coins, plus 5 Love Potions
 Link: FarmVille Freak on I’ll Get Ewe Quest

 Quest 6: On The Lamb
 Requirements: Place a Lamb on  your farm and then raise it into an adult Sheep
 Rewards: 250 XP and 1,500 Farm Coins, plus a Sheep Statue and Gertrude the Ewe
 Link: FarmVille Freak on On The Lamb Quest

 Quest 7:  Trees of Green
 Requirements: Place 10 Trees on your EC farm and Buy 1 Orchard
 Rewards: 100 XP and 1,500 Farm Coins plus 5 Bricks, 5 Boards, and 5 Nails
 Link: FarmVille Freak on Trees of Green Quest

 Quest 8: Out On a Limb
 Requirements: Complete 1 Orchard and Place 10 Trees inside
 Rewards: 100 XP and 1,500 Farm Coins plus 6 Shovels and 6 Watering Cans
 Link: FarmVille Freak on Out On a Limb Quest

 Quest 9: Just Ducky
 Requirements: Buy 1 Duck Pond
 Rewards: 100 XP and 1,500 Farm Coins plus a Scoter Duck
 Link: FarmVille Freak on Just Ducky Quest

 Quest 10: Listen Up
 Requirements: Visit 6 neighbors and view  your progress on the Village Map.
 Rewards: 100 XP and 1,500 Farm Coins plus a Bench
 Link: FarmVille Freak on Listen Up Quest

 Quest 11: Rodents of Ruin
 Requirements: Collect 6 Mouse Traps, Harvest 75 Hops and 75 Barley crops
 Rewards: 200 XP and 2,000 Farm coins, plus 5 FV$ Farm Cash!
 Link: FarmVille Freak on Rodents of Ruin Quest

Quest 12: Stock the Bar
 Requirements: Collect 6 Pint Glasses and Harvest 100 Bluebell flowers
 Rewards: 250 XP and 2,500 Farm Coins plus a crafting PUB!
 Link: FarmVille Freak on Stock the Bar Quest

 Quest 12: Lagerheads
 Requirements: Place the Pub on your farm, Buy a Pub Cat, and Craft the Duke’s Stout recipe twice.
 Rewards: 250 XP and 2,500 Farm Coins, plus a Pub Sign decoration
 Link: FarmVille Freak on Lagerheads Quest

 Quest 13: A Berry Good Drink
 Requirements: Harvest 100 Red Currants and Make Oliviaberry Beer recipe twice
 Rewards: 500 XP and 5,000 Farm Coins, plus a Pub Keeper avatar outfit
 Link: FarmVille Freak on A Berry Good Drink Quest

The end! (for now).

FarmVille English Countryside

What do you think about questing in the FarmVille English Countryside so far? Is it too easy, too much, or just right for you? Take our FarmVille Freak Poll and leave a comment on your opinions below.

FarmVille Sponsored Link: Oreos & 2 Free Farm Cash

Who do you like to share your Oreos with? In a new FarmVille Sponsored Link provided by Oreos Cookies you can earn yourself 2 free Farm Cash just by answering that simple question.

FarmVille Sponsored Link: Oreo Poll

Sponsored Links can be found underneath your FarmVille game screen, located on the top right.

Note, not all farmers have access to Sponsored Links due to regional restrictions.

Did you participate in this Oreos offer to get your free Farm Cash and who do you like to share your Oreos with?

FarmVille Greenhouse Completed

An exciting new feature, the FarmVille Greenhouse along with new crops was released tonight! It will slowly be rolling out to all farmers. Note, that the Greenhouse was previously referred to by Zynga as the Glasshouse in past podcasts. Due to this name change, the old Greenhouse (a decorative building with no function that is available in the FarmVille Market) is now called the Glasshouse. The Cube Greenhouse that is available through iMobile-devices only is still just a decorative building and is not part of this new feature. Now that we’ve cleared up the naming confusion let’s get on to how this new feature works.

FarmVille Greenhouse Notice

The Greenhouse is a constructible building that you can use to create new FarmVille crops. As seen in the picture below, up to 10 new crops (with Crop Mastery) can be created. The Greenhouse is a multi-level constructible building with three construction phases similar to other constructible buildings. With each construction phase, the Greenhouse will change physical appearance. The bigger your Greenhouse, the more seeds you can produce.

• Level 1 Greenhouse – 1 Seed Tray
• Level 2 Greenhouse – 4 Seed Trays

FarmVille Greenhouse Explanation

Some of the new FarmVille hybrid crops include:

• FarmVille Straspberry
• FarmVille Purple Tomato
• FarmVille Long Onion
• FarmVille Sun Poppy
• FarmVille Double Grain
• FarmVille Whisky Peas
• FarmVille Fire Pepper
• FarmVille Squmpkin>
• FarmVIlle Red Spinach
• FarmVille Lilac Daffy

FarmVille Greenhouse Crops

Everyone will receive their Greenhouse frame for free. Upon entering your farm, you will enter into Placement mode. Then you can choose to immediately place your Greenhouse on your farm (if you have enough space cleared) or if not it will go to your FarmVille Gift Box if you want or need to place it later. If for some reason you do not receive your Greenhouse or you accidentally delete it, it can be purchased in the FarmVille Market under the Buildings tab.

You will need to inlist the help of your FarmVille neighbors to construct this new building for free. There are a total of three phases and each phase will require more bricks, nails, and wooden boards (See below for the building requirements per phase). The items needed can be found several ways: as free gifts, in Special Delivery Boxes, can be collected off Facebook newsfeed as bonuses, or can be purchased directly with Farm Cash. If you want to purchase building materials using Farm Cash, the cost is 1 FV$ per part. Remember, as each building phase is complete, the building becomes larger and more grand, but it will also increase the chance of producing new crops.

Greenhouse Building Requirements

• Phase 1 Building Requirements: 4 Bricks, 4 Nails, and 4 Wooden Boards
• Phase 2 Building Requirements: 15 Bricks, 15 Nails, and 15 Wooden Boards
• Phase 3 Building Requirements: 20 Bricks, 20 Nails, and 20 Wooden Boards

FarmVille Greenhouse Expanding

Once your Greenhouse is complete, you can view details by first clicking the building on your farm and then clicking the “Look Inside” button from the menu. This view will open up the Greenhouse menu. The first Nursery tab displays the tray level as well as slots to place your seeds to experiement with. Different seed combinations will produce new crops. Clicking the “Place a Seed” button on Slot 1 and Slot 2 will show you a mini-Market display that displays 20 regular crops.

FarmVille Greenhouse Seed Genealogy

Simply place a seed in each slot and see if your combination works! Entering the correct crop combination, will tell you what the new crop will be and you will be deducted the cost of the crop. You can find the cost of the crop listed under each crop. However, if you enter the wrong combination of crops you will get an error message. Experimenting with new crop combinations can be time consuming because typically each experimented crop will take 3 days,  but don’t worry – your FarmVille friends can help you speed up the process! By clicking the “Ask for Help” button you can recruit your neighbors to help you reduce your experimentation time. Each friend that helps you will reduce the amount of time by one day.  Also, if you’ve got Farm Cash to spend, then using Farm Cash to buy your way through is another option. The cost is 2 Farm Cash for each “friend” that helped, for a total of 6 FV$ to bypass the growth stage.

When experimentation is complete, the clock timer is replaced with an image of a new seed packet. Simply, click the “Harvest” button and you will be rewarded with the new enhanced crop. After each completed experimentation, you will get a total of 50 seeds of that new crop. The crop seeds will go directly to your FarmVille Market seed inventory similar to giftable Limited Edition seeds such as the Black Roses . As a bonus you will be able to share this new crop with some of your friends as well.

Expanding the Greenhouse will introduce new seed tray levels for you to experiment with. Any combination of special crops can be experimented with.

The “Seed Genealogy” button displays the genealogy of all the special crops that are available to experiment with. It also shows you the mastery of the crop whenever you mouseover the crop’s image.

FarmVille Freak HatchetHolic's Greenhouse

FarmVille Freak FarmGoddess' Completed Greenhouse

Do you like this new feature? What do you think of the FarmVille Greenhouse and experimenting with new crops?

FarmVille Snowman

Recently, the FarmVille buildable Snowman that produced Watering Cans when harvested was turned “off” by Zynga which explains why many FarmVille Freaks reported finding their Snowman 100% ready, but unable to produce any Watering Cans. No, this is not a glitch.

As you know FarmVille Watering Cans are utilized as water supplies for growing Mystery Seedlings. When the Snowmen stopped yielding Watering Cans, many farmers were upset over the time they spent building and collecting parts for the Snowman or the investment of Farm Cash when they assumed that their Snowman would always yield Watering Cans. However, we told you yesterday on FarmVille Freak that Zynga announced via their official FarmVille Blog that Snowman would stop producing Watering Cans and that the Orchards would be upgraded soon to yield Watering Cans.

Fearing a possible FarmVille drought and farmer backlash, the Z gods decided that we could harvest our Snowmen for another 3 weeks. They will also proceed with their plans for the Orchard. If you accidentally deleted your Snowman already, you will be able to get it back and will need to contact Zynga Customer Support.

From Zynga Community Manager, Stumpgrinder

“We’re about to make an official announcement about Snowmen, but basically:

1) Yes they are harvestable again (for another 3 weeks).
2) If you deleted yours, please contact CS and you can get them back.
3) Plans for Orchards are still moving forward.

Happy farming (or, um, watering)!” (Source: FarmVille Official Forum)

FarmVille Stumpgrinder Official Snowman Announcement

FarmVille Watering Can

Water! Water! Water! We are in desperate need of water. Thankfully, it looks like there is good news for every arborist enthusiast farmer who may be dealing with a water shortage on their farms.

FarmVille’s blog is reporting that as soon as next week FarmVille Orchards will soon produce Water Cans for you to use on your Mystery Seedlings. According to the blog entry, the number of Water Cans the Orchard yields is yet to be determined. However, when you do not produce your own Mystery Seedling, it’s safe to say that you’ll be gifted with water instead. This is a welcomed upgrade, especially since the FarmVille Snowman will no longer produce Water Cans sometime soon.

FarmVille Water From Orchards News

What do you think about this new addition to the Orchard? We want to hear what FarmVille Freaks have to say, especially our tree-loving freaks!

FarmVille Pink Unicorn

There is a new FarmVille Facebook scam out offering unsuspecting farmers a free adoptable FarmVille Pink Unicorn. First of all the Pink Unicorn is still an unreleased item (that we featured on FarmVille Freak) and secondly, it will not be adoptable as it is projected to be a Mystery Game featured item. (Note, this is subject to change.)

More importantly, remember, that any Facebook groups or fake new feed shares that that offer free FarmVille items and are NOT from official FarmVille sources are both untrustworthy and unfruitful. Please share this information with your neighbors, especially those who you have seen fall victim to these scams.

FarmVille Pink Unicorn Scam

Day 12: FarmVille Cream Bear

Day 12 of the FarmVille Winter Countdown is now available.

Today’s item of the day is the FarmVille Cream Bear.

Day 12: Cream Bear

You can ask your neighbors to send you this gift by posting a Facebook news feed share or you can help out a friend by responding to their news feed share and in which you will also be rewarded with your very own item of the day for your good deed.

Farmers who participate in all 12 days of the FarmVille Winter Countdown will receive a Disco Cow.

To view all the items of the day, see the FarmVille Freak Winter Countdown Revealed post by clicking here.

Day 11: FarmVille Gold Nutcracker

Day 11 of the FarmVille Winter Countdown is now available.

Today’s item of the day is the FarmVille Gold Nutcracker.

Day 11: FarmVille Gold Nutcracker

You can ask your neighbors to send you this gift by posting a Facebook news feed share or you can help out a friend by responding to their news feed share and in which you will also be rewarded with your very own item of the day for your good deed.

Farmers who participate in all 12 days of the FarmVille Winter Countdown will receive a Disco Cow.

To view all the items of the day, see the FarmVille Freak Winter Countdown Revealed post by clicking here.

FarmVille Holiday Presents

Tis the season for FarmVille Holiday Gift giving, and it’s about to expire!

The Holiday season is wrapping up in FarmVille with the Holiday Tree and free giftable Holiday Gifts ending tomorrow on Thursday, January 6th 2011.

After January 6th you will no longer be able to send FarmVille Holiday Gifts to your FarmVille neighbors via the Gifting Page. Additionally the “Ask for Parts” button will be disabled and you will not be able to purchase the Holiday Tree (if you accidentally sell or delete yours) or Holiday Gifts in the Market.

FarmVille Holiday Gifts in Giftbox

Did you enjoy the Holiday festivities in FarmVille this year? What did you think about the presents (redeemable prizes) compared to last year?