FarmVille 100 Capacity Bushel

FarmVille has upgraded Bushels to include a few new features.

You can now purchase Crafting Building Recipe ingredients directly from the FarmVille Market. You may buy ingredients for your Recipe including complete Bushel sets in the FarmVille Market for 3 FV$ farm cash. If you don’t have the required Bushels or can’t “adopt” any from a friend, this will help out anyone missing a few obscure Bushels for a Crafting Building Recipe.

In another Bushel upgrade, the storage capacity for Bushels has been increased to 100 Bushels.

FarmVille Buy All Crafting Ingredients

• Animal Buildings such as the Chicken Coop,Dairy Farm, Horse Stable and Nursery Barn now have one-click harvesting, just like other animals!
• Goji Berry seeds are still available in the FarmVille Market, but have simply moved to another place. Usually the first item you see is Goji Berry seeds, now they can be found with other fruits.
• The Email promotion of “Daily Fuel Boost” is now a regular feature.
• More farmers should have access to the new Crafting Building feature.

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?

FarmVille Unreleased Red Biplane

This weekend, lots of FarmVille Freaks such as FarmVille Freak JacobK, FarmVille Freak Ben and  FarmVille Freak Gils,  reported that the cost of using the FarmVille Biplane seems to have changed.

FarmVille Freak Gils suggests that this is the new formula for the cost of using the Biplane below:

“Hi,
It looks like Zynga made an adjustment to the cost formula for using the biplane over the weekend.
I was able to check on two farms, new formula seems to be:

FV$ = roundup((p*d*3,5/1000)-1;0)
[p = number of plots, d = harvest duration]
Can this be accurate? Any other users experiencing this?
Regards,
-FarmVille Freak Nils”

and

“Hi I’m Ben I’m a Level 88 Farmville Freak and I was wondering if you have had any reports of people noticing a chance in the biplane formula. I ask because I have been using it for clovers, up until yesterday about 90 minutes into planting you could spend $1 FV to complete a little less than 500 plots.  Yesterday it took me to almost 75% to be able to only spend $1 FV on using the biplane. Thanks I love Farmville Freak it is the only FarmVille website I go to for my FV information.

Thanks,
FarmVille Freak Ben”

and

“Hey Farmville Freak, I am unsure who to send this to but I wanted to update you guys on the bi-plane formula. As everyone knows the bi-plane formula keeps changing. The basics of the formula that was reported on Farmville Freak is the same, however the hours have changed, now it is 1 Farmcash for the first 570 hours, then 1 additional farmcash for each 280-290 hours after that.  It seems that FV has varies the number of additional hours slightly for each additional dollar so that people cannot exactly guess the farmcash amount.

It goes 570 + 290 for the first two farm cash, then (this is from memory I can’t remember exactly) 282 + 286 + 300 for the next 3 farm cash.  Sorry I can’t give you an exact formula but this is approximate for everyone to understand.” – FarmVilleFreak JacobK

What do you think? Did you also notice that the cost of using the Biplane seems to have changed?

FarmVille Expand Your Farm Loading Screen

Ever wonder how FarmVille calculates the cost of land expansion?

Well, with the latest 26×26 land expansion being rolled out and currently available as a limited release, lots of farmers are wondering how the 2 million coins price tag for 26×26 land expansion is validated . Please note, not all farmers have access to the 26×26 expansion at this point. More users will gain access over the next few days and eventually everyone will have the 26×26 available in their FarmVille Market.

A FarmVille Freak came up with the following equation that FarmVille seems to have used for past, current, and future land expansions. He shared his equation via the official FarmVille Forum.

“I’ve done the math, and the current price formula for expansions is ridiculous. I have determined this:

14*14 —- 52 New Plots = 10,000 coins | ~192 coins per new plot
16×16 —- 60 New Plots = 25,000 coins | ~417 coins per new plot
18×18 —- 68 New Plots = 50,000 coins | ~735 coins per new plot
20×20 —- 76 New Plots = 75,000 coins | ~987 coins per new plot
22×22 —- 84 New Plots = 250,000 coins | ~2,976 coins per new plot
24×24 —- 92 New Plots = 500,000 coins | ~5,435 coins per new plot
26×26 —- 100 New Plots = 2,000,000 coins | 20,000 coins per new plot” (Ben MKM)

More details on the 26×26 Land Expansion:

• Can be purchased with 2 Million coins OR farm cash for 80 FV$.
• The coin option will require you to add 5 new FarmVille neighbors, unless you already have the maximum of 300 neighbors allowed.
• You must have a minimum of at least 35 FarmVille neighbors to purchase the expansion.
• Land Expansion is currently in a limited release, meaning only a certain percentage of farmers have access. FarmVille will be “slowly rolling out” the expansion to all players over the next few days.

How do you feel about the latest FarmVille Expansion? Is it too much? Does it matter? Will you purchase as soon as possible?

FarmVille 26 x 26 Land Expansion

In an update made on Zynga’s official Twitter page, they simply tweeted a link to an image of 26 x 26 Land Expansion!

Is it possible that farmers could be upgrading their farms to the latest land expansion as soon as tonight?

Here is the link that they tweeted:

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To access it you can click the ‘note’ icon in the upper right hand corner of your game screen. This will scroll your page down autimactically, to view the new FarmVille feed below your game screen.

FarmVille in Game News Feed Menu Icon

There are two options to choose from:

Friend Activity

FarmVille in Game Feed Friend Activity Tab

This portion of the feed allows you to see things such as:

• When a friend receives a ribbon or levels up
• When a neighbor plants “Joe Smith just planted a field full of Soybeans.”
• When a neighbor puts out a wish list, giving you an option to send them the gift they are looking for

For all posts there is an option to send a congratulations gift, mystery gift or wish list gift.

My Activity

FarmVille Freak Game Feed My Activity

This portion of the feed keeps a history of almost anything you do while farming such joining Co-ops, planting, wish lists or achievements.

UPDATE: On FarmVille.com there is a third menu tab that has a ‘true’ FarmVille feed, allowing you to collect bonuses from Neighbors Facebook posts such as Mystery Eggs, Collections etc.

FarmVille.com Game Feed Tab

Are there additional options you would like added to the new in game FarmVille feed menu?

These new flags will be permanent market fixtures meaning there is no expiry time. If you are farming in the following countries, you can now purchase your country’s flag for 16 FV$ and proudly display it on your farm.

• England Flag – 16 Farm Cash
• Cameroon Flag – 16 Farm Cash
• Belgium Flag – 16 Farm cash
• Ghana Flag – 16 Farm Cash
• South Korea Flag – 16 Farm Cash
• Netherlands Flag – 16 Farm Cash
• Nigeria Flag – 16 Farm Cash

FarmVille England Flag	FarmVille Cameroon Flag	FarmVille Belgium Flag
FarmVille Ghana Flag	FarmVille South Korea Flag	FarmVille Netherlands Flag
	FarmVille Nigeria Flag

Tuscan Wedding Gifting Changes:
Now whenever you send any Tuscan Wedding gifts to your friends they will receive more. Instead of only sending/receiving one item per Tuscan Wedding Gift, you will be able to automatically send/receive 2.

Tuscan Wedding Rewards Changes:
Tuscan Wedding rewards now cost less! You can redeem the Rewards after trading in a set of favors, but the prices of the rewards are cheaper (see price list below).

• Wedding Cake – 5 Favor
• Spaghetti Sheep – 15 Favor
• Pig High Art – 25 Favor
• Apollo Butterfly – 40 Favor
• Bella Fountain – 60 Favor
• Leaning Tower – 80 Favor

FarmVille Tuscan Wedding Rewards with NEW Lower Prices

FarmVille Wheat

Update 2: On JUNE 17th Wheat Crop was Updated to include the following changes described below.

Update: Due to technical issues, the Wheat Crop was not actually changed tonight. However, the changed mentioned below will be the anticipated changes made to the Wheat Crop as released by Zynga/FarmVille.

“Please note: Due to technical issues, this feature is not yet available. We sincerely apologize for any confusion or frustration this may have caused you. We will do our best to get this feature to you in the near future.” (Official FarmVille Forum)

As mentioned via Monday’s (June 14th) official FarmVille Podcast, changes have been made to the Wheat crop.

Because Wheat will be a key crop to the upcoming release of Crafting Cottages, FarmVille decided to lower the harvest time and Crop Mastery for Wheat.

Here is the new specifications for Wheat seeds:

Wheat
Hours: 12
XP: 1
Cost: 13 coins
Yield: 61 coins
Crop Mastery: 500, 1500, 3000

In addition, Whither for Wheat is being turned off until June 21st, this is to allow people to adjust to the new time line.

How do you feel about the new Changes made to the Wheat crop?