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FarmVille Freak Guide: FarmVille New Collections!
FarmVille New Collections Notice
The new FarmVille Collections system has arrived! After logging into FarmVille after the update you should be greeted with the pop-up shown above.
There are all new Collections as well as rewards for each set. You will automatically be rewarded with Farm Coins and XP to compensate you for your existing progress on the old Collections. Any old extra collectibles that you had in your Gift Box that were not added to your Collection cannot be used and you will need to delete them as they are useless.
The new Collections work similar to previous Collections in that you will automatically find collectibles while doing everyday farming tasks such as harvesting your crops, trees, and animals. However, when you find a collectible you will not have to add them to your Collection set or “use” them. It will not be stored in your Gift Box. It will simply go straight to your Collection set.
The new FarmVille Collections include:
- FarmVille Berries Collection
- FarmVille Citrus Collection
- FarmVille Cows Collection
- FarmVille Flowers Collection
- FarmVille Grains Collection
- FarmVille Squash Collection
FarmVille New Collections
Each Collection set is comprised of Common, Uncommon, and Rare collectibles. You will need a certain number of each collectible to complete each Collection each time.
FarmVille Collection Requirements
Level 1 Collection Requirements:
- Common (x 3) – 3 collectibles each of same type
- Uncommon – 2 collectibles of same type
- Rare – 1 collectible
Level 2 Collection Requirements:
- Common (x 3) – 6 collectibles each of same type
- Uncommon – 4 collectibles of same type
- Rare – 2 collectibles of same type
Level 3 Collection Requirements:
- Common (x 3) – 9 collectibles each of same type
- Uncommon- 6 collectibles of same type
- Rare – 3 collectibles of same type
Level 4 Collection Requirements:
- Common (x 3)- 12 collectibles each of same type
- Uncommon – 8 collectibles of same type
- Rare – 4 collectibles of same type
Once you find the required amount of collectibles for a Collection, you will see a green “Trade In” button. Clicking the button will turn in your collectibles and allow you to receive the reward. Note, you can bypass finding collectibles by purchasing them directly or by purchasing entire Collection sets with Farm Cash.
Some collectibles may have a green paper icon that allows you to “Ask” your neighbors to send you this item. You can only use the “Ask” button once per day.
FarmVille Collection Prizes
After completing a Collection set, you can turn it in for rewards of Farm Coins and XP and special exclusive prizes. You will also be given the option to share a rare or uncommon collectible with your neighbors by posting a Facebook News Feed share. Your collection set can also be leveled to receive better prizes. For a spoiler prize reveal of all the Level 1, 2, and 3 trade-in prizes for the new Collections sets be sure to check out our FarmVille Freak post by clicking here!
FarmVille Freak Article: FarmVille New Collection Trade In Prizes
Notice that every time you complete a Collection, it levels up. Each time you level up a collection, you will need a higher number of collectibles to complet the next collection. The higher the level, the better the prizes. However, thespecial prizes repeat after Level 3, but with an increasing increment in Farm Coins and XP.
How to Find Collectibles for Collections:
Completing simple tasks on your farm and your neighbors will earn you collectibles for your Collection. However, now only harvesting actions (besides being gifted collectibles) will allow you to find collectibles. Harvesting actions vary and are related to that specific collection. For example, you’ll find collectibles for Berries Collection while harvest berry crops.
- Berries Collection – Harvest Berry Crops
- Citrus Collection – Harvest Citrus Trees
- Cows Collection – Harvest Cows
- Flowers Collection – Harvest Flower Crops
- Grains Collection – Harvest Grain Crops
- Squash Collection – Harvest Squash Crops
Collectibles can be found with both the English Countryside and Greenhouse crops for some Collections. Using consumables for any type of harvesting action will still allow you to find a collectible versus click-farming, vehicle or building with purpose use. For example, if you use an Arborist to harvest your trees, you can still find collectibles.
Other Changes to Collections include:
- Collections are available to Level 10 and above farmers.
- FarmVille Special Delivery Boxes and Mystery Eggs will no longer provide collectibles.
- Only harvesting actions and acquisitions from neighbors reward you with collectibles.
What do you think of the new FarmVille Collection System?
Tags: Berries Collection, Citrus Collection, Cow Collection, farmville, FarmVille Collections, FarmVille New Collection Set Prizes, farmvillefreak.com, Flowers Collection, Grains Collection, Squash Collection
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 12:54 pm
i cant wait to start getting my rewards, this is totally sooo much better then the original rewards of just coins and XP!!
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 12:56 pm
So does this mean no more fuel? Collections is my main source of fuel and I’ll be annoyed if I run out. No way am I planting 2 farms of 500 plus plots each, by hand. I’d give up the game first.
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 12:56 pm
Not sure how I feel about it. Already have soooooo many fertalize all, use orchards so can’t use arborists but I like how you can “level up” for other rewards. Kind of like the wishing well I think?
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 1:03 pm
Damn, I had a bunch of collections to redeem and I’ve lost out on a lot of fuel. Wish they warned us in advance so we could use them up.
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 1:03 pm
and what about our old collections, shouldn’t we get a warning first so that we can trade those in, and i have my giftbox full of collectables
stupid zynga
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 1:04 pm
Don’t know if I like it…and the asking for collectables, I just tried and I could only ask friends who don’t play FV??? I thought Zynga wouldn’t bugs us and friends who don’t play anymore with these request?
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 1:14 pm
New collection heads up was posted on this site on the 4/5/11
http://farmvillefreak.com/farmville-freaks/info-farmville-collection-revamp
looking forward to it
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 1:14 pm
I am happy to have something new. I get sick of the same old things . It will be fun to have something to look forward to. Personally, with 2 farms to do, I need all the fertiizer I can get . Thanks zynga
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Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 1:18 pm
And Oh my…just opened my storage! So happy!! Will be so much easier to find the themes I want to set out
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 1:20 pm
they took my all completed collections! I want claim it! They should allow us to claim all collections .. I’m mad!!!
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 1:22 pm
well i think the ask thing is when friends have more than one of am item and thay can share with you to help you out i guess the person who gets fuel from colections will have to start one of the crafting buildings that will solve the gas prob craft or go shopping everyday you will have plenty gasssssssssssssssssss
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 1:23 pm
An in-game countdown timer would have been nice. They warn us in game when LE collections and crops are finishing (though crops only have an end date and not a timer). Oh well, just gonna keep chugging along and making craft goods for fuel.
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 1:25 pm
What the heck is going on? They took away all my collections and as far as I can see I got no XP or gas for them. Thats just not right.
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 1:28 pm
You can fuel with you’re craft building and when you open eggs and when people buy you’re bushel and when you visit neighbor… also they will release a weal of fuel , where if I understand you will be able to play everyday and earn fuel also,,, Anyways I love the new concept , more prices and more fun!! thank you Zynga !!
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 1:30 pm
Wow! More exciting!!
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 1:30 pm
AND THEY STILL HAVENT FIXED THE BREEDING PROBLEMS ON THE SHEEP….
ZYNGA
FIX
THE
BREEDING
PROBLEMS
ON
THE
DOT & CHAMELEON!!
IF
HACKERS
CAN
GET
THEIR
SHEEP
TO
BREED
THEN
WHY
CANT
YOU???
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 1:34 pm
I WANT SOME BULLS FOR THE NEW FARM TO BREED MY COWS. THERES NO SINCE IN HAVING THE DAIRY BARNS WITH NO BULLS.
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 1:48 pm
crafting for fuel? Are you kidding? You would have to have more farmers planting the bushels you need to do that and a way to make more coins to buy enuf fuel for harvesting,plowing,planting. Takes arnd 12 tanks to do a farm for 3 things. Our saviour was the collections. You only needed one fertilizer Application a day = the bee hive.or a posted one, posted arborist and posted farmhand. But just where is the fuel really going to be when you need it and you can only ask for one type of bushel in so many hrs. I see right now, we are soon going to find our delemma. Happy hunting to farm.
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 1:50 pm
They gave plenty of warning to redeem your collections. I’m happy about the new prizes! I have plenty of fuel from crafting.
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 1:54 pm
okay but it has a place to ask friends for help only its only full of the friends who dont play fv so i deleted those friends and now no names come up how stupid that you think you can use us to get you more players
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 1:59 pm
Has anyone noticed that the CHAMELEON ewe is no longer in the market place.
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 2:41 pm
I have tons of collectibles sitting useless in my gift box because I had the maximum already in the collections box. I thought they were going toward the completed collections during the changeover. Explanation of the process and an actual date (not “when we finally get it mostly ready”) would be nice.
When was the last time you heard of a new player in this game? I only know people who are leaving it. They need a little surfer gnome on a motorcycle jumping the shark for their next beach theme.
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 3:58 pm
WELL THEY TOOK ALL MY FARMHANDS WITH THE COLLECTION ITEMS..NOT HAPPY!!
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 4:07 pm
@Georgia A Hines….you don’t have to craft anything to get fuel from crafted goods. You can just buy crafted goods from your neighbors. I have hundreds of each good in my inventory. If I didn’t make any more goods for the next month, neighbors could still be buying from me daily.
I can remember lots of people whining some time back, that you couldn’t get fuel for coins. Well, you can now. There it is.
If you don’t have neighbors who do crafting consistently, get some new ones.
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 4:10 pm
Shelly, Farmhands are giftable right now. Maybe you should head back to the farm and send some of those so you get some back.
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 4:16 pm
The new collection prizes leave a lot to be desired. We don’t have enough space for the things that we already have and you are giving us more decorations. Animals are usable, decorations just take up space either on the farm or in the storage area. I just usually end up selling them cause I refuse to use storage for the smaller things that while not bad aren’t worth the valuable space.
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 4:21 pm
Lame its all lame!! Need ? gifts & egg’s changed more frequent with better gifts. I won an outhouse with an egg over yr ago …stupid butterfly on a stick ha! Ive never seen fv$ in an egg…So thankful for the gift box changes lot less clicks!!
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 4:49 pm
The new collectables don’t do me any good…..I can’t collect ANYTHING from the feed or receive/send gifts from requests. I can’t get ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!
Big Deal.
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 4:52 pm
I think the prizes are lame, and the ‘higher’ level ones are not better. Someone said you can get fuel for coins, if I can figure out how to do that maybe I’ll get used to this. I liked the old collections better.
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 4:54 pm
Crap!! I had 30 completed collections. Zynga said they’d trade in collections, but all they gave me was coins and XP. Where’s my fuel????
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 4:57 pm
When I attempted to ask for one of the collection items, not ONE of the people who came up on the list of my Facebook friends was a Farmville player.
Another pathetic ploy by Zynga to make me spam my non-Zynga playing neighbors.
So, as far as I’m concerned, they can take these new collections and shove them.
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 4:59 pm
@Jerrylages….the way to purchase fuel for coins, is to purchase crafted goods from your neighbors. Coins = Crafted goods = fuel.
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 5:15 pm
Is Farmville trying to make us quit? First the flashing pigs/sheep and now this. How nice it would have been to be able to redeem our collections BEFORE the change over~instead of taking them from us. I was planning on stocking up on my fuel, thannk you very much. Why change something that wasn’t broken? I don’t care very much for the new items they are putting out here and I am not much of a goods person to scramble around buying stuff so I can get fuel. Thanks Zygna
If you want to do something worth while, maybe you can put some cool things in those eggs we get? Like FV cash and different items that are not in the market. One can only have so many butterfly’s on a stick or a chicken gnome for petes sake.
Thank you for ripping me off on my fuel~~~~
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 5:40 pm
where do you get the blinking sheep seen them on a farm when I went in to harvest
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 6:18 pm
in concept i dont mind the change – but wish they had warned us – i usually publish collections all together, i had 20 ready to go in the next day or so – i needed the fuel and am pissed we didnt get any…
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 6:31 pm
I dont know why people are crying like babies!! You knew this changeover was comming, why not cash in your collections when you knew it was going to happen some day soon. I always cashed in my collections the minute they were completed, as i didnt see any sense in storing them and cashing in a ton @ once……
You can STILL get fuel for almost nothing – plowing, buying crafted good FOR COINS then using the good you bought – oh and so you dont whine like a baby, you can only store up to 200 until YOU HAVE TO CASH THEM IN!!!
I’m sure some will still need their pacifiers, even though its quite easy and cheap to get plenty of fuel……some things will never change and some just need some thing to B***H about!!!
If they game gets your panties that much in a bunch, STOP PLAYING!!
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 8:13 pm
Totally biased to new players. Old/experienced players get penalized. They have already done berries, squash and grains and now have to go back and do them again if they want a prize. And the prizes? Most are really bad graphic things that are totally useless. People are subjective like with the mystery game and some will like them, sone won’t but bottom line- graphic thingies don’t help the game. They don’t help anyone actually FARM like fuel prizes, coins and XPs do. One orange pony and a rainbow cow are cool . Old prizes- coins, XPs and fuel were fair to all players.
Crafting for fuel – wishful thinking since so many got bored and quit crafting all together, except for EC because they need to do a quest. Less people crafting = less bushels shared = more personal time and fuel spent trying to grow crops to craft. But wait – I have less fuel now because there are fewer crafters and I don’t get the collection fule bonuses.
I can see the headlines in the news coming – FUEL CRISIS EVEN IN FARMVILLE!
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 9:47 pm
I like the part where you call us whiners. Kind of like a know it all bully. We are concerned about how much we can do w/o fuel. You have a lot so you do not even know what it is like to need 12 fuels a day. We plant,plow harvest and do it again many times to get our 3rd mastery of each crop. You I can bet, don’t diligently farm for masteries. Yes, we do know all about crafting, we do it. There are not enuf farmers farming the bushels we need, they have already finished those and moved on and there are no new craft jobs with other crops we can use. Yes , we do know how to use the goods after bought for fuel. Then we need more for the next round of crops but we have to wait a few more hrs before we can buy from them again.. Have a little compassion and quit opening your mouth and showing your ignorance of our delemma.
Working hard and having it taken away is hard to swallow. I read this ahead of time and It never said they was not going to give us fuel, I would have expected it if I had any that was complete, BUT I needed fuel and had NOWHERE else to get it so cashed it in. Understand any better?
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 11:10 pm
“It will not be stored in your Gift Box. It will simply go straight to your Collection set.”
I picked up 2 items today. Both went into my gift box.
Posted on May 7th, 2011 at 1:54 am
YAY SOMETHING NEW THAN THE BORING **** I STOPPED HANDING IN MY COLLECTIONS BECAUSE I WAS SICK OF THE SAME CRAP
Posted on May 7th, 2011 at 2:15 am
I agreed that this is biased toward new players. I am done mastering all crops so not interested in planting anymore. Where will we get fuel now?
Don’t tell me crafting because it takes too long to get fuel this way.
Let see… plant, wait, harvest, get bushels, wait 6 hours, and when you finish all you get is 1 good and the rest goes in the market. Then we wait again for someone to come along and buy goods in order to select a TINY drop of fuel.
I did my crafting so much so that I even though I have stopped crafting for months, I still have over 350 goods in my market getting stale!. This is inefficient and does not help me to get the fuel I need for the 12 crops in the English countryside.
Can we get back auto fuel replenishment every 20 minutes? Or give us seasoned players, who are not dazzled by a few crates, ponies and cow’ a better chance of getting fuel.
Posted on May 7th, 2011 at 6:05 am
Jamdown Farmer, maybe try buying some high level crafts from your neighbours. I buy, from most of my neighbours, nearly every day. I have more fuel than I can use in six months if I don’t get any more in the meantime.
There is fuel on the feeds to be collected, visit some neighbours and get fuel there, when someone takes bushels from your market stall, trade the points for fuel. There is no reason for a fuel shortage at all. The piddly bit I got from turning in collections – where the heck is that ladybug??? – was barely a drop in comparison to what I get in other ways.
Posted on May 7th, 2011 at 8:56 pm
I don’t play Farmville or check out ‘Farmville Freak’ every single day because of work and family commitments. So I, like many other people, did not see any postings forewarning players about the change to collectables.
We had quite a few unused ‘old’ collections. But now like hundreds of people, I’ve lost all my fuel and XP that I was entitled to receive when I cash in. The fuel is hard to come by – so fuel you received from trading in a set was really very helpful.
Zynga have few items for FV COINS in the market, most everything is FV CASH – and now the fuel is going to be as ‘rare as hens teeth’ too – if you aren’t into crafting 24/7.
Don’t get me wrong. I like change – it keeps things fresh. The addition of things is great. BUT suddenly changing the format of collections is a loss to players, because of the rewards we received from it.
We as players, personally prefer the XP and Fuel as a reward.
There should be two options for collections and players should be able to decide which they prefer – or choose both. Just as players have done with Home & English Farms.
Please Zynga ! I want all my old collections back so I can trade them in, not have them taken off me.
Posted on May 7th, 2011 at 9:15 pm
@ Cathy : There is a limit to the fuel you can collect from newsfeed.
There is not a lot of fuel to collect when visiting farms. That is also limited.
Not all neighbours have crafting items. I have been down that track with trying to ‘farm’ and scrape fuel together. It is indeed very hard.
So, the ‘piddly’ amount of fuel you refer to, from trading in collections, equalled 5 large cans and was helpful in “topping up” supply in dire times when the tank was empty.
Posted on May 7th, 2011 at 11:00 pm
can’t leave well enough alone can you zinga..sure, bring in the new players, and toss out the old, cause that is what you have done with me..i had 9 collections, and a giftbox with at least 350 items in it..where the heck was my warning that everything would be lost ??..all i saw advertised was “new collections”-i never saw anything that gave a set date for this crap, but all i see now is “destruction”-that is what y’all have done…i did not touch my farm yesterday, nor today, and i may never touch it again..is that the “change” y’all were looking for ??..
Posted on May 8th, 2011 at 2:33 am
this came pretty much out of the blue. I knew they wanted to change something about the collections but i was sure they would tell us to either redeem our collections or don´t worry and get them redeemed automatically showing up in the giftbox. at least some sort of note would have been nice.
Posted on May 8th, 2011 at 12:44 pm
Other then the begging of non players I don’t mind the new collections, & I’ve finally found a group of neighbors who by goods from me every day, so I’ve sold out of all my wines & pub drinks twice! It just takes time getting good neighbors, my other farm only sales about 3 goods a day
so I stopped making things over there for a while,
Posted on May 9th, 2011 at 1:15 am
@ Cathy
Thank for your suggestions, but I have done all that (I am a seasoned player at level 99).
Anyway, the problem with fuel from newsfeed is that in recent times I get a pop up saying I have to use fuel before I can collect more. It’s not that I have an exhorbitant amount stored (usually less than 200). Therefore the old collections helped a lot towards my fuel stock. Zynga needs to improve the fuel rewards for players.
Shame on you Zynga..you should have given players their fuel from the the completed old collections before you discontinued it. Some in game notice/warning would have been nice too.
@Annette
Ever heard of freedom of speech?. Aren’ you glad you can add your 2 cents?
Posted on May 12th, 2011 at 2:24 pm
The thing that sucks about the new collectibles is that it only lets you share ONE of them! At least before several people were able to receive them when you posted them, but now only one. What the heck?
Posted on May 12th, 2011 at 4:40 pm
People get a hold on yourselves ! ! !
Why are u whining so much ? Just go to the damn spa,pub or whatever u got there and buy fuel from neighbours… but u dont rly need to do that.
Why ? Cuz making fuel is DAMN EASY ! Some recipes want 2 (i repeat TWO) bushels,which are MEGA EASY to get,even the biggest noob can get blueberry and morning glory ! And ure all tellin me u dont have any !? U sure ure playing FarmVille,not DonkeyVille ?
Ure saying neighbours dont have any bushels… WTF !? Change them ! oh nooo,there are only 56 484 146 people playing the game. Poor you people im sooo sorry for you,where would u POSSIBLY get new neighbours !? Only like 50+ MILLIONS more people playing the game,you should quit and find a game maybe thats got 10 times more players… huh ? No bushels shared > change neighbours !
Lemme give you some damn stats. Especially about the newbies sayin “U dont know whats like to use 12 fuels a day”
I saw only 3-4 good posts,which maked sense. All the rest was blah blah blah yap yap yap im a noob yap yap blah !
U guys are killing me ! AND I AM A GIRL !
JEEEEEEEEEZ ! God have mercy ! HAhaHxhahxahhx im sry couldnt stand it !
Human race is evolving into monkeys.
Main farm planted 3 times purple tomatoes +1 time long onion = 4 plants X 10 fuel = 40 fuel A DAY
English Farm – same there,but another things planted – 40 FUELS DAILY
Both – 80 fuels per day. And guess what. I AM NOT EVEN BYING ANY !? And u know whyyy ? Simple. Cuz i take eggs from the wall.
Then i take MORE eggs from neighbours. And i only have like 100 neighbours,but i get 40-50 eggs per day ! ! ! Now imagine if u have 300 neighbours ! I get 2X20 fuel refills from eggs EVERY DAY ! AT LEAST ! Sometimes i get alot more.
I make recipes 2 times a day = 9 recipes = 10 more fuels. So its 50 FUELS a day for now.
I get AT LEAST 50-60 samples a day from the wall. Which is AT LEAST 15 more fuels,which god damn it is AT LEAST 65 FUELS A DAY ! ! ! But this is the pesimistic view,im usually getting MUCH more,and i want to point out again that i have ONLY 100 neighbours…
OOPSIE DAISY sorry ive forgot that i find fuel while plowing. Do you do that guys ? Or ure too lame complaining about your lame 5 fuel refills lost !?
5 fuel refills !? Pffft. U kiddin me ? Decorations suck !? WTF !? ure playing only to go in ur fam plant 1-day growing sh** and stare at PLOTS !? The best looking farm is the decoration farm. I got alot of deco’s and still i use 10 times more fuel than u guys,which makes u what ? A newbies…
Get a grip on urselves ! Read more,ask more,do NOT comment things u dont know !
Surviving the harvest with collectibles ! How pathetic is that !? Im using them only for XP whenever i find some
But you should learn playing ! Im serious !
Now go and upgrade ur damn spa or whatever u have,if u have something AT ALL,cuz u were gettin fuel by collections !
Zynga,dont listen to them,they just dunno what theyre talkin bout
Pathetic
Posted on May 16th, 2011 at 6:52 am
I don’t know how I like the new collections as I haven’t completed a single one. Once again….Zynga is depending on “unofficial” fan pages to explain their game and changes to it. I HATE THAT!
What I hate more is….only one person can claim a collection piece posted to the wall! Really? C’mon Zynga stop making the game so anal. I don’t know what happened or ‘who’ happened there at zynga headquarters but this whole limit stuff has gone overboard. You’ve implemented limits on nearly every aspect of the game…except of course how much real money we can spend. I think we should all let you know how limits feel by limiting our spending. Get over yourself….get rid of the limits!!!!
Posted on May 23rd, 2011 at 9:53 pm
I hate the new collectibles. Currently, they aren’t working properly. When you click on one of the rare or uncommon ones on the wall, you don’t get that item. You get a common item that your friends can gift you. And it doesn’t seem as though there are nearly as many available from each post. Posts by neighbors that I never had a problem getting items from in the past are now gone in a matter of seconds.
As for those saying they need the collections to get fuel, all you have to do is visit your neighbor’s crafting shops and buy items (for coins). Items over about level 25-30, costing about 3500-3800 coins each give you over a full tank of fuel each time you use one. So for about 35,000 coins (and most of seem to have plenty of those), you can get 10 tanks of fuel. I have NEVER bought fuel for FV$$$ and have over 5000 tanks.