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At the request of Zynga we have removed this article.

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UPDATE: The glitch associated with the farm cash purchasable Beehive has been patched and is no longer working. The glitch was patched on the evening of July 13th.

Due to legal concerns, we are obligated to remove content that is in violation of Zynga’s Terms of Service.

About this Glitch: The glitch allowed some farmers who purchased Beehive building supplies with farm cash, free 50 farm cash upon completion of their Beehives. This was only for those people who paid farm cash for Beehive supplies. THIS GLITCH IS NO LONGER WORKING.

FarmVille Beehives are here!

Lexilicious first told us about Bees coming to FarmVille in a FarmVille Podcast and tonight they finally made their debut to FarmVille.

FarmVille Beehive Notice

You will find one free Beehive in your FarmVille Gift Box. Placing it on your farm prompts more events, the first of which will allow you to share a notice via FaceBook newsfeed stating that you have started building your Beehive and that your FarmVille neighbors can send you free supplies. (All the free Beehive building supplies can be found here.)

FarmVille Beehive in Giftbox

FarmVille Congratulations Beehive Notice

Step 1: Build your Beehive

The Beehive and Bees will be a complex feature that will require you to first build your Beehive.

Building your Beehive will require the help of your neighbors similar to other buildings with purpose.You will need to collect 10 each of the following supplies to build your Bee Hive for a total of 50 supplies:

• Smoker (10)
• Bees Wax (10)
• Wooden Board (10)
• Brick (10)
• Nail (10)

FarmVille Honeybee Beehive Giftable

***Only two rotating Beehive gift supplies will be featured on the FarmVille Gifting Page at one moment. However, you can find all the supplies by using our handy FarmVille Freak Beehive Gifting Links located here.

You can obtain Beehive building supplies three ways:

1. For Free from your FarmVille neighbors via the Farmville Gifting Page.
2. Purchasing supplies directly from the FarmVille Market. (Supplies cost 1 FV$ each)
3. “Ask for More” option that you send to your selected neighbors. Use the “Ask For More” button, that is located when you “Look Inside” your Beehive and is found on each remaining supply icon.

Completing 10 of any building component will trigger the option to post a FaceBook newsfeed and allow you to share a supply with the first 10 of your neighbors during a 24 hour period. Reaching 25 items overall will allow you to share a newsfeed for a random building supply for your first 10 neighbors.Finally, completing your Beehive will also allow you to share a newsfeed for another building supply for the first 10 neighbors.

Step 2: Find or Purchase a Queen Bee & Build your Swarm of Bees

After completing your Beehive, you now have to build up your colony of Bees. Now that you have completed your Beehive, it is time to build a colony of bees. Before you can get started on your swarm of Bees you will need to find or purchase a rare Queen Bee.

Finding a Queen Bee (The Free Option):

• Queen Bees can be found when harvesting flower crops on your farm.
• Queen Bees can also be found when fertilizing flower crops on your Neighbor’s farms.
• If you find a Queen Bee you will receive a pop-up notifying you and the Queen Bee will automatically be added to your Beehive.
• You may only possess one Queen Bee per Beehive at any one time.
• If you find a Queen Bee and already are in possession of one, then you are allowed to share it via FaceBook newsfeed. Only one neighbor will be able to “adopt” the Queen Bee.

There are only 3 options for obtaining a Queen Bee for free:

1. Finding a Queen Bee on your farm when harvesting FLOWER crops.
2. Finding a Queen Bee when fertilizing a neighbor’s farm.
3. Adopting one via the FaceBook newsfeed share from a friend that has found a Queen Bee, but already possessed one

Purchasing a Queen Bee (Farm Cash):

• You may buy a Queen Bee from the Hive’s menu for 10 Farm Cash.

Step 3: Build your Colony of Bees

Once you have found your Queen Bee, at that point you can start producing your own swarm of Honeybees to pollinate your crops and receive special rewards!

Begin growing your colony by clicking “look inside” from your Hive’s menu.

Honeybees find pollinated seeds from fertilized crops. So, the more Honeybees that you own, the greater your chances of finding pollinated seeds.What is so special about Pollinated Seeds?

Pollinated seeds will be required to unlock special pollinated crops in the FarmVille Market! Pollinated crops have a higher chance at yielding bushels than normal crops do and Pollinated Crops’ bushels will last for 2 days.

Beehives can house a total of 200 Honeybees. In order to obtain Honeybees, you will have two options:

1. Purchasing Honeybees with Farm Cash

• You can purchase Honeybees from your Beehive’s menu by clicking on the “Buy Honeybees” button.
• 5 Honeybees can be purchased for 5 FV$ or farm cash

2. Honeybees as Gifts from Neighbors

• Your FarmVille neighbors can gift you Honeybees via the FarmVille Gifting Page.
• You may ask for Honeybees  by using the “Ask for Bees” button.

Tonight’s FarmVille update that included the release of the Bee Hive feature caused quite a problem for many farmers.

After placing the Bee Hive on the farm, most farmers experienced crashing and accessibility issues.

Zynga address the technical issue and suggests the following:

“Looking into a Placed Beehive Causes Screen to Lock

Description:
Clicking “Look Inside” from the menu on a placed beehive causes the screen to lock.

Status:
The cause of this issue has been identified to be browser related. If you clear your cache and reload FarmVille, you will no longer be impacted.

Workaround:
Clear your browser cache.

If you find your issue in this section, please refrain from creating additional threads unless otherwise specified in the description of the Bugs listed above.” (Source: FarmVille Official Forum)

If you do not know how to clear your internet cache or are unsure, you can consult the following helpful “How to Clear Cache” page.

WikiHow.com’s How to Clear Your Browser’s Cache

FarmVille Grimwell on Beehive Causing Screen Lock

UPDATE: Zynga addressed this issue via the Official FarmVille Forum and suggests that farmers, “Clear Your Cache”. Read more here: “Zynga on FarmVille Bee Hive Problems: Clear the Cache!”

With the release of the FarmVille Bee Hives and Bees, lots of FarmVille Freaks are reporting problems in FarmVille!

So far, we have numerous reports of FarmVille “freezing up”  or crashing after your Bee Hive is placed on your farm. Others are reporting that they cannot accept any of the Bee Hive Building supplies or are losing supplies in the process of acceptance or usage.

As with all new releases, there will be potential glitches that will need to be addressed. Stay tuned for more information regarding tonight’s update and technical issues.

FarmVille Bees are Here Loading Screen

Are you experiencing errors with the Bee Hive feature or with FarmVille tonight? If so, what is happening?

Thank you to FarmVille Freak J-Chaves for finding these unreleased FarmVille Bee Hives! These seem to be the same bee hives that Lexilicious spoke about a few weeks back.

FarmVille Unreleased Bee Hive

We have some information about this upcoming feature which is subject to change up until its actual release. This new Bee feature will allow farmers to buy and harvest Bee Hives. You will use Bee hives to store Bees.  Bees are needed to work together with Bee Hives and produce honey. When harvested, Bee Hives yield Honey, coins,  and XP. Bees will be available through buying and gifting and will need Flowers to survive. You must grow Flowers on your farm for Bees to survive. Bees can also be adopted when visiting your neighbors’ farms.

Are you excited about this new Bee Hive and Bees upcoming feature?

FarmVille’s official podcast, rescheduled from Friday, June 11th, has aired today June 14th 2010 and is hosted by FarmVille Community Manager, Lexilicious.

You can listen to the podcast in the video above, read our FarmVille Freak Podcast Summary below or read the official transcript of the podcast provided by FarmVille’s official forum.

FarmGoddess’ FarmVille Freak Summary

New Releases from Last Week:

1. Island Theme

• Limited edition theme with decorations, animals, and crops.
• Pink Hibiscus and Flamingo Flower crops. No Mastery, limited edition.

2. Soccer Theme

3. Tea Party Co-Op Job

4. Dogs Last trick

Free Fuel for FarmVille Email Users

• One email per day.
• Each email expires in 24 hours
• Can get 3 tanks of fuel per day.
• Must be level 12 farmer

Crafting Cottages

• Bakery, Winery, Spa
• Clicking “Learn More” will show you more details.
• Limited edition gift of Gnomes for participating in the Crafting Cottage Preview.
• Your choice of profession is not locked in, you can change it when they are actually released.
• You can start collecting Bushels ahead of time that will be required for ingredients.
• This pop-up will only appear ONCE.

User-Submitted Questions:

• Q: How many Nursery Barns are allowed on farms? A: This is a GLITCH, not an intended function. This issue will be fixed. For now, users can have two Nursery Barns on their farm. If you have more than two Nursery Barns you are building at your own risk. You can lose any buildilngs or animals in excess of 2 when the glitch is fixed.
• Q: A: Are other animals besides Dogs allowed at Zynga? A: All pets are welcomed. There are some cats, one artist brought in a Rabbit, so other animals are allowed.
• Q: What constitutes a UNIT of gas? A: If you receive a Unit it is enough fuel for one plot of land.

:::COMING SOON:::

Adjustments to the Wheat Crop

• Wheat will be changed to a 12 hour crop.
• Wheat Crop Mastery will also change.
• Reason for change is that Wheat will be a common component in the Crafting Cottages.

Dairy Barn Expansions are coming soon!

Bees

• Bees will be coming soon!
• In the next few weeks.
• Will also include an entire new feature with Bees.

What was your favorite news in this podcast?

Official FarmVille Transcript for June 14th 2010
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