FarmVille’s official Podcast is hosted by FarmVille Community Manager, Lexilicious. You can listen to the video above, read our FarmVille Freak Summary below, or read the entire transcript provided by Zynga at the bottom of the post.
The next podcast is scheduled for March 18th 2011.
FarmVille Freak Podcast Summary
FarmVille Contests
If you have an idea for a FarmVille Contest, submit your ideas at the official FarmVille Forums under the Suggestions area.
St. Patrick’s Day & Pot of Gold Event
Now available to all farmers.
Put your collected gold into pot to redeem for special St. Patrick’s Day prizes.
First time you play FarmVille after the update it’s free.
Works similar to other item gathering events.
You can get gold by harvesting yours or your neighbors’ Leprechaun Cottages, purchase directly with Farm Cash, from shares on your Facebook News Feed, free gifts from neighbors, and gift requests.
Can compete with neighbors to see who has collected the most gold.
There will NOT be a second page of redeemable prizes.
Coming Soon to FarmVille
English Countryside
Will be a 2nd farm with access to new crops and new activities.
Stay tuned to FarmVille English Countryside’s Facebook Fan Page for more sneak peaks.
Spring Garden
Constructed with neighbor help.
Decoration that looks great on your farm, but will also have purpose.
Can be harvested for eggs or flowers that you will be able to redeem for special prizes.
New Mardi Gras theme is coming that will feature both new and old items from last year.
What was your favorite piece of news from this week’s podcast?
Woo woo! Finally, farmers can expand their farms for Farm Coins with the latest FarmVille 28×28 “Farm Estate” land expansion. We have been teased since December with the market placeholder for the Farm Coin option locked and with a TBD (To Be Determined) price.
According to statements made by Zygna in past FarmVille podcasts, the expansion’s delay was caused by a new feature that has yet to be released. After deciding that farmers had waited long enough, they put plans on hold and continued with the 28×28 expansion’s Farm Coin release.
You can purchase your 28×28 expansion in the FarmVille Market for 4 Million Farm Coins. In addition to the the Farm Coins, you will also have to fulfill a neighbor requirement. First, you need to have a minimum of 45 neighbors.This expansion also requires that you add 10 new neighbors, that is additional neighbors from what you already have. Please note, you need to add any 10 neighbors of your choice. These players do NOT have to be new to FarmVille or first-time players. Remember, that if you purchase the expansion directly with Farm Cash for 120 FV$, there are no neighbor restrictions in place so you will not have to add additional neighbors.
FarmVille Farm Estate For Coins
If you are purchasing the expansion today and will be redecorating your farm to utilize those extra plots, remember to save your farm frequently to make sure that your progress is saved! There is nothing more frustrating when you have been redecorating for an hour to start back at square one due to an OOS error! Don’t forget to send pics of your all your hard work to farmgoddess@farmvillefreak.com and we may feature your farm on FarmVille Freak.
Will you upgrade your farm to the 28×28 Farm Estate expansion? Don’t forget to take our FarmVille Freak Poll below!
We’ve heard the rumors that FarmVille would be having an English invasion soon and now FarmVille Freaks are reporting that they must be true as they have started seeing billboard notices for the FarmVille England expansion on their farms!
We first heard mention of a possible English expansion through a hint on the official FarmVille podcast.
From what the FarmVille notification states, visiting England will offer farmers, “a whole new way to play your favorite game”. Perhaps, another farm in the English countryside?
If you’re not into advertising free billboards on your farm that may be an eyesore for your farming paradise, don’t worry, it can be deleted.
FarmVille England Expansion Notice
What do you think about this? Are you excited to visit England in FarmVille?
This week’s official FarmVille Podcast is out and hosted by FarmVille Community Manager, Grimwell. Lexilicious will return to host the podcast on February 18th.
Also, making its way to FarmVille tonight is the FarmVille Greenhouse which was released tonight along with lots of new crops for you to work on! This major new feature will slowly be rolling out for farmers so you may not have access to it yet.
You can listen to the podcast video below or read our FarmVille Freak Summary and find the entire transcript provided by Zynga at the bottom of the post.
FarmVille Freak Podcast Summary
FarmVille Greenhouse (previously called the Glass House in prior Podcast) is released tonight.
3 Phase buildable building.
Used to create up to 10 new crops.
The Greenhouse (decorative building) has been renamed to Glass House.
The Farm Coin option 28×28 Expansion is coming next week! We learn that this expansion’s delay was because it was going to be part of a new feature. This idea was put on hold and expansion will be released as normal.
Orchards will produce Watering Cans. In the future when you do not receive a Mystery Seedling from harvesting your Orchard, you will receive 2 Watering Cans and an additional can that can be shared with up to 10 of your FarmVille neighbors via the Facebook news feed.
(Reminder, Snowmen will have the ability to produce Watering Cans for the next 3 weeks only.)
New special crops will be introduced that will award extra XP and more Farm Coins than normal crops!
Friday’s rescheduled official FarmVille Podcast is out and FarmVille Community Manager, Lexilicious, plays host. We hear about some recent features including the Winter Workshop, new FarmVille Winter Wonderland Quest, and some exciting new features such as the upcoming Holiday Tree 2010 and collection event and also snow fights and a buildable Snowman!
The next FarmVille Podcast is December 17th 2010.
You can listen to the video below, read the FarmVille Freak summary, or read the entire transcript provided by Zynga at the bottom of the post.
Winners received 1,000 Farm Cash and 1 million coins.
FarmVille Winter Workshop
Winter Workshop constructible building released.
Winter Workshop will soon be able to harvest special Holiday Gifts that you can use later for redemption.
For now just prepare by getting your Winter Workshop built.
The Winter Workshop base is free upon playing FarmVille. You can place it on your farm immediately or store it in your Gift Box for later use.
Only one Winter Workshop per farm.
If you sell your Winter Workshop, you can purchase a new one in the market for 5,000 coins.
Winter Workshop is unlocked at Level 5.
Winter Workshop needs to be leveled by using construction materials.
Construction materials can be sent via the free gifts page, purchased directly with Farm Cash, found in Special Delivery boxes, or from neighbor requests.
Harvesting for Holiday Gifts will be coming soon!
FarmVille Winter Wonderland Quest
New quest feature released to FarmVille for the first time as the Winter Wonderland Quest.
Slowly rolling out so not every farmer has access to quests at the moment.
Winter Wonderland Quest is a mission to make your farm into a winter wonderland and earn some exclusive prizes, XP, and coins.
Once you complete goals from the quest, the goal will be checked off with a green check mark.
When you complete an objective the prize will automatically go to your FarmVille Gift Box.
When you receive a prize you can share the same prize with your neighbors by posting a Facebook news feed.
COMING SOON to FarmVilleHoliday Tree 2010
The FarmVille Holiday Tree will be coming back!
Holiday Tree will be updated slightly.
Collect holiday gifts from neighbors and place them in your tree. As you accumulate more gifts, your tree grows and changes appearance.
Throughout your gift collection you will be able to trade in gifts and redeem exclusive prizes similar to other past collection events.
When you redeem a special prize, you will be able to gift the same prize to a neighbor. As a new change you will be able to select which FarmVille neighbor you send the prize to.
A special present from Zynga is also likely for those players.
FarmVille Snowman feature
Players will be able to have snowball fights by visiting friends’ farms or joining other friends snowball fights.
As you throw snowballs, you will eventually end up with a big pile of snow.
The pile of snow can be used to build a Snowman.
The Snowman may even dance for you if you find the right item for it!
Next FarmVille Podcast is December 17th 2010 What was your favorite news from today’s podcast? Are you excited about Snow fights in FarmVille and building your own Snowman?
This week’s (biweekly) official FarmVille Podcast has been delayed.
The next FarmVille Podcast is scheduled for Monday, September 25th 2010.
“Hey Farmers!
As the FarmVille Community Team has spent all day in our Player Luncheon, we will be unable release the Podcast today.However, we will make sure to release the podcast on Monday (September 27th). We sincerely apologize for the delay! (And a big thank you to all the players who attended our luncheon today!)
Today’s September 3rd 2010 FarmVille Podcast has been canceled. There will be no official FarmVille Podcast this week.
However, FarmVillle announced via the official FarmVille Forum that the FarmVille Podcast will now take place biweekly.This seems like a good move on Zynga’s part considering that even though previously the Podcasts were once a week, they were often post-poned or rescheduled.
The decision to move to a bi-weekly basis was made to improve the quality of the information featured in the Podcast.
The next official FarmVille Podcast is scheduled for
SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
“Hi Farmers!
The FarmVille Podcasts will now be posted on a Bi-Weekly basis, as opposed to weekly. This decision has been made to improve the quality of the information we are able to provide. Due to this change, the next podcast will be posted on September 10th, 2010.Thank you for your understanding!”
Yet again the Offcial FarmVille Podcast is cancelled:
Hi Farmers,
Unfortunately, there will be no FarmVille Podcast today. Due to unforeseen circumstances we will have to delay until next week. We apologize for the inconvenience this causes listeners and thank you for your understanding.
Source: Official FarmVille Forums- Lexilicious
Maybe the should call it the Bi-Weekly Podcast rather than canceling it half the time.
FarmVille July 16th 2010 Podcast Cancelled
What do you think would have been included if there had been a FarmVille Podcast this week?
The Official FarmVille Podcast for this week is on time as scheduled and Lexilicious is this week’s host. You may listen to the Podcast in the video above, read the exclusive FarmVille Freak Summary, or read the entire transcript, provided by Zynga at the bottom of the post.
This was an exciting Podcast that actually had informative information about anticipated features. Most notable, increased storage and more details on the Farmer’s Market!
Official FarmVille Freak Summary
Horse Stable Expansion
Horses provide foals and consumables (Arborists and Farmhands)
Horse Stable can be expanded 4 times. Each expansion will need 10 each of building supplies.
Horse Stable maximum capacity is 40 Horses.
You may receive the building materials for free from neighbors or purchase for farm cash directly.
Completed Horse Stables offer a Gray Horse to share with your neighbors via FaceBook newsfeed.
Limited Edition Tuscan Theme
Tuscan themed debuted this week in FarmVille and offers Italian inspired limited edition decorations and buildings.
There is a Tuscan landscape available for 1,000 coins.
New Mystery Box
16 FV$
exclusive prizes (see spoilers here provided by FarmVille Freak)
New Permanent Crops
Basil
Cucumber
Crop Mastery is available for both crops.
Blue Heeler Puppy
New breed of Dog introduced.
Available in Gray, Black and Brown colors
Farm Cash only, costs 65 FV$ and comes with 14 day supply of Kibble.
Free Mystery Gifts Updated
The FREE Mystery Gifts that are giftable have been updated to include new prizes.
Chinchilla and others!
FarmVille Game Bar
Installing the FarmVille Game Bar will give you free 25 FV$.
Only works with Firefox browser at this time.
Upon entering your farm you will be offered to install or try out the Game Bar.
If you already have the Game Bar you can still receive the free 25 FV$, you may need to refresh.
Free farm cash can be found in your Gift Box.
User Submitted Questions
Q: What is the real concept of the nursery barn, besides storage for baby animals?
A: FarmVille will eventually upgrade the Nursery Barn to let animals grow up and share with their friends.
Q: Why are we not able to add lambs to the nursery barns? It’s my understanding that lambs are baby sheep. If we can place baby foals and baby calves, we should be able to place lambs in the nursery barns.
A: Baby lambs were limited edition items.
Q: Does the development team actively take feedback from the forums, or are the forums just here for us to discuss?
A: The FV forums are frequently used to gather feedback and requests from users.
COMING SOON
Farmer’s Market
At Level 15 you can find Bushels of Crops to harvest your fields.
Finding a bushel will activate a Market Stall that will allow you to sell to your friends.
You can earn rewards from each friend that shops at your stall.
The Bushels can be consumed directly to get a license to plant that crop, earn more mastery or earn bonus XP from that crop.
Underground Storage
Underground storage will be coming soon and will be available through coins or farm cash as Cellars!
You can store up to 200 items in the same size area (footprint) of a plot of Tulips.
You will start out with a smaller number of slots and will need your friends to help grow crops for them.
These crops will give you energy to dig underground and increase the size of your cellars.
You will be allowed a maximum of 2 Cellars.
Having 2 Cellars will mean that you have a storage capacity of 400 items for your combined Cellars! All in the space of 2 plots.
You may read the official transcript for this podcast, provided by Zynga’s FarmVille Community Manager Lexilicious below.
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