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FarmVille Freak Craig sent us an email with the picture below.

FarmVille Freak Craig's Wheel of Fuel

With fuel becoming more of a scarcity, It looks like FarmVille is gearing up to provide us farmers with more ways of earning free fuel with a Wheel of Fuel – because no one loves farming one click at a time!

How’s your FarmVille Fuel supply?

Thank you to FarmVille Freaks Christian and Jensen for sending in a FarmVille iPhone App tip! They provided an image of the iPhone Daily Fuel Give Away bonus. Both received 1/5 tank of fuel was given as well as a reminder to come back for the next two days to obtain more rewards.

FarmVille Freak Jensen's Daily Free Fuel Giveaway Notice for iPhone App

So far there have been a few perks to using the iPhone app for FarmVille. These may be for promotional purposes, or Zynga may plan to always have exclusive deals or items through the Apple App for FarmVille.

What do you think ?

FarmVille Free Fuel Email Giveaway

Some farmers received a popup tonight asking them to sign up for two weeks of free fuel! Some farmers who enabled the email feature should be receiving daily free fuel emails for two weeks.

“FarmVille wants to thank our users for signing up for email! For a limited time only, we will be giving out fuel that you can only claim through email.

You will receive 1 email a day for the next two weeks containing free fuel. Make sure you claim your offer quickly because each fuel bonus expires within a day. (24 hours)

To participate in this feature, you must be level 12 or above.

The best part of this special promotion? You can get up to 3 tanks of fuel each time!

Please note: This feature is currently only available to a certain group of randomly selected users. It will be available to all users in the near future.”

Source: Official FarmVille Forums

Did you receive this message about claiming free fuel? Have you received an email yet?

This week’s Official FarmVille Podcast was on time as scheduled and hosted by FarmVille Community Manager Lexilicious.  You can listen to the video above, read the FarmVille Freak Summary below, or read the official transcript at the bottom of the post. This week’s FarmVille Podcast contains some exciting news, especially for higher Level farmers that are Level 70 and above. New Levels! New Rewards! New Challenges! Read complete details in “Coming Soon” section.

This Week’s Releases:

Move & Recycle Tools

• Move and Recycle Tools that allow you to easier decorate and re-arrange farms.
• Move Tool allows you to even move planted plots!
• Recycle Tool deletes items with no value and sells items with no value.
• Recycle Tool features a quick delete tool that will not notify you or warn you when you are about to sell items that cost under 1,000 coins.

Biplane

• Biplane applies instant grow on crops, making them grow instantaneously.
• Can purchase one for 30,000 coins.
• Accessible to Level 12 farmers and above.
• First flight is free, additional flights can be purchased with farm cash. The cost varies.
• Can win one as  Gold Reward for completing the new Co-Op Farming “Peanut Butter and Jelly” Job.

Limited Edition Tuscan Items

Birthday Themed Decorations

Cracked Ribbon

• Cracked Ribbon rewards you for finding or “cracking open” Mystery Eggs.

User-Submitted Questions:

• Q:What made FarmVille decide to partner with 7-Eleven for a promotion? A: Danielle of FarmVille Product Marketing says that initially it started as FarmVille Slurpee cups and extended beyond because of the opportunity to promote offered by 7-Eleven.

• Q: Why is this 7-Eleven promotion available to the United States only? A: Due to specific restrictions and time constraints they were only able to open it to United States and Canada, some future promotions will include international players as well.

• Q: Will there be other similar promotions available in the future? A: Yes.

COMING SOON

New Content for Higher Level Players

(The Zynga gods are listening to our FarmVille Freak pleas )

• In the near future, the Level cap of 70 will finally be increased and extended  to Levels 100 and beyond!
• New high level crops will be introduced that can be purchases with a one time use permit.
• New crops that will require you to Master other crops first.
• New high level coin items and gifts will be introduced for higher level players.

Crafting Cottage Preview

• Will give information on 3 upcoming buildings including what they produce.
• Learn which Bushels will be required to make some of the crafted goods.
• There will be a special gift for those that participate in the Preview.

Thank-You for Farmers that Submitted Email Permission

• Farmers who have given their email to FarmVille will receive a special prize.
• They will be rewarded with Free Fuel.
• As a thank you they will be given Free Fuel once per day, for 2 weeks.

The next Podcast will be Friday, June 11th 2010.

What is the most exciting part of this Podcast for you? I am excited about the new features for higher level farmers because their dedication deserves recognition!

Click here to read the Official transcript provided by Zynga below: (more…)

FarmVille Freak Eva16 and several others have reported receiving new fuel popups when fertilizing neighbors crops. When fertilizing farms players receive free fuel, but has not been a popup to share with others, the fuel is added to your overall amount.

When fertilizing a neighbors farm, players have now received popups asking them to share free fuel directly with the neighbor whose farm they were fertilizing.

FarmVille Freak Eva16's New Free Fuel Popup

After clicking the share option, a post goes directly to the farmers Facebook profile wall- not homefeed. The neighbor will be able to redeem one large can of fuel from clicking on the post.

FarmVille Freak Dave_NC's New Fuel Facebook Profile Wall Post

Note there are now 6 ways to get fuel:

1. Buying fuel for $FV in the market- You can purchase fuel in the FarmVille Market, 1 Refill for 3$FV, 10 Refills for 25$FV, 20 Refills for 40$FV, 30 Refills for 55$FV and 50 Refills for 65$FV

2. Free Fuel from plowing- Farmers randomly receive popups to share free fuel when plowing their farms. You can collect 1 large can and 9 small cans from neighbors per day.

3. Fertilizing neighbors crops- You can find free fuel when fertilizing your neighbors crops, this is at random and will be added to your overall fuel amount.

4. Completed Collection redemption reward- When trading in a completed collection you receive 5 Refills of fuel as a reward.

5. Farmers Market- When a neighbor shops at your Farmers Market stall, you have the option to redeem 15 units of fuel (this is one of 3 options).

5. Mystery Egg Prize- When opening Mystery Eggs you can find various amounts of fuel depending on the color egg. The current prizes available are 1/5 Refill, 1 Refill, 10 Refill and 20 Refills.

*6. When a neighbor fertilizes your crops and directly shares with you, as mentioned above. This may be in limited release.

Every farmer loves free fuel! With recent upgrades to FarmVille, free fuel is a little easier to come by even though it isn’t necessarily flowing freely. Fuel can also be purchased in the FarmVille Market, but farm cash is difficult to obtain and many farmers would prefer to spend their farm dollars elsewhere.

Many farmers like to save their fuel and use it sparingly. It’s nice knowing you have a Fuel Reserve waiting for you when you really need a break from all that clicking.

FarmVille Freak David Weatherly has saved up over 1,000 (one thousand) fuel refills!

FarmVille Freak FarmerTilly's Fuel Reserve

FarmVille Freak David's Gas Farm (Click to enlarge)

What is your current Fuel capacity? Do you keep a Fuel Reserve, if so how much?

In an update made on 03.04.10, FarmVille added more opportunities to gain free fuel!

You can now gain free fuel by plowing or helping out on your neighbor’s farms when fertilizing their crops. You may also find free fuel offered on your FarmVille neighbors Facebook newsfeed by sharing and also find it in Mystery Gifts or Mystery Eggs .

Free Fuel is always nice, especially if you are using the gas-guzzlilng Hot Rods!

FarmVille Free Fuel Loading Screen

For more information on Free Fuel read here from Official FarmVille Forum Moderator Lexilicious:

“There are now new ways to find fuel for your vehicles! In addition to purchasing fuel and discovering it in Mystery Gifts or Eggs, you are now able to find fuel while plowing your Farm and when fertilizing a Neighbor’s farm.

Plowing Your Own Farm – Sharing Fuel with Neighbors

When plowing on your own farm, you have a chance to find fuel once per day.

When you find fuel on your farm, you can share this fuel with your Neighbors by posting a feed to your wall. Up to 150 of your neighbors will be able to click this feed once to get fuel of their own.

After clicking the feed, they will be taken to a page that will inform them of how much fuel they have earned. The amount of fuel your Neighbor will receive from clicking on a feed is determined by how many plots they have on their farm. The more plots they have, the larger the amount of fuel they’ll receive. This fuel is added directly to their overall tank.

When clicking on a Feed from a Neighbor, you may be told that you have too much fuel. In order to find more fuel, you’ll need to use some of the fuel that you’ve gained to make room for more.

Fertilizing Your Neighbors’ Farms – Earning Fuel for your own use

When fertilizing your Neighbors’ farms, you have a chance to find fuel that you can use on your own farm.

When this fuel is found, it will appear as a fuel canister rising up from the ground (like the coin you see when plowing or seeding your land). Fuel that is found from Fertilizing is added directly to your overall fuel tank. The amount of fuel you receive is also determined by how many plots you have on your farm.

The more plots you have, the larger the amount of fuel you will receive. You can find fuel once for each neighbor’s farm that you fertilize. However, at a certain point while fertilizing your neighbor’s farms, you may notice that you are no longer finding fuel. In order to find more fuel, you’ll need to use some of the fuel that you’ve gained to make room for more.

Whether you are collecting fuel from your neighbors’ feeds or by fertilizing their farms, you will gain either one or two small tanks of fuel from each discovery.

In order to balance out the new ways that we’ve added to find fuel, we’ve slowed down the rate at which fuel naturally regenerates. All farms will be able to regenerate a full tank of fuel over time, but now this rate is determined by how many plots of land you have on your farm. The more plots you have on your farm, the quicker your fuel regenerates.

The quickest you’ll be able to regenerate a full tank of fuel is 24 hours.

Note: If you have not yet purchased a Vehicle, you will still be able to collect fuel as long as you are level 12 and above.”

It’s Day 6 of Free Fuel Week in FarmVille.

Make sure to collect your 6 fuel refills if you’ve visited your farm consecutively for six days.

FarmVille 6 Tanks of Free Fuel

FarmVille Fuel Week kicked off today, January 4th.

FarmVille Free Fuel Notice

FarmVille 1/5 Free Fuel Icon

When you visit FarmVille  today you will automatically receive ONE free fuel refill.

FarmVille Free Fuel Week Sharing Notice

Additionally, you can also share fuel with your FarmVille neighbors by clicking the fuel icon on the left-side of your farm page. By using the “share” option you will share 1/5 fuel refill and give your neighbors the opportunity to “adopt” it via your Facebook newsfeed. Sharing will not take away from your existing fuel.

Finally, Free Fuel is also GIFTABLE this week. You may gift your FarmVille neighbors with 1/5 Fuel Refill by sending them a gift through the “Free Gifts” function.

FarmVille 1/2 Fuel Giftable

FarmVille Free Fuels on Facebook

FarmVille Get Free Fuel

Thanks to FarmVille Freak “FarmVilleTips” for sharing your photos.

What do you think of Free Fuel Week?