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Farmville – the highly popular face book application is used widely by many users every month. Here I will
divulge information to help you not only level quickly, but gain a lot of money also. This guide also includes
seed guides.
This Guide is to be used as a resource to assist the players when planning what seeds to plant. It will help
estimate accurately how much Exp and Money they will Make! I hope you find this guide helpful. Please make
constructive criticisms in the comments! Enjoy!
Contents
1. Getting Started
2. Seed Guide
3. Best Crops in Money/Hour
4. Best Crops in Exp/Hour
5. Fastest Levels
6. Fastest & Most Money
7. Best of both Money & Exp
8. Trees
9. Animals
10. Assisting
11. Vehicles
12. Achievements
13. Collections
14. Gifting
15. Tips
16. FAQ’s
17. Other Info
Getting Started
When you first begin, all the new controls may seem a little hard to grasp. You will grow accustomed to them
quick. Here is a fast overview:
When beginning, you will receive a short intro – Anyway! However, i hope that this cleared some controls up.
Seed Guide
Seed Name – Price to sow – Time – Exp Given – selling price – Profit per Patch* – Coins Per Hour**
*Including Plowing Costs, I.E. Takes the cost of plowing off the profits.
**Done in a 23 Hour Day (Since that’s how long 1 day is on FarmVille)
Best Crops for money/Hour
1. Peas
2. Asparagus
3. Onions
4. Grapes
5. Sugar Cane
6. Tomatoes
7. Sunflowers
8. Lillies
9. Ghost Chili/Acorn Squash
10. Green Tea
11. Coffee/Blackberries
12. Blue Berries
13. Carrots
14. Raspberries
15. Broccoli
16. Cabbage
17. PattyPan Squash
18. Lavender
19. Morning Glory
20. Red Wheat
21. Yellow Melon
22. Peppers
23. Aloe Vera
24. Corn
25. Rice/Red Tulip
26. Pumpkin
27. Pineapple
28. Potatoes
29. Cranberries
30. Pink Roses
31. Strawberries
32. Yellow Bell
33. Watermelon
34. Cotton
35. Squash/Soybeans
36. Daffodils
37. Artichoke
38. Eggplant
39. Wheat
Best Crops in Exp/Hour
Why?
Fastest Levels
The quickest way to level is easily by planting berries*. By continually planting strawberries you get (If you
have a 12*12 farm) 288 Exp Every 4 hours. This is the very fast way. But obviously this is mainly used at the
weekend unless you can check your farm and spend 20 minutes harvesting, ploughing and planting every hour.
Naturally – if you’re in it for the levels and not the money – you can plough as much land as possible and
continually plant on them. To get the most effective Exp Out of a plot you could leave a section of your farm
plowed without seeding it and then plant soybeans (Best crop for what we are about to do) .Delete the Patches,
And repeat, as many times as desired. This will cause you to gain Exp for the plowing and the planting, then
being able to do it again on a empty plot.
Alternatively, pumpkins Or Rice if you spend a full 11 hours at work. If this is the case you need alternative
methods of making Exp. Here are some:
Wanting fast levels means you wish to spend money on it. Buildings yield a lot of experience – however will
cost you a large amount of your money. Eg. A windmill is bought for 100,000 Coins and Given 1,000Exp. Or
1% of what you paid…In Exp!! (An imaginary building cost 750,000 – You get 7,500Exp)
Finally, Helping 20 neighbours a day although somewhat dull, yields a maximum of 100 Exp for 20. (See the
Assisting Section). In addition, the newly released Achievements (See section) gives great Exp as well as some
money to spend on more Exp!!!
For faster plowing – fertalizing friends crops gives more fuel. So – Make sure you fertalize your neighbours
famrs every day for the extra conveniance!
*Raspberries do not appear to give ANY Exp for planting. However, they give the same EXP (Over 4
hours) as strawberries from Plowing – Just more money!
To get the most money from your farm you want to not always plant the most expensive seed you can. The
seeds that give the largest amount of cash are listed in the “Best Crop for Money/hour” At the top of the page.
The higher the level you are, the better crops you can plant. So find the highest seed you can plant on the list
and that will be your best money maker! You should also be sensible. If you know you are going out don’t pick
the seed that will make the most money and will be harvest-able an hour before the predicted time you get home
– Pick one that is slightly over your estimated time so nothing does go wrong!
Some seeds like Peppers, and Rice and Pumpkins are the best profit for the time they are planted (Best money
per day) Also – To get an extra boost in money, Refer to the “Assisting” section
Peas are now the best thing to plant. Harvesting in 1 Day and making a profit of 176 Coins Each. (70,400 Coins
for a 20*20 Farm!)
The best recommendation for this is to plant some seeds that take 3 days (or so) in a 1/3 of your farm, some
seeds that take 2 days in another 1/3 and finally peppers or soybeans in the final section (Yes, the ones that take
a day!). This way, when the peppers ripen – you can plant more. The next day when the level 2 Items ripen (Just
before the newly replaced crops that take 1 day) you can harvest both of them, and plant twice as many
peppers/peas. And on the final day you harvest the entire farm. This leads to good reaping of Exp and a good
amount of money from all the harvesting.
Planting an entire farm of 1 seed can become tedious when getting to the harvest. With relation to the previous
paragraph – you could stagger the harvesting/plough/planting. With 2 crops that take 2 days to ripen. Plant them
on alternating days so you only ever have to harvest half the farm at once. This way also ensures you get a stead
stream of money everyday in case you do spend it on extra Exp like buildings, trees Etc.
When money doesn’t become an issue (Around when you have 125,000+) refer to the quick levelling guide.
Also – to get an extra boost in both Exp & money, Refer to the “Assisting” section
Trees
Gifted by friends, you can buy them to give you Exp As well (planted gifted trees does not yield Exp). You can
harvest them then for extra money to add to your profits, or you can let them ripen and leave them to make your
farm look pretty (What I do).
They are slow by steady income, but can take up lots of space normally along the edge of your farm, or bunched
in one corner.
Alternatively you can (Similarly to the plots) buy them for the Exp, sell them, and buy more!
Name – Buying Price – Exp Gained from Planting – Harvest in – Produce Selling price – Tree Selling
Price
Animals
Animals are a pain. They take up space and they do not give very much money daily. A Single apple tree is
better than 2/3 of the buy-able animals, and draws with the last. Sheep cost 700 coins. In theory, you can buy 2
apple trees and then gain twice as much as you would from 1 sheep! Trees are much better than sheep – it
appears.
However, if you find the animals or they are gifted – you may as well! I would suggest not letting them
wander…
Also, helping animals that wander onto your farm can give you a small amount of money. But it is up to you.
Check the bottom of the guide for a Link to a Exp Giving Guide to Animals
Assisting
Visiting neighbours farms and pending neighbours is a GREAT way to give yourself a small boost in cash, but
Exp as well! You normally get 1 or 5Exp and around 20 Coins. So it is GREAT to visit all your neighbours
periodically and collect a small prize
Fertalizing thier farms and feeding the chickens in the chicken house can yield fuel and small bonuses.
Vehicles
Possibly the only useful “Decoration” in Farmville, the 3 Vehicles are worth buying. They make everything so
much faster! And you get the benefit of using fuel you obtain from neighbours, super grow and Collections (See
section for more infomation)
-Tractor
-Harvester
-Seeder
Obviously, it doesn’t take a genius to work out a tractor plows, seeder plants seeds and that a harvester helps
bring in the produce!
Achievements
This feature is Fantastic for both money and Exp. Although it can cost a rather amount in both Coins and Time
to complete some of the longer achievements, however most a relatively easy and reward handsomely with Exp,
Coins and a Random Gift.
All of the yellow ribbons are very easy to achieve, and you will get awarded with quite a few ribbons the first
time you log into them! Then, you will want to advance to the white, red and blue ribbons in some (Getting
more Exp and Gold, and more Free items!)
You may think that spending lots of cash on getting the Architect ribbon (for example) is a waste. But these
balance out again when you get the cream of the crop, or one of the variety ribbons as you will get the money
with them.
In January Collections were realsed, with the aim of getting people to do a variert around their farm and others.
When you have found all a collection, You may cash it for;
- 250Exp
- 5,000 Coins
- 5 Tanks of Fuel
The money and Exp are a nice little bonus, however if you are experienced enought – its not that much.
However the fuel is a welcome bonus. The fuel will be used to plow/sow/harvest and make the same amount of
exp and cash all over again!
If you see that someone has completed a collection on your Facebook feed – Be sure to click the “get” button –
because you get a random items from the collection they cashed! So you could get one of the rare ones and save
lots of time!
Gifting
Gifting to people is a good way to get them back. You might want to keep a list of you who gift to and who gifts
back. Sometimes requesting specific gifts in your status can get a nice flood. Normally – If I get trees, i plant
them. If i get animals i sell them for the extra money boost (Small as it may be). You should always try and gift
the highest thing you can since they almost always give the best return (Unless someone requests one)
Gifts are also randomly received from doing achievements, and although (Like regular gifts) you do not receive
Exp from planting/placing them, they can be sold. Sometimes its best to keep them for future Achievements.
Tips
FAQ’s
Q – How much fuel do i get and do i get more for more machinery?
A – You have 150 fuel when you buy a tractor. You cannot get a larger tank by buying more machinery or more
fuel. The only way to get more fuel is by waiting – or buying it with farmcash
Q – A gold coin falls on me while im harvesting and i cannot pick it up. What is it?
A – It simply gives you 100 Coins!
Sysselmannen
You say “To get the most money from your farm you want to plant the most expensive seed you can
(Normally the longest to grow) and let them grow.”
I disagree with you on this. If you plant waltermelons (cost 150 + 15 to plant) you get a surplus of 183
per area (or 1,9 per hour). If you plant Peppers instead you get a surplus of 77 every day (3,2 per hour),
which is much better.
I believe that the seeds that takes long time are not as good as Peppers, Rice and Pumkin, but if you plan
to stay away from the game for some days, they are usable.
ally you can actually plant a whole lot more… you don’t move the avatar, you move the tree… Does the
avatar move to harvest from trees? I just started playing 2 days ago. my first trees haven’t cropped yet.
1.
James Vernon
TY skelbers!!!
Fixed
2.
A Farmer
3.
steve_hamilton
aghhhh, does anyone know wats wrong or wat i need to d/l to get it fixed?… im lvl 22 on farmville but i
cant use the camera feature or the spade/delete tool, i know it isnt my internet at fault as it works on my
brotheres mac and my other brothers PC, i run on Vista SP2
4.
Ben
Raspberries? But they give no xp! Wrong. Just tilling the fields give 1 xp. Every 2 hours, that gives 1/2
xp per hour, which is not that terrible considering its low level and great returns.
5.
Brian
Raspberries themselves do NOT give xp… the plowing does and the plowing is not unique to any crop,
it is the same for all. The fact that you can harvest every 2 hours is fine but why waste the time when
you can plant blackberries and get the exact same in xp (total) as you would with raspberries and you
don’t have to harvest as often??? You will also get more coins this way. So if you HAVE access to
blueberries and blackberries then raspberries are pointless (unless of course you really want to harvest
every 2 hours). If you do not have access to them then yes, raspberries would be the best choice.
Please do not confuse the fact that plowing and planting are entirely different in regards to xp. Most
guides separate the two to give you just the stats on the crops themselves since plowing is the same for
all crops. This gives you a more accurate representation of the crop’s yield with less confusion as to why
you would be gaining xp when you harvest raspberries and it says +0 xp.
6.
Brian
Cost $205
Harvest 96 hours (4 days)
Sell $528
Profit $308
XP 2
7.
James Vernon
)))))))))))))
8.
Malkierie
hey could you edit this to add a exp/hr rate to the plants
9.
Ro
10.
James Vernon
Nah, When you expand your farm you get more space to plant/plow so – in effect every time you
plow/plant you are getting Exp
Malkierie, Trees and animals will be getting a layout silimar to the seed guide soon!
11.
Paul
You can earn farmville cash by signing up for various trials and offers as well. I filled in a bunch of
bogus details on some forms so we’ll see whether I get anything through! (my local scientology office
might also see an increase in their of junk mail numbers in the next few days )
12.
Simon
13.
Kelly
What I do everyday is go to the farmville feed. On your lefthand side of your facebook homepage, there
will be a feed that you can choose to filter. If you click on farmville, it brings a list of what everyone has
been doing just on farmville. There, you will find all of your friends ribbons and sheep. Under a ribbon,
there will be [get a bonus from ...]. If you click on that, you will get a certain amount of coins depending
on the ribbon value (50-500 coins). You can also adopt sheep there.
Aside from that, do you think that the new tractor and harvester are worth the 30,000 coins?
And what about the farmville cash? Mine seems to increase after a few days when before it used to stay
the same.
Last question, when I am plowing with my tractor, every now and then a golden bean shaped blob flies
from out of nowhere and then disappears onto the ground. When it appears, it makes a noise sounding
like a coin being plucked, but I don’t get any extra money or experience, and I cannot click on it. This
happens quite often. If you have any idea what it could be, please let me know!
14.
PCY
15.
luke cassar
YEAH BUT WHY IS IT THAT I ONLY GET 1 EXP AND 5 COINS BUT OTHER DAYS I GET 5
EXP AND 20 COINS
16.
James Vernon
If you mean on assisting someone, you only get 5EXP & 20 coins for the first 20 people you help, then
its 1exp * 5 coins
17.
James Vernon
18.
Tofu
To be fair, Brian’s a bit harsh on Ben’s comment of Raspberries, Brian. Read the end of Ben’s comment.
LOL. lower levels. The best tree is the most expensive one. But it takes 35 days to pay it off. Once you
do that you roll in more money than crops because you can put more in the ground and only have to
check back every 3 days. Is it worth it? In 3 days I’d forget about my farm.
19.
akyy
James, I think that if you help a neighbor its 5exp and 20 coins. if you just help anyone else its only 1
exp 5 coins.
20.
Brian
Sorry Ben I missed that part. I wasn’t trying to harsh, just noting that the crop itself does not give xp.
21.
Tofu
Date tree square (4×4 farm land size filled with date trees):
Daily Avg Revenue:$368
90 Day Revenue: $33,120
Initial Investment: $12,800
Residual Value: $640
45 Days Profit Margin: $3,760
90 Days Profit Margin: $20,960
Profit Margin 180 Days: $53,440
In 6 months I’ll be richer than all you tomato fruit bush people.
22.
James Vernon
Lol – Cause any of us are going to plant perfect when they finish growing. And you cant possibly
harvest all the date trees, too close
23.
_david_94
24.
david
Posted September 1, 2009 at 9:01 am
25.
Ed
Amazing guide, great job, though do you have any idea if or when they will make buildings have uses
(other than exp from building them)?
26.
James Vernon
@ed – yes buildings will have uses! like a fruit stand may sell strawberries for +25%
27.
mom2ru
What do you do with the coins that come bouncing down while you are either plowing or planting? Has
anyone else noticed this?
28.
Guy
For people with large farms, how do you manage to do all the clicks? My hand started to hurt when I got
to like level 15… that’s why I made this, what do you guys think?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsly3v2qeq4
29.
Guy
James, how do you sell strawberries for +25% with the fruit stand? Is this done automatically when you
purchase the fruit stand?
30.
Andy
No, your quote is wrong he says “you want to not always plant the most expensive seed you can”
31.
Andy
No, your quote is wrong he says \”you want to not always plant the most expensive seed you can\”
32.
Godly
33.
John Steel
Crikey! There’s alot more people posting on here now! I have now thankfully kicked the farmville
habbit! I was only in it for the achievements and I’ve done them all now The trees were the worst!
34.
T
35.
Karen
Does anyone know how long you can collect from someone else’s achievement ribbon? I “shared the
wealth” but my friend won’t be able to log onto their computer till later….. how long do they have?
36.
Kaz
I bought both the tractor and harvester but the prob is they are both dependent on the refill bar that’s at
the bottom left hand corner of the screen. So i am not able to use them at the same time, say if i harvest a
crop then plow after, which is totally annoyimg.Is there a solution to this?
37.
Brian
@Kaz… no solution except to spend real money and purchase consumable “spare” tanks. Hopefully
they’ll at least double the tank size for people who have both the harvester and tractor.
38.
James Vernon
Kaz
40.
Ro
Can someone tell me how much XP i could earn for the cottage vs the farm house? The 1000XP for the
windmill was awesome!
41.
Brian
New crops!
Tomatoes are still better unless you’re specifically looking for a 12 hour crop. In that case Onions are
your next best crop (for coins).
42.
Brian
Oh yeah the seeder is ready too (as well as a few decorative items). So now I think they should increase
the tank size by 3. There are too many vehicles and too few in fuel. LOL
43.
Betty
Posted September 3, 2009 at 9:32 pm
So another addition they added recently . . . the ability to “pet” the farm animals. Is there any known
purpose to this other than making the animals make a sound? Do we think this might have a purpose in
the future such as faster harvesting?
44.
ceejay
hi i just want to ask what level should i be to be able to buy the 24×24 lot? i am currently on level 30
with 46003xp … how much xp do i need to be level 35? thanks, this is an awesome site, very
informative … ;0)
45.
diegonikolas
im lvl 16 and only have 3 animals to buy: cow, sheep and chicken!!! why is that!??!?!?! im crazyy! i
think is wrong!!!
i need neighbours xD
46.
Brian
@ceejay 22×22 and 24×24 lots are not available yet (no matter what level you are). I can’t remember
exactly how many xp I needed to get to level 35 but I have 93948 right now and I need to get to 97000
for level 36. I believe up this high you need 8000 more per level.
@Betty petting animals has actually been around for quite a while. But no there is currently no purpose
aside from making them make noise.
I think they should let you pet the cows to make them poop more, then you can fertilize your farm with
the poop and make your crops grow faster. LOL!!!
47.
tom
When you go full screen and hit a ribbon point or other pop up – the screen freezes – you have to
ctl/alt/del to task mgr and end flash … so if your near a ribbon point use normal screen – ive lost many
posts / bonus’ due to this problem
48.
I got a fruit stand…however its a mere decoration and no use as far as increasing coins on selling fuits…
are they planning to add more functionality with these decorative items?
49.
James Vernon
Thanks anyways ^^
50.
Brian
BTW… anyone know the stats on the new Olive Tree gift?
51.
Dann
Those 16 Date Trees will give you an average daily yield of $384 ($1100+ / 3 Days).
A single crop of the best $$ producing crop (Tomatoes) gives you an average Daily Earning of $174.
You’re more than doubling your profit with Date Trees, plus only need to tend your farm once every 3
days and nothing ever spoils.
On a 20×20 Farm you can have 6724 Trees (not that anyone would actually do that) for a 3-Day gain of
$463,956. Yes, a Million a Week.
You can’t do this with manual clicking. You absolutely NEED an app to handle this. Of course, this is
also more difficult now that one cannot purchase Date Trees anymore… Lime Trees are the best option
with a 5-Day Yield of just over $500,000.
52.
Tachel
how do I earn FV Dollars, not coins, but dollars, without having to buy them?????
53.
karina
try fencing your avatar in (buy four fences and put them in a box around the centre plot where the avatar
always appears at the start of a session. then they cant move around to plow and plant (which takes time)
so your plowing / planting just pops up magically
54.
Julie
I’ve been petting animals all the time and have been increasing in fv cash by about 2 per day. Maybe
that’s why?
55.
James Vernon
@Katrina – http://gameolosophy.com/games/farmville-harvesting-and-plowing-glitch/
56.
a 2 week farmer
57.
58.
Brian
59.
is that a recent change? because I know I’ve earned FV cash between levels before.
60.
fdythgfd
you can do offers to get fv cash too, like filling out a survey
61.
Bell
62.
zephdavies
You should not calculate the best income per hour, but best income per hour PER LAND.
For example, you can fit 16 Horses (i assume they are the same size as sheep) in the same area as one
crop patch.
This means you get 16 times the income.
This is 16*1.22=19.48 coins per hour, which is clearly far better than the 7.25 coins per hour for the
Tomatoes, for the same land size.
The same goes for all animals and trees, and most come up better than Tomartoes.
63.
Zephdavies
Adjusting my post:
Horses are 1/4 of a crop patch, but you get the idea.
64.
Brian
Bell peppers are there (called “Yellow Bell”). I believe they changed the name from Yellow Bell
Peppers to just Bell Peppers recently but it’s the same crop.
65.
herb
hey i gotta question on the animals…i have alot of black sheep but i know for a fact that there are brown
cows and gold chicken. does anyone know more about how the cows or chicken come up?
66.
James Vernon
@ZephDavis – Noone is putting a ton of animals in one plot of land. It just ridiculous. It doesnt look
nice and its hard to harvest >.>
67.
anu
68.
Peter
I am at level 30, and several levels back it started, that when I plow.. I see a gold coin flying around…
Does anyone know what that does and is there any benefit from it
69.
mike
70.
Don
Mike, they last as long as they take to grow. 8hr drop will last for another 8 hrs after it’s ready to
harvest.
71.
Don
XP for helping neighbours. Sometimes I get 5 XP, sometimes I only get 1 XP. Does anyone know what
makes the difference – How long since you helped that neighbour? How long sinvce they were on their
farm? How many neighbours you helped in this session?
72.
DefaultTheory
anyone else having speed problems this morning? its making my whole laptop lag!!
And Don, you get 20coins and 5xp for the first 20 neighbours that you help in one 23 hour (1 farmville
day) period…seemples!!
73.
rafeek
rafeek
74.
DefaultTheory
Rafeek to gain FV without using real money enter the offers below on the same page…they take a few
minutes and if you pick the right ones can make a fair few FV’s from it…ive made around 120 since i
started by doing this and have bought mansions and other things that can only be bought this way
75.
Eruvis
here are some of my thoughts on the whole trees being good for long term thing: of course these
numbers may be wrong so if you find mistakes dont overly kill me for it.
lime
5 days, 75$
date
3 days, 69$
23$ per day, 0.96 per hour
7.25/0.96 = 7.6
my conclusion is this: if you think you can fill your farm with trees, you will need: 20*20*750 for lime,
= 2,400,000, which is 35*20*20*173 (35 harvests on a 20×20 farm of tomatoes)
assuming you actually do this, and buy all the trees, that calculation is for 8 trees per square (8*400 =
3200 trees)
this is
15$ per day per tree, 0.625 per hour per tree, x8 = 5$ per patch of 8 trees, 2000 per hour per 400 squares
on a farm, 48000 per day, but 240,000 at the end of a 5 day picking cycle IF you can pick 3200 trees.
make 48000/400 squares = 120$ profit per square. per day which is 5$ per hour crops. any 5$ per hour
crop therefore will beat 3200 lime trees. this means you can make 58$ profit off tomatoes and pick them
every 11 hours and still make 5.2/hr
adding in that you get no exp for trees, i dont really see trees being of any use for cash or exp, EVEN IF
you get 3200 date trees gifted,
184 / 24 = 7.67$/hr.
now, IF you can do this, dates will beat tomatoes (tomatoes are 7.25/hr)
downsides: no exp, and you’ll have to wait 3 days for 220,800 instead of getting 23,200 per 8 hours with
tomatoes (which is 208,800 if you pick 9 sets of tomatoes in 72 hours) a loss of 12,000 per 3 days or
166.67 per hour.
this is not that well organised but i hope it is useful to at least some people.
76.
Eruvis
carrots, coffee, sunflowers, 12/16/24 hours if you have the right levels but right now i am not high
enough to use anything besides tomatoes and carrots
77.
Eruvis
78.
fv freak
79.
Ann On Emus
Why do people keep asking the same question over and over!!!
You cant be retarded can you??? read all that is on this page and go through what people have put on
here as comments and you will know all there is to know…it doesnt take long!!
80.
echo man
Why do people keep asking the same question over and over!!!
81.
James Vernon
82.
onion
(I posted this comment in the glitch section but just in case if anyone reads this and not that, ill repost it
here too. =) )
Another unrelated glitch I found is you can increase your good samaritan or help out your neighbors
exponentially.
When you click on one of your neighbor’s farm to help them, the page will load with your neighbor’s
farm asking you to rake the leaves, pull the weeds, scare the birds, etc. Instead of clicking on accept,
click on that same neighbor’s farm to help them again and a new request will load as well as the
previous request. You can do this as many times as you want before you finally accept the request.
With that being said, this glitch only works for people that have become your neighbor already. You can
only help once for people that are in the process of being your neighbor. I do it about 3-4 times for each
neighbor. So lets say if you have 50 neighbors and help each one of them out 3 times for that day, you
will gain 150 samaritian points and a few more for your friends that are not neighbors yet. This will also
help you earn more exp points as well as some additional coins to the ones you could have earned.
Enjoy!
Let me know if this works or not, or if there is a better way to explain it. Thanks
83.
Brian
It’s a genetic trait or just human nature to skip reading and go straight to the source or the question.
Why read when someone out there is most likely willing to repeat the same answer over and over again.
LOL
Annoying, yes… solution?… none. That is simply a major downfall of the internet. So much
information available instantly. Makes people become impatient and removes all skills and traces of
“research”.
Perhaps a little javascript could be added to this site that only allows two or three words to be displayed
every second. LOL Or one could promote the use of a screen reader if reading on your own is really that
difficult or time consuming.
Nancy
Hi do you know anything about the Farmville Decorations gifts? They look authentic but there does not
seem to be any way to get them onto your farm
85.
Mental
Onion
Hey, I thought I was the only one who knew how to exploit that bug! It works, granted that you click
fast enough before the “loading farm” popup appears.
86.
Gin
howdy! i recently bought a tractor, harvester and seeder, i knew my fuel wasnt gonna be enought so i
refuel 3 times (9 cash)…the thing is that i dont know if the tank fuels back 150 of fuel or 600 think ill
have to wait like 6 hours to know.. =(
87.
CJ
The cheapest way to level up isn’t to plow and delete but to plow plant soybeans and then delete. This
gives you 3XP for 30 coins where as what you say gives you 2XP for 30 coins. Thought I would share.
88.
Sérgio Cordeiro
Posted September 9, 2009 at 6:16 pm
I have a lot of neighbours in my farm and I send them gifts everyday. I know that they also offer me
gifts.
I’m in level 14 and until now I got NO gift from my neighbours in my giftbox.
THANKS
89.
Brian
Just purchased the $1mil Villa!!! WOOHOO! The excitement was short lived. LOL
90.
Rhys
How do you get the Farmville cash (the paper money)? I find it impossible to get the money
91.
Ema
Farmville cash… Erm you can earn it, or buy it … other then that it appears to give you on cash every
time you level or sometimes two … depending on what level you are … if use farmville cash to expand
my farm. you can do this by clicking the more cash button and scrolling down to the bottem …
underneath where it asks you to buy it should be some quizes and offers for you to do with how much
cash you will get from doing it … how ever i have found some problems with actualy reciving the cash,
but you can click a button after you have complete the quizes *missing farmville cash* and after some
time of completeing the offer it will come up with a button called * contact support* if you can provided
proff that you complete the quiz .. For example the email they have send you to say you have joined etc
or w/e it asks you to do .. they normaly send you the cash with in a day
92.
Shawn
It won’t let me buy anymore date trees and I only have 200 or so.
I was seriously trying to cover my entire farm with them, and I barely covered an eighth.
93.
mark
It would be good to take plow experience into account. Strawberries generate 2(1 for berries + 1 for
plow) experience points every 4 hours. 0.5 per hour. Raspberries generate 1xp from plowing every 2. 0.5
per hour. In terms of xp per hour the chart above is hiding this. It makes strawberries appear a better deal
than raspberries.
94.
Sean
95.
3yt6o1
its a great guide, hope to get new updates soon… especially about FV…keep it up
96.
DC
97.
kimmie
98.
Mike Newell
New crops: peas and asparagus. Anyone have the details to those?
99.
glenn kock
Hi Mike,
peas: buy for 190 sell for 381 exp 3 harvest in 1 day…
100.
Kaz
101.
Tofu
102.
Emanuele
103.
MH
No grapes?
104.
Amanda Spear
I am just wondering how long the crops last in the game if they are not harvested on time.
105.
Paul Bailey
106.
Darrelle Tewhare
Posted September 11, 2009 at 9:53 am
My Husband & I are Farmville Fanatics….the thing is…he has things i dont and i have things he dont
for example…eg. he has grape seeds, i dont….i had super berries he didn’t…whats up with that??? and
another thing is he earns more farmcash, i dont, I earn more coins he doesnt!!!
107.
Brian
James: I think you should display the grid of crops sorted by harvest times. I think this would correct a
lot of confusion and help people to determine which crop would be best for their needs and their allotted
play time. Obviously choosing the highest yield crop may not give you the most money if you can’t
harvest as often as is necessary. Sorting by harvest time will let people quickly see where they fit into
the timescale of farmville and then choose the appropriate crop.
thoughts?
108.
Darthjavo
109.
Darthjavo
I think grapes are awesome, their are better than Sunflowers, they gave you 170 coins per day.
110.
James Vernon
KUDOS! ^_^
111.
Jiten
Just update!!!!
112.
Betty
Don\’t think anyone\’s mentioned this but a new lost animal has also been introduced — an ugly duck.
And BOY is it ugly. I\’m assuming it\’s worth is twice as much as what a regular duck is as per usual.
113.
Betty
Don’t think anyone’s mentioned this but a new lost animal has also been introduced — an ugly duck.
And BOY is it ugly. I’m assuming it’s worth is twice as much as what a regular duck is as per usual.
114.
Brice
I have a tractor, seeder, and harvester now, but fuel tanks are still only 150. That should be tripled with
the two new vehicles. It makes them pointless, because I’m not going to spend all my hard earned farm
dollars on fuel tanks. At least make the fuel tanks available through coins!!
PS. DANNGGG the ugly duckling is UGLLLYYY lol
115.
Betty
The ugly duck really does make me uncomfortable to look at it though hahahaha.
I know we’ve come to the conclusion that FV cash increases with each level up. However, this was only
added recently so those of us that have been playing before this change have missed out on tons of FV
cash. What does anyone think the chances are of getting reimbursed for said cash? It just sucks cause I
could definitely be at least $15 richer right about now.
116.
Keitho
170 coins per day from grapes is either second best or best for coins overall. Do one day crops mature
after exactly 24 or exactly 23 hours? If it’s 24, then Grapes are behind only Tomatoes in coins/hour at
7.08. If it’s 23, then they actually surpass Tomatoes with 7.39 coins/hour. Go team grapes.
117.
Nunjo Bidness
Did anyone notice that they nerfed the tomatoes? They are no longer 191 coins per sale, they are like
173 now.
118.
CJ
An easy one is the Not spoiled, just gifted ribbon. For the blue ribbon, you need 21 unique gifts in your
gift box, something fairly easy to do if you have a lot of friends who play.
And yeah, that ugly ducking really is uuuuugly. They should make animal feed a feature, so the animals
can level up too. The ugly duckling could hopefully evolve into a swan, or at least something easier on
the eyes haha.
119.
Felix R
You could include percent growth/hour for the seeds.. I forget when I planted them and I’m growing
sick of for calculating everything that takes longer than a day to grow
Thanks
120.
Felix Richter
You could include percent growth/hour for the seeds.. I forget when I planted them and I\’m growing
sick of for calculating everything that takes longer than a day to grow
Thanks
121.
JA
How do you move or delete a plot of land that isn’t lined up with the rest?
122.
Jordan
123.
Anonymous
please update, we have new seeds, yellow melon, peas, grapes, etc.
124.
ed
Sugar Cane pay 239 not 235 so actually has a higher profit than tomatoes.
125.
Mizuru
Pea
buy for 190 and sell for 381 thats 206 per crop including plow + 3 XP for planting !!!!!
126.
Farmer
127.
Farming
128.
susan san
Thank you very much for your guides.. I really love it.. But i would like to tell you.. Now, farmville
have new seeds like grapes, peas, and asparagus.. Would you like to search it for us again? Coz my level
had open the grapes seed, peas and asparagus not yet.. Please let me know if u have up date about it..
Thanks for your concern.. ^^
129.
Tim V
130.
PCY
Grapes are now the best unless you can plow your tomatoes withing minutes after you harvest them.
It´s impossible for the average person to harvest exactly at the same time as they plow so go for grapes. I
just did the mistake to plant tomatoes everywhere…
Plant grapes!
PCY
131.
Daniel
I found an excellent, if time consuming, way to get experience fairly cheaply: Buy hundreds of hay
bales, 100 each,5xp so 20 coins per xp. All of the more expensive things give 1 xp per hundred coins. I
use an autoclicker for this, so I just need to wave my mouse over all the squares I want hay bales. Takes
a long time to delete them though.
132.
Brian
@Nunjo – Tomatoes have always yielded $173 ever since they were introduced. I haven’t made any
changes in my spreadsheet since then and they’re in there listed at $173 sell.
133.
Nunjo Bidness
Well I certainly remember them being 191 coins return, but that must have only been for a couple of
days and then they reverted it back to 173. But I’m definitely positive I saw them at 191 for a bit.
134.
Paul
are you sure you aren’t getting the 91 from the blueberries? I never remember tomatoes being 191 coins
return.
135.
Paul
are you sure you aren\’t getting the 91 from the blueberries? I never remember tomatoes being 191 coins
return.
136.
James Vernon
Updated
137.
Kenn
If i use my farm cash and buy fuel will i get another fuel tank? and is the fuel one time use? or is it
permanent?
138.
Betty
I’m getting pretty impatient, any word on when the 22×22 will become available? My farm is all
smooshed and I’d love to have some room!
139.
Darthjavo
Hey 1 day= 23 hours on this game, so grapes are: 7,3913043478260869565217391304348 coins per
hour,
BEST THAN TOMATOES, and if you think 20 mins, ich time you put then again, are like 1 hour more,
so grapes are the best seeds if you are thinking of earning money
140.
PCY
If I´m looking for xp, should I then do blueberries instead of going grapes and then buying hay bales?
141.
josh
142.
Betty
SO. When the ugly duckling is ready the option instead of collecting feathers from it is “Transform!”
and it turns into a swan. It is MUCH more appealing on the eye.
143.
Denis
Hi!
thanks for the guide. About the SEED GUIDE, I’ve calculated the price in coins/hours. I don’t
understand how you calculate that.
I agree with the results for all the seed 1 day, for exemple : eggplant, you find : 1.3coins/hours
I calculate : (88-25-15)/48 = 1 coins/hour
How do you find 1,3 coins/hour… thanks for your answer !!
Denis
144.
Josiah V.
hey, if nobody here has figured it out, for people with large farms that want to speed up the time it takes
to harvest/plow/re-plant their farms (without spending tons of money on fuel tanks) there is an awesome
cheat called the farm-bug.
how you do it is you refresh your farmville as to place your avatar in the exact center of your farm. once
there delete anything your avatar may be standing on. Then surround your avatar with message posts on
all sides inside the square. This prevents your avatar from moving so you dont have to take the time to
move from square to square.
its a MAJOR time saver.
145.
Dan O
Does this mean that 4 day crops are 92 hours instead of 96? or are the 1 day crops the only crops that
benefit from the 23 hour day?
146.
Brice
It\’s not letting me on this morning! Keep getting the game is out of sync message!!
147.
James Vernon
@Denis – The Farmville “Day” is actually only 23 hours (If you read the footnote)
148.
Amber
Thanks!
149.
Darthjavo
Please answer me
150.
Garchoto
I think that if you have a lot of time it’s better to plant BLACK BERRIES, it gaves you a lot of exp if
you think that in 16 hours, you plant then 4 times, you get (with a 20×20 farm) 400×4=1600, then 400
more, it’s a total of 2,000 exp, and then if you plant tomatoes, because you have to go to sleep, are 800
exp more, so
in one day you get 2800 EXP!
And I KNOW YOU WON’T WIN TO MUCH MONEY, but the game it’s about EXP, not money
But I know that with money you can buy buildings and they gave you a lot of EXP, so I don’t know, I’ll
be calculating wich form is better
151.
tigermike
Posted September 14, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Just to let you know that your fuel tank replenishes 1/50 point every two and a half minute….
152.
Garchoto
Stats:
Tomatoes: 58×399=23142
Blackberries: (27×3)x399=32319
________________________________________________________
Ok, 23 hours, hmmmm, 170 coins= 1 grape, 399 grapes: 67830 coins.
153.
Garchoto
Sorry, I forgot to say, that if you think 20 minutes ich time you plant again, you lost like 100 minutes
O.O, and the other is 23 hours + 20 minutes, so I don`t know, but I’m using the second strategy, the
other it’s to boring, I use it on weekends
154.
Garchoto
Posted September 14, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Other good thing to tell you, USE THE “FUEL TANK”, when you have to plant, so then when you have
to catch then it’ll appear faster
I think when famrville gets 1,000,000 fans they have to take “Superberries” again!
And, please, farmville adminitrators put some new thing to plant faster, IT’S TO BORING TO CLICK
LIKE 1,200 TIMES, AND THEN HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL EVERYTHING FINISH!
155.
paty
how long does it take for rice to go bad after its ready?
156.
157.
CJ
Paty, it takes twice as long for a crop to go bad. Rice harvests in 12 hours, so in 24 hours, it will wilt.
T, Blueberries are in the Seed section, right below Pineapples. He lists them in the same order in the
Farmville store.
158.
Ash
159.
milena b
i mean, e.g.:
strawberries:
1exp (plowing) + 1 exp (seed) = 2 exp
2 exp / 4 hours = 0.5 exp/hour
eggplant:
1 exp (plowing) + 2 exp (seed) = 3 exp
3 exp / 46 hours (2 days) = 0.065 exp/hour
160.
James Vernon
161.
James Vernon
Btw – If anyone knows how much EXP asparagus gives please comment
162.
Chris
Blueberries are on the seed guide but not on the Best Crops list.
163.
Arjun M
164.
Brian
asparagus: +2xp
Best for coins now… that’s what I’ve been using for a while.
165.
Lee anne
what does it do when you buy a tractor or harvestor? does it like give you extra points or like not cist
you to plow land what does it do with the fuel and all?
166.
cristian
Best for experience is to buy hay bale. Instead buying windmill with 100.000 and get 1000xp (1xp / 100
coins), better haybale 100 coins / 5 exp. So, with 100.000 coins, you get 5000 xp
167.
Chris
168.
169.
C hris
Chris
171.
jj
Cheapest and easiest xp is: 1 plow land, 2 seed soybeans, 3 delete, 4 repeat. that 3xp/30 coins
172.
Paul Streubel
Can anyone help me? I have been gifting a neighbor on Farmville for 4 days and it shows the gifts are
sent but he isn’t getting them. I think he might have accidentally clicked “ignore all invites”, how does
he change this or what can he do? He wants my gifts.
173.
PCy
Dan O, how hard can it be to try it yourself? You should write your name in the document to verify that
your the creator.
174.
James Vernon
175.
Dan O
I don’t see how linking a spreadsheet with the information that you already have listed was a bad thing..
Sorry if this offended you. But to each is their own.
I still haven’t had an answer in regards to the question for the 23 hour day.. are 2 3 and 4 day crops
affected by this? reducing them to 46, 69, and 92 hour crops?
176.
Dan O
Looks like you adjusted all the crops to be 23 hour days and 1 hour less per day for the crops beyond the
1 day.
TY
177.
Wilma
I would like to know what are those big coins coming out of the ground when I’m plowing!
178.
Wilma
while plowing a gold coin pops up and floats around for a few seconds then disappears. How do you
retrieve it? Or what is it for?
179.
Lee-anne
what does it do when you buy a tractor and then you buy fuel is it something like gives you coins or
what?
180.
james
what would be the bset way to lvl at 10? plant rice or plant pumpins and raspberries in the same time
frame?
181.
Robyn
I may be missing it, but I don’t see Blueberries on your list of best crops for money/hour.
Thanks for the great site!
182.
Mzki
Use a mouse click recorder ( I use mnouse recorder pro, its free) and then you can record the harvest
plough and seeding of your farms and then replay the process with a couple of clicks rather than
thousands.
I also have another mouse click macro to buy hay bails, 5xp for 100 and it plants 25 and then sells them.
I set this to loop about 10 times per day which is the profit I take for my crops.
I\’m flyin by, but then my only intention is to hit 35 and get a manor house then close the farm. If you
wanna have fun then this prolly isnt for you. Then again if you think clicking a 20×20 farm 4 times a
day 3 times per field is fun…. Well, each to their own!
BOOOM
183.
Betty
I saw on the new guide that you can now help neighbors harvest and get paid for it, how do you do this?
I went to a neighbor’s farm and clicked around but couldn’t figure out how.
184.
gonzalo
185.
James Vernon
OMG!!
GONZALO!!!! READ THE ASTERISK!!!! a farmville day is 23 hours!
@Robyn – Ty :O
186.
Arjun M
@James: Great site/guide, keep up the good work! Brian says Asparagus is 2Exp, i can’t confirm that
myself though.. Oh, and I’m also getting irritated at the people who can’t READ!! :@ A day is 23 hours,
not 24 in FarmVille.
@Paul Streubel: Tell your friend to go the applications list (http://www.facebook.com/editapps.php?
v=feed) and fiddle around with the settings there. There should be one that allows FarmVille to
send/receive notifications again. Let us know how that works out.
@Dan O: James had this fixed since Sept. 13th when Darthjavo, among others, pointed it out.
@Wilma: Those gold coins account for 100 FarmVille coins and get added to your balance
automatically.
187.
Alvin
188.
liam
Betty, I don’t know if farmville is incorporating the harvest a friends farm. On farmtown however, a
similiar facebook application you get hired from the markets, to harvest other peoples farms.
189.
jimthedj
great site.
A few corrections – they JUST fixed the multiple visits bug this morning. Although it does appear that it
works when you leave the farm or various other activities, and return the multiple points will be taken
away.
190.
matteo
191.
matteo
Hi James!
192.
matteo
Hi James!
193.
matteo
sorry for spam, don’t know what happened with browser script protection…
194.
James Vernon
Lol, Dw
195.
Garchoto
Just wanna say that it would be really could a seed with this stats:
196.
Garchoto
197.
Kelly
Jon
With Hot Air Balloons available this weekend, I’m starting to wander if they’re gonna pull a trick and
decide after the weekend that they’re worth a ton of cash or something.
199.
Arjun M
@Jon: That may be likely! I wouldn’t be surprised. Novelty/antique, what’s the word I’m looking for..?
type item, rare and unique, definitely worth a bundle. However, without a public marketplace for people
to share/sell/buy items, you’re only going to be sell the Hot Air Balloon back to the system, which is
pointless and makes the item THAT much rarer. For now, it’s selling price is 0 coins, which is bound to
change. But seriously, without a public marketplace, there’s no real point in it.
I’m sure they’ll roll out some sort of buying/selling from neighbours feature eventually.
@Garchoto: Minimum 1 day crops get 2+ Exp, but that WOULD be cool.
200.
Paul
Man i was hoping for superberries, not hot air balloons. You don’t even get any experience for the
balloons either
201.
Jacqui S
When I plough my fields coins come up out of the soil, fly into the air, land and disappear. I’m sure this
is a good thing but what am I supposed to do? what does it mean?
202.
Dennison Uy
Awesome guide, helped me a lot. I’m currently working on grapes. They are awesome and give great
income!
203.
Susan
204.
Brian
I believe they’ll all float away after a while I doubt they’ll be worth much after the weekend. There’s
really no incentive for them to do that. Unless of course they make the trade-in worth cash instead of
coins. That would be nice!
Another idea is that you could “ride” the balloon over ALL Farmville farms! Like a Google Earth for
Farmville… of course you won’t be able to land and help someone with weeds, but it would be cool to
fly over everything and just look.
Another idea… offer rides when publishing to your wall. Someone could visit your farm via your
balloon at the cost of 10 coins or whatever. LOL The more balloons you have, the more rides you can
offer per day.
205.
jacqui
are the hot air ballons going to do something? /be of any worth? or do they just take up alot of valuable
space?
206.
Betty
Just now, while collecting from my animals, mysterious black, slightly blurry text popped up that said,
“This animal is ____.” I didn’t catch all of it cause it was unexpected and I wasn’t paying attention.
Has this happened to anyone else before? I want to know what the rest of the message was!
207.
Betty
You know what the game needs? An inventory option where you can store purchased items you don’t
want/need to use. It’s a pain to sell items every time you want to redecorate or redecorating and having
to use every single thing you already own. I’d like to tuck things away for future use,
thankyouverymuch.
208.
Jan Kovalcik
For Example – 2 Day in Eggplant is 48 hours (36 hours as you count) therefore 48 coins you get per two
days so 1 Coins per hour.
209.
Ryan
Blueberries give 10.25 gold per hour, if ive done my math correct. 91 for harvesting, minus 50 for
planting, divided by 4 hours. 91-50=41, 41/4= 10.25. BLUEBERRIES ARE VERY GOOD MONEY.
210.
Arjun M
@Betty: “This animal is busy.” You were probably collecting from the animal at the time. Try it again if
you’d like. Click collect from animal, then click on the animal again.
Yes, that would be very useful. I completed my ‘gifts’ ribbon so I just leave what I can in there, but it
gets full and I end up dumping everything on to my farm again. I also have the buildings and decorations
ribbons, so I have no use in any extra non-crop/tree/animal items anymore. What would you suggest I do
with them? Discard them? I feel like I’m wasting the money I put in to (some) of them, and the free
ones, well those are sentimental. What to do..
211.
Jonathan
The hot air balloons are great for completing your pack rat ribbons. At least up to the red ribbon
requirements of 100 since you’d need a 16×16 to get the blue ribbon requirements of 250.
Right now it’s 10x cheaper than hay bails.
212.
Betty
So true! It’s particularly annoying now that you can gift decorations. I mean, really. Where am I gonna
put a million white fences and green hay bales that I didn’t ask for? Hahaha.
213.
Hamaestra
“Ryan
Posted September 20, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Blueberries give 10.25 gold per hour, if ive done my math correct. 91 for harvesting, minus 50 for
planting, divided by 4 hours. 91-50=41, 41/4= 10.25. BLUEBERRIES ARE VERY GOOD MONEY.”
You have forgot to count with the ploughing cost, and considering it only takes 4 hours for it to grow,
you’ll spend alot of resources on just ploughing. The right way to calculate it would be:
91(Sell price) -50(Seed price) -15(Ploughing) = 26 / 4(hours) = 6,5 (Coins per hour).
So the formula is sinply Sell price – Seed pride – Ploughing price (15) and then dividing it by the
amount of hours the growing process takes.
214.
exp champ
I didn’t read all the comments so maybe this has been said.
The fastest and CHEAPEST way to gain experience; it is a bit of a time consumer though!! Rather than
spend $100,000 on a windmill for 1,000 exp, just buy hay and sell it right back. Each costs 100 (5 coins
back when you sell) and they give you 5 exp. So you could get that 1,000 exp for only 19,000, not
100,000!!!!
215.
Jon
@Betty, @Ariun, just sell those excess items off and use that space for more efficient xp/coin producing
items(crops).
216.
Ryan
@hameastra
That makes sense I guess, but you have to plow for every crop so I just leave it out. But now that I think
about it again, blueberries would require more plowing because they only take 4 hours to grow. I like
this though, because plowing is a pretty inexpensive way to gain exp. And the more times you can do
that in a day, the fast you’ll level.
217.
Jen
Posted September 20, 2009 at 11:36 pm
hay bales are the fastest xp.every 200 bales gives you 1000xp.bit time consuming but if you have beries
growing you can do this between harvests. mind out for rsi in your clicker finger tho!!
218.
Glenn
at exp champ: the cheapest way to get exp is to plow, plant soybeans and delete….; plowing will give
you 1 exp, planting soybeans will give you 2 exp at the price of 30 coins total. this means 30 coins for 3
exp. when your done planting you delete the soybeans and start over and over ….
219.
Arjun M
@Jonathan: They are also 16 times more estate consuming. So no, not a good way to get your Pack Rat
ribbon. I (as with many others) just kept buying hay bales – which worked out for me because I started
doing this After they allowed multiple hay bales per visit to market – and this also helped with the
experience trick.
However, for experience, I do the soybean delete method.. which leads me to my next point:
@Glenn: That is not ‘the’ cheapest way. 30 coins for 3 exp = 10coins/exp. 10000 coins for 1000 exp
also = 10coins/exp. Hence, they are both equally cost efficient. I do the soybean delete method because I
find the hay bale method – although able to click multiple times, and in turn reduce the time – in fact
More time consuming because I waste more time clicking on them individually when deleting and often
misclick when attempting to go fast. A crop takes up more space, so I tend to click with better accuracy,
therefore reducing time taken to delete. Uhh, I know, I’m going in too deep analytically . But
whatever works for you. : )
@Ryan: Yes, you do have to account for the plowing cost. James’ “Best Crops for money/Hour”
(second list in guide) lists the best return from crops in order. I can only go as high up as grapes (at level
27), but usually plant tomatoes for the short term experience.
If only there was a way to delete crops without confirmation… Then I’d plant soybeans on the entire
farm, delete, and repeat. How awesome (but easy, too easy..) would that be!
@Jon: Yes that is what I’m doing. There really isn’t any point in keeping those items (unless you care
about making your farm look “pretty”, which I’m not saying you shouldn’t!.. : ) ). But the ones earned
through achievements, I kind of feel bad discarding them. I still have a few, but they’re not taking up
any room that could otherwise be used for crops, so no worries there.
Just curious, how serious are you guys about achievements? I still have 10 ribbons to do (done 50 out of
60).
220.
Shankaran R
A very good job by the guide creator.. As far as i know, this site is the best Farmville guide on the web.
221.
Ego
Remember, money is for XP, so… calculate money/XP it’snot easy. If you buy Hay Bale, you will gain
$/20 XP. After that, you can sell Hay Bale, of course. If you buy buildings, you will gain $/100 XP, and
your farm will be smaller, but more beautifull. So, think about what do you want for your farm? beauty
or productivity?
222.
James Vernon
@Shankaran R
223.
kiyoshi34
I have a technique to quickly gain the experience with less money. Plow on all your farm
Plant soybeans throughout your farm
Destroy and again!
As you earn 3XP for 30 Coins
Result: 10 coins = 1 XP
224.
George
Peas: 7.333
Grapes: 7.08
225.
Glenn
@ arjun your correct; whatever works best we all have our own methods….lol but with plowing your
field you get some golden coin so now and then …..but were going in too deep analytically….lol and
i’m at level 35 and i’m missing four blue ribbons good samaritan, cream of the crop, knock on wood
and zoologist (they all have ridiculous numbers to achieve) but just add me glenn kock
226.
glenn
227.
Steve vdW
228.
Jackie O
Posted September 22, 2009 at 10:25 am
James how can I find you on facebook so I can beg you “won’t you be my neighbor?” Jacqueline Olson
229.
Scott
Hey I just thought I would throw this out there in regards to shamelessly whoring xp (as you suggest
with the plowing/deleting method). First off, you get the xp from your seeds WHEN YOU PLANT
THEM, not when you harvest, so if you planted, say, strawberries, which cost 10 coins, that’s an xp for
10 coins. so instead of just plowing/deleting (which nets you 1 xp for 15 coins) you can plow/plant
strawberries/delete which costs 25 coins for 2 total xp, making each xp cost 12.5 coins. that’s the most
efficient way to whore xp that i can think of.
Now i also wanted to throw out there that this method is very very annoying and anyone would hate to
sit there and do it. So what I do instead of going for efficiency is i’ll plant an entire field of whatever
crop i’m planting, and use the rest for…. hay bales! they give you 5 xp per bale, cost 100 coins
(meaning 20 coins per xp), and appear instantly, meaning no wait time for the plowing/planting (which
is greatly lessened by that glitch, but still is time), not to mention you’re getting 5 xp at once for one
teeny square instead of 1 xp per plow/plant.
Alright, that’s my two bits, hope to see it in your next update
230.
Scott
Oh goodness, i didn’t sift through those comments before i posted my lengthy one, please disregard my
previous comment, seeing as others are smarter than i lol. i didn’t think about soybeans with their 2 xp
only 15 coin cost. that’s legit!
231.
Paul
I have done the plow plant soybeans twice now and wow it takes alot of time. It is boring and will make
your fingers go stiff. But the real problem is the time it takes…. counting the interruptions, bio brakes,
etc. I found that it would have been more efficient to plant blueberries and harvest them as I ran over 4
hrs. I will try the hay bale idea because while I am buying and selling hay bales a harvest can be
growing …. thank you, that is all.
232.
Steve vdW
I was so upset; I had 40 chickens all lined up in my chicken farm. But it slows down my machine
something special. Also I can fry an egg on my processor as it hit 83 degrees celcius.
The chickens are gone and I’ll not bother with too many animals moving forward. Trees are the way to
go…
Love all the comments here, most complete forum on FarmVille… Can you imagine if those 40+
million users found your site?
233.
Paul
234.
Necror
You can *Sorta* cheat with assist. If you click the same neighbours farm, and “Help”. Then do it again
before the Help box appears (Below) you can assist that farm more than once!
Olivia
Just so you know, I’ve done the calculations (and you can double check them) but the fuel tank for the
machinery takes 5 hours to replenish completely, if you wanted to add that in somewhere.
236.
ruslan
237.
James Vernon
@Steve
Lol
238.
Anonymous
I just got my level 31 and at the rate the experience is going up 1000 per level at the moment, is 80,000
exp needed for level 34? Because if so (and i save my money until then) i should have a villa in 27 days
239.
josssem
Hi, If a neighbour is away and cannot log to attend his farm, can I visit and harvest for him so his plants
won’t die? If so, how do I do it?
tnx
josssem
240.
Ash
241.
Peter
I found this website useful as I’m currently at level 34 with 3K XP to level 35. I had thought about
buying 3 windmills to reach level 35 (to see what broccoli returns, which is less than peas). I plant peas
on a 18X20 grid providing just over 1,000 XP/day. I’m about 400K coins away from buying the villa,
which will boost my XP by 10,000. I’m currently #1 in my friends list with someone behind by 12K XP
(he’s at level 33). I’m working my way to the blue ribbons of Knock on Wood and Zoologist and I
expect to obtain them in a week. I have planted over 300 cherry trees and own 300 farm animals of
which 75% are chickens.
I have three questions: how many spaces does the villa take, will Zynga introduce predatory animals
(wolves/fox/coyote) and when can I expect to expand to a 22X22 grid?
As a suggestive seed crop, I recommend Zynga introduce saffron crocus, but it will probably take a
week to harvest (lol).
thanks
Peter
242.
243.
SuNG
lol. . .
you’re all very funny. . . i can get 10K xp a day. . .
but it takes your time..hehehe
244.
necia fusco
245.
nornyie
nothing appear in my facebook regarding farmville.. so i can’t celebrate friend’s ribbon or give home for
cow, ugly duck etc… what should i do?
246.
SuNG
you must have 20 X 20 Farm Size.. plant 20 x 18 = 360 with tomatos(the most profit until level 25, i’m
lvl 25 now) and you can put the other 2 x 18 field with your stuff..
and the rest 2 X 2 this is where your XP come from. . .
plow the square (2 X 2) and plant it with soybeans (2 XP for 15 coins) and each time you plant that you
got 3XP with 30 Gold..
after you plant it delete the field and repeat it..
it you got 200k in your cash, then you can get 20K XP..
with the tomatos plant you can get about 50K a day (5000XP) + plowing and planting the tomatos about
1200XP
total is 6k ++ XP a day..
or you can try to plant it with blue or black berries which give more XP..
Regards
SuNG
Yahoo : luckyseven44
Facebook : SuNG El Nino
247.
Just a farmer
Based on my calculations, the most XP you can really get in a day is… 8760
20×20 farm, 3 times blackberries, 1 time tomatoes.
The other time is used to do that plow-plant soybeans-delete trick. Although this is 5560 XP from that
trick, which means you’ll have to plant…around 1850 soybeans and the deleting is a VERY painful
process.
248.
SureFire
check into Bales of Hay. Best exp. for the money. Unless you have time to plow and delete and plow
and delete. 100g = 5exp however you can sell hay for 5g so, 100g – 5g = 95g per 5exp. I got to lvl 21 in
1 week. Hay Bales… easily best exp. I would harvest, plow, plant, then use excess money on hay. Then
when plants ripen – Repeat – Repeat…
249.
Billybobsteele
I’ve ran out of space but have a load of money. what should i spend it on?
250.
James Vernon
251.
Peter
In addition to my earlier comment regarding predatory animals, Zynga may wish to consider
meteorological hazards such as flash floods, lightning and tornadoes. Loss of livestock and damaged
crops may not appeal to newbie farmers, but you have to admit that it will make the game more
interesting. Rodents, insects and disease can be introduced but may create a rift between conventional
and organic growers.
I have noticed recently that farm animals are easier to harvest. Zynga has lowered the graphics
resolution on my 300 chickens so I can harvest them at normal speed. Previously, it took like 20 seconds
to harvest each bird. If speed is an issue for some, use your vehicles near your animals. When you scroll
away from the animals (they disappear off screen), the speed returns to normal (is this something unique
to my user interface or have others noticed this?).
thx
Peter
252.
QuakerPete
Anyone know when the 22×22 and 24×24 farms become available?
253.
Peter Jay
254.
xHayJay67x
255.
Peter
I’m looking for Farmville neighbors on facebook. Look for me “Peter Kim” with the Polynesian shirt
holding a lobster. Please be “gay-friendly.” If you are into Bear (the gay male kind) and/or leather
culture, kudos! I can gift the olive tree, which seems to happen every four days (why is this?)
256.
Javier G.
7,5coins/hour
257.
Kelly
Green Tea now available- 105 coins to plant, sell for 191 coins in 10 hours, and get 1 experience
258.
Betty
When you pet your animals now, hearts float out of them. Maybe they’ll harvest faster or make more
money? Does anyone know for sure?
259.
Thanhster
i think green tea is the best profit crop now….8.6 coin per hour….
260.
Chris
261.
AsQew
262.
QuakerPete
xHayJay67x – Sure am tired of that “Coming Soon” on extending the farm . . . I need more land
and I need it now!!! All those coins burning a hole in my pocket.
263.
Federico
264.
xer0x
Why does zynga not release the 22×22 &24×24 expansion…. and introduce some new ribbons to be
collected… because i am a bit bored now…
265.
MaryAnn
So I bought a 10 fuel tank, and I’m left at 8 now. It won’t refill back to 10? :S
266.
GeorgeCostanza
Does anyone by any chance know how you get the 20×20 plantation without having 16 neighbors? I
have 20 FV Dollars which took forever to get and now it says I have to get the “homestead” first. Yet
one of my neighbors who is 2 levels below me got it right away. I know he does not have 16 neighbors
either.
267.
QuakerPete
Posted September 25, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Wonder if Facebook have had a huge rise in the number of people registering . . . loads of new false
accounts just to get Farmville neighbours (whistles!!!)
268.
James Vernon
269.
2665
but!
270.
James Vernon
Yup
271.
apes
272.
GeorgeCostanza
apes – The coin that you find while plowing gives 100 coins.
273.
tigermike
274.
magjesz
i have a problem with the farmville cash i get cash randomely when im not leveling or anything and i
dont know how im making it because i want more…do you know how to make it?
275.
cheeseface
Alex
From the formulas above, the only thing that is taken into account is coins per hour. It does not take into
account XP per hour which is also an important factor.
I created a table to contain XP per hour. In this, I added one to each crop for plowing (since before each
time you plant a crop you must plow the land). Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries
all come out to 0.5 XP per hour (the highest of all crops). Next is aloe vera at 0.333, then pumpkins,
tomatoes, and sugar cane at 0.25.
I then calculated a term I call power, which is the product of coins per hour and XP per hour. This will
estimate the most powerful crop; that is, the one with the most money value in terms of coins per hour
and XP value per hour.
Of those with power of at least 1.000, the most powerful crops, in descending order and rounded to the
nearest thousanth with their corresponding harvesting time in hours (assuming 23 hour days), are:
3.375 Blackberry 4
3.250 Blueberry 4
2.750 Raspberry 2
1.844 Sugar Cane 8
1.813 Tomato 8
1.430 Asparagus 16
1.420 Green Tea 10
1.331 Pea 23
1.250 Strawberry 4
1.153 Onion 12
1.111 Aloe Vera 6
1.042 Carrot 12
0.964 Grape 23
0.844 Coffee 16
0.719 Pumpkins 8
0.610 Brocolli 46
0.500 Rice 12
0.330 Cabbage 46
0.234 Sunflower 46
0.187 Pineapple 46
0.160 Red Wheat 69
0.153 Yellow Bell 46
0.135 Corn 69
0.123 Potatoes 69
0.109 Peppers 46
0.109 Yellow Melon 92
0.094 Squash 46
0.074 Cotton 69
0.072 Watermelon 92
0.068 Eggplant 46
0.047 Soybeans 46
0.042 Artichoke 92
0.009 Wheat 69
Then it is a matter of how often you can harvest your crops. If you can do it every 4 hours, the
blackberries are the most powerful. If you can only do it every 6 hours, aloe vera (but you are better off
doing it every 8 hours with sugar cane); 8 hours, sugar cane; 10 hours, green tea; 12 hours, onions (but
you are better off doing it every 16 hours with asparagus or every day with peas); 16 hours, asparagus;
and daily, peas.
This also assumes you have access to all of the crops, which is only valid if you are at the maximum
level. Since you can only crop what you have access to, you need to see what is best for you at any
particular time.
277.
SuNG
CONFIRMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
278.
Paul
Hi im level 25, im anybody would like to add me to facebook (Paul Keys) i will happily be your
neighbour and send you gifts.
Cheers Paul
279.
farmvillecraze
280.
David Staerck
How does the shutterbug work? I keep taking different pictures of my farm but the statistics never
increase so i’m not getting any ribbons?
Thanks
281.
Ro
david, u gotta take pics of unique farms.. so your own several times over, won’t do the trick..
282.
Amy
What is with the hot air balloons, how do I get my black sheep out of the balloon, will the balloon go
away???
283.
David Staerck
the hot air balloon was just a decoration, i sold mine so maybe your sheep has just got stuck somehow as
a glitch
284.
Alaina
I have been getting farmville building gifts and I go to accept them but then when I go to my farm they
are not in my gift box…. how do I get them???
285.
James Vernon
=)
286.
Leah
To David: Yes, you can visit your neighbours farm, while there you will still be able to see the camera
button. Take a picture and when it pops up, press accept. Each farm only counts once so taking a pic. of
the same farm will not help you. Hope this helps Also, I love this site even though I already knew
most that’s on it it’s still really helpful and well done
287.
Leah
To Alaina: This is an application not directly connected to Farmville. It’s just for fun and doesn’t
actually count towards Farmville.
288.
cheeseface
289.
Leah
It was just a weekend thing b/c they reached 500,000 people. Hopefully they’ll bring them back again
some time
290.
SuNG
to David : you can click the “my neighbour” tab in the upper section of the application.. and just click
the name of your friends(who play FV) that you want to visit (even you’re not their neighbour yet)..
291.
SuNG
@glen : glen.. sure it is the cheapest xp to gain.. (plow . plant soybean, delete) its cost 10coins/Xp.. i
wonder how arjun count the other method also the same 10000 coins for 1000 XP..
FYI Arjun: if you buy decorations or something else expensive, it gives you 1% of your money into Xp..
for example 100000 coins windmill give 1000Xp.. so it cost 100coins/Xp instead of 10cions/Xp
CMIIW
nb: Glen, sorry i haven’t see you post the same method of mine earlier.. coz i just join the talks.. =p
292.
cheeseface
yeah… before you could right click an animal and click ‘pet’ but nothing happened… and now you do
pet them (proof by the hearts floating up of the animals
293.
cheeseface
294.
Dani
When with the 22×22 farm be released and will it have any minimal requirements besides coins to
purchase? I’m in much need of a bigger farm with all of the trees and animals I have… I only have 1
building so it’s not taking up THAT much space!
295.
David Staerck
lol wow it worked, i guess i just thought you couldn’t take pics of other people’s farms lol. thanks for
the help!!
i’m trying to sort out getting ribbons then clearing them down e.g. almost done the 4 for the decorations
but after that will just sell the hay bales and work on the others like using the space for trees lol i can’t
believe i’m so hooked to this game S
296.
dan
297.
SuNG
298.
Jerund
Hi, I skimmed through quickly, I keep seeing the 1FV per level mentioned; I’m at level 22 with 18 FV,
and have well past 30 ribbons. My wife stared a week later and has 20 FV, and hasn’t started on some of
the achievements.
The one thing she has done is added a couple more neighbors than I, but otherwise, I’m the s-kicker in
the family, but have fewer FV bucks. I agree the entertainment value of $5 real bucks is a low price, but
resist on principle. So I see the FV bucks as the real mystery here. Maybe its some color ribbons, but not
others, Maybe you increase slower as you go up in level. Maybe its all just random to frustrate us into
spending real bucks. Maybe it’s Mabeline. In any case, this game is more addicting than any others I’ve
tried, and this guide and forum is great fun. Reality is overrated.
299.
Johan
300.
Jason
301.
Jason hochlowski
Hey i just wanted to say you have an awesome guide here! but i wanted to know if you could atall put
something up about which gifts are \\\\\\\”unique\\\\\\\” and which arent so its easier to get the spoiled
not gifted achievment! Thanks in advance.
302.
jaundice
A better method for quickly gaining experience than just plowing and clearing and repeating, is plow,
then plant strawberries, then clear, then repeat. Plowing costs 15 coins, planting strawberries is only 10.
So, for 100 cycles of plowing, planting, and clearing, you get 200 exp. and pay 2500 coins. If you just
plow and clear 200 times, you would still get 200 exp., but pay 3000 coins.
303.
jaundice
Adding to my last post, 200 iterations of plowing and clearing comes up to 600 mouse clicks (since you
have to click twice to clear the land). Plowing, planting strawberries, and then clearing 100 times to get
the same 200 exp. will only be 400 mouse clicks. For anybody who gets tired of clicking over and over
and over and …
304.
john
SuNG
@jaundice..
its cheaper if you plant soy beans instead of strawberries.. i’ve mentioned before..
@Jason: to get that Ribbon is easy.. every gift is “unique” you MUST NOT use it.. just have them at the
gift box. . . until you reach the number, then you got your Ribbon.. Voila!! =)
306.
SuNG
@John : upgrade as soon as you can.. and plant according the time you can harvest
307.
Jason
thanks sung but i have 30 gifts in my gift box yet i only have the lvl 3 ribbon. and 30 is the max amount
of gifts
308.
Betty
All 30 gifts have to be different. If you have multiples of the same item just use them and leave one in
there.
309.
James Vernon
310.
Jason
oh alright. ty betty really you have no idea how long ive been trying to figure that out XD
311.
Ryan
i disagree with the money making theory for all of this.. the best way to level up and constantly make
money if you have the time to do so.. is as follows. blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, and then
raspberries.. if you notice.. on an entire day.. you can crop every 2 to 4 hours.. as of right now i use
blueberries beacuse you get 2 exp pts from farming every 4 hours and it gives the best money available.
i used to do raspberries being you can harvest every 2 hours which was fine.. you get money back and
you get 1 exp from plowing. but in acuality if you realize that in a 4 hour span you get 2 exp pts and
then you get 22 coins back for raspberries within two harvests.. now that i have blueberries i make the
most money back along with EXP every 4 hours until blackberries become available.. hope this helps
some of you.. because the longer a crop takes to harvest the more you lose out.. i have an excel spread
sheet with all the stats if you like.. let me know..
ry
312.
steel1943
I have to make a correction about being able to ’sorta’ cheat by helping out your neighbors: it doesn’t
work. I tried this when I accidentally found out about it. When you reload Farmville after doing the
’sorta cheat’, all of the experience and money you earn from helping the same neighbor the 2nd time and
after is lost, nor do the additional ‘attempts’ go towards the ‘Good Samaritan’ ribbon; it only counts the
first time you help out a neighbor that day.
It made me upset when I found out about it not working, considering I helped a neighbor out about 50-
60 times, then reloaded Farmville, and realized the money, experience, and ‘helping count’ were not
there.
313.
QuakerPete
Anyone having problems with Farm Neighbors disappearing from the list at the bottom and / or not
being able to add others?
314.
jen
I disagree with the way you’re categorizing the crops. I believe that the best crop is the soybean because
you get over 400% money back versus other crops.
315.
john
im 2000 coins away from getting the 16×16 upgrade but idk if i should plant tonight and buy that
tomorrow or just go for the 14×14 upgrade tonight? pls help
316.
coy
317.
SuNG
@john, yeah you should do the expand in order.. from the smallest to the biggest..
@quakepeter : no problem here..
@jen : it depends on how much time do you spend to play this game.. if you plant the blue berries for
example, you get more cash back than if you plant soy bean which you can harvest in 1 days.. maybe its
better choose soybean if you have insufficient funds to plant tomatoes in all of your farm..
@jason : yeah, i forgot to mention that every gift must be different or it won’t be counted..
318.
Croma
Didn’t find anyone mentioning this, so here goes: Sometimes when you plow your fields, a coin pops
up. This adds to your Farm Cash. It seems pretty random, but that’s one way of getting more Farm Cash.
319.
Steve vdW
Croma, its not FarmCash, its FarmCoins (100) that you get from that. Apparently there is a 1% chance
that you get it, but sometimes I get 3 in one plowing session, which is nice…
320.
Steve vdW
How cool would it be to rotate the FARM in its entirety… This way you can access those plowed plots
that your trees seem to hide… But then again I’m already having speed issues… I don’t think they will
be able to pull that off.
321.
Croma
322.
ido
323.
James Vernon
Including more info and help in the main sections aswell as another addition to the seed guide of
exp/hour.
Also, more FAQ’s from all of your comments that have been answered!!!!!!!
324.
jackie o
to Paul Keys – tried to friend you in facebook; there are 205 paul keys listed.
325.
David Staerck
There’s probably only one David Staerck!! I guarantee lol my surname is bit odd
326.
GeorgeCostanza
I wonder if there are any plans in the future to either make it able to rotate your farm in it’s entirety or be
able to rotate the buildings, like the barns.
Because as it is you can only use them on one side or the other.
327.
Philip
A better method for quickly gaining experience than just plowing and clearing and repeating, is plow,
then plant strawberries, then clear, then repeat. Plowing costs 15 coins, planting strawberries is only 10.
So, for 100 cycles of plowing, planting, and clearing, you get 200 exp. and pay 2500 coins. If you just
plow and clear 200 times, you would still get 200 exp., but pay 3000 coins. (by jaundice)
My comment: Soybeans are better because they give 2exp for only 15 coins. The fastest way to gain
experience (if you are relative rich in coins) is do the “plow-plant soybeans-clear” cycle repeatedly until
you have no more money =)
328.
cheeseface
is it possible to get bigger farm lands without giving up 20 farmcash? I see people saying “Im just 2000
coins away from 14×14″ You can do with coins?
329.
Rich
phatchetmanp@aol.com
330.
Arjun M
@James: I’ve posted a exp/day list. Someone should double check it. I’ll work out a exp/hour list if
you’d like, but I’m sure you’ll get to it before I do.
@previous: It’s a little buggy, and doesn’t give me the right outputs.. but looks great! Keep it up, and
I’m sure it’ll be right up there with the other guides.
Regarding the Soybean-Delete method, yes it’s very useful, and yes it’s very time consuming. Which
you think is a greater waste of time (hay bale vs. soybean) is your call, but I use soybean-delete. And
recently I worked out a, umm, I’m not sure if I should post this – only one other poster here has
mentioned it (Mzki) – but anyone heard of a macro? Good luck! : )
Ps. Takes the ‘fun’ out of it though.. Just a warning.
331.
James Vernon
@All
Guys, Dont post bots and third party software! I don’t want people complaining on here because of you :
3
332.
David Staerck
It would be nice if for trees and animals you didn’t have to keep going back to the market to buy another
one!
333.
Betty
:/
334.
Brian W
How long can plowed land remain unplanted? I am wanting to get my stuff on a cycle, but don’t want to
lose anything. I guess it probably wouldn’t matter that much to replow it, but just curious. Thanks! Great
site, BTW!
335.
Betty
You can leave it unplanted as long as you like! It just stays as is, nothing happens to it if you don’t.
336.
SuNG
Posted September 29, 2009 at 11:22 pm
337.
SuNG
338.
Steve vdW
@James, good call to avoid bots on this page… What is the point in having the work done for you? Its a
game, games should be played, my opinion personally anyways…
@SuNG good, there is an incentive now for people to plant other crops than just the usual. Get 3 stars
and you get an award. Can’t wait to harvest my Watermelons that I planted AGES ago… But then have
to do it two times more…
Have to admit, they keep making changes that keep you coming back for more… I know some people
that are right bored with it because they have too many coins, can’t expand, so can’t really do anything
other than make coins.
339.
Darkend
Anyone know how many plots of each crop you need to harvest to get the new seed mastery for each of
the three levels? Is it different for every seed?
340.
qwertz
you need more points for quick grown seeds to reach mastery stars, as far as i know…
341.
Steve vdW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_kFIYeFhao&feature=player_embedded
Enjoy
342.
Dan O
They added 2 new decorations. They are hedge archways 1 with a gate.
343.
Freya
Strawberry 800
Eggplant 125
Wheat 100
Soybeans 200
Squash 125
Pumpkin 1500
Artichokes 100
Rice 400
Raspberries 1500
Cotton 100
Bell Peppers 150
Peppers 250
Aloe Vera 800
Pineapples 150
Blueberries 1200
Watermelon 100
Grapes 300
Tomatoes 750
Potatoes 150
Carrots 600
Coffee 500
Corn 150
Sunflowers 400
Cabbage 200
Green Tea 800
Black Berries 1500
Red Wheat 150
Sugar Cane 900
Peas 450
Yellow Melon 150
Onion 750
Broccoli 250
Asparagus 600
344.
Ro
345.
tom
With all hours counting 57,5 minutes Asparagus would be the new number one, which seems to be very
logical to me.
346.
tomluft
With the consistent correct calculation of 57,5 minutes/hour Asparagus would be the new number one,
which seems to be much more logical than peas.
Greets
347.
Steve vdW
@Ro, MouseOver the status bar of each crop which shows you your Mastery score per crop and what
you need to achieve the star.
Anyone know if these crop requirements will go up for each star, this could take a while
348.
Steve vdW
Oh and PS: the elephant will give you Circus Nuts at 125 coins…
349.
tomluft
My ranking:
1 Asparagus
2 Sugar Cane
3 Peas
4 Tomato
5 Green Tea
6 Grapes
7 Onions
8 Sunflowers
9 Coffee
10 Blackberries
11 Blueberry
12 Carrots
13 Raspberries
14 Broccoli
15 Cabbage
16 Red Wheat
17 Aloe Vera
18 Pepper
19 Yellow Melon
20 Rice
21 Corn
22 Pumpkins
23 Pineapples
24 Potatoes
25 Strawberry
26 Yellow Bell
27 Watermelons
28 Cotton
29 Soybeans
30 Squash
31 Artichokes
32 Eggplant
33 Wheat
350.
Steve vdW
351.
Peter
I’m now at level 36 after buying the villa. The villa takes 9 spaces/squares and cost 1,000,000 coin
(10,000 XP). The seed crop “mastery” looks interesting. When should I expect to expand to a 22X22
grid? Do I need more neighbors?
352.
Lardy
I think haybale block glitch is no longer applicable in the game. when i tried 2 plant tomatoes using the
glitch this morning, the game suddenly sync and when i tried 2 refresh the game, everything i plow,
harvest, exps coins went back. i tried the glitch several times but the game keeps syncing all over and its
getting serious even if i tried not to used the glitch, After several attempts, i was thinking maybe it was
just my connection or zynga might be lagy in that moment, so i tried 2 look my farm using my brother’s
account and all my grown tomatoes were still there, untouch and same as my money and exp. Feeling a
bit disappointed, i log out my account and waited for several hous, about 3, and when i check my farm
again, everything looks the same the time i first log in. Still not satisfied, i tried the glitch again, letting
my character moved in the middle of 2 haybales, and when i try 2 put the last haybale behind my
character, *BOOM* “Your game state is out of sync with the server, Please refresh the page to continue,
Code g8″. Hell no, so i came up with the idea that the glitch is no longer active. So everythings back 2
normal when i harvest, plow, plant doing what zynga wanted, The not so BORING character movements
in the field. Im really disappointed. Or is it just me experiencing this? I need help please!
353.
Ash
If you’re having issues with trees blocking your crops, use trees with ’skinny’ trunks, like Cherry,
Banana, and Date trees. You can toggle your mouse in between the trunks without having to move them
and still reach your crops.
354.
Ash
Lardy, Try using message posts instead of hay bales. That’s what I’ve always used, and still works for
me.
355.
illo
Can anyone please tell me how many gifts am I allowed to send per day? Is this level – related or is it
the same for all farmers?
Also, if I send one gift to lets say 10 people, does that count as one sent gift or 10 sent gfits?
Thanks
356.
Freya
Haybale issue; I’ve actually blocked him in the middle (where they always start out) of the field. I think
this morning there have been some particular sync issues. Don’t think its related to blocking your
guy/gal in…
Also if you have issues with trees blocking your crops, use the vehicles for that. Generally you don’t
have enough fuel for the whole harvest/plow/plant job, so I use them only in hard to reach areas as you
can get them even if you have congested your edges with trees…
357.
fredrick
merry
illo, one gift to 10 people is 10 gifts sent and the number of gifts you can send does go up as you go up
in levels. Someone sent me 4 baby elephants today – so I assume you can gift the same person again and
again.
359.
David Staerck
Farmville has been doing my nut all day, out of sync, won’t load etc my grapes are all about to die
llololol
360.
daem0n
you can buy abouth 1500XP for spend only 5000-6000 coins.
must buy abouth 20 Sest Tent and FarmVille server give you 1500XP and 15000coins one Rest Tent
in only 1000coins and i hate Elephants!
361.
trd
I don’t know if anybody here already know about this, but if you visit your neighbor and click on their
picture when the loading farm pops out click on the picture again to visit the same farm the second time,
so this means double the reward for helping your neighbor. I know its not much but it’s still something
right?
362.
Joshua
What does the 3 stars under the vegetables and the little meter mean?
363.
Bernice Hook
364.
Freya
Seweet Potato has been made available in some kind of charity event for children in Haiti???
You need to spend 25 Farm Vill CASH in order to get a license which allows you to plant sweet potato,
cost: 10, harvest 125 and XP+3 For a WEEK. There is also a special one time gift, what it is I don’t
know.
Incidentally this crop will NEVER wither… What is your opinion on this? Most of us will have to
actually spend real $$$, but its for a good cause…
365.
mitch
add me on facebook and farmville send me a gift and il send u one back
mitch_vandenakker@hotmail.com
366.
Carrie
367.
Carrie
The gift for doing the Haiti sweet potatoes is a sweet seeds flag. Its for a good cause and since Ive
stopped buying fuel and just box my farmer in, I figured it was worth the FV cash. Not to mention, its
great experience if you are a plow, plant, delete fan… 3 experience points and the seeds only cost 10
coins.
368.
brad
Great GUIDE !!!! very helpfull to me thanks for making it these are thign i like to know you;ve been
realy helpful wiht out u i would probably be level 2
369.
MagicPaul
Sweet potato costs 10 coins gives you 125 coins and 3 exp. 1 day to harvest.
370.
Walker
tomluft: The calculations were already correct. The game doesn’t use 57 minute hours; there are still 60
minutes. All the fast crops ripen at their exact stated time (2hr, 4hr, 6hr, 10hr, 12hr, 16hr), but the 1 day
crops ripen in 23 hours, the 2 day crops ripen in 46 hours, and so on.
371.
Rocky26
What\’s up with the elephants everytime I move them from gift box to farm it says farm out of sync and
refrshes, putting everything back into gift box and harvested crops back into the field.
372.
James Vernon
@Walker
373.
Kate
374.
James Vernon
375.
James Vernon
P.S.
If you still think things need to be added/New sections/More info please dont hesitate to post a
comment!
376.
QuakerPete
James: What a tease, come on spill the beans . . . what’s gonna be happening?
377.
farmer
378.
QuakerPete
Hiya, could do with more neighbours to help me to send and receive gifts.
Contact me on quakerpete@live.com
379.
fred is me
380.
Chris
Yeah, what are the updates, James?? Please tell me they’re allowing bigger farms, my plantation is
getting quite cramped!
381.
Someone
i believe planting the daily crops is the best…they give good profit and xp for the amount of work you
have to do for them. harvested once a day, and peas even get you 3 xp. planting crops that take multiple
days isnt good since you get much less profit AND xp…they’re terrible unless you cant get on for a
period of time.
382.
James Vernon
Again: “If you still think things need to be added/New sections/More info please dont hesitate to post a
comment!
383.
QuakerPete
384.
James Vernon
385.
Brin
Is Farmville available as a stand alone game? My kids enjoy the game but are too young for Facebook.
Can one buy it for your PC?
386.
ED
387.
Debbie
Can you tell me what the gold coin that pops up out of the field is all about?
388.
Mindy
ok, i think I\’ve found the best way to get xp points for the cheapest amount of coins. Just buy tan hay
bails. I had about 500 on my farm and then went back and sold them all. selling each one is a pain and
takes alot of time but it\’s worth it. They are 100 coins and 5 xp each
389.
Darian (:
390.
Darian (:
oh, and other than leveling up, how else do you get farmville cash?
391.
farmville pimp
I can Harvest, Plow, Plant the whole farm in less than 5 minutes.
392.
Vicioso
It should read..BUYING BUILDINGS GIVES YOU 1 PERCENT OF WHAT YOU PAID.. Not 10
percent… 1 percent of 100,000 is 1,000
393.
Sam
BEST WAY TO GET XP PER GOLD is plowing ground, planting strawberries and deleting them.
repeat process. this is a total of 25 gold (15 for plowing 10G for planting) for 2 xp, or 12.5G/xp. the
plain hay bails are 95 gold per (after selling for 5G) and give 5xp, or 19G/xp. so hay bails are number
two, HOWEVER, the time it takes for the strawberry option is much longer, making hay bails the more
logical rout.
394.
ED
Actually, the best way to get XP per gold is plowing and planting SOYBEANS. Soybeans cost 15 and
give you 2xp or 10G/xp(counting 15 and 1xp for plowing) versus strawberries which cost 10 but only
give you 1xp or 12.5G/xp (counting 15 and 1xp for plowing). Hay bails are much simpler but will cost
you almost double what you get with soybeans.
395.
Kuzzy
Hey guys, while buying the Haiti Sweet Potatoes there was a message that,
“All donors will receive a ONE WEEK LICENSE to plant sweet potatoes which never wither plus a one
of a kind gift”..
Does this mean that we can plant sweet potatoes only for one week after buying it? which means we can
plant sweet potatoes at the most 7 times in the whole game? does anybody have any idea about this?
396.
i know how much to sell an olive tree is.. its only 60 coins to sell it
397.
karla
thank you so much for posting this – it’s been really helpful
398.
Ro
@Steve vdW, Thanks for that bit of info. I’m climbing up the levels. At 36 now Yeh!
399.
Nasty
Best part is
- you get 3 XP for 10 coins
- it never withers
- and you did something good by giving charity
400.
ED
This guide Underestimates animals. Goats give more coins per hour than all the trees except olive and
acai. Also, they take only 1 space like the trees
401.
m.c.
402.
Jamie
403.
flash2408
hey guys add me and ill send u gifts thanks. brent wilson bkwilson2@bsu.edu. send me a gift if you feel
up to it =D please. <3
404.
pattama
405.
faizi
hey guyz…
well the stats regarding the best crops to plant are mentioned correctly on the page disclaiming some of
the comments.i just rechecked on it.
The best 3 crops to plant to earn the highest Coins/hour.
1.Peas
2.Aspharagus
3.Grapes
And to gain quick XP by using the plow-seed-delete method, For guyz trading in money for Xp.
The best Crop to do with it is Soybeans as they cost 15 Coins and give 2 Xp + 1Xp plowing.
Total (30coins) = Plow+Seeding Soybeans (15coins+15coins)
Total Xp earned (3Xp) = 1xp + 2 Xp.
So, 1 XP is costing you 10 coins, Now thats the cheapest and the best way to earn XP fast in the game.
All other methods are useless,including buying building or decorations (Calculate and check yourself).
WELL..the author to this page did seem to make blunt mistakes regarding this.
406.
xold
2. But of you want to gain experience one of the cheapest way is to buy Hay Bale and then sell or delete
it.
407.
Carrie
@ Kuzzy… it is true that you can only harvest the Haiti sweet potatoes 7 times during your week
license… but I didn’t buy them to harvest (actually, I did harvest once). You get 3 experience points for
seeds that cost 10 coins to plant… I’ve been plowing/planting/deleting and leveling up quickly. This
beats soybeans and hay bales by far… but you have to invest the FV cash to do it… glad it is going to a
good cause!
408.
QuakerPete
409.
Me
Posted October 5, 2009 at 12:45 pm
You said you can buy farmcash with ‘Real American Dollars’.
You can also buy them with Pounds, and no doubt Euros and other currencies too. Please do not be
exclusive in this manner.
410.
AcidRaZor
@Me, So what? We all know Americans think “They are the world”. I’m surprised most know other
countries even exist…
RE: The guide, strawberries only yield 1XP. That means on a 12×12 plot of land, it will only give
144XP every 4 hours, not 288xp.
It is still one of the best ways to gain XP quite fast, if you’re able to farm 5-6 times a day (requiring a
full 24 hours) you’ll get approx. 720XP depending on your dedication.
I’d prefer making money as well, so planting Peppers will yield 288XP for the day as well as a profit of
11000 coins (odd). Factoring in Gross Income – (Seeding+Working the Ground) = Profit
This is as it stand at level 12. I’m not sure about higher levels yet.
411.
mrotst
You accidentally wrote that buying items gives 10% of the cost in exp instead of 1%.
412.
matt
farmfille
Putting the haystacks down is easy, deleting them is a pain in the butt. Just giving you a heads up,
maybe you could include it in your guide.
414.
Bobby
415.
Kammikaze
416.
Vic
I think that the way you are calculating the “best crop” is wrong. Instead, you should take the selling
price and divide it by the price you paid. For example, strawberries sell for 35 but cost 10. So 35/10 is
3.5, therefore you get 3.5 times more profit than you paid for. You can also think of it like 35-10 = 25,
you make 25. This is why, if youre just starting out, I would recommend SOY BEANS. They sell for 63
and buy for 15. Thats 4.2 times the profit (you gain 48!) plus they grow in a day so you dont have to
check that often.
417.
Grapes4life
The best is grapes for now..im lvl 25 and i get 185 $ profit and it days 1 day to grow.
418.
justin
I dont think the \”HELP NEIGHBOR\” glitch works anymore, have they adjusted it?
and by the way Vic is right, you actually lose money with planting peas but it is really good for your
exp. =]
419.
TheOrcHunter
How you got 1.3 for eggplant I have no clue. 48/46 (2×23 hour days.) = 1.043
Also you have Corn as 2.98 coins per hour. If you use 24 hour days you get 215/72 = 2.986 (Forgot to
round up) BUT using 23 hour days you get 215/69 = 3.116
Pineapples is at 2.86 gold per hour, but you forgot to round up (2.869565217 GPH) and Soybeans and
Squash are at 1.434 When their actual GPH is 1.434782609
You state that “A windmill is bought for 100,000 Coins and Given 1,000Exp. Or 10% of what you
paid!” 1,000 is 1% of 100,000.
420.
TheOrcHunter
@Vic
That would be a terrible way to calculate profit because lets look at this example.
If you spend 1 coin on a seed, harvest it 1 day later for 10 coins you make 10x the profit.
But if you plant a crop for 100,000 coins and harvest it in 1 day for 150,000 coins you only made 1.5x
profit. But with the second crop you made 50,000 coins in 1 day versus 9 gold in 1 day.
As for your example with soybeans, you may make more in one planting than strawberries, but
strawberries make you more gold per hour that they are planted. So you will make gold MUCH faster.
421.
Janice
I have searched and searched and may have missed it but what are MASTERY POINTS? Do they add
up for something special or count for anything and, if so, how do you check the balance???? Thanks!
422.
Joris
@vic
you only should watch the sell/costs if you cant fill your entire farm. in that case soyabeans are verry
good indeed. but as soon as you are able to fill your entire farm(mostly already after 3-4 days), the list
above is correct because there is no possibility to put all your coins “in the ground” annymore then.
423.
James Vernon
424.
ED
@vic
that’s horrible way to calculate, because strawberry’s give you that profit in 4 hours and soybeans in 1
day so by planting strawberry’s two times (8 hours) you are making more coins and XP than soybeans.
you guys should think a little more before posting dumb stuff.
425.
Jaws
If planting and deleting plots for XP, I suggest soybeans over eggplants. Same XP, 10 coins less =)
426.
bettyjo
How do you get more plots of land to plant? I’m half way thru level 7 and have bought land. I thought
more squares of land to plant would show up when I paid 20 farm cash for land. But it didn’t. When I
plant seeds, there are leftovers that I have to waste. The first time I bought land, I thought nothing
happened.So I did it again. Still no extra plots to plant. I still have the original 6 that I started with. How
do I get more?
427.
bettyjo
428.
Peter
I am now at level 38 (117K XP) and still unable to expand my farm to either 22X22 or 24X24. I guess
we have to wait for Zynga to allow the expansion like they did for the 20X20 grid. I currently have 37
neighbors and working on my last 3 blue ribbons. Like other farmers, I have placed bales around my
avatar (dead center of game field), allowing for faster processing. This is crucial when in the early
evening hours, the system will unceremoniously crash (out of sync with server) so I know to process a
block of 10 squares at a time. We can buy animal topiary (decoration) and Halloween items (trees-
limited time). I hope the Mastery will not apply to trees or animals as I have already sold off most of my
300 chickens.
429.
Peter
In addition to my earlier post (I am now at level 38..) I wish to point out that I am unable to gift
ANYTHING. I’d try different times of the day, but nothing. I have noticed that it was becoming
problematic each time I leveled up (after level 33). Does anyone know? I haven’t been able to gift an
item in over a week.
430.
Vishal
Hi James,
Janice
Again, in case you missed my first post, could someone explain MASTERY POINTS to me. I don’t see
them adding up anywhere and wonder what they can be used for and how to find them (the total).
THANKS!
432.
ActionJackson
“A windmill is bought for 100,000 Coins and Given 1,000Exp. Or 10% of what you paid! (An
imaginary building cost 750,000 – You get 7,500Exp)”
It’s actually a return of 1% xp for every coin you spend….. except for hay bales which is up to 5%.
433.
Quincy
@janice
if you look at the market where you buy the crops there will be 3 stars and a little bar above them put
your mouse over top and theres you mastery points. and all you get once you get all three stars is a little
sign with that crop on it
434.
adam
in the new intro screen it looks like there is a user created farm that is leveled like part of the farm is
higher than the other. how is that done?
435.
Leo
Lemon trees are the best to buy for making money. They take up only once space while crops take up
16. EG you can plant 16 lemon trees to each 1 crop. 16 lemon trees produce 1200 coins each 5 days.
That is 240 per day which equals 10.43 per farmville hour (much better than peas 7.652 Coins/Hour).
The only catch is that you won\’t start profit for 10 harvests (50 days).
436.
janice
thanks quincy…unfortunately, that does not do a lot for our leveling and money making huh? LOL!
Have any of you added others from this site as your neighbor? I am considering doing so but am out of
requests for now. thanks!
437.
QuakerPete
@Janice
I’ve advertised for neighbours on here and had a few replies, always looking for more though if you or
anyone else is interested – quakerpete@live.com
I’m wondering if we’re going to need a whole heap of neighbours for 22×22 and 24×24. I send out gifts
as often as possible
438.
Lou
I can’t get to my farm and Zinga’s suggestions haven’t helped so far. Farm won’t download!
Any suggestions????
439.
Kat
440.
Kat
441.
Vesbb
“To get the most effective Exp Out of a plot you could leave a section of your farm plowed without
seeding it and then plant eggplants (Best crop for what we are about to do) .Delete the Patches, And
repeat, as many times as desired.”
Soybeans are better for this, cheaper and you’ll gain the same XP
442.
marc
thanks..
443.
Albert
Thx !
444.
GR
Can’t agree with you on animals. If you do the numbers, most animals are more profitable than anything
you can buy.
To plant a seed you use up 16 units of land (4×4). Thus, when you look at the most profitable seed,
asparagus, you earn 0.477 coins per unit of land per hour. The most expensive tree, a lime earns you
0.625 coins/unit/hr over time. Using the same analysis, a brown cow makes 0.500, a rabbit 0.625, a pig
0.625, black sheep 0.778, ducks 0.938, goats 1.125, and swans 1.667.
Thus, if your aim is to utilize your land for the most profit possible, keep these high yielding animals.
445.
cheeseface
Strawberries give you no profit. If you have 30 coins, you plant them, now you have 20 coins. You
harvest them, now you have 55 coins. You plow the land and then have 40 coins. Then you plant it
again, and you have 30 coins again.
446.
cheeseface
Strawberries give you no profit. If you have 30 coins, you plant them, now you have 20 coins. You
harvest them, now you have 55 coins. You plow the land and then have 40 coins. Then you plant it
again, and you have 30 coins again.
cheeseface
Strawberries give you no profit. If you have 30 coins, you plant them, now you have 20 coins. You
harvest them, now you have 55 coins. You plow the land and then have 40 coins. Then you plant it
again, and you have 30 coins again.
448.
cheeseface
449.
lookwhatifound
I came across this whilst browsing for farmville strategies. It allows you to easily click on anything as
long as you’ve aligned it to a grid pattern…like when you FARM!
http://www.glsoft.co.uk/gridclicker/index.shtml
No more FVCash for fuel refills. Just align the clicker and away you go!
450.
steven
I noticed on the best crops for money/hour that you have artichokes twice, one is artichoke and one is
artichokes.
451.
coldvirus
@cheeseface
the first time u had 30 coins, you had nothing planted on your farm….. the second time u had 30 coins,
you had a strawberry patch planted…… what does that tell you…… figure it out…..
452.
ALBANA KOSOVARJA
Hello,thank you for tips,if you can somehow make the maker of farmville to put on all flags from
world,because we know that people around the world are playin this game,so it would be good to have
flags on farms as well so they could have idea how much different pople are on line playing same game
from different bacgrounds and cultures.
453.
RoyX
I think what you are seeing is an optical illusion. When you place fences or hay bales behind each other
in a certain way it looks like the are stacked because the bottom one item matches up exactly with the
top of another. Unless there is something else in the game I haven’t seen…
454.
farmer luke
Kat
456.
malica
457.
Tofu
Hey James, still around. good for quick reference. You may want to copy and paste this guide
elsewhere. All the comments make the page-load time forever. Post a linky to it or hide comments or
something. Also… you answered Tom about his hourly things but to add to that this might deserve
mention in the new version.
@ tomluft: think about the time you spend clicking too. if you plant 400 fields 1.5 times a day, how long
will it take you compared to 1 time a day? I used to plant every 4 hours when I was unemployed and
would be on for probably 2 hours clicking. Plus the fact that you’re assuming a non-routine schedule.
Do you set your alarm to harvest, plow and replant your fields? when it comes around to the middle of
the night? I sure like to sleep for a solid set time.
1 day crops are nice, because on a 400×400 field, i can harvest in shifts of 130 fields 3 times a day and
and take advantage of my machinery much more effiectively, therefore using my time more efficiently
AND have a set schedule, when i wake up, when i come home from work, and when i go to bed. if im
going to be home on weekends i might do 4hr crops for the XP. since im sitting around with 2 million
coins and nowhere to spend it til a few more levels.
458.
Denise Tidy
One of them seems to have multiple terraces. I would like to do this. How is this done?
Thanks
459.
Tyler
460.
AJ
another way to get coins is havve a friend, (or somebody you know) send you a gift you already have
then just sell it for a little extra bonus.
461.
aaron
im level 29 with 43k experience but ive never had the opportunity to help a black sheep or ugly duckling
or brown cow or anything, is there something i have to do to have that happen?
462.
reslts
Grapes not divide by 24 hrS? why u jz divide by 23 hrs .. ?? 1daay suppose is 24hrs ??
463.
Beverlee Dwyer
464.
Quincy
@reslts
1 farmville day is 23 hours
465.
Sharon
466.
Jerry
Regarding the formula for coins per day (what I used) here it is:
For experience points per day it is experience per planting divided by days to harvest. So I’m not nuts
about the multi-day payoffs as with 2 experience points per planting they work out to less than an
experience point per day for 3 or 4 day crop. If you gave up on real life altogether you could get 6
experience per block per day with blueberries every 4 hours. Or plant and scrap, which makes the whole
point moot, but I’m not into that.
Regarding animals, it is not a simple good v bad issue; cows are a waste of space with a very low pay-
off for 24 hours, whereas bunnies pay be for a very small footprint.
467.
Jerry
The terraced look is a clever illusion done by how the items are arranged. They aren’t really at different
levels.
So has anyone figured out what the slowly twisting flipped coin is while plowing, and if there’s a way to
take advantage of it?
Also, I have received fewer paper bills then levels achieved, so it isn’t always bucks per level.
468.
Ryan
469.
Anant
470.
princess
here is my situation, when im opening my farm, at the time it is loading the game, suddenly it will stop
and never work again. i want to know what will i do? pls…tnx
471.
James Vernon
:O
472.
coolguy345334
473.
Darian
james i have mastered peas now every time i harvest peas every three squares i again two more xp i
think y should add tht to your guide idk if anyone else has mastered any other crop.. but i know after u
have mastered ur crop u get a post tht says (mastery sign PREMIUM peas(XP!) grown here!)
474.
gd
i mastered peas as well but i get random amounts of xp when i harvest sometimes 6 but sometimes 0
475.
gd
476.
Kat
Princess, i had the same problem recently when i was trying to adopt a black sheep. I tried everything…
cleaned my cache, reloaded application, and finally I fixed it by downloading google chrome and
downloading again adobe flash player, and now i use google chrome as my main browser and can access
my farm with no problem!. It is faster and doesn’t give me problems like internet explorer. I had IE7.
Some people has fixed their problem by upgrading to IE8, but i rather stay with google chrome for now.
Hope that helps.
477.
Kat
guys! have any of you received some random gift requests that says are from farmville but don’t have
the farmville logo?
it says something like…This Farmville made me think of you. I hope you like it! . People is sending
seeders, trucks, ponds, olive trees and cash gifts through that fake farmville application. I have not
accepted thinking it could be some bug
478.
Austin
479.
Nick
On the loading screens they now have pictures of farms, i have noticed one had different levels to their
farm ( not as in leveling up) like one part was raised and they have i think a bunch of white fences on
top of one another and a cottage on the upper land… is this really possiable or did they just make it a
pretty picture? If it is then how do i do it?
481.
bernie
I really don’t like that they now have a teardrop shape over the animals that are ready to be collected on.
They are now very easy to miss. Was so much better with the glow around the animal! I could think of a
lot of other things they should have fixed instead!
482.
bernie
James, under Fastest Level above, helping 20 neighbours should read 100 exp not 400. Also would it be
possible to delete some of the comments that are repetitive because there are so many people that do not
read and keep asking the same thing.
483.
QuakerPete
RIBBONS?
Is it worth sticking it out to collect all four ribbons for Knock On Wood and Zoologist or would I be
better off just planting crops? It seems you need to harvest thousands of trees or collect thousands from
animals – just wondered what the final ribbon was worth?
bob boberson
You say trees take up alot of room and aren\’t cost effective. I disagree. Lets use the acai in this
example, a tree takes up 1/16th the room as a normal plot of crops, while a single acai tree itself yields
only 3.291 coins per hour the fact that u can plant 16 of them in a single plot square means that ur profit
to area margin is now 52.666 coins/hr coupled w/ the fact that u have no replanting costs, i\’d say its a
more viable option than ur leading on to. granted an acai is expensive in its own right do to the
Farmcash crap, but u can see similar results w/ other trees applying this area to area comparison. Even
the cherry tree gives 6 coins/hr.
the full break down is as follows for each seeded plot (16/plot):
Acai – 432 farmcash – 2 Days – 2528 coins – 52.666 coins/hr
Cherry – 3600 coins – 5Exp– 2 Days – 288 coins – 6 coins/hr
Apple – 5200 coins – 5Exp – 3 Days – 448 coins – 6.222 coins /hr
Orange –6800 coins – 5Exp – 4 Days – 640 coins – 6.666 coins/hr
Plum – 5600 coins – 5Exp – 3 Days – 480 profit – 6.666 coins/hr
Peach – 8000 coins – 5Exp – 4 Days – 752 coins – 7.833 coins/hr
Lemon – 7600 coins – 5Exp – 3 Days – 656 coins – 9.111 coins/hr
Lime – 12000 coins – 7Exp – 5 Days – 1200 coins – 10 coins/hr
Fig – Only Gift – Gifted – 3 Days – 528 coins – 7.333 coins/hr
Avocado – Only Gift – Gifted -3 Days – 592 coins – 8.222 coins/hr
Apricot – Only Gift – Gifted -4 Days – 896 coins – 9.333 coins/hr
Grapefruit – Only Gift – Gifted -3 Days – 800 coins – 11.111 coins/hr
Banana – Only Gift – Gifted – 3 Days – 896 coins – 12.444 coins/hr
Passion Fruit – Only Gift – Gifted – 5 Days – 1488 coins – 10.333 coins/hr
Pomegranate – Only Gift – Gifted – 5 Days – 1728 coins – 12 coins/hr
Date – Only Gift – Gifted – 3 Days – 640 coins – 8.888 coins/hr
Olive – Only Gift – Gifted – 4 Days – 1792 coins – 14.933 coins/hr
as you can see using the same /hr basis you can see that trees are generally better coins/hr than seeds
which makes sense giving the rarity or cost of each to plant. would this be an expensive endevor? yes,
but it\’d pay for itself given the time.
485.
Paul
Hi folks.
A question about Haiti Sweet Potato. When the offer expires ? when is the last day we could buy this
seed ?
ED
@ bob boberson
you’re right but only if they are gift because buying the trees it will take like 50 days for profit.
and the same with animals especially goat which gives more money than any tree except olive and acai
and also takes only 1 space
487.
Elizabeth
You suggest deleting patch after planting eggplant. Don’y you mean harvesting the eggplant then
plowing.
Also I have noticed that deleting a patch and then plowing grass does not appear to add any benefit. So
why not harvest and just plow the same patch rather than deleting it? Both plowing grass and plowing a
previously harvested patch use the same coins and XP and deleting a patch just adds a extra step.
Aslo I have tried to find out what the coin tossing after plowing means or does- do you know? It appears
only when you plow existing harvested patches… Any benefit?
Finally, a glitch – I harvest and celebration reward has expired – yet I am online- what is that about?
Thank you for your page -it is great!
488.
Garrett
Elizabeth: What he’s referring to is Plowing a square (1XP), planting something (1 or 2XP), and
deleting the patch. “Then repeating. You can do this 1,000 times in the amount of time it takes to wait
for the crop to grow. And you can’t plow a plot more than once, that’s why you have to delete it.
Bobberson: What you say makes sense, but I’ve experienced some difficulty clicking on items behind
trees. Have you placed 16 trees in close vicinity? It seems like you wouldn’t be able to get to the ones in
the back…
489.
Quincy
490.
FarmerBen
491.
evelyn johnson
492.
Saint N
bob boberson that is incorrect. a plowed area takes up only 9 squares not 16 so you can only plant 9
trees.
493.
bernie
whisper is random, only thing that apears to be different from lost animals is that you can choose who to
give it to. gives extra XP, no sense wasting so give wisely.
494.
Philbur
Thank you for your guide. It is really helpful and makes sense of it all. I went up to Level 6 in a matter
of my first day!
495.
QuakerPete
FARMVILLE PROBLEMS?
Issues seem particularly bad when my mouse cursor has one of the harvesting / ploughing tools activated
or trying to gather from the animals. Clicking to harvest a crop is a nightmare at present – I can usually
get at least half of the whole farm ahead whilst harvesting, but now I can’t get ahead at all. So doing
three sets of clicks (even with the tractor ploughing) is taking ages.
If I try to speed things up, the page starts jumping as well, even though I’m only trying to click on each
field.
Using Safari on a Mac – had no such problems before. Any thoughts anyone?
496.
Steve vdW
@Nick, isn’t that levelling up effect cool. It is an effect. Look closely, its not really raised… I loved it
also, its very clever.
497.
Freya
Randomly selected users will receive 5 Bags of Fertilizer each day. Those players can then use the
fertilizer on crops on their neighbors’ farms.
Once a crop has been fertilized, it will appear bigger than normal crops and sparkle.
But don’t let them wither, fertilized crops reward experience points when harvested!
498.
jd
Good guide. Could you mention what the equipment does, whether it’s worth it?
499.
Melissa CLT
Equipment lets you plow/harvest/seed 4 plots at once. WORTH IT. The gas refills are NOT worth it.
500.
Christina
Does anyone know anything about the new ribbon I saw appear today? “Crop Whisperer” – it says to
“Fertilize neighboring crops” but I can’t figure how I go about doing that. I tried “helping” my
neighbors, but that’s the same old it always was, anyone have any idea?
501.
Amber
502.
Susan
apparently random selected players will receive 5 bags of fertilizer a day. They can then fertilize their
neighbors crops to make them grow bigger and will not only be worth more but will also give exp when
harvested
503.
Sven
It seems like every strategy on Farmville is based on how much time you are willing to spend (duh,
almost every game has that important aspect of your playing ) Anyhow, I dont know if you have heard
of Farmhelper, if anyone haven´t mentioned it in all this comments, it helps you to seed and harvest
when you are away or busy. This, I think, breaks the calculation of time need to spent etc. etc. (if you
choose to use Farmhelper)
So you may have reconsider some of the facts.
You may seem it as cheat, but you ARE actually reading a guide in how to improve your farming.
It would be interesting if anyone could give any thoughts about this
Btw, thx for a very good guide James!
504.
gon
505.
Janice
I would like to use this game without Facebook for my gifted students to learn about economy….is there
any way to purchase just the game?
506.
Gina
I noticed a new achievement… “the crop whisperer” How exactly does that work? How do I fertilize my
neighbors crops?
507.
GINA
The farm isn’t split, it is actually an optical illusion! Look at the way the fences are set around the
hedges!
508.
April
Paul, about the sweet potatoes if you buy them you can use them for 7 days down to the hour. When
your 7 days is up you can buy them again. I like to use this because it only cost 10 coins per seed and
you get a profit of 125 and the XP gained is 3 and it is harvested in 1 day and your crop will never
wether.
For anyone that would like to have another neighber please email me at
april01mkconsultant@yahoo.com and I will be your neighber.
Happy farming!
509.
Donna
510.
Kevin
They will soon be releasing five packs of fertalizer randomly (kinda like brown cows and ugly ducks) to
famers in which they can fertalize there nieghbors crops! If a nieghbor fertalizes your crop it looks
bigger than other crops and sparkles! Crop whisperer is about how many crops you fertalize!
511.
kksgt69
thanks for the site.. theres’ so much to read.. i know my answer is here already but want to ask anyway..
I have lots of time.. i can sit here all day and play farmville.. i want to level up really fast to get the villa.
i am at level 29. is strawberry still the best for the level up? or blackberries
thanks
K.K.
512.
James Vernon
http://gameolosophy.com/games/online/the-unofficial-cafe-world-guide/
513.
KiSS
how do they determine which player to give fertilizer to?? I find that rather unfair as I may never get a
chance to fertilize anyone’s crops!!!
514.
malica
515.
jeff paolo
516.
Sabata
Thanks for great guide! I think they haven’t implemented the fertilizer feature yet, as there should be
some sort of information available about it.
- For the Not spoiled, gifted -ribbon, don’t use any gifts that you get from neighbors, etc. You need to
have certain amount of unique gifts to gain this ribbon. Sometimes it’s better even save the adopted
animals in your gift box for this ribbon (since they go to gift box when you adopt them). After you get
the blue ribbon, feel free to use the gifts.
- If you need small amount of experience fast, buy yellow hay bales. These give you 5 exp for 100 gold
and you get one decoration for the Pack rat ribbon. They also take very little room.
Have fun farming! If you need more neighbors for the Local celebrity ribbon, you can add me, my email
is isomittari at gmail dot com
517.
kyle
one thing i have noticed that makes farmin easier is to but 4 fence peices to make a small pen and put
your farmer in there and then plow the firlds and plant them, the process is much faster
518.
adder
519.
D. Piché
Thanks
PS Nice guide ^^
520.
Andre
instead of buying a tractor or seeder,just download gridclicker,it saves you a lot of clicks..say for
instance you have a 16×16 farm..you just enter the number of rows and columns and click on send
clicks,,it literally does all the clicking for you..its a very nice app..just thought I would help out..
521.
Quincy
@ D. Piché
there are only 8 kind of trees that you are able to buy.
the rest you recieve as gifts
522.
hanz
im looking for neighbours who also play active, post your name here, thx =)
523.
Andy
524.
WickedCoolGuy
I notice the grid clicker works for a pc only. Anything similar that is available for the macintosh
platform?
525.
Bev
How do you fertilize someone’s crop? Five of my plots are twinkling, and someone said that she
fertilized me. How?
526.
jackielyn
why my box in unique box, seems to be had a problem.. i am on my way to blue ribbon, and its almost 2
weeks for the 21 more gifts, i recieve some, and it say that i need more 9, but when i log in back to 21..
how come it be like that.. is this a kind of a cheat
527.
samantha
528.
John
Jackielyn,
they need to be unique gifts, if you have a look you will have 2 or 3 of the same gifts waiting…
529.
aaron
once you help on somebody’s farm you get 5 bags of fertilizer which you can use only on that person’s
farm that you helped (at least this is the way it is for me today) so i have just earned my yellow ribbon
for crop whisperer…
530.
Jody
I’ve read a few different posts that people are having trouble with clicking on each plot to be very slow,
does anyone have a solution for this or know why it happens? I am now at level 32 and just started
having this problem regularly. Someone posted they had a bunch of chickens all lined up, is it possible
it’s due to having a ton of animals? I have been gradually adding animals and trees and I do have a lot.
Does it have to do with putting them all together in lines? I use Internet Explorer 8. I’m close to quiting
Farmville becasue it’s taking way too much time. Any advice is appreciated!
531.
josh
i could sure use a couple neighbors. my email is rsharp208@yahoo.com. i will deff send u gifts.
532.
Jason
ocvarsitypitcher@yahoo.com
533.
ed
534.
Andre
Hey everyone..Does anybody know what this mystery box is all about?you can only by it with FV Cash
and its 15 of it..bit expensive I’ll say…anyway just wanted to know..enjoy farming ppl
535.
sherry
I saw one “Mystery Gift” on someone’s farm.. it was a striped rest tent. Cute, but not worth the 15 FV $
$ to me..
536.
AO
537.
Gravelgert
Someone has fertilized my crops. Is there any way of telling who did it?
538.
binny
need to know about crop whisperer.. pls help me to earn this ribbon… how it works..?
539.
binny
hello Gravelgert, how did u come to know someone fertilized? and how to do it? any idea?
540.
hanz
You’re looking for an active FarmVille neighbour, who sends you gifts every day?
Just add me at Facebook: hannes_rosler@yahoo.com
541.
ed
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/profile.php?id=1649230303&ref=profile
542.
Teshara
I purchased a mystery box and a fire pit was inside, not worth at all spending 15 Farm cash for it
543.
aaron
yeah mystery box is a waste, i got the fire pit too and i already sold it, 400 coins + 80 xp for 15 cash =
NOT WORTH IT…
544.
Michelle
545.
Hannah
Ok I am getting aggrevate now! It says you can get 1 FV Cash a level but it DOES NOT say how to get
the Cash. WIll someone please explain to me how to get the cash?
546.
Teh Farmer
Everytime you level up you get 1 FV Cash like a little well done present.
You cannot rotate the screen, yes it is annoying.
The mystery boxes are proving really disappointing all over the place at the moment, so my advice: dont
buy one.
I signed on today and 5 of my crops were sparkling which indicates they were fertilised. Apparently
FarmVille decides when you recieve these bags of fertilizer..and they usually appear where the fuel can
usually goes when you help out on somebodys farm. For example to scare away the crows or gophers or
whatever, then in the bottom left of the screen there is a x5 next to a little white bag. However after
helping about 40 people it still didnt some up for me.
547.
ange
HELLO !!!
intibamba@hotmail.com
THANKSSS !!!!!!!!!!!
548.
Gravelgert
I knew someone fertilized my crops because 5 plots were twinkling. To aaron…you said you received
the fertilizer when you helped a neighbor. Did you have to sit on that farm for a little extra time or did it
pop up right away? I usually help and then escape quickly to the next farm and wondered if I need to
slow down.
549.
pk
a small portion of my plants had little stars jumping around them, any one kno what they are, or what
they do. also, how do you kno when an item is unique?? thank you.
550.
toaster468
that means someone fertilized your plants and you will get exp when you harvest them!
551.
Cody
Olive Trees sell for 60 coins each, FYI. It’s listed as Unknown above.
552.
what is CROP WHISPERER????? how it is works??? can anyone teach me??? and unlock the MIGHTY
PLANTATION.im getting bored waiting for it……
553.
Andre
does anyone know from what level can you fertilize??My friend is at level 29 and he can’t fertilize and
I’m on 32 and I can….
Thanks
554.
Alicia
I am level 20 and fertilized random neighbors as I was helping them out today. Seems that not every
neighbor you help gets fertilized.
Yes, gas seems to be a problem – although, the harvester does help on large amount of crops.
555.
ed
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/profile.php?id=1649230303&ref=profile
556.
aaron
557.
T
I see so many new things – flowers, ghost chilli… can you add these to your list…
558.
Renee
yes!!! please add all the new items to your list! we all greatly appreciate your time and efforts put into
strategizing this amazingly addictive game! love the dairy farm concept and can’t wait for them to make
more! disappointed – i’ve helped about 50 neighbors and NEVER seen fertilizer I shall keep trying!
559.
Brian
(coins/hour factors in plowing, plus uses a 23 hour day for the 1+ day crops just like the numbers above)
560.
Brian
Also, all the new crops are 2xp except ghost chilis which are 1
561.
b. armstrong
Posted October 23, 2009 at 10:12 am
562.
matt
563.
Pam
I’ve received the celebration rewards from the published announcements from my neighbors pages
however I never receive the coins. For example I received the message you have been rewarded 50 coins
but it was never added to my tally. Why would this happen? It has happened to me know 3 times.
564.
Troy
Small correction:
565.
Adil
hey i am on 37th level i have a villa n evry bldg….i need a 24×24 farm when wil it get unlocked….?
566.
Donna
Posted October 23, 2009 at 2:58 pm
To Pam about not receiving reward coins: I thought so too but they are added immediately. Check your
total from when you leave the site to when you log on again to collect a bonus – you will see the correct
increase.
567.
farmwhore
Lilies take 1 day give you 2xp, cost 195 to buy and harvest for 369
568.
freddy
when i mastered peas, nothing happened. I didnt get a sign or anything. why is this
569.
Eric
your farm sucks, I have like 8 million and a half dollars level 40, SUCK ON THAT
570.
Pye
If you have a tractor, a seeder and a harvester, does the full refuelling (after 8 hours) occur for all 3 of
them or for just150 plots with which you can either plow or harvest or seed
571.
JewsInMyOven
572.
James Vernon
ENJOY!
573.
Jordan
574.
Lenesh
575.
Pat
will the cats be released from the pumpkins after Halloween and allowed to roam on the farm? and when
will be black sheep be released from the balloons?
576.
Helen
It seems that if your neighbor has crops/flowers growing, then you can fertilize them. If all of their crops
are ready to harvest/there’s only plowed land, then you can’t.
577.
Sweet pheroc1ty
578.
Tom
579.
Betty
For the fertilizer it’s really easy to tell you have it right away. When you go onto a friend’s farm, it
appears in the lower left hand corner and actually looks like a jar of mayo in my opinion. I was able to
use it five times on about 11 of my friend’s farms.
580.
2. If you want to increase your XP, without spending too much on buildings and trees and stuff. Simply
start buying hay bales
Buy Hay Bales, and then delete/sell them. For mathematicians here, let me give you some stats.
1 XP = 1000 coins (e.g. Windmill comes for 100,000 and gives 1000 XP)
1 XP = 100 coins. Which means, you can earn a 1000 XP by just spending 20,000 !
Five times more efficient!
(for those of you who are wondering why the hell am I waiting for coins, well, I spent them in order to
gain XP. And now I don’t need XP, I need coins)
581.
Farmer Gabby
Are you supposed to get Farmville Dollars for each new ribbon/awards that you get, or just certain ones?
582.
TAN
Hi guys,
Anybody needs a neighbour, get2tanweer@gmail.com
583.
robfarmer
robshaw782@gmail.com
im a good fertilizer and once i have some requests left over from invites, im gonna start sending more
gifts
584.
DrReiko
Hello,
I have created an excel spreadsheet that calculates the potential profit by each harvesting time period.
All you have to do is enter the number of plots you want to plant and the spreadsheet will calculate the
rest.
If you are interested in the spreadsheet, send me an email:
rrysmith@sbcglobal.net
Happy Farming!
585.
Sassy
I went to get extra cash by filling out a survey for 17 cash and it has not showed up
586.
Firdavs
need neighbours.
http://www.facebook.com/firdavs.tursunov
Chuck
Those surveys are a scam. I filled out at least ten of them, and it’s an endless loop of offers to decline.
Even if you manage to reach the end page, you do not receive any farm cash, IME.
588.
Hemel
to farm (plough and harvest and seed) just go in a corner and block yourself off with a white fence. now
it automatically does everything without u having to walk there, u just hav to click on each patch. This is
very fast =D
589.
Farmer Gabby
http://www.facebook.com/gabby.steinbrenner?ref=name
590.
Alan Schuler
What is the bouncing gold coin that appears occasionally when I’m plowing?
591.
Betty
592.
Farmer Gabby
Turtles are the same as pink and brown cows, ugly ducklings etc. They wander onto someone’s farm
who can “adopt” them. It posts on facebook and then you can go and give him a home. I have two
already and have only been playing about 1-2 weeks, so just keep an eye out!
593.
Betty
Nevermind! Turtles now wander onto your farms like cows and ugly ducks.
594.
SvdW
@Yasir Bin Riaz: yes haybales are good for XP = 5XP for 100 coins. But deleting them is very time
consuming and a pain, because you have to delete and confirm deletion for every haybale…
If you’ve got the time, its definitely worth doing. I personally had 3/4th of my land for harvesting, in
order to purchase haybales and get to level 35 fast. I’m the same as you, now I need coins in order to
start having the farm I want.
The XP machine is now converting to be a pretty farm within the next month…
595.
Freya
Alden
597.
Trish Noss
598.
ana
Hi, I was just wondering what it means when coins are released during the harvesting of crops?? Do
they become Farmcash?? Or XP?? And is there any other way of gaining Farmcash other than having to
purchase it??
599.
malica
600.
Raff
Farmer Gabby
I LOVE the dairy farm, it reducing the time spent harvesting each individual cow, so you can spend
more time doing other things. I would say it is definitely worth it!
602.
Troy
@ Raff: You collect from your animals to earn coins, and eventually to collect your ribbon. The dairy
farm is worth it, collecting from 20 cows with a single click, awesome!!! plus the dairy farm would take
up less space versus having 20 cows.
@ Ana: You earn coins when you harvest. These coins can then be used to purchase more crops or other
buildings/decorations.
The only ways to get Farmville Bucks is either through purchase or you gain 1 Farmville Buck for every
level.
603.
tina
hi just to let u know if u want neighbours just go on farville fan site u can get all the neighbours u need
they are crying out for neighbours i completed my blue ribbion for neighbiours in 2 days by going on
there hope this helps
also the coins that appear when plowing are coming from the coin fountain some say they r worth 50
coins each others have said they have had 100 coin each anyway it is a big help it all adds up
604.
Tristen
605.
Sherry
Olive trees sell for 60 coins, I noticed this info was missing in your guide. Thanks for a very useful site!
606.
frankie
607.
anonoymous
608.
Frank
Great guide!
Yes, the way to get the most XP for the money is plow, plant soybeans, delete, and repeat but for me it is
faster to buy hay bales and sell them. I timed it and I bought and sold 34 bales in 130 seconds for 170
XP. That\’s 1.3 XP / second. I didn\’t time the soybeans but I know it takes me a lot longer. I know… I
have too much free time if I\’m timing this!
To me it is important how long it takes to do this since it takes a lot of time (in addition to harvesting.)
Also, I saw mentioned somewhere else on this guide that you should keep about $40,000 in savings
(depends upon level) in order to replant your fields in case you have a problem and all of your crops
wither. This is assuming you have a 20 x 20 farm and all of it is devoted to crops. If you have a problem
and end up with no money it will take a long time to get back to $40,000.
And as you get gifts be sure to keep one of each in the gift box until you satisfy all of the ribbons for
unique gifts. Gifts don\’t count if they have been used.
It may be because my computer is slow but when I harvest crops my computer used to freeze often and
increase the time required to click on all of the squares. I sold five animals and now have only three and
now it does not freeze at all.
609.
Gh4z
610.
Gh4z
Nvm that
good guide!
611.
The_Blind_Farmer
What about the new system of mastery of a particular seed? Anyone master something yet and can say
what happens concretely other than just getting a one time XP award if anythign at all happens besides
that? In other words is it worth it to try to get the mastery to the possible detriment of some money and
some xp in order that maybe the reward will be worth it in the end… Thx for your help.
612.
Quincy
Posted October 29, 2009 at 11:43 am
613.
TRag
Sometimes while my farmer is plowing, something that resembles a cheese block pops up out of the
ground and kind of bounces around. Can anyone tell me what it is and how to catch it if I need to.
614.
Etherion
615.
rob
i would like to know if someone can explain the acai tree to me!!
i have the money to buy it but… is it really worth it!
and i was wondering if i buy one how many xp do i gain and if i wanna buy one more do i need another
37 or 38 farmcash?!
616.
James Vernon
617.
Quincy
@T rag Read some of the comments thats the most popular question. it is a coin that pops up and it
gives you 100 coins and thats all you dont need to catch it or anything… and James i think you should
put that question on you FAQ because it has been ask so many times.
618.
Urazyjazzy
About sweet potatoes you forget that you have to replow after deleting it which costs 15 coins as total it
comes 25 coins for 4 xp which is not that bad. So for 100 coins you get 16 xp and for 100000 you get
16000xp which is not bad at all:)
But even with a mouse repeater software it would take some time…
619.
Paul
I bought Haiti Sweet Potato today. But i received the bad surprise it was retired from the seeds !!!
Damn, i calculated 7 days from today to November 5th… but the game totally owned me. LOL.
620.
rob
621.
Thomas
Sup james, i just wanted some advice about this certain issue: i have a pretty nice farm, level 30 and
some cool buildings and shit… but i see you just have crops and a few animals and you probbably gain
WAY much more xp per day than I do cause you have much more crops… i was just wondering if i
should sell all my stuff and fill my 20×20 land with only plowed land to gain more xp…?? another thing
is: do YOU gain xp with buildings? if yes do you just buy them and then sell them right away just 4 the
xp?
622.
Amit Desai
I really like the game and i am addicted to it as well. i have written an article – enhance your business
management skills by playing FarmVille. Would love to have your views on the same. You can read it
here http://www.gigathoughts.com/useful_links/play-farmville-on-facebook-to-enhance-your-business-
management-skills.html
623.
rayan !
hey add me
olive tree every day
mr.ryn@hotmail.com
624.
chase
Quick Question…
When the game loads I often see farms with varying elevations. How is this accomplished? It would be
nice to have my buildings up on a “hill” in the back.
THanks!
625.
Sheila Huber
To make different elevations, when you originally plow, you have to line a row of squares so that it is
not centered with the row before it. This gives an illusion of depth. Do this for a block of squares within
squares that are lined up and it will appear to be a lower or higher level.
626.
James Vernon
627.
Urazyjazzy
Elevation is the illusion. There is no elevation in this game. You can place the decorations in such a way
that it looks like it is elevated. That is what people do:)))
628.
Sheila
Urazyjazzy
Re Elevation, it is about lining up the squares when you plow grass, not where you place decorations. It
is an optical illusion, but very effective to show depth. The squares can be MOVED with your mouse so
that they are not lined up square with each other. One line has to be indented in from the next. Each
indent gives it further elevation up (or down – that is the illusion). Practice it on another program or
even draw it and you’ll see what I mean. The illusion is further assisted by lining up different coloured
crops, trees or decorations.
Re FV
You get 1 FV for each level completed.
Frank, thanks for they hay bale tip! Thanks to you I was able to complete a level just now.
629.
Daniel Roach
I’ve only been playing Farmville for about a week, but I’ve noticed quite a bit and I can answer quite a
few frequently asked ? on here. The coins that pop out when you harvest give you 100 coins per one that
pops up. You get 1 Farmville dollar for every level. If you set haybails in the very center where you pop
up when you open farmville then when your neighbors fertilize your crops they can do it faster because
you can’t move. It’s a glitch that makes you harvest faster. You can also do this when your harvesting
also and you really don’t need a harvester. It’s a waste of money. Your best yields are berries. lower
levels soybeans, pumpkins, and peppers are good for xp. To see exactly how to make the elevation
work, go to you tube and type in farmville elevation tutorial. To fertilize go to your neighbors and help
them clean up. Once that’s done the fertilizer bag will pop up in the bottom left. You get 5. It won’t pop
up if there is nothing to fertilize although sometimes it will and the crops are too far along to be
fertilized in which case you can’t use them at that point. I completely agree with the fact that hay bails
kick a** for xp. Their definitely worth it. Make a cool design with them, get your xp leave it for a while,
and then sell them whenever you feel like it. I don’t recommend buying any animals, but keep the ones
you get as gifts or that you adopt. I decided to spend $20.00 and get some Farmville Cash. I leveled 4
times today, and haven’t picked my crops yet. I bought the Haunted House which gave me 2000 xp and
I still have 75 Farmville dollars left that I’m saving. Then I bought hay bails and spelled out GO
COLTS. I recommend trying something like that if your a sports fan. Hope this helps!
630.
hat385
631.
Alice
can you make the sections for crop prices in table format?
Old MacDonald
James, Good site. I would suggest changing the entries so that the last posts are at the top of the page.
Currently it takes forever to scroll down to the last post when viewing this site on an iPhone.
633.
Old MacDonald
634.
ROnaldo
635.
Yukiko
How can i claim my pending ribbons? I worked hard for that so i hope that you can give me some
consideration in return. Hope u can give me the money & xp for the particular ribbon specified below:
Local Celebrity – Blue Ribbon
Knock On Wood – Red Ribbon
Not Spoiled, Gifted – White Ribbon
Crop Wispherer – White Ribbon
Please Farmville / Zynga Management… do something about it!
Thank you!
Yukiko
636.
Old MacDonald
Yukiko, I believe Zynga sends you your ribbons complete with 24 carat gold display case once you have
earned all of the ribbons. It comes with a check for 1 Billion dollars (spoken while holding finger up to
corner of bottom lip).
637.
yazikaki
638.
Old MacDonald
How many FV’s do you want? James, the scrolling is killing me. I should be busy spending all my
waking hours farming but now it seems as though scrolling on your site has completely taken over my
life.
639.
Ro
I’m in level 43 and bored now.. need something more exciting at Farmville to get things going..
640.
Old MacDonald
There’s no way I’m scrolling all the way down here without leaving a message. Farmville Rules!
Scrolling to the bottom of this site on an iPhone sucks.
641.
Alisha
When are the larger plots (22×22) and (24×24) coming along, my farm is crowded and i need to expand
642.
Rick Moore
643.
D-ray
what is that wierd floating bread coin potatothing that randomly appears?
644.
Jeremy
add me as a neighbor
bart_rockstar@yahoo.com
645.
Shubhadeep
Query: Under My Neighbours, somehow the vertical list of neighbours has disappeared and i do not see
the list. This view was very helpful to see requests sent / if any of my friends play FV. Any help on
getting the list back?
646.
Daniel Roach
Why do people keep asking the same questions over and over. Read what’s above and it will answer
most of your questions.
647.
Jutaka
hya!
648.
Kat
649.
Jane
How do I get the list back. My husband can get to his with his email, but I cannot get to mine AT ALL,
no matter whose email I use.
650.
Albert
thx
651.
Old MacDonald
Here’s a new topic for discussion. I am trying to add neighbors and I continually get a message along the
lines of “you are out of requests”. Is this tied in to how many gifts you give in a day?
And if any FV creators check this site out, or if James hangs out at the creators office looking for
information, then I’d like to know, why can’t we rotate buildings?
652.
Erik
Hey, first of all, thanks james for this awesome guide! I’m sorry if you already answered this
question, but, there are just sooooo many comments, and i made it about 1/3 of the way through them,
and I was fed upp xD maybe another day. but, anyways, do buildings like fruitstands etc.. do anything
yet?? do they have ANY bonus expect for a nice xp gain? thanks.
653.
mike
peas, sugar cane, onions, asparagus and all berries are the best if u can harvest them all ASAP
654.
rebecca
@albert and jane don\’t worry about the neighbor list – it will pop back up after awhile. i had that
happen to me today and just went \”oh well\” – it returned. must have been a hiccup!
655.
Jacob
656.
Erica Malone
this was very helpful, thank you so much and keep up the good work!
657.
Jeff
Quincy
@ Jacob. the rate for grapes is correct 270 profit – 85 purchase price – 15 for plowing. 270-85-
15=170/23 hours for harvesting =7.39coin/h
659.
idc
my opinion is that:
somepeople think that gives more money is better
well,that is wrong
for e.g. grapes and watermelons
(the calculation is by 1 seed of each)
watermelon:348 coins/4 days
grapes:270 coins/1 day
u might think watermelon. is better because more money..wrong!
270*4=1080
so by the time u have finished the watermelon,u will already have 1080 coins from grapes,which
compared to watermelons,is much better
besides the profit of watermelon is 348-130=218-15 plowing=203. useless
everyday just harevest and plant again
660.
sassy
661.
bggb
Bobby
FARMVILLE IS AMAZING
663.
PCY
I wonder if someone can calcylate something for me. Is it the most profitable thing iff you want XP! to
plant peas, and the use the money to buy hay bayles or use the soybean trick, or is it better to plant black
berries since you get 2 xp every 4 hour, if you have the time that is, and use the money here or buy hay
bayles or use the soybean trick.
If you plant peas you will earn 176*10= 1760 coins och get: 3 xp for planting and 1 for plowing. 3+1=4
4*10=40 xp
Now you can buy hay bales or use the soybean trick with you 1760 coins.
1760/100= 18 (17,6) hay bales
18*5xp each= 90 xp (or we can do this 1760/20=88 xp)
Soybeans: 1760/30=59(58,6..)
59*3=177xp (or we can just do 1760/10=176 xp.
So if you plant peas on 10 plots and buy hay bales you get 90+40=130 xp. If you use the soybean trick
you will get 176+40=216 xp.
So:
You can ger 282-216=66 more xp if you plant blackberris every 4 hour istead of planting peas.
If you have a 20*20 farm you can earn 66*40 (20*20=400 400/10=40) =2640 more xp if you plant
blackberries.
Now i just spent 20 minutes to anwser my own question with the knowledge that I myself still wouldn´t
plant blackberries.
Can someone confirm my statement? I have not included plant time or time to buy hay bales or palnt
soybeans, that you later delete.
664.
AG
665.
Eric
im new to farmville and am looking for neighbors to expand my farm i would be grateful if you could
help out
my email is smartguy_5288@hotmail.com
666.
jeff
great guide! I started on saturday afternoon and now on Thursday morning I am on level 20! I consider
that pretty good since I was a bit confused in the beginning and did not space properly and planted
artichokes (took forever!)
667.
PCY
How can I remove so I don´t send a message to my friends when I help them with their farm? I´m tired
of closing all those small notifications.
668.
katy
hi, you are wrong about tomatoes. tomatoes are better than grapes.
669.
AG
@ katy…
670.
DD
Love this site and I so appreciate all the work you have done. Your seed guide is perfect – as what a
person actually will “make” in coins and XP will dependant on when they can harvest. If you can’t
harvest a 4 hour crop once it is ready for harvest, your return starts to decrease right away – so l love
that you list the plants and their return in the manner that you have. Up to the individual what is going to
be the best crop for them to plant depending on when their schedule will allow them to harvest and
replant, harvest…..
Great work – thank you!
671.
WallTornPaper
Following guides like this make it boring and predictable. Just my opinion. And putting everything in
rows is so boring and ugly. Takes the fun out of it. I am so tired of seeing farms that are either row after
row of the same thing (rowing the trees is the ugliest), and the big jumbled farms that are just a huge
mess of chaos are the worst. Aesthetics should play a big part. Why? Because it’s a game! It’s for FUN.
It’s not real life. You won’t end up living on the street starving if you spend more time making a cool
looking farm instead of being efficient.
672.
Darc
I saw super berries mentioned waaay early in the comments, but then nothing for the last few weeks. Do
they still exist?
673.
Travlingman33
To WallTornPaper—I totally agree with you, but unfortunately it’s that competitive spirit in all of us.
My email is Travlingman33@yahoo.com
674.
Old MacDonald
Farmville is not real life? You mean I can leave my cows unmilked and they won’t explode?
I think James has left the building. And this scrolling still sucks.
675.
Susan
I have been trying to delete my neighbors that are anonymous. I have no clue who they are but I see their
level and coin amounts. How do I delete them?
676.
Jithin
Hi
Please update the guide with the new seeds on farmville – the cranberries and the two new types of
squash.
Thanks.
Jithin
677.
cgp
New Seeds!!
Cranberries –
cost: 55 coins
harvest: 98 coins
time: 10 hours
level needed: 10
xp gained: 1
—-
Pattypan Squash –
cost: 65 coins
harvest: 160 coins
time: 16 hours
level needed: 16
xp gained: 1
—-
Acorn Squash –
cost: 175 coins
harvest: 258 coins
time: 10 hours
level needed: 36
xp gained: 1
—-
678.
Stew
679.
The Game
680.
anonymous
A good way to speed up your plowing and planting is by blocking the standard spot you land in when
you load the game, do this by placing 8 hay bales around the edges. You can still plow and plant but
your character won’t have to run around the whole place to make it to the spot.
681.
Erik
Hey, first of all, thanks james for this awesome guide! I’m sorry if you already answered this question,
but, there are just sooooo many comments, that i havnt made my way through them all, maybe another
day. but, anyways, do buildings like fruitstands etc.. do anything yet?? do they have ANY bonus expect
for a nice xp gain? thanks.
682.
Pepe
@ Erik – hey dude, up until now only dairy farm do something, they are used to stock cows and collect
milk in one click, pretty useful, all the other biulding up until now are just for decoration, yet it’s been
announced that they are working on more buildings like the diary farm, maybe a distiller for all those
grapes we harvest
683.
feen
I don\’t know if someone already said this but you have to take account the 15 coins needed to plow a
field when considering coins an hour because they vary depending on the harvest time length…in
addition the plowing gives you 1 xp so raspberries actually give you 12 xp a day not 0 as ur guide
suggests
684.
German Boy
It is not very intelligent to refer to hourly profit. Because the less hours a plant takes to mature, the more
often you will have to plow the land and it becomes less profitable!
So what I did is to refer to daily profit. This considers multiple plowing!
685.
pat
I’ve found a cheat/hack/glitch of sorts. Someone might have already written this, I don’t know.
1 – Buy a dairy farm and 20 cows
2 – Put 1 cow in the dairy farm, and the rest of the cows outside it
3 – Wait one day. The cows and the dairy farm will be ready to milk
4 – Milk all of the cows outside the dairy farm (6*19 = 114 coins)
5 – Place all the milked cows in the dairy farm. The dairy farm will still be at 100%. Harvest from the
dairy farm (6*20 = 120 coins)
6 – Remove 19 cows from the dairy farm, repeat.
This allows for you to harvest 19 cows twice a day instead of once, practically doubling profit from
cows.
686.
Joe
687.
Gigi
I bought a Garden Shed. I don’t know anyone else who has got one. Does anyone know how it works?
688.
Erik
@Pepe, thank you. Yea, i know about dairy farms, but i kinda read here and there hints that like, for
example, a fruit stand would give you better profits on some berries or something.
There is another glitch type thing you can do, and it invovles helping your neighbors.. the glitch is
mentioned in this guide, but, in this guide, it says u can only do it twice, but you can help your neighbor
as many times as you want. IF you go to the assisting part of this guide, and look at the second
paragraph, you can repeat that process over and over and get hundreds of xp and thousands of coins
form helping ONE person. Pretty tedious, and only do it while im still getin 20coins and 5xp.
689.
Old MacDonald
Gigi the shed is there to put all the birdbaths and gazing balls outside of. It is your junk shed. You can
sleep in there if you want.
Susan that’s the best question all week. I’ve tried and they stay. If anyone knows please advise.
690.
Linda
How do I delete Neighbors that are blank? I tried to cancel the request but that does not work.
691.
Quincy
@ erik the glitch about helping your neighbours was fixed a while ago. although it will still show you
getting the xp and coins once you refresh the page they will all go away.
692.
gravelgert
Has anyone figured out the crop mastery levels yet? I am curious how many crops you have to harvest to
get to the highest level of each crop. Also, how do you get the signs, is it when you hit the highest crop
mastery level?
693.
luke
Posted November 7, 2009 at 7:24 pm
what do you get for mastering a crop? and how much exp is required to advance 1 mastery lvl. currently
im workin on cotton mastery…
694.
James Vernon
ENJOY!
695.
Gigi
Not a Tool Shed – a Garden Shed. After I harvest a certain number of flowers (not sure how much) I can
publish that people can get flower bouquets from me. When I put the cursor over the garden shed it says
0/30 perfect bunches – I don’t know what that means. I have published one set of flower bouquets but
the number for ‘perfect bunches’ didn’t change. FV said that I could get bouquets for myself but I don’t
know how to do that. Any help?
696.
Commen sense!
Fot the idiot who said about how it doesnt do plowing cost scroll up and look on thr right hand side it
shows it dumb ass the maker already thought of that and calculated it in
697.
bob
Where do u buy the garden sheds from? or do u just automatically get em when u master a flowers
thing?
698.
Gigi
I am not sure how I got it as no one else that I know has it. I just went on FV one morning and it said
that garden sheds were added along with the science fiction stuff. I ‘accepted’ and it was placed before
the dairy farm in the Market (Cost – 30,000 coins). As soon as I bought it, it was locked and said Limit
1. I was kind of drowsy (just woke up) so I figured I would click on it another time to figure out how to
do all the things but it doesn’t allow that. I know that I had recently gotten the white ribbon for flower
power but so have some of my friends and they don’t have it so I don’t know what triggers it. I was
hoping somebody here might have it.
699.
Gigi
700.
matt
701.
Old MacDonald
I am working on my mastery level 3 for blueberries. This requires 12000, yes twelve thousand harvests.
I had heard that mastering a crop brings extra XP and I will confirm this in a week or so after about 9000
more harvests. It better be worth it because I could be working on peas right now.
702.
Lardy
Posted November 8, 2009 at 12:54 am
hey guys, i also got the garden shed this morning accidentaly. i think harvesting a full grown
FERTELIZED flower does access to that secret building. or, harvesting a 4 plots of full grown
FERTILIZED flower by the used of a tractor coz thats what i did before i got the message of having the
boquet of flower on my screen. i harvested a sun flower lvl 2. so i dont think its about the flower power
ribbon that access to that thing or a harvesting a mastered flower crop that enabled me to buy the garden
shed. after i bought the garden shed, i continued harvesting the rest of the sunflowers, aside from the
profit that pops up upon harvesting, it also had +1 perfect bunch randomly. and the +1 perfect bunch
should be added to your shed coz i think thats what is made of, to fill it with 30 perfect bunch. but when
i check my garden shed, its still 0/30 after having a perfect bunch of about 8. so i guess its still bug or
doesnt do anything right now or they were still fixing it. but happily, i really got lucky coz when i check
my neighbors farm, none of them had the green shed. hahaha! im still w8ng for more updates on that
new building. you should also try your luck guys!
703.
Old MacDonald
James is it simply not possible for latest posts to be at the top of the page? This is turning into a monster
dude.
Who here has more gazing balls and birdbaths then they really need? At least the birdbaths can be sold
for 100 coins.
Any experts have any comments about deleting those blank neighbors as Susan asked?
704.
brian
705.
Gia
hello to everybody
Question …When u begin with this game how big is the ground u get ? Which dimension it is?
Thx
706.
Noemro
707.
Gia
Noemro….maybe but i am new in this game and i just asked ,is such a bad thing to do? I am not familiar
with everything yet dont be so mean.
708.
Kathy
What is the gold coin that will float down when harvesting for. I don\’t see an increase in points or cash.
The other day 4 coins floated down.
709.
Old MacDonald
Gia, either 10×10 or 12×12. It’s been so long I don’t remember! Plow a clean even row on one side of
your farm and let us know.
Karen, I suggest you take an hour that you would normally spend on FarmVille and use it to read all
posts put on this site. In the posts is the answer to your question AND answers to many other questions.
It is worth the time.
James, ?
710.
Old MacDonald
Gia, either 10×10 or 12×12. It\’s been so long I don\’t remember! Plow a clean even row on one side of
your farm and let us know.
Karen, I suggest you take an hour that you would normally spend on FarmVille and use it to read all
posts put on this site. In the posts is the answer to your question AND answers to many other questions.
It is worth the time.
James, ?
711.
Medina
I want to know how to make your farm look like it’s on 2 levels.. For example, putting fences up and
then hedges to make it look like it’s on a hill or something. That would be cool! Thank so much.
712.
Albert
713.
Gia
714.
Brandon
Posted November 8, 2009 at 8:25 pm
I think There should be a section about strategy for earning ribbons. They add a very important
dimension to the game and earning them at certain points give really helpful boosts to experience and
coinage that speed up production on the farm.
715.
Esh
oh god got bored of sending the same gift items again and again and again……..:(
716.
James Vernon
Lol Guys.
A Ribbons Guide? :O
Monster much?
Also – about the length, ill post the new updates at the top then move them into the updates next week
Also updates the FAQ to include that PESKY gold coin (which does ACTUALLY say +100 gold)
717.
Bob Manocchia
I am at level 35. Just purchased a villa. I did it by plow, plant, harvest method of the best crop at the
level I was at and took into account when I could harvest crops in a timely manner
718.
dee
Posted November 9, 2009 at 9:19 pm
why do my animals suddenly move – it’s driving me insane – I know to click on them and then click on
stay works but sometimes I’ve got pigs going one way, horses going another way and the damn ducks
never stay in one place…HELP!!!!
719.
Akash
I am on level 22, and i reached till here in 7 days of game play, thanks to the Guide.
i want to know-
What is the best thing to do with your FV’s
720.
Penny Forster-Cooper
Please I desperately need expansion for my farm when will it come or shall i give up
721.
Cathrin C.
I own two dairy farms and about 70 cows. I started by emptying my dairy farms completely. I then
waited until I had at least one cow ready for harvest. I then put that cow into my empty dairy farm. The
dairy farm now registers as 1/20 and 100% ready to harvest. I then put 19 more cows into the dairy farm
(preferably cows with a low %). Once the dairy farm is full (20/20), I harvest. Tah-dah! 20 cows
harvested when only one cow was technically ready to being with.
Since I have a second dairy farm, I then take another ready cow, put it in my empty dairy farm (and
again it registers as a 100% dairy farm), and move every cow from my first dairy farm into my second
dairy farm (you’ll have one cow extra that I remove into my fields). Once again, 20 cows ready for
harvest.
I continue this cow rotation for my 50 cows that have been left in the pastures. I do it throughout the day
as each cow reaches 100% and can be placed in the dairy farm. By the end of the day, my 20 cows that I
leave in the dairy farms are harvested about 50 times a piece. That’s about 1,000 cow harvests per day.
Of course, this process is tedious, but boy is that animal ribbon more realisitic now! And I’m getting a
hefty sum of harvesting money when its all said and done too.
722.
Sam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI4ApoNQ77Y
lvl 40 biatchhh
723.
Newbie \m/
For me I use soybeans in a 14 by 14 farm, not as many cash as you can expect but gives you 6k minus
the sowing and seeding which cost you 5940 coins. Its cheap and gives you 500 XP per day. Good thing
to remember when your in school.
724.
grthfn
James, I am trying to make levels with fences & hedges but can’t get them to stack. I have seen this
done and would like your advice. Also, have you seen the pic of the farm with the creator hole in it?
Very cool. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
725.
Alessandro Mengascini
what does it mean unique crops?What kind of “unique crops” I have to harvest to reach the blue ribbon,
I’ve need of only one crops to reach it.
726.
claire Slater
How do I obtain FV money without purchasing it? Does it come up per EXP points earned or by
achievement levels?
727.
Lisa
728.
Bailey
729.
Patrick granat
730.
Anuj
731.
Rhea
I keep getting xp +1 mastery. What is mastery, how am I earning it and what does it do for me?
732.
Anne
I am in acute distress! I FINALLY got 20 FV bucks yesterday, purchased the 16X16 land expansion,
received a note that I now had more space etc., FV bucks went to zero, but I DID NOT GET ANY
LAND! It will take forever to get back to 20.
Obviously this is a glitch but is there anything I can do about it???
733.
May
@Anne- you shouldn’t have bought the farm expansion using your FV cash. If you had a total of 10
neighbors, you could have unlocked the 16×16 buying it with 10,000 coins instead of 20 FV. Keep on
adding neighbors so that you can unlock all farm expansions (all the way to 20×20) buying it using just
coins.
I have noticed that the only way to increase FV is by leveling up, nothing else. 1 FV per level increase.
So try to buy things only using coins, try to use FV wisely because it’s hard to earn it.
@Rhea- mastery is when you have planted a particular seed the required number of times. Like if you
have planted and harvested eggplants 5000 times, you will earn 1 mastery star. You will see this star
underneath the seed thumbnail when viewing the market. Though I don’t know how many times of
planting required for each seed. I didn’t count.
Yep, that floating coin gives you additional 100 coins only (not FV or XP). I keep thinking though if
you get that floating coin randomly (like if its a lottery type of thing if you suddenly plowed a lucky
patch and hit a jackpot) or that you get that floating coin if you have plowed a certain number of
patches.
734.
May
@Anne- you shouldn\’t have bought the farm expansion using your FV cash. If you had a total of 10
neighbors, you could have unlocked the 16×16 buying it with 10,000 coins instead of 20 FV. Keep on
adding neighbors so that you can unlock all farm expansions (all the way to 20×20) buying it using just
coins.
I have noticed that the only way to increase FV is by leveling up, nothing else. 1 FV per level increase.
So try to buy things only using coins, try to use FV wisely because it\’s hard to earn it.
@Rhea- mastery is when you have planted a particular seed the required number of times. Like if you
have planted and harvested eggplants 5000 times, you will earn 1 mastery star. You will see this star
underneath the seed thumbnail when viewing the market. Though I don\’t know how many times of
planting required for each seed. I didn\’t count.
Yep, that floating coin gives you additional 100 coins only (not FV or XP). I keep thinking though if
you get that floating coin randomly (like if its a lottery type of thing if you suddenly plowed a lucky
patch and hit a jackpot) or that you get that floating coin if you have plowed a certain number of
patches.
735.
Linda
I have neighbor requests that are pending but the person is blank, I cannot cancel the request nor can I
delete it any suggestions?
736.
tca98eod
Posted November 13, 2009 at 3:04 am
737.
Toni Goodman
I am needing farmvile Nieghbors … if anyone would like to have a new nieghbor please get in touch
with me!!!
Tonit3516@aol.com
Or
Toni Goodman (on facebook)
738.
Jesse Hall XD
22×22 expansion costs 250k, lol… who wants to bet that 24×24 will be at least 300k? or something
ridiculous like 500k?
Also, how many nieghbours did it take to get 22×22? I was able to buy it right when it came out and I
have 22 friends.
I just thought of a neat idea for farmville, what if there was a limited time only crop that when you
harvest a certain number of (like 100 or 200) you get farm cash. It could be as high as 400 harvested of
said crop and I would still take the time to do it!
739.
Chuck
The program has been terribly buggy today! I had a TON of gifts; trees, chicken coops, etc., and “all my
bits were lost” and got no gifts. The gift offers were gone, too.
Be careful accepting multiple gifts until the connection issues are fixed!
740.
Rebecca
I did a stupid thing today. When I logged on to my farm this morning I got the announcement that the
chicken coop was available for 5000 coins so I bought it right away. I then discovered you can send it or
receive it as a gift. I guess the only consolation is that I got 50 XP points. The coops sell for 370 coins so
I guess if I can get enough people to send them to me as gifts I can come out even. Anyway, just be
aware.
741.
Pepe
@ Chuck: rlly? dude i just refreshed the page and still got the gifts, something might have gone wrong
on your case.
hey I was making numbers and found a couple interesting things: 1) while diary farms occupy an area of
5×6 coops only need an area of 3×5, which means you can have 2 coops instead of one diary farm 2)
two full coops produce a daily income of 360, the same income produced by one diary farm full of pink
or alien cows, and it being a fact that alien cows are gone and getting 20 pink cows in serious business,
it think it’s nicer to fill those to coops, tell me what you think about it, tnx!
742.
Paul
Since today the Haiti Sweet Corn is available. The rights to seed it for 7 days cost 25 FarmCash.
Lets compare…
Sweet Potato:
Cost: 10 (+15 plowing)
Sell: 125
Harvest time: 1 day (23 hours)
Experience: 3
Profit: ( 125 – ( 10 + 15 ) ) / 23 = 4.347 per hour by plow
Sweet Corn:
Cost: 10 (+15 plowing)
Sell: 125
Harvest time: 6 hours
Experience: 3
Profit: ( 125 – ( 10 + 15 ) ) / 6 = 16.667 per hour by plow
To compare… the best seed available, peas, gives you 7.652 per hour by plow.
743.
bobbycarl.
744.
wayne
I finished expanding my farm and spent about an hour redoing it this AM. About 5 hours later I checked
in on it and all the work I have done is gone….. This is not the first time that this has happened, and I
have checked with a few of my neighbors and the same thing has happened to them. What is happening?
Am I logging off wrong or ?
745.
luke
i think you should make a new guide, that “best crops for money/hour” isn’t very effective. for example,
you have a 12×12 plot (which i do) and i plant 144 aloe vera, then i would recieve 12,240. note, i am not
counting the cost to re-soil the ground, im going by how much money i recieve once ive harvested all
the crops. now, aloe vera is ranked much higher than cotton,so lets see what happens when i plant cotton
on that 12×12 plot. i would get 29,808. and yet, aloe vera is higher than cotton.
the reason for that is because it is per hour. and aloe vera is harvested in 6 hours, whereas cotton is
harvested in 3 days. so those hours are stretched farther over those 3 days, rather than only 6 hours.
so you see, that guide is rather deceptive, in that if you’re seeking to get the most money for what space
you have, and how much money you get per plot, then it is wildly inaccurate. and to be honest, you got
harvest the cash per hour, its usually 4 hours, 6 hours, 1 day, 3 days, etc. so you cant collect the money
every hour, so why make a guide like that? why not make a chart or something, like the name of the
seed, and how much money you receive per plot when you harvest, multiplied by how many plots you
have. that would be much more accurate in terms of “most money”.
because in the end, i dont check up on my crops every hour, i determine what time it will be when its
time to harvest them, then i go and harvest them. im not going to check up on my cotton every hour to
look at my 1.695 im getting every hour.
whether its cotton, corn, potatoes, or whatever, you arent going to get your money until you harvest
them, so dont make a money chart thats not based upon that. i believe my purposed idea would be much
more effective in determining the most money possible for what space is available, and how much
money you get per plot.
746.
Jim
Luke, that is terrible. The whole point of breaking it down by the hour is so you can compare all crops
against each other. If I plant Rice (14×14) crop, I profit (Revenue – Planting and Plowing) 7,056 after 12
hours. If I plant Ghost Chili (14×14) I get 8,036 after 6 hours, which means i make more than double by
planting Ghost Chili vs Rice in the same amount of time.
747.
Joy
Chicken coops: I also bought one, unfortunately, and then received three as gifts. But the three turned
into chickens, as you are (at present) only allowed one coop per farm. Unlike other things.
So also, the calculation that coops are better than dairyfarms is not valid, since you can’t do it.
748.
luke
749.
Kemaru
I have 210 plots of land and it’s enough for me. I think the game’s more fun to play when the farm looks
pretty and it’s decorated, I don’t get why people
I bought Haiti Sweet Corn, It’s really great. You can plant it overnight, because it doesn’t wither, and
you get 3XP and 100 coins in just 6 hours.
My favourite crops are Grapes and Sunflowers.
750.
Makanaki el makanaki
yo nesecito tener muchos vecinos si alguien tambien nesecita uno que me agregue por fis este es mi
correo yakyjorgen@hotmail.com
751.
MM
Kaede Yuuki-chan
Do you think Grapes, Pink Roses and Watermelons are okay? I chose these three because I only log in
once a day every weekday, usually an hour before my class starts. Since I’m still a high school student
(I’m just 14 years old, lol) I have pretty tight schedule.
So what do you guys think? Are Grapes, Pink Roses and Watermelons okay on my farm? (To see my
FarmVille farm, add me in my Facebook: jessica_013@ymail.com and add me as a neighbor) I’m
currently Level 23.
Any of people here heard of the new FarmVille secrets guide book that is available over the net?
753.
Guest
You wrote in your Q&A section: ” I found an Error in your Guide. What do i Do?”
I am here to tell you that is an error in its own right: There should be no capital E at the start of error,
there should be no capital on the D of do and there should be a capital on the I.
754.
Kalle
Can you write about the regular maple tree and about the baby turkey please?
755.
Juhi
756.
Shaun
757.
Kaede Yuuki-chan
@Shaun, I think it’s available for the iPhone…. Cause Facebook Mobile has a Touch Site Version for
touch screen phones. Just make sure your phone browser supports the game. My friend told me a certain
downloadable phone browser that supports the touch screen capability and can play FarmVille, but I
forgot what it is. Let me try to find it…
@Kalle, the baby Turkey is worth 7 FarmVille cash. I don’t know if it grows up into a Wild Turkey
which is adoptable as a lost animal… I got three from my friends. Still don’t know what I can harvest
from them… I’ll post it as soon as it reaches the 100% counter.
758.
aidan
759.
pameladeville
760.
Stiches
pameladeville:
this is true.
761.
James Vernon
._.
762.
Dilla
adilone786_@hotmail.com
763.
Brandon Carroll
Posted November 16, 2009 at 2:31 am
Most efficient way to get experience if you have tons of cash is to buy tons of hay bales 5 exp for 100
coins. So for example if you have 360,000 coins and a 20×20 farm such as I do. You can buy fill every
spot with hay bales 9 fit in each plowed area. So that’s 9×20x20= 3600 hay bales and 3600 x 5 = 18000
experience. Which is a good way to jump in front of all your friends in levels. This has a 5% efficiency
compared to the mere 1% you get out of buildings.
764.
jeff
@Brandon Carroll
Actually the soybean plow,plant,delete and repeat method is more efficient. Hay is 5 per 100 coins with
a 5 coin sale value = 5XP per 95 coins. Soybeans cost 15 to plow, 15 to plant for a total cost of 30 coins.
But you get one XP for plowing and 2XP for planting yielding 3XP per 30 coins or 9XP per 90 coins.
As you can see 9 per 90 is better than 5 per 95. Hope this helps.
765.
Old MacDonald
The hay bale method is efficient but costly. I prefer the soybean method.
True adopted animals can be adopted multiple times if all adopters leave in gift box.
Still working on blueberries mastery 3. Half way there. Gonna take a break from the berries for a week
while I level up using sweet corn.
Luke, slow and steady usually wins the race but not on Farmville. Leveling up fast is all about how
much time you devote to harvesting.
Level 34 Gamer
766.
Paul
Better than Soybean was the Haiti Potato and now the Sweet Corn (of course, if you have 25 FarmCash
to get the rigth to plant it by 7 days).
767.
Dylen Boswell
768.
eileen
I want my farm to look nice rather than covering the whole area with boring looking squares so ive
shaped the ploughed squares into a christmas tree shape and decorated it with maple leaves , ive used
coloured hay bales to make presents under the tree and when my fields are fertilized it looks like
twinkling christmas lights! Im getting more of a kick outta my xmas scene than my farming . I posted a
picture of it on my FB and im gettin loadsa compliments !!!!
769.
Maggie
My grandson has the ability to buy a flower work shop and I do not. I am at a higher level than he is.
Anybody else have this problem? Or have any idea what to do? Appreciate any help.
770.
Old MacDonald
771.
Kaede Yuuki-chan
I’ve got a question… I logged in Facebook just today and I found out that I received a couple of gift
requests for Farmville. When I clicked the ACCEPT button (I swear it was) it said: You have ignored a
request from __________.
772.
Maggie
Kaede: There was a message from Farmville that they were aware of the problem and were working on
it.
773.
Farmer
The way I see it, there are two potential issues with your seed guide:
1) Profit might be better calculated as a percentage of cost rather than in coins. It doesn’t really make
sense to calculate it in coins, and this is why: you might make more coins planting a certain seed, but
you also have to pay more to plant them. For example (and this is simplistic in that it doesn’t take into
account the harvest time, etc.), you’ll make 134 coins off of one patch of artichokes (sell 204 – cost 70),
and only 48 coins off of one patch of soybeans (sell 63- cost 15). Therefore, it seems that artichokes are
better than soybeans because you make more coins. HOWEVER, you also paid more coins to plant
them- 70 instead of 15. If you calculate the PERCENTAGE yield (i.e., your profit RELATIVE to how
much money you put in), then you’ll see that in fact soybeans are better. Soybeans give you a 320%
return on your investment, wheareas artichokes only give you a 191% return (soybeans: 48 profit/15 cost
= 3.2 ; artichokes 134 profit/70 cost = 1.91). This means that compared to how much it costs to plant
them, soybeans will return a profit of more than 3 times their cost, but artichokes will return a profit of
less than 2 times their cost. Of course, in coins, you’ll obviously have to plant more soybeans to make
the same amount of money (you’ll have to plant a higher quantity). However, your return will be better.
2) The cost that you use in your calculation should also reflect the cost of plowing. Therefore, 15 coins
should be added to the cost of each crop. This would change the returns that I calculated above.
However, soybeans would still be a better return: 220% compared to 170 percent for artichokes after
taking the plowing cost into account.
Again, this is simplistic because it doesn’t take the harvest time into account, but I did it this way to
illustrate the principle. If you think you’re getting the best deal because your crops give you the highest
amount of coins, you’re wrong, because you have to put in an inproportiately large investment in order
to achieve that profit.
774.
asif
775.
Dustin
Farmer…Do you understand the concept of profit??? Revenue – Cost. Your profit % calculation is
worthless. If you want to make the most money in this game, you want the plant with the largest profit,
not profit percentage. Also, the seed guide does take into account plow costs. Read much? Next time put
some thought into your criticism.
776.
Anderson Mills
777.
Trevor Prokos
I’m a level 29…need neighbors!! I send gifts as much as i can–will even send things u want/need.
Thanks!
Trumpetdmb2002@gmail.com
778.
zodiac
779.
Dan O
Farmer, Your concept of profit is not going to ever make you the most money. Profit is all made by the
ending amount after taking all of the expenses. It’s not %.
For instance:
We will reflect Soybeans again Peas. But put it in terms that you may understand.
You wake up this morning and give me $15+$15 processing fee, I tell you that it takes a day to make
money, but I will give you back 63 so your gain is $33.
Or give me $190+$15 processing fee, I tell you that it takes a day to make money but I will give you
back 381 so your gain is $176.
Would you rather make $33? or $176? If we went by your math. Soybeans give a higher %, but are
definitely not the best profit.
780.
Farmville Champion
http://whatthefacebook.com/funny/farmville-champion
781.
Timewalker
782.
Anne
I see where Farmer is coming from. If you have limited money, eg. 300 coins, then you are better off
planting 10 plots of soybeans (profit $33 x 10 = $330) than 1 plot of peas ($176 x 1 = $176).
But when you have lots of money you’re better off planting the high profit per plot seeds.
783.
Michelle
Does anyone know how to delete neighbors that are pending? I’ve tried the cancel request and that does
not work. HELP!!
I also am needing some more neighbors, please add me: Michelle Knight Young
784.
owais
785.
coco
red tulips cost 75, sell for 159 and they grow in 1 day equals to 3.5 coins per hour…
786.
Dan O
I see what you are saying Anne, But that still wouldnt be the best profit. You would be better off making
1 peas, then using the rest on the next best profit from the list above.you would make Only 1 peas if you
had that little money. You would make 1 peas then say 4-5 soybeans or whatever you can afford. Still
making you better profit over soybeans. It’s extremely far fetched to say someone only has $300 though.
787.
I am having problems, Farmville does not want to load and tells me to upgrade my Flash Player I have
done but it still will not load and the cache is empty! Any suggestions?
788.
ECUPirate1
Hey I had a cool idea and im not sure if anyone has thought of it yet. Would it be cool if the game
makers could turn the tool shed in to a place to put all of our decorations that we are not currently using.
Because I bought some of the special items and im kind of running out of room to farm stuff. Has
anybody else had an idea like this?
789.
Jonathan
How much time after my plants are fully grown and ready to harvest do I have before they start rotting?
790.
ECUPirate1
However long it took you to get the plant is however long you have to harvest them once they have
finished growing.
791.
andrea
I bought 400 hay bales! I spent 40000 but they gave me 2000 xp! than I sold them.
this is the fastest way to make ex quikly!
792.
Anne
Dan O, I guess I just meant that as an example. In the early stages isn’t it best to plant the crops that give
you the best return for your money? Aren’t soybeans better than eggplant way back at the beginning
when you don’t have much money?
793.
Anne
Let me try another example. I am not very business minded – I work in health care – so I may be on the
wrong track, but here goes:
We are thinking of doing a fundraiser where we sell boxes of doughnuts. We have $100 to spend. We
have the option of buying:
- 10 x $10 boxes of doughnuts which we can sell at $50 each, which is profit of $40 per box, or
- 2 x $50 boxes of doughnuts which we can sell at $100 each, which is profit of $50 per box
In the first case we will make $400; in the second we will make $100. So even though the profit per box
is higher for the big boxes of doughnuts, we can only afford to buy two, so it is better to buy the smaller
ones, which give us a better percentage return on our investment.
794.
Anne
- 10 x $10 boxes of doughnuts which we can sell at $15 each, which is profit of $5 per box, or
- 4 x $25 boxes of doughnuts which we can sell at $35 each, which is profit of $10 per box
(the reason we can’t make better profit on the $25 boxes is that people just don’t want to spend more
than $35 on a box of doughnuts)
In the first case we will make profit of $50; in the second we will make $40. So it is better to buy the
$10 boxes, which give us less profit per box but a better return overall.
795.
Bas
796.
Dustin
Anne, you are correct. If money is a constraint, the idea of ROI becomes relevant. When money is not a
limiting factor, though, profit becomes the most important measure of revenue.
797.
Steve vdW
OMG This site is becoming a monster. Looking forward to the new look James! Good Luck with that…
On FarmVille – STORAGE has arrived. Use some buildings including the tools shed to put items away
creating more space…
Lots of new Holiday gifts and items to purchase. Wow, this guide will need to expand its wings with all
the enhancements that are happening…
798.
Michelle
You can now delete pending neighbor requests! Just go into your “my neighbors” sections and hit cancel
request. It now works!
799.
Dan O
Anne, again I see where you are going with this. but you need to use numbers from the game. you can’t
make up scenario’s without numbers that are from the pool we have. Ill do it here and show you that
with very low money, sometimes its better to use low crops.
Lets stick with the $300 rule as Farmer said up a little ways for the first example. Soybeans & Peas.
Both 1 day crops. 1 is REALLY cheap. other is expensive, but the best profit in the game. This will
show if you make all Soybeans, or a mix.
All Soybeans
20x $15 Soybeans = $300
20x $63 gain Soybeans harvested = $1260
20x $15 Plowing fee = $300
So heres the math. You start with 300. Spend 300 to plant the soybeans. Make 1260 once harvested. then
spend 300 to plow.
Peas + soybeans
1x $190 Peas = $190
7x $15 Soybeans = $105
1x $381 gain Peas harvested = $381
7x $63 gain Soybeans Harvested = $441
8x $15 Plowing fee = $120
$300-$190-$105+$381+$441-$120 = $707
So it looks like all Soybeans, as apposed to a mix, early on is better when you have a small wallet size.
Now, if you are limited to space, a 10×10 lot or 100 squares, and money is no object, Then making peas
will be your best return on investment.
All Soybeans
All Peas
Clearly Pea’s are far more money for the 1 day time spent.
So if you are Broke, All Soybeans are the way to go. Don’t mix and match. Once you can fork up the
dough to make all Peas, then Peas are king.
800.
Mary Ann
Is there a way to get around the pop-up windows when you’re deleting that make you “accept” each plot
you’re deleting?
801.
Rebecca
So what does everyone think Farmville will offer at Christmas? Do you think reindeer will wander onto
our farms? It should be fun.
802.
PCY
Christmas is gonna be huge. I just hope I don´t play farmville then, then I will waiste my time.
If you want to be on the front page at christmas, then you should start to think about ideas that you can
do with you farm.
803.
Anne
Dan O – I am still a bit sleep deprived from an overnight flight, but haven’t you just proven Farmer’s
and my point? That when funds are limited, choosing the seed that gives you the best return on your
investment is better than the one that makes the most profit per patch. We’re all playing a game here –
there’s no need to be condescending. The initial responses to Farmer’s November 17 post were uncalled
for.
804.
salman hakkani
805.
Joanne sagona
Posted November 21, 2009 at 11:26 am
I am working on getting cash. I don’t want to buy cash. I have recently added 20+ neighbors and I did
not get an increase in cash. I still have 2 dollars. What can I do?
806.
Joanne Sagona
Rebecca, I don’t like the circus attractions either. They should just build a circus world site. I would buy
the attraction for 50 cash in order to get the 1500XP and then sell it- but I still have only $2 and can’t
seem to get any more.
807.
Paul Z.
FarmCash is received when you up one level. Every farmer starts with 5 FarmCash. The max level is 70,
then, 75 is the max FarmCash you can get without spend any cent.
A month ago FarmVille had free offers to get FarmCash for free, but you have to fill a lot of surveys and
accept to receive a lot of spam. Zynga quit the free offers at the end of October, forever.
808.
queenmom
Hi, All I am trying to do is reach level 40 (I am at 34 now) and to complete all my ribbons. (Most that I
can anyway).
Question that I can\\\’t find an answer to is the GIFTS that Farmville give you for various achievements.
For example I received a Vegy\\\\fruit stand and I don\\\’t know what I did to get it!
I just want to know WHAT gifts (and at what level and\\\\or ribbon) that FV drops in your gift box. That
way I won\\\’t buy something if I can get it by \\\”working\\\” for it.
Thanks
Jay Dee
809.
Old MacDonald
Mary Ann – If you find the answer to the delete issue, let me know. There are apparently cheat tools
available on the web that include plow, seed, harvest and delete features but I’m going to stick to good
old honest hard work.
Salman – I totally agree. Blueberries (4 hours) if you’re home and Tomatoes (8 hours) when out for the
day. I was working exclusively on these until last week when I forked out 25FV dollars for the Sweet
Corn (6 hours, huge return on investment, huge XP gain) in order to gain coins and level up fast. I’ll be
at Level 37 after my next plant. If out for more than a day then Peas (24 hours) would be the way to go
if you are at that level.
Joanne – If you wasted your FV dollars on decorations then too bad for you. My number 3 tip to
anybody is keep your FV dollars for the Sweet Seeds for Haiti offers if you want to make coin and level
up.
Queenmom – Some gifts are random. I received a Garden Nome after hatching an egg. Just go with it.
Tip #1 – Block in your farmer so you can plow, plant and harvest faster.
Tip #3 – Buy Sweet Seeds for Haiti if you have the FV dollars.
Tip #4 – Plant and delete Soybeans for XP gain (or Sweet Corn if you buy it – that XP gain will blow
your mind).
Tip #5 – If working on your Architect Ribbon, buy as many rest tents as needed to get the ribbons and
then sell them. Do the math. It’s a solid investment.
Tip #6 – Have fun. A complete farm of nothing but crops is a boring farm.
Lastly, I read somewhere that petting animals enough might result in a FV dollar gain. If anybody as the
patience to give it a try and it works, let us know.
Happy Farming!
810.
ChaotiX
275-15-170=90 Coin
811.
ag925
Hey everyone
Great site! I have learned alot and I thank you for all the tips. Here is one I have witnessed.
I purchased my 4th cow barn and was loading it up with 10 newer cows that I had received 2day. The
last cow that went in was at 99%. Then a couple hours later, as I was checking in, I noticed the barn was
ready. As I clicked on it, I received coin collections on all 11 cows! Is it possible that we can “load” and
“unload” cows in and out of the barns and thus collect on the ones who aren’t ready to be collected
from. I’m curious. Maybe a glitch. Inquiring minds want to know.
Nate
812.
Mary Ann
Old Mac,
Thanks for the tips. I’m not into so I’ll deal with the “accept” button when deleting. Blocking in my
avitar has made farming so much faster! What do you recommend about buying the tractor, seeder, and
harvester equipment?
813.
Mary Ann
814.
John
Howdy, looking for neighbors. I’m a daily player and send gifts daily. johnmunoz2141@comcast.net
815.
John
Just mastered level 3 of strawberries and got a pant load of coin and xp. The best part? When I continue
to plant strawberries, about 50% of my field is “fertilized” and recieve 1xp per plot when I harvest. That
translates into a lot of xp per day.
816.
ted
can anyone tell me how to get FARMCASH , ( i know that i recive one per each level ) i want another
way , thank you
817.
James Vernon
ANNOUNCEMENT GUYS!!!!
However, it will be in a seperate webpage due to the sheer size of this one :S
818.
Malynda
819.
stacj003
join this group on facebook to try and raise awareness for an APPLICATION for FARMVILLE on
IPOD TOUCH/IPHONE
http://www.facebook.com/search/?init=quick&q=Farmville%20app%20for%20iPod%20Touch
%2FiPhone#/group.php?gid=182165717445&ref=search&sid=606071024.1995551245..1
820.
Old MacDonald
Mary Ann – I recommend the tractor only. I actually just sold my harvester for space since I never used
it. Unless your buying gas (which I’m not) you pretty much can only use one or the other in one
plow/plant/harvest session. One more tip if you plant and delete Soybeans for XP gain. Save your gas
and use the tractor. It’s much easier to plow even rows using the tractor. You’ll see what I mean.
Happy Farming!
821.
carl
822.
Old MacDonald
Also if any one has a explanation as to how gifting works, i.e. the limitations of how many gifts can you
send and how often. It seems very random to me and I cannot figure it out.
Somebody at Zynga knows the answers to these questions. It would be nice if they would put this
information in the Help section of FarmVille rather than making every little thing a complete mystery.
Old Mac
823.
Anonamous
824.
stevels
Lime trees make better money than all the crops per hour: 10.43.
Olive trees make 19.5 per hour.
So do all of the animals except chickens (free range), free range cows (all colors) and horses. Swans and
turkeys make 27.4 per hour.
Using this money you can use the plow -> plant soybean -> destroy method of experience
plow(15coin+1exp)+soybean(15coin+2exp) -> 3 experience /30 coins = 1 experience per 10 coins. So
you get 27/10 coins per experience point = 2.7 experience per hour. You could also buy bales of hay
then sell them off for 95/5= 19 coins per experience point.
Why do all these make better than regular crops? You can fit 16 trees per crop square; 16 pigs, ducks,
etc per crop square. Horses and cows only 4 per crop square hence the low profits.
I have lotsa wild forests surrounding (supposed) streams and big lime, lemon and plum (6.95 per hour
but they look good along the fence lines) groves.
825.
stevels
Your advise on crops is top notch but on trees and animals; not so much.
Trees and animals fit 16 to the same size as one crop plot.
Lime trees make better money than all the crops per hour: 10.43.
Olive trees make 19.5 per hour.
So do all of the animals except chickens (free range), free range cows (all colors) and horses. Swans and
turkeys make 27.4 per hour.
Using this money you can use the plow -> plant soybean -> destroy method of experience
plow(15coin+1exp)+soybean(15coin+2exp) -> 3 experience /30 coins = 1 experience per 10 coins. So
you get 27/10 coins per experience point = 2.7 experience per hour. You could also buy bales of hay
then sell them off for 95/5= 19 coins per experience point.
Why do all these make better than regular crops? You can fit 16 trees per crop square; 16 pigs, ducks,
etc per crop square. Horses and cows only 4 per crop square hence the low profits.
Off course you have to pay off your initial investment in the limes and lemons. All bought trees take 10
to 12 weeks till pure profit. The free gift animals/trees are profit from the first harvest.
I have lotsa wild forests surrounding (supposed) streams and big lime, lemon and plum (6.95 per hour
but they look good along the fence lines) groves.
826.
penny harding
Plowed an area in error and cannot delete it (in the way). Have sucessfully deleted before but can’t now.
Any ideas?
thanks.
827.
Rebecca
I have a question about the Sweet Seeds. I have enough FV case to purchase them. Are they only
available on a limited basis or will I be able to plant them whenever I want to?
Thanks.
828.
king
Btw love the guide could use some touchin up cuz trees and animals r justas good as crops Plz every1 i
neeed more neighbors add me at gsm81@comcast.net i send gifts daily plz no emailing
829.
Kim
@ Rebecca
Sweet corn was wonderful..you can only plant for 7 days but the crops do not spoil and you get 3XP for
a 6 hr crop in addition to the 1 XP for plowing..SWEET indeed!
830.
Old MacDonald
King – No. From what I have read you will be disapointed by the mystery box.
Rebecca – If you have the money and can get to harvesting at least twice a day then go for the sweet
corn. You won’t be disappointed.
As far and trees go I’d like to end the debate. They are pretty. I have read all about the amount of coin
per square they yield. But the bottom line is they do not give you XP when you harvest them. So they
remain pretty.
Old Mac
831.
john
832.
Old MacDonald
And if you pay cash to purchase and X-Box you have no life? And if you pay cash to buy games for the
X-Box you have no life? And if you pay cash to rent games you have no life?
You keep harvesting, plowing and seeding 1 plot at a time John. I’ll continue to do it 4 plots at a time to
save time dude.
833.
Smarter
You continue to do it 4 plots at a time, and I’ll write a program that does all the plowing, planting, and
harvesting for me
834.
Justin
Posted November 24, 2009 at 12:35 am
Nice guide! Trees are not practical because you have to spend 5.3x more time harvest assuming you can
click a tree that you can hardly see just as fast as a plot of land witch is not going to happen. It takes me
20 min to harvest plant and plow trees would take a good 3 hours not to mention the huge start up cost
of over 2 million gold for a lot as big as mine and also there would be no way to level.
835.
Abby
Apparently Facebook was having issues last night which was affecting Farmville. People were losing
their neighbors. I lost my neighbors and half my farm. This morning my neighbors are back but I am
still missing a portion of my farm. Anyone else having this problem and if so know who I can contact
about it?
836.
Tony
I have noticed that some crops wither fairly quickly after they mature, but others will stick around a little
longer before withering. Is there a scale for this? For example, I made a mistake once and was late to
check my rice, but it was still standing when I checked it more than an hour later than it matured.
However, I was also late checking strawberries and they were gone shortly after they matured. I was told
to expect something close to half the time it takes for a crop to mature before it withers. Example: Rice
takes 12 hours to grow and 6 hours before it withers…..Strawberries take 4 hours to grow and 2 hours to
wither. Is this accurate or is there no sure way to tell?
837.
stevels
@Old MacDonald. Read my post closely. The extra money that trees and animals give you use to plow
and plant soybeans then destroy them = 10 coins per experience point. Or you buy hale bales and sell
them = 20 coins per experience point.
Zynga made it clear they want you to buy things to earn experience. More money = more experience.
But hey they are pretty and if you just want to look at them fine but please don’t discourage people from
making experience off them.
838.
stevels
@Old MacDonald. Read my post closely. The extra money that trees and animals give you use to plow
and plant soybeans then destroy them = 10 coins per experience point. Or you buy hale bales and sell
them = 20 coins per experience point.
Zynga made it clear they want you to buy things to earn experience. More money = more experience.
But hey they are pretty and if you just want to look at them fine but please don\’t discourage people
from making experience off them.
839.
stevels
I’m having trouble with my post not showing up so I try again and a few minutes later there are two
posts. I’ll just assume this is going to make it.
@Tony: Google “Farmville +profits” or click on the link I posted above. The crops are supposed to all
mature for X time then stay fine for X time and slowly wither over another X time. So Raspberries
mature in 2, stay alright for hours 3 and 4 and whither in hours 4 and 6.
I haven’t tested all the crops but the berries and Aloe work this way.
@Abby, I had redecorated for Halloween buying the spooky trees, skeleton cauldron and such spending
hours on it. The game said “Don’t close browser, saving game” twice during it then the next day ALL
my work was gone. I wrote Zynga several times and they refuse to restore from the save game, refund
my Farm Bucks and say “Farmville is in beta and we don’t guarantee it’s function” So accept your
losses; you wil not get them back…
840.
stevels
@Rebecca, save your FarmBucks for buying decorations. It’s easy to level up on regular
crops/trees/animals. Unless you feel like donating to the Haitians.
@Justin, trees in Farmville are much easier than in Farm Town but at least there you can hire others to
pick the oranges. It would that be nice to do that in Farmville. I agree it takes longer to pick trees but
only because Zynga won’t let us pick the default mouse click of “harvest” and ignore the “move” and
“sell” options. Again, Zynga wants us to use our money from trees and animals to buy stuff to get
experience. That is how to level…
841.
Pinchfire
First of all let me thank to all of you guys.I started playing FV ~1 week ago.Currently I’m Level 20 and
I think that I already have understood the right way to play the game.
I should admit though that I started playing it not because of the “beautiful gardens out there” but in
order to find the ultimate strategy of being a successful player on Farmville.
PS.I even spent 5 Farmville cash to buy a f*cking Red Maple Tree I had no idea how hard it is to get
this cash at first
Everything you should know about the game is written above.However I’ll try to summarize it and tip
the most important rules of all.
1) Be economical! Think in cash,think how much time do you want to lose with this game and optimize
your gameplan!
2)For the beginners: In the beginning it’s a good idea to start planting Strawberries as they grow fast
(4h),give some good money and cost only 10 per pack. So when you already have enough cash just read
3)
3)The CHEAPEST WAY to gain experience in Farmville (currently ) is to plow ground (+1XP;-15
cash),sow soybeans (+2XP;-15 cash) and delete it after that.If you make this with say 144 crops it gives
you a total of 432XP and that’s really much!!!
4)Think first when you choose what to sow.There are some plants that are really better than others… In
every aspect.
I don’t want to get you too bored so that’s all my nooby advices I’m not PRO or some kind of freak
that plays 24/7 so please leave me in peace
I wrote an excell table that calcuates how much money do you need to sow the certain crop,what’s
gonna be your profit and etc. I think it’s a good decision for every thinking player.You just have to type
the quantity of crops you want to seed and Excell will calcuate everything else for you
Here it is: http://www.mediafire.com/?0eymjmdnnqm
Thanks again to all of you and have a nice day! PS Farmville is just a game! Don’t forget not to waste
too much time with it.
842.
FVmath
843.
Old MacDonald
For any beginners. I said it once and I’ll say it again. Don’t use your FV dollars. By about Level 20 or so
you should have 25 FV dollars. The by the Sweet Corn. You will level up faster than you can imagine.
stevels, I keep every tree I get. But harvesting them is much more difficult than harvesting the best
crops. Oh well the debate continues. Wish I had more Level 31 + neighbours so I could get the elusive
olive trees!
844.
joska
i just thought i’d point out that turkeys are actually the most profitable, at about 28 coins an hour per
plot (16 turkeys)
too bad you can old find them and not buy them.
845.
Dan
how do i get the super berries?i`m at level 26..& the tractors should i blow all my farmcash on fuel?it
doesn`t plow enough..ty
846.
Mary-Anne Burt
847.
JC
Hi,
In the seeds you have a wrong order, Lavender and Blackberries are in wrong place in the list.
Could you tell me what was your way to count the profit per hour? Is is counted thinking for example
that you have 23 hours time per day to be in farmville. I had made my own list before my friend showed
me yours and I do admit was made just for me as I dont have time to visit farmville even every day.
What I really would like to know is how you calculated the plowing fees in your list.
Please contact me if you wish to talk about it. I am from Finland and totally addicted to Farmville, but
not prepared to pay real money for it.
848.
Simon Jones
This is a cool basic guide. Thanks. But you should try this one, it has ALOT more infmormation.
http://bit.ly/farmvillesecret.
849.
Steve
I almost signed up on facebook for a club where you basically become neighbours with potentially
thousands of “strangers” just to reap rewards (XP & Coins).
In my opinion, and remember guys it is only an opinion, this along with plowing and deleting plots “just
for XP” goes against the idea of farming correctly.
When all said and done it is a game and yes, I want to level up quickly, but I will do it the slower way
and enjoy the frustration
850.
HELP ME!!!! :)
UGH i need more farm cash but DONT wanna actually buy it. HELP!!! PLEASE!!!
851.
julie
i would like to know why every day i visit my neighbors and i ferterlize it freezes up on me and i have to
re-boot every day
852.
bella
853.
Bella
854.
Old MacDonald
Bella, some people call your farmer an avitar. When you first log into your farm you will notice your
farmer is centered in the farm every time. Don’t plant crops there. Instead delete the plot (or 2 depending
on your level) where your farmer is and either fence him in or place hay bales around him. You will be
able to do all of the farming tasks much quicker.
HELP ME, the only way to get additional FV$$ is to level up or purchase it. If you are not in the
position to purchase it then you must use it wisely.
These new reindeer use up too much space. I abandoned keeping them almost immediately.
Old Mac
855.
Chuck
IM level 51 with 270,000 xp, you can add me by searching for Chuck Batcheller on facebook then
leaving a message. Most of the strats that i use are talked about in here, but the top strats that I use arent.
Feel free to add me.
856.
kizza
my farm is lush
i grow grapes and have a fun fair and 3 cow farms
857.
King
858.
Moon Kyu
859.
Jordan
how do you raise the level of your farm… i always see people with their houses, higher.
860.
King
@Jordan Its an optical illusion look up youtube video i saw 1 the other day all they do is stack
fences(not really only appeares stacked)
@moon divide the length of time it takes to harvest by 2 that number is how many hours u have till
wither
861.
madafaka
about farm cash. 1 Farm cash is also gained when u get blue ribbon!
862.
Nishant
Thanks for the guide the seed list for best money/hour..is it according to the best to worst…..or some
lvl thingy…according to ur list im planting rice..my best to plant for best money for me
863.
matt
your profit/hr doesn’t take into effect the time value of money. for example, your guide says that squash
& soy beans are equal. But imagine i plant 1 soy, harvest in a day, then i plant another soy & also a
strawberry from the added profit. that means i make more money than i would with a 2 day plant with
the same profit/hr. To solve for this, you have to subtract an opportunity cost which is Purchase
Price*((1+return on investment)^time to mature-1) where ROI is how much you can make per coin per
hour (net profit/cost)/time to mature. This should be between .01 & .1.
864.
Godlike
“Some seeds like Peppers, and Rice and Pumpkins are the best profit for the time they are planted (Best
money per day) Also – To get an extra boost in money, Refer to the “Assisting” section”
865.
Dustin
Matt, there’s limited space…Time value is basically irrelevant besides your first couple days farming.
Use your head.
866.
Kaede Yuuki
Anyone who’s a good farmer please help me okay? Here’s my Facebook email: jessica_013@ymail.com
I’d be glad to return the favor with a gift of their choice… Of course take note of my current level
first…
~ Kaede Yuuki
867.
AGNES
I am not getting any XP’s for my raspberries. I just harvested 6 plots of Artichokes and received 1 point
for 4 and nothing for the other two. This has happened several times. What’s going on.
868.
djtipps
I like playing from http://www.farmville.com. All options, announcements, achievements etc. are right
at your fingertips. The site also has an expanded gift selection. Thanks for the excellent seed guide. I
keep it bookmarked and refer to it constantly.
869.
smif
i was using a chart for making the most money like in this guide, except when i made it i did it so it
would be money per day instead of per hour. i did this before i even thought to look on google for a
guide like this. if you think about it it accomplishes the same thing because it still shows the amount of
money made within a constant amount of time.
However!!!
when i started thinking about this i realized something… using either kind of chart is impractical.
because say your trying to farm the most money that you can in four days. the money you ultimately end
up with at the end of the four days is going to be lower with high coin per hour crops that are done in
like 2 or 4 hours then with long term crops that offer a lower coin per hour (or per day) because a good
part of the money that you earn from the high yielding ones is going to go back into planting them again.
and since the fast growing crops need to be planted more then the 16 hour – 4 day crops, its safe to say
that an accurate farmville chart for making the most money should be far more complex then a simple
money per hour or money per day chart. im not the best mathematician, but i will be trying to come up
with a chart based on the correct algorithms that accurately represent the best crops for making money in
the long term.
if anyone has any suggestions or can offer some help on writing the right equations you can contact me
topmagic2005@gmail.com
870.
King
whoever would like to no what time there crops will b able to harvest and wat time they will wither then
this is the site 4 u works great! http://martabak.org/farmville/ very easy 2 use couldn’t ask for a better
calculator lol
Btw smif is absalutely right james u either should update ur site or ppl r gunna go to others that r much
more acurate sorry 2 say happy farming!
871.
Heath White
872.
azidburn
http://facebookrealestate.blogspot.com/
- Don’t have time to play?
- Do you want a high level Farmville?
- No need to spend more time leveling your farm
873.
RoyX23
Posted November 29, 2009 at 2:12 am
Agnes, XP are awarded when plant, not when you harvest–unless the crop squares are fertilized by one
of your neighbors. So sounds like those four squares of artichokes were fertilized. XP are not awarded
for planting raspberries.
Smif, I the calculations on this site are fine. The coins per day things is thrown out partially because
farmville uses 23 hour days. A 1 day crop is ready 23 hours later, a 2 day = 46 hours, 3 days = 69 and so
on.
Second, the “good part of the money” from “planting them again” has nothing to do with the equation
since after you buy that expensive seed, you harvest then plow again to balance it out. You can’t count
the cost of “crop B” against the profit you just made with “crop A”, even if they’re both the same type of
crop.
Reading through the comments, James’s calculations have been challenged several times, and his
calculations are continually proved correct.
874.
Nick Klaus
Hey, the one thing that this guide is missing is all the coin prices for each expansion. because i want to
upgrade to a family (16×16) farm, and i dont have 10 neighbors yet, and i want to know the prices of
farm expansion when i dont have enough nieghbors and would consider buying something else.
875.
Anna
876.
Old MacDonald
Anna, I haven’t had withered flower bunches yet but try the red shovel. Then click on the item you want
to delete. A message comes up indicating Accept of Cancel. Of course Accept. Just be sure to go back to
the multi-tool as soon as you do this or it will ask you if you want to delete the next item you touch. This
is the same tool used for the plow, plant, delete soybeans XP gain trick that you have read about above.
Old Mac
877.
Paul Z
Anna, or you can wait two weeks until the flowers died.
878.
Betty
Any information on these black and golden chickens? I’m considering purchasing one because of the
mystery eggs. However, will I be able to hatch the eggs or will only my neighbors be able to? (Kinda
like when you find mystery eggs on your farm now).
879.
Lee
I have surrounded my avatar so he can not move, to speed up the game. However, even though I
surounded him on all sides with bales of hay, he still escapes. What am I doing wrong?
880.
linda snuffer
no one can seem to tell me what these new achevievment rewards are they are located under r neighbors
881.
Kaede Yuuki
Is anybody here who is rich in FarmVille cash kind/good enough to send me an Orange Tabby?
882.
kp8503
Lee,
You have to surround him with gates of some sort. The white picket fences are what I use, and it works
perfectly.
883.
James Vernon
http://gameolosophy.com/games/farmville-the-exphour-guide/
884.
Andy Betterthenyou
I’ve Mastered Red Tulips, Grapes, Cotton, Artichokes And Soy Beans, Well Worth The Xp.
885.
Steve
Anyone explain how I have 18 achievements? – what are they exactly? – I have a lot more ribbons than
that, so how is it worked out at 18?
886.
Nancy
887.
Muñeka
888.
malcom
i haf a problem. when i master the sunflower and when i plant the sunflower the exp didnt add it is still
adding 2xp why? i thought it should be 3xp. can any1 help?
889.
dheeni
dear Lee,
its very simple. surround him with hay bales (just 4 hay bales are enough) right where he appears when
you load the application. then it will not move around. but if you surround him elsewhere of the firm he
will be set free every time you reload application.
you may have a look at farms of those who have done it well.
enjoy Farmville
890.
FarmFiene
Posted December 1, 2009 at 9:58 am
I figured out my own strategy that really doesn\\\’t involve any math or alot of work!
First of all add everyone who\\\’s your farmville neighbor to one list on your friends page I have around
60 neighbors and when I\\\’m ready to farm I click on everyones name and I collect
there bonuses and animals! Lets say someone has a blue ribbon and a red ribbon that\\\’s 750 coins plus
multiple 50 Coin crop feritlizing bonuses. I\\\’ve easily gotten 1000 coins
from one person in 2 minutes! Just make sure to scroll down there page cause you can usually collect
bonuses up to 12 hrs after they posted it unless someone got it first!I also put a \\\”like\\\” after I collect
each bonus so I remember which ones I got!
I also have a much less complicated way of making the most money from my crops which I\\\’ll put in
another post.
891.
FarmFiene
I figured out my own strategy that really doesn’t involve any math or alot of work!
Here’s my simple solution to get more coins and advance quickly!
First of all add everyone who’s your farmville neighbor to one list on your friends page I have around 60
neighbors and when I’m ready to farm I click on everyones name and I collect
there bonuses and animals! Lets say someone has a blue ribbon and a red ribbon that’s 750 coins plus
multiple 50 Coin crop feritlizing bonuses. I’ve easily gotten 1000 coins from one person in 2 minutes!
Just make sure to scroll down there page cause you can usually collect bonuses up to 12 hrs after they
posted it unless someone got it first!I also put a “like” after I collect each bonus so I remember which
ones I got!
I also have a much less complicated way of making the most money from my crops which I’ll put in
another post.
892.
Rebecca
893.
Old MacDonald
Chuck (see above) was Level 53 last time I checked. A very interesting strategy. It goes to show there
are several ways to play this game. Pretty farms = less Leveling however perhaps more personal
satisfaction. Nothing but crops = more Leveling however perhaps more personal satisfaction. Depends
on what your goal is.
FarmFiene I think you are on to something. More neighbours = more people fertilizing your crops and
more chances for rewards = more XP and coins.
Serious farmers look me up on Facebook and add me. People who hate FarmVille so much that they still
scroll all the way to the bottom of this blog to tell us their negative opinion of the game, please don’t
bother.
894.
Renee
895.
Robert
896.
Deepak
While considering the most profitable crop to earn money and to level up, you need to consider how
many times you will be plowing also, since each plowing gives you one XP.
And also when you earn money, you spend it to buy something and hence get XP. You get 1 XP for
around 100 coins spent. E.g if you buy buy a fence for 600 coins, then you get 6 XP.
So one need to consider three aspects while deciding the most porfitable crop..
1. XP gained per day (or hour)
2. Coins earned per day (or hour)
3. Number of times plowing required per day (or hour)
897.
Eva
The new mystery box I opened has a holiday gate in it. It is like the regular gate you can buy, only it has
toy soldiers and decorations on it.
898.
jabba
899.
Gina
900.
D.C
James what level are you on? haha just wondering. im on level 32 (:
901.
zac
902.
JMREED
I kind of resent the comment up towards the middle about not having a life if you buy farmcash. Yeah, if
you’re broke and don’t have a job, of course it’s a bad idea but hey, I don’t see any harm in it. hehe I
just wanted to say the guide was helpful and gave very useful tips for playing. And many of the
comments gave answers to some questions I had so thanks to you guys too. I have over 50 friends but
more never hurt so feel free to add me – frostylyxx@yahoo.com I send gifts all the time when I’m not
working =)
903.
Old MacDonald
JMREED – I purchased FV cash for no other reason other than so that I could purchase gas so that I
could plow/seed/harvest much more efficiently. I am very disappointed. Basically $40 real dollars got
me less than 2 weeks worth of plowing faster. I will not spend $1000 real dollars per year on this game.
All I want to do is play this game without any outside cheats. Either gas becomes significantly cheaper
or I start to loose interest. This probably means moving to longer harvest time crops, spending less time
on FarmVille (therefore less time looking at advertisements which I am certain ultimately pays Zynga’s
bills) and finding a different hobby.
But it has been stated that this game is in BETA so I am sure the proper improvements will be made as
we move on!
Old MacDonald
PS: Search for me on Facebook if you are looking for a quality neighbour who gifts and fertilizes. Hugh
Hunter, Pickering, ON
904.
Michelle
Does anyone know what happened to all the quizzes and offers that you could do to earn FV cash? They
disappeared and never came back!
905.
Kate
906.
Basketguy
Thanks
907.
bikerboyz
hi everyone I ‘m new to Farmville, I don’t have to many frnds, an I need some frnds to buy in markets,
plz send request so that i can add and send gift daily …
an my id
kiran.diehard@gmail.com
908.
donpesao
well what i do to make a lot of xp is plow so i pay 15 coins.. and they give 1 xp.. and then i buy
soybeans so i pay another 15 coins but they give me 2 xp.. and when im done planting i rase them.. i
dont know if somebody wrote this already.. but yea it helps.. i pay like 10 coins for each xp.. and thas it.
909.
Kaede Yuuki
Have you guys tried planting the Poinsettias? I do think it’s real awesome! It gives you 3xp for each
seed you plant. Too bad it’ll only be on this December… And this month we’ll be having our Christmas
break, so that means no FarmVille for me for a very long time until classes resume.
ARGH!!
For peoplewin wanted to add me up as a friend, my email’s posted in my earlier comments here. Just
search. ^^.
910.
poppi
how good is poinsettias? i mean for the money per hour thing..
911.
michelle
can we please purchase more than one chicken coop? I have enough chickens to fill one and half more
coops from all the mystery eggs!
912.
Kaede Yuuki
@poppi, I’m not sure how much, because I’m only in it for the exp points. Peas also yield 3xp when
planted, but they’re not available until Level 32.
@Michelle, There’s a way to get more than one Chicken Coop. You can even have 31 Chicken Coops in
your farm! Visit http://www.farmvillefreak.com and click FarmVille Tips and Cheats…
913.
Old MacDonald
Poinsettias look like a great deal for once a day farmers. I may take advantage of them rather than peas
during the Christmas Season when need be.
Still having my e-mail battle with Zynga customer service over the cost of gas cans using real American
dollars. I recieved a canned response from them that basically explained how many plots a can of gas
will plow/plant/harvest. My second e-mail was along the lines of I don’t mind paying to play my way
but not at a rate anywhere near $20 per week. So no more gas for me unless this gets resolved.
Open question for anyone in the know. We all know that some of your Mastered crops reap XP when
you harvest. It seems random to me as to what the % is. I do know it’s not all of them. Anyone know?
Also does anyone know if fertalized Mastered crops yield 2 XP?
Old MacDonald
Hugh Hunter
Pickering, ON Canada
(currently blue shirt and tie with sunglasses standing in front of red brick wall)
914.
Bobby
All of a sudden yesterday, my farm will not show up on my laptop. i hear my animals, but no farm. any
ideas???
915.
Nora
I cant seem to see my farmville or get into it but can hear the music. I just had to reset my computer to
original settings. I updated my flash player. Don’t know what else to do. I also can see what gifts were
given to me.
916.
Kaitlin McKnight
It looks like a great guide to me, but I would suggest adding a column to your produce list which shows
the gain in cost versus selling price so that we can decide what to plant based on which makes the most
money for us.
917.
Ed
So Farmville just told me I am at the maximum level of 70. So the games over. WTF?
918.
bob
919.
shakthi
920.
marilyn Turner
seems like I am only able to plant 4 bags of fertilizer on some farms that still have no fertilized plots.
921.
mel
Umm people!!! Poinsettas are in for the christmas season!! They give a profit of 66 coins and take 1 day
to grow but they give THREE XP!!!!!!! More than anything else…if you add this to the XP from the
plowing you get 4 XP per planting for a 16*14 farm thats 970 XP !!!! PER DAY!!!! it goes away in 20
days so hurry up and plant!!!!
922.
Bill
Anyone know off any faster ways to harvest animals without having to make so many clicks?
923.
Christian
924.
evs_13
925.
DuBWiSE
@Old MacDonald,
Why bother with fuel? Its a total waste of time when u can download this for free…!
http://www.glsoft.co.uk/gridclicker/
I’m level 44 now and i can honestly say i wouldn’t have played farmville long enough to get this far if it
wasn’t for this app.
And in case you’re wondering, its not cheating….I’m sure zynga are well aware of the existence of this
app, but theres no way they can stop it.
926.
Linh
Hi everyone,
I need help!!! I was redesigning my farm, and then suddenly my farm is kind of reduced by half. I still
have all the objects and can plant on the entire farm. However I cannot move objects to the upper half.
My avatar is shifted as well, it’s not in the middle of my farm anymore. Please if someone knows how to
fix this problem, let me know.
Thank you!!!
927.
heather
that just happened to me i trapped my farmer like it said and now it out ofit ad it takes me ages now
how do you fix it??
i think itll be fixed by farmville to be honest i bet everyones farm will go bacl soner or later lol
928.
Linh
I think you can temporarily block your avatar at the new “center” until the problem is fixed. Hopefully
like you said everyone’s farm will go back to normal.
Happy farming
929.
Sally Corbett
Can anyone help me please? I’ve got a new laptop & when it loads FarmVille & CafeWorld it starts as
usual & when its about 1/2 loaded it does this little expansion jump & enlarges! It goes off centre to the
right, and down, and consequently I cannot see my gift box or visit other farms. Has anyone else
experienced anything like this or have any ideas about how to cure it?
930.
khalil
hey guys join the farmville expret group on facebook you will get lot more trick and tips daily basis
join it farmville expert
931.
MEEEE!
Posted December 9, 2009 at 10:55 am
you get fv cash for passing levels (this is why often when people buy something expensive (high in xp)
they often get more) often at the beginning some people randomly get extra
932.
Hollywood 007
933.
Hollywood 007
934.
Jo
Can you get another Christmas tree after yours if filled with gifts?
935.
Woooody
936.
nick
937.
nusrathnoori
hello i have a problem…i was trying to hide few things on face book and look i lost all the news feed
regarding farmville from friendz…help me how to regain it or undo it plll mail me on
nusrathnoori@gmail.com
938.
Alanna
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=58095&l=d8d0beb466&id=100000387588494
If anyone wants to be my neighbour and have a look then add me: Alanna De la Rouvillière
As you can see my farm extends beyond the borders and has multiple farm patches on top of each other.
939.
Rebeca
i been playn for a month and i am already n level 36* one more level and im done! any way the trip is to
buy HAY…100coins=5exp…do the math copaired to other items.
940.
stevels
The Steel Owl guide is up to date, easy to read and more accurate:
http://steelowl.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/farmville-by-zynga/
941.
Perrin
942.
stevels
I’ve slowed down to play maybe once a week. Almost level 31. Playing once a week makes trees and
animals important and I never considered planting watermelon, yellow melon or artichokes before
seeing all my grapes and sunflowers wilted three times straight because I got to busy to play.
943.
Tony
need a neighbor?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=9002693
put farmville in friend request
level 47
944.
onion
945.
Katy
How does one plow / plant soybeans / and then delete? I have not figured out how to delete a plot to try
and gain exp.
946.
Dave Max
Katy, once you have planted the crop, next to plow button is a delete button.
947.
Katy
thanks Dave
948.
DaveEd
The best plant to start out with is Eggplant. DO NOT plant Strawberries at all you’ll lose $5 a square
every time you replant. Always add $30 to the price of the planting cost then subtract that from the Sell
for. If the difference doesn’t come out to 30+ you’ll be losing money on every planting.
You have to make enough money to cover the expense of plowing and replowing which is always $15+
$15=$30.
Strawberries $15 plow/$15 replow $10 plant = $40
Harvest $35 You will lose $5 per square. Ouch!
12×12 farm A lose of $720!
949.
suraj
if i buy a 50 fuel refill and use it all then after a week will all 50 fuels refills will be recharged or just
one.
950.
Jayson
How do you get more plots to sow crops? I have 6 and have no idea how to get more, do I have to
expand the farm?
951.
James Vernon
Its hard to keep track of everything going on in game aswell as finding time to do it. Its not that i
“REFUSE to update these sections”, I just don’t have time. If you care to submit an animal or tree with
all the relevant information – It would be there.
952.
DMoney
DaveEd…. I think you’ll need to re-think your math buddy. $15 to plow and the seed costs are the only
factors to subtract… The $15 to re-plow is subtracted from the next crop…. THINK ABOUT IT
HARDER BEFORE YOU POST
953.
hector motino
http://apps.facebook.com/onthefarm/gifts.php?giftRecipient=1350383052&presentsOnly=1
can you guys send me gifts on farmville and if you give me your link ill definatey send you one back
954.
DaveEd
When I was bored one day I thought I would master all the crops starting out with Strawberries on my
24×24 farm. Upon harvesting the first crop I lost money. I planted Eggplant and made a profit.to cover
the next $15 plowing cost. I know what I’m talking about.
Strawberries
$15 to plow. $10 to plant= $25. Harvest $35 WOW $10 Okay
plow again $15 a lose of $5 going into the next harvest.
Where is the profit? Huh? lol
Eggplant
$15 to plow $25 to plant= $40 Harvest $88 WOW $48 Okay
plant again $15 with a $33 profit going into the next harvest with enough to cover the next plow. .
955.
Cam
So if you only add plow cost ONCE to every harvest [which you should] It comes out to $10 per plot
every harvest.
Strawberries DO provide a small profit, not as much as other crops but they also give more Exp…
956.
Jayson
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE…How do you get more plots to sow
crops? I have 6 and have no idea how to get more, do I have to expand the farm?
957.
Quincy
Jayson just click the plow tool then click on a spot in your farm
958.
ainstain
I’m looking for a programme which can delete or sell hale bales instead of me
do you know someting like that? I’m bored of selling them
959.
Bob M
I don’t sell the hay bales. You get just $5 back. I save a click for each bale by simply deleting them.
Saves a whole lot of work and time.
960.
ainstain
@ Bob M
961.
Farmer Mark
I posted this in another section but thought I would leave here too…also wanted to add…great site! I had
already done my “crop spreadsheet” on prof/hour and xp/hour but I did see info on another that I didn’t
think I saw here and wanted to verify. Says that crops will last twice as long as the harvest time…4 hour
crop will wither in 8 hours…do you know if this is correct?
Another thing that has helped me on plowing/planting…turn your “eye” off in the upper left hand.
Makes the picture fuzzier but cursor responds quicker.
Also log into FB homepage then open another window and go to “www.farmville.com” and hit “play”.
This puts all the “freebies” from your neighbors in one spot…I was missing them on FB. I also have less
“out of synch” errors this way.
962.
MYKEL
ADD ME FARMVILLE.
963.
Abby
964.
Abby
965.
Ash
Presents that you can receive from other friends (as the Special Present when their tree grows) are:
Striped, Orange, Coral, and Polka Dot.
Some of you really need to learn how to read. The author DOES include the xp in his calculations. Just
open your damn eyes!
966.
Heather
I have a problem, i cannot delete my plots… any idea’s on how to do this… as i need to re-arrange my
farm
967.
Nishant Aggarwal
Posted December 17, 2009 at 8:37 am
Your FAQ says that you get i farm cash for every level…..but i invested 20 farm cash and have 14 on
level 30…….according to you i should have 10………plz explain…………
968.
Anonymous
Why does my FV cash vanished when I sended holiday gifts that cost 27 FV cash and I had only 7 cash;
from the market, when there I saw from the info box that I recieve 26 cash as an overall amount after
that I sended several gifts ???? Is there anything I can do to recover my FV cash, hmmm:{ -or is there
something wrong in farmville/// is this some kind of joke???
969.
Farmville guide
I keep hearing about some version upgrade that happened in December? Does that have any effect on
strategy?
970.
Farmville Addict
@ Abby.
The average day in Farmville should be 23 hours. Maybe you’ve just been checking your crops one hour
late by any chance?
That ‘cheat’ where you can assist a farm multiple times has been long gone. You used to be able to do
that, but Zynga updated the game and the points go away after you refresh the page.
971.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=100000151124289
===============
972.
stevels
I lost FV bucks after buying Halloween items and they tell you it is a beta product and they were sorry
but they could not refund my bucks. I stopped playing for a month then got drawn back in and after
purchasing something with FV bucks I make sure I stop making any changes and wait till it says ‘Saving
your farm’ (that means buying the thing and going to bed leaving the browser open).
Try and make a case to get you FV bucks back but don’t expect results.
973.
stelio
974.
iano
guys! i need presents! i only have 16 out of 100 and i want more!
975.
Kris
976.
Ani
How do you collect your farmville $’s that are gifted to you? I’ve accepted them but they have not been
added. Thanks!
977.
Kris
Hey, can you update the guide to include XP and coins earned from seed mastery? The number varies
from crop to crop. As watermelons are easy to master I think you are understating their true value.
978.
Coolbobby
Plz add me as neigbour and send mee the gift boxes before 24th… plz… plz.. plz….
pradeep_koyilada@yahoo.co.in
979.
Sean
Great guide… I’m a newbie to Farmville, so I really enjoyed it. Quick question- I have a lot of
neighbors already so if I upgrade my farm to a 14×14 plot, does the price of the higher sizes go down? Is
it better to just save up and upgrade to the highest size (currently 22×22, but 24×24 is coming soon).
980.
Runefurb
The stated outcome per hour for Grapes in the table (7.39 per hour) is wrong. The correct answer (170 /
24) is 7.08.
981.
Quincy
@ Runefurb.
You should do a little bit of reading before trying to correct somones work. 170/23 = 7.39. Farmville has
23 hour days
982.
511
983.
Nanci Sullivan
All of my neighbors have disappeared, and the ones that were not neighbors have no id. No pictures, no
nothing.
What do I do?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanx
984.
Mark Nebraska
Same with me, all my neighbours have disappeared looks like stupid privacy policy of facebook, its
starting to suck for sure.
985.
Katy
Anyone have a reason for the disappearance of all our neighbors? Whats up with that ??? And has
everyone lost them, or just some of us?
986.
Sean
I have not lost any of my neighbors, but I only started two days ago.
Also, on my earlier post/question about upgrading farm size… if you upgrade the size of your farm to a
14×14 plot, the price of the other plot sizes remains the same. So, (I\’ll answer my own question), in
conclusion, it MAY be better to just jump to the 22×22 size farm, unless you only plan on playing once
every few days; in which case having more land in the meantime will allow you to have more fun with
all the stuff people give you. In other words, if you\’re the command and conquer type of player, then
save and upgrade to the largest plot possible. If you just like to have fun and watch your little avatar
move around, plow and plant things, then upgrade slowly. IMHO.
987.
Julia
988.
Duane
Posted December 23, 2009 at 6:08 pm
989.
Travis
I tried the cheat “visiting neighbors” oover and over and I can get a lot of XP, but the XP are gone next
time I log in. Did they block the cheat or tel me how do I save the XP I get without losing them.
990.
From what I have seen, the losing friends “glitch” was due to Facebooks “New Privacy Policy”, but
once your friends log into facebook and accept the terms they will be added back to your farm. If they
are true Farmville fans this should happen within 24 hours or so! I would say more but I am too busy
looking at the new ribbons for planting veg and ploughing land with a tractor!
991.
mr farmer man
by viewing my profile from a in the neighbors page, i noticed that i have “17 achievements”.. what does
this mean, how can i get more and what is/are the benefits of having achievements?
tnks for the guide!
992.
mr farmer man
by viewing my profile from a in the neighbors page, i noticed that i have 17 achievements. what does
this mean, how can i get more and what is/are the benefits of having achievements?
tnks for the guide!
993.
Rob Schmidt
Your Seed Guide has an error. The profit/patch for onion should be 90, not 83.
994.
Ash
You can now open your gifts! And keep accepting and opening until January 7! I’ve gotten Mystery
Boxes that have given me a Golden Fountain and Santa’s Workshop. Other things I’ve got are Golden
Chickens, Silver/Gold Ornaments, Lambs, Grey Tabbies, Gold Soldiers, Giant Lollipop II, and Cocoa
Bears.
Sean, you can’t just upgrade to one plot without buying all previous ones. Meaning, you can’t buy the
22×22 without first buying a 14×14 and those in-between.
995.
996.
Julia
997.
Sean
Posted December 24, 2009 at 4:38 pm
After doing the math, it is best to earn enough cash to upgrade to the 20X20 farm ($75,000) and THEN
use the larger land to make more money which will ultimately allow you to upgrade to the largest size of
22X22 ($250,000).
998.
HS
Thanks for all of the help! I noticed in your calculations for crops you don’t include the limited time
items like poinsettas. Any idea where those rank?
999.
sewnyador
1000.
Megan
1001.
margybee
i have been harvesting Poinsettia’s all this month and it’s been awesome!!!
And i collected over 100 gifts in my Holiday Tree, and after I ‘looked inside’ and opened the gifts (such
as fuel refills, cocoa bears, baby lambs. tabby cats, golden chickens, santa’s workshop and more!!) it
sent them to my standard gift box where I used some and sold others.
I am now on Level 36 and have over one million coins, but my farm is cramped and I am hoping the
next expansion will be unlocked before I get bored!!
1002.
aniram
Whats up with the dissappearing Neighbours tabs??? And why cant I find some of my neighbours
anymore? Why must I continually have to go to \”My Neighbours\” to clean and fertilize there farms
when they should have been down the bottom of my farm in the first place. People have not received my
Neighbour Requests including my daughters farm (which I did for her). And I have not been receiving
my requests either!!!! Oh and Remove Pending Neighbour Request is GONE so I can start all over
again…Sheesh
1003.
Steve
If this 24×24 does not appear soon I will also get bored. Once you get to level 40 the game becomes a
little tedious.
Sean in answer to your earlier query, you cannot just jump to a 22×22 plot – you have to go through the
various upgrades.
1004.
Nigel Baker
1005.
Matt
rochele
I don’t seem to gain any farm cash. I am on level 26 I believe or around there and I have been stuck at 2
farmville cash forever. I just went up a level and never got any cash. Also what are those coins that you
see when plowing??
1007.
tabby
1008.
ben
1009.
Just Someone
Great guide but whats all about superberries i cant see em or something
1010.
Lorena Cullen
Excuse me, I bought a fruit stand. For what is it??? Is it just a decoration, it was very expensive
1011.
smiles
1012.
i97cool
I looked at your best money and exp bit, and decided to do some research. (You know the 1/3 with one
day items and so on) I found out which are the best crops to use for your level!
I thought you could put it in the post!
1013.
SKZ
I have earned a lot of money waiting on my animals to be harvested. The bull, calves, and most others
yield 80 coins a day. The chickens only get you about 8. None of the animals cost anything. I pick them
up when someone finds one on their farm. It also doesn’t take up too much room .
1014.
SKZ
Posted December 30, 2009 at 3:13 pm
I have earned a lot of money waiting on my animals to be harvested. The bull, calves, and most others
yield 80 coins a day. The chickens only get you about 8. None of the animals cost anything. I pick them
up when someone finds one on their farm. It also doesn\’t take up too much room .
1015.
Granny
When I started, I plowed sloppily. Is there any way to redo this so my fields are more neatly aligned?
1016.
Very good guide, but I found 1 vital error, raspberries give 2xp every 4hours and strawberries give 3xp
every 4 hours and you’ve out above that they both give the same.
1017.
1018.
Jane
Thank you for the great tips. I am new at Farmville and this gives me some idea of how to play. Thanks
again! Jane
1019.
Granny
1020.
Granny
1021.
Cindi Jo
1022.
Farmville Book
1023.
Janie
Does anyone get the FV thing REALLY? I lost 5 FVs for no apparent reason and cannot find any
guidance on how to increase them without necessarily paying for them and why on earth they just
disappeared?
1024.
sarcastic
Posted January 1, 2010 at 9:02 pm
Why are some of you thinking this site would give you more info on Zynga’s strategy for the game?
This site was added by a player just like you and I !!!! I also think that asking this site’s owner to make
more calculations and adding spread sheets is pretty out there…..all I can say is: pick up a pencil and a
piece of paper, put on your brainiac hat and start using 4th grade math, after all, this is not rocket
science! Have a happy New Year!
1025.
olive
1026.
victoria
hello…when helping neighbors fertilize most of my 26 neighbors have “out of fertilizer”, even when the
live feed posts say they want to be fertilized. let me know, what i can do to honor this daily tradition and
not waste time. thanks for this amazing site! Ms. V
1027.
Lesley
Victoria – if your neighbours don\’t fertilise their neighbours farms, they will appear as \”out of
fertiliser\”. So if you want your farm fertilised, you need to visit your neighbours and fertilise their
farms regularly.
And for the snow thing, you can go into the market and under \”Upgrade Farm\” there should be an item
to revert back (for $1000).
1028.
Anonymous
but ven u come to 26th and above levels u need 2 get 5000 xp to go 2 the next level………… thats too
laboreous……….do u hav any other way?????????
1029.
EmmaFarmer
What a fab guide… thank you James! and collaborators, and all the comments! thanks people – fellow
farmers! It took me ages to read, in between farming last night and this morning…
its too late now to benefit anyone (so please no hating) but i tried deleting and rebuying the holiday tree,
a few *ahem* times, (before it expired) costing 10 coins, giving me 5xp each time!!! painstaking and
boring like the haybale thing, but it did helped me to level up. feel sheepish now its gone, mentioning it,
but did anyone else notice that could be done??
also, and there is still time for this one…if you have 10,000coins, buy the new year ball *while its still
there*, because, drumroll ….. it comes up with a notification that the ball is going to drop, click accept,
and you get a new year gift of 1 level up! which is an acheivement if you\’ve just made it to a particular
level, and it bumps you right up again… although i did lose 2,000xp it had given afterwards, for no
apparent reason… but beggars can\’t be choosers when i went up a level. (it might not give that, there is
some randomness with gifts so I\’ve noticed, but it did level up for my freind- so i thought it was worth
the risk getting one, and it did for me too… wouldn\’t have liked a lollipop boobyprize lol)
more commenters should read previous comments! slow though it is, it is more slow because of such
people bulking the blog-thing with repetition.
1030.
Farmvillefinatic
So much Christmas stuff. What to do with all of it? I already have 2 barns and 2 sheds which really
don’t store much. I don’t want to sell the stuff because i want to decorate next year.
1031.
Farmvillefinatic
Posted January 2, 2010 at 2:15 pm
So much Christmas stuff. What to do with all of it? I already have 2 barns and 2 sheds which really
don\’t store much. I don\’t want to sell the stuff because i want to decorate next year.
1032.
SuicidePhoenix
hi there,
im not sure but, is the raspberrie not the best for getting max cash? you pay 20coins and get 46coins so a
win of 26coins, every 2hours….per day is that 312coins.
tomatos for example cost 100coins and you´ll get 173 coins so a win of 73coins in 8hours which means
a win per day of 219, am i right? or maybe i forgot anything?
1033.
santosh
Hey guys i must appreciate you for making this very help full by sparing your valuable time.
I can make a small suggestion about the crop list given by you
Instead of ranking the crops based on the money/hour it consume it will be very good to rank them on
money returning/hour it will give you good plants to get the better earnings.
1034.
man
nice
1035.
Pirobaba
1036.
Kei
I have alot of pending neighbor request and they have been pending for three weeks. How to remove
them so i could send more request?
1037.
Love the site, we think a few people need to go back to school & learn how to work things out for
themselves, the site is very informative & a good guide. That is all it is, an informative guide, why do
some people, in the middle of questions, enter `invite me, I will send gifts` how pathetic. aren`t you
prepared to work for your rewards? My Wife & I are both level 51 without cheating.P.S. rather than
plant poinsetias for 3 xp`s, we plant peas for 3 xp`s & are working towards the mastery. Look beyond
the carrot on the stick. When we have visitors, we do not let our p.c.`s take over conversation & when
we visit, we make sure we plant a long enough crop to survive until our return. It`s a game! just
remember that & enjoy it for what it is. We do.
1038.
Star
I love your guide on which seeds end up giving off the most money but… did you ever consider making
a guide saying which would be best for an average person who spends about 14-18 hours
sleeping/eating/out? Because obviously the 4 hours crops aren’t going to do any good if you’re not home
for them, whereas you might make more money with 1-day crops that were planted the previous day. I
mean that should be taken into account. If you want I could do the math and make a list of the best
plants to use if you’d like… I’d just need to know what the hour-amout would be (ex. based on a day
where a person is busy for 15 hours and free for 8, busy for 18 free for 6) or I could make up few lists,
but if you’d like that to be done I’d kinda like to know before I begin work.
1039.
a good Farmviller
Posted January 4, 2010 at 10:37 am
Hey u guys should move wheat up the list i use wheat alot ( 88 plots ) and it is a good profit, not much
xp but lots of profit, it costs 35 coins ( per plot) and u get 115 ( per plot ) so u do the math
1040.
Kristian
1041.
Brian C
Several questions:
-I just made level 37. It says at 117,000 XP I will make level 38, but level 37 is the highest level that
removes a crop purchase restriction (asparagus). Is there any value (in terms of unlocking purchasable
items) to the levels above 37?
-Regarding the newly added ribbon achievements related to mystery boxes, if I am reading correctly a
mystery box costs 5 FV cash. I had been wanting to get all ribbons, but I also have not yet spent any
‘real’ money and don’t want to start. If I currently have 20 FV cash, is there any way for me to get more
than 4 mystery boxes without spending real money?
-Finally. I want to echo the request for more chicken coops. I have 4 dairy farms, I could use at least 2
(maybe 3) more coops right now.
1042.
Dan
Once you are a level 70 is it possible to get farmville dollars since you cant level up anymore?
1043.
Rikke
Anyway, when I started playing the game, I tried doing it, but it did not work for me.
But playing without this cheat does not make the game less fun!
1044.
Starlet Hunt
After not being able to play FV all day, I think it would be a good gesture of Zygna to reward. A
mystery box, FV dollars, or
something worth while.
1045.
Farm Chick
Thanks for all the helpful hints and for calculating best crops! Saved me from doing a crazy excel
spreadsheet! Ignore the negativity, you’re a good man.
1046.
Mary Beth
1047.
Anne
Star, I have made a guide for myself and posted it on my blog. I have calculated the best crops for coins
and exp if you only want to play twice a day (once every 12 hours). Not sure if this will help you. Send
me a message via facebook if you would like to have a look.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=770873178
1048.
Anand WHY
leo_anand@yahoo.com
AY
Thanks!
1049.
Mary Beth
UGH! I planted carrots last night and they are not showing up at all. Anyone else have this problem?
1050.
Peter
@Mary Beth: I assume you’re referring to the expansion grid 24X24. I am at level 48 and still can’t
expand. I think once Zynga improves their servers can we expect to expand again.
Zynga should give perks to those of us who are at higher levels, such as faster recharging of our fuel
tanks, discounts on seed crops, more items to gift away that others can’t. They keep adding more ribbons
for us to achieve or offering decorative junk that cost $$ to buy. I own a villa but would like to be
offered a chateau or castle.
1051.
Roland
Hi, just wanna know if there’s a way to catch all farmville posts of my friends & neighbors as in real
time. thanks!
1052.
farhan
1053.
How To FarmVille
Great listing.
1054.
James Vernon
“”"”"”"”"”"”"SUGGESTION”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”
“”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"
1055.
Big R
Change your background. White letters on a black background just don\’t cut it. It is very hard for some
older folks to read.
Thank you
1056.
James Vernon
1057.
Zippy :)
heyy sup
my cat just farted and i wanna know
what lvl are you james?
1058.
Anne
hi James,
There’s a new flower, Morning Glory. Great for exp and quite pretty too.
1059.
karan
what should we do if we selected a friend to send gift and it says it did not select anyone
1060.
Avaxier
Hey, great guide. Still very popular even until now. Good job!
1061.
rob
“””””””””””””SUGGESTION”””””””””””””””””””””””
“””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””
read anna’s post above
you didnt add morning glory yet.. may be be the best 12hr crop
1062.
Jaineym
your seed guide is very helpful,I’ve been working it out myself but do put it in numerical order! plz
1063.
Farmville Hints
1064.
JimbohP
grapes are actually the best for one day crops, about 5 coins more than peas gives you in profit, but peas
give you 3 xp not 2 when planted
1065.
Maxx
This Farmville Secrets Reviews. It\’ll help you Rich Fast on Framville Game. Easy !.
1066.
patricia
I wish we had been given more information about the barn raising thing and how to get another chicken
coop, there is so much confusion going around about it
1067.
superpsychomom
******************GENERAL QUESTION******************
**************************************************************
What are “They of Mystery Boxes?” Where do I find them, how do I open them, etc?
This is by far the most informative Farmville site I have come across that didn’t want you to pay!
BTW: The 2 chicken coop was a cheat that was linked through a FB group and the “Barn Raising” thing.
Unfortunately you can no longer do it because the group has since been removed from FB, I think that
they may have gotten busted. I got a 2nd coop before they took it down, but one of my friends now has
SEVEN coops!
1068.
FarmVille
The Website:
http://bit.ly/Free_FarmVilleGuide
1069.
Tara
Does anyone know if they going to take away the extra coops??
I found a 2nd one, it was like inside my first one and all my extra chickens went into it. I don’t want to
loose all the chickens that went into it.
1070.
James Olive
Hi! Nice site, very helpful. I wanted to warn you that now, as it is possible to gift 1/2 tank of fuel for
free, you should correct the FAQ section in the Tips part. Also, I don’t know if you can, but you should
reduce the space of comments as it makes the whole page extremely big. It would look better if you only
had the most recent posts. Thanks for the guide again. It was very helpful indeed
1071.
tunafish
1072.
blackcool70
Viv
If you buy a chicken coop or dairy farm, does it earn you more money or points than just having cows or
chickens as normal?
1074.
Aline
don’t forget about the starfruit tree….it gives you 100 coins when u harvest
1075.
FarmVille
The Website:
http://bit.ly/Free_FarmVilleGuide
1076.
Gene K
The new “White Corn” is a fantastic deal if you’re willing to donate 25CF dollars to Haiti relief. BIG
return on your planting in EXP and coins and plants don’t wilt.
1077.
thumbsucker
Posted January 15, 2010 at 7:36 pm
1078.
selin
I sold my cottage for 3000 coins but i didnt get back coins. they are lost!! I re entered my farm so many
times but it didnt work.. please help me, if anyone knows about this…
1079.
sulman
1080.
Olive
Hi fellow farmers!
I have written a crop alarm program for Farm Town and FarmVille. I wrote it mostly for my own use
and enjoyment, but I think it turned out pretty good so I thought I would offer it here to anyone who is
interested.
I made a little website that explains the program (including some screenshots). It is at http://www.kjk-
software.webege-dot-com (replace “-dot-” with “.”).
[quote]Farm Report is a free crop alarm program to be used in conjunction with Farm Town or
FarmVille. It will help you keep track of the crops and other harvestable products on your farms. You
can see, at a glance, when each of your products will be harvestable, and when they will go to waste (if
appropriate). When a product is ready for harvest, Farm Report will display a Crop Ready alarm on your
desktop. [/quote]
kathleen rymer
a popup came up on my farm saying that you can find mystery items on my farm when i play. does
anyone know anymore about this? i have not found anything so far. i was wondering if this was an up
and coming feature, or an active feature? will things automatically be found, or something on farm you
need to click on? thanks!
1082.
lonnie poore
there is a problem with me farmville game.i tried to download my farmville update for the tool bar,but
now my game freezes how can i re download the tool bar? what web site do i got to go too? please send
response to lpoore420@yahoo.com
1083.
kathleen rymer
ok lol i looked under my farm, and i found the new collections feature, but it does not give anymore
info. has anyone who found any collectibles give me more info thanks!
1084.
Nicky
I only have animals and trees because I don’t usually remember to harvest a lot and if you have a dairy
farm and a chicken coop, it takes up a lot less space than 20 cows or chickens would.
1085.
Nicky
Posted January 16, 2010 at 9:09 pm
I only have animals and trees because I dont usually remember to harvest a lot and if you have a dairy
farm and a chicken coop, it takes up a lot less space than 20 cows or chickens would.
1086.
Ren
1087.
Renando Sy
1088.
rob
1089.
Bill Marcet
Please Add Me As a Neighbor….. Thanks for the help in advance Bill Marcet
1090.
katy
1091.
corst65
1092.
Rose2798
1093.
Rose2798
But I do have something else to say… For buying decorations and selling them just for XP. Why don’t
you just plow and delete?
1094.
Sea
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#/profile.php?ref=name&id=100000580719611
1095.
DCH1234545
1096.
Camille Barker
How many plots per fruit or vegetable must one plant to receive achievement ribbons?
1097.
Farmville Strategy
1098.
Brandon
HELLO,
Ive realized that by buying Hay Bales and deleting them seems to be the most effective way to gain
experience points, as it is 5 XP for only 100 coins. It can be time consuming, but if you have a few
minutes of time every day, it is quite productive.
If you so happen to have 50,000 coins, which should be easy to come by, thats a quick 2500 XP (much
cheaper than the windmill). That would mean buying 500 Hay Bales (20×25), which wouldnt take much
space at all considering you can fit 16 Hay Bales in 1 square.
Yeah I did figure this out by myself lol
Youre welcome
1099.
EC
Posted January 19, 2010 at 9:16 pm
Do any of the buildings make money ie post office, general store, wind mill?
Thanks
1100.
karen
1101.
urmi
1102.
Dave
1103.
Dave
1104.
ZICS
When i click on market when trying to plnat anything, I see “raspberries, sell for 46 coins, harvest in 2
hours”, but anything about exp… and when I plant, no exp is being added…. do you know what’s
happening? Simply, one day stopped!
I’m level 27 right now.
Thank you!
1105.
allan
you made a slight miscalculation on the earnings of the grapes. you were close. but you forgot to
subtract the cost of plowing the land. so the actuall coins per hour profit is 7.0833333333 making it just
slightly less valuable than the tomatoes. i almost made the same mistake when i was calculating the
profitability of the crops. and at my current level of 21, the tomatoes are most profitable. i cant wait until
i am a high enough lvl to grow peas. if you would like me to, i would be happy too check over the rest of
your numbers to assure there validity.
1106.
malc
hey! in some screen shoots on the intro you can see land at different levels? any one know how to do
this? could do with more neighbors for 24 >< 24 expand
1107.
ladyzordhic
Posted January 22, 2010 at 1:59 pm
1108.
Terri
Malc, if you stack fences or hedges vertically, or if you space out hay bales (experiment), you will see
that it creates the illusion of different levels.
1109.
Gabes
“Wanting fast levels means you wish to spend money on it. Buildings yield a lot of experience –
however will cost you a large amount of your money
. Eg. A windmill is bought for 100,000 Coins and Given 1,000Exp. Or 1% of what you paid…In Exp!!
(An imaginary building cost 750,000 – You get 7,500Exp)”
I think Hay Bale is better, 100 coins to buy and 5 exp gain. 5% of what you pay. It’s a big difference!
(but you will need more space)
1110.
Make Beats
1111.
Meara
Posted January 24, 2010 at 3:58 am
In another update, I think you should note that FV no longer gives out free coins when you visit
everyday. Unfortunately they took that away.
1112.
lewis
There is an all new method to earn some extra cash on FarnVille. Visit this group for details.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=262804457671
1113.
Barbara
I hope someone can help me. I’m not receiving any postings from “my neighbors” on my homepage.
Like when some has an animal to adopt or eggs to hatch, I don’t receive any of those postings. Does
anyone know what I have to do to get them. Is there a setting I need to accept? Thanks!
1114.
Jochem
1115.
Ashley
Your TREE guide does not make sense. Like the Acai.. you said it is ready in 2 days with 158 coins.. but
158/2 is 79… NOT 47… This is my list of Trees that I have generated, in order by day, then by most
coins generated:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2 days:
Acai: 2 days with 158 coins profit. (1 day = 79 coins)
Ornament I: 2 days with 150 coins profit. (1 day = 75 coins)
Ornament II: 2 days with 150 coins profit.
Maple (orange): 2 days with 150 coins profit.
Red Maple: 2 days with 25 coins profit. (1 day = 12.5 coins)
Yellow Maple: 2 days with 25 coins profit.
Cherry: 2 days with 18 coins profit. (1 day = 9 coins)
3 days:
Date: 3 days with 69 coins profit. (1 day = 23 coins)
Banana: 3 days with 56 coins profit. (1 day = 18.6 coins)
Grapefruit: 3 days with 50 coins profit. (1 day = 16.6 coins)
Walnut: 3 days with 50 coins profit.
Lemon: 3 days with 41 coins profit. (1 day = 13.6 coins)
Cashew: 3 days with 41 coins profit.
Avocado: 3 days with 37 coins profit. (1 day = 12.3 coins)
Fig: 3 days with 33 coins profit. (1 day = 11 coins)
Plum: 3 days with 30 coins profit. (1 day = 10 coins)
Apple: 3 days with 28 coins profit. (1 day = 9.3 coins)
4 days:
Olive: 4 days with 112 coins profit. (1 day = 28 coins)
Starfruit: 4 days with 100 coins profit. (1 day = 25 coins)
Apricot: 4 days with 56 coins profit. (1 day = 14 coins)
Peach: 4 days with 47 coins profit. (1 day = 11.75 coins)
Orange: 4 days with 40 coins profit. (1 day = 10 coins)
5 days:
Pomegranate: 5 days w/ 108 coins profit. (1 day = 21.6 coins)
Passion Fruit: 5 days with 93 coins profit. (1 day = 18.6 coins)
Lime: 5 days with 75 coins profit. (1 day = 15 coins)
Let me know if you see any flaws. The number of days until ready / # coins produced when harvested
was found at farmvillefreak.com. Thanks!
1116.
James Vernon
1117.
Shaddy
1118.
farmerboy11
If i am correct you will gain 124,760 a DAY if u plant grapes with a 20×22 field just think if you do that
every day you will become a millionare by weeks end
this means
:week =873,320$$
:month average 4 weeks = 3,493,280!!
: Yearly income with grapes = 41,919,360$$
+ you get 2 xp per day per crop and then if you master this crop you even gain more for harvesting
grapes are the way to go
1119.
Mittens
I noticed in your fast leveling section you mention purchasing things that give you exp such as barns.
Every item purchased gives you 1% exp as you stated except for hay bales. Hay bales give you 5 exp
and only cost 125 coins. Though it is tedious work I have been buying as many hay bales as I can fit on
my farm and then selling them again whenever I have extra cash. This seems to me to be the best way to
get exp by spending money. Better than any barns or silos or anything.
1120.
JED
If you want to boost your EXP, use your whole farm to plow and plant seeds. And by whole, what i
mean is plow your farm at its maximum capacity. And for those remaining little space, plant em trees.
Lemon is the best. As for buildings and decorations, I don’t recommend on buying them because all they
do is take up huge spaces on your farm. But one technique I use everytime now that my farm is already
full, I spend all my remaining coins on buying the cheapest haybale but with the most EXP given, and it
that case, that wooul be the regular one, see 100coins=5exp. So for every 40000coins I have, I get
2000exp from buying haybales. A barnhouse(which also costs 40000coins), gives you just 400exp. A
huge difference in there, right? After I buy the haybales, I sell them again. Hope that makes sense.
1121.
Tina
Farmville had a promotion going. It said if you become a fan you can expand your farm to 24 x 24. Well
I became a fan but I didn’t get my expantion. How do I get it? Can you help me out?
1122.
Gerda
I think in September last year people could get a FV hot air balloon.
TODAY a friend of mine (being level 30..I am level 36) got a hot air balloon and she doesn’t want to
say how.
Thank yo so much.
1123.
C.Baxter
1124.
Sheri
I don’t want to sound dumb but what does experience points in Farmville buy you. I can’t find anything
anywhere that explains that to me. I have only been playing for a couple of weeks.
1125.
Ajay
@Sheri
Experience points is the counter which shows ur level. u need to acquire a certain amount of experience
points to move up to each level.
1126.
James Vermon
Hey everyone. I had a friend over last night, we made love and he stuck his doodle up my rear end. Now
i just want to clarify, does anyone else want to stick their pee pee in my bottom?
1127.
Mike
Sheri,
That is not a dumb question especially for a “newbie”. You want to try and plant the crop that gives you
the most XP and the most coins per hour. The more experience you get the higher the level you get. The
higher the level you get you can buy seeds for crops that make more money per hour. Use the guide
above to choose what seeds are available to you at the level you are on. The more you level the more
Farm Cash you earn. A tip is to get all the neighbors you can. So you can expand your farm and plant
more crops the more plots you have the more $ you can make. Don’t waste your Farmville Dollars on
outhouses and chicken (which is the thing right now) but dont buy them (like I did) I spent 45 FV $ for a
Golden, Black and Brown chicken and within 25 hours I had 15 Golden Ones 3 Black ones and 15
Brown ones.From checking my neighbors’ wall.
Have fun with it.
1128.
bandicoot802
1129.
valentina
1130.
Jay
Masterys give u exp each time u harvest no matter one when 3 stars.And when friends harvest crops u
get more!
1131.
Jay
I mean fertilize
1132.
ted
Surely if you have a website about farmville that is first on google, you would edit it daily. But unlike
me, you are lazy and don’t edit it monthly.
1133.
linda
1134.
kim
k… sorry but another ‘dumb’ how can i get more neighbors. wanna get a bigger plot….. but not many
on my list wanna join. can you add ppl that are not on your friends list?
1135.
sarah
@kim
If you’re fan of Farmville group, you can add lots of people who offer to be added. you can see them
writing comments to the feed of Farmville group.
@linda
you can take the “delete”-button right at the bottom and delete fields. that should be possible. but I had
this problem also when I played Farmville on my old PC.
1136.
sarah
1137.
Hanne Merry
1138.
Hanne Merry
1139.
jamesvernonissad
james vernon you are the worlds saddest mannnn u saddd mannnnnnn i feel sorry for youuuuuuu
1140.
Rajneel
Just wanted to say thanks James Vernon. Nice work, good effort and much appreciated. (Good info for
novice and adept FarmV players)
PS. Don’t listen to others about anything negative, absorb only the positive and happy farming. People
sometimes are quick to criticize or ridicule, seldom praise or appreciate.
1141.
cassandra goen
1142.
Amamr
Cool, eh????
1143.
Amamr
I’ve got a good idea for gainin more XP, if ur gonna be late out or gone for a few days n don noe wat to
plant, or u just wanna get some XP while sitting on ur comp doin nothin, try this,
When u play the game on facebook, there is a button above that says Neighbours, just go to that and see
directly below it, atleast someone will need help with foxes, weeds, etc, just help them n u get 5XP for
that, n 1XP for any fertilizing, so by just helping one friend, u got 10 XP, which is way more than any
crop gives based on hour, now just go back to neighbours n help the next person, than the next, and so
on, u may never need to plant anything (That is if u only wanna level up, little cash).
Cool, eh????
1144.
Hey, nice Guide, I (and many other people) want to thank you for it =]. But i’ve seen u’ve made a few
mistakes, and i havent check the updates or something, or if anyone has posted this before me, but i’ve
noticed you made a crucial mistake in the section of ‘Best of both Money & Exp (7.)’
But you are wrong, to harvest the whole farm is only every 6 days, if u calculate the Greatest common
divisor of 1, 2 and 3 (the days each seed takes to be ready for harvesting), you will notice that is 6, so, in
the 1st day you’ll only harvest the 1 day seeds, in the 2nd day, you’ll only harvest the 1day seeds and the
2 days seeds, but in the 3rd day, you i’ll only be able to harvest the 1 day seeds (planted the day before)
and the 3 days seeds (planted in the beggining, which would be 3 days before that), BUT the 2 days
seeds (planted only one day before that day) won’t be ready yet, and this will keep happening until the
6th day, where the 1 day seeds will be planted one day before, the 2 days seeds 2 days before, and
finally, the 3rd days seeds 3 days before.
I just hope you understood, =P. It’s quite logical if you think of it =]. Well, i hope you good luck and
Thank You Very Much again for the guide, it’s been real useful. =D.
1145.
Hey, nice Guide, I (and many other people) want to thank you for it =]. But ive seen youve made a few
mistakes, and i havent check the updates or something, or if anyone has posted this before me, but i\’ve
noticed you made a crucial mistake in the section of Best of both Money & Exp (7.)
But you are wrong, to harvest the whole farm is only every 6 days, if u calculate the Greatest common
divisor of 1, 2 and 3 (the days each seed takes to be ready for harvesting), you will notice that is 6, so, in
the 1st day youll only harvest the 1 day seeds, in the 2nd day, youll only harvest the 1day seeds and the
2 days seeds, but in the 3rd day, you ill only be able to harvest the 1 day seeds (planted the day before)
and the 3 days seeds (planted in the beggining, which would be 3 days before that), BUT the 2 days
seeds (planted only one day before that day) wont be ready yet, and this will keep happening until the
6th day, where the 1 day seeds will be planted one day before, the 2 days seeds 2 days before, and
finally, the 3rd days seeds 3 days before.
I just hope you understood, =P. Its quite logical if you think of it =]. Well, i hope you good luck and
Thank You Very Much again for the guide, its been real useful. =D.
1146.
Jack
stephanie
hey nice guide..i had a quick question and im not sure if you will know the answer but here it is..how
much time after my plants are finished growing do i have until they wilter?
1148.
Koemans
What about the valentine flowers? i think they are a very good investment atm!
1149.
Jo
I really appreciate this guide. Farmville can be confusing and if it is still in it’s infant stage then even the
programmers would have issues with it. I enjoy playing it and it is just a game – although some of the
more hardcore amongst you may disagree with that statement. THANK YOU JAMES VERNON FOR
CREATING THIS WEBSITE. You and you’re loyal followers have helped me understand this game
and as a result I will enjoy it all the more.
1150.
lawyer
hey stephanie, how much time they need to get fully grow, they need same… ex. strawberry 4 hours +
4h. = 8h
1151.
Jhe
1152.
farmvilleaddict
Does anyone’s horse stable show up completed sometimes and then goes back to being under
construction? Are they trying to tease us?
1153.
Snowed in Virginia
Olives yield 112 coins. I did the math after I harvested one.
1154.
d wise
watermelons will expire in 6 days not eight, yes Ihave noticed that when I visit a friends farm their
stables are complete, but when I ask that friend they really aren\’t.
I have noticed this weekend that my rewards are not posting to facebook, is that the same for everyone?
1155.
plymelk
1156.
GreenSheep
The next day when the level 2 Items ripen (Just before the newly replaced crops that take 1 day) you can
harvest both of them, and plant twice as many peppers/peas.
On day 2 he’s planting 1 day seeds in both harvested areas (twice as many). So on day 3 he’ll harvest 2
sections of 1 day seeds and one section of 3 day seeds. Idk why he’s planting 1 day crops again on day
2, probably because they give more money/xp then the 2 day crops.
Personally I don’t like this strategy. Harvesting your whole farm is a real pain when you’ve got a 20×20
farm or bigger. It’s so much more comfortable to harvest only some areas each day.
**********************SUGGESTION******************************
Saving Fuel
Don’t use all the fuel of one refill. The tank you started will refill again, so the next day you have an
entire tank again. That way you don’t use all your refills that quickly. When you think you’re almost
done with harvesting, plowing and seeding, you should watch your fuel. Just before your tank empties
you should switch to manual harvesting/plowing/seeding instead of using your farming vehicles, so the
maximum amount of fuel will be given back to you the next day.
***********************************************************************
****************************CORRECTION***************************
Animals
Firstly you should update the animal section, you can’t buy chickens and cows anymore, they’re
giftable.
Adopted animals and animals received as gifts don’t cost any money at all and some give a whole bunch
of money everyday (eg calfs and bulls). If you don’t have much space animals can also be put neatly
together as it’s possible with trees. And with the new chicken coop and the dairy farm you can save lots
of space. The money you get from selling is much less than the amount you would get from keeping
them.
Plus they look cute ^^. Best decorations ever,
And I think you should somewhere mention that trees and animals don’t “wither” as crops do. That can
be really useful if you can’t get to the game for a longer time. If that happens and all your crops have
withered, you get a money boost from trees and animals so you can plow all plots and buy new seeds
(which should be taken into account if you don’t have much money).
***********************************************************************
P.S.: Very useful, James, thanks a lot. Saves me a lot of time of calculating .
1157.
jason
wey cant people put two or more chicken coops on your farm i have to many chicken and it made me
sell my chicken coop and i can not buy oneony more
1158.
Chip
James,
Your account has been hacked. Unless the doodle up the rear end thing was real… Just a heads-up, bro.
I’d love to hear some tips on the collectibles. When you get your password back.
1159.
rebecca
Facebook says i have like 50 gifts and when i go to accept them it brings me right to farmville and there
are no gifts in my giftbox and they have also dissappered in my waiting to be accepted page. Anyone
else having this issue?
1160.
Tahir
Hey farmville addicters! I know everyone has a problem about click the farm…
It takes long time to click every area to plow and waste your lifetime.
So I recomend you an easy way to play faster farmville… It provides you to grow faster, increase your
production ratio, will save on your real lifetime…
Visit http://www.farmatik.com and let it do your click and enjoy your game…
Go Go GO!!!
1161.
mhelward
chelsea
1163.
Kibuza
I found another really good guide for Farmville. it does cost money…. but I use it myself and it\’s really
good. I already have 3 of the villas and like $1000000. Take a look if you\’re interested.
http://430b5zazf56u2k07no1lmbz957.hop.clickbank.net/
1164.
Angela
1165.
Erin Drake
does anyone know how many crops it takes to reach master? I have mastered a few already, but was
wondering what the actual number is …
1166.
debashree
1167.
riton
I’m a big fan of farmville, it’s a really funy game on fb. I got a cheap secret book to get to the top users
of farmville on this shop http://bit.ly/cmwqdq
1168.
vaughn
i am new to framvilee…the game is very interesting and addictive…however i am confuse about playing
the game. i want to increase my level, was reading the bog and was very interested in the soybeans
technique…but i dont know exactly how to go about it can anyone advise me
1169.
boots
just to make sure i am getting this correct, the only way to get farmcash is by buying it with US dollars?
i dont have the kind of money for that.. is there any other way to get farmcash other than paying for it?
1170.
Len
You can always guess at which is the best seed to plant, or you could use this cool crop calculator that I
found: http://www.farmvilleliving.com/calculator
1171.
Juan
1172.
Postcard
1173.
Farmville Newbie
Thanks for taking the time. I surely did bookmark this page
1174.
Hally
1175.
sgg
1176.
Jeanne
I see this says you get 1 FV for each level. I am at level 17 and only have 11. Am I missing something?
At this rate, I will never be able to enlarge my farm without actually spending money. HELP
1177.
swetha
1178.
Andrew
I have a neighbor who can places 5 plots on a normal 1 plot (like one on the other) how will she do
that ?? in that way you can earn 5xp instead of 1xp per plot. She uses 1 plot area but have 5 plots. pls pls
tell me how is that possible.
1179.
DrBak
the assisting ‘cheat’ doesn’t work, all the money and xp earned in this way disappear after closing the
page
1180.
Andi
At the moment are the Golden Poppies the best crops. It costs 120 Coins and you get 200 coins and 2 XP
in 8 hours. That makes 8.125 coins per hour.
1181.
Morten
If you want to get unlimited money, maxed out my farmville cash, earn every ribbon plus, tons of
seeders, harvesters and Tractors and STILL have lots of Cash Left,
then check this out
http://bit.ly/bDuqDF
1182.
Farmvilleplayer91
Actually works!
“If you want to get unlimited money, maxed out my farmville cash, earn every ribbon plus, tons of
seeders, harvesters and Tractors and STILL have lots of Cash Left,
then check this out
http://bit.ly/bDuqDF
1183.
vanderer
I often read people complaining about too few fuel in FarmVille. So I thought about the issue and would
like to make a suggestion:
FACTS:
1) You have maximally 150 Fuel units
2) Every 2.5 minutes (2min30sec) you get another unit of Fuel
3) An empty Fuel Tank fills up in 150*2.5 min=375min=6.25h(6:15)
CONCLUSIONS:
With 1 full fuel tank you can harvest, plow, seed 50 plots at a time using machines. This means every
6.25 hours you can harvest, plow and seed 50 plots.
What if…
1) You seed stuff that doesent take long to grow eg: Berries
Berries take 4 hours to grow. Once planted you’ll have to harvest them after 4 hours. But your problem
will be that your tank isn’t full yet. So youll have to do the rest by hand
2)You seed stuff that takes long enought to fill up your tank meanwhile eg: Tomatoes, SugarCane…
After 8 hours they’ll be ready to harvest and you’ll have your tank full again. but then we are still
talking about only 50 plots yo’re managing, which is quite a poor exploit.
After yo’ve planted the first 50 fields of brocoli you can wait 6.25 hours and then plant another 50
because the others aren’t ready to harvest yet. then you can plant your third 50, your fourth, fifth and
sixth (theoretically you could do even more but let’s asume someone’s working and has only time in the
morning, at noon and in the evening.)
In summa this makes >>>>300 fields<<<< you manage.
But you can get even more by plantig even longer taking stuff
1184.
careymcdill
1185.
james
wow, i got 500,000 coins using this auto-harvest, auto-plants program view the fans page to download
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Farmville-Cheat-Bot-Program-play-while-you-sleep/345121519663?
ref=ts
1186.
Nirav
1187.
Velox
For gaining XP this guide says to plow (15 coins, 1coin) then plant soybeans (15coin, 2xp) then delete
and repeat. However that works out to 30 coins for 3 exp, or 10 coins spent for 1 xp. That is, you gain
Xp equal to that of 1% of money spent. Therefore, it is easier to buy buildings at 1% xp of money spent
instead of spending time plowing, planting, and deleting.
1188.
Velox
1189.
Irish lad
Thanks for taking the time to inform and help some of the rest of us out. For others just remember it is
only still a game.
1190.
nazeem
i tried to expand my farm but they asked me to have a homestead.what is the homestead means????
1191.
Amber Dill
I think we should be able to exchange coins for farmville dollars…. It is a game, why should I have to
pay to earn cash when I have almost 300,000 in coins that I will never use??? I am tempted to not play
anymore… you take the fun out of it for people who are poor and cant afford to pay cash to play….
figure out another way we can get cash!
1192.
joad
hey Amber, to buy ep with coins just plow (15 coins, 1xp) then plant soybeans (15coin, 2xp) then delete
and repeat. any other purchase for xp will have you pay 100 coins per xp..
1193.
j-rock
you need to add in the fertilizing crops for getting fuel, since they just added that in. Other than that,
freaking awesome guide.
1194.
James Vernon
If someone knows my E-mail though, i thiink they can just use it since it appears with the picture
automatically
1195.
darlene
1196.
Rosa
my fuel hasn’t been refilling over time for the past 2 days or so. did they get rid of that or is it just me?
1197.
Farmville Expert
1198.
combi
1199.
Kimonte
1200.
Meela
Grapes are actually the best crop the plant cause they cost less and give more money AND Exp.
1201.
Sjuul
1202.
David
Yea like someone else said, you now get fuel from fertilizing crops (or buying with real money) instead
of waiting.
1203.
shane
One other way of getting more virtual cash is to go to your neighbours farms on a regular basis. More
often than not you will see a notification asking you if you would like to do a job on the farm. This will
earn you some extra coins.
http://www.fastlevelingguides.com/Farmville/Strategy-Guides/farmville-secrets.html
1204.
Ozzy
Click Here!
I guarentee this tells you everything you need to know about farmville. lvl 12-36 in 2 days it helped me
achieve!
1205.
MILLIE
THE MAISON COSTS 5000 COINS AND SELLS COMPLETE FOR 250 COINS. SOUNDS LIKE
THE HOUSING MARKET.
1206.
farmvilleSecrets
Click Here!
1207.
b b vnbv
Click Here!
1208.
rmralaub
1209.
Sara
1210.
Jay
You no longer get xp for every plant if you have mastered it. I just found that out today when I was
harvesting grapes and I already mastered it.
1211.
rahul
1212.
sam
so i cashed in ten spring eggs to redeem a mystery egg. the surprise inside was to make my avatar
character double the size. i thought it was cool at first but as soon as i applied it i hated it. i want to know
how to get rid of it and make my character normal size again!!
1213.
Searles
1214.
eF
how do oi delete someone from the gift list? i have business ppl there that dont even play farmville and i
would like to delete them from there
1215.
James Vernon
1216.
Laura Griffin
I only recently started Farmville. I have been gifted several gold items, bear, horseshoe, etc. and can do
nothing with them. I don’t have the pot it takes to use them, but the game gives me the message that I
can trade them for other items.
How do I do THAT?
Laura
1217.
Kris
Hi. I’m very confused as to how people are able to upgrade to a 24×24 Mighty Plantation. From what
I’ve been reading you can only get FV cash if you 1) Buy it with real-life money or 2) Gaining 1 FV for
every level you go up. Also, you must upgrade to 16×16 before upgrading to 18×18 etc with each
upgrade averaging 20 FV. If this is all true then without using real life cash.. it would take me A
VERRRY LONG TIME as well as have to be atleast level 100+ (was trying to calculate it but suck at
math) to upgrade to 24×24 Mighty Plantation… I’m sure that can’t be right!!!
1218.
Lenoir
A great guide! Exactly what i was looking for! Thank you so much for sharing this, I know you’ve put a
lot of work in making it.
P.S: it needs a little updating…(new trees, new animals..etc.) ^_^
1219.
Kris
Has anybody had any problems with receiving gifts?? I received a couple of gifts but they couldnt be
recognised??? I tried adding some friends. It doesn;t show up at the bottom where my other friends
profile pictures are. But when i click on the Ribbons list it says that i have 8 neighbours..??? Then when
i click on the My Neighbours tab I have neighbours there that have ? on their picture…??? I’m
wondering if i screwed it up somehow…
HELP PLZ
1220.
Ansted
1221.
siddharth raman
1222.
Jerry
re Kris; you usually have two options for enlarging the farm; either schrute bucks (oops, wrong game)
OR, coins, but you have to have plenty of neighbors to use the coins. I never used farm cash at all and
have the 24×24, by having 30 neighbors and spending a shirtload of coins, but once you are that big,
coins come easy.
Note, when getting eggs from the gift box, wait after taking the egg… the gift box will reappear
automatically. If you click on the gift box again and again you seem to lose eggs. If you wait until it
reappears then you don\’t lose any.
I have a Q on co-ops; is it better to wait until a job starts to plant, or is it OK to get a bit of a jump by
planting a couple hours before a job starts? Is it worth plowing crops in progress under, or let them
mature if they are the target crop? I\’ve had pre-planted grapes count towards a job, but I think once you
start harvesting you cut off additional help, but I\’m not sure. I just wish there were a way to keep non-
participants from getting benefits from jobs that others plant hundreds for. I\’ve had people join the co-
op and not plant a single crop, but get the prize when we finish with gold. Too bad.
1223.
Farmville Game
Nice table showing which trees and seeds you should plant.
1224.
Catherine
I need friends to expand so if you’re in the same situation ad me. My email address is
resirected_angel@hotmail.com.
1225.
Denice
æbabara
hejtiz@live.dk
Thanks!
1227.
bob
lotus are currently the best with the current event giving 9+ g/hr
1228.
Bijoy
1229.
Rhea
Do you know how long you have after the 24 hour feeding time you get before your puppy runs away? I
have fed it a half hour after the feeding time and it was still there, but flashing.
1230.
umair
hi
i seems to have a problem,,,,i got coins and a gold bear as a gift but i cannot use it,,,coz the instruction
appear that u have to place a pot of gold before u can use it,,,how do i do that
1231.
billy bob
qwerty!
1232.
jay
1233.
tom
1234.
farmville strategy
My dog ran away tonight from lack of food. I have fed him regularly each night at 8:30; apparently last
night there was a glitche in the program and he didn’t get fed. I had to pay 2FV cash to get him back.
Money making scheme is right…..So there is hope to get your doggie back if you have the FV cash.
1235.
Rob
A really great way to level fast that just requires coins is to get an auto clicker program and get familiar
with the coordinates and recording a clicking script. Keep an area of your farm empty but still have
some stuff planted for cash flow. Record the following clicks: plow tool, plow 5-10 plots (spaced out/
not touching), market (with a 3-5 sec pause after), click soy beans, plant the 5-10 plots, delete tool all
plots (with YES confirms after each)….That easy. Set script on repeat. Have this script running with
pauses where needed for market window and delete confirm to pop up. Before going to bed have it cycle
500 times. You can get about 55,000 xp (costing 864,000 coins) in 24 hours using this method. 5 plots
will cost 300 coins each round and net you 20xp. Should only take about 30 seconds per round.
I have saved a script that I use and basically I just remember what part of my farm to zoom into so the
coordinates aren’t thrown off. Last time I accidentally let this run too long and didn’t go back on for a
few days, so i was broke and my crops withered. It was slow going to try to recover from that so be
careful with this method.
1236.
Rob
*Note for the above post. When you level or a pop up comes up asking you to share something, it will
interrupt one round on your script but it should correct itself in a couple cycles. Also plant something
first before running the script so the “let your friends know you plants need fertilizer!” pop up doesn’t
throw off your first round
1237.
Dhruv Farmer
hello! this is dhruv..see i want to know that how do i get farmville cash quickly?I by mistake bought the
fan cow of 12 farmville cash and i also wanna know that what does that friggin’ cow give?And also i
don’t get fv cash when i earn a blue ribbon but my friends do….so what’s this?see i also wanna ask that
what’s the highest level in fv?
1238.
Raj
Posted April 26, 2010 at 12:10 am
Heyy!!
1239.
Paulette
1240.
arlinda
FarmVille has surprised many of the best surprises I’ve encountered that people have bre FarmVille
their home
1241.
arlinda
FarmVille has surprised many of the best surprises I\’ve encountered that people have bre FarmVille
their home
1242.
ouslar
how many itaims does the cowprint barn hold after full upgrade and since it cost more then other FP
barns does it hold more???
also whats the max after upgrade for adobe barn
1243.
clyde
To the one that put this post “‘A really great way to level fast that just requires coins is to get an auto
clicker program” are you a moron? it’s a game it’s suppose to be fun. it’s bad enough you can buy fv
cash with real money, in my option you should not be able to do that keep it fair for all. if you only want
people with money to wast why not just charge people to play. i don’t think there should be a spot for
real money on here.
1244.
Zyna
I find this very helpfull, so thank you. One more question, i guess i haven’t found the answer: how much
time do you have to harvest your farm, when your plants are ready? do you have an hour? 30 minutes
before they go rotten? please help. Thanx a lot.
1245.
alec
1246.
Mothership
1247.
Momocro99
Posted May 13, 2010 at 7:52 am
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001074971300&ref=profile
add me as a neigbour
1248.
AS
How do I increase my FV
1249.
corte
1250.
victor diaz
i found a website that gives 900 dollars but how do i get them???