I’ve been ill all week, with plenty of time to play FarmVille (and TreasureMania! I like the new Beta release), so it’s great that it has been a week packed with new FV excitement. Where to start?
Well if you’re a reader of my gardening blog you’ll know that I keep a pair of chickens in the back yard (in fact, I talked about what they like to eat in my latest podcast) – so it’s exciting that FV have finally developed a chicken coop for me to keep my virtual chickens. It’s similar to the dairy farms released a while back in that it holds 20 animals, and you can harvest the eggs from all 20 chickens with just one click and save space at the same time. Unlike the dairy farms, you can only have one chicken coop, but they contain a special surprise – every time you harvest the eggs there’s a chance you’ll find a mystery egg (white, brown, black or golden). You can’t keep the mystery egg yourself, but if you post the announcement to your Wall then up to 5 of your friends can hatch the egg and win a mystery gift. Quite a few of those mystery gifts turn out to be chickens (white and brown) but some of them don’t!
It’s possible to gift a chicken coop to your friends, but as you can only have one coop if you already have one your gift magically turns into a chicken instead.
There have also been updates to the Gift Box that mean you can now sell unwanted gifts straight from the box without having to find space for them on your farm first. And there’s a Sell All button to save on clicks. You only have space for 30 gifts in your Gift Box, but as of this morning the new Storage feature has been enabled and you can store unused decorations in your Barns and Toolsheds. The extra space will be very useful, even though FV have finally enabled the 22×22 land expansion!
They’ve also started a new Sweet Seeds event, and you can buy a license to plant Sweet Seeds sweetcorn for 7 days, with half of the money being donated to charities in Haiti. The new sweetcorn is a 6 hour crop that costs 10 coins to plant but gives you 125 coins at harvest. It also gives you 3 XP per square, and doesn’t wilt.
And there are a couple of new Ribbons to work towards. To gain the King of Compost ribbons you need to harvest fertilized crops, and since you can’t fertilize your own crops you’d better head out and get fertilizing on your neighbors! You’ll get coins and XP for your efforts and when they return the favor you’ll get points towards your ribbon. The second new ribbon is more colorful – add bunches of flowers to your farm to earn points towards the Pretty Garden ribbons. Keep an eye out on your Wall for announcements of when your neighbours have Perfect Bunches of flowers to give away, and make sure you sow some flower crops so that you’ll grow some too.
And finally, this morning the Country Fair has arrived in FarmVille! You can deck your farm out with all kinds of new, limited edition decorations and funfair rides!
And what’s coming up in the future? According to the podcast, updates to the Fuel system are on the way. If you want more FV information, check out their Twitter feed.
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