Friday, December 30, 2011

FarmVille New Year Items: New Year Lantern Tree, Disco Horse and more

As we count down the days until the New Year, we see more and more items being released in FarmVille to celebrate that very occasion. To be specific, more items have launched in the New Year item theme in the FarmVille marketplace, allowing you to add items to a variety of collections: tree, animal or otherwise. As usual, we're here with a complete look at these new items, so follow along with us!

Trees

New Year Lantern Tree - 6 Farm Cash
Big New Year Lantern Tree - 12 Farm Cash
Firework Tree - 8 Farm Cash
Giant Firework Tree - 14 Farm Cash

As usual, only two of these trees are necessary purchases if you're a tree farmer or mastery sign collector, as you can either both the Big New Year Lantern Tree and the Giant Firework Tree for free by claiming them from wall posts made by your friends.

Animals

New Year Cow - 20 Farm Cash
Disco Horse - 26 Farm Cash
Giant New Year Cow - 22 Farm Cash
Firework Ram - 16 Farm Cash
New Year Dog - 12 Farm Cash
Disco Goat - 14 Farm Cash
Spotted Turtle - 1.5 million coins


It's interesting that we haven't seen a Firework Boar released as well, to bring the Firework pattern to Pig Breeding in the game, but that just makes me think that perhaps we'll see a New Year theme in this week's Mystery Game, and that the Firework Boar will be one of the prizes available. It's a guess, sure, but an educated one all the same.

Decorations

New Year Band 2012 - 14 Farm Cash
Fireworks IV - 3 Farm Cash
Fireworks II - 100,000 coins

Other than price, the differences between these fireworks are in the colors of the containers, and in the look of the actual fireworks when they're set off. It's unfortunate that we don't see more coin-only decorations released in this update, but that just gives Zynga a chance to do better next time.

Avatar Costumes

Silver Tiara - 5 Farm Cash
Silver Party Dress - 10 Farm Cash

If these items look familiar (or simply don't show up in your own market), it's because we've seen them released previously and you may have already purchased them.

All told, these items will be available in the store for the next two weeks. We'll let you know if and when more items launch in the New Year item theme just as soon as we know more, so keep checking back!

FarmVille Dakota Quests guide: Help Truffles the Pig

FarmVille released nine new quests to help Truffles the Pig get in shape for the new year on Thursday afternoon!
Players can complete these new FarmVille Dakota Quests to help Truffles the Pig on any of their farm spaces, and will have 14 days to complete them.
SPOILER ALERT: The tasks and prizes for FarmVille’s new Dakota quests are listed below. If you’d rather not know the contents ahead of time, you should head over to my other articles now.
QUEST 1: No More Truffles for Truffles
Your first quest will ask you to get 3 Pairs of Running Shoes from friends, harvest the Pet Run once, and harvest 100 Spinach crops. Your rewards will be 125XP, 2,500 Farm Coins and 1 Coach Roadrunner.
QUEST 2: Pumped Up Piggy
Your next quest will ask you to get 4 Dumbbells from friends, harvest the Coach Roadrunner once and harvest 150 Fruit crops. Your rewards will be 150XP, 3,000 Farm Coins and 1 Workout Chicken.
Quest 3: The Downward Pig
Your next quest will ask you to get 5 Yoga Mats from friends, harvest the Workout Chicken once and harvest 200 vegetable crops. Your rewards will be 175XP, 3,500 Farm Coins and 1 Yoga Piggy.
Quest 4: High on the Hog
Your next quest will ask you to get 6 Scrub Brushes from friends, harvest the Aviary twice and harvest 250 Green Tea crops. Your rewards will be 200XP, 4,000 Farm Coins and 1 Spa Attendant Duck.
Quest 5: Lipstick on a Pig
Your next quest will ask you to get 8 Skinny Clothes from friends, harvest the Yoga Piggy once and harvest 300 Grain crops. Your rewards will be 225XP, 4,000 Farm Coins and one Workout Tracksuit (a costume for your avatar).
Quest 6: You Are What You Eat
Your sixth quest will ask you to get 8 Healthy Cooking Books from friends, harvest the Spa Attendant Duck once and harvest a Livestock Pen twice. Your rewards will be 250XP, 5,000 Farm Coins and 1 Penguin Personal Shopper.
Quest 7: Continuing Resolutions
Your next quest will ask you to get 8 New Year’s Resolutions from friends, harvest the Penguin Personal Shopper once and harvest 350 Vegetable crops. Your rewards will be 275XP, 5,000 Farm Coins and one Snowy Stone Cottage.
Quest 8: Better Put a String On It
Your next quest will ask you to get 10 Pieces of Pink String from friends, harvest the Coach Roadrunner once and harvest 400 Rhubarb crops. Your rewards will be 300XP, 5,500 Farm Coins and 1 Snowy Monopteros.
Quest 9: An Alarming Development
Your next quest will ask you to get 12 Alarm Clocks from friends, master the Yoga Piggy to its first star and harvest 450 Flowers. Your rewards will be 325XP, 6,000 Farm Coins and 1 Snowy Clock Tower.
Once you finish all of these quests, you do have the option of doing them again if you have time!

FarmVille Ice Palace: Everything you need to know


A massive new building project has launched in FarmVille this evening, both in size and complexity of the item in question. That item is the large Ice Palace, the base of which will be given to you for free when logging into your game. Once you place the Ice Palace, you'll quickly see that it has a striking resemblance to the Santa's Sleigh Christmas item, or any other upgradeable building project seen in the game over the past few months.

You'll need to collect a series of three building materials to start: 12 Snow Bricks, 12 Snowflakes and 12 Ice Nails. This gives you a Level 1 Ice Palace, that can be harvested from once per day to earn a single Magic Snowflake. What's the significance of this Magic Snowflake? As of this writing, there isn't one, but we're given a chance to stock up on some now, as they'll be needed soon in a new Magic Snowman.

As you might expect, you can earn these items by asking friends to send them to you, or by purchasing them outright for a single Farm Cash per individual ingredient. As you upgrade your Ice Palace (there are six Levels in all), you'll be able to collect more and more Magic Snowflakes from it each day. Levels 1 and 2 give you a single Magic Snowflake, while Levels 3 and 4 give you two Snowflakes. Level 5 offers three Snowflakes, and finally, Level 6 gives off 4 Snowflakes with each collection.

Just what will those Snowflakes actually be used for? Will they simply make the Magic Snowman grow taller, or will they be used in some sort of prize redemption feature? We'll make sure to let you know when we have the answer to that question and more concerning this event, so keep checking back with us.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

FarmVille New Year Items: Party Hat Tree, Glitter Horse and more

With Christmas having come and gone, you might think that the folks at Zynga would take a few days off for the holidays. That's not so, as there's another holiday coming right up: New Year's Eve / New Year's Day! This holiday brings with it a new item theme in the FarmVille store, complete with some re-released items and plenty of new items for your farms.

Trees

Confetti Tree - 5 Farm Cash
Disco Ball Tree - 15 Farm Cash
Party Hat Tree - 8 Farm Cash
Giant Party Hat Tree - 14 Farm Cash

With these trees, the Confetti and Disco Ball pair are re-released items, so you might already have one or both in your collection. As for the Party Hat Trees, you only need to purchase the original-sized Party Hat Tree if you want the Mastery Signs for both, as you can receive Giant Party Hat trees for free from Mystery Seedlings.

Animals

New Year Chicken - 18 Farm Cash
New Year Duck - 16 Farm Cash
Giant New Year Squirrel - 12 Farm Cash
Glitter Horse - 26 Farm Cash
Silver Dragon - 20 Farm Cash
New Year Squirrel - 10 Farm Cash
Dalmation - 2.5 million coins


Here, you see plenty of animals dressed up to celebrate New Year's Eve with fun hats or headbands. Yet again, we're also seeing animals in this theme (the Dalmation) that really have nothing to do with the theme, but are simply available for coins for those that are interested in saving Farm Cash.

Buildings

Party Barn - 15 Farm Cash

Don't get this one confused with the Party Barn that was released last year - it's a completely new building used for decoration on your farm(s).

Decorations

Firework Owl - 14 Farm Cash
Firework Fountain - 14 Farm Cash
Confetti Gnome - 12 Farm Cash
Fireworks III - 100,000 coins

This firework is actually another re-released item (although last time it cost Farm Cash). If you've never used a firework on your farm(s), it's a one-time-use item that animates with a fun light show, but ultimately disappears from your farm after the fact. Worth the coins? We'll leave that up to you.

Avatar Clothing

Gold Party Dress - 10 Farm Cash
Silver Tuxedo - 5 Farm Cash
Silver Top Hat - 5 Farm Cash

Each of these items are re-releases from previous years, so if one or more don't show up in your farm this year, you likely purchased it/them last year and they'll be found in your in-game closet.

All of these items will be available for the next two weeks, so make sure to shop now so that you don't miss out on these items entirely.

Saturday, December 24, 2011

FarmVille Winter Cow Pasture: Everything you need to know

Similar to the Winter Horse Paddock that was also released in FarmVille this weekend, a new Winter Cow Pasture has also hit the game, allowing you ample storage space for the many Cows you may have already purchased (or simply will purchase in the future) on your Winter Wonderland farm. Remember though, even though this Winter Cow Pasture is themed towards Winter and even Christmas, as of this writing we have been allowed to place them on other farms as well.

The process for building the Winter Cow Pasture is as you'd expect. You'll first place your base (the first one is given to you for free) and must then collect building materials starting with the following:


  • 10 Hay Bundles
  • 10 Stones
  • 10 Tin Sheets

Once that's done, you'll have a fully constructed Winter Cow Pasture that's capable of holding 15 Cows. You'll receive the standard Irish Moiled Cow for free, and can either remove it or keep it, depending on your preference. You can also immediately start the upgrade process by collecting even more of three ingredients above. The first upgrade asks you to find 15 of each of the ingredients, while the second (and final) upgrade takes 20 each of those items. If you complete both upgrades, your Cow Pasture will go from a 15 Cow capacity to holding up to 40 different Cows.

With these two buildings being made available, is it only a matter of time before we see Winter versions of the Livestock Pen, Aviary or even the Zoo? It's very likely that we will see those sorts of buildings released in Winter Wonderland before all is said and done, and you can be sure we'll let you know just as soon as that happens.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

FarmVille: 100% Pattern Inheritance event on now!


If you're still into breeding either Pigs or Sheep in FarmVille, you'll be happy to know that Zynga has "flipped the switch," offering users a chance to guarantee their breeding efforts are successful (at least when it comes to passing on the dad's pattern) in a 100% Pattern Inheritance event. As the name of this event might suggest, you're looking at just a few days of this guarantee, but that's plenty of time to fill out your collection with as many patterned sheep as you can, especially if you've been saving up Love Potions for such an event.

It's been a while since we've see a pattern guarantee weekend, so if you've gathered any of the Christmas-themed Rams or Boars recently, remember to use those to create a whole set of Christmas-themed animals across your farms. Again, this is one of your only chances to never fail on passing down patterns, so even though you still can't predict which color the baby will end up with, you can at least pass down the patterns (and even give some of those patterned animals away, if you're feeling generous).

FarmVille: Buy a Zynga Game Card for Mystery Prizes


Like the Zynga Game Card promotion currently taking place in CityVille, a new promotion is offering you some incentive to purchase or redeem a Zynga Game Card in FarmVille. From now until December 27, each Zynga Game Card (or eCard, if you purchase / receive one online) redeemed will give you a chance at a random prize.

What sorts of prizes? Well, from the loading screen above, we can see that there will be truly Mystery Prizes, in the form of lovely green and red gift boxes, but we can also win a Candy Cane Chicken, Mistletoe Donkey, a Santa Duck or a Gumdrop Tree (the small topiary that was available last year). The only new item here is the Santa Duck, so unfortunately you may already have all of the other prizes on your farm(s). Still, if you had planned on giving a Zynga Game Card as a gift this Christmas, you'll at least know that a friend will receive an extra special prize when they redeem (just make sure they do so before December 27!).

FarmVille Winter Horse Paddock: Everything you need to know

Following the release of the Winter Water Wheel in FarmVille's Winter Wonderland, we assumed that it would only be a matter of time before other Winter-themed buildings started releasing for this newest farm. It turns out we were right, as the new Winter Horse Paddock is now available to purchase in the store. You'll be able to receive your first Winter Paddock for free upon logging into your farm, and from there can complete the expected building material collection process.

Luckily, unlike the Winter Water Wheel, this Winter Horse Paddock doesn't require any sort of snowy building materials, or anything new in fact. You'll simply need to collect 10 each of Logs, Saddles and Bridles, just as you've done before. These materials can be earned by asking your friends to send them to you, or by purchasing them outright with Farm Cash. You'll also have a chance to receive some of them when opening up Special Delivery Boxes.

While you can only work on building one Winter Horse Paddock at a time, you can have more than one on your farm. This building also isn't locked to Winter Wonderland, so if you'd like to spread the winter-cheer to your other farms, you're more than welcome to do that as well. Finally, you can expand your Winter Horse Paddock just as you've been able to expand the others, increasing their storage capacity by simply collecting more and more of the building materials above. Pretty nice deal, right?


We'll make sure to let you know as more Winter-themed animal buildings roll out to FarmVille, so keep checking back!

FarmVille: Winter Wonderland land expansions on sale


Plus, one expansion is even available for coins! If you're like me and have started placing new trees, animals and buildings on your Winter Wonderland farm in FarmVille, you might quickly be running out of land space. If you don't want to purchase land expansions with Farm Cash, you can now at least expand your farm to the 14x14 Chilly Garden level for coins. Some other Winter Wonderland expansions have had their Farm Cash prices cut down as well.

First things first, the Chilly Garden expansion now costs 750,000 coins to purchase. If you'd rather spend Farm Cash, you can pick it up for 20 Farm Cash, down from the original 30 Farm Cash price. Likewise, the 16x16, 22x22, 24x24 and 26x26 land expansions are also on sale, ranging in price from 30 to 105 Farm Cash (the original price range was 40 Farm Cash to 120 Farm Cash. Oddly enough, there are plenty of expansions in the middle that haven't been put on sale, but if you're in the expanding frame of mind this week, you'll at least have some cheaper options as you go along.

Even if you just purchase the coin expansion, keep in mind that you'll also unlock access to two Snow Treasures in the process, one small and one Extra Large.

As one final note, you'll need to purchase these land expansions quickly, as it looks like these sale prices will only be available for 24 hours - we'll call them a lightning deal. Still, with the first of the farm's land expansions now being available for coins, it's only a matter of time before further expansions follow suit and we'll make sure to let you know when that happens.

FarmVille Badger quests guide

FarmVille released six new quests on Thursday afternoon!
Players will have two weeks to complete the new Badger quests, and the tasks can be completed on any farm space you’d like.
SPOILER ALERT: The tasks and prizes for the new FarmVille Badger Quests are listed below. If you’d rather not know the contents ahead of time, you should head over to my other articles now.
Quest  1: On a Crisp December Day
Your first quest will ask you to get 6 Weatherproof Stakes from friends, harvest 50 Fruit crops, and harvest 100 Pumpkin crops. Your rewards will be 100XP, 2,500 Farm Coins, and 1 Scarf Owl.
Quest 2: Shivering Flora
Your next quest will ask you to get 7 Sturdy Tarps, harvest 200 Morning Glory crops and harvest 1 Wildlife Habitat. Your rewards will be 100XP, 2,500 Farm Coins and 1 Winter Squirrel.
Quest 3: How to Dress a Tree
Your next quest will ask you to get 8 Burlap Screens from friends, harvest the Winter Squirrel once and harvest 250 Cotton crops. Your rewards will be 300XP, 2,500 Farm Coins ad 1 Capped Black Bear.
Quest 4: Avian Awareness
Your next quest will ask you to get 8 Warm Bird Houses from friends, harvest the Capped Black Bear once and harvest 300 Wheat crops. Your rewards will be 500Xp, 2m500 Farm Coins and 1 Birdhouse Spruce Tree.
Quest 5: Avian Jacuzzi
Your next quest will ask you to get 10 Heated Bird Baths from friends, harvest the Birdhouse Spruce Tree once, and harvest 350 Golden Poppies. Your rewards will be 750XP, 2,500 Farm Coins and 1 Sika Stag.
Quest 6: Breaking Wind
Your final quest will ask you to get 12 Windbreak Fences from friends, harvest the Sika Stag twice and harvest 400 Peppers. Your final prizes will be 1,000XP, 5,000 Farm Coins and 1 Birdhouse Gnome.
If you complete all of the quests and you’re up for a challenge, you can start them all over again if you’ve got time to do them twice!

Sunday, December 11, 2011

FarmVille Winter Wonderland: Buy an Unwither Ring for your Holiday farm

If you've already purchased an Unwither Ring for your other three farms in FarmVille, you might be interested in purchasing another in Winter Wonderland to complete your set. Luckily, you can now do just that, as an Unwither Ring "For Winter Wonderland" has launched in the game's store. This particular ring comes in a festive red box, and while you might already be able to guess the price, I'm actually pleased to say that your guess would be wrong.

Instead of being priced at 250 Farm Cash, as most other Unwither Rings are, this one is instead priced at 199 Farm Cash. Does that make it cheap? Most certainly not, but it is a savings of almost $10 off of the "normal" purchase price. This isn't a sale price on this particular Unwither Ring (at least, the store says nothing about it being a "sale"), so this is likely just Zynga's way of giving us a bit of a break this holiday.

If you're interested in purchasing an Unwither Ring for Winter Wonderland for yourself or for a friend (what a great present that would be, huh?), make sure you do so within the next 21 days, as it will be leaving the store at the end of the month.

Saturday, December 10, 2011

FarmVille releases Holiday Presents feature

FarmVille players looking for a way to send a special thank you to some of their top friends can take advantage of a new feature released in the game on Friday.
In the top right corner of your game screen, check out the gift box. Inside, you'll see five of your most helpful neighbors inside. You can pay 5 Farm Cash each to send them an exclusive Present Tree as a way to thank them for being such a helpful friend. If you send out more than one, you will earn a free Teddy Bear Gnome for yourself!
Sadly, we don't see an option to select any neighbors other than the ones the game has preselected for us, so it doesn't look like there is a way to send some to specific people (unless they're listed by default for you). Other than that one downfall, this looks like a fun way to send some friends a nice little FarmVille gift.

FarmVille: Send your most helpful neighbors a gift this holiday

See the large green and red present in the corner of your FarmVille gameplay area? That belongs to a new feature that will allow you to send an exclusive gift to your neighbors this Christmas. The game will determine some of your most helpful neighbors (presumably those friends that respond to the most help requests, send the most gifts or visit your farms the most), and will give you a chance to send them a Present Tree; however, there's a catch.

Each Present Tree costs 5 Farm Cash, so if you want to send one, you'll be spending 5 Farm Cash to purchase and send that tree to a friend. As of this writing, the Present Tree isn't available to purchase in the store, so you can't just buy yourself one. You will need to be sent a tree by a friend. You can choose friends individually, or you can send a tree to all five friends in bulk for 25 Farm Cash per click. If you send more than one tree (regardless of who you send them to), you'll receive a Teddy Bear Gnome for yourself.


Putting this into perspective, that makes the Teddy Bear Gnome 10 Farm Cash, which is cheaper than most gnomes released in the store (a nice thing to consider, if you're a collector). And, you'll be able to make your friends' day in the process of earning this gnome for yourself. One final thing to note is that this feature isn't as exclusive as it might appear, as simply closing the window and then re-loading it will show you a different set of friends. In this way, you can choose your closest neighbors or friends to send a tree to, even if they don't show up immediately in your selection, and it also opens up the idea of trading with your friends. That is, if you want one of these trees for yourself, find a neighbor that your trust and exchange trees so you both have one at the cost of just 5 Farm Cash. Simple, right?

There's no time limit listed for this feature, but as it does revolve around Christmas presents, you should be able to wait until closer to Christmas to actually send them to friends. Still, I wouldn't blame you if you got this out of the way early - these trees are awesome, after all.

FarmVille Holiday Tree 2011: Everything you need to know

Continuing in the tradition of FarmVille Holiday celebrations, tonight marks the launch of this year's Holiday Tree in the game. However, instead of simply being a collection event where you'll redeem mass amounts of presents for singular items, this year's event goes back to the setup of 2009's Holiday Tree, in that we'll still be able to collect tons of presents, but will be able to open each one of them once Christmas arrives to find out what's inside.

You'll receive your Holiday Tree for free the next time you login to the game. If you're not on the farm you'd like to be to place this one, just cancel out of "Placement Mode" and travel to the farm you'd like this tree to be on (even if that isn't Winter Wonderland). From there, you'll be able to empty out your gift box of any Holiday Gifts you've already claimed from your Santa's Sleigh, and can then go to town asking friends for more gifts to really fill out the tree. You can simply ask your friends for gifts, or you can send one of six different gift designs to friends from the free gifts page, hoping that they'll return the favor. You can also purchase gifts with Farm Cash.


As you collect gifts, your tree will grow, going through five stages of upgrades until you hit the 300 gift total. We're told that we can collect "over 300 gifts" however, so there doesn't look to be a limit to how many it can actually hold (we're working to confirm that, and will let you know as soon as we hear back from Zynga). Regardless of how many gifts we all eventually end up with, we won't be able to open them until Christmas Eve - December 24. At that point, we'll either be allowed to open gifts individually (as we did back in 2009 - a time consuming process), or we might be able to open them like we can Special Delivery Boxes, but simply entering in a number and letting the game sort out the contents.

As for what's inside these gifts, unfortunately that's a mystery as of this writing. As we get closer to Christmas, we'll make sure to let you know if we learn what the contents of some of these gifts might be, so keep checking back with us!

FarmVille Holiday Tree quests guide

FarmVille released six new quests Wednesday in celebration of the new Holiday Tree feature!
Players will have 15 days to work on these new quests, and they can be performed on any of your farm spaces.
Spoiler Alert: If you'd rather not know the tasks and prizes for the new Holiday Tree quests in advance, you should head over to my other FarmVille articles now!
Quest 1: Deck the Halls!
Your first quest will ask you to get 6 Boughs of Holly from friends, harvest an Aviary once and harvest 100 Fruit crops. Your rewards will be 100XP, 1 Holiday Corgi and 2,500 Farm Coins.

Quest 2: Pucker Up!
Your second quest will ask you to get 6 Mistletoes from friends, harvest the Holiday Corgi once and harvest 150 flower crops. Your rewards will be 100Xp, 1 Holiday Fairy Cat and 2,500 Farm Coins.
Quest 3: The Gift of Song
Your third quest will ask you to get 6 Hoiday Songbooks from friends, harvest a Livestock Pen once and harvest 200 Grain crops. Your rewards will be 100Xp, 1 Elf Goat and 2,500 Farm Coins.
Quest 4: Gift Boxes
Your next quest will ask you to get 6 Gift Boxes from friends, harvest the Elf Goat once and harvest 300 Golden Poinsettia crops. Your rewards will be 100Xp,1 Holiday Alpaca and 2,500 Farm Coins.
Quest 5: Season's Greetings
Your next quest will ask you to get 8 Gift Tags from friends, harvest a Zoo THREE times and harvest 350 Vegetable crops. Your rewards will be 100Xp, 1 Holiday Turkey and 2,500 Farm Coins.
Quest 6: Put a Bow On It!
Your final quest will ask you to get 10 Fancy Bows from friends, harvest the Holiday Alpaca twice and harvest 400 Golden Poinsettia crops. Your final rewards will be 100Xp, 1 Cupid Reindeer and 2,500 Farm Coins.

FarmVille: Play CastleVille for 10 free Instant Grows

No, this isn't a case of deja vu. After launching a cross promotion between FarmVille and CastleVille late last month, Zynga apparently decided that 5 free Instant Grows (the prize in that last promotion) just wasn't good enough. Why? Well, it's now offering yet another promotion, this time to users that can reach at least Level 10 in CastleVille.

The same rules apply to this promotion as before - you'll simply need to play CastleVille until you reach Level 10, and will the be able to come back to FarmVille to receive a new batch of 10 free Instant Grows. However, there is a slight catch. Instead of being given these Instant Grows, well... instantly, we'll have to wait until December 19 when they'll be given away. At that point, there should be a mass release of these potions to anyone that was eligible for them, which actually gives you plenty of time (almost two weeks) to reach Level 10, if you've yet to do so.

FarmVille Winter Wonderland Chapter 2 quests guide

FarmVille released the Chapter 2 Winter Wonderland quests on Monday, along with a SLOW release of free Winter Wonderland access to all players.
A slow release means it is made available to a small number of farmers at a time. If you don’t have Winter Wonderland access yet, please be patient – it is coming soon!
December 8 Update: Most players have their quest set end at 6. This is from an official post from Zynga regarding it:

This week, players have nine new quests to work on and three bonus quests. Players will have two weeks to complete the tasks below, so let's take a look at what you will be doing in them.
NOTE: The quests below will be the second set of quests for those who purchased early access to the Winter Wonderland farm. It will be the first set of quests for players just getting free access today.
SPOILER ALERT: The tasks and prizes for FarmVille’s Chapter 2 Winter Wonderland quests are listed below. If you’d rather not know the information ahead of time, you can head over to my other FarmVille articles now.

Quest 1: Winter Welcome
Your first quest will ask you to get 6 Fire Logs from friends, harvest 60 Gingerbread crops and discover 1 Small Snow Treasure. Your rewards will be 100XP, 1 Orchard, 1 Winter Tractor and 2,500 Farm Coins.
Quest 2: Winter Warmth
Your second quest will ask you to get 6 Hot Sparks from friends, harvest 60 Iced Rice and complete construction of 1 Winter Animal Pen. Your rewards will be 200XP, 1 Le Emperor Penguin and 2,500 Farm Coins.
Quest 3: Those Who Help Them Elves
Your third quest will ask you to get 6 Colorful Lights from friends, make the Ginger Smores recipe twice and harvest 1 Le Emperor Penguin once. Your rewards will be 300XP, 1 Frosty Mini Horse and 2,500 Farm Coins.
Quest 4: Elf Trouble
Your next quest will ask you to get 6 Shiny Brass Knobs, harvest 60 Gummi Bears crops and harvest the Winter Animal Pen one time. Your rewards will be 400XP, 1 Blue Snow Fort and 2,500 Farm Coins.
Quest 5: Go North, Young Elf!
Your fifth quest will ask you to get 6 Crystal Whatzits from friends, harvest 60 Candied Yams and harvest the Frosty Mini Horse once. Your rewards will be 500XP, 1 Snowflake Tree and 5,000 Farm Coins.
Quest 6: Gearing Up
Your next quest will ask you to get 7 Wooden Gears from friends, make the Candied Apples recipe twice and harvest 1 Snowflake Tree. Your rewards will be 400XP, 1 Snowball Catapult and 2,500 Farm Coins.
Quest 7: Spin Cycle
Your seventh quest this week will ask you to get 7 Spinning Whirl-Its from friends, harvest 60 Gingerbread crops and harvest the Le Emperor Penguin once. Your rewards will be 500XP, 1 Arctic Peacock and 5,000 Farm Coins.
Quest 8: A Flung Finger
Your next quest will ask you to get 8 Flange Flingers from friends, make the Ginger Smores recipe three times and harvest the Arctic Peacock once. Your rewards will be 500XP, 1 Snow Gopher and 5,000 Farm Coins.
Quest 9: Wrap It Up
Your next quest will ask you to get 9 North-Polarized Goggles from friends, harvest the Polar Train Station once and harvest 60 Candied Yams. Your rewards will be 500XP, 1 Frigimetric Encabulator and 5,000 Farm Coins.
That completes the regular quests, but there are also three BONUS quests you can work on!
BONUS Quest 1: By The Fire
Your first bonus quest will ask you to get 10 Hot Chocolates from friends, harvest 60 Glacial Roses and harvest two Winter Animal Pens. Your rewards will be 500XP, 1 Ice Cave and 5,000 Farm Coins.
BONUS Quest 2: White Snow
Your second bonus quest will ask you to get 11 Snow Polish from friends, make the Candied Yams recipe three times and master the Le Emperor Penguin to level 1. Your rewards will be 500XP, 1 Arctic Explorer Gnome and 5,000 Farm Coins.
BONUS Quest 3: Super Conductor
Your final quest will ask you to get 12 Gold Pocket Watches from friends, harvest 2 Orchards and master the Frosty Mini Horse to level 1. Your rewards will be 1,000XP, 1 Gilded Holiday Sleigh and 10,000 Farm Coins.


Thursday, December 1, 2011

FarmVille: Santa's coming soon - have you been naughty?


While Winter Wonderland might offer FarmVille players more than enough content to last them through the month of December, the Christmas holiday and beyond, we'll apparently be receiving a visit from the big man in red himself: Santa! Santa looks to be coming with a new feature, if we can take a new gameplay loading screen seriously.

While it's no secret that Santa will indeed make an appearance in the game - "Guess Who's Coming to FarmVille?" pretty much guarantees it, it's what role Santa will play in the game that remains to be revealed. We're asked if we've been naughty of nice, with that text presented above a pile of presents. Could this mean that Santa will be part of an in-game gift exchange? Or, will we be able to complete a set of goals to prove to Santa how nice we've been, so that we'll be given more presents? At the very least, it looks like we'll likely end up with a Winter-themed collection event in the game, (most likely) bringing some limited edition goodies with it.

The possibilities here are endless, but we'll make sure to stay on top of things to make sure you're the first to know when Santa himself shows up on our farms.

FarmVille Winter Animal Pen: Everything you need to know

As part of the fourth farm in FarmVille - Winter Wonderland - you can now build a new kind of animal storage building, the Winter Animal Pen. You'll receive the base to a Winter Animal Pen for free when arriving in Winter Wonderland, but it will only contain 10 of the 30 building materials necessary to actually use it; gathering the other 20 items is up to you.

At its basic state, each Winter Animal Pen requires 10 each of Ice Posts, Conifer Dust and Candy Cane Beams. You can gather these items either by paying 1 Farm Cash each or by asking your friends to send them to you via individual gift requests. Also make sure to look out for extra items posted by your friends on their walls.

Once the Winter Animal Pen is finished, you'll receive a free Penguin and will be able to use the Pen itself to store winter-themed animals, like the Polar Hare and Winter Fox you've received for free when first landing on this new farm. It should be noted that this building seems to be pretty picky about which animals can be stored inside. While many of those released in the Winter Wonderland market can be stored inside, animals like the Telemark Cow can't be. Also, if you've held on to any Penguins from the Penguin Escapade feature, or have any Winter-themed animals from the Christmas Plush Ornament promotion, those can't be stored inside either.


Once you finish your Winter Animal Pen, you'll be able to harvest it for a chance at receiving Mystery Babies (like animals based on those you've already stored inside it), and can immediately start the upgrading process. Similar to other storage buildings, the first upgrade requires 15 each of the Ice Posts, Conifer Dust and Candy Cane Beams.

If you'd like to purchase additional Winter Animal Pens (you can only build one at a time), you can purchase frames for 250 coins, or fully built Winter Animal Pens from the store for 30 Farm Cash. If and when other animals are allowed to be stored in these buildings, we'll make sure to let you know.

FarmVille Winter Wonderland Chapter 1 quests guide

FarmVille released the first set of quests for the new Winter Wonderland farm space on Monday afternoon!
NOTE: These quests are only available to players who purchase early access to Winter Wonderland. They will not appear on your other farm spaces.
Winter Wonderland is the fourth farm players have been buzzing about for weeks. Just like Lighthouse Cove, we can expect a new set of quests regularly for our new winter-themed farm. All of the tasks listed below must be completed on your Winter Wonderland farm space.
SPOILER ALERT: The tasks and prizes for FarmVille’s Winter Wonderland Chapter 1 quests are below. If you’d rather not know the contents, you should head over to my other FarmVille articles now.
Kickoff Quest: Welcome to Winter Wonderland
This super easy welcome quest will load as soon as you enter Winter Wonderland. All you’ll need to do is plow three plots of land, plant 10 Gingerbread crops, and harvest the Polar Train Station (which is already ready to harvest) once. Your reward will be 50XP, 2,500 Farm Coins, 2 Rail Spikes, 2 Rail Ties and 2 Lumps of Coal.

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Quest 1: A Winter Wonderland
Your first real quest will ask you to get 6 Jingle Bells from friends, harvest 60 Gingerbread crops and harvest your Polar Train Station once. Your rewards will be 100XP, 1 Borealis Tree and 2,500 Farm Coins.
Quest 2: Snowy Trails
Your second quest will ask you to get 6 Egg Nogs from friends, harvest 45 Iced Rice crops and complete the building of 1 Orchard. Your rewards will be 200XP, 1 Holiday Ermine and 2,500 Farm Coins.
Quest 3: Snow Blanket Bingo
Your next quest will ask you to get 6 Arctic Beach Balls from friends, make the Ginger Smores recipe twice and harvest 1 Borealis Tree once. Your rewards will be 300XP, 1 Ice Geyser and 2,500 Farm Coins.
That concludes the three regular quests this week, but there are also 3 BONUS quests you can work on if you’d like.
BONUS Quest 1: Something Blue
Your first bonus quest will ask you to get 6 Snow Shoes from friends, harvest 45 Candied Yams and harvest the Holiday Ermine once. Your rewards will be 500XP, 1 Icy Horse and 2,500 Farm Coins.
BONUS Quest 2: Dances With Elves
Your second bonus quest will ask you to get 6 Holiday Tunes from friends, make the Candied Yam Pies recipe twice and discover 1 Small Snow Treasure. Your rewards will be 500XP, 1 Ice Fishing Gnome and 5,000 Farm Coins.
BONUS Quest 3: Snow Day
Your final Winter Wonderland quest this week will ask you to get 6 Perfect Snowflakes from friends, make the Candied Apples recipe twice, and harvest the Polar Train Station once.  Your rewards will be 500XP, 1 Holiday St. Bernard and 5,000 Farm Coins.