Sunday, March 3, 2013

FarmVille 2 Groves: Everything you need to know


While trees in FarmVille 2 are great money-makers, it's hard to ignore how much space they take up on our farms. If your farm land is being overtaken by a massive orchard, you can now store your trees in Groves, saving water and potentially earning extra fruit in the process. We're here with a guide to this new Grove feature, thanks to Zynga. Let's get started!

Each grove can hold up to four trees, and if you place four matching trees into the same Grove, they'll produce extra fruit. What's more, Groves not only take up less space on your farm, but store trees also require less Water to grow. A full Grove requires four less Water to grow than trees that are simply sitting out on your farmland. Of course, before you can access all of these great features, you'll need to build a Grove on your farm.

A single Grove can be built using eight Buckets of Paint, eight Bags of Grove Soil, and eight Wood Planks. These are earned by simply asking your friends to send them to you. When you've collected all of the building materials, you'll need to ask four friends to work as builders within the Grove before actually finishing it off.

After a Grove has been completed, it needs to have four trees within it to properly function, and there are a few rules that go along with this. If you place a watered tree into a Grove, it will immediately lose its "watered" status, so don't waste Water beforehand. In addition, if you ever wish to remove a tree from a Grove, it can't be removed until it has matured.

As one final note, the timer for how long it takes to harvest a Grove is measured based on an average of the timers of the four trees placed inside. That being the case, you wouldn't want to place low-harvest time trees in with higher harvest time trees, or it will take those lesser trees much longer to grow than normal. Remember, you can purchase additional Groves in the game's market to store as many trees as you have coins to purchase. Good luck!

Saturday, March 2, 2013

FarmVille Freak Gilda's Crop Challenge Master Quest Guide



Hey there, Gilda! Where've you been? She's back with a new FarmVille feature called Gilda's Crop Challenge, a new escapade/quest smash-up type challenge for us to complete in FarmVille! The not really a quest, not really an escapade feature is a new type of challenge that can be thought of as having quest-like requirements, but in segmented stages similar to FarmVille escapades.
To access Gilda's Crop Challenge, look for it next to the current FarmVille Wedding Adventure's escapade found on the outskirt of your FarmVille farm (as pictured above).
A few notes about Gilda's Crop Challenges:
  • All of Gilda's challenges consist of planting and harvesting CROPS.
  • Some requirements are for specific crops, and others are for types of crops. For example, any fruit or vegetable crop will count toward tasks that have "Fruit" or "Vegetable" crop requirements.
  • You can plant and harvest crops needed for these challenges across ALL FarmVille farms!
  • You have 12 days to complete all challenges.
FarmVille Gilda's Crop Challenge Inside
FarmVille Gilda's Crop Challenge Inside
(Note, the Gilda's Crop Challenge, seems to be having some access issues that is preventing some FarmVille players from working on it. )
Here's the rundown on all the Gilda's Crop Challenge stages including their requirements and rewards! Please feel free to share this post with your farmin' friends to spread the word.
FarmVille Gilda's Crop Challenge Information
FarmVille Gilda's Crop Challenge Information

FarmVille Gilda's Crop Challenge Stage 1:
Requirements: Harvest any 50 Crops, harvest 100 Vegetable Crops & Harvest 100 Fruit Crops
Rewards: Unwither Spray

FarmVille Gilda's Crop Challenge Stage 2:
Requirements: Harvest 150 Pink Toadstool Crops, Harvest 150 Grain Crops & Harvest 150 Flower Crops
Rewards: 8 Vehicle Parts

FarmVille Gilda's Crop Challenge Stage 3:
Requirements: Harvest 200 Mesa Queen Flower, Harvest 200 Lilac & Harvest 200 Dandelion
Rewards: 3 Pack of Turbo

FarmVille Gilda's Crop Challenge Stage 4:
Requirements: Harvest 250 Rose Hearts, Harvest 250 Fruit Crops & Harvest 250 Vegetable Crops
Rewards: Magic Tree

FarmVille Gilda's Crop Challenge Stage 5:
Requirements: Harvest 250 Wheat, Harvest 250 Cotton & Harvest 250 Rice
Rewards: Kaleidoscope Tree

FarmVille Gilda's Crop Challenge Stage 6:
Requirements: Harvest 300 Chamomile, Harvest 300 Rainbow Candy Floss & Harvest 300 Glass Butterfly
Rewards: Stained Glass Dragon

FarmVille Gilda's Crop Challenge Stage 7:
Requirements: Harvest 300 Mushroom Fairy, Harvest 300 Golden Poppy & Harvest 300 Fruit Crops
Rewards: Dandelion Pegacorn

FarmVille Gilda's Crop Challenge Stage 8:
Requirements: Harvest 350 Brooch, Harvest 350 Daffodil & Harvest 350 Vegetable Crops
Rewards: Book of XP

FarmVille Gilda's Crop Challenge Stage 9:
Requirements: Harvest 350 Genie Lamp, Master Pink Toadstool to 1-Star & Master Mesa Flower to 1-Star
Rewards: Cuddly Bear Crop License