| FarmVille, a very popular game by Zynga on | | | | 3. Animals: You can buy animals from the market or |
| Facebook is great for any type of player, whether | | | | receive them as gifts or from neighbors that randomly |
| casual serious or somewhere in between. Serious | | | | find them and publish it onto the news feed. There is a |
| players usually try and look for the most efficient | | | | chicken coop that holds 20 chickens (Can be |
| ways of using their time playing farm ville to either level | | | | upgraded to 40 with the help of neighbors or farm |
| or make gold or both. | | | | cash) a stable and a Dairy farm. Any kind of grown up |
| I am going to explain and give tips on the most basic | | | | cow can go in the dairy farm, any chicken in the |
| things to do in FV. | | | | chicken coop and any Grown horse in the stables |
| 1. Neighbors: Adding your friends as neighbors gives | | | | (Calves and Foals do not currently age). There are |
| you bigger bonuses the more friends you have. It is | | | | many more animals in the game such as rabbits, cats, |
| played on social networking, so naturally with more | | | | turtles, sheep, bulls, pigs, turkey, geese, duck and swans |
| neighbors you get things like bigger daily bonus, people | | | | (remember to adopt the ugly ducklings if you see in |
| to receive/send gifts to, more fertilized crops, more | | | | news feed, they turn in to swans). |
| bonuses in the news feed and certain features are | | | | 4. Misc/Coins/Farm cash/Trees: Coins are the main |
| also unlocked by gaining more neighbors. On the | | | | currency in FV, once you start, buy and plant as many |
| FarmVille forums they specifically have posts for | | | | plots as you can, after you do that a couple times and |
| getting neighbors, its very quick and easy! | | | | keep making as many plots as you want with the |
| 2. Raising crops: When you first start out the most | | | | profits then you will start to see the coins coming in. |
| basic thing to do is plant some crops! you have a very | | | | Farm cash is harder to come buy (Considered the real |
| limited selection at the beginning, but don't worry you | | | | money currency in the game) you start the game with |
| will level in no time. You start by plowing plots of land | | | | 5 and get 1 per level. You can buy exclusive items with |
| with the plow tool, then you go to market seeds and | | | | farm cash. Trees can either be given as gifts or |
| choose what you would like to grow, the grow time, | | | | bought from the market. Trees are to much of a |
| cost and sell value are all listed underneath the item in | | | | hassle, ideally only useful for decoration, but they can |
| the market. If you don't harvest your crops in time they | | | | make coins, just not very much for the amount of |
| will wither and you will make no gold off of them, the | | | | effort put into harvesting them. You can give gifts to |
| wither time is on average about as long as the grow | | | | up to 30 neighbors once per day, and they will usually |
| time, from when ripe. Example: Strawberries take 4 | | | | return the favor, or if you need a certain item be sure |
| hours from when seeded until ripe, they will wither | | | | to ask your neighbors! |
| approx 4 hours from the time they are ripe. | | | | |