FarmVille Secrets - It's Not Just About the Farm

When you are just starting out in FarmVille, you really have to concentrate on sowing as many crops as possible and picking them the minute they're ready. You want to prepare as much land as possible in order to earn coins and experience points fast. After all, that's the only way to advance and leverage your options for game play.

Once you've reached some of the higher levels, however, there are a lot of things you can do with your farm besides farming it. In fact, you may find that your prepared plots are becoming less and less of the focus of the farm as a whole. There's nothing wrong with this, and in fact there are some clear benefits that come from shifting your attention away from straight farming as you level up.

Okay, but where do you focus this energy then? In fact, you have a few choices, and each of those options has its own pros and cons. A lot of what you choose to do will have to do with your own personal preferences and priorities, but there are a few areas of endeavour that are worth keeping in mind.

Animals

Animals take up space and they can be fairly tedious to collect from. Dairy farms and chicken coops take away a lot of these complications when it comes to cows and chickens though. Other animals may still be awkward to keep, but the cows and the chickens can help you create a regualar income stream in no time as long as you have these structures to put them in. They make collecting easier and they take up much less space than the animals themselves would if they were left to their own devices.

Buildings

Setting some space aside to erect buildings on is also a great way to develop your farm as you level up. Not only will buildings add to the visual appearance of your property, but putting them up gets you a considerable amount of experience. Some buildings are also useful for either keeping animals (as discussed above), or for storage of excess stock. Either way, though, making your farm develpoment a priority will help you level up more quickly, as well as improving the overall aesthetic quality of your property.

Decorations

The higher the level you reach, the more choices you'll have for the decorations you can put up. You'll also notice that new decorations will become available depending on the season or approaching holiday. Because of this, you can really change the look of your farm with decorations depending on what mood strikes you at the time.

Also, by taking advantage of the new storage buildings available, you can switch up your farm's look by taking some items out of storage and putting others away for a later time. Plus, selling off old decorations and buying new ones is a good way to rack up some easy experience points without having to wait for the next harvesting and planting cycle.

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Is FarmVille Farm Equipment Worth the Money?

When you first get started in FarmVille, you won't have any choice but to plant, harvest, and plow by hand. As your farm expands and you advance to new levels, however, you'll have the chance to buy some farm machinery to be able to get your farm chores done faster. This certainly sounds like a sensible thing to do, but before you head off and purchase all of the possible equipment (harvester, seeder, plow), it's better to sit down and work out if all of these items are really worth the expense in the long run.

Basic Buy Price

The first thing to keep in mind is that farm equipment doesn't come cheap. Each of the pieces of machinery available to you will run you 30,000 coins. That's a fair bit of cash, and you'll need to make sure that purchasing a seeder, for example, won't leave you without cash to purchase the seeds you want to plant with it.

Also, you probably won't be able to purchase all three pieces of equipment at once (for reasons of price and also because they're available at different levels). Because of this, though, it's important to consider which machine you'll actually use the most and buy that one first. There's nothing wrong with purchasing these vehicles as long as you're going to make good use of them.

Fuel Costs

Something else you'll need to consider when you're contemplating the purchase of some heavy farm machinery is that the cost price isn't necessarily the whole cost of the machine. Depending on the size of your farm, you'll burn your fuel pretty fast with these heavy machines – especially if you have more than one piece of equipmemt.

If your farm is larger than what your machinery can cover on one tank of fuel, then, you'll have to consider the benefits of buying more fuel. These refills come in several sizes, ranging from a single tank to fifty of them, but you can only buy them with Farm Cash. And because Farmville Cash can be pretty hard to come by, those refills get expensive awfully fast.

If your patient, you can always wait for your tank to fill up again on its own. That doesn't cost you anything, and it doesn't even really take that much time. But if you're tending to a large farm, you may quickly become annoyed waiting for your fuel to fill up before you can use your farm machinery again.

Staggered Plantings

One way to overcome this is to sow a variety of crops that all grow at different speeds. That way, you won't have to plow, plant, and harvest your whole farm at once. As long as you give your equipment enough time between operations to refuel by themselves, you'll never have to spend a cent on fuel. The only trick to this system is making sure that you're not missing out on using them when you'd like to just because you don't have any fuel. And the best way to make sure that doesn't happen is to plan your plantings well.

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