Getting the Most out of Your FarmVille Neighbors

Even if you haven't been playing FarmVille for very long, you're probably aware that having neighbors can bring you some substantial benefits. Many of these benefits are obvious, such as allowing you to expand your farm inexpensively, but some others are more easily overlooked. If you really want to be successful in FarmVille, though, you'll need to make sure that you're getting absolutely everything you can out of your neighbors. Sometimes this will require a little bit of effort, but it will be well worth the extra work in the end.

Crop and Plot Fertilization

Of course, it's beneficial to both you and your neighbors if they can fertilize your crops and you can fertilize theirs. You get extra experience points when harvesting fertilized crops, and your neighbors get to earn a few extra coins for each plot of yours they fertilize. However, when you're not going to be able to get back to your farm for an extended period of time, you might think there's no point in plowing your fields since you can't plant on them.

If you go this route, though, you'll miss out on the opportunity to have your entire farm fertilized when you come back. Your neighbors can't fertilize fallow land, but they can fertilize plowed plots even if they haven't been planted yet. And when you do return to plant on them, your crops will be instantly fertilized. Also, it's important to pass this information along too. If your friends have to spend some time away from their farm, you want to be able to earn your coins fertilizing their plots as well.

Gifts

Because the game no longer directs you to the free gift page every day when you log into FarmVille for the first time, it's easy to forget to send these special items to your friends. And, of course, it's easy for your friends to forget to send gifts to you. Even if you don't necessarily need any of the items that you receive as gifts, you can always sell them for some extra coins, so you'll want to remind your neighbors to keep sending them if they've been neglecting this aspect of the game. And the best way to remind them to send gifts your way is to remember to send gifts to them.

Bonuses

Every time your neighbors earn a ribbon, you'll have the opportunity to receive a bonus from them. Some of these bonuses are as small as 50 coins, and it may seem like more trouble than it's worth to peruse your news feed to find them all. But these small bonuses add up fast. You'll be missing out on a lot of you don't take advantage of as many as you can find.

It's never a bad thing to have some extra coins lying around – you can even use them to buy some extra items to earn experience points and level up more quickly. In order to be successful in FarmVille, you need to be able to take advantage of every opportunity that's presented to you, no matter how insignificant it seems at the time.

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Getting the Most Out of FarmVille Ribbons

The various ribbons you can earn while playing FarmVille can be pretty easy to overlook and take for granted. After all, you earn most of them simply by doing the things you would be doing in the game anyway. Ribbons for plowing and harvesting different kinds of crops are easy enough to earn – as are ribbons for simply spending money at the market. The bonuses you get when you win these ribbons are not small, however, and so you can help yourself a lot by making earning ribbons a priority. This is much easier than it sounds, and is well worth the small amount of effort it requires.

Targeting Your Accomplishments

Of course, if you're going to be working on earning ribbons, you'll need to know what you have to do to get them. You can find this out easily enough by simply clicking on the ribbon icon at the bottom of your screen. This will bring up a window that will allow you to peruse the many different types of ribbons that are available and see what you have to do to earn each one.

Complimentary Sets

Some of the accomplishments rewarded by ribbons are complimentary, but some others are not. For example, you can earn ribbons by harvesting a certain number of vegetable crops, and another by harvesting a certain number of fruit crops. Because you only have a limited amount of space to devote to your crops, it's best if you focus on one of these achievements first, and then shift to the other. Trying to split your resources between the two will only make it harder for you to accomplish both of them.

Some separate ribbons are complimentary, however. For example, you can earn ribbons by spending money in the market, and you can also earn ribbons by owning a certain number of decorations. Since you have to spend money in the store to accumulate these decorations, you can work towards both of these ribbons simultaneously.

A Winning Layout

You can also change the layout of your farm in order to earn ribbons more quickly. For instance, if you know you're going after some ribbons that have to do with harvesting or planting crops, you should maximize the amount of space you devote to plowed land. Once you've taken care of these accomplishments, however, you can adjust your layout to reflect your new goals. You don't want to get rid of all of your plowed plots, however – just make sure you have enough space set aside to pursue your new goals.

Sharing in the Wealth

Since you can share the wealth with your friends every time you earn a ribbon, you should be sure to take advantage of all of the bonuses you can earn when your friends collect ribbons as well. Checking your news feed frequently for your friends' announcements and clicking on the link to collect the bonus they're offering is a great way to earn some extra coins and get ahead in FarmVille fast. Just make sure you're offering the bonuses to them as well so that they share with you every time they can.

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A Quick Guide to Animals in FarmVille

There are an ever-growing number of animals that you can choose to keep on your farm in FarmVille. It can be a lot of fun to collect as many as you can of the ones you like, and animals add a lot to your farm. They also provide some revenue, although the amount varies a great deal with the type of animal you're collecting from. There are certainly plenty of reasons to keep all of these animals, but they do take up space. In order to make sure that you're not sacrificing too many of your resources for the animals you're supporting, you should consider a few things when you're deciding which animals to keep.

Space Savers

On your farm, space is always at a premium. That's why it's a good idea to focus on raising the animals that will take up the least amount of space. This list include the obvious smaller animals, like ducks and bunnies, but also a couple of others you might not expect. As long as you have enough neighbors (or enough farm cash) you can purchase dairy farms to keep your cows in. These hold up to 20 cows (or 19 cows and 1 bull) each, and you can buy as many as you want.

Not only do dairy farms take up much less space than 20 individual cows would, they're also much easier to collect from. With one click, you can harvest the milk from all 20 cows within your dairy farm. And cows aren't the only one's who get this type of special accommodations. Building yourself a chicken coop will save you time and space in the same way by giving you a place to house up to 20 chickens. Unfortunately, there is a limit of 1 chicken coop per farm, so you're best off keeping your total chicken population to 20 so they'll all fit in the coop.

Where to Get 'Em

All of these animals also don't come from the same place. In fact, the only animals you can buy with coins as this point are sheep and pigs. These animals are fine to have around, but they're not particularly space efficient, nor do they bring in a ton of revenue. There are a few other specialty animals that you can buy only with farm cash – several special varieties of chickens and an orange tabby, at the moment. And there are usually a few seasonal specials too that are only available for a limited time.

All About Gifts

You shouldn't need to buy any animals at all though if you're patient and have managed to accumulate a few good neighbors. There are quite a few different kinds of animals available as gifts, and if you get them this way, they're free. That means that you don't have to wait until you've made back the purchase price to start making money off of these animals. You can also get many more types of animals this way, so just tell your friends what you'd like to receive.

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The Many Advantages of FarmVille Flowers

Flowers are an exciting new addition to the selection of seeds available for you to plant on your farm in FarmVille. These new planting options are not only aesthetically attractive, but they're generally financially beneficial as well. And they also offer you a whole new way to interact with your neighbors and pretty up your farm. Growing flowers on a farm may seem like a silly choice to make, but if you look at the big picture, it's actually a very sensible decision. FarmVille flowers have a few important characteristics that make them a very attractive crop to raise, making them definitely worth a closer look.

Quick Cash

The most immediate benefit to growing flowers on your farm is that most of them deliver a handsome profit in a relatively short period of time. They generally only take a day (or sometimes two) to grow, and deliver an average return on your investment of over two times. The seasonal poinsettias will actually get you even more – almost 3 times your initial investment back within one day. That's a great profit to be raking in on a regular basis, and an excellent turnaround time as well.

Sharing the Beauty

But the financial incentives aren't the only important reason you'll want to grow some flowers on your farm. Flowers also just look really pretty – you're in for a real treat when your field of flowers matures. Also, you can share your bunches of flowers with your neighbors, and you can collect bunches from them.

These bunches will stay looking pretty for two whole weeks, and as long as you have a lot of friends to collect them from, you can put them all over your farm to add a special touch of beauty. They're totally maintenance free too – no watering or any other upkeep required. Just position your perfect bunches and enjoy the view. You have to be quick, though. The perfect bunches your friends have available at any given time will be limited in number. If you want to get as many as possible, you'll have to be pretty vigilant so that you know when there may be new ones to collect.

Give to Receive

And of course, the best way to encourage your friends to grow flowers so that you can collect them is by growing and distributing some of your own perfect bunches. Once your friends start to see how great the flowers can look, they'll be happy to help you out by growing some for you to collect. You may even want to shoot off a quick message explaining to your friends how profitable of an investment the flower seeds are as well. That way, they'll be doubly as inclined to grow their own and set out some bunches for you to collect.

There's really no downside to growing flowers in FarmVille. They only need the same care as any other crop, and they have some good extra features that make them even more desirable to grow than some of the more traditional alternatives.

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To Post, or Not to Post? The Eternal FarmVille Question

Anyone who spends any period of time on FarmVille knows how many chances there are to post announcements to your profile. Any small accomplishment in the game will prompt you to announce your progress to all of your friends. It's easy to see how this can fast become annoying, both to friends who play the game and to those that do not.

However, there are times when it's important to post announcements to your wall in order to help out fellow players. Only posting the helpful messages also will make it easier for your friends who are playing to find the bonuses you're trying to share with them. But which messages should you post? It's actually easier to figure out than you may think.

Sharing the Wealth

There are several times when you'll be asked if you'd like to Share the Wealth. You'll typically get this type of message when you earn a ribbon, although there are some other occasions as well. Any time you get this message though, you'll want to post to your wall and your friends' profiles. That's because your friends will only be able to get the bonus celebrating your ribbon if they can see it and click on the link on their profile. Also, it doesn't actually cost you anything to do this, so it's a good idea to always give all your friends the opportunity to share in your success.

Help a Stray

Another time it's good to post an announcement on your wall is when you receive the message that a stray animal has wandered onto your farm. You should always choose to help the animal find a home, but the only way to do this is to tell all of your friends that this animal is available for adoption. Most of them will be happy to have the opportunity to adopt the animals too, because they essentially get a money-maker for free. Most of the animals available this way are rare too, so these adoption messages may be the only way for your friends to get one.

Perfect Bunches

As you start to pick flowers, you'll start to collect perfect bunches that you can then give to your friends. Of course, you only have a limited number each time, so you'll have to post this type of announcement as well in order to enable your friends to collect your perfect bunches. Along these same lines, when you harvest eggs from your chicken coop, you'll occasionally find some mystery eggs to share with friends. The only way to share them, though, is to post the announcement, so this is one you should post also.

Posts to Avoid

Now that you have some idea of which announcements it's good to post, you can probably guess which types of posts are not particularly wise or welcome. Posting status updates whenever you reach a new level, for example, is not really a good idea. It does not benefit anyone, but merely takes up space on your friends' profiles. And essentially, that's the best rule to follow – if your friends get something out of it, post it. If they don't, keep it to yourself.

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Making the Best Use of Your Storage Space in FarmVille

Whether you're a FarmVille noobie or a seasoned veteran, you probably know how fast you can run out of room on your farm. You get so many gifts that you want to show off, but you also need to have room for your animals and crops so that you can continue to earn a decent living. And no matter how much you're able to grow your farm, it just never seems to be large enough to allow you to store and display all of the items you want.

Lucky for all of us though, FarmVille has added storage buildings so that you have somewhere to put some of those special items that you don't want to lose, but don't have room to display presently either. This is especially handy because purchasing decorations and other items doesn't just make your farm look better – it gives you experience points too.

Beneficial Balance

What all of this means is that you want to be able to purchase as many items as possible so that you can stack up those experience points fast. And of course, while taking in the number of experience points an item will earn you is important, it's also important to purchase the items that you think will add the most aesthetically to your farm.

You'll find out fast, however, that no matter how good the items you buy look individually, it's hard to make them all look good when they're crammed together because you simply had no space left to show them off properly. And that's when you can make use of your storage buildings.

Building Space

Of course, the amount of space you have available for storage will depend on the number of storage buildings you have. And that will depend on how much space you have to put up those buildings. With a little foresight, though, you can make this arrangement work out thoroughly to your advantage.

Really, all you have to do is to make some room on your farm for your storage buildings to be. And don't worry – they look like they belong on a farm anyway. For example, you can use a barn or a shed as a storage building, so don't worry that the buildings themselves will be an eyesore. Also, you can pick the type of building you want based on what will look best on your farm. Erecting the buildings will get you a good deal of experience too, so they actually benefit you in a couple of ways.

What to Store

You can certainly put up extra buildings to store more stuff as you accumulate it. But at a certain point, you'll have to start deciding what to store and what to sell off. After all, the whole point of having storage buildings is to create some extra space on your farm. You don't want to just turn around and fill up that space you worked so hard to create. You'll be able to purchase most items again if you want them later on, so the best ones to store are generally things that are seasonal in nature and won't be available to purchase the next time you want to be able to display them.

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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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