Farm Town - Plow multiple fields

There's a new update in Farm Town and it introduces the ability to plow multiple fields. Regular readers of my Farm Town Blog might recall that I suggested this is exactly how multiple plowing might work back in June when the "watering" feature was introduced.

While we're looking at the image take note - if they ever do add the ability to plough and sow large areas in Farm Town this is how it may well look: a large "cursor area" rather than the "drag selection" that some have suggested.

You can read that post here.

So how does it all work, well you click the plowing tool and you are presented with three options: x1, x2 and x4



you then hover over the spot you want to plough and away you go.



This is going to be a real time saver for all of those industrial farm town farmers out there... though of course it will now mean you have more free time on your hands and might actually have to go and do some real life stuff, like wash the dishes, the kids or even yourself!

A number of my friends have however reported problems when farmers that you hire use these tools, often they don't get paid coins or xp and in some cases it deletes the harvested field and returns it to it's "grassy" state.

So now we just need to sow multiple fields!

Farm Town - get rich quick?

Some of you may remember my posts about making money in Farm Town on facebook, well with the advent of the new crops things have changed a little.

Raspberries especially now allow those of you with far too much time on your hands to plant about 11 rounds of crops, yes its true that Raspberries sell for less than grapes but don't forget that it's time in the ground that counts and just because of the sheer amount of Raspberries you can plant in any one day in Farm Town makes it the candidate for the most profitable crop!

Those of you who like to have a life outside of Farm Town might like to know that as far as my quick calculations show Blueberries are now the King of the three day crop giving you a profit of 197 Farm Town coins (excluding seed costs) per unit. Previously Onions were the best three day crop giving you 168 Farm Town coins.

I suspect that over the next few months we'll start to see people earning a lot more!

FarmTown Update - Take Photos in Farm Town

Thats right a new update snook into Farm Town yesterday, one that allows you to take photos (Screenshots) of your Farm Town farm and publish them directly to your facebook profile in an album called "Farm Town Photos" The whole process is really easy... but I have some screen shots for you anyway!


As you can see the photo tool (nifty little camera icon) is placed along with the watering can and digger - just click it!


You are then presented with an image of your photo and may add a caption. Once you have done that click "next" to publish.

You then get asked if Farm Town can open the photo permission window - basically just click yes to all of the questions


Clic the green tick!

Now this was the bit that confused me - because the Farm Town photo tool works as an external application to Farm Town it opened a new window - as I clicked the green tick (Shown in previous photo) I thought my photo should show up straight away, but it didn't. But don't worry as there is one last step! Go back to your Farm Town window and you'll see this notice:


Once that is clicked you may go back to your facebook photos and see your farm!


And there it is, now the whole world can see your Farm Town photos - well ok maybe just your facebook friends!

Farm Town Glitch

We've all encountered a few bugs and glitches in Farm Town on facebook. Glitches occur in every game - visual glitches (related to graphics etc) most don't affect most gameplay. Yet Farm Town's most famous glitch (The field overlapping glitch) became so exploited that the Farm Town developers actually incorporated elements of it into standard game play.

Anyhow I thought i'd share this odd graphical glitch that I encountered the other day.

Every Farm Town gift suddenly becomes a puppy! My guess at what is happening here is that my Farm Town gift list is so stupidly long that the system can't handle all of the "calls" to load in the images and has gotten "stuck" on the puppy. I really do need to sort out my gifts. If any of my Farm Town neighbors are reading this feel free to skip me when it comes to gifts for a week or two!

Farm Town Blog

Welcome to my new Farm Town blog... returning visitors will know that I had hosted this blog on my personal site martinpaling.com However I was a victim of my own success and attracted 30,000 visitors in just one week at the start of June. Unfortunately the expense of hosting such a successful blog was too much and it soon became apparent by the end of the month visitor numbers were going to skyrocket.

So I have now moved my blog here. All the same Farm Town content just a different address!