Farm Town - Finally hire friends to Plow

It's finally here - the update we've all been asking for. We can now hire our neighbors, friends and folk from the marketplace to plow our Farm Town farms!

1. Employees make 5 coins per field plowed.
2. Employers's cost is reduced to 10 or 15, depending if the employee is a neighbour or not.
3. Employees can only plow on fields that have been harvested, or that have gone to waste.

Also there are some great new crops :

• Pineapple
• Blueberry
• Carrots
• Pepper
• Cotton
• Raspberry

Cotton is a four day crop and raspberry a two hour crop... i'll have a look later o see which is the most profitable - but if you already know do post and tell!



Also there are some great new flowers :

• Pink Tulips
• Purple Crocus
• Yellow Lilies
• Red Poppies
• Orange Poppies
• Yellow Poppies
• Red Crocus
• Daffodils

Finally the camera function has been updated and you can now take a "zoomed in" photo!

My Farm Town Village

Ever since the latest Farm Town update i've been planning to redesign my farm. I'm only a level 27 but already I'm finding that working on my farm is taking far too long - I really hope the Farm Town developers update the game soon so we can plough, seed and harvest large areas at once. In the meantime I've decided to redesign my farm in a way that cuts down the amount of work I have to do, especially as at the moment I tend to only plant one round of crops a week (I know it will take me ages to rank up now)

Anyway some photos :


This was taken after a harvest. It's a simple layout with a stream running through the middle. My Farm Town farm is now a village! Llareggub village (no prizes who can guess where the name comes from!!)




Two small farm hands cottages... rent is very reasonable!



The water mill.

Stil a lot of work to be done - I need a lot more flowers, but i'll get there and it doesn't take as long to plough now!

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 - Looking after flowers

So flowers have arrived in Farm Town - to see what else is new check out the post I made yesterday (literally seconds after they were added!)

So how do you look after Farm Town Flowers? Well it seems they might be very similar to the trees, I'm told that they never die, but i might test that out for myself... they can however wither, so to liven them up you need to water them. doing so will cost you one credit. However if a friend does it for you they will earn one credit! Check out the images below for more details.

A number of people say they can't see flowers in Farm Town. This is more than likely because you have the turned off in preferences. To sort this out go to Preferences (The spanner icon) and makes sure "Show Flowers" is ticked.

Ok so lets have a look at planting and watering, When you first plant a flower you'll see this sign:



Planting is really easy, you just select them in the store and stick them down, no need to plough! Here's what my first Tulips look like:



As you can see they take up much less space then vegetables. The raindrop sign above them tells you how much water the Farm Town flowers need - these ones having only just been planted don't need any watering, but let's have a look at what that looks like anyway:



The watering can is now in a yellow handyman type box icon along with the Farm Town bulldozer. To use you hover over the area you want to water and press your mouse button... and there's a nice animation to show you are watering. Remember this will cost you one credit in your own farm or earn you one credit in a friends farm!

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.

Happy farming!

Farm Town - Flowers are here... and much more besides

So we've all been waiting for Farm Town flowers - and now in the latest update to Farm Town they are here... and lots more besides!

First of all lets look at the flowers:

As you can see some of them are locked until higher ranks, but don't worry as you can send some of them as Farm Town gifts! Lilies, Roses, Zinnias and Hyacinths may all be sent as gifts - so ask your friends to send them today!

New flowers include: Crown of Thorns, Carnations, Marigolds, Tulips, Lillies, Roses, Zinnias and Hyacinths. You'll need to water your flowers regularly. You can either get your friends to do this or do it your self with the new watering can feature:

Here's a list of the new gifts you can send :

• Lilies


• Rose


• Rooster


• Zinnia


• Turkey


• Hyacinth


• Goat

But the goodies don't stop there, also new are a whole range of buildings, objects and landscaping features.

First of all the new Farm Town buildings:




They include a wind pump,watermill (two versions), gazebo, playground, water tank and wind tower. Unfortunately a lot of these are not unlocked until later ranks!

Next lets have a quick look at some of the new Landscaping features in Farm Town, first of all water features:




Let's face it the ponds were a bit miserley, but now you can build your own river complete with bridge - I have the feeling we'll be seeing some Farm Town "Moats" very soon!

Next let's take a look at the new hedge/fence features :



Gates are now available for the hedge, stone wall, white fence and barb wire fence.

Ok now let's have a look at some of the new objects :




Plenty of new Farm Town stuff here: a Grill (BBQ), US style mailbox, lawnmower, wheelbarrow, two variations of a bench, a doghouse (dog kennel) for you puppies and a patio table - perfect for holding a Farm Town party!

New animals include a Bull and a Goose, plus some new animals in the Farm Town "Gifts" page, these include: a Rooster a Turkey and a Goat.

Also new in this Farmtown update are some new hairstyles including a cornrow!

I expect a lot of farms will be getting make-overs in the next few days!

Farm Town - Still no Flowers

Well I've been playing Farm Town for over two weeks now and despite the message in the store that Flowers will be ready in two weeks... there still not here! They really would be a welcome update, a lot of people my mum (or Grandma as she likes to be called on Farm Town) spends more money and time on making her farm look attractive than she does farming.

Still, it's easy to hope you can deliver an update on a certain date only to find it's not yet possible: something I find happens quite often to us at Scenography - The Theatre Design Website However I have noticed some minor updates to the program.

I'm pretty sure the option to visit a marketplace in Farm Town in your language wasn't available a week ago - or am I imagining things?

Also another language drop down box in the preferences tab.