FarmVille Teams up with AVG

FarmVille has teamed up with AVG to give players a free specialized biplane and three uses of Instant Grow with every purchase of AVG’s PC Tuneup 2011 software! All you need to do is play FarmVille and you may see this informational window pop up at the bottom of the display:

You can click on the Market and see a promotional card for AVG as well. Either way by clicking on it you will be shown this window:

FarmVille players can get a special discount on AVG’s PC Tuneup 2011—the normal $29.99 US retail price has been slashed to just $9.99! Once you purchase PC Tuneup 2011 through AVG, you’ll receive a special new AVG biplane and three free uses of Instant Grow.

If you want to take advantage of this offer, just click on “Visit AVG Now” and you’ll be taken to a special AVG web page with more information about this product and how to start the purchasing process. You have to go from FarmVille to this page in order to get the special offer. The purchase will take place on AVG’s website and is not controlled by Zynga or Facebook. Once this purchase process is complete, you’ll get a notice that you won the item.

Now you’ll need to refresh FarmVille (by reloading the game) and you’ll see a special pop-up notice saying you’ve gotten the biplane (if you don’t that’s okay, it’ll still be in your Gift Box). You can choose to place it on your farm now or wait until later (simply click on the Multi-Tool to keep it in your Gift Box for now).

Note that you can take advantage of this offer as many times as you want during the promotional period—you’ll receive a new special biplane and three more uses of Instant Grow per transaction (which means multiple purchases at the same time will not work, you will need to go back to FarmVille and go through the normal flow in order to get another biplane). Also note that you don’t have to use the AVG biplane to use the three free uses of Instant Grow; any of the biplanes will work with them just fine.

This special promotion with AVG is going to last for just one week and will end on Wednesday, March 2 at 9PM PST, so take advantage of it right now!

FarmVille Wishing Well Guide

UPDATE: FarmVille Wishing Well Prizes have been updated on 31 Mar 2011. Check them out HERE. However the Guide remains the same as below.

Here is the official FarmVille Wishing Well Guide for all of you.

Ever see a well where according to tradition you could toss in a coin and make a wish that would come true? Well, you now have one in FarmVille!

Simply place the Wishing Well on your farm, toss in a Lucky Penny or two, and complete collections to get a special reward!

Everyone will get the Wishing Well for free the first time they play after FarmVille updates, and you will immediately be entered into Placement Mode. You can place the Wishing Well on your farm now, or you can choose to place it in your Gift Box for use later (by switching to the Multi-Tool for instance).

Once you place the Wishing Well click on it, and then choose “Look Inside” and the Wishing Well window will pop up. Every time you throw a Lucky Penny into the Wishing Well, something will pop back out, depending on which Collection you’re working on. You’ll start off with the St. Patrick’s Day Collection, which is Level 1. You’ll see there are six different items you’ll need to collect in order to complete the collection and move on to the next level. You won’t know which item will come out, however, as it’s totally random.

Everyone starts off with one Lucky Penny. Click on the green “Throw Lucky Penny” button at the center of the window to start. You’ll see the penny get tossed into the well and one of the six collection items pop back out. If you don’t have any Lucky Pennies, you’ll see two green buttons instead:

Here’s how you can give and receive Lucky Pennies:

• Asking your neighbors directly for Lucky Pennies by clicking on “Ask For More”.
• Give Lucky Pennies to your neighbors via the Free Gifts page.
• Spending five (5) Farm Cash (click on the “Buy Pennies” button) for five (5) Lucky Pennies.
• Possible extra Lucky Penny bonuses when you throw (these can also be shared).

Check marks will appear next to the boxes for those items you collect. Note that these are not actual in-game items that show up in the Gift Box or anything (in this fashion they work a lot like regular Collections). You can get multiple numbers of the same items, though you’ll get XP for each Lucky Penny toss you make.

Once you get all six items in that Collection, the “Throw Lucky Penny” button will grey out and the “Claim Reward” button at the lower right will appear underneath the Collection prize. Click the button to collect that prize (it’ll go into your Gift Box) and then you’ll move on to the next level. There are four Collection levels altogether.

Note you may also get a random bonus that can appear during a Lucky Penny toss. This bonus will show up in the Bonus box on the right, and usually consists of getting a few extra Lucky Pennies. The bonus is applied (one time only) as soon as you get it.

Source: Official FarmVille Forums

FarmVille Podcast - 18 Feb 2011

Here is the official FarmVille Podcast as released on 18 Feb 2011.


You can read  the entire Transcript of this week's podcast below:

FarmVille Podcast - Feb 18th!

Hey Farmers and welcome to this week’s installment of the Official FarmVille Podcast. My name is Stumpgrinder, and I am here to bring you the latest news and information about FarmVille from Zynga. This week we will be discussing our latest releases and give you all a sneak peak of what’s coming to FarmVille in the near future. 

On Thursday we released the Wishing Well, a cool new item that you can toss in a Lucky Penny, build up new special collections and redeem special rewards! Here’s how it works: the next time you play FarmVille after it updates you’ll get the Wishing Well for free. Since you’re automatically put into Placement Mode you can place the Wishing Well on your farm now, or simply choose to place it later by putting it in your Gift Box (just switch to the Multi-Tool to do this quickly).

Once you place the Wishing Well click on it, choose “Look Inside” and the Wishing Well window will pop up. Every time you throw a Lucky Penny into the Wishing Well, something will pop back out, depending on which Collection you’re working on. You’ll start off with the St. Patrick’s Day Collection, which is Level 1. You’ll see there are six different items you’ll need to collect in order to complete the collection and move on to the next level. You won’t know which item will come out, however, as it’s totally random.

Everyone starts off with one Lucky Penny. Click on the green “Throw Lucky Penny” button at the center of the window to start. You’ll see the penny get tossed into the well and one of the six collection items pop back out. If you don’t have any Lucky Pennies, you’ll see two other buttons instead: “Ask for More” and “Buy Pennies”.

Here’s how you can give and receive Lucky Pennies: Asking your neighbors directly for Lucky Pennies by clicking on “Ask For More”, giving Lucky Pennies to your neighbors via the Free Gifts page, and spending five (5) Farm Cash (click on the “Buy Pennies” button) for five (5) Lucky Pennies. There is also the possibility of getting extra Lucky Penny bonuses when you throw (which can also be shared).

Check marks will appear next to the boxes for those items you collect. Note that these are not actual in-game items that show up in the Gift Box or anything (they work a lot like ordinary collections). You can get multiple numbers of the same items, but you’ll only get XP for each Lucky Penny toss you make.

Once you get all six items in that Collection, the “Throw Lucky Penny” button will grey out and the “Claim Reward” button at the lower right will appear underneath the Collection prize. Click the button to collect that prize (it’ll go into your Gift Box) and then you’ll move on to the next level. There are four Collection levels altogether.

Note you may also get a random bonus that can appear during a Lucky Penny toss. This bonus will show up in the Bonus box on the right, and usually consists of getting a few extra Lucky Pennies. The bonus is applied (one time only) as soon as you get it.

Being a new feature we want to know what you think about the Wishing Well, so please tell us what you think in our Official FarmVille forums.

We wanted to remind everyone that the Valentine’s Countdown is going to be ending soon, so if you haven’t gotten your daily prizes yet be sure to play FarmVille and see which ones you are missing. Just click on the heart icon at the upper right-hand portion of the FarmVille window to see what’ve gotten and what you need to get.

In the last few weeks we’ve released a number of Valentine’s Day and Lunar New Year Limited Edition theme items, and we’re currently releasing the much anticipated Fairy Tale theme which many of you really like. Speaking of which, we’re asking about your opinions about upcoming themes like Mardi Gras and St. Patrick’s Day in our Official Feedback forum, so be sure to stop by if you have a great idea!

Coming Soon Section
Now with news on what’s coming up in FarmVille. As some of you may have seen in the last few weeks, we’ve been teasing about the exciting FarmVille English Countryside feature via billboards and postcards in FarmVille and now we’re ready to reveal more.

With FarmVille English Countryside you’ll get the opportunity to start and play on a second farm, set in the English countryside. This farm will feature special soil which will help master your crops faster than ever before. In addition, the English countryside will be populated with friendly characters, like Agatha, your neighbor. They will help guide your play and present special activities and challenges. 

FarmVille English Countryside will grant you access to all new crops, buildings, and much more that we will be revealing soon. While players Level 20 and above will be able to get access to FarmVille English Countryside, you can help junior farmers prepare for their journey by sending them materials and teaching them how to make their visit. 

We want to thank everyone for their excitement and interest in FarmVille English Countryside. Our Facebook fan page reached 500,000 fans in just three days, and if you haven’t visited the fan page and Liked it, you should do so today because we’ll be running more updates from that the fan page starting next week!

And finally, in other news about what’s coming to FarmVille, be sure to build up your Greenhouse and save some seeds because we’ll have something for you to do with them soon. And stay tuned for a brand new promotion!
Alright folks, well that’s it from me this week! Again, my name is Stumpgrinder, and I would like to thank everyone for tuning in this week. Hopefully Lexilicious will be back on March 4th to bring you all of the latest news from around the farm. 

Happy Farming everybody!

FarmVille English Countryside Mystery

FarmVille has released a new mystery "FarmVille English Countryside" and a new Facebook Fan Page for it has been launched here at FarmVille English Countryside Facebook Fan Page.

Following messages have appeared on the Fan Page so far:-
Description: "Get ready for a whole new way to play your favorite game! FarmVille's English Countryside expansion is coming soon. Like this page and keep on top of all the latest news and information about the expansion!"

 "You're going to love the English Countryside! New land, new crops, and new adventures. And the locals are so helpful! Tell your friends. The more the merrier! - Charlie"

"Howdy Farmers! We just updated the logo for the FarmVille English Countryside to help everyone know for sure that it's coming soon! Keep an eye on this page for more details in the coming weeks, it's going to be a lot of fun!"
What do you think will be released in FV ENglish Countryside??? A new game or an expansion pack in existing FV?

FarmVille Valentine Count Down Guide

With Valentine season in full bloom, Master FarmVille brings this official FarmVille Valentine Count Down for all of you. You can also go through the beautifully decorated Valentine-Themed Farms here and here. You can get great ideas to decorate your own farms easily and conveniently.


Official FarmVille Valentine Count DOwn Guide
It’s time for the Valentines Countdown! For the next twelve days in a row play FarmVille and ask your neighbors for a special gift. Once you get all twelve you unlock a super-secret bonus prize! (For those of you who have seen the Winter Countdown, this works pretty much the same way.)
You can access the Valentines Countdown via a special icon on the right-hand side of the FarmVille display.

Just click on it and the Valentines Countdown window will open:




Here’s how it works: every day for twelve days in a row, starting February 10, you will have the ability to get a new item in the Countdown. As you can see in the image above, the first item available is the I Love You Stand. You acquire these items by clicking on the “Ask/Share” button.

From there you’ll be asked to make a post to your own wall asking for this item. If a neighbor or friend gives you this item, they’ll get one in return.

The criteria for acquiring that item of the day is met when you get the item from a neighbor or you get one by answering one of these feed posts. Each new day a new item will appear, and the process will start all over again.
What happens if I miss a day? you may inquire. That’s okay, you can catch up. For example, if I miss getting the first item on the first day, I see that I can still ask one of a number of particular friends for that item (click “Ask”), or I can just buy it outright for Farm Cash (the “Buy” button).

On the twelfth day all of the items will be visible. If you have received (by asking for or gifting to someone else, thereby getting one in return) all twelve items, the special bonus prize will unlock. The ability to acquire these items, as well as the special bonus prize, will remain for a few days after February 21 (the twelfth day), so even if you miss most of the days you still have a chance to catch up and unlock the special bonus prize.

You also have the option of buying the complete set ahead of time using Farm Cash. Just click on the “Complete Now” button at the bottom of the Valentines Countdown window and you’ll be asked to make the purchase for the appropriate amount of Farm Cash (which is the total accumulated Farm Cash cost of all of the items minus what you’ve already acquired).
Source: Official FarmVille Forums

FarmVille Green House Official Guide

Greenhouses are slowly rolling out so please be patient, you'll have it soon!

Welcome to green world of crop experimentation and seeding! The Greenhouse is a multi-level constructible building that you can experiment to create up to ten new Masterable crop breeds.

The bigger the Greenhouse, the higher the amount of seeds you can start to produce. And you can get your friends to help speed up the experimentation process!

Building Your Greenhouse

First off, let’s not confuse the new Greenhouse with the old one that was available in the Market; the old Greenhouse has been renamed Glasshouse and had no actual functionality (other than looking nice). Similarly the Cube Greenhouse, available exclusively through FarmVille Mobile, is merely a decoration.

Everyone will get the new Greenhouse for free the first time the play after FarmVille updates, and you will immediately be entered into Placement Mode. You can place the Greenhouse frame on your farm now, or you can choose to place it in your Gift Box for use later (by switching to the Multi-Tool for instance).

The new Greenhouse is a multi-level constructible building where each level requires a certain amount of building parts to complete, and each level allows the use of more seeding trays (see below):

• Level 1 – 12 parts total: 4 Wooden Boards, 4 Nails and 4 Bricks. Includes 1 seed tray.
• Level 2 – 45 parts total: 15 Wooden Boards, 15 Nails and 15 Bricks. Includes 4 seed trays.
• Level 3 – 60 parts total; 20 Wooden Boards, 20 Nails and 20 Bricks. Includes 8 seed trays.

Like many constructible building parts, you can acquire these items by:

• Asking your neighbors for these parts by posting a help request to your feed (click on the “Ask For More” button for each type of part).
• Give parts to your neighbors via the Free Gifts page or the “Send Gifts” button.
• Acquire individual parts by spending Farm Cash (click on the “Buy” button for that particular part). Each part is one (1) Farm Cash.
• Acquire all needed parts for the building by spending Farm Cash (click on the “Complete Now” button to purchase parts for the rest of the building). The Cost is X Farm Cash, where X is the amount of parts left needed to finish the building.
• Potentially through the use of Special Delivery Boxes.
• Using individual parts already available in your Gift Box.

As you complete each level of Greenhouse, it becomes bigger and grander visually:

If you do not get the Greenhouse initially or wind up deleting (or otherwise losing) it, you can purchase it in the Market (under Buildings). You’ll need to be Level 5 to use it.

Discovering New Seeds

To see what the Greenhouse can offer (and it’s at least Level 1) just click on it on your farm and choose “Look Inside” from the menu options. The initial Greenhouse display looks like this:

Right now you’re looking at the Nursery display. Here you can find and use the right seed combinations to produce one of the new crops. Just click on the “Place a Seed” display and you’ll see a mini-Market display showing twenty familiar crops (like Strawberries, Lilacs, Wheat, etc.). Once you enter in the right two-crop combination, you’ll be told what the new crop will be and that the experimentation process has started and you’ll be deducted the cost (in coins, listed under each crop). If you enter in the wrong combination you’ll get an error message.

The Nursery display will then look like this when you start a proper two-crop combination:

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In this example you can see I’m experimenting with using Raspberries and Strawberries to make a new crop. Generally this process will take three (3) days. However, if I click on “Ask Friends For Help” I can speed up this process. Each Friend I get to help me out will reduce the experimentation time by a day, so if three friends help me out, I can finish the experimenting instantly. You can also speed up the process by clicking on “Complete Now” and spending Farm Cash (the cost is two (2) Farm Cash for each friend that hasn’t helped you so far, so if no friends have helped you then the cost is six (6) Farm Cash).

Once the experimentation process is over the clock will be replaced with an image of a new seed packet. Click on “Harvest” and you’ll be rewarded with a new super-enhanced crop (in the case of mixing the Strawberries and Raspberries you get the Straspberry).

Each time you finish experimentation you’ll get fifty (50) seeds of this new crop, which is placed in your Market and can be seeded (similar to giftable Limited Edition crops). You’ll also be able to share this new crop with your friends.

If you look at the Nursery bar you can see that you only have one seed tray to work with. As you expand the Greenhouse (click on the “Expand Greenhouse” button to see what you need), you’ll get access to many more seed trays so you can experiment with a lot more special crops at the same time. For instance, a Level 2 Greenhouse will get you four (4) seed trays and the Nursery will look like this:

Just click on a tray button to move between the trays. You can experiment with any combination of special crops, there’s no restriction as to which you can try out. There will be a green “Ready” label over the ones that are ready to be harvested.

Clicking on the “Seed Genealogy” button will bring you to the genealogy display, where you can see all of the special crops available for experimenting:

You can learn more about these special crops as well as how far along your Mastery of these crops are (yes they can be Mastered!) by moving your mouse over the crop image.

Happy farming!

FarmVille Discount on Valentine Email Offer by Zynga

Here is an interesting email received by FarmVille players which is offering a nice FarmVille Discount on Valentine by Zynga. You can get Free Farm Cash on the Valentine. If you send a FarmVille Prepaid Gift card to your Valentine and they redeem it between 12 and 14 Feb 2011, then they will get a 20% discount on Farm Cash.

You can also decorate your Farm to celebrate FarmVille Valentine and even to take part in Farm Decorating Contest on Official FarmVille Forums.
Are you ready for Valentine on your farm yet???

FarmVille Valentine-Themed Loading Screen

Here is a beautiful FarmVille Valentine Loading Screen for you. I really love the FarmVille animals and the trees.

Which is your favorite item from FarmVille's Valentine-Themed Items?

You can also decorate your farm by seeing some brilliant Valentine Themed Farm Designs here.

FarmVille Valentine Themed Showcase #5

Here is another interesting FarmVille Valentine Themed Showcase #5 featuring interesting and latest FV Valentine releases.

You can also see FarmVille Valentine Themed Showcase #3 and FarmVille Valentine Themed Showcase #4 here.

Which Valentine-Themed FV Item did you like the most?

FarmVille Valentine Themed Showcase #4

Here is another interesting FarmVille Valentine Themed Showcase #4 featuring interesting and latest FV Valentine releases.

You can also see FarmVille Valentine Themed Showcase #2, FarmVille Valentine Themed Showcase #3 and FarmVille Valentine Themed Showcase #5 here.

Which Valentine-Themed FV Item did you like the most?

FarmVille Valentine Themed Showcase #3

Here is another interesting FarmVille Valentine Themed Showcase #3 featuring interesting and latest FV Valentine releases.

You can also see FarmVille Valentine Themed Showcase #2 and FarmVille Valentine Themed Showcase #4 here.
Which Valentine-Themed FV Item did you like the most?

Latest FarmVille Podcast - 4 Feb 2011

Here is the Latest FarmVille Podcast as released on 4 Feb 2011.

FarmVille Podcast Transcription - Feb 4th!:

Hey Farmers and welcome to this week’s installment of the Official FarmVille Podcast! My name is Grimwell and I am here to bring you all of the latest news and information about FarmVille from Zynga. This week, we will be discussing our latest releases, and everyone will be getting a sneak peek of things coming to FarmVille in the near future.

So today, we released the brand new Green House feature. Please be aware that this feature was originally teased in our last podcast as the Glass House, but has had a bit of a name change since then. Since the Greenhouse is brand new, I would like to give a quick explanation of this feature for everyone.

The Greenhouse is a multi-level constructible building that you can use to create up to ten new Masterable crop breeds. The bigger the Greenhouse, the higher the amount of seeds you can start to produce.

First off, let’s not confuse the new Greenhouse with the old one that was available in the Market; the old Greenhouse has been renamed Glasshouse and had no actual functionality. Similarly, the Cube Greenhouse, available exclusively through FarmVille Mobile, is merely a decoration.

Everyone will get the new Greenhouse for free the first time the play after FarmVille updates, and you will immediately be entered into Placement Mode. You can place the Greenhouse frame on your farm now, or you can choose to place it in your Gift Box for use later.

The new Greenhouse is a multi-level constructible building. Each level requires a certain amount of building parts to complete and each level allows the use of more seeding trays. For details on how many parts are required and how many trays can be used per level, please visit the “Game Updates” section of the FarmVille Forums.

Now, like many constructible building parts, you can acquire these items via neighbor requests, the free gifts page, Special Delivery Boxes and Farm Cash.
As you complete each level of the Greenhouse, it will become visually bigger and grander. Now, if you do not get the Greenhouse initially or wind up accidentally deleting it, you can purchase it in the Market under the Buildings tab.

To see what the Greenhouse can offer, just click on it on your farm and choose “Look Inside” from the menu options to see the Nursery display. Here, you can find and use the right seed combinations to produce one of the new crops. Just click on the “Place a Seed” display and you’ll see a mini-Market display showing twenty familiar crops.. Once you enter in the right two-crop combination, you’ll be told what the new crop will be and you’ll be deducted the cost listed under each crop. If you enter in the wrong combination you’ll get an error message.

Experimenting to create new crops will take time. However, if you click on the “Ask Friends For Help” button, you can speed up this process. Each Friend you get to help will reduce the experimentation time by a day. You can also speed up the process by using Farm Cash.

Once the experimentation process is over the clock will be replaced with an image of a new seed packet. Click on “Harvest” and you’ll be rewarded with a new super-enhanced crop.

Each time you finish experimentation you’ll get fifty seeds of this new crop, which are placed in your Market. You’ll also be able to share this new crop with your friends. As you expand the Greenhouse, you’ll get access to additional seed trays so you can experiment with more special crops at the same time.

Remember, you can experiment with any combination of special crops, there’s no restriction as to which you can try out. There will be a green “Ready” label over the ones that are ready to be harvested.

Clicking on the “Seed Genealogy” button will bring you to the genealogy display, where you can see all of the special crops available for experimenting. You can learn more about these special crops as well as how far along your Mastery of these crops are (yes they can be Mastered!) by moving your mouse over the crop image.

Now, the Greenhouse is a big release, so as per usual, we are looking for your feedback. Please make sure to visit the official FarmVille forums if you have an opinion about our latest update that you would like to share. And since we have a lot of really exciting news for you guys this week, let’s go ahead and jump into the coming soon segment of this week.

First up is something that I know our community has been waiting very patiently for. 28 x 28 Expansion will be released next week for coins! This expansion was originally going to be crafted into a new feature, which is the reason for the delay. However, the FarmVille Team decided that this feature was ultimately not as enjoyable for our players as it should be, so it will be released as normal next week. We would like to thank everyone for their patience with us so far and we are very excited for this upcoming release.
Along with the expansion, we will also be introducing the ability to collect watering Cans from Orchards. We have heard tons of feedback from users that Watering Cans are too scarce. In the near future, when you collect from your Orchard and do not receive a Seedling, you will receive two watering cans and an additional can that can be shared with up to 10 of your Neighbors.

And lastly, we will soon be introducing special new crops that will award extra experience points and more coins than normal crops.
And before I get out of here, I want to quickly inform everyone that the ability to harvest watering cans from snowmen has been re-enabled for an additional 3 weeks. If you have deleted your Snowmen, please contact Zynga Customer Service and they will restore your Snowmen for you.

Alright folks, well that’s it from me this week! Again, my name is Grimwell, and I would like to thank everyone for tuning in this week. Lexilicious will be back on February 18th to bring you all of the latest news from around the farm.

Happy Farming everybody!

FV Valentine-Themed YouTube Showcase

Here you can see the Valentine-themed FarmVille video as shown on YouTube. It serves as a showcase for the FarmVille Valentine Items. So check it NOW!!!

Do you like these items? Which Valentine Item do you love the most from FarmVille?

FarmVille Valentine-Themed Farm Ideas 2

The first 5 Valentine-Themed Farms can be seen here. So here are the farms # 6-10.

We hope that you will enjoy these magnificent farms and would add more spice to your farms. To show off your nice farms on this blog, you can submit your farm photos at master.farmville7@gmail.com

FarmVille Valentine-Themed Farm Ideas

Are you out of ideas for decorating your farm for Valentine's Day???


If you want to decorate your FarmVille farm in accordance with Valentine's Day and want to leave a special message for your beloved, then Master FarmVille brings to you a couple of exclusive posts from the last year's Valentine Archive. Here are the Top 10 farms of the Last Year's Official Valentine's Day Farm Decorating Contest organized by Zynga on Official FarmVille Forums.

The Next 5 Valentine-Themed Farms can be seen here.
We hope that you will enjoy these magnificent farms and would add more spice to your farms. To show off your nice farms on this blog, you can submit your farm photos at master.farmville7@gmail.com