| What is Farmville? | | | | posting the lost animal. Additionally, animals can be |
| FarmVille is a real-time sim-farm web-based online | | | | bought or received as gifts. |
| game developed by Zynga, available as an application | | | | Farmville Buildings: |
| on Facebook. The game allows you to control a virtual | | | | Buildings can be placed on your farm. Most buildings |
| farm by planting, growing and harvesting your virtual | | | | have no bonus effects besides just being a decoration |
| crops, trees, and livestock. FarmVille has become the | | | | for the farm and some XP by building it. Some |
| most popular game application on Facebook with over | | | | buildings do have bonus effects such as the Dairy |
| 60 million players as of November 2009. It launched in | | | | Farm or Chicken Coop, which allow you to harvest |
| June 2009. | | | | milk or eggs from 20 cows or 20 chickens |
| Farmville Seeds: | | | | simultaneously! |
| You can plant seed in small plots of land by first | | | | Farmville Decorations: |
| plowing them. Different plants take different lengths of | | | | Decorations are small and have no special powers. |
| time to grow, from between two hours to four days. | | | | They can be placed all over the farm. Some |
| Once the plants are fully grown they can be | | | | decorations can be rotated too. |
| harvested for coins and sometimes experience points. | | | | Farmville Vehicles: |
| Crops must be harvested within a certain time limit or | | | | You can purchase Farmville Vehicles to make planting, |
| they will rot. This time limit is the amount of time it | | | | harvesting and plowing faster. The currently available |
| takes for the plant to grow. If you don't harvest the | | | | vehicles from the market are the tractor, the seeder |
| plant within the time limit, the crop will become withered | | | | and the harvester. These vehicles make plowing, |
| and die, thus giving no coins or experience points to | | | | seeding, and harvesting faster by allowing you to plow, |
| you when harvesting it. | | | | seed, and harvest four plots of land at a time. This is |
| Farmville Trees: | | | | much faster than just doing one at a time. When you |
| Trees can be harvested and produce various fruits. | | | | run out of gas, you can either wait for it to refill |
| Compared to normal crops, fruit from trees does not | | | | automatically or buy some more using FarmVille cash. |
| have a time limit and will not rot if not harvested in time. | | | | Farmville Ribbons: |
| Trees can be moved around the farm after you plant | | | | You're able to earn yellow, white, red and blue ribbons. |
| them, as opposed to normal crops which are planted in | | | | You gain these based on your efforts in Farmville by |
| plots of land that must be dug up and destroyed if you | | | | completing certain achievements, such as harvesting a |
| want to move them. Trees can be bought and | | | | certain number of animals or placing a specific number |
| received as gifts as well. | | | | of decorations. Every ribbon you earn gives you a |
| Farmville Animals: | | | | reward of coins and sometimes a bonus decoration. |
| Almost all of the animals can be harvested after a | | | | Farmville Cash: |
| certain time and will give you eggs, milk or other | | | | If you're playing FarmVille, wasting cold hard cash on |
| products. Sometimes animals will roam onto your farm | | | | FarmVille Cash, and still not getting anywhere and |
| and Farmville will prompt you asking if you want to | | | | wondering how anyone gets ANYWHERE in this |
| ignore the animal or publish the lost animal on your | | | | game, you'll need to figure this stuff out and FarmVille |
| Facebook news feed so your friends could adopt the | | | | Secrets is going to put you way over the top. |
| animal to their farm. You will also get a reward for | | | | |