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The Mansion replaces the Villa as ultimate goal

FarmVilleDate 350 (Saturday, June 5, 2010) no comments

bldg highrollerhome icon The Mansion replaces the Villa as ultimate goal

Until now the Villa was the ultimate building goal in FarmVille but with the release of the mansion this week we have a new ultimate building goal.

You can only get it when you are on level 70 and it costs a whooping 5 million farm coins! Wauzers, I need to start collecting some extra coins again to get this on my farm :)

A nice one to round up one year of FarmVille, as we approach FarmVille Date 365 :) (it was released on 8pm on June 19th 2009 as stated in the very first FarmVille PodCast).

And well.. as you can see in the new object per level overview I uhm… stopped at level 40 so I have to update that :)

Some db updates

FarmVilleDate 184 (Monday, December 21, 2009) no comments

It is vacation time so I will do some site housekeeping :)

buildings

- the tool shed has increased in price from 8000 to 14.000, but the XP also increased. I had a required level of 8 but that seems to be 6 now. (but maybe I made a mistake in the past and it was not changed)
- for the green tool shed I had an XP value of 3000XP out of the mystery rounds but I think it must have been 300
- for some barns I had the X and Y the other around, I change that
- I changed the required level for the well to 8
- I change the x and y values of the workshop the other way around
- I changed x and y value for the cottages, farmhouse around
- I changed the enddate for the ticketbooth from 2009-12-01 to 2009-12-02
- I added 60xp to the striped rest tent
- I changed the size of the chicken coop
- for the flowershed i added a comment that minimum of 10 neighbors is needed
- added the estate

trees

- changed the ornament trees enddates from 2010-01-01 to 2010-01-02
- added 500xp to acai tree
- level 4 for the giftable maple tree
- update some more XP levels for Trees

animals

- the black chicken seems to be 21 hrs instead of 23 hrs? updated.

seeds

- changed costs of super(straw)berries from 20 to 10

decorations

- added blue soldier, wreath fence, candycane bench, snow pile ii, evergreen tree, caramel bear, whipped cream bear, snowy through, bunny slope, lighted bells, season greeting, happy holidays, lighted snowflake, lighted train, mystery box 7
- I have walked through ALL sizes and all decorations now have their correct size, have yet to create a report from it.

ribbons/achievements

- I have all the data now in the database to update the page, now its time to create some reports, but im going to redo all the existing reports in a smarter manner by also putting the reports themselves in the database, so that will take some time.

FarmVille Mystery Box 4 "the green box" contents

FarmVilleDate 161 (Saturday, November 28, 2009) no comments

image545 FarmVille Mystery Box 4 "the green box" contents

I have updated the db with the contents of mystery box #4 "the green mystery box".

As you can see I'm saving the last box 2, 3 and 4 for Christmas :) (too bad I spoiled box 1)

Well uhm.. it's green with a purple decoration. Nice. The box is available from last Tuesday 2009-11-24 to 2009-12-01.

It costs again 16 FV and gives you 5 XP in the Process and holds 6 different presents this time: 5 existing and one new.
Black Manor and 1000 XP (normally 2000 XP / 56 FV = 35.71 XP/FV) (so now 1000 XP / 16 FV = 62,5 XP / FV)	(Building, existing see see db)
TreeHouse + 600 XP (normally 600 XP / 20 FV = 25 XP/FV) (so now 600 XP / 16 FV = 37,5 XP / FV)	(Building, existing see see db)
Pagoda + 1000 XP (normally 1500 XP / 48 FV = 31.25 XP/FV) (so now 1000 XP / 16 FV = 37,5 XP / FV)	(Building, existing see see db)
Groovy Barn + 800 XP (normally 800 XP / 27 FV = 29.63 XP/FV) (so now 800 XP / 16 FV = 50 XP / FV)	(Building, existing see see db)
50 fuel refills + 500 XP (Normally 65 FV)	(Vehicles, existing see see db)
And.. the Green Tool Shed which is brand new! (+300XP) and which you can sell for 1500 coins and yes functions as storage for 15 items like the rest of the tool sheds. I you are saving Tool Sheds you NEED this one lol! p.s. as far as I know this is the 323th object in the game and… it is building #39 in the game, see: http://almanac.farmvillechicken.com/all-buildings-by-retrieval-method-cost-and-level

FarmVille introduces Dairy Farms

FarmVilleDate 125 (Friday, October 23, 2009) 2 comments

image140 FarmVille introduces Dairy Farms

This is the first in a series of buildings "that have a purpose".

The dairy farm can take 20 cows and the benefit is that you collect milk from them all at once. It costs either 10.000 coins or 20 FV (excluding the cows). Note that the building is non-rotatable, so you have to pick a spot where it is most logically placed e.g. the northern border or against another building.

image141 FarmVille introduces Dairy Farms

It works like this: after you have placed it you drag your cows into it or, if you buy a new one, you simply click no the building to add it to that building. With each set of 5 cows another cow head appears in the building:


Added 5 Cows	Added 10 cows

Added 15 cows	Added 20 cows

Note 1: that even if you put pink cows in it, somehow the head of the cow will still be the "normal cow" (I think the designer found that idea over the top).

Note 2: if you put cows in it that are already in a state of ready then it will mix the ready state of the dairy to a certain percentage in between.

Profitability

Now… cows used to be extremely unprofitable / square:

Pink Cow	$ 3,13
Brown Cow	$ 2,09
Normal Cow	$ 1,04

When compared to e.g. swans ($ 27,83 per hours per square). They only made sense of putting on your land if you wanted to collect the Zoologist Ribbon.

With the new building we have to calculate the room it takes and the profit it makes. That leaves one question open: does the dairy take into account a mixture of pink, brown and normal cows? Or will it deliver just 20* $1.04 ? I have to test that in a day).

So… let me update my spreadsheet and I will come back to you :)

Limited (17 days) set of Halloween items in FarmVille

FarmVilleDate 117 (Thursday, October 15, 2009) no comments

Today, users saw the temporary Halloween Message, which means some nice new goodies! (which are available for a period of 17 days)

image15 Limited (17 days) set of Halloween items in FarmVille

image16 Limited (17 days) set of Halloween items in FarmVille

The Animated Haunted House is the most expensive. It will cost 60 FV (!). But of course this is something extremely cool to have on your property.

image17 Limited (17 days) set of Halloween items in FarmVille

In the decoration setting, the two limited trees have gone (too bad if you missed them) and 7 new limited items have appeared. They are all pretty cheap, except for the Giant Spider Web which is another 30 FV.

So for 90 FV ($20) you can be the owner of the complete set of limited Halloween items!

So let me now search through my list of 656 FarmVille neighbors and friends to see who has invested this big amount of money in a FarmVille Halloween spot…

image19 Limited (17 days) set of Halloween items in FarmVille