In FarmVille you now have the ability to harvest your animals in addition to your crops. So below I have compiled a list of profits for trees and animals. I am assuming that the initial cost of all of the items listed below is zero since it’s possible to gift these items to yourself.

Tree and Animal Profits

*This is how much you would make per week if you were able to completely fill a single farmable plot with this animal/tree. It should be noted that the horse and cows take up twice as much space as the other animals. This is why the lot profits for them are so low.

**This animal was only available for a limited time.

Creating a successful Farmville farm requires learning which crops will work for your playing habits, and using the highest experience producing crops when you have time.

When you start out playing Farmville and want to advance quickly you must learn about which crops will give you the best success. Planting and harvesting crops earns you experience points and coins but not all crops are created equal.

Berries are the most profitable choice but need the greatest time commitment on your part. For example, strawberries are usually one of your starting crops.  Strawberries are a fast growing fruit in Farmville, maturing and ready to harvest in only 4 hours. To speed up your startup efforts, covert virtually all your farm to strawberries. One word of caution, you are going to be busy. You need to harvest every 4 hours, or even more often if you don’t plant all the strawberries at the same time. Strawberries also wilt, and need replanting regularly.  This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, since you get additional points for planting your crops.

Since you will need to sleep sometime, you have to have a strategy for when you need to be away from the farm to sleep or work.  Pumpkins can be an excellent choice during these times. You have more time between harvests and wilting, allowing you a good nights sleep. It also helps keep your boss from yelling at you for logging into Farmville.

As you advance farther in the game, you will get the opportunity to begin planting blueberries. Blueberries are a good crop when you don’t have time to harvest for more than 8 hours or overnight. Replacing your pumpkin crops with blueberries will give you more experience points.

Raspberries are for the dedicated farmers. You will get the highest return from raspberries, but they take a great deal of playing time.  You will need to login every two hours to keep your farm running optimally with raspberries. If you want to move up levels quickly, raspberries would be a good choice of crop.

For those times when you need to be away for the PC for longer periods of times, rice is an excellent crop.  Rice allows you to be away for over 11 hours, giving you plenty of time for a day at work or a good nights sleep.

Other crops you must explore include grapes, tomatoes, coffee, and carrots. The crops all give you reasonable returns in experience while giving you more time than strawberries and raspberries. Depending on your level, grapes can give you up to 16 hours away from the computer.

Just like on a real farm, you have to plan your farms crops and use your resources smartly for the fastest ways to new levels. Don’t let your crops die on the vine while you’re away, when you can plant crops which continue producing through the night. The success of your Farmville enterprise is at stake. Once you know the correct techniques, your friends will be astonished as your farm flourishes and grows way beyond their experience.

Farmville Guide

Chicken Coop:

• You can now feed neighbor’s chickens
• Upon collecting from your chicken coop, if no mystery eggs are found a pop up will ask if you want to ask neighbors to feed your chickens to increase your chances of finding mystery eggs
• Neighbors who visit (through this feed or by visiting otherwise) can feed chickens once every 24 hours and cannot feed your chickens until they have fertilized your crops unless you have no crops to fertilize.
• You earn 1XP & 4 coins for feeding neighbor’s chickens.
• Neighbors can find up to 3 mystery eggs per harvest period in your coop.
• Upon finding mystery eggs at a neighbor’s farm, a pop-up will appear asking you to post a feed of your find, allowing neighbors to collect your mystery eggs.
• If no mystery eggs are found, you can still earn extra coins for ‘extra nice eggs’

Updates:

• Zynga has added some new cow print buildings and decorations available in the market for FV dollars or coins.
• There is also a new crop: the Morning Glory flower
• • This seed is available at level 13, yields 123 coins when harvested, and costs 60 coins to purchase.
  • New Giftable items include: cowprint milk jug and starfruit tree
  • 2 new achievements: Egg-celent Discovery and Fenced In
  • Zynga also apologizes for all the recent technical issues that came up with these new releases

New Segment: User submitted questions

• What are the developers’ favorite released animals so far? bovine 09, orange tabby, ugly duckling
• How many people are at one time working to fix bugs, build new stuff, and support the players? varies
• What are the artistic inspirations behind the look of the Farmville animations? Originally from Disney, Peanuts, Calvin & Hobbs and from pop culture and personal interests.

Sneak Peek:

• Soon going to have option to do something with unused and unwanted items
• Going to have more activities relating to planting, plowing, harvesting, and friend missions that include the release of general purpose items: general store, post office, and bed & breakfast
• Mystery animals: like mystery boxes but will be animals not seen before on Farmville.

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I consider myself to be relatively well educated in the latest generation of social networking site games like Mafia Wars, Vampire Wars, and such. That’s why when I started to see these FarmVille guides popping up all over the place I was kind of surprised. I mean, I can see why people might need some tips to get going in games like Mafia Wars, but FarmVille?

At this point though I hadn't actually played the game, but I didn't really think it could be all that complicated. I figured I should give it a shot though, just so that I could say I knew what I was talking about. And I was in for a rather big surprise. In pratically no time, I was out of money and had no crops to plant. I have to admit, there way more to this game than I had anticipated.

I eventually managed to dig myself out of my original hole and out of the red, but I still was not making that much progress. I started to think that maybe I needed to see what these guides were all about. I wasn't really expecting much, but since I hadn't done so well on my own either, I figured it was worth a shot.

So I picked up a guide called FarmVille secrets, and was pleasantly surprised by the tips I found in it. You wouldn’t think there were so many ways you could screw up a virtual farm, but believe me, you can. I was still stumbling along at level 6 when I got the guide after 2 weeks of playing regularly. Now I’m the proud owner of a plantation and a level 26 Sultan of Soil. And I still look back at my guide from time to time. If you’re having trouble getting into the swing of things in FarmVille, this guide is not a bad investment.

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