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Farmville Unwithers

February 10th, 2010 cheatspulse No comments

If you have played a lot of Farmville then this has probably happened to you at least once. You get busy with real life, work, or go on vacation then return to the game only to discover all your crops have withered. The results can be devastating: in addition to the lost coins, there’s also lost time, which can be especially painful if you’re growing long-term crops like Yellow Melons or Red Wheat. Up until now, you simply had to plow under the crops and start again, perhaps reminding yourself to set a calendar alarm next time.

But now Farmville has answered the problem with a new item called Unwithers. This is an item you can buy in the market for 10 Farmville cash (about $6 in real money). You get a 3-pack of unwithers, and each one will completely restore your entire farm, reviving withered crops. A nice touch is that you can also use it on your neighbor’s farm. Is it worth $2 a shot. We don’t know for sure. It all depends on how much you value your time and Farmville coins.

Farmville Unwithers

Unwithers revive an entire farm's worth of crops.

Farmville Roses for Valentine’s Day

February 4th, 2010 cheatspulse 1 comment

There are three new seeds as part of the Farmville Valentine’s Day specials. These three new roses are only available for the next 11 days and you cannot earn Crop Mastery for them. But they’re extremely good seeds to get and very profitable both for coins and XP. The Fire & Ice Roses, which are only available to players who are level 35 and above, are by far the most profitable crops in the game, with a stunning Net Profit per hour of 11.56 coins and will earn 0.25 XP per hour, which is among the best rates in the game. The White Roses, which don’t have the same level requirement, are not too shabby either. They have a net profit of 8.04 coins per hour and will earn you 0.17 XP per hour. The bottom line is that for the next 11 days, these are the plants you want to grow, even without the Crop Mastery gains.

Farmville Super Pumpkins

January 27th, 2010 cheatspulse 2 comments
super pumpkins in FarmVille

These pumpkins really are super.

A special new crop has arrived in Farmville for a limited time only. Super Pumpkins are available only for players who become fans of Farmville on Facebook. The new seeds will be available for planting through the end of the month only. They’re a pretty impressive crop with some of the best statistics in the game. They have the best net profit per hour of any crop (almost twice as much as peas!) and they earn XP at a rate equivalent to all the berry crops. Bottom line: if you’re serious about earning coins and XP, become a Farmville fan now and start planting super pumpkins every four hours until they go away!

Here is a look at some of the data.

  • Cost: 30 coins
  • Sell for: 100 coins
  • XP: 1
  • Harvest Time: 4 hours
  • Gross Profit: 70 coins
  • Net Profit (includes plow cost): 55 coins
  • Net Profit per Hour: 14 coins
  • XP per hour (including plowing): 0.5

It’s too early to get full Crop Mastery data on the pumpkins, but it appears that you can earn mastery in this crop. The first star requires 1,250 harvests.

super pumpkins in farmville

Now that's a SUPER pumpkin!

How To Find Neighbors in Farmville

January 25th, 2010 cheatspulse No comments

Neighbors are an important part of playing Farmville. Neighbors help to fertilize your farm and feed your chickens, and they can be a great source of gifts, lost animals, and mystery eggs. By helping out your neighbor’s farms, you can also earn coins and experience points for yourself.

Finding neighbors can be tricky, especially if your friends don’t play the game. First, try sending invites to your friends to play Farmville. To do so, click on the “Invite Friends” tab above the game window and then choose people to invite among your friends list. An invite will be sent to these friends, and they can choose to accept, ignore, or decline your invitation.

You can also go to the “My Neighbors” tab and see which of your friends are already playing Farmville. On this page, you’ll see info on each friend’s level, achievements earned, and number of neighbors. We recommend scanning the list for players who are the most active. They are more likely to visit your farm and send you gifts.

If you’re looking to add highly active Farmville players as neighbors, you can also check out other resources such as the official Farmville forum. There is a thread called “Find Neighbors” where you can find other players looking for neighbors, and then add them to your farm.

You might also think about inviting people from Farmville fan sites. Search on “Farmville” in Facebook and look for results that mention “neighbors.” Many of these groups allow you to post “add me” messages so other members can invite you as neighbors; you can also send invitations to players listed on these sites. To increase your success rate, try including stats about your game level and activity, especially if you’re a very active player and highly advanced in the game.

The maximum number of neighbors that you can invite is 300, however you can keep accepting new neighbors that send you invitations.

If you’re worried about adding strangers to your account, you can restrict your privacy settings so you can add Farmville neighbors without giving them access to the rest of your Facebook profile. Here are the steps to do so:

1. Go to your “Friends” tab on Facebook
2. Click on the “Create New List” button above your listed friends
3. Type “Farmville Friends” in the box where it says “Enter a Name”
4. Hit “Create List”
5. Go to the “Settings” tab
6. Click on the “manage” link next to Privacy
7. Click on “Profile Information”
8. For each category, click on the drop down menu to the right and choose “Customize”
9. Under “Hide this from,” add “Farmville Friends” in the box that says “These people”
10. Click “Save Setting”

Now anyone you add to your Farmville Friends list will not be able to see your restricted profile information. When you click on the “Friends” tab in Facebook, you should see a “Add to List” button next to each of your friends. Click on “Facebook Friends” to add anyone you wish to include in this list.

The Mystery Behind Farmville Mystery Boxes

January 24th, 2010 cheatspulse No comments

Mystery Boxes were introduced to Farmville in October 2009. They can be purchased for 16 Farmville dollars in the Market under Decorations. Farmville is now also selling the Best of Mystery Chest, which is loaded with some of the best stuff from past Mystery Boxes.

A Mystery Box can be used as decoration for your farm, but opening it will reward you with one special item and experience points. To open a box, place it on your farm and then click on it to get the “Open” option. After choosing “Open,” the box will reveal its special contents. Once the box is opened, it disappears from your farm.

Each box usually contains one of six possible mystery items and only lasts about a week for purchase in the Market. Unopened boxes that you’ve already purchased can still be opened even after they’re removed from the Market.

Past prizes have included:

October 20, 2009 – October 30, 2009
Country Picnic Table, Fire Pit, Golden Gnome, Hot Tub, Long Chair, Red Bike, Striped Rest Tent, Tree Swing

November 10, 209 – November 18, 2009
20 Fuel Refills, 30 Fuel Refills, Acai Tree, Gazebo, Large Pond, Manor, White Owl

November 27, 2009 – November 25,2009
Animal Float, Carousel, Donkey, SilverStreak Trailer, Water Tower, Zen Garden

November 24, 2009 – November 30, 2009
50 Fuel Refills, Black Manor, Green Tool Shed, Groovy Barn, Pagoda, Treehouse

December 1, 2009 – December 9, 2009
Golden Fountain, Gold Sleigh, Holiday Gate, Platinum Gnome, Tinsel Tree, Toy Chest

December 9, 2009 – December 15, 2009
50 Fuel Refills, Golden Chicken, Gumdrop Tree, Snow Globe, Super Spin Ride, White Barn

December 15, 2009 – December 22, 2009
Dancin’ SnowLady, Frozen Pond, Gingerbread Home, Holiday Sleigh, Santa Gnome, Santa’s Workshop

December 23, 2009 – December 28, 2009
Grey Goose, Melting Snowman, Porch Swing, Rock Stream, Sneaky Crown, Stone Well

December 28, 2009 – January 6, 2010
Alpaca, Animals Statue, Giant Bell, Jack in the Box, Lighted Snowman Family, Ornate Welcome Gate

January 5, 2010 – January 12, 2010
50 Fuel Refills, Bunny Slope, Gazebo, Golden Chicken, Mini Train Set, White Barn

There is debate about the value of Mystery Boxes in Farmville. To get Farmville dollars to purchase a Mystery Box, you need to buy those dollars with real money — 1 real dollar is equal to 5 Farmville dollars; the minimum purchase amount is 5 real dollars. So you’ll end up spending about 3 real dollars for a Mystery Box.

If you like to decorate and collect rare items in Farmville, Mystery Boxes can be an easy way to obtain cool and exclusive decorations for your farm, as well as gain experience points.

Guide to Raising Livestock in Farmville

January 23rd, 2010 cheatspulse 2 comments

Growing crops in Farmville is the activity that typically receives the most attention. It can earn you the most coins and experience, and if you’re on top of harvesting, will advance you faster in the game. However, other activities such as adding livestock to your farm and harvesting them for coins, can also be beneficial to your advancement and enjoyment in Farmville.

While it may not make you as much profit in the game, there are advantages to raising animals. Besides being cute and decorative, they do not “go bad” as crops will do if you don’t harvest them at the right time. This can be helpful if you’re not able to visit your farm regularly, or will be away from a computer on vacation.

In addition, animals can often be received as gifts, which means you can add them to your farm and collect coins after harvesting them, without having to invest in buying the livestock with your hard-earned funds.

Getting smaller animals can be a space saver too. Animals such as rabbits and ducks don’t take up that much room, and can earn you easy coinage. You can also invest in a chicken coop or dairy farm to house multiple chickens and cows, up to 20, which can be harvested all at the same time, saving you time and space.

There are currently close to 50 animals available on Farmville. Some of them can be purchased at market, such as chickens, pigs and sheep. Limited animals also show up in market; however, you’ll need to buy them before time expires and they can be quite expensive. Most other animals are only available through gifting from friends.

Another way to add animals to your farm is to “adopt” one. This can be accomplished by checking the profile pages of your Facebook friends. If a lost animal is found on their farm, they can put it up for adoption on their Facebook newsfeed. You’ll need to be quick and on the ball to capitalize on these opportunities. The first person who clicks on the adoption link will receive the animal, and no one else can get it after that.

According to the many profit charts and discussions on farm animals in Farmville, generally the best animals to maintain on your farm are goats, horses, ducks and rabbits, but that also depends on how often you can visit your farm to harvest those animals.

For the work you spend on your animals, Farmville will also reward you with ribbons, such as the Zoologist ribbons for harvesting your animals; the Animal Shelter ribbons for adopting lost animals; and the Noah’s Ark ribbons for having different kinds of animals. Ribbons will earn you coins as well.

Finally, it is possible to pet your animals, but the only result is hearing them make sounds. There is no financial benefit to petting your livestock, but it can be a fun activity, especially if you have children!

Stack the Best-Looking Hay Bales in Farmville

January 22nd, 2010 cheatspulse No comments

No farm in Farmvile is complete without a good collection of hay bales. But, did you know that you can really show off by stacking your hay bales in cool and colorful formations?

Hay bale stacking is just an illusion on Farmville. The code doesn’t actually allow stacking, but by placing the hay bales in strategic locations, it can appear as though the hay is stacked in nice little rows.

The trick to doing so is to place the hay bales so the top right corner of each hay bale in your bottom row is touching the bottom left corner of each hay bale in the row above it.

Then you’ll want to place extra hay bales to fill in the gaps on the right and left sides, so the ends are even. Add two to the right on the bottom row; add one to the right on the second row, etc.

After that, add two bales immediately behind the hay bale on the bottom left, and one immediately behind the hay bale on the middle left. You’ll end up with what looks like steps on the left side.

You can expand on this process to create bigger and better hay stacks. You can also vary the colors of the hay bales that you use. There are currently ten colors of hay bales – white, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, gray and black.

You can make cool designs for the holidays and different seasons of the year. How about an all-red heart for Valentine’s Day? Or a green four-leaf clover for St. Patrick’s Day? You can try other neat designs too, like a gigantic pyramid, waterfall, logo, or smiley face. Some players build high towers and put houses on them, creating villas in the sky. There are also massive fortress-like structures that can make your farm look like a fortified battle zone.

There is really no limit to the number of designs you can make, and if you get really good at it, you can enter your designs in various contests found around the web.

You can obtain hay bales by either purchasing them in the market under “Decorations – Hay Bales” for 125 coins each. You can also receive them as gifts from friends and neighbors. The more active a player you are in giving gifts and helping others in Farmville, the more likely you’ll receive assistance and gifts of your own in return.

Hay bale stacking is a relatively easy and inexpensive way to decorate your farm and really make it stand out from the crowd. We hope you found these tips helpful. Give it a try and comment with any suggestions or feedback here!

Getting Your Villa in Farmville

January 21st, 2010 cheatspulse 2 comments

The Villa in FarmVille is one of the most sought-after status items in the game. It doesn’t provide any function, but it’s a showpiece that lets everyone know you’ve accomplished a lot in the game. Therefore, a lot of people try to get it as quickly as they can. The Villa has some hefty requirements. First, you must be at least level 34 in the game to get it. Second, it costs a whopping 1 million coins. The good news is that if you follow a good Farmville crop profit guide, you’ll probably have that many coins by the time you reach level 34.

Farmville Villa

You'll be the envy of all your farmville friends with this villa on your property.

So getting the Villa isn’t really about a specific strategy as much as it is figuring out the best way to level up to 34 and make sure you have 1 million coins saved up once you get there. There’s obviously a lot of different ways to approach this, but the fastest is to focus on growing the most profitable crops by level with some attention paid to maximizing the XP rewards you can get from certain ribbons. It almost goes without saying that any strategy in Farmville benefits from adding as many neighbors as you possibly can. Having more neighbors means you’ll be able to expand your farm faster without having to pay Farm Cash, and it also increases your opportunities for earning coins and XP as you try to progress to level 34.

Here’s one basic strategy you can follow to level as quickly as possible in the game. Depending on how much time you’re willing to spend in the game, you can focus on fast growth crops and leveraging the soybean delete glitch, or you can take things a little easier by just planting the most profitable long term crops. Here’s what you should be doing, level by level to get your Villa as quickly as possible. These crops focus on XP over coin profit, but you’ll still have enough coins at the end for the Villa.

Best Short Growth Crops (these take less than one day to harvest)

Your Level Best Crop
1-7 Strawberries
8-16 Raspberries
17-28 Blueberries
29+ Black Berries

Best Long Growth Crops (these take one day or longer to harvest)

Your Level Best Crop
1-11 Soybeans
12-14 Peppers
14-18 Red Tulips
19-24 Grapes
25-31 Sunflowers
32+ Peas

One additional trick you can use to improve your leveling rate is to use the Soybean delete trick. After you’ve planted your crops, save one plot and plant soybeans on it. Then use your shovel tool to immediately delete the soybeans you just planted. Then keep repeating the process until you run out of time or patience (it’s a lot of clicking!) It sounds a little crazy, but each time you repeat this cycle, you essentially convert 30 coins into 3 XP. Plowing the plot costs 15 coins and planting soybeans costs another 15 coins. But you get 1 XP for plowing the plot and 2 XP for planting soybeans. Keep doing this and you can quickly convert your excess coins into XP. This is especially useful early in the game when you have a lot of coins leftover after a planting cycle. It’s less efficient later on in the game, unless you really don’t mind all the clicking you’ll have to do.

Using these tips and strategies should help you get to level 34 quickly and have enough coins for your villa. Soon you’ll be sitting inside, sipping some nice tea and reflecting on your farming empire!

Farmville Storage Buildings Guide

January 20th, 2010 cheatspulse No comments

A red barn in Farmville is the best option for purchasing storage with Farmville coins.

One thing that happens to everyone sooner or later in FarmVille is that you accumulate a bunch of stuff. Whether it’s from decorations that you buy at the market or the endless stream of gifts from friends and neighbors, sooner or later you’re going to collect a lot of items in the game. A question that faces many farmers early on is what to do with all of this stuff? If you just leave it all out on your fields, your farm starts to resemble a junkyard. Worse, having all of these items lying out on the field takes up valuable planting space. But a lot of us are pack rats at heart (hey, they even have a ribbon for that!) so what’s a farmer to do? The answer is simple: storage buildings.

Purchasing buildings to store your extra stuff in FarmVille isn’t cheap, but there are a number of options and some good tips about how to use storage to the fullest. First, let’s look at the basics. You can purchase storage buildings at the Market in the Buildings section. You’ll need to scroll past the houses until you get to the barns section. Any building that shows a capacity number in its stats area can be used for storage. You’ll see that all of the higher capacity storage buildings you can buy cost Farmville Cash. The best storage building you can purchase with just regular coins is the Red Barn. It costs 40,000 coins and stores 6 items. Most of the colored barns, such as the red, blue and black barns, cost 7 FV cash and can hold 20 items. In addition to barns, you can purchase a tool shed, but it only holds 2 items, which is not very much at all, especially considering how much space it takes up on your farm!

Some of the storage building options in Farmville.

Once you place your storage building on your farm, you can put any of your farm items and decorations inside it by first clicking on the item and choosing Move. Then, click on your storage building and it will be placed inside. If you ever need to retrieve it, click on the storage building and then choose Look Inside. You’ll be able to remove items by selecting Use or just sell them if you don’t want to store them anymore.

If you want to expand the capacity of your storage buildings, you can increase each building twice. The first expansion adds 5 storage slots to a building and the second expansion adds 7 for a total of twelve storage spots. So using this technique allows you to expand a colored barn to hold 32 items! There are two options you can use to do this. You can either pay Farm Cash to expand each building you own, or you can hold a barn raising with your friends. To do it with Farm Cash, click your building, then choose Expand and then click the Buy button next to the building. To hold a barn raising, click on the Expand button instead.

A barn raising is a fun event, but it’s a little complicated. Here’s how it works. First, select this option for the building you want to expand. A message will be posted on your profile telling friends you’re hosting a barn raising. You need to get ten friends to help you within three days for the barn raising to be successful and for the expansion to work. Usually, this means you’ll need to pester some of your friends to help out. It takes some effort, but it’s a viable alternative to spending Farm Cash. A small bonus is that each of your friends will receive 100 coins if they help out with the barn raising.

Storage is a really important part of the game, especially as you progress through the levels and accumulate more stuff. Also, you’ll really need good storage options to earn some of the higher level Pack Rat ribbons, like the blue ribbon, which requires you to own 250 decorations. Knowing how to store stuff and expand your options will make hoarding a lot of items in Farmville a lot easier.

Farmville Trees Guide

January 15th, 2010 cheatspulse 1 comment

Glorious trees in Farmville

FarmVille is a very engaging and fun game enjoyed by tens of millions of players. One of the things that makes FarmVille so much fun to play is that there are many different ways to progress through levels and earn coins in the game. While planting and growing crops like vegetables and fruits, are the most efficient way to build your farm and gain coins and experience points, there are other things that you can grow on your farm. One of them is to grow trees, which provide an alternate and interesting way to play the game.

For the casual FarmVille player, trees offer a few significant advantages. They don’t require you to log into the game frequently to check on them, and unlike crops, they never spoil. So if you go on vacation or a business trip and can’t tend to your farm, the trees with their ripe fruits will still be there waiting for you upon your return. Another great thing about trees is that you can fit up to 16 of them on a single plot of land, so if you’ve got the coins and are eager to start building a tree farm, you can pack in a huge number of them. Once you advance to the later stages of the game and are maintaining farms with 200 plots or more, you’ll have the opportunity to create an enormous tree farm. The coin earning potential is quite large. For example, a 100-plot farm filled with olive trees can earn 179,200 coins in revenue every four days!

Just like crops, trees have their own harvest schedules and coins returns. They cost a lot more than crops to purchase, but don’t have a renewal cost. Once you buy the tree, it just keeps producing as long as you keep it on your farm. The major downside to trees is that they only provide coins for harvesting and not experience points, so they’re much less efficient for leveling than growing crops. But of course, when paired with some clever FarmVille strategies and cheats, all that can be overcome. However, it usually makes sense to combine your tree farm with a regular crop farm to achieve balance in your advancement through the game.

The lime tree is one of the most profitable trees that you can buy with coins.


The first question most aspiring tree farmers need to ask themselves is which trees to try and grow. Among the trees that you can purchase yourself in the market, Lime and Lemon trees are the most profitable over the long term. A grove of 16 lime trees on one plot will earn 1,200 coins each 5-day harvest. Unfortunately, lime trees are expensive to purchase as they cost 750 coins each. Cherry trees are less profitable in the long run, but with a cost of just 225 coins each, they’re great for a starting tree farmer.

As with many things in FarmVille, the very best trees are only available through gifting. If you have higher level friends in FarmVille, ask them to send you gifts of Olive trees, which are extremely profitable. Another great tree to give and receive is the new Starfruit Tree. Finally, if you have and are willing to spend Farm Cash on your tree farm, the most profitable tree in the game is the Acai tree. This tree can be harvested every two days for 158 coins, but each one costs 27 Farm Cash to purchase.