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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 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!

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.

Farmville Dairy Farms Explained

January 14th, 2010 cheatspulse 2 comments

Dairy farms are a somewhat recent addition to the game which add some excitement, fun and complexity to managing the cows on your farm. You can store up to twenty cows inside the dairy farm, which will make harvesting your cows much faster and easier. Instead of needing to click on 20 individual cows to harvest milk from them, you only need to click once each day on the dairy farm. It can make the whole process of owning and managing cows in Farmville much more enjoyable.

Dairy farms also have some very important additional benefits. Owning a dairy farm increases your chances to gain extra fertilizer when you fertilize the crops of your friends. Remember that you benefit as well when you fertilize the crops of your friends and you gain both coins and XP.

A cow in Farmville

You can also take advantage of some special strategies and cheats with dairy farms in Farmville. An important thing to know is that the completion status of the enitre dairy farm follows the completion status of the first cow you put inside. So by using a simple trick you can maximize your return through switching cows in and out of the dairy farm. It’s a little confusing at first, but here is how it works. The first thing to do is to have a full dairy farm with 20 cows in it and several additional cows wandering on your fields. The more extra cows you have, the more times you’ll be able to repeat the trick. Once you have everything set up, wait one full day for all of the cows to get to 100% complete. The next step is to harvest your dairy farm. Then, empty the dairy farm completely. Next, put one of the additional cows you had on your fields into the dairy farm. Because these cows are also at 100% completion, your dairy farm will suddenly jump back to 100% complete. Now for the sneaky part: put 19 of your harvested cows back into the dairy farm and then harvest the whole dairy farm again. It will treat all 20 cows inside as being complete. Now just repeat the process as many times as you can, depending on how many additional cows you had on your field. It involves a lot of clicking, but the amount of coins you can make in a day using this technique is exceptional.

Now, a little bit about calves in FarmVille. These are a recent addition to the game, introduced in December, 2009. In addition to being ridiculously cute, calves are extremely profitable animals to keep on your farm. There are currently four different kinds of calves: regular, pink, brown and alien (green). When a player puts a bull inside his or her dairy farm, there’s a fifty percent chance that it will mate with one of the cows inside and produce a calf. Your friends can adopt the calves produced in your farm and each calf may only be adopted by one friend. Although calves cannot be placed inside the dairy farm, they are very profitable animals, and are harvested once each day for 80 coins each.

One more thing about dairy farms in Farmville: you can have up to five of them on your farm at once, each holding 20 cows for a total of up to one hundred cows in your dairy farms. That’s a lot of cows, but it allows you to build up a very impressive dairy farming operation in the game.

Farmville Ribbons in Detail

January 13th, 2010 cheatspulse No comments

Farmville Ribbons are a fun and very entertaining way to track your progress in the game. You can earn ribbons in a bunch of different categories, from “Local Celebrity” which you get for adding neighbors, to “Flower Power”, which you earn from growing flowers on your farm. Each ribbon gives out rewards, usually in the form of additional coins or experience points (XP). They’re fun to collect and mark your achievements in the game. But they’re more than just things to earn and brag about. If you plan out how and when to earn them, you can utilize ribbons to maximize your coins and XP early in the game.

Currently, there are over 25 different ribbon categories and each category allows you to earn four different colors of ribbons: yellow, white, red and blue. The colors get progressively harder to earn within each category. For instance, the Cream of the Crop Yellow ribbon, which you earn for harvesting crops, is won after harvesting just 30 crops in the game. But the white ribbon requires you to harvest 1,000 crops. And the blue ribbon for Cream of the Crop requires a whopping 50,000 harvested crops to earn.

Although some of the ribbons are really just intended to give you additional goals in the game to pursue, you can utilize some of them very strategically in the game to quickly earn significant XP and coins. Early on, ribbons can help you progress through your FarmVille levels very quickly.

Two ribbons that you might want to pursue relatively early on are the local celebrity and good samaritan ribbons, which reward you for adding neighbors and helping them on their farms. Used together, you can get a lot of coins and XP for these two ribbons. For example, by adding 8 neighbors and then helping them each out three times, you’ll end up with the white local celebrity ribbon and the yellow good samaritan ribbon. The combined rewards are 3,500 coins and 55 XP. Although the XP rewards for these ribbons are low, the coins can be very helpful early in the game, and of course adding neighbors opens up a lot more opportunities than just collecting ribbons.

The architect ribbons generate a lot of XP quickly.


Another great set of ribbons to get early in the game are the Architect Ribbons. These ribbons reward you for placing buildings on your farm–the yellow ribbon comes from owning just 2 buildings, while the blue ribbon can be earned once 30 buildings are placed on your farm Most buildings in Farmville, such as the barns and the houses, are very expensive. But there’s an often neglected little building called the Rest Tent, which costs just 1,000 coins. So, as soon as you have 30,000 coins in FarmVille, you can purchase 30 rest tents and place them on your farm to quickly get all four Architect ribbons. Although the initial outlay is 30,000 coins, you’ll get 19,500 of those coins back via rewards for the ribbons and selling the rest tents once you’re finished. And you’ll wind up with 2,150 XP, which can be a lot in the early part of the game. For example, it would take you all the way from level 10 to 14 in just a few minutes.

FarmVille Chickens Guide

January 13th, 2010 cheatspulse 7 comments

What FarmVille farm is really complete without a flock of chickens located somewhere on it? While most FarmVille pros know that you should focus on crops to maximize your XP and coin earning, having chickens on your farm adds some fun and entertainment to the game. With the recent introduction of chicken coops to farms in FarmVille, the whole process of raising chickens in the game got a lot more complicated, and much more fun!

The golden chicken in FarmVille

Here are some basics behind the chickens. There are currently four different colors/levels of chickens in the game: the regular (white) chicken, brown chickens, black chickens, and the golden chicken. If you’ve played FarmVille for a while, you’ve probably received chickens in the past as gifts from friends and neighbors. Although it’s completely fine to let your chickens be “free range” and run around the farm, you can really maximize your return if you purchase a chicken coop for your farm and place your chickens inside it.

The chicken coop is a simple 5×3 building that you can purchase in FarmVille for 5,000 coins. You can place it anywhere you like on your farm, and you place your chickens inside it. The chicken coop will hold up to 20 chickens, and you can mix the different kinds of chickens. The primary advantage to using a chicken coop is that you can harvest all of your chickens at once. Another major advantage is that chickens in coops each have a chance of laying mystery eggs, which provide special gifts. Finally, if you have a chicken coop, friends can visit your farm and feed your chickens for extra coins and XP. The white, brown, and golden chickens have a harvest time of 1 day, and the black chickens harvest in 0.9 days.

The rewards you can get from harvesting mystery eggs from your chickens via coops are varied. Most of the time, you’ll get a regular chicken of the same color as the chicken that provided the egg. But sometimes, you’ll get some strange prizes, such as flamingoes, garden gnomes, fuel, and even a hot tub! And now that friends can visit your farm and feed your chickens for coins and XP, they also get a chance to find mystery eggs in your coop each time they stop by.

One great trick to know about chicken coops is that the percentage completion of the entire coop is determined by the first chicken you place inside. So if you have extra chickens outside your coop that are ready to harvest, you can use a simple cheat to get additional harvests out of your chickens. Here’s how it works: first harvest your coop and then empty it completely. Next, place one of the chickens from outside that is ready to harvest inside the coop, and then put 19 of the chickens you already harvested back inside. All 20 chickens can now be harvested again! Although it can be a little monotonous and tiresome to constantly move chickens in and out of your coop, this is a great technique to maximize your chances of getting mystery eggs or even to earn your Zoology ribbons in the game.