I discovered the cheat tonight, however, it seems some others did, too and posted it already. However, I prepared the pictures and so I am gonna post the cheat, too.

The Farmville Dairy Farm Cheat for gratis Cows

The new Farmville dairy farm allows you to store up to 20 cows in one building and to milk them at once. Pretty good, I was anyhow running out of space. Now you need a cow in your gift box and all you have to do is dragging this cow directly into the dairy farm (Gift box > use > select cow > drag it into the dairy farm). There will some green stars flickering that indicate that the cow moves into the farm. Afterwards you will see that there is still one cow left in the gift box as the farmville application obviosly notices the usage only if you drag the cow first somewhere on the ground. So: get them directly into the farm. Have fun with farmville, I just created three new dairies

PS: Another strange thing I just observed is that the three dairies I created some 20 mites ago for the pictures were already ready for harvest. Anybody knows more about that?

On the other hand, I got somewhat upset with farmville in the last time. This is because of many things:


New Harvester:
The new harvester is an awesome machine I wanted to have for a long time and it is doing a great job. Harvest as fast as you plow with a tractor. However, you do not get extra fuel for it and it will take the same fuel as the tractor. As I expanded my farm to 20×20 already some time ago, even the tractor has not enough fuel to plow the whole field. So, I divided my farm in three parts, all planted with sunflowers, which ripen at different times so the fuel can be refilled meanwhile. However, it is still not enough to plow and harvest all the subfields with the machines, and however was not quite the idea when I bought them.

My farm is running out of space. I added a lot of friends dedicated to farmville and receive a bunch of gifts every day. I also built some stuff like Tool Shed, the rest tent, a cottage and a grain silo (though I am not into grain tarde, hehe) in order to get more experience and to reach level 25 (sunflowers ). Well, the result is my farm running out of space and the extension to 22×22 is locked, though I have enough friends.

Well, currently I still manage my farm life but it is getting somewhat boring without opportunities for significant development in the game (unlock the big ole plantation and the mighty plantation zynga dudes!). Furthermore I want to employ staff as I am going to holidays on friday and I will not visit my farm for a week then. Somebody should do the work there?!

The super berries disappered as quick as the came. What a pitty, they have been quick cash, but as my farm is running out of space I cannot invest more money right now whatsoever.

Here a small gallery of my farm.

Last but not least I recommend the posts of Adam Nash about Farmville Economics:

• Farville Economics Part IFarmville Economics Part II

I liked these posts a lot, hope you do, too and now have fun with farming

Farmville changed a lot this week. Black sheep appeared everywhere and populate my farm now, but their wool seems as good as of the white sheep. So I would say they are good to adopt. Obviously I am not the only one who has gone crazy about that game as I noticed a significant increase in traffic on this blog. Some people even subscribed! All people seem to search for this game ))
As I a have no time for staying all the day on Facebook, I planted pepper which has a profit margin (ROI) of some 560 coins. They have to be harvested only once a day, and so they fit my target pretty well. Next target however, will be sunflowers, they are to be harvested once a day, too but will bring you up to 1,200 coins a week. That is money, isn’t it? Unfortunately I don’t have level 24, yet

Then I noticed the just recently introduced tractor. That is really a cool feature as it let you plow your farm much faster. It’s a pity that fuel is not enough for my farm and buying fuel is too expensive. On the other hand, once could divide the farm in two parts where plants ripe with some 12 hours delay. Harvest, plow, seed the first half of your farm, then wait, let the tractor recharge and go for the next part. Why pay for fuel?
Funny thing about the tractor: the horn function. Click on it and it will make some noise. Nothing useful, but maybe fancy for some people. Oh, and there is also a pink tractor available now, I guess it is for the girls. For all those who thought of buying two tractors: it seems like it will not increase your productivity, as you do not get another load of fuel with the second tractor

Pretty much the same was introduced for animals on Farmville. You may have noticed that they have a pet function now. Activate the sound, pet them and they will make some noise, too. The rabbits don’t. Prolly because the developers didn’t know how a rabbit sounds like, neither do I. Some say to pet the animals will make them more productive and increase their yield. I did not observe such a thing, yet.

I extended my farm twice, and I will do so again. If you need more neighbors on Farmville, there is a useful group on Facebook just dedicated to this very objective of finding Farmville neighbors (Farmville Neighbor Finder). Extending your farm is fine, but a lot of work. As I am lazy I try to keep things simple without moving all plants and animals all the time around. To it’s a good idea to keep plants at the upper margins of your farm, the animals likewise as the farm extends at the lower margins. It will make harvesting also a lot easier. But prolly you noticed already. I did actually somewhat late and the first moving was a pain in the ass.

And now the super berries: they are a really good way to make money, but they will give you no experience. Well, that’s the trade off. But if you would play Farmville all the day (and night) their weekly profit margin or ROI would be well above 6000 coins! That is 6 times more than sunflowers…

And last, but not least, the award for creative planting goes to Vlad, just take a look at the pictures. Cheers mate!

Well, gotta turn back to work now
Have a nice weekend.

FarmVille is a browser game based on Flash on Facebook, developed by Zynga. As far as I know the game is available for MySpace, too. Obviously, Farmville was inspired by Farm Town. However, the main idea is simple: get yourself signed-up, start by creating an avatar, open up your farm and grow it. This for you can do what all farmers do: Plug and plow your ground, seeding, let plants grow, harvest them and sell them afterwards on the market. Reinvest the money and a new Farmville cycle is about to start. Responsible for me to spent my time with that stuff is Alexandra ))

But Farmville is much more than this. It is a social browser game you can play with all your Facebook friends. Get your friends beeing your neighbors, support each other by sending free gifts for your farms, help each other out with work, gain experience and social reputation etc. You can even leave each other messages on your farms…

Farmville offers you plenty of assetts to invest in: among plants there are grain, rice, strawberries and soyabeans and some kinda trees. Animals are also available. The problem is: first, you need to plow and to seed, then let the plants grow. Likewise the animals need time to produce their assetts: the cow milk, the chicken eggs etc. That is kinda time consuming, especially if your farm is growing big. If ya are the kinda guy who still has to work sometimes in the (more or less) real world you might be interested in a resonable seeding-harvest cycle with an acceptable return on investment. Actually, strawberries have a great ROI, but heck, you have to harvest them already after 4 hours, if you wait too much they will wither and your investment turns out being a loss. Thus, I am currently fine with soyabeans, their ROI is not excellling but ok, and they need to be harvested/re-seeded only once a day.

Here are some eaxmples:

Plant Time until ripe Max weekly profit

Strawberry 4 hours 420
Soybeans 1 Day 231
Squash 2 days 231
Wheat 3 days ~ 150
Rice 12 hours 504
Blueberries 4 hours 1092

Currently I want to extend my farm and have to add some neighbours this for. I think I will go for rice then. 12 hours is acceptable.