Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Vanilla

Vanilla is a crop that is only available from September 26, 2012 - October 9, 2012. You can get a profit of 59 Coins as long as you have enough Coins to buy the seeds for 80 Coins each. Be sure to take advantage of this crop to make Vanilla Cream Puffs in the Crafting Kitchen!

Cost: 80 Coins
Growth Time: 4 Hours
Requirements: Temporary from September 26, 2012 - October 9, 2012

Type: Seed

Resources Produced
Sell Value: 139 Coins
XP Per Harvest: 2
Amount of Feed: 5

Used In These Recipes
Vanilla Cream Puffs, Vanilla Cream

Feel Free To Comment Below With Any Questions, Comments or Advice You May Have. Thanks For Reading!

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Tip #4. Don't Use Friends For Harvesting

You will often see your FV2 at your farm and you can accept their help. Whatever area on your farm they are in is where they will be helping out 5 times. For example, if they are by your crops they will harvest, water, fertilize your crops depending on which action needs to be taken.

One common mistake is to accept a friend's help on harvested crops. Yes they will harvest your crops, but harvesting crops does not cost you anything (Eg. Water, Energy). Instead harvest your crops, plant new ones and then accept your friend's help. They will Water 5 of your crops and that is 5 Water that you don't have to use.

This works even better for trees which cost a lot more water than crops do. A friend can water 5 trees for you that may cost you 3 water each (3 * 5 trees = 15 water!). Each friend can help out 5 times each day regardless of the water cost of his or her action. Help out by watering your friend's crops/trees and tell them to do the same for you!

Hope this helped! Please comment below if you feel there is anything else important to note about Help from friends in FV2. Thanks For Reading!

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Tip #3. Best Crafting Value Up to Level 8

By comparing all Crafting Recipes up until Level 8 it can be seen that the Apple Scone will give you the most profit. This information was found by taking the Total Sell Value of the ingredients and subtracting that from the Sell Value of the Crafted item. 

Each Apple can be sold for 18 Coins each and the Sell Price of Batter is 290 Coins. (18 * 6)= 108 Coins plus 290 Coins = 398. The Sell Value of the Apple Scone is 640. So 640 - 398= 242 Total Profit. Of Course you will have to spend Power on Crafting Batter and Apple Scone, but you will get Free Power every Hour anyway.

To make the most of this information, it is best to make a lot of Apple Trees, buy a lot of Chickens and plant a lot of Wheat. Store your Apples, Eggs and Wheat until you have enough Power to Craft Apple Scones. The Apple Scone is worth a lot more than selling its individual ingredients.


Recipe # of Ingredient #1 # of Ingredient #2 Sell Value Req Lvl Sell Value Profit
Bread 1x Dough 2x Salt 600 14 #VALUE! #VALUE!
Sweet Potato Pie         3750 30 0 3750
Apricot Trifle         3380 30 0 3380
Plum Pie         3000 29 0 3000
Gingerbread         2830 28 0 2830
Nutmeg Cookies         2730 28 0 2730
Blackberry Cream Cake         2710 26 0 2710
Banana Cream Pie         2410 24 0 2410
Potato Salad         2340 21 0 2340
Potato Roll         2170 21 0 2170
Sunflower Cookies         1970 20 0 1970
Carrot Cake         1940 18 0 1940
Mango Muffin         1540 17 0 1540
Peach Muffin         1410 17 0 1410
Sunflower Bread         1350 16 0 1350
Apple Pie         1300 15 0 1300
Pecan Muffin 5x Pecan 1x Custard 1200 13 455 745
Peach Lemonade 6x Apple 1x Lemonade 1030 11 458 572
Strawberry Pie 10x Strawberry 1x Pie Crust 1030 12 620 410
Blueberry Tart 1x Berry Custard 1x Pie Crust 1010 10 710 300
Cornbread 1x Corn Meal 1x Buttermilk 930 9 680 250
Apple Scone 6x Apple 1x Batter 640 5 398 242
Broth 3x Water 6x Onion 420 6 180 240
Pumpkin Pie 1x Pumpkin Filling 1x Pie Crust 860 8 630 230
Cheddar Loaf 2x Cheese 1x Bread 1230 14 1000 230
Strawberry Lemonade 5x Strawberry 1x Lemonade 630 5 470 160
Tomato Soup 1x Tomato Paste 1x Broth 700 6 540 160
Orange Cupcake 1x Orange Icing 1x Batter 780 7 630 150
Dough 1x Flour 2x Water 240 14 90 150
Lemonade 1x Lemon Water 4x Lemon 350 5 218 132
Lemon Water 2x Lemon 1x Water 150 5 34 116
Orange Icing 3x Orange 1x Butter 340 7 234 106
Pumpkin Filling 4x Pumpkin 4x Pumpkin 250 8 160 90
Berry Custard 3x Blueberry 1x Custard 330 10 291 39
Corn Meal 4x Corn 4x Corn 230 9 192 38
Custard 2x Egg 1x Milk 240 10 205 35
Flour 2x Wheat 2x Wheat 90 5 56 34
Tomato Paste 4x Tomato 4x Tomato 120 6 96 24
Batter 1x Flour 3x Egg 290 5 270 20
Buttermilk 1x Butter 3x Milk 450 9 435 15
Butter 1x Milk 1x Milk 180 7 170 10

Tip #2: Click & Drag

When you are trying to water, plant, harvest or fertilize crops/plants you can actually click and drag your mouse over multiple plots/trees. This will save you a lot of time rather than performing each action one by one.

How To Click & Drag

Planting- Click on the empty plot and then choose the crop you want from the general store. Once you see the little harvest cursor click and drag that over all of the empty plots that you want to plant seeds on.

Watering- Click and drag your cursor over crops with water droplet icons over them. As long as you have sufficient water the crops that you select will all be watered.

Harvesting- Click and drag your cursor over the trees and crops that are ready to be harvested.

Fertilizing- Click and drag your over crops that have been planted and watered.

Note: Trees & Crops that are grayed out are areas that your Farmer will get to, but has not gotten to yet.

Hope this helped! Please comment below if you feel there is anything else important to note about Clicking & Dragging in FarmVille 2. Thanks For Reading!

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Tip #1. Use Crafting Power!

Once you unlock the Farmstead Kitchen at level 5 you can start to craft recipes. These recipes can be sold for a lot more coins than their individual ingredients. For example, Flour can be sold in the Marketplace for 90 Coins. It can be crafted by combining 4x Wheat in the Crafting Kitchen. Wheat can be sold for 14 Coins each, and 4x Wheat would give you 56 Coins. If you created Flour you could sell it for 44 more Coins than selling 4x Wheat would give you. So what's the catch?

Power
The catch is that each recipe requires Power in order to be crafted. However, as long as you have unlocked the Farmstead Kitchen you will get 15 FREE Power every hour. The maximum amount of Power you can have at once is 15 and it will just go to waste if you don't use it. So basically there is no reason NOT to use your Power on crafting. Plan ahead and store recipe ingredients (Eg. Wheat, Lemons, Apples etc.) in your inventory so that you will always have some to craft recipes with.

Hope this helped! Please comment below if you feel there is anything else important to note about Crafting or Power. Thanks For Reading!

Prize Crops & Mastery

Crops Mastery
Crop Mastery unlocks once you reach level 7 in FarmVille. When you harvest one crop over and over, you will eventually master that crop. When you master a crop, you get more Coins and XP for the prized crops. Each crop has 3 levels of mastery. It takes more of each harvested crop to complete levels 2 and 3.

Prized Crops
When you fertilize a crop, it has a chance to become a Prize Crop upon harvest. Prized Crops will appear much larger than normal crops and they will be sparkling as well.

When you collect your Prized Crop, a window will pop up showing you how much your Prized Crop weighs. The larger the crop, the more Coins, XP and mastery points you will get.

After you grow a Prized Crop your record will be stored for that particular crop in the General Store. I happened to get a 17 Lb Pumpkin at mastery level 1 and was awarded with 17 Mastery Points, 340 Coins and 17 XP.

Crop Progress/ Records
Now when I go to buy pumpkin seeds it shows me that my record Pumpkin was 17 Lbs. It also shows me how many mastery points I need to get to the next mastery level. Just hover your mouse over the blue bar and it will show the mastery points needed in a tooltip. In my case, it says I need 36 more mastery points for a red ribbon.

Note: You will also get a little Crop Mastery sign to place on your farm so that all of your FV2 friends can see which crops you have mastered and to what level as well.

Feel Free To Comment Below With Any Questions, Comments or Advice You May Have On Prize Crops & Mastery In FarmVille 2. Thanks For Reading!

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