Farmville Puppies come in three different breeds: Border Collies, Golden Retrievers and Sheepdogs. Each breed is available in three colors and comes at a price fit for an avid Farmville player. The only dog that you can purchase with coins is a red Border Collie for 300,000. Golden Retrievers and Sheepdogs, as well as the black and brown version of the Border Collie cost 65 farm cash. This long awaited pet has a large price tag, but if you are ready for the commitment, he or she is very worth it.

So how do you know if you are ready for a Farmville puppy? First you must come up with the coins or farm cash. Pet puppies cannot be gifted. Next you must decide if you have the time to take care of a puppy. The red Border Collie requires daily feeding for fourteen days or he will be put in the pound. In order to retrieve him, you will have to pay 3 farm cash. Don’t fret if you are not back right on time. Once your pet becomes hungry, you will have twenty-four hours before he runs away.

If you purchase a red Border Collie, you can only own one. That means if she goes to the pound, you will have to pay farm cash to retrieve her, as you will not be able to purchase another with coins. You can, however, own more than one farm cash puppy. Farm cash puppies are lower maintenance and will not run away.

Once you have made your decision as to which dog to purchase, you can pick the gender and a name. Your puppy will be placed next to you on your farm. The default setting for your dog is to follow you wherever you go. You can, however, choose to have your dog stay. You may even want to build him a fenced area.

The first thing you want to do when you receive your puppy is to feed her. She will come with one meal, but you will have to scrounge around for more. There are three options available. If you mouse over your dog, you will see an Ask for Food option. By clicking this you can ask for food via your news feed. Kibble is also available in the free gift section. Send some to your friends and have them send some back. The third option is to purchase food for 5 farm cash from the market. You will only need to worry about obtaining food for your red Border Collie. All other colors and breeds come with a two week supply.

The feeding commitment will last for 14 days, after which, something magical will happen. Your puppy will grow-up! Border Collies, when grown, can work with other animals on your farm. Adult Golden Retrievers will be able to play fetch, and adult Sheepdogs can help you harvest sheep. If you don’t see a puppy breed you wish to purchase, Farmville is currently taking polls to find out what dogs farmers want. Keep an eye out for future breeds.

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Your comment box is located on the upper right corner of your Farmville screen. When you click on it you will see two tabs. One is for comments and one is for visits. Your comments tab will display any messages you have posted and any that have been posted for you. The visits tab tells you which neighbors have completed various tasks on your farm.

To post a message, type your note into the box above the comments and visits tab. This box will allow you to either post the message to your comment box or as a sign post on your farm. When you visit a neighbor’s farm you can post a comment to their comment box, a sign post or you can even check a box to have your comment appear on their Facebook Profile.

There are several benefits to this new feature. You can easily know who has been to your farm to fertilize or feed your chickens, or who has sent you a gift. You may already know who sent you a gift by your gift acceptance page, but it is easy to forget once you click that gift and accept it. When you arrive on your farm, you may even see who visited in the form of a pop-up telling you Sara fed your chickens. If, however, you have had several visitors in your absence, it may only state that Sara and five others have fed your chickens. Seeing it in detail in your comment box will allow you to return the favor. This helps you to be the kind of neighbor a good Farmville player desires.

The comment box is a fun way to communicate with your closest neighbors. You can comment on an interesting design, leave them a message regarding a co-op mission, ask for specific gifts, or request help fertilizing your farm. Since the comment box also gives you the option to post a message to a friend’s profile, you can discuss real life matters as well. By being able to post your comment directly to a friend’s page, you can save time.

If your personal life gets busy and your farm life takes a back burner, you can use your comment box to catch up on what has happened while you were gone. You can also use it to ensure that you reward those neighbors who have been good to you. If you have upwards of twenty five neighbors, the task of visiting them all daily to fertilize their crops and feed their chickens can feel a bit overwhelming. Knowing who has helped you, can be an enticement to focus on those neighbors until you have more time to make the full rounds. On the other hand if you are able to visit all of your neighbors often, your visit notation in their comment box can remind them to fertilize your crops or send you a thank you gift. Your comment box, used to its fullest potential, is guaranteed to enhance your game play.

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You earn one crop mastery point for each plot harvested of any given crop. Each type of crop requires a different number of points to get each star (see table below). Generally, the slower growing crops require fewer mastery points. To learn more about Crop Mastery, read about The Fun of Crop Mastery on FarmVille.

FarmVille Crop Mastery Table

The following table lists the required crop mastery points to earn each star and the total points needed to become a crop master. The list is ordered by the level that each crop becomes

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There are three levels of mastery for all Farmville produce, except limited edition crops which cannot be mastered. To begin the art of mastery you may wish to start easy with a one or two day crop to focus upon. You should estimate how many plots of land you have, to determine about how long it will take you to conquer each harvest.

For details on how much work you will need to do to master a crop, visit your market page and mouse over the stars and progress bar below each crop. You will see a number to indicate how much you have already planted and how much of that crop you will still need to plant. For example, to conquer the first level of rice mastery, you need to harvest 400 plots. If you have already harvested some, when you mouse over the progress bar, you will see a number such as 302 above the 400 to indicate the earlier produce you planted. Each level of mastery requires you to harvest more of that crop than the previous level. You can also visit our article, FarmVille Crop Mastery Table.

If you are not sure what crop to start with, decide how often you will be able to visit your farm. If you can only visit twice a day, consider a twelve hour crop. If, however, you live and breathe Farmville, go all out and harvest those two hour crops. How much of a crop you need to plant is determined upon how long that crop takes to grow. Raspberries, a very short two hour crop, require 1500 units for the first star. Bell peppers take two days to harvest, but only require 350 units for that first level. Determining what to master will depend on what you have the time to do.

If you are intent on getting as many crops mastered as possible, you may want to rotate between mastering two or three crops at a time. For example, plant a twelve hour crop before bed, plant a two hour crop if you are home for the morning and plant an eight hour crop before you leave for work.  It will take longer to master more than one crop at a time, but you may find it fits your schedule better.

So what is it all for? Crop masters receive a Mastery Sign for each crop they conquer. You can place your sign anywhere on your property to exhibit your superb farming abilities. Crop mastery signs are bragging rights on Farmville. A daunting row that catches the eye of visitors is especially nice to have.

Crop Mastery is rumored to become even more fun in the near future. Zynga has mentioned a coming Farmer’s Market where Mastery will be important. So, if you haven’t conquered any crops yet, get to work. The fun is just beginning!

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Your Options

Right now, you have to opportunity to complete the Gardening Tools Collection, the Country Kitsch Collection, the Bugs Collection, the Butterfly Collection and the Feather Collection.  Each Collection is made up of 6 separate items, and you’ll need at least one of each before you can trade in a collection and receive your bonus.

The items in each Collection also fall into 3 separate categories – Common, Uncommon and Rare.  As their name implies, the Rare items will be the most difficult to find, the Common ones the easiest and so forth.  Also, by allowing your cursor to hover over each item, you can pick up a hint on where to find each type of collectible.

Gathering Items

Most of the items in these Collections can be found as you go about your daily farm tasks.  Some are hidden on your farm, while you’ll only be able to uncover some others when you’re helping out on your friends’ farms.  You can also send and receive collectibles as gifts, so be sure to let your friends know if there are some specific items you’re looking for.  They just may be able to send one your way.

Once you complete a collection, you’ll have the option of posting an announcement of your accomplishment on your wall.  Far from simply an exercise in vanity, this announcement will also be an opportunity for your friends to pick up a random item from the same collection that you’ve just completed.

And just as you should be sure to post these announcements at every opportunity to help your friends complete their collections, you should also be sure not to forget to keep your eyes open for them yourself.  These posts are an invaluable resource when you’re trying to complete collections, so be sure to pick up your free random collectible every time one of your friends completes a collection.

Multiple Collections

Of course, as you gather collectibles from various sources, you’ll often wind up with duplicate items.  There’s nothing wrong with this, however.  You can actually hold up to 10 of each item, and you can complete each Collection many times over.  So hold onto your doubles and try to direct your energies towards finding more of the items you have less of.

Bonus Options

Of course, there wouldn’t be much point in expending a bunch of energy to complete these Collections if you didn’t get something out of it.  So you’ll be happy to know that completing a Collection actually gives you the opportunity to pick up either 250 experience points, 5,000 coins or 5 tanks of fuel.  There really is no right reward to pick – your priorities at the moment will determine which one is more beneficial to you.

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What it Means to Be a Fan

In order to become a Fan of FarmVille, all you have to do is go to the official FarmVille page and click on the Become a Fan link.  This will automatically add FarmVille to your list of Pages on your Profile, and will allow posts from the FarmVille page to show up in your Live Feed.  This may sound like a hassle, but the posts that FarmVille puts up are no more inconvenient than the dozens of other FarmVille posts that your friends put up every day.  And they’re at least as helpful.

Tips and Info

These FarmVille posts mainly consist of updates about new features that will be added to the game soon.  There will also occasionally be links to other sources of information, like the weekly Podcasts, that can help to keep you updated on the numerous new developments in the game and how to properly take advantage of them.  Also, if you’re a Fan of FarmVille, you’ll know that any offers that you see for free specialty items or Farm Cash giveaways on other sites are not officially sanctioned.

For Fans Only

There have also recently been some special benefits available for Fans of FarmVille only.  These benefits often consist of an opportunity to try out a new crop or other feature before it is released to the FarmVille population as a whole.  Recent early access items include Super Pumpkins and the 24 x 24 land expansion.  Not only are these special release items cool just to have access to, they are also usually more beneficial in a variety of ways than the items available to the general FarmVille population.

For example, Super Pumpkins, which FarmVille released to celebrate the fact that they had topped 15 million fans on their Facebook page, had a greater overall earnings and experience point profile than most other crops available in the game.  This means that the Fans who had access to the Super Pumpkins for longer gained a much greater bonus than those players who weren’t fans and had a shorter window for planting this crop.

Special Items

Being a Fan of FarmVille also gives you the opportunity to send special gifts and to receive other updates and information that players who aren’t Fans are not privy to.  You can even have FarmVille send you email updates to let you know when your crops are ready for harvesting so that you don’t have to worry about keeping track of this yourself.  As you can see, there really is no reason not to become a Fan of FarmVille – you’ll be able to get ahead in the game without expending any extra effort.  What could be better than that?

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How to Get Your Tractor

As with many of the specialty items in FarmVille, you can purchase the Hot Rod tractor in one of two ways.  Once you reach level 12, you’ll have the option to purchase this item for 55 Farm Cash.  However, if you’d like to be able to purchase your tractor with coins, there’s a bit of a new twist involved.  Rather than requiring a minimum number of neighbors to unlock the coin purchase option, the Hot Rod Tractor can only be purchased with coins if you have a Mafia Wars account that’s at least level 10.

To be honest, this is a pretty ingenious cross-marketing strategy on Zynga’s part.  Getting all of their FarmVille players hooked on Mafia Wars too could be a huge benefit for them.  However, even if you don’t want to play Mafia Wars on a regular basis, it’s worth it to log in and work your way up to level 10.  This won’t take you much time, and even if it’s not your thing, the game is pretty engaging on its own.

Quick Leveling in Mafia Wars

It can be a bit confusing logging into Mafia Wars for the first time, though.  There’s a lot going on, and unlike other Zynga games like FishVille and Café World, Mafia Wars doesn’t quite follow the same layout as FarmVille.  Nevertheless, you’ll be able to get the hang of it pretty quickly, especially if your goal is to merely reach level 10.

The key to leveling up quickly in Mafia Wars is making good use of your Energy.  Just like in FarmVille, you have to earn Experience Points to level up, but in order to get those Experience Points, you have to do Jobs.  You’ll have a few Jobs to choose from at the outset, and the number of those options will increase as you move up to new levels.  What is constant about all of the Jobs, though, is that they all require Energy to complete.

Skill Points

Each time you reach a new level or master a Job (achieved by doing that job over and over again), you’ll be awarded some Skill Points.  You’ll then be able to apply these Skill Points to different aspects of your character.  If you were actually playing Mafia Wars long term, you might want to spread your Skill Points around by putting a few into each category.

When you’re just trying to level up quickly, however, all you want to do is dump all of your Skill Points into increasing your maximum Energy.  With more energy, you can do more Jobs, level up quickly and unlock that Hot Rod Tractor.  And who knows?  You may wind up liking Mafia Wars a whole lot more than you expected.

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The Basics

Chicken Coops hold up to 20 chickens at once, and they can be harvested once every 24 hours.  It’s during these harvestings that Mystery Eggs began to be discovered, and while they don’t actually provide any direct benefit to the discoverer, they can be hatched by the friends and neighbors of the person who found them.

Better Chickens, Better Eggs

The kind of chickens that can be found in the coops has a direct effect on the types of Mystery Eggs that are discovered.  For example, a chicken coop with only normal white chickens in it can only produce white Mystery Eggs.  If there is a Black or a Brown chicken introduced into the mix, though, the possibility will exist that a Black or Brown Mystery Egg could be found.

And of course, adding a Golden Chicken to a coop means that there will be a possibility of discovering a highly coveted Golden Mystery Egg.  All Mystery Eggs contain a prize, of course, but the better the egg, the better the prize to be “hatched.”

Sharing the Discovery

As we touched on earlier, you won’t actually receive any benefit for finding a Mystery Egg.  You will, however, be able to post an announcement of the find on your wall so that your friends can each hatch an egg to collect a prize.  Of course, every time one of your friends finds a Mystery Egg, you’ll be able to try your hand at hatching it.

Feeding Chickens

For a while now, it’s been possible to fertilize some of your neighbors’ crops when you make your daily visit to their farms.  This gives you the benefit of an extra opportunity to pick up Experience Points and also makes their harvesting more profitable in the Experience Point category as well.  Now there’s an extra task waiting for you when you stop by your neighbors’ farms, though, and that’s feeding the chickens.

Like fertilizing crops, feeding your neighbors’ chickens earns you a coin and Experience Point Bonus.  However, it also provides you with the opportunity to discover Mystery Eggs with each feeding.  And the more often the chickens in a given coop are fed, the more likely they are to produce Mystery Eggs.  Of course, this means that your friends will be more likely to find Mystery Eggs as well, giving you more chances to hatch one.  And even if you don’t find a Mystery Egg when you’re harvesting your coop after your friends have fed your chickens, you’re likely to come away with a hefty coin bonus.

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Expand Slowly

You want to get the most out of your land when you’re working in FarmVille. This means that you’ll want to clear a substantial amount of land so that you can plant as many crops as possible. You do have to be careful about how much land you clear at once though. It costs 15 coins to clear one plot of land, so if you clear too many at once, you won’t have any coins left to buy the seeds you want to plant.

It’s best to slowly expand your plowed plots of land so that you’re always able to take full advantage of their planting potential. After each harvest, it’s a good idea to replant on all of your current plots first. Once you’ve done this it will be much easier to figure out how much more land you can afford to clear this time around. Following this pattern will quickly allow you to expand your farm while ensuring that you always have enough money to plant on all of your cleared plots.

Plan Your Harvests

Another aspect of FarmVille that it can be tough to get the hang of at first is timing your harvests right. Each crop you plant in the game will take a particular amount of time to mature. Once a crop is mature, you can harvest it. But don’t wait too long. If you don’t get back in time, your crops will wither and you’ll just have to plow the land again and start over. It’s important to plan your plantings so that you’ll be able to get back to check on your farm before this happens.

One of the great things about FarmVille is that you can take it as seriously as you want to take it. If you only want to log in once a week, that’s fine. Just make sure you plant crops that will last that long. Once you start playing though, it’s not likely you’ll be able to stay away for very long.

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These costs are easily managed of course because you’re harvesting and selling your crops for more than it cost to plant them. There are a lot of other items you can buy in the FarmVille market to decorate and build up your farm, and you won’t be able to get these without some significant sums of cash. Buying these items will also get you some much needed experience points to help you advance to the next level, so you’ll have to find a way to make sure you have enough money for all the discretionary items you want to buy.

Earnings Per Hour

Because you’ll be needing your coins for so much in FarmVille, you need to maximize the earning potential of your farm. The best way to do this is to figure out which crops pay out the most coins per hour. For example, strawberries sell for 35 coins per plot of land harvested and they take 4 hours to grow. Pumpkins, on the other hand, take 8 hours to grow and sell for 68 coins per plot of land harvested.

That means, for the same acreage planted, you’ll earn 8.75 coins per hour by planting strawberries, while the pumpkins will only get you 8.5 coins per hour. This may seem like a small difference, but these small amounts can add up fast. Of course, you won’t be getting your money’s worth unless you can harvest the crops as soon as they’re ready and immediately replant on that land.

A Quick Turnaround

If you’re not going to be able to get back to your farm for 8 hours, you’re much better off planting the pumpkins. The longer you leave a crop after it’s done maturing, the less you’ll be getting per hour once you harvest it. You can only make money fast on crops that mature quickly if you’re going to be able to harvest and replant as soon as they’re ready for sale. Make sure you take these details into consideration when you’re selecting your seeds at the Market, and you’ll be seeing your bank account swelling in no time.

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