FarmVille Mystery Animal Crate; Strategy Guide

A new mystery box is now available (or a crate in this case) - the "Mystery Animal Crate".


Note: This crate costs 20 farm cash instead of the usual ~16. Here is the reward list:

Grey Goose & 300 XP - Harvest in 2 days for 80 coins.

Buffalo & 400 XP - Harvest in 3 days for 105 coins.

Alpaca & 250 XP - Harvest in 3 days for 84 coins.

Deer & 200 XP - Harvest in 2 days for 80 coins.

Ox & 300 XP - Harvest in 3 days for 105 coins.

Donkey & 500 XP - Harvest in 1 day for 100 coins.

Jackalope & 700 XP - Harvest in 2 days for 350 coins.


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With that said, it's clear that the Jackalope is the big prize in this box set. Since it only takes up 1 small square space of farm space and produces 175 coins per day, it now easily takes the title of FarmVille's most profitable animal.

However, at the same time, it holds (along with some of the other unique animals in this crate) as the title of "most expensive" animal. Each box costs 20 farm cash, so if you get 1 Jackalope every 8 boxes, it's definitely not cheap at a cost of 160 farm cash a piece!

FarmVille Mystery Animal Crate; Strategy Guide

FarmVille Storage Expansion and Barn Raising; Guide

FarmVille players rejoice! You can now upgrade your storage through a new feature called barn raising:




To expand the capacity of your buildings, simply click on the building of interest and you will notice a new option - "expand storage". By clicking that, the following menu will pop up:



Note that in the picture above I had already started the barn raising process. Here's how it works:



In other words, when you click "expand", you will be able to post a help request to your wall. Your friends will see this update in their news feed and be able to help you out by clicking on a link:


If 10 people help you out, your building will be upgraded to an improved storage capacity. As you may have noted in the picture above, the Tool Shed you can buy with coins can be upgraded to store 7 items in. As a result with the addition of this feature, there is a way to get a decent amount of storage without spending any farm cash. Helping out a neighbor gives the helper 100 coins as a reward.

Although it says the price for an instant upgrade decreases with each person that helps you out, the cost for upgraded the tool shed from 2 storage spaces to 7 storage spaces still costs 10 Farm Cash when 9 out of 10 friends have helped you out.

Once 10 people help you out, your building will be instantly upgraded:


As you can see, my "Tool Shed" has become a "Big Shed" and now holds 7 items instead of 2. With a third and final upgrade, a simple tool shed will hold 14 items. Not bad for an item that only costs 14,000 coins!

There is no cool down at the moment on upgrading buildings. As soon as my tool shed became a big shed, I was immediately able to ask for help on expanding it again. Even more important, upgraded buildings do not increase in size, so the storage is increased but there is no additional farm space used up by this expansion.


The more exciting thing is that Dairy Farms and Chicken Coops will be added to this expansion system soon. This will make these buildings much more valuable and make it much more profitable to have multiple dairy farms on a single farm. Based on the massive storage increase as a result of upgrading the Tool Shed, it would not surprise me if an upgraded chicken coop or dairy farm each held 50 animals.

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Lop-Eared Bunny

Along with this update came the addition of a new cash-only animal:


The Lop-Eared Bunny produces 90 coins every 2 days and costs 9 Farm Cash.

FarmVille Storage Expansion and Barn Raising; Guide

FarmVille Stats - Great FarmVille Database!

Just wanted to let everyone know about a new resources - FarmVille Stats.

A buddy of mine put this site together and it's a really nice tool.

What FarmVille Stats does is gather statistics and data from FarmVille's code so that the site can report information before it is even made public.

In other words, the site will often have the statistics (such as cost and profitability) of both unreleased content in addition to updated statistics on items and information that just aren't available yet (for example, the harvest reward on the Starfruit Tree before anyone actually harvested from one).

Pretty neat stuff!

FarmVille Stats - Great FarmVille Database!

Fenced In and Egg-celent Discovery Ribbons & Cow Print; Guide

Two more ribbons were added to FarmVille as well on Tuesday:



Here are the requirements and rewards:

Fenced In

Yellow Ribbon: Place 5 fences. Reward: 25 XP and 500 coins
White Ribbon: Place 50 fences. Reward: 100 XP 2,500 coins
Red Ribbon: Place 100 fences. Reward: 250 XP and 5,000 coins
Blue Ribbon: Place 250 fences. Reward: 1000 XP and 10,000 coins


Egg-celent Discovery

Yellow Ribbon: Find 5 mystery eggs. Reward: 50 XP and 1,000 coins
White Ribbon: Find 25 mystery eggs. Reward: 100 XP 2,500 coins
Red Ribbon: Find 50 mystery eggs. Reward: 250 XP and 5,000 coins
Blue Ribbon: Place 100 mystery eggs. Reward: 1000 XP and 10,000 coins


In addition to some new ribbons, cow print limited edition items have been added to the game:


If I could rename items in game, I'd get the Cowprint Balloon and rename it to "Chumlee's Hot Air Balloon Rides" or something along those lines. Pawn stars, anyone?

Fenced In and Egg-celent Discovery Ribbons & Cow Print; Guide