Friday, October 23, 2009

FarmVille Dairy Farm Math; Strategy and Tips

Yesterday, Dairy Farms were added in FarmVille. Dairy Farms are buildings that hold twenty cows and you can use them to collect milk from all 20 cows with the click of a button.

Here is what the dairy farm looks like actually placed on your FarmVille farm:


Disadvantages of the Dairy Farm

If you have a lot of cows on your farm, this will save a lot of space. However, that assumes you actually have cows. The dairy farm itself takes up 30 small squares on your farm (one crop plot takes up 16 squares, a cow takes 4, and a tree or small animal takes 1 square).

A dairy farm can hold 20 cows, which normally occupy 80 squares on your farm, so you would free up 50 small squares of space by adding a dairy farm. This would save you a lot of space. However, cows are the worst animal profit wise. A fully stocked dairy farm will earn 120 coins per day. Planting 2 pea plots (32 small squares) will earn 360 coins per day in addition to giving 8 experience points. Planting trees or using more profitable animals in the same space will earn you a lot more coins as well.

At the rate cows produce profit, it will take 83 days before you actually earn a profit on a fully stocked dairy farm! Additionally, you are limited to 5 total dairy farms.


Advantages

The dairy farm has two primary advantages. The first one is obvious - aesthetics. It has a pretty neat graphic and fits the farm theme very well.

The other advantage is the ease of harvesting. While the dairy farm is not going to make your farm rich, collecting milk from twenty cows with one click is pretty nice. This makes the zoologist ribbon a lot easier as each cow harvested with the dairy farm does indeed count towards your zoologist total.


Conclusion

The dairy farm is a great idea, it is just unfortunate that the denizens of FarmVille do not pay enough money for milk! Probably has something to do with the fact that cows are so common they always are getting lost and showing up on your farm..
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7 comments:

  1. Great article (and written very quickly after the Dairy Farm was introduced). Perhaps the money you get for milk is ment to represent the real life situation where farmers aren't being paid enough? Maybe farmville has deeper meanings...
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  2. its like France: http://nimg.sulekha.com/Others/original700/france-milk-farmers-demonstration-2009-9-19-8-11-20.jpg

    Haha. I think what happened is they just didn't consider space when designing animals, because cows pay the lowest (and are the cheapest), chickens pay just a little more than cows, and sheep pay a little more than chickens, and rabbits pay a little more than sheep, so on and so forth.

    Also, the horse is the gift that you have to be the highest level to give, and produces the most coins per animal, but since it takes up more space it's really one of the worst.
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  3. the amount of milk you get from the dairy farm is higher if you put brown or pink cows in it instead of the standard cows you can buy. makes it a bit more profitable if you have 20 pink cows.
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  4. GLITCH ALERT! When you buy cows to put into the dairy farm, FV is counting them as new buildings. Thus..you can buy 20 cows and get rewarded for 20 buildings to achieve your architect ribbon
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  5. The only thing that bothers me about the dairy farms *and the chicken coops too* is that you CAN'T rotate them to face another direction.
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  6. can i use chicken coops too for the zoologist ribbon, or do i need dairy farm?
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  7. i have enough coins but for some reason the dairy farm is locked for me needs 8 neighbours of real $ option... why?
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