FarmTownGuide

WiseManFT has posted a fantastic video on YouTube, explaining how to make some pretty fantastic effects in your farm, including elevation, waterfalls and a pond. Check it out!

Happy Holidays!!

There are now lots and lots of Christmas and Holiday items available to buy in the store:

• Nativity scenes
• Santa, his wife and helpers with various color costumes
• Snowmen
• Holiday dinners – yum
• Christmas trees
• Menorahs
• Patches of snow and ice
• Snow-covered buildings

It’s all looking very festive – if you’ve used any of these, please share a link to your farm! We’d love to see it

In case you haven’t already seen it, there’s a very useful data sheet available on Google Docs which contains all sorts of very precise information for harvesting and planning your farm and farming activities. You can see it here:

Farm Town Data Sheet

At first glance, it’s a lot of information to digest, but it’s very useful as a reference if you are planning to get serious about your farming schedule

There seems to be a “feature” in Farm Town where if you double click on another person’s toes, it automatically hires them to work on your farm.. It sounds like some scammers have been using this to their advantage by getting people to double click their tootsies to earn some coins or to see something fun. Don’t be fooled!

Some people on the Slashkey forum are asking for a “Fire” button to be created, so you can stop someone you’ve inadvertently hired like this from stripping your trees of their fruit, or whatever. Also, bear in mind that you can still harvest somebody’s farm while not connected to the server, which means the other person won’t be able to see you doing it! People are likely to do this when they’re about to be kicked off the server. Naughty!

In the top right of the Farm Town screen, there are six buttons which let you change various aspects of the game:

Farm Town option buttons

Save Button

Farm Town has an auto-save feature, which saves your current farm layout and number of coins and so on every twenty seconds or so. When you’ve made a change that can be saved, the save button’s background will turn blue, meaning you can click on it to save where you are. Once your game has been saved, or auto-saved, the button’s background turns white, meaning there’s nothing to be saved.

Music Toggle

If you’d like to mute the music playing in the background, you can use this button to turn it off. Easy peasy!

Ambient Noises

As with the music toggle button, you can mute the background noises that you’ll sometimes hear in the background on Farm Town, such as animal sounds. Clicking this button will turn those off.

Game Preferences

This button allows you to customize a lot of aspects of the way you play Farm Town. We’ll be posting a guide to all the things you can change in a future guide.

Plug

This button shows you whether you’re playing online or not. You can play Farm Town without being connected, but you won’t be able to interact with other farmers. This button turns green when you’re connected, and red when you’re offline.

Question Mark

If you’d like to see a fun little tutorial for Farm Town, you can click on the question mark

Trees never go to waste, unlike crops

Here’s a hint for those farmers among you that can’t always get to their farms to harvest their crops when they’d like to. I’ve been there myself – there’s nothing worse than finding all your lovely grapes and wheat in a shrivelled heap, waiting to be cleared away. Here’s the thing – trees and the fruit that grow on them never, ever go to waste! You could leave your farm untouched for months, and the fruit on the trees would still be there waiting to be harvested, unharmed. Lovely stuff!