This Holiday Season, It’s All About Melons

The holidays are a busy time. So much so that many of us don’t have time to log into Farmville all that much. That’s why this holiday week I’m planting watermelons on my farm. These are a great long-term crop that are available to players who are level 18 or higher. They have a growth cycle time of 82 hours, or just under four days. Plus you get an equivalent amount of time to harvest them, leaving you a full week between logins. Watermelons aren’t a very good crop from either an XP/hour or profit/hour perspective (they rank near the bottom of the charts for both), but they’re ideal when you’re not going to be logging into the game for a while.

Are you level 33 or higher? Than give Yellow Melons a try. These have an even longer growing cycle of 92 hours and perform slightly better than Watermelons in terms of profit/hour.

FarmVille Cheat Codes

Facebook Farville Cheat Codes for Crop Growing
Crops grow and ripen at various times. There is no way to stop the crops from growing while you are away from your computer. Plant the crops that take longer to grow when you go away form your computer for a while.


If you are planning on being away from your computer for 8 hours try planting tomatoes, pumpkins, or sugar cane. All of these items are available at different levels and they can really make the difference in rotting fruit. This saves money and time from clearing rotted crops.

Useful Cheats and Glitches in Farmville

Farmville is a fun game, and you certainly don’t need to cheat to enjoy it. Some gamers, however, do get a kick out of finding glitches in the game and exploiting them to their advantage. If you’re one of those gamers, read on to learn about some of the game’s known glitches.

Farmer Trap Glitch
With your farmer positioned on the map, build a fence around him and trap him inside. This may seem cruel, but you’ll soon see why it’s useful. Now when you start planting or harvesting, the farmer will be trapped and will do the work from his current position, saving tons of travel time. You don’t even have to use fence; to save space, trap the farmer with bales of hay.

Good Samaritan Glitch
This glitch will let you earn your Good Samaritan ribbon while helping out your neighbors. Click on a confirmed (not still processing) neighbor’s farm. On the page where you usually choose what chore to do, click on the neighbor’s farm again to load another request instead. You can load as many requests as you want before you accept. This will drastically increase the amount of Good Samaritan points you recieve.

Spy On Your Neighbors Glitch
Select one of your neighbors and go to his farm. Click one of the crops on the farm and drag it underneath the blue home button located near the bottom-right of the screen. Drag your mouse on top of the home button and wait until both the crop and the button turn yellow. Finally, click on the home button to view your neighbor’s growth percentage.

Soybean Delete Glitch
This glitch provides a really easy way to advance to the next level when you have some coins to spare. The developers don’t want anyone to know this one, and have unsuccessfully sought to fix it in the code. First, obtain ten empty plots. Now, plow the plots and fill them with soybeans. Immediately delete the soybeans with the shovel after they have been planted. This sounds counterintuitive, but take a look at the math: planting soybeans will yield 30 XP for each plot! This only costs you 300 coins each time, and you can do this as many times as you want.

Firefox Unlimited Gifts Glitch
This last exploit only works if you use Firefox for your web browser. After you log onto the game, right click on the gifts button. When the menu appears, click on ‘open link in new browser’. You can repeat the last step and open up as many tabs as you want. Select your gift on each tab, but do not confirm the transaction. Go back to the first tab that you opened. You should now be able to hit confirm. The gift will send from each of the tabs you opened, enabling you to send unlimited gifts to your friends.

Use this knowledge responsibly. The point of games like Farmville, afterall, is to have fun. Exploiting these glitches provides an unfair advantage that can ruin the gaming experience of both you and other players. That being said, exploiting known flaws in the game’s design can provide hours of entertainment. Even more fun is finding your own glitches and sharing them with other players!

Are Poinsettias Worth It?

The new poinsettia plant in Farmville is a seasonal crop that is available through the end of the month. It costs 45 coins to plant, and can be harvested in one day for 126 coins. They’re certainly fun to look at and of course fit in well with the holidays, but is it worth your time to plant them?

Compared to other flowers, the new poinsettias have good rates of return for both coins and XP. The net profit per hour is 2.87 coins per plot of poinsettia and the net XP per hour is 0.17. Compared to other crops, though, poinsettias fall towards the middle of the pack. Of all the crops currently available, poinsettias rank 14th for XP per hour and 29th for net profit/hour. You’re better off planting many of the regular crops, such as grapes, if you want to get the highest profit possible.

Tips for Success in Farmville

* Raspberries are a great quick-growing plant as they mature in just about two hours and will net you just under 50 coins. Blueberries may take a little longer but the wait is surely worth it as they will ultimately make you gain 91 coins. Another popular choice is strawberries, with a growth cycle time of four hours and a payout of thirty-five coins.
* Another choice is to raise livestock, such as cows. The animals are more fun to raise than crops but they payoff isn’t nearly as great and you won’t realize your full Farmville earning potential.
* Trees are another alternative to crops that don’t require as much care but also don’t have the same return on investment.They’re a little slower to grow. A good example is apple trees, which grow in three days and will earn you 28 coins.
* Helping your neighbor is rewarded in Farmville. Got some extra time? Visit some neighboring farms to help with weeding and other tasks and you’ll pocket some coins and experience too.
* Bigger fields of course, will allow you to plant more, therefore will be much more profitable. However, in order to accomplish this you need to have several friends (called neighbors). For instance you need to have at least eight neighbors to expand the farm to a 14×14 lot, or better, 10 neighbors will give you a 16×16 lot. Of course, the more neighbors, the bigger land you may own, therefore the higher the profits.
* You can purchase additional building to get to the next level faster and move the game forward. But the buildings won’t earn you profits like the crops do. However, ultimately, they will just sit there and not bring any profits.

Getting Started in Farmville

If you’re new to Farmville, you might be curious about the best way to start the game. Sometimes it’s fun to just mess around and learn a little bit about the game. There’s a very brief introduction to the mechanics of the game, like how to plow land and plant seeds, as well as how to harvest crops. You also start the game with six plots. Two of them are ready to harvest (eggplant and strawberries) and two are halfway grown. Two plots are plowed and ready for seeds.

You’ll start the game with 200 coins, and the very first thing you should do is harvest the crops that have already grown. Once you do that, you’ll end up with 323 coins and a little bit of Farmville XP towards your next level. There are a lot of opinions about what you should do first, but I think the most important question you should ask yourself is realistically, how often do you think you’ll log into the game? That will help decide your basic strategy and what types of crops you should grow.
The Once a Day Farmer

Most people will probably only commit to logging in once a day in the beginning, and that’s a good plan to see if you really like the game. Once you become addicted, you’ll probably be logging in every hour and employing all kinds of cheats and bots to help with your Farmville addition, but that’s another story. For now, it makes sense to focus on Soybeans as your first crop, since they’re ready to harvest in one day. This way, you can come back to the game at the same time tomorrow to enjoy your progress.

So here’s the basic gameplan for a one-a-day farmer.

1. First, put 300 of those coins to work. You’ll want to plow 11 plots and plant them with soy beans.
2. Use the multi-tool to plow over the two plots you just harvested and add nine more.
3. Use the market tool to purchase soybeans and then plant them in all eleven open plots.
4. By the time you’re done, you’ll have spent 300 of your 323 coins and you’ll have earned level 2. Congratulations!

Here is what your farm should look like if you employ this strategy on your first day.

You’re done for now! You can come back in a few hours if you like to harvest those strawberries that you started the game with, but otherwise, you can just wait until the same time tomorrow to return and harvest your soybeans for a ton of coins and XP. You can repeat this every day if you like, constantly increasing the number of plots you have available. Soon, you’ll have quite a bit of coins and experience saved up.

Farmville Hay Bale Trap Trick

Here’s one of the easiest and most useful Farmville cheats you can do. You can trap your farmer inside other objects to keep him from walking around. This will speed up all of your plowing, harvesting, planting and other activities because your farmer will no longer walk from place to place first. Creating the trap is easy to do and many different objects will work. The most popular option seems to be hay bales.

To set the trap, place three hay bales together with a space in the middle and one side of the trap left open. Then click to the empty space in the middle to get your farmer to walk inside. Once your farmer is in place, close the trap by placing the fourth hay bale. To make this even more effective, create the trap around the exact center of your farm. This is where you usually begin when you log into the game. That way, you won’t need to reset the trap each time you play.