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.

Quick Leveling in Farmville

It is aggravating if you’re the player lounging there, working on your plowing, but it looks that your neighbors, who are supposedly doing the exact same thing, are rank climbing much faster while you are left to meander your way along the levels. There’s no possibility that their plots are harvesting any quicker than yours, yet you still come in far behind them. But hold it! Finally you also can learn the secrets your friends already know, plus some. You just have to know where to find them.

A speedy Google search might turn up a lot of cheat websites, tip internet sites, and internet sites claiming this guide or that book will sling you past your buddies. While many of these are probably innocuous and may or may not work, be cautious. A few websites might attempt to sell you a book claiming to be the know all and end all of Farmville cheats. These books are most likely hoaxes and at best you’ll be out real life money. Dont get scammed, theres many free hacks out there to keep you going in your journey to become the top Farmville champion.

For example, heres one of my top picks. Ever see how the host seems to bog down when youre planting? Get fed up of waiting for your avatar to catch up with your mouse clicks? Do this. Find a quartet of haybales, and block your farmer inside of them. Now, your farmer is not wandering all over the place, bogging you down. He will do the plowing from right where he’s standing! Finally plowing will go quicker because the computer can work on your mouse clicks rather than whatever your farmer is trying to do.

This hack and more such points are all over the internet, just waiting for you to discover them. So take a gander, and have fun leveling!

Best Crops for Exp/Hour*

1.Strawberries/Raspberries/Blackberries/Blueberries
2.Aloe Vera/Ghost Chilli
3.Tomatoes/Sugar Cane/Pumpkin
4.Green Tea/Cranberries/Acorn
Squash
5.Asparagus
6.Peas
7.Onions/Rice/Carrots
8.Sunflowers/Soybeans/Peppers/Lillies/Red Tulips
9.Coffee/PattyPan Squash
10.Grapes
11.Yellow Bells/Pineapples/Eggplant/
12.Cabbage/Broccoli/Squash/Pink Roses/Lavander/Daffodils
13.Wheat/Red Wheat/Potatoes/Corn/Cotton
14.Watermelon/Yellow Melon/Artichokes

Best Crops for money/Hour*

1.Peas
2.Asparagus
3.Onions
4.Grapes
5.Sugar Cane
6.Tomatoes
7.Sunflowers
8.Lillies
9.Ghost Chili/Acorn Squash
10.Green Tea
11.Coffee/Blackberries
12.Blue Berries
13.Carrots
14.Raspberries
15.Broccoli
16.Cabbage
17.PattyPan Squash
18.Lavender
19.Red Wheat
20.Yellow Melon
21.Peppers
22.Aloe Vera
23.Corn
24.Rice/Red Tulip
25.Pumpkin
26.Pineapple
27.Potatoes
28.Cranberries
29.Pink Roses
30.Strawberries
31.Yellow Bell
32.Watermelon
33.Cotton
34.Squash/Soybeans
35.Daffodils
36.Artichoke
37.Eggplant
38.Wheat

LEGAL DISCLAIMER:

This guide is intended only as an introduction to ideas and concepts based on personal experience in-game only. It should not be regarded as officially endorsed by Zynga Limited.