Farmville Craftshop

Farmville Craftshop

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Purpose of This Post: In this post is a video on how to use the search feature, a guide of what you can make, pictures of each item and it's relative mastery sign, experience points needed to master, recipe times, Farmville dollars needs to finish it instantly (right after clicking the "Make It" button), mastery stars needed to unlock, and bushels and baskets needed.

I also explain how to quickly level up in Total Mastery Stars so you can unlock various items such as the moats, for example. Also included are some hints and basic information. On a follow up post, I will include some Silo information.

Hint on Adding Helpers: Make sure you craft the item that you want to get an extra one for FIRST, then click "Add Helpers". For example, I want 2 Love Potions. I make the Love Potion first THEN I click "Add Helpers."

The Craftshop has a nice search feature so you don't have to scroll through all 14 pages in order to find what you want to make. Here is a video I made that will show how to use this. You can click on the four arrows in the lower right-hand corner of the screen to make it full screen. Please pardon the lack of video professionalism since I am new to using Camtastic.

Here is the Farmville Craftshop Guide:

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* Bushels/Baskets Needed: see the Silo link - CLICK HERE

**Here is the same chart with the Mastery Index. (see below) The Mastery Index is the total number of minutes to complete a Level of Mastery for that item. I will use an example of the Lucky Penny to show how I calculate this. The equation is:  Lucky Penny Mastery Level 1 = 5 minutes X 15 harvests. (75 minutes = 5 minutes X 15)

The lower the Mastery Index, the quicker you can master the items. Use the lower Mastery Index items to quickly gain Mastery Points to unlock items that you need to have higher mastery to unlock. For example, you need 4 stars to unlock the Dainty Fence. The quickest way to get the four stars is to choose the item with the lowest Mastery Index for level 1. The Lucky Penny would be the lowest, so you would spend 5 minutes at a time to make and get each Lucky Penny. It would take a total of 75 minutes to get all 15 harvests so you can get 1 mastery point the quickest.

You get 1 mastery point for each level you complete. So if you have 3 Mastery Points (needing 4 to unlock the Dainty Fence) and make the Lucky Penny 15 times in a row, you will have achieved the quickest way to get up to 4. It will take 75 minutes to get 1 Mastery Point. Please post any questions you may have and I will answer them in posts. You can post below and do NOT need a Google account to post. There is no need to sign in, just select "Anonymous" and post.

Farmville Craftshop Mastery Index Chart:

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Here is some basic information on making and using the Farmville Craftshop. You can find this information on many different websites. I choose to quote Farmville Updates since I like to create original information based on my observations with a focus on game strategy. Farmville Updates does an excellent and thorough job of explaining this below:

ACCORDING TO FARMVILLE UPDATES:


CRAFTING ON MULTIPLE STATIONS
Players can craft 6 items at the same time, but each item has to be different. You cannot craft 2-6 bottles at the same time. You can however, craft one bottle on the Home Farm and another bottle on the English Countryside Farm.

STATIONS
Everyone starts with one station. All station expansions require the same amount of buildable materials. In order to unlock a new one, you will need :
5 Wrenches
5 Pipes
5 Clamps

HOW DO YOU GET PARTS
There are different ways acquiring building parts. Here’s how:
- Asking your neighbors for these parts by posting a help request to your feed (click on the “Ask For Part” button for each type of part).
- Give parts to your neighbors via the Free Gifts page or the “Send Gifts” button.
- Acquire parts by spending Farm Cash. Click on the “Buy” button for that particular part to purchase all of the particular part that you need (the cost is X Farm Cash, where X is the number of parts left that you need), or buy those parts individually in the Market (you can find them in Farm Aides -> Other).
- Acquire all needed parts for the building by spending Farm Cash (click on the “Complete Now” button to purchase parts for the rest of the building). The cost is X Farm Cash, where X is the total number of parts left needed to finish the building.
- Using individual parts already available in your Gift Box.

SHARING POSTS
5 friends are able to click and claim rewards from published posts.

OVENS HAVE FOUR DIFFERENT STATES :
Locked – Stations 2 through 6 are locked by default & require building parts to unlock
Empty – The station is not active but is available to be used
Baking – The station is actively crafting an item. See timer for status.
Ready – When your station says, “Get it,” your item is ready to be collected.

ADD HELPERS FOR A BONUS ITEM
On the left hand side of the Menu exists a “Add Helpers” button. When you add 4 Helpers to your crafted Item you get a bonus item, and all of the people who “Helped” will also receive that item as well. NOTE: It is not necessary to “Add Helpers” to complete your crafted item, but helpers activate a bonus for involving your friends!
You can request helpers every four hours or when you finish creating an item, you can request helpers that will count towards your next created item. Please note that if you do not have at least 4 helpers, they will not be used on your crafted item and instead will stay on the left hand menu screen until you can complete a set of 4.
Click on “Add Helpers” the top left of your Craftshop pop up.
Source: http://farmvilleupdates.com/page/2