The New Farmville Collections for 2011

As you may already know, Farmville has released new collectibles. I was a little puzzled as to how to earn them at first until I started to experiment. In the charts below, I show each collectible, what is needed to achieve it at Levels 1 through 3, pictures of the Category/Collectible/Reward, and the Reward's details. After the list of collectibles for Levels 1 through 3, I show Levels 4 through 10. The rewards just repeat themselves in the same pattern. For example, after you get the Pig Pumpkin from mastering Level 3 of Squash, you will earn the Farmville Arborist at Level 4 (as you did in level 1). (Click image to enlarge)

Farmville Berries Collection 2011

 Farmville Citrus Collection 2011

 Farmville Cows Collection 2011

Farmville Berries Collection 2011

 Farmville Grains Collection 2011

 Farmville Squash Collection 2011

 Collection Levels

 

THEY HEARD US!!!

This blog received 511 visitors yesterday. My Facebook friends were re-posting the Love Potion Complaint Quest and burning up Zynga's servers with emails and chat complaints. Many received very satisfactory replies and gifts from Zynga. Today, it tapered off. Two of my secret agents told me that Zynga told them they were working on the issue and did not offer them any free love potions or anything to compensate for their frustration. BUT, on the good side, is that they listened and responded quickly!

According to Farmville Feed, the Crafting Shop is SLOWLY rolling out. Let's see what happens.
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I also saw a "known issue" about the Craft Shop coming soon on Zynga's Support Page! It was on the main issue page earlier today. It has been removed since the Craft Shops are now working as they roll this out.. They even posted a notice when Farmville loads. (Click to enlarge)

Useful Farmville Links

I looked at each of these links and they seem like legitimate posters. If you have a problem with one, please post a comment (you can post anonymously if you do not want to create a google account or just don't want to log in with it). To post a complaint, please follow these directions:

1. Copy and paste the link you are reporting
2. State the reason, as explicitly as possible, as to WHY you are reporting it.

http://www.facebook.com/FarmVille Link for the infamous game. See also http://www.farmville.com  

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Dirt-Farmer/134994493227859 He posts really neat stuff!

http://www.facebook.com/FarmVilleScams Someone got smart about our safety online!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Zero-Tolerance-for-FV-Scam-Posters/108578582542079 They say to delete friends who send us scam links but some of them are really tricky. Check out my video on the Easter Egg Tree scam: http://masteringfarmville.blogspot.com/2011/04/farmville-easter-egg-tree-scam-how-to.html

 

http://www.facebook.com/ScamHunters?sk=wall Their motto: “We hunt down and report scams. You can, too!”

http://www.facebook.com/TheFauxFarmer Fun Farmville stuff

http://www.facebook.com/pages/FarmVille-English-Countryside/128597000543889 News on the English Countryside

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnRIUYfG-GU  My all-time favorite. I love little Charlie "Scam!"

How to Be Successful at Sheep Breeding in Farmville!!!!!

First, it helps to look at my Sheep Breeding Guide to get an idea of what you can get. Now that we have the conga line, it makes things a bit easier. Here I was going for sheep with the flashing/rolling dots. I waited until I saw four sheep with the flashing/rolling dots I wanted in the conga line. I have gotten lucky with 3 but I need to test my theory more before I can share it. (Don't want to frustrate anyone). Here is an example of having 4 of the flashing/rolling dots sheep in the conga line. (Click to enlarge) [Added 6.3.11: This does not always work BUT I am testing another theory. Will update this post once I do]

One of my secret agents, Jen P., told me a trick on how to make the lamb appear backwards in the post: "Okay after you put your lamb down, before you feed bottles, rotate them twice... when you share the bottles they will face backwards." (Click to enlarge)

I welcome everyone to share their comments on what works and didn't work for them.

GET 100 LOVE POTIONS!! READ ON AND REPOST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 OH HAPPY DAY!!!!!

ZYNGA IS GIVING US 100 LOVE POTIONS TO MAKE UP FOR  THE CRAFT SHOP NOT BEING READY!!!

[Added:  Just got word today 6.2.11 (24 hours after posting this) that Zynga did not help one of my FV friends. I am not sure why but we are, at least, making some noise that we want the Craft Shop to be available to make love potions. Maybe they will get it done quicker to get rid of us complaining and that would be good.]

One of my secret agents told me her experience. While Zynga is not ANNOUNCING this, it is true! She got 100 Love Potions and so did I!! Here are the chat transcripts. I will post hers (all names removed) and then mine. See for yourself: 100 LOVE POTIONS (HAD 7) WERE GIVEN TO ME BY ZYNGA.  Go to http://www.farmville.com/ then click on "Support" at the bottom, then click on the chat to the right. (Click to enlarge) I am adding more transcripts to the bottom as I get them. I also didn't realize they gave me 200 bottles until I went into the gift box.

 

 My agent's chat transcript:

hey just thought you might like to see this.......:D

You are now chatting with 'Name Removed'

Name Removed: Hi can you tell me when the craft buildings are going to be ready have had mine completed now for 3 weeks.. have 223 bottles in my in box which i cant use because the potions are sooo hard to come by in any ammounts thanks

Name Removed: Hello Name Removed! My name is Name Removed, and I am with the Farmville Customer Support Team. Before we get started.at the conclusion of our chat, I will send you a follow up email. If by chance our chat gets disconnected, I will immediately follow up with you via email, in which we will treat your reply with priority and continue to support any inquiries you may have. How may I assist you today?

Name Removed: I'm sorry I do not know when it will be ready, Name Removed. For the meantime I can give you Potions.

Name Removed: oh brilliant could do with loads )

Name Removed: frustrated breeder :)

Name Removed: I was able to add 100 for you! Is there anything else I can help you with, regarding FarmVille today?

Name Removed: thats absolutely wonderful thanks so much :D

Name Removed: You are very welcome!

Name Removed: Thanks for contacting Zynga Customer Support. To receive an email with the transcript of our conversation, click the envelope icon and enter your email address. I would appreciate it if you fill out a short survey about your experience chatting with me. Click the red X at the top right corner of your chat window to start the survey. We value your feedback! Thanks again!

My chat transcript:

You are now chatting with 'Name Removed'

Name Removed: Hello Kim! I am a Zynga Customer Support Representative.  How can I help you today?

Kim: Hi, I have tons of bottles and cannot breed sheep because the Crafting Shop is not available yet and Love Potions are mostly gone before I can get them. Please help me. 

Kim: Why is it taking over 3 weeks to get this Crafting shop ready???

Name Removed: As much as I would love to answer your concern about the Crafting Shop Kim, but at the moment, we haven't received any updates yet from our game developers. I know its really frustrating and you're still having isName Removeds with breeding. For the mean time, as a one time courtesy, I can restore you with Love Potions

Kim: my friend got 100 of them from Zynga Support

Kim: i have so many people

Kim: who want my rolling dots sheep

Name Removed: Please hold on for now while I work on it

Kim: oooohhhh soooo excited!!!!

Name Removed: Thanks for waiting Kim. I have added the potions now. Please refresh your farm and please check if its now in your Gift Box, then let me know. Thanks

Kim: cool, how many did i get?

Name Removed: 100

Kim: You guyz are great!!! Stoked!! I love, love Farmville. It's my all time favorite game. People like you make

Kim: Zynga great. WOW. thanks you soooo much! You made my day!!

Kim: God Bless you!

Name Removed: Is there anything else I can help you with today?

Kim: Have a great day, Name Removed

Name Removed: Thanks for contacting Zynga Customer Support. To receive an email with the transcript of our conversation, click the envelope icon and enter your email address.

Name Removed: I would appreciate it if you fill out a short survey about your experience chatting with me. Click the red X at the top right corner of your chat window to start the survey. We value your feedback!

Name Removed: Thanks again!

Kim: no, i am ALLLL Set!!

Name Removed: Ok thanks 

Another chat transcript: 

Wanted to share my Zynga chat transcript with you. They gave me 30FV cash and 50 Love potions.

Name Removed: Hello Name Removed! I am a Zynga Customer Support Representative. How can I help you today?

Name Removed: Hi I was wondering if the pig breeding was fixed, since I used probably 100+ potions in the day or so before it was made clear that it was broken and it's become impossible to get potions lately

Name Removed: and I don't want to waste what I do have

Name Removed: I am sorry to know that but as of the moment, some players are still having issues with it but to some it is working fine.

Name Removed: is there any way to get back some of the potions I've wasted? With waiting 4 hours in between requests and then having to compete will a lot of my friends who play to get them from the feed I've got next to none and I feel as though so many were wasted

Name Removed: Let me see what I can do to help. Please give me 2 minutes to check on your account.

Name Removed: Okay, thank you

Name Removed: Please give me another minute as my system is taking so long. [Editor's note: THAT'S BECAUSE WE ARE BOMBARDING THEM SO THEY FIX THIS CRAFT SHOP SO WE CAN MAKE OUR OWN POTIONS! WE ARE BURNING UP THEIR PHONE LINES AND SERVERS WITH REQUESTS!]

Name Removed: No problem, thank you for your help

Name Removed: I will be adding 30 fv cash on your account for the inconvenience this has caused. I know that this is not enough but I hope that this would somehow help you out.

Name Removed: I will also add potions on your Gift Box.

Name Removed: Wow, thank you so much , that is beyond generous

Name Removed: thank you so much for your help

Name Removed: Is there anything else I can help you with today?

Name Removed: No thank you, that's all. Thank you again so mmuch for your help

Name Removed: Thanks for contacting Zynga Customer Support. To receive an email with the transcript of our conversation, click the envelope icon and enter your email address.

Name Removed: I would appreciate it if you fill out a short survey about your experience chatting with me. Click the red X at the top right corner of your chat window to start the survey. We value your feedback!

Name Removed: Thanks again!

Another agent of mine reports:

the squeaky wheel DOES get the grease!! I'm not a complainer by nature, but after reading the Mastering Farmville post, I went to Zynga chat and complained about the craftshop not open yet and potions so hard to come by, and she gave me 100 potions and 100 bottles :) CHECK IT OUT!!!

Another agent of mine reports:

I went to live chat before and complained about only getting solid pigs and she agreed some of us are having a problem and gave me 30 FV cash, 25 potions and 50 bottles.

 Another agent of mine reports:

Ari,
Thank you for letting me know about your experience with the potions! Just finished chatting with a representative who also gave me the same thing! [meaning the 100 love potions I got]

I Had 3 Contest Winners! Cathy Z., Love C. and Clare B. Here are Their Tips!

Cathy Z. -

"I don't know if this is just limited to Macs or Google Chrome, but something that happens to me fairly often is that when I login to FV, both the "send a special delivery to someone" and "farmville messages" boxes will pop up. If I closed the 'fv messages' window first, then I would end up with this blank space on the upper half of my window where my 'special delivery' window ostensibly was, but I couldn't see it and click out of it.

My first method is to just click on the special delivery window (cancel), and then I can deal with my farmville messages. This seems to work well, except when once in awhile it doesn't (i.e. even if I close the special delivery window first, I still get a blank upper half). In this case, I would just click on the farmville messages box. When that pops up, all the "hidden" stuff underneath (like some other gift window) will also show up, and then I can just do what I detailed above.

:) Let me know if you need a screen shot, happens about twice a day for me"

Love R -

"After harvesting 1 orchard...transfer the trees to the other orchard (ready to harvest orchard) then do it again to the other orchard...keep doing it till you master the trees...one of my neighbors keep building orchards for this...she placed 1 or 2 trees in each orchard, then when it's ready to harvest, she put the other trees in, then harvest it...then transfer the trees to the next ready orchard...then to the next "ready" orchard...till you master the trees..I hope it helps..and I hope you understand it...haha.. 

Of course, you have to put 20 trees in the orchard before harvesting it...we need to get 20 masteries, on each orchard right? first step: we need 1 full ready orchard (20 trees)..then harvest it, then transfer the harvested trees to the next ready orchard that has only 2 trees in it..you can only transfer 18 trees, obviously coz, we already have 2 trees in it, right..then transfer the trees again to the next ready orchard...just repeat the process....transfering trees is time consuming, but you'll master the trees quickly :)
if you're asking about how my neighbor is doing it...I think, she was just setting the orchard first...after building an orchard, she'll put 2 trees first, so the orchard can start...like I said she built a lot of orchards, about 150...each of her new orchards has 2 trees in it..the more you harvest trees from the orchard, the more possibility you get a new seedlings, and you quickly master the trees..plus you'll get tons of coins..lol---the main point is...just keep transfering the trees to the next ready orchard..."

Last but not least, Clare B.  (who sent me a ton of stuff to help us!)-

"

Send your friend multi gifts

open the farm then when on right click on send free gift, open in new tab and repeat procedure until 10-15 tabs open

start to set up gift send keeping all tabs at same level

choose gift in all
choose person in all
press send to all

MAKE SURE NONE POSTED YET SHOULD JUST HAVE THE BOX UP READY TO POST WALL

Press send as fast as possible

a slight variation is to receive gifts open for e.g this link in 15 tabs

http://apps.facebook.com/onthefarm/askmats.php?feature=mysteryseedling&item=bottle&view=fv

send as many as can make sure other player is aware when they open farm in gift request that comes up will accept your request to send 15 x bottle"

http://facebook.farmville.com/askmats.php?feature=mysteryseedling&item=bottle&view=fv

 And

How To Get Multiple Building Materials 

 Check the links below for the Building Material you want. Open it in multiple tabs. Now on each tab choose the account you want request the Material to Click send request on them all and you will get another pop-up. Once you have that pop-up on all tabs , click send again on them all. Then go on the account you requested them to and accept ALL the requests. You will have as many Materials as you requested. Here is some links just open them in multiple tabs and follow info above.

 Watering Cans

http://apps.facebook.com/onthefarm/askmats.php?feature=mysteryseedling&item=wateringcan&view=fv

 Woodenboards

 http://apps.facebook.com/onthefarm/askm ... rd&view=fv

 Bricks

 http://apps.facebook.com/onthefarm/askmats.php?feature=mysteryseedling&item=brick&view=fv

 Nails

 http://apps.facebook.com/onthefarm/askmats.php?feature=mysteryseedling&item=nail&view=fv

 Shovels

 http://apps.facebook.com/onthefarm/askmats.php?feature=mysteryseedling&item=shovel_item_01&view=fv

 Bottle

 http://apps.facebook.com/onthefarm/askmats.php?feature=mysteryseedling&item=bottle&view=fv

Blanket

 http://apps.facebook.com/onthefarm/askmats.php?feature=mysteryseedling&item=blanket&view=fv

Vehicle Parts

 http://apps.facebook.com/onthefarm/askmats.php?feature=mysteryseedling&item=vehiclepart&view=fv

 Lucky Pennys

http://apps.facebook.com/onthefarm/askreqs.php?feature=wishingwell&featureSource=UI&item=consume_lucky_penny

And

How to post your lamb backwards

place the lamb and select it
press rotate twice
feed 5 bottles

voila lamb backwards 

And

Level trees up faster

Build for example 10 orchards and put one tree in each only if have another 10 of said tree leave fee stand when first orchard ready harvest add all 10 stand and harvest now take them 11 out and put into next one - harvest now take them 12 out put in next and so on so on instead of 20 tree harvest once you done equivalent of over 100

And

Need Bottles? A Question was asked about the "Special Delivery Boxes...building materials only!!" by Lauren WhoDat Anderson "Why the heck are my special delivery boxes giving me nails, bricks and boards only!!! I need bottles and other useful items.....this is getting OLD!!!"

Want more Bottles for your lambs? Well this will only work if you have a baby pig on the side. Do not grow it. (Trust me it is worth it) Then open 10 Special Delivery Boxes at a time to get 10 bottles to feed your lamb.

*
You must have no seedlings on your farm or have at least have 8 watering cans in your gift basket or you will get water cans and 2 bottles.
*
Remember to accept all of your baby bottle gifts from neighbors and use them. Or they will not be in the Special Delivery Boxes when you open them. You will only get construction material.
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If you find that you are only getting 8 bottles and two construction items that means you already have the two. So go up and refresh the gift basket by clicking on the top right hand corner where you accept your gifts. Then x out. Maybe you snagged some with out realizing it. Go to your gift basket and they will be there. Seems to refresh everything with out having to start the game over. Hope this helps.

Or

Click on your lamb and ask for bottles. You can go back and repeat this process till you have asked every neighbor on your list. Warning If you click on every neighbor you have you will have to wait to ask again. I split mine up. Half water and the other half bottles. That way I do not use up my 200 limit/restrictions

And

When helping neighbors with their love positions (5 helping hands) please remember it does NOT count to your 200 limit. So click/snag away all day if you want without worries. So don't forget to give A LiTtLe ExTra LoVin to your friends!! If you forgot how to spread that LoVin Click Here! Surprised 

 

The Flashing Dots Ram is Working Now!!! Here is a Trick to Increase Your Success

I have been able to breed sheep with the rolling dots now. Zynga was kind enough to refund my money when I first purchased the Rolling Dots Ram. They also let me keep him. Now he is working!!! I try to wait until I see at least 3 rolling dots sheep in the conga line before I click "Breed". It does not always work but more often than not it does. (Click to enlarge)

 Here are the rolling dots (color changing dots) I have so far:

Please Repost If You Agree - We Need Crafting Shop to Make Love Potions!!!

EVERYONE IN FV: email Zynga Customer support and ask where the Craft Shops we built 3 weeks ago will be ready for us to make love potions. I figure if enough of us do this, they have to make it a priority (not the promotions...lol) REPOST if you agree!!

Zynga wrote me back and said they gave me 30 love potions, which I did not get. But I am sure they will make good. See below: (Click to enlarge)