Farmville 2: Thanksgivingpalooza!

Fall Content Updates

A ton of new content was dropped within the past week in Farmville 2. I'll examine in greater detail over the next few days the specific pros/cons and quest tasks. In terms of new, limited-time items to purchase in the General Store, there are new plants, animals, trees, and decorations. The vast majority of these new items require real-cash Farm Bucks, so I won't discuss those items in any detail, as this blog is primarily dedicated to the free game experience.



Plants:

• Parsnips 

 Animals:

• 4 Types of Birds (2 Chickens/2 Turkeys). All require Farm Bucks. Blech.

Trees:

• 2 Types (1 only type, the Plum Tree, yields fruit for crafting). Both require Farm Bucks. Blech times two.

 Quests:

• L'il Rebel Turkey: rewards 1 Baby Turkey upon completion.
• Turkey Calls: contains 6 sub-quests. A turkey is required as part of one of the quest tasks, so completion of L'il Rebel Turkey beforehand is vital.
• Feast Table: mostly requires friends to supply building materials/sweat equity for construction to complete, although there is a food crafting sub-quest in the middle that will require strawberries, so start planting now. Once the Table is completed, you then invite four 4 friends to 5 different feasts. The rewards are pretty good for each successful feast you hold, so make this a high priority on your 'To-Do' list. 

And, that's it in a nutshell. Happy Farming to all!

Farmville 2: It's Like A Circus!

Bread & Circuses, Actually

 

After powering through the quest wasteland that was level 15 in Farmville 2, I finally got some new quests, which revolved around preparing for a circus (I think - I'm not one for back-story in FV2, when there's precious crops and animals at stake). Anyways...these quest were pretty straightforward, until I got to the the 3rd in the "Circus" series. It required 3 Cheddar Loafs. Sounds pretty simple, eh? Well, there's 2 problems with said Loaf:

1. You need Salt (which you can't make)
2. You need need Cheese (which you might be out of)

If you're playing FV2 via Zynga.com, it should be relatively easy to obtain Salt via requests. Cheese, however, is another matter. It's a rare drop from Cows/Goats, and since you had to last purchase said livestock, they might have evolved into "Prized" animals, which no longer drop any produce, aside from XP and coins. So, it's Baby Bottle and Feed time once again to raise them into productive members of the farming community. So, take it with a grain of Salt, but if you stock up on your cheese-dropping barnyard critters, and you can (Cheez) wiz through this quest quickly. See what I did there? Funny stuff.