What is Farmville

Farmville is a social network game where users create farms which raise animals and harvest crops. Farmville was created by Zynga which is the number one game developer for Facebook. Farmville is similar to games such as Harvest Moon (Nintendo DS), Cityville (Facebook), and Ranch Rush (PC). Farmville requires the user to plow land; plant, grow, and harvest crops, trees, and bushes; and raise livestock. Farmville cash is earned by leveling up or completing offers, or purchased for real money. The purpose of Farmville is to earn money and land by raising the most crops and livestock.

Farmville is available as an Adobe Flash application via the social-networking website Facebook and Microsoft's MSN Games system, and as an app for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. It is currently the most popular application on Facebook, with ten percent of all users playing. The game is free to download and play, but the user can buy premium content within the game using Farmville Cash.

How to Play Farmville

In order to play Farmville you must have a Facebook account. Once you have a registered Facebook account you can search for "Farmville" in the search box at the top of the page to access the game.

The first thing you have to do in the Farmville game is create a character. You can change the character's features at any time, so if you're in a rush you can create a Farmville character quickly and move on to play the game. Farmville is a real time game, so if a crop takes 4 hours to harvest, it takes four real hours to harvest.

Farmville is a social-networking game and as such requires users to interact with their friends' farms. Visiting and helping out on your friends' Farmville farms will earn you extra Farmville XP and Farmville coins. You can also send and receive gifts in Farmville with your neighbors and friends. Farmville constantly adds new gifts and specials to their Farmville Store.

Tips for Earning More Farmville XP, Ribbons, and Cash

Following the rules in Farmville will take you months to get to higher levels, so utilize these Farmville tips, cheats, and codes to get more Farmville Cash and XP quickly:

  • How to speed up plowing in Farmville: To speed up plowing in Farmville block the Farmville avatar with signs or fences in the middle of the farm.
  • Farmville Tend Cheat – by visiting and tending to your neighbor's farms you will earn additional Farmville XP and Cash
  • Farmville Gifting Cheat – normally Farmville will only allow people to send one gift every four hours, with the Farmville Gifting Cheat you can bypass that wall.
  • How to Get the Good Samaritan Ribbon faster – This Farmville cheat will help you get the Good Samaritan ribbon faster. In order to get the Good Samaritan Ribbon you have to help neighbors, but that can be a slow and tedious process. Click on the neighbor to help them, but before the confirmation window pops up you must click their icon again as fast as you can and you may be able to help them up to 5 times all at once.
  • How to Get the Pretty Garden Ribbon faster – This Farmville cheat will help you get the Pretty Garden Ribbon. The fastest way to do get the Pretty Garden Ribbon is to purchase a garden shed for 30,000 Farmville Coins, which comes with 10 flowers, place them on the farm and then sell the shed. Repeat this process until you have 50 flowers. Doing this will also earn you more Farmville XP points.
  • How to Get Free Cows in Farmville – In order to get free cows in Farmville you will need to have at least 1 cow already in your gift box in order to do this cheat. Buy a dairy farm and place the cow from the gift box directly into the dairy farm (not anywhere else). Then return to the giftbox and there will still be a cow there. Repeat this until you have as many cows as you want.

Top 10 Farmville Crop Profits

1. Asparagus – 183 coins every 24 hours
2. Peas – 176 coins every 24 hours
3. Tomatoes – 174 coins every 24 hours
4. Green Tea – 170.4 coins every 24 hours
5. Grapes – 170 coins every 24 hours
6. Onion – 166 coins every 24 hours
7. Sunflowers – 165 coins every 24 hours
8. Sugar Cane – 165 coins every 24 hours
9. Ghost Chili – 164 coins every 24 hours
10. Coffee/Blackberries – 162 coins every 24 hours

Farmville Cheats and Tricks

The Best Way to Level Up in Farmville

You can earn more Farmville XP by buying bales of hay. Spend your money on nothing but 100 coin hay bales.

How to Get Free Farmville Coins

You can get free Farmville coins when plowing when you see a potato-like object fall from the sky. You must be plowing in Farmville to get these coins.

How to Earn Extra Money from Chickens

You will need a chicken coop in order to earn extra Farmville cash from chickens. Wait until the chickens in the chicken coop are ready then the chickens that are outside of the coop are ready. Harvest the chickens in the coop and then remove them. Put the other chickens into the coop and then the coop should be ready to harvest again, almost immediately.

How to Gift Exclusive Gifts in Farmville

You can't actually gift Exclusive Farmville Gifts in Facebook. You have to go the official Farmville website and connect with Facebook. Once you've connected your account to the Farmville website, select the Gifts tab and scroll down to the Exclusive Gifts section. From here you'll be able to send Exclusive Farmville Gifts.

How to Unlock Seeds Outside of Your Level

You can unlock seeds from other levels for two hours at a time. The seeds will not be free, but you will have access to crops that will help you earn additional ribbons, XP, and cash. Here’s how you can unlock the seeds outside of your level:

  • 1. Go to one of your friends PROFILE page.
  • 2. Check to see if they are giving away things, like animals, bushels, etc. If you see a bushel thing click "Get A Bushel."
  • 3. Click "Yes" when the page pops up.
  • 4. It might say "You don't have anywhere to store this, would you like a FREE Market Stall?" Click Accept.
  • 5. There you have a market stall. It will be in your gifts. Go back to Gifts.
  • 6. Then press "Use" and put in somewhere on your farm.
  • 7. Click on the stall, and select "Farmer's Market."
  • 8. This page will pop up saying "My Market Stall," and there are little tabs on the left. They say things like, My Bushels, My Stall, and Get Bushels. Press Get Bushels.
  • 9. Now there are different kinds of bushels. Press "All" or a certain group if you'd like.
  • 10. Press "Select" on any bushel you want.
  • 11. Then you might see someone's name pop up in a box with "Time Left: [that person’s name]" under it. It also says "Select" under it.
  • 12. Press Select, then Take one. It lets you take up to 3 a day.
  • 13. Then "Leave Stall" and go to different bushel groups and repeat steps 10-13
  • 14. When you're done with getting all bushels you want, press "My Bushels" on the left.
  • 15. All the bushels you collected will pop up. Press "Use".
  • 16. Now it will say "You have temporary license to plant [bushel name]. It expires in 2 hours." Click "Accept."
  • 17. Now close the farmer's market out.
  • 18. Go to the Market where you buy items. Go to the Seeds section.
  • 19. Click the arrow until you find the bushel seed you unlocked.
  • 20. Press Buy and plant away