This page was updated July 22 2010

This is Not an Official Farm Town Site

I have been getting emails from people who seem to be under the impression that I am on the development team. Just for the record I am just another Farm Town farmer, I have no contact with anyone on the development team, and this is not an Official Farm Town web site. I put this site together to help all of us learn how to play the game as best we can. I don't mind answering questions if I have the answer or can find one, if not I will still try to reply.

Farm Report has been upgraded with some new features. If you don't already have this tool you should check it out. Farm Report is a stand alone application which will alert you when your crops are ready. This tool takes my harvest time calculator to the next level. I use it on a daily basis to know when my crops are ready for harvest.

After months of redesigning the Farm Manager for FarmVille I now have time to get back to Farm Town. First I will be gathering all the new data for the game and compile it into a master spreadsheet then I will begin to rebuild the Farm Manager for Farm Town with the new design. The new design concept is to make the Farm Manager easy to update and keep current with the game without the need of downloading a new copy each time the game is upgraded or enhanced. I will update the tables on the site as I collect new data for the game.

I would like to thank Mike for sending the data on fish to fill in the blanks. I still do not have data for the Walleye and Northern Pike, however the developers are usually consistant so for now I have given those the same numbers as the first two fish in each other body of water.

New Upgrade July 16th.

Two new facilities, two new seeds, a new tool, a fifth farm is available, you can now harvest from Turkeys, and a feature added. The Edit Mode tool in the tool box allows you to move things on the farm much easier. The slowing issue with chopping trees has been improved some, they are still working on a complete fix.

New Upgrade July 10th.

Some new features were added and some old bugs fixed. You can choose to Buy One or Buy Multiple of items in the store sold for coins less than 50,000. There are 6 new paths and 2 new roads, the Asphalt Path is now a road. There is a new Sidewalk Path and corner, Sand Patches, and new decorations on the gifts page. More items can now be rotated.

New Upgrade July 4th.

Four new facilities added a little behind schedule. Ten new levels all with decorations and buildings for coins, there are now 100 levels in the game. New paths with corners, one has not been released so far. Much to my surprise there were no new items for the Fourth of July, the Father's Day items were still in the store at noon on July 4.

New Upgrade July 1st.

New features added, there is now an Axe tool found with the watering can and fishing pole used to chop trees for logs, you can start 10 batches at a time with a new button on the facilities window, there is a drop down box in the window at the marketplace to filter items by category. The logs will be used in a new facility which should be released sometime July 2nd. along with new levels and paths. There are already new ground types in the Paths category. The Oak tree has been changed from harvesting acorns to chopping for logs along with the Pine, Bamboo, and Cinnamon trees. Trees can be chopped in 12 hours and regrow overnight. A new seed, Tea was added and I also expect to see a new theme added for the 4th of July.

New Upgrade June 18th.

A new theme for Father's Day with Limited Edition decorations and gifts. Four new facilities for production, I am still gathering data on these what I do have is posted on the Farm Facts page. Unwanted gifts can now be traded, the Mayor will offer other gift choices. Animals can be moved to other farms using the Storage Bin. Animals can now be moved into buildings, facilities, and decorations.

The harvesting facilities will harvest all the animals inside and outside of the building for each type of animal it harvests from.
Placing animals inside allows for leaving some out and not needing to freeze them to help with the game speed. This way you can still have some animals visible on the farm and they can move without slowing things down.

New Upgrade June 7th.

This update added 10 new levels to the game, I have the data posted on the Game Data page. New items added inclued 7 Buildings, 4 Facilities, 25 Decorations, 3 Seeds, and 1 Tree.

You can now hire farmers to fish at your farm and harvest flowers. When a farmer harvests or fishes for you they now also get a share of the harvest which goes directly into their storage bin. This additional compensation comes from the Farm Town Mayor and does not reduce your harvest amounts.

Your neighbor will publish a notice asking for others to work at their facilities. When you take the link it will load their farm and you will see a message stating you will receive 20% of all the goods completed and 3 XP for each type worked on. The goods are added directly into your storage bin, you can then use them for your facilities or sell them at the Marketplace.

New Upgrade May 28th.

You can now purchase Farm Four, however this one gets expensive and you must pruchase Farm Three first. The 12x12 is 4,000,000 or 40 Farm Cash by the time you get to the 24x24 the cost will be 75,000,000 coins or 160 Farm Cash.
The storage capacity has been increased when it is close to full you will see a message to let you know. The scrolling has been changed in the window when selling items at the Marketplace, it no longer scrolls to the top making it easier to sell items.
The Sea Coasts can now be used on either side of the side of the farm now. There is another Farm Cash Offer for anyone who would like to submit a graphic image to be used in the game you can get 100 Farm Cash if one is accepted for use.

New Upgrade May 21st.

This latest upgrade to the game brings many new items. There are new Facilities, products, tools, bodies of water, types of fish, you can now harvest flowers and some annoyances and bugs have been fixed. You should only see the Mayor bug you to send gifts only twice a day now, this is a good fix since it really bugged me. Now that we can harvest flowers and sell or use some for producing flower boquets the cost, sell prices, and levels have changed for the flowers. The existing tables have been updated, a new one for harvesting flowers, and new fish added. I am still in the process of digging up the data on the new fish and production items; any help with this is always appreciated.

New Upgrade May 9th.

The Watermill now produces Corn Flour and has been moved from Buildings to Facilities. There are three more new Facilities available for production. You can now catch Walleye and Northern Pike in the Frozen Lake which is available in the store again. You can now ask friends and relatives to buy and send Farm Cash items as gifts on special occasions using a new Send Button on the items in the Store. There is now a '?' icon at the Market Place to identify items that can be used for production.

New Upgrade April 28th.

You can now fish at your farm in the ponds, lakes and rivers using the Fishing Rod in the tools menu (below the watering can).
If you had already water items in your farms, your fish should be grown so you can start fishing right away. If you just purchased a water item, then you will have to wait for the fish to grow.
To fish, just select the Fishing Rod and start clicking on the water. You will see the the type of fish caught and the count decreasing as you catch fish.

There is now a limit the amount of products you can have producing at the same time on each facility.

In the storage, there is now a '?' button next to each product that can be used as ingredient for other products.

New Upgrade April 20th.

There is help system now available in the game for people that don't understand how to operate the facilities and harvesting animals. You can find the help by:
Click on the facility and select Help from the Menu
Click on the Help button on the Facility window
Click on the Help button on the Facility Tab on the Store

The Semi-Trailer Truck has been moved from the Decoration category to the Tools category, this truck will now allow you to order products that can not be produced on the farm like Ham and Pepperoni.
The truck consumes fuel to operate, and it works similar to the facilities.

New Upgrade April 13th.

You can now send several ingredients to your friends as gifts for them to use in their facilities, which includes eggs, milk, chocolate liquor, ham, pepperoni, sugar, flour and boxes with different fruits.
Several items on the gift page have been moved to the store as permanent items for purchase.
Increased productivity of the Chocolate Liquor Facility from 20 to 40 units per hour.
Each Fuel tank you receive as gift has been increased to 300 Fuel units.
When you send flowers as gifts to friends they comes now in batches of 5.

New Upgrade March 30th

New Facilities added to the game.

New Upgrade March 26th.

Five new seeds, a Bamboo Tree, Easter items, and an enhancement to the facilities to produce faster.

New Upgrade March 19th.

There is now a new section in the store, Facilities. Facilities produce food items from harvests on the farm. At this time only one functional facility allowed on the farm, you may have others as decorations however they must be the same type as the one that is functional. These new facilities have two menus, one which has a choice of what to produce and another for the status of production. They are listed below with the capabilities and needs of each. Cows and goats can now be harvested every eight hours to allow storage of more milk for production.

New Upgrade March 4th.

New levels added, now the top is level 80. There are new buildings, decorations, topiaries, trees, and gifts. St. Patrick's Day Theme has been added with new items.

New Upgrade Feb 20th.

I have added a new table to the crops page for the harvestable animals.

New Functional Buildings
The existing Chicken Coop allows you to harvest the eggs of the hens and geese and sell the eggs at the marketplace. The Hen is a new animal that your friends can send you as a gift. You can harvest them once every day. There was mention about the chicks growing into hens last year, that feature may still be introduced at a later date.
The new Wool Shed allows you to harvest the wool of the sheep and llamas and sell the wool at the marketplace. You can harvest them once every 2 days.
The new Dairy Shed allows you to harvest the milk of the cows and goats and sell the milk at the marketplace. You can harvest them once every 3 days.
You just need to click on the building and select the harvest option.

The Dairy Shed is now available at level 27.
A new Stone Cabin has been added available at level 49.
The storage capacity has been increased, you can store 5 additional items for each neighbor you have.

Christmas Items Are Available

Valentine's is here with 18 new items are available in the store, and 15 new gifts. You can find the data on the facts and game data pages. The new game speed seems to have made hired harvesting about 70% faster.

It is going to be a big Christmas on Farm Town with 6 new gifts and 39 decorations 8 which have two types of the same item for a total of 52. Some of the Thanksgiving decorations have been changed and added to the decorations at the store.

New Upgrade Nov 28th.

You can now buy a second farm, the first is available at level 44 for 3,000,000 coins or can be purchased with 120 farm cash. The first farm starts with the 12x12 size and all the upgrades will be available for future purchase. Everything is shared between farms: neighbours, coins, cash, xp, trophies, and for now items can be transferred using storage until a better system is put into place. You can now place trees into storage and transfer to the new farm.
To switch between farms there will be new farm selector tool on the top left close to the coins, I have not seen this yet so I imagine you need to purchase the 2nd farm first. You will also get an option to choose which farm hired workers will go to when hired, if you want them to work on both farms they will need to be rehired for the next job.
The new holiday items will be arriving this week, after that they are going to concentrate on fixing bugs and issues.

New Upgrade Nov 20th.

I was just hours away from releasing a new version of Farm Manager, I know what I will be doing this weekend.
I have little to no new information on all of the changes, any and all help on updates are greatly appreciated.
Keep in mind with new upgrades come new problems and glitches with the game, bear with them, they will get them fixed.
There has been one glitch so far with the levels changing back to the previous level number when visiting other farms then returning to the new number when returning to your farm. They think this has been fixed.

I will be posting all the new data as soon as possible after finding and verifying it all.

We Now Have Storage

The Latest Farm Town Message Scam

Attention: 3 new seeds to plant!!!!keep in mind that these seeds will give you 8 exp every time you plant or plow,and if you think thats it u got another thing coming these super seeds are ready to harvest in 1 hour!!!Hurry the first 1000 farmers to send this to 15 buddies on their buddy list will have these super seeds for their farm!!!!

The New Tools Are Here!

They have released the new farm tools, the Small Harvester, Big Harvester, Solar Powered Plowing Tractor, Small Seeder, and Big Seeder. I bought one of each and crammed them where I could squeeze them in for now. I can see a new farm design is in order to make room for all my new toys.
The harvest tool now shows the small and large harvesters much like the plow tool shows the different size plows available, you need to purchase them before you can use them. When you purchase the tools a fuel can appears on the top left of your game screen below the coins and farm cash, it show how much fuel you have in the tank. You can harvest 2 fields with the small and 4 fields with the large harvester. You need fuel for these and the seeder as well, there is a new place on the map, "The Fuel Station", you can refuel once a day it gives units based on criteria on the status bars. There is a status bar for your level, your neighbors, friends helped, active neighbors, and fuel from friends with meters next to each showing how much you get for each. The message at the bottom reads you can refuel once per day and how long before you can refuel. When you click on the Fuel Station icon, a fuel tank, it opens a window like the store does you do not leave your farm, you need to click the refuel button at the bottom before the fuel is added to your can. When you click on one of the seeders and choose Plant Seeds from the menu it opens the store with the seed catagory for you.

The function for tending visiting and tending neighbors does not seem to be working correcty, I visited and tended 24 farms and only got credit for 10.
Some are already asking if these tools can be used on other farms, I have not heard if this can be done or not. Also if you own the tools and hire someone to work on your farm who does not have them can they use yours? I'm sure the answer to these questions will come soon.
If you have any additional information please send it to me and I will post it here.
I took some of the tools for a test drive on the Myspace farm. The harvester will do 1 to 4 fields depending on what you select, you get the same message as when using the single harvest tool. The plowing tractor works like the plow tools with the exception of you need to click on the tractor and choose plow from the menu. The first try on MySpace they seemed to work however when I returned from the market the fields were back to ready, this morning I tried a few fields again with the same results. I then tried my farm on Facebook and they seem to work fine there, I used everyone just to give them a run.

Possible Phishing Scam on Farm Town

There is a post in the forum in regards to a message asking for personal information such as bank account numbers, passwords, or other confidential information. Farm Town and FaceBook will never ask you for this information. Do not give outh this information unless you are on a secure and trusted site. Sites like Paypal will ask for this information but only on an encrypted secure server.

Help Stop the Madness!

The chain hoax messages are running rampant on Farm Town. The hacker message is one of the oldest on the internet. The newest one is about Farm Town celebrating 1,000,000 players and doubling your coins. If this were true there would be an official notice from the developers on this.
If you get one of these please reply letting the sender know this is a hoax and ask them to stop sending the message.
More information on these messages can be found on the Farm Town Forum or at snopes.com

There is now a Black Cat in the gifts, how long it will stay is not known, it may just be for Halloween.

Gifting Issues

The devs have confirmed there is an issue with sending and receiving gifts on MySpace. They are working with MySpace to rectify the issue, there is no time frame for when this will be fixed. For now I suggest leaving the gifts in your inbox and wait to accept them after this has been fixed.
Facebook seems to have two gifting issues. The first is being told you have no more gifts left to send for the day and the second is the name list coming up blank. A workaround for this is to go to your neighbors tab and send gifts from there, or click on your neighbor on the neighbors bar and choose send gift. You can only send one at a time this way however you should be able to send gifts this way.

Waterfalls

I have been asked many times about how to make waterfalls on Farm Town, here is a list to learn how to make them.
Forum Threads
How to make waterfalls and other illusions
Realistic waterfalls and lakes
Websites
Build a waterfall
You Tube Search for Farm Town waterfalls, there must be close to a hundred videos there.

Hiring to Plow

There are several advantages you should take advantage of by hiring others to plow your fields. Firstly you get all of your XP for the fields being plowed without the work, the people hired also get XP for doing the work. Secondly you save coins by doing this, hiring someone from the Market Place or a hired harvester saves 5 coins per field plowed with the cost being only 15 coins per field. Hiring a neighbor gives a greater saving with a cost of 10 coins per field, a savings of 10 coins per field plowed.

What Is New With Farm Town

A new release started on Oct. 7th. There are some new Halloween items for gifting, some new flags, all crates, boxes, and barrels have been moved to a new "Container" catagory at the store. There are now 9 different colored crates and 3 new colored bins.
Until everone has the new release there will be issues with visibility in some of the rooms and with neighbors. There may also be hiring issues while the new release is being rolled out, bear with it, things will get better. Harvesting for others should be sped up with crops being queued like fields being plowed. The data I have at this time has been added to the facts page with a new table for containers and the seasonal items.

New gifts and new items for gifting! You can now send the fence and hedge (either direction), a brown scarecrow, pink hammock, crate and pink crate (different type from the ones at the store), a green bin, and new topiary hedges, a spiral and a dolphin.

Farm Town now has Farm Cash which can be purchased or slowly earned. Each player gets five cash to begin with and one each time a new level is achieved. The last update added your Farm Cash for your level at the time of the update eg: level 34 will receive 33 FC. Buildings and some items can now be rotated, well kind of. Click on the building and you will see Rotate on the Menu. Choosing Rotate brings up a window with a choice of directions. Barns and houses can now face the opposite direction. This is a good improvement for changing the design of the farm. The Go Home button now displays a confirmation window before taking you back to your farm. This should be a big help for those accidently clicking Home while harvesting for others. There are a bunch of new decorations, a lake, and topiary bushes. There are also some fixes and improvements with the game (the rooster walks forward now). The store now displays how many XP is earned for the purchase, a couple of the fixes caused problems with parts of the game and were rolled back for now.
Soon to come will be more levels, crops, and land, perhaps then we will get an answer to the Red Crocus being locked from gifting. The devs are assessing the impact on the servers with adding more land and levels before implementing these.

The latest release has caused some communication issues with the servers. Those who are not on the same release will have problems with chat, not seeing names, and hiring to harvest and plow. These are temporary issues and will be resolved when everyone is playing on the same release. Until then you may need to plow and harvest your own crops. The developers have added some new features which help a great deal with self harvesting. You now get a pop up asking if you want to remember the option chose for the session, this allows harvesting with a single click. The targeting is improved, fields and items highlight with a yellow outline. Fields are easier and faster to plant now.
Some crops seem to go to waste prematurely and after the wasted fields are plowed over they will return to the wasted state when the farm is refreshed. Some have reported being able to harvest the wasted crops, they did not get the option to harvest an place in storage. This happened to my farm on MySpace, after plowing over the wasted fields and replanting when the farm was reloaded the fields returned to the wasted state. I deleted the fields and the newly plowed and planted fields appeared below. This must be a glitch associated with the new release and should be fixed soon.

Farm Addicts News

I am still trying to catch up with things after getting moved last week. There are over 300 emails to go through and it seems the send mail program is down again. I will respond to emails ASAP, for the more common questions I will post them on the site. In the near future I will be moving the site to a different server increasing the bandwidth and hopefully speed things up.

A Big Welcome to the new players from My Space!
There are some minor differences in how the game works on My Space and Face Book. On My Space gifts are received through the Inbox, open the mail and click next to receive the gift. Gifts can not be sent from the neighbor bar on the game on My Space. My Space players can not link their farm to the SlashKey Forum and the auto link function on the Farm Manager will not work for My Space users. Everything else seems to be the same including the beggars and spammers everywhere.

This is where you will find information and tools to use with Farm Town. The Farm Manager spread sheet is available for download in a zip file in three versions of Microsoft Excel, Office 2000, Office 97, and
Office97 & 5.0/95. I have updated the sheets with the new crops the Excel 5.0 version would not downgrade this time. While building a new Farm Manager for Farmville I came up with some better ways of calculating some things. I am going to rebuild the Farm Manager from scratch with all the new fixes in Excel 5.0 then bring it up from there to the higher versions. I have just updated the facts page with the new crop information available so far I have moved the crops and trees to a new page to help with the load time. When animals begin producing harvests I will move them to the new page also. I have also made a separate table for the trees and flowers including the information for Pine and Palm trees. We are all still waiting for the flowers to be released, at this time the data is not complete for them.

This is what my friend and neighbor Shel had to say after having a look at the Farm Manager

"Hey Uncle Joe! I looked at your spreadsheet - BEAUTIFUL!
It is clear, concise, easily readable - well done!
I haven't started inputting, but I like what I see.
I really am impressed with the visual presentation - no fuss, no filler, nothing to distract...
but everything you want to see is there.
Again, well done."

This I got in an email from neighbor Farmer Snowbird

Uncle Joe ... I pass my crown to you. You most assuredly are the Farm Town Addict of the century. OMG ... ! LOL What an amazing spreadsheet you did. Farmer Snowbird

Three day crops is a collection of screen shots from the test run, you can see the progress and the changes I made to the farm during the process just to throw some wrenches in the works for further testing. Special thanks to my daughters Dawn (Delta Dawn) and Tracy (not on Farm Town) for their help in debugging, my friend and neighbor Shel for her idea on adding the feature to track how many coins are needed for the next land size upgrade. To view the test images take this link Farm Manager Test Images.

I have come up with a set of online calculators for crops

Crop Calculator Place your field amounts into the form and it will calculate what the harvest is worth.

Harvest Time Calculator Choose your crop, how much it has grown, what your hour of day is, and the day. It will calculate when to expect the crop to be ready for harvest.

Harvest Party Calculator Select the day and hour of your harvest party it will tell you when you need to have the crops planted for them all to be ready for you.

Trade Calculator Add your crops and the crops you are trading for and it will calculate the totals and difference so you can make better trades.

Farm Town Facts is a collection of data I obtained from the Farm Town Forum and playing the game. As more information is found I will update the tables and as Farm Town changes with new releases I will try to keep up with that also. There is a new release expected the second week of June. The flowers will be released along with new items, animals, and buildings.

Tips and tricks are ideas I picked up by playing the game and sent in by visitors to the site. The FAQ page has mostly questions and answers you will not find on the Farm Town FAQ with some of the more common questions asked in the forums. Farm Town Resources is a central location for game resources. Other spreadsheets, calculators, and forum links.

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