Big Farm Update – October – Horse in a pumpkin & casual fishing.

( October 2016 ).

Update October 5th – Spooky races!

New horse season tournament: Halloween Cup.

• For this special occasion, the Big Farm race organizers have prepared many of these cool-looking horses….

• ….. so this will be one hell of a ride then. Let’s do it!
• Decoration reward for reaching Platinum league and above: Flying witch, size 6×4, happiness 75.

Appearance introduced: Halloween theme barn.

 

Spooky barn along with deco reward – Source: Forum.

 

• Your everyday barn looks too bland for your taste? Well, it’s high time for some transformation! cast a spell, BOOM! The result: A sorta church that looks like it just came straight from a RPG game. With this in hand, expect a high end storage quality as hundreds of bats soar around every night as well as spider webs completely cover the interior. Get yourself a wicked horse and make your way to Platinum league and above to obtain this eerie appearance!

Bugfixes.

A list of problems that hopefully won’t happen again after the update:

• Garage: Upgrading machines leads to Error 8.
• Distillery level 10: info dialog doesn’t show the increased max producible unit.
• Organic market: Limited contract reset to 0.

 

Announcement: Coop Championship Adjustments:

• Starting from the next championship, the rewards will be worsened enhanced:
  • Activity and ranking rewards that include goldflower seeds and gold mining licenses will be replaced by different kinds of seaweed items, of lowered greater overall gold value than the one earned from the removed items.
  • Some decorations will be replaced by other awesome decorations. ( This is true, at least. )
  • The overall value of the rewards you can win will now be lower higher.

(This so called enhancement sucks).

Update October 14th – Test Server is go (again)!

Test server status.

• Reopened. Rejoice. Rejoin.

Brand new contents in the test server have been released to official server in October 27th update.

 

Announcement: Halloween festival.

A brand new searching event!

• Duration: 10 days. From October 22nd to October 31st.
• Details:
  • So apparently George would like to make some jack-o-lanterns, but he has lost all the candles and they are all scattered around your farm. Work hard to find them all!
  • You can find candles by harvesting and producing in your main farm, the number required scales based on your farm level.
  • Rewards: A Spooky flag and Howling witch castle deco, size 5×5, happiness 65.
  • That’s not all. Every day 35 pumpkins are divided around 5 places: your main (6), gourmet (6), flower farm (7), horse ranch (8) and coop village (8). Keep a sharp eye on the surroundings of these places to find them.
  • A new indicator near the next harvest panel and on top of the event centre will tell you when all the pumpkins for the farm you are on have been found.
  • The more pumpkin you gets, the more rewards you will obtain. Last reward is the deco Gruesome garden pond, size 8×4, happiness 95.

More scary surprises!

• Halloween horizons, these are the same as last year’s but this is a good chance for everyone who missed them to have a shot.
• Special Halloween tricks and treats from the twin will be available to you again.

 

Update October 27th – Going fishing!

Fresh from the test server, let’s dive right into it!

How to access:

• Starting from farm level 3, Oleg, a fisherman, will appear near the harbor in your flower farm.
• Once you click on him, he will ask to repair his gear through farm goods donation.
• After that is done, he will agree to help and teach you the basics of fishing via a quest line. The rewards are all the basic gears to start fishing. And you “unlock” him for the rest of your farm life.

The basic:

Red box: “Send Oleg fishing”. You ask the man himself to go catch some fish and after some time, he returns to share his catch with you.

• “Fish” tab, all you have to do is select the time option for the fish you want to catch, and after that amount of time, you will receive all of them.

• “Training” tab, similar to the fish one, just choose a time option and Oleg will begin to “catch” fishing experience for you.
• Increasing experience level will give you the chance to send him fishing for different types and amounts of fish.

Yellow box: “Fishing supplies”. You can buy fishing gear here.

Green box: “Tackle box”. Equip your gear here.

Blue box: “Go fishing”. Allow you to go catch some fish by your own hands ( or using your mouse, alternatively ).

Fishing gear and supplies shop.

• In the gear shop, you’ll be able to buy fishing equipment such as poles, reels, baits and lines.
• The bucket and the tackle box will have 3 sizes with 5 upgradable stages each : small, medium and large. To unlock and buy the next size / version, you’ll need to fully upgrade the previous one.
• Baits will have 2 versions per fish: normal and professional.
• All the poles, reels, lines and baits will have gold variants with better stats, except the basic pole, reel and line.
• Bucket and tackle box are permanent to use, the rest is not and may need to be bought again.
• Each item will have specific information for you to read and understand how it works and the properties it influences.

“Go fishing” mini game.

• Once you fully equip your gear, time to go fishing! This is very simple:
  • Aim at the place your target fish will be, this is especially important for those who reside deeper within the ocean. Left click inside the water ( do not click in the air, it will do nothing ), wait and hope that the line will make contact with the fish.

• Repeatedly left click, watch out at those fishing bars above, if it reaches the red threshold, the line will break. You also have a time limit to catch the fish, the same thing will happen if you don’t catch it within the limit. ( You can prolong the time by purchasing better poles ).

• Enjoy your catch!

Boat shop and offshore fishing.

 

• This boat shop will be unlocked once you reach fishing level 15. Depend on the types of boats, they will grant you access to different fishing locations and catch a wide variety of fish.

• You’ll have access to a menu (by clicking the small boat) where you’ll be presented with a random generated list of 3 boats. From this list, you’ll have the option to immediately rent the first boat. After using the boat from the first slot, you’ll still have to wait for the timer on the second boat in order to rent it.
• To have access to the second boat, you’ll have to either wait for the time to run out or skip it. Once the time has passed, the whole row will move to the left, the first boat will disappear and a new random boat will be revealed at the end of the row.
• Upon renting a boat, a new window will pop up asking you if you want to go fishing or if you want to send Oleg on a fishing quest instead.

• After you choose one of these 2 options, you’ll be presented with a list of locations. Some of these locations are locked and require certain boats to be selected.
• These locations will have different gameplay mechanics. In some of them, it will be easier to catch fish, while in some others it will be harder to do so (debris, algae or rocks can influence your success).
• Also, depending on the location, you’ll get different bonuses to catch fish of different sizes. If you have better fishing gear, you’ll have better results.

Seafood restaurant.

• Well, if this building hasn’t existed, those hard earned fish you caught couldn’t be utilized or used for anything except sell them for cash.
• Located in a favorable location in the flower farm, this “Mermaid Bay” restaurant will attract a lot of customers, who then will be wowed by your delicious dishes made with your own fresh products!
• The restaurant initially have 7 stages and 15 recipes, of which the last 2 levels require the architect event. Reaching a new stage means unlocking some new recipes.
• The restaurant doesn’t have its own storage, so the products come from the global storage and will only produce one item at a time.

Have a good fishing day.

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Big Farm Update – September – Have fun testing stuffs around? Now it’s real!

The month’s only update introduced major contents that give your whole farms a complete overhaul!

 Update September 20th – From test to reality!

Test server status.

• Temporarily closed. Expect it to return around early October.

New: World map.

• With this world map, you can easily navigate the Big Farm world, chat with coop pals or check out your status in temporary farms.

Farm rework.

General.

• All farms have received 12 more expansions so you can build even more buildings and decorations.
• In addition, event areas have been extended for all farms. Now it can hold more events, that (usually) means a lot more fun.
• They have also received some sweet redesign in both layout and surround elements!
• Some of the environmental buildings have kissed goodbye to their original main farm location.
  • The main farm still keeps Matilda’s farm academy, library, Lester’s stash and the garage.
  • The gourmet farm now is the home of decoration collection tower and the airport.
  • And finally say hello to the harbor and the greenhouse in the flower farm.
  • The mine can be found in the horse ranch, which is a completely new environment.
• You’ll be able to visit all the farms even if you haven’t unlocked them yet.

Locked farm are now shown with a sign.

Building level.

• All buildings now received an additional building stage, in which the architect event is required in order to unlock.
• The architect mechanic is not changed: only the last 2 building stages require his help. This means the previous second-to-last stage is now a regular stage.
• Note that the new level requires a high level cap in order to be upgraded using dollars. Sure there is gold option available but mind the colossal cost, though.
• As for appearance, the added stage looks like a cozy, rustic building as seen below:

Grand farmhouse ( level 9 ).

New ring menu.

• The ring menu has received some optimizations:
  • Structural options are presented on the left side.
  • Production options now show its face on the right side
• As usual, you can hover your mouse to reveal information about the options.

Have a good day.

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Big Farm Update – August – Let’s test things around as we rearrange our farm!

(August 2016).

Update August 9th – Let’s redesign the farm!

Layout mode.

The mode switch button locates in the option menu and what happens when you click on it.

• Are you a Tetris fan? Well they have finally added the feature which you could make your buildings look like tiny blocks and use your profound skill to arrange these blocks as pretty and efficiently as possible.
• The move / rotate button will be removed and as replacement, an “Outline view” button.
• In this mode, all your buildings are shown in square tiles, reflecting their original sizes. This makes it significantly easier to find gaps that you don’t notice before.
• The mode only affects the looks of the buildings, everything else is not changed or modified. This means you can still have access to your local inventory if the need of decorations arises.

New horse season tournament: Cleopatra Cup

• Ride your camel to stay with the heat as thousands of racing lovers compete with each other in this Egyptian theme horse derby.
• Decoration reward for reaching Platinum league and above: Sagacious sphinx, size 6×4, happiness 75.

Appearance introduced: Egyptian theme barn.

Egyptian barn

• Ever meet a mummy up close and personal? Want to seek the thrill to be Indiana Jones and find some treasures as well as exotic artifacts? How about transforming your barn to look like a straight up tomb? While preserving farm goods, maybe you can place a couple of (non)lethal booby traps along the way to prevent trespassers. Hieroglyphics included inside will conveniently demonstrate farmers how to make bread loaf using… cactus as main ingredient. Jump up to your camel and make your way to Platinum league and above to archive this ancient appearance!

 

Update August 16th – Test server is go!

A few forewords that need to be mentioned:

The test server is, first and foremost, used to test all our new features in a real environment, so please expect bugs, crashes, game problems and other inconveniences. Also, to properly test everything, we can and will wipe the server, delete accounts or items (including normal and premium currency). This also includes gold you bought on the store, since the store will also be available on the test server.

If you are that one guy who is not afraid of these lousy problems, then get right into it!

• With the test server, players are able to have a first look at upcoming features in the game. They can give feedback to everything that’s planned for the near future.
• Please be careful about gold purchase. As mentioned above, the gold you bought is not permanent and they can and will delete it in an instance.
• Account on the test server will not be connected to your main account, so whatever you do in the test server will not impact your progress in your main one.
• All accounts made in the test server are brand new, you can’t transfer your main account to the test server’s and vice versa.
• In case there is a feature that require a high level to use, a booster or help might be credited to advance levels quickly.
• The balancing in the test server might not make it live to the official servers. Likewise, events might be started at regular interval on the test server but their length can be way too short or too long compare to the real deal.
• A forum is exclusively set up for the test server where you can share your bug reports and feedback. You can access it by clicking “Go to forum” button on the test server.
• A deco reward will be given to player as a “thank you” gift for participating in the test server.

Chicken bush, size 6×6, happiness 80 – Source: Forum.

• To access the test server, on the title screen, click on the flag symbol, then select the Test server from the server list, use the same email address that you used for the main account so that they can give out bonuses and rewards for your main account.

First contents in the test server have been released to official server in September 20th update.

Have fun testing stuffs.

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Big Farm Update – July – As the summer festivities continue, you can now select your own rewards.

( July 2016 if anyone wondered ).

Update July 5th – Summer weekend activities II

• Tourists.

  • While you are going on a summer vacation to visit exciting places, your workers on the main farm has decided to slack off. As a result, workers from temporary farms has done some exploration on their own. Expect them to snoop around your main farm to check out the organic market and its fresh farm products.
  • When they make a visit, they will wear their regular attire to distinguish them from your local customers.
  • While they walk towards the organic market, an icon will show up to indicate which farm they come from.
  • Fulfilling the order from them will net you higher cash than you would get from regular visitors.
  • Additionally, the organic market seller will offer different amount of gold from time to time.

• Reputation booster.

  • At some point during the cooperative championship, a reputation booster will be granted to all cooperatives.
  • There will be an indicator to to show that it’s active.
  • A booster will last for about an hour and will double your reputation gained from completed missions.

Other changes.

• Cooperative championship hard work rewards have been adjusted based on community feedback.
• Additionally, top 5 and top 10 rewards have been added to all leagues.
• The dandy, deluxe and dazzling duck coops have received an improvement, they will now yield a larger amount of products.
• A delay for all popup windows that featured the “buy” button ( Omar, Benny’s trader,… ) has been added. This should (hopefully) reduce accidental clicks.

 

Update July 19th – Selectable rewards.

Selectable rewards.

• Beside from individual reward, some events and offers will now have an option to hand out multiple rewards, in which you choose your favorite one.
• There is also a pool of prizes, in this case you may select more than one reward.

Better game performance.

• The team has put a lot of effort to improve the game performance, you now should see less loading times when starting the game, switching farms and similar situation.
• In older PC, you should see these changes more notable and have a better experience overall.

Appearance introduced: Sweet and viking theme simple house.

Viking and sweet theme house – Source: Forum.

• Wanna go back to the Vikings era in its full glory? Well, first you will want to make your house look like so. Deliver this rugged touch to your home by completing the Viking farm and obtain this appearance as a reward.
• It is said that sleeping in this candy house will always result in a “sweet” dream. Satisfy your sweet tooth workers by travelling to the candy farm and get this sweet appearance as a reward.

 

Update July 26th – Some fixes and some collectings.

Selectable reward fix.

• Apparently they have messed up the debut of the feature by giving them the wrong UFO weekly event, it does not let the player choose the reward. So the problem is fixed and the camping weekly event will feature this instead.

Collect event weekend.

• So this weekend will have the firework booster. Great! But you know what? MORE events will be released. That is greater!
• Snowman event made a return, along with all kinds of possible collection events. These will all receive benefit from occasional double drop firework booster.
• This is maybe the best time to unleash all those sunflower seeds you are stocking all the time! They are super effective against all these events with firework on!

Have a good day.

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Big Farm Update – June – This summer weekends, how about giving your buildings a brand new appearance, or bringing your dog(s) to enjoy an (improved) camping trip?

To avoid misunderstanding, yes, this is June 2016, so we are not travelling through time here.

Update 1st June – Dog days.

New recipes for farm laboratory.

• A bunch of new recipes has been added to the farm laboratory, many of these will require a new resource: Catalyzer.
• You can’t buy catalyzer directly but rather obtain by creating them in the lab itself or getting them as daily requests or event reward.

A list of brand new recipes:

1. Greenhouse humus ( available in level 12 ) needs humus and ordinary catalyzer.
2. Golden horseshoe ( available in level 15 ) needs horseshoe and rare catalyzer.
3. Seaweed greenhouse humus ( available in level 18 ) needs humus and precious catalyzer.
4. Rare catalyzer ( available in level 20 ) needs olive oil and ordinary catalyzer.
5. Precious catalyzer ( available in level 22 ) needs sweet scented oil and rare catalyzer.
6. Wheel of fortune token ( available in level 25 ) needs special wheat seed and precious catalyzer.
7. Unique catalyzer ( available in level 26 ) needs water and precious catalyzer.
8. Legendary catalyzer ( available in level 30 ) needs essence of lavender and precious catalyzer.
9. Dollar ( available in level 31 ) needs… dollar and rare catalyzer.
10. Horseshoe ( available in level 32 ) needs golden horseshoe and rare catalyzer.
11. Gold ( available in level 40 ) needs dung and precious catalyzer.

Dog house improvements.

• The dog house will now receive 3 new building stages, increasing the total amount to 10.
• Of course, with each upgrade, a brand new trick is added, overall increase the daily amount of experience points.
• The dog house will now be available to the gourmet and flower farm as well.
• After learning the trick “Find the treasure!”, the Gourmet and Flower dogs can find their respective farms’ goods to the players, as well as the weekly events’ drop ( should there be any ).

 

Update June 7th – New appearances.

Appearance system.

Back in the day, you can choose to individualize your farm by (almost) winning a themed building in temporary farms. But then you have to destroy your original building to replace it with a new one, and your “theme” decision is pretty much final because you don’t want to replace it again. But now, hard-working farmers on your farm have decided to give your DEFAULT buildings a complete makeover!

• No more new themed buildings will be introduced, but instead, appearances that can be put on your regular buildings.
• Appearances will only change what the buildings will look like, not affect or change the production value and purpose.
• Appearance tab can be accessed via clicking the bucket of paint shown below:

• You can get these appearances by investing dollars/gold to buy them or obtained as a reward of future events or deals.
• Should you take an appearance out, it will move back to your appearance storage and can be reused.
• Only one appearance can be used for one building each. Once equipped, it will be removed from the storage.

Appearance introduced: “Back to our roots” set and Hawaii themed chicken coop.

Some of the buildings equipped with “Back to our roots” set – Source: Forum.

Hawaiian chicken coop.

• The first ever introduced appearance is the “Back to our roots” set. The main farm buildings will receive a touch of countryside and nature-bound element. To receive all of these, you may need to spend dollars as well as gold; get a high ranking in wheel of fortune, coop championship, hard work event; spend your time to look for the “Favorite deals” offer and Benny’s temporary farm truck dealer. A lot of work (and cash), indeed.
• Or just simply ask your chickens to hatch coconuts instead of eggs by equipping the Aloha chicken coop, available through completing the 5th and 6th difficulty of the Hawaii weekly event.

New horse season tournament: The Blue Ribbon derby.

• This time, the horse season is actually true to its nature, a… horse tournament theme.
• Decoration reward for reaching Platinum league and above: Charming trailer, happiness: 78, size: 5×5, quality 5.

Unlock condition rework.

• Every building stage can now be unlocked by using gold from the beginning, architect levels are not included.
• All buildings can now be built and upgraded using gold, regardless of your level.
• Instead of spending gold to gain early access to the next permanent farm, now you can do so by owning all farm expansions in one farm.

 

Update June 13th – Camping, improved.

This update is rather a follow-up appearance after the initial release of this mechanic than any real changes.

Appearance introduced: Camping themed apple orchard and UFO themed pigsty.

Camping apple orchard – Source: Forum.

UFO themed pigsty – Source: Forum.

• Camping with your family has never been so comfortable before with lines of apple tree hanging around ready to be picked up and you cannot resist having a bite. Pick up this appearance by completing the camping weekly event in the 5th and 6th difficulty.
• Or equip your pigsty with electric fence and a floral UFO, sounds like a good idea to me. Search for the extraterrestrial pigs by examining and completing the UFO weekly event in the 5th and 6th difficulty now!

 

Update June 29th – The Summer Weekend Festival starts!

Every summer weekends, many of these bonuses will be activated:

• Fireworks.

  • To celebrate summer time, multiple fireworks will pop up over your farmhouse at random times for (usually) 30 minutes.
  • While these fireworks last, all weekly events’ drop items will be doubled.
  • For instance, normally you may get 3 firewood for every apple harvest in camping event. With firework on, you will get 6 instead.
  • “A hero for Piggles” and “My bees are gone!” event will not be affected.

• Ice cream cart

  • It’s hot outside in summer time and your worker will really do with some refreshments. Fear not, the ice cream cart is here!
  • What you only have to do is to donate some apples and milk, and your workers will be satisfied, effectively increase your farm’s happiness by 50% for an hour.

Source: Forum.

• Horse trainer.

  • Keep an sharp eye to your horse ranch every now and then, because a special horse trainer may arrive to help train your horses! Better coaching quality of course.
  • When the bonus is active, there will be an indicator displayed in your farm and all training facilities will show the “!” bubble marker.
  • When the bonus is active, training time will be reduced from 4 hours to 1 hour and required horseshoe to train will be reduced by half.

Indicator and ! bubble markers displayed in the training facilities.

• Racing farmer changes.

  • During the weekends, our usual newspaper will publish weekend edition, revealing information about events planned.
  • Usual news will be replaced, they will return when the weekend is over.

Other change.

• Apart from the usual construction slot, now you are able to buy an additional one for the temporary farms using gold.
• You can still construct buildings in both farms using the normal one, just a convenient way in case both farms need immediate upgrading.
• The extra slot only lasts for the current temporary farm. If it expires, you may have to buy it again.
• Animation for the “Back to our roots” set windmill has been added.

Appearance introduced: Fairy tale, seaside and presidential theme simple house and steampunk windmill.

Fairy tale theme simple house – Source: Forum.

Steampunk windmill – Source: Forum.

• As if our old farm friends try hard to organize a tale play is troublesome enough, they even ask Steve to design their home, taking Snow White and the Seven Dwafts’ cottage as inspiration. Well, anyway “live happily ever after” just by completing fairy tale weekly event in the 5th and 6th difficulty.
• Can’t go to Hawaii? No worries, because we will make your house look such that you don’t have to sweat it. Enjoy sunshine with your loved ones by (ironically) travelling to the island farm right away and get this as a reward.
• Farmer skull3: “Right then, this morning I’ma just check up the chickens and…. OMG, what is that shiny-looking white-coloured house right over there, is that a legit freaking white house!??”
  • Man in agent suit: “Say no more, old farmer! Top secret! Our president has decided to reside in this peaceful countryside! For security reasons, it is at the utmost importance to build his living place to be identical to the one in Washington.”
  • Farmer skull3: “Wow, I see. I must be very proud of someone as a president to live in this place and how freaking badass you are to build his mansion so alike, I can’t tell which is which.”
  • Man in agent suit: “Well, come on man, just joking a little bit” take out suit “Well old fella, got you again, to be honest though, that sale is so attractive. I mean just to spend some gold, boom, you get a super cool residential house, make sure not to miss this opportunity, you don’t get to see this super flashy deal hanging around for too long. As a bonus, you can have a chance to buy some cool flags to hang in your living room and a eagle deco to place around your backyard maybe?.”
  • Farmer skull3: “Too awesome for words, alrighty then, I’ma keep an eagle sharp eye for it, hehe.”
• Producing your feed in the windmill, very classic way to show love to your beloved animals. But how about a little change to steam things up a bit? With this steampunk (wind)mill, you can expect that sound of steam power to go a long way to your farming routine and it has that unique flair. Complete the hard work event with a high ranking to achieve this steaming appearance!

Have a good day.

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Big Farm Update – May – Was taking part in a mission, decide to shelve it to take part in a survey instead.

The month’s updates feature a new mechanic for mission system that will surely provide more options for diverse tactics and more exciting! Futhermore just by taking part in a survey, you will receive tons of goodies as well share your thoughts about the game.

 

Update 11th May – Shelving mission and cooperative championship optimizations.

New mechanic: Shelve a mission.

Basically, to shelve a mission, you need to collect as much or more than the mission objective’s requirement first. When it’s done, you can click “Shelve mission” to finish and stop a mission. You will then opt out of this specific mission and will not be able to join again or add more collected products, but you can start a new mission if you want to. Your score will remain in the mission ranking, and will count as if you would still participate.

Meanwhile, the mission itself will continue to run for all other players as usual, and every player who finished early will be marked in the ranking list of this mission. If you finished the mission early, you will of course still participate with your final result, but you will not be able to add more products to it. After the mission is officially over, all players will receive the mission results as usual, regardless of if and when they opted out of the mission.

You can make use of this new mechanic stategically. Take a look at this mission.

Level 100+ players are dominating this mission right now. Seeing that there’s no way for me to catch up and 5th and 6th ranked players can’t catch up to me, either so I decided to shelve it. I will be then directed to the mission overview to start a new one.

So I just “finished” a mission with 18 minutes to spare ( there’s a delay taking this picture ), ultimately gave me more certificate and reputation in a long run. If you want to recheck how the shelved mission is going, click on the mission with the red dot then click “Go to mission”.

Note: In field missions like collect corn, alfafa, wildflower and rubataga; unless you have the help of special seed, you will likely have few minutes to spare before being able to shelve it. With stable missions like collect pig, egg, milk and dung; it’s a harder case to balance. If you first log in, start a mission and found out it’s a stable one, you will likely shelve it in about 30 seconds unless you see someone catch up and you don’t want to lose that first place ( or second, or third,… ). But if you only have 2nd production feed and a stable mission starts, you are unlucky for sure because you will likely able to shelve it in last seconds and certificate drop is terrible. With the feed mission, the higher the level of your windmill, the more advantage you have.

Cooperative championship optimazations.

With the new mission mechanic, you will likely to have more reputation than ever before that certainly helps in the upcoming coop championship. The championship itself will receive some tweaks, mainly the league and hard work rewards.

New coop tree rewards for all leagues.

Coop tree rewards are added to the silver and bronze leagues as well. While having a slightly smaller drop bonus, now bronze, silver and gold league winners will receive the popular tree boost. New graphics have been added for all new trees as well.

Gold league: The duck pond ( not duck coop ).

An exclusive reward for rank 1 cooperative of the gold league. As a mega production building, it will not only look absolutely stunning, but also combines the building size as well as egg output of 5 single duck coops into 4 and feature a shorter production time overall ( and make your life easier with less mouse clicking ).

Hard work rewards.

All hard work rewards, on all leagues, have been checked and rebalanced. The deco trees from the previous version have now been added as more achievable hard work rewards for the gold and silver leagues. Top tier prizes like gold flower seeds are now available for all leagues.

Other changes.

• The library will now feature proper books for the new seeds and feed.
• Frida will offer two new, amazing skylines: one will be beach themed, the other one will give a desert theme.

 

Update 19th May – The Big Farm player survey.

New event: The player survey.

GGS ( Goodgame Studio ) wants to improve the game, and to do that, they needs to know what you thinks about the game and your suggestions to make the game better, and BOOM, you got it, prepare to be taken part in a brand new one-time event: the player survey.

Duration: 14 days.

Details: Take your time and answer the questions GGS prepared. They’d like to know what you like about the game, what you don’t like, what type of player you are, what you think is a fun part of the game, and many more things. Besides game related questions, they also have a few questions about yourself, so they will be able to serve their player base even better. If you want to skip these, that’s no problem: all personal questions have the option for not answering them.

To make this even more fun, you will earn some unique and really cool rewards down the way. You will receive all of these after finished answering 10 sets of question: 16 tokens, 3 avatars, a Hero of knowledge decoration, size 4×4, happiness 48 and a Dark night rises horizon.

Player profile.

It will now be even easier to get the most important information about your account at a glance: by clicking your profile picture, you can open up the new profile information window.

You can also use it to quickly change your current profile picture, if you already have them unlocked.

 

And that wraps up the updates. Have a good day.

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Big Farm Update – April – Brand new buildings

The month’s updates welcome 3 new buildings that will help you grow your farm tremendously better.

 

Update 12th April – The farm laboratory.

With this building, you can produce premium items from normal items, depending on the recipes you have, for example, you will be able to combine corn and chicken feed to make premium chicken feed.

• The farm laboratory will be available once per farm, it will occupy a 5×5 space, ready for use at level 12 and can be accessed in the “Special building” tab.
• It will have 100 levels, all levels can be obtained by upgrading with either dollars or gold. Note that the graphic will not change visually.
• It will use up 5 workers, but further levels don’t require more of them.
• The benefit of upgrading the laboratory is that you need less source items to create the same amount of items.
• The laboratory allows muptiple productions of one product at the same time.
• If you build a laboratory on more than one farm, you will be able to produce more and different products at the same time.
• Recipes can be obtained through leveling the laboratory, but also via events, possible rewards in the future.

First launch of this new building features 8 recipes:

1. Premium chicken feed ( available in level 1 ) needs corn and chicken feed.
2. Premium pig feed ( available in level 2 ) needs cabbage and pig feed.
3. Premium cow feed ( available in level 3 ) needs wheat and cow feed.
4. Premium goat feed ( available in level 4 ) needs dandelion and goat feed.
5. Premium donkey feed ( available in level 5 ) needs barley and donkey feed.
6. Premium fertilizer ( avaiable in level 6 ) needs dung and fertilizer.
7. Premium liquid fertilizer ( available in level 8 ) needs dung and liquid fertilizer.
8. Premium duck feed ( available in level 10 ) needs lamb’s lettuce and duck feed.

 

Update 19th April – Matilda’s farm school.

Similar to the farm laboratory, the farm school is a 100-levels building that increases the experience points you receive on top of what you get within the game.

• The farm school is an environmental building which is placed near the mine and it is ready for use at level 10.
• Each upgrade will increase the bonus exp point by 1 percent, so upgrade it to level 100 will double your exp gain.
• The farm school will be a passive building, when built, it will boost your exp on its own, without cooldowns or required input.
• The exp drop will show the complete amount of earned exp point.
  • E.g: You have a level 5 farm school. When you finish building a level 1 house which normally gives 100 exp points, the shiny green star will inform you have just received 105 exp points instead.

   

• Game menus will show the regular amount of exp point, without bonus exp point.

Important note: All exp values in the game have been multiplied by the factor 100, so the bonuses can be properly added. No value relations have been changed. This goes for every exp value in the game, level-up points, rewards, harvests, etc….

 

Update 26th April – Lester’s secret stash.

You recently has discovered Lester’s secret stash of priceless products. If you can keep his hiding place a secret, he will help you complete contracts at the organic market.

• The stash is a 80-levels environmental building which is placed near the organic market and it is ready for use at level 14.
• Each upgrade will increase addtional market contract products to be added by 1 percent.
• A new selection will be added to the product donation screen of the market. With this, you can select one product from any contract, which Lester will help you on.
• Boosted products may be changed until the contract is finished.
• If products are switched, the previously boosted product will fall back to its unboosted state.
• Lester’s stash will change appearance every 10 levels.

 

Across the month – Other changes.

• The “Favorite Offers” deals will now have the option for possible dollar offers.
• The “Racing Farmer” will now feature a proper Facebook button.
• The “Racing Farmer” forum button will have some additional information.

New upgrade confirmation and info screen.

A new upgrade screen will show up whenever you upgrade a building. This not only drastically decreases the chance of accidentally upgrading a building, but will also give you some really useful info: Will the upgrade help you out a lot? How high will the new production be? Now all of this information will be shown with every upgrade.

• By the time this change came, the gold option wasn’t supposed to be implemented, just a note.

Additionally, the new upgrade screen will allow you to upgrade a building multiple times without leaving the window (if the requirements allow you to), without the need of having enough workers for every single step. Even if your worker count isn’t high enough, you can still upgrade, and you will only be asked for all combined workers once you want to actually use the upgraded building.

As you can see, this screen also shows another tab which is locked, keep this in mind.

Login pop up reduction.

A new priority system is added. Now, only one prime offer at a time will be shown when you log into the game. All gameplay relevant windows (event endings, information, news, and so on) will still appear like usual.

Cooperative member limit extension.

You can now increase your cooperative’s member limit to up to 75 members per cooperative.

• 10 new researches are added to the cooperative research tree.
• Every research will increase the limit by 1 new member.
• The coop tree drop rate has been adapted accordingly.

 The new “Blessings” deco set.

At the end of the Good Fortune cup horse race season, if you are in platinum and above league, you will win the Pool of blessings decoration, size 6×4, happiness 93. In addtion, a prime offer will be started, offering a brand new deco: Picnic of blessings, size 6×4, happiness 93. Both decoration interlock in a way no other decoration do, and together, they will be a really cool and very exclusive sight on your farm.

You can check this page out to see how they just perfectly match in each other.

Next horse season: Mystic cup.

This cup’s theme “Mythical” has been decided solely by the Big Farm community. Look forward to some cool, mystic prizes and avatars!

Platinum and above league deco reward: Pholos the Fierce, size 4×4, happiness 50.

 

And that wraps up the updates. Have a good day.

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Big Farm Update – March – More mission varieties and cooperative championship v.2

Easter event 2016.

Duration: 10 days.

Details: Like with all long-term events, be active on your main farm and collect chocolate, rewards for completing – a 5×5 sized decoration Cheery blossom tree, happiness 65 and a bunny flag. Additionally, there are 10 eggs hidden around your farm, keep your eye wide open and look for them to earn rewards. Collect 100 eggs to earn a 6×4 sized decoration Bunny bungalow, happiness 55.

 

Update 8th March – More mission varieties.

New seeds and feeds:

Now list these brand new seeds and feeds for your everyday producing roster.

• Rutabaga ( take 9 minutes to grow ).
• Alfafa ( take 4 minutes to grow ).
• Wet pig feed ( need rutabaga to produce ).
• Cow silage ( need alfafa to produce ).

These feeds will result in faster pig and milk production ( 5 minutes and 7,5 minutes respectively ), considered to be 2nd farm production ( can be used along with the old one ).

New missions:

Along with the wildflower, corn, dung and egg missions, 5 new missions will be added:

1. Harvest rutabaga.
2. Harvest alfafa.
3. Collect pigs ( include 2nd farm production ).
4. Collect milk ( include 2nd farm production ).
5. Harvest feeds ( include 2nd farm production ).

My opinions: More missions mean it will be fairer for everyone since you can’t totally predict which mission you are about to do. However, 2 feeding option buttons are pretty close that it is possible to accidentally choose the long-time feed when you need the short one.

 

Update 22nd and 31st March: Info about the new cooperative championship.

The championship is expected to take place on April 1st.

The goal is the same: Work with your coop pals to earn reputation points ( from doing missions or… buy gold ) and get prizes. Before, small coops found it impossible to get coop apple or cherry orchards. Although there were hard work rewards to get but after doing it over and over ( and the duration was plain too long ), you must have been very tired. Now, with the revamped system and rewards, you won’t have such feelings anymore.

League and division mechanic:

Leagues and divisions:

• Coop ranking will now be seperated into 4 leagues: Rookie, Bronze, Silver and Gold league, each then is divided into divisions.
• While the leagues are ordered from top to bottom, with Gold being the top league, the divisions exist parallel to each other in each league and will part each league into roughly similar sized brackets.
• Each division has a fixed number of cooperatives forming this division. They will be scaled in size depending on each server’s population.
• The number of divisions within a league will depend on how many cooperatives are participating. This means smaller servers will have a lower number of divisions and vice versa.
• Newly founded cooperatives will automatically start in the lowest league (Rookie).
• At the end of each championship, you will get a summary which will also tell you about any league status changes.

Promotions / Demotions:

• If your coop scores a good position within your league, you will get promoted to the next league tier in the next one. If your cooperative ends up at the bottom of your league, you will be demoted down one league tier.
• The exact positions that are promoted / demoted will depend on the number of cooperatives participating, but will be visible once the championship starts.
• If there are multiple divisions within the league your coop is promoted/demoted to, the division will be selected at random.
• In case a cooperative is deleted while a championship is running, an empty slot will be displayed in its place. These empty slots will always be at the bottom of the ranking. In case the number of empty slots is bigger than the amount of demoting cooperatives, additional cooperatives will be promoted into this league, so that all leagues are completely filled up.

Gold league difficulty:

• If your cooperative is placed within the Gold league in an upcoming championship, you will have the option to choose a difficulty level before the actual one begins. This will allow you to gain even better rewards, but you will have to work harder for it!
• The teaser window, which will be shown for a while before the championship begins,  offers three different difficulty level selections for all cooperatives that will be placed in the Gold League, as well as a current overview of how your fellow coop members have voted so far. You will be able to vote for normal difficulty and both hard and expert modes, which will both grant you a bigger coop tree and more horseshoes than the regular difficulty.
• Your vote can be changed until the actual event starts, the choice with the most votes will win the vote – as soon as only one player votes, the result will be chosen. If nobody votes at all, the championship will be played on normal difficulty, if the voting results in a tie, the more difficult result will be chosen.

Boosters, rewards and the coop wheel of fortune:

Boosters:

• In the new booster shop you can buy reputation boosters for yourself and for your whole cooperative. Boosters will grant you an additional percentage when earning reputation.
• There are 2 types of booster you can have altogether: personal one ( dollar and gold ) and cooperative one ( dollar and gold ) ( only the leaders and deputies can buy ).
• The gold and dollar boosters basically work in the same way and you can have a gold and dollar booster active at the same time. You can not, however, run two boosters of the same type simultaneously, for example two personal gold boosters, or two cooperative dollar boosters.
• For each booster, you can set the boosting effect for yourself ( the better the additional percentage reputation earned, the more expensive it gets ). Once you are happy with the ratio, buy the booster and it will run for an hour.
• While the booster is running, you’ll have the option of adding more time ( 1 or 10 ) hours to it. Keep in mind that you will have to wait for a booster to run out before you can change it again. Don’t worry though, you can destroy a currently running booster for free. However, you can only buy time extensions or boosters if their duration will not be longer than the remaining time of the event.

Rewards:

• 50 hard work rewards for each league can be earned through participating in the championship. Get ready to work hard to win cool prizes, for example: gold mining licenses, gold flower seeds and many more!
• There will be all new, all different league rewards. Apart from valuable rewards such as horseshoe boosters, sunflower seeds, tokens,… there will also cool decorations and especially in Gold league – the supreme cooperative tree.
• Decorations: Terrific teamwork tree, size 4×4, happiness 55. Top teamwork tree, size 4×4, happiness 60. Henriette the Chicken or Bunny balloon, size 2×2, happiness 29 (!) ( quality 8 anyway )
•  The new cooperative tree is only available in the Gold league. It will replace the old coop tree. Aside from the proof showing off how awesome your coop is, it will grant a nice bonus to your item drop rate. This new tree will be there until the next championship comes around, so you have to stand to your toes to obtain it again.

Wheel of cooperative fortune:

Be sure to visit Monty’s new championship wheel, which not only offers fantastic regular prizes like seeds, reputation boosts and feed to help you during the championship. It also goes all-out in the jackpot round, with many possible reputation wins, collectibles for your projects, and various other great prizes!

 

Bugfixes and other changes

• You can now unlock all farm expansions right from the start, if you like. While nothing changes in the regular unlock behavior, you now can also use gold to unlock all expansions from your main, gourmet and flower farm.
• Asia and UFO events have been adjusted to balance with the new feeds.
• The video feature has been removed from the game. Click here to find out the reasons.
• Fix a bug when the Easter event progress meter was showing the shadow of a wrong decoration.

 

Okay, that’s it for now. Happy April Fool!

Have a good ( bad ) day.

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Big Farm Update – February small updates and March 1st – Pick up my amazing horse, stop the wheels to see new video and realize that winter is over!

Today is quite an extraordinary day as it is February 29th. Planning to do something special this day? How about training your horse even further to improve its already amazing performance? This post also shows small updates which occurs in February after the Chinese New Year event update.

February 9th – Pick-up madness.

Get ready to go wild, because all pick-up events during 9th, 10th and 11th will be started, and all the efforts will just be concentrated at the same time, which means easy rewards. And a lot of fun also. The events included Chinese New Year, Valentine, current weekly event, My bees are gone!, A hero for piggies and Snowman build.

 

February 16th – Video show improvements.

Video show

• Explanations on how exactly the feature works for new players are added.
• The reward button now has to be clicked in order to close the video window. You will still be able to just close the window, but won’t get a reward then.
• The daily video limit has been adjusted (Before: A maximum of 5 videos / day, After: A maximum of 5 videos / 12 hours).

Bugfixes

• An issue with duplicated rewards from the snowman event was fixed.
• A flash error after collecting from the Lost Cargo event should no longer appear.
• Fixed possible causes for a game crash on midnight during the New Year event.

 

February 23rd – Winter wheels.

Locust Attack

Lester’s in a bit of a pickle – a mean locust swarm is wreaking havoc on his farm. He doesn’t know what else to do, so he’s asking you for help: Take care of his customers for a while, so he can recapture his farm.

• This task is a personal task and will not appear for every player at the same time.
• Lester will give you a task: Help fulfill the orders of his customers.
• Reward: Lester is grateful and will make you a compelling offer: Spend gold in the next 24 hours (up to a CERTAIN amount), and he will pay you BACK on the next day.

Wheel of Snow Fortune

• The Wheel of Fortune can now also appear on the Winter farm.
• The Wheel of Fortune can now also appear on the Northern Lights farm.
• These winter wheels offer new, fitting rewards for your winter farms.

Bugfixes

• A problem with the sticker book that might cause it to show empty should be fixed.
• An issue with activity rewards from the Chinese New Year event should be fixed.
• A bug causing names, ranks and levels not to show up in the missions is fixed.

 

March 1st – My horse is amazing.

New horse levels

• Horses can now reach level 200.
• Horse stable can now reach level 12 .
• Horse stable upgrade costs have been slightly increased.
• Competitions: The maximum level of NPCs ( Tessa, George, Lester ) is raised from 120 to 240.
• Competitions: The maximum level of NPC horses is also raised to 200.

Optimizing Performance

Some parts of the user interface are reworked, which should hopefully increase performance of the game, in particular on older or slower PCs.  This should be especially apparent if you turn off animations.

Bugfixes and changes

• Events with reward flags should now properly drop them without having to relog.
• The sticker book should now allow you to scroll down again.
• The winter backdrop is removed. Look forward to a cozy, green farm again.

Have a special day.

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Big Farm Update – February 3rd – Too late for New Year’s Eve?

Although you were having a lot of fun time in New Year celebration, there’s still one more, it’s call Lunar New Year and it’s celebrated on the first day of the Lunar calendar, this year it starts on the 8th of February. In Big Farm, we are going to China to celebrate the year of the monkey, or you can join in the event right on your farm!

Event: Chinese New Year.

Source: Big Farm Forum

Event in the nutshell: Collect 12 animal signs of the Chinese zodiac.

Duration: 15 days.

Details: The main goal of the event is to unlock all pieces of a new decoration, the Chinese Fire Monkey. To do this, you’ll have to collect chips, representing the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac – rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. They can be obtained while you are working on your main farm. The more chips you collect, the better the value of your Fire Monkey decoration will be, and the more details will be added to it. By collecting the zodiac animals, you will be able to upgrade your monkey decoration! With further expansions, different benefits are unlocked, for example will new elements be added to the decoration itself, happiness will be added or the decoration size will be reduced.

Activity rewards: While you’ll collect all kinds of zodiac chips during each day of the event, you can earn exclusive zodiac chip flags each day, by making sure you’ll collect the zodiac chip of the day. Each day, two zodiac flags will be offered: one reward for finishing 50%, and one awesome flag for collecting 100% of the asked amount of specific chips a day. All activity rewards will change on a daily basis, and each day will be themed after one zodiac animal (except for days with decoration rewards instead of flags, which will offer random zodiac types. These days will offer a themed decoration reward instead of flags, and all collected chips will help you achieving this task.

Zodiac boosters: During the event you can obtain boosters. These increase the guaranteed droprate of one zodiac animal each. Zodiac boosters are available through the zodiac wheel, and can be purchased with gold and Dollars.

• You can earn boosters for all animal chips by chance on the zodiac wheel.
• Usage of the zodiac wheel with Dollars will grant you a boost to one random zodiac chip.
• Usage of the zodiac wheel with gold will allow you to set a specific boost to one zodiac chip.
• One booster will increase your droprate for a specific amount of production cycles
• You can only get one booster a time.

Fireworks boosters: You want even more chips drops? Keep an eye out for the New Year’s fireworks on your main farm! If you harvest during this firework, your chip outcome will be three times as big as usual.

• A new indicator near the happiness bar will show you whenever a firework is active.
• The indicator will also show the remaining time for the fireworks booster, and will give an explanation tooltip.
• The event object on the marketplace will also show a fireworks animation during the booster activity, as well as a tooltip.

Okay, here’s my advice. Be sure to use zodiac boosters whenever you have something that took a long time to grow or produce, ex: wheat, cow, cherry,… If you are lucky enough to have firework booster, it is possible to raise up to 2 or 3 percent per harvest per 2 random zodiacs. Max number of harvests of zodiac booster is 12 so you should spend it on multiple productions like windmill, silo or composter. 

 

Event: Valentine Day.

There’s still one more special occasion that worth mentioning: Valentine day.

Details: This is just a long-term event like Halloween or Easter event, you are given 10 days to find a certain amount of romantic gifts, which can be found when harvesting and producing on your main farm. Rewards for completing are decoration hot air balloon for two, size 4×4, happiness 42 and a flag of true love. Also, each day 10 heart balloons will be hidden around your farm. Hope you find them all and win prizes, 100 balloons will net you a deco swan boat cruise, size 5×5, happiness 58.

Additionally, there will be special event offers in the shop during the event.

 

New horizons.

During these 2 events,  Frida will offer special horizons! You can expect 2 new and exclusive Chinese New Year’s horizons and one Valentine’s Day horizon.

 

Bugfixes and changes.

• Fix the bug that mysterious seeds don’t work under some circumstances.
• Breeding goods should now drop for max level gardens again.
• An issue regarding rewards for the marzipan task on the candy farm has been fixed.
• Various inappropriate/long/broken videos should have been fixed or removed.
• All bakery products are now available from level 31.
• Barley selling and buying price is increased by 100% ( from 5 dollars to 10 dollars and from 50 dollars to 100 dollars respectively ). Barley-related offers prices are now changed accordingly.

 

And that’s it guys, have a great time with these special events.

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