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Collectibles in Farmville
The folks at Zynga sure are coming up with plenty of reasons to keep their Farmville players entertained. In my opinion, they are unfolding way too many at once. They should probably space it out a little more. I mean, having mystery boxes was great (like Christmas all over again), but the new awards, the new crops, the new animals… just too much at once for me.
Then again, not everyone’s a farmville fanatic like me.
Collect items to complete a set and get rewarded!
The new addition that I’m excited about are the collectibles. There are five sets of seven collectible sets. The items range from common to rare. Some are gathered as you play. You may end up digging it up a gardening tool as you plow your plots, or find a butterfly as you harvest one of your trees. Some of the rarer items are collected by your farmville friends posting a collectible — similar to when you post a lost animal for adoption. And like adopting lost animals, only a few people manage to pick up the collectible.
The last way I’ve noticed you can pick up a collectible is when a farmville friend completes a collection and posts their accomplishment to the feed. It gives a few people the chance to pick up a collectible from that set.
The neat thing is that you can collect and keep more than one of each item, so when you trade in one completed set, you have the left overs to fill the next set so you don’t have to start from scratch. They key thing is to grab the uncommon and rare items from your friends’ feed when you see it. Obviously, those are the hardest to collect.
Your reward for completing a collectible set.
The reward for finishing a collectible? 250 XPs (experience points) 5000 coins, and a prize in your box (I’ll let it be a surprise too and not post it here)! It’s not easy finishing a set (you need to stay on top of the feed to do so), but when you do, it’s pretty satisfying, and helps you up your level that much faster.
Once you complete your set (a message will pop up telling you that you have one), to to your collectible list, find the set that was completed and click on the button to trade it in for XPs and coins.
Oh, and you get an award ribbons for completing collectible sets as well.
Have fun!
Farmville Awards – a summary
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Award |
Description |
Yellow Ribbon |
White Ribbon |
Red Ribbon |
Blue Ribbon |
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Local Celebrity |
Collect neighbors |
4 |
8 |
25 |
50 |
|
Good Samaritan |
Help friends earn rewards |
20 |
150 |
500 |
2500 |
|
High Roller |
Earn coins |
750 |
50,000 |
500,000 |
1,000,000 |
|
A Pretty Penny |
Spend coins |
2500 |
50,000 |
500,000 |
1,500,000 |
|
Cream of the Crop |
Harvest Crops |
30 |
1000 |
5000 |
50,000 |
|
Knock on Wood |
Harvest Trees |
20 |
250 |
1500 |
5000 |
|
Zoologist |
Collect from animals |
15 |
500 |
1000 |
5000 |
|
Architect |
Purchase Buildings |
2 |
6 |
|
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Pack Rat |
Purchase Decorations |
5 |
50 |
100 |
|
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Animal Shelter |
Adopt Animals |
2 |
3 |
4 |
15 |
|
Green Thumb |
Harvest different kinds of crops |
5 |
10 |
14 |
17 |
|
Tree Hugger |
Harvest different kinds of trees |
2 |
8 |
12 |
15 |
|
Noah’s Ark |
Collect from different kinds of animals |
2 |
4 |
6 |
8 |
|
Not Spoiled, Gifted |
Have different kinds of gifts in box |
3 |
9 |
15 |
21 |
|
Crop Whisperer |
Fertilize neighbor’s crops |
100 |
500 |
1000 |
5000 |
|
Flower Power |
Harvest flowers |
30 |
500 |
2500 |
10,000 |
|
Pretty Garden |
Place flower bouquets on farm |
5 |
10 |
25 |
50 |
|
They of Mystery |
Open Mystery Boxes |
2 |
|
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|
|
King of Compost |
Harvest fertilized crops |
75 |
150 |
300 |
600 |
|
Lord of the Plow |
Plow plots with a tractor |
200 |
1000 |
2500 |
10,000 |
|
Vegetable Virtuoso |
Harvest Vegetables |
15 |
500 |
2500 |
|
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Foremost Fruit Farmer |
Harvest Fruit |
15 |
500 |
2500 |
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Yes, there are some missing blanks. Let me know if you know what they are.
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Level |
Title |
Points Needed |
Crop |
Crop Cost |
Growth Time |
Net Profit per Crop |
Mastery Level 1 |
Mastery Level 2 |
Mastery Level 3 |
Bonuses |
|
1 |
|
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Strawberry |
10 |
4 hours |
10 |
500 |
+1000 |
+3750 |
|
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Eggplant |
25 |
2 days |
48 |
175 |
+135 |
+230 |
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Wheat |
35 |
3 days |
65 |
200 |
+100 |
+75 |
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Soybean |
15 |
1 day |
33 |
150 |
+300 |
+450 |
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2 |
Kinderfarmer |
20 |
|
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|
|
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Plum Tree, Dairy Farm, Hay Bale, Plum Tree Gift |
|
3 |
|
50 |
|
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|
4 |
Able Farmer |
100 |
Squash |
40 |
2 days |
66 |
200 |
+150 |
+270 |
Peach tree, rest tent, crate, chicken gift, haystack gift |
|
5 |
Handy Farmer |
200 |
Pumpkin |
30 |
8 hours |
23 |
500 |
+1000 |
+3750 |
White stool, Brown stool, Avocado tree gift |
|
6 |
Nimble Farmer |
300 |
Artichoke |
70 |
4 days |
119 |
200 |
+50 |
+70 |
Mailbox |
|
7 |
Savvy Farmer |
800 |
Rice |
45 |
12 hours |
36 |
400 |
+400 |
+2000 |
Lemon Tree, Well, Sheep Butter Churn, Sheep gift, Hay Roll gift |
|
8 |
Fancy Farmer |
|
Raspberry |
20 |
2 hours |
11 |
2000 |
|
|
Garden Shed, Tool Shed, Wood Pile, Apricot Tree gift |
|
Daffodils |
60 |
2 days |
60 |
250 |
+188 |
+328 |
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9 |
Sophisticated Farmer |
1300 |
Cotton |
75 |
3 days |
117 |
300 |
+150 |
+115 |
Cow Topiary, Bike Wagon, Bird bath gift |
|
10 |
Splendid Farmer |
1800 |
Cranberries |
55 |
10 hours |
28 |
450 |
+650 |
+2900 |
Lime Tree, Fruit Stand, Pig, Wood Fence, Picnic Set, Lime Tree gift, Crop Mastery |
|
11 |
Farming Magician |
2300 |
Bell Pepper |
75 |
2 days |
108 |
350 |
+270 |
+455 |
Stone mailbox, grapefruit tree gift |
|
12 |
Farm Wizard |
2800 |
Pepper |
70 |
1 day |
77 |
425 |
+850 |
+1275 |
Tractor, Pink Tractor, Refuels, Rabbit gift |
|
13 |
Jolly Rancher |
3300 |
|
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Grain Silo, Harvester, Pink Fence, Wood Bench |
|
14 |
Produce Professional |
3900 |
Aloe Vera |
|
6 hours |
|
1000 |
+2000 |
+7500 |
Seeder, Black Fence, Blue Fence, Green Fence, Banana Tree gift
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Bonus for Mastery Level 3
enlarged soybeans for planting when you reach level 3 mastery!
So I figured out the bonus for reaching level three of any crop mastery. Basically, plant the sign (actually, I’m not sure if you HAVE to plant the sign). Then when you plant those particular seeds, some of the crops grow into super plants (i.e., the fruit will look larger, kinda like when it’s fertilized but without the sparkles).
When you harvest those plants, you get experience points. I mastered the soybeans, and those special plants gave me TWO XPs for harvesting! Oh yeah!! 
Speed up your game in Farmville
I noticed a trick that my friends have adopted in order to speed up your farming activities in farmville.
Surround your farmer with hay bales in the middle of your farm and speed up your farming activities considerably!
You’ll notice that if your farmer can’t reach a tree or plot of land, it simply completes the activities from where they are located. In other words, you don’t waste time having your farmer have to walk over to where they need to accomplish an activity.
You can trick the game by building a baricade of hay bales around your farmer in the plot of land where he/she initially shows up when you first login, in the very centre of the fields. If the farmer is trapped inside the hay bales, you no longer have to wait for the farmer to walk to every plot of land you want to plant or harvest. Try it out! it’s a real time saver, particularly if the size of your farm is huge.
Thanks to my friends for the idea!
