Farmville Tips and Hints – Fast Harvesting and Machinery

This article will discuss the how to perfrom fast farming as well as the best machinery to use in the Facebook application, Farmville.

Fast Farming and Harvesting

A number of items have been added to the game that will allow you to plow, plant and harvest faster.  While at first this may seem like a boon to all you hardworking farmers out there. It turns out in the end  it’s only a marginal improvement at best.

To start with, if you are really interested in doing things faster I would recommend boxing in your farmer.

Blocked in character in Farmville which creates fast harvesting

To do this visit your farm and don’t move. You’ll notice that when the game is loaded your farmer will  always start in the exact same spot. All you have to do is place animals, trees or objects that take up 1  space each around your farmer as shown. Of course you’ll have to delete the center field of your  farm to do this. Once this is done your farmer will no longer be able to move. This means that you will no longer waste time walking from plot to plot which will dramatically speed up the time you spend plowing,  planting and harvesting. Keep in mind that when you expand your farm this spot will move so you’ll need to set it back up again afterwords. Also, the reason why I recommend using objects that take up a single space is that you’re able to walk though most objects that take up more then one space, making them ineffective for this.

Machinery and Operational Aspects

There are 3 different machines, one for each task. The general operation of  each however is the same. Each machine will work 4 fields at the same time and it will work them faster then your normal tool. Each field that the machine works will consume 1 unit of fuel. Fuel comes back  over time and you can have up to 150 at any one time.

Harvester in Farmville, Facebook

Unfortunately, because you can only have 150 this means that once you expand your farm past the intial 12×12 size no machine will be able to completely handle any one task. So, you’ll end up doing the rest as normal. Now  I’m sure you’ve noticed that it’s possible to purchase fuel. Unfortunately, there is a major flaw with the current scheme. Fuel can only be purchased with farmville dollars which are most quickly aquired using real money. Additionally, all the fuel tanks do is restore your fuel total, they do not permantely increase how much fuel you can have. In other words once they are used they’re gone meaning they are one shot items. This makes them highly impractable at best to use.

FarmVille Tractors

All you need to know (and must know) about Tractors in FarmVille !
With so many confusion about Tractors.. I’ll consolidate a list of information that you must know about Tractors.

Y’know, it ain’t always easy being a Farmer. Sometimes, lookin’ out over yer fields, all you is can think is: “Golly, I sure could use some help.”
We here at FarmVille understand that, folks. That’s why we’ve added a Tractor that you can use to add even more fun to yer farmin’.

It’s true what they say. Life really is better on the seat of Tractor.

1. Tractors plow 4 fallow lands at a time. It uses 4 Fuels. It can be used to plow 1-4 lands also. It uses 1 Fuel per land.
2. Tractors come with a default 150 Fuel Tank
3. Tractors regenerate fuel at 1 Fuel per 2min 30sec. That’s 6hrs 15min for a full 150 Fuel Tank.
4. Buying 2 Tractors DOES NOT give you extra tank nor speed up regeneration rate. Buying 2 Tractors also DOES NOT give you extra fuel meter.
5. Fuels tanks are sold in the market for CASH. They are ONE USE ITEM.
6. Tractors are used to PLOW only.
7. Tractors cost 30,000 Coins. At least it’s better than Barn that cost 40,000 and does nothing.
8. Cost of plowing with tractor is the same. Each plow (1 land) cost 15 coins and earns 1 EXP. Plowing of 4 lands (60 coins 4 EXP)

Which machine is best?

Something else to consider is that not all machines are made equal. Each machine also takes up a certain amount of space on your land just to own. Because of this the harvester is not as useful as the other two.  The reason is that the harvester requires twice as much space as the other two. The result is that you end  up losing one field to the harvester, where as the other two can be snugly squeezed into the edges of  your farm which are not big enough to support an entire field. Plus, anytime you would use the harvester  you would be able to just as easily take advantage of the tractor or the seeder.

Otherwise, the machines have no effect on game play. You earn just as much xp and money using them as you would using the normal tools. I’d say it’s worth having either the tractor or the seeder but since you won’t even be able to fully utilize one any others you buy beyond the 1st will ultimately just be decorations rather then something that is useful.

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