It’s never a good idea to put all your eggs in basket, but it sure is useful to keep all your cows in one place. With newly released Dairy Farms, you have a way to milk your cows faster than ever.

Some things to know about Dairy Farms:

• Up to 20 cows can be placed in a single Dairy Farm at a time.
• Dairy Farms can be used once every 24 hours and will yield the sum of all of the cows stored within. (For example: if 10 cows are placed in the Dairy Farm, and are harvestable for 6 coins apiece, you will receive 60 coins.)
• In order to be able to purchase a Dairy Farm for Coins, you must have at least 8 Neighbors.
• If you do not have 8 Neighbors, the Dairy Farm can be purchased for 20 Farm Cash.
• To place a cow in the Dairy Farm, click on a cow, and select the “Move” option. You will then be able to hover the cow over your Dairy Farm and release it. When the cow is hovered over the dairy farm, the dairy farm will light up with a yellow outline.
• To remove a cow from your Dairy Farm, click on your Dairy Farm, and select “Remove Cows”.
• You can only have a maximum of 5 Dairy Farms present on your farm at one time.

Mystery Box 2
Mystery Box 8 (12/22/2009 – 12/29/2009)
Mystery Box 9 (12/29/2009 – 1/06/2010)

FarmVille has added a Mystery Box for 15FV.
Below are the items the mystery box can contain.

Mystery Box

Red Bicycle (common)

Stripped Rest Tent (common)

Lounge Chair (common)

Picnic Table with Cloth (common)

Fire Pit (uncommon)

Tree with Swing (uncommon)

Hot Tub (rare)

Gold Gnome (rare)

Hey Farmers!

We’re very happy to introduce our latest feature: Crop Fertilizer!

How does it work? Simple!

Randomly selected users will receive 5 Bags of Fertilizer, per neighbor, per day. Those players can then use the fertilizer on crops on their neighbors’ farms.

Fertilizer bags are awarded when you complete a friend mission (pulling weeds, chasing crows, etc.) and removed when you visit another neighbors farm.

Once a crop has been fertilized, it will appear bigger than normal crops and sparkle.

Don’t let them wither, fertilized crops reward experience points when harvested!

We hope you enjoy the new feature, everyone!

Happy Farming!

Here are the new settings found in the gameSettings.xml file:
fertilizeActive – turn fertilzer function on and off (0 = off, 1 = on)
fertilizeForceExperiment – allow testers to force the experiment manager to let them use fertilizer (HACK)
fertilizeMinLevel – minimum level that players can access the feature
fertilizeHarvestCoinMult – Multiplier applied to the normal coin gain for Jumbo crops
fertilizeHarvestXpGain – Xp gain on harvesting a Jumbo Crop
fertilizeSuccessCoinGain – Coin gain on successfully fertilizing a crop
fertilizeSuccessXpGain – Xp gain on successfully fertilizing a crop
fertilizeFertCost – cost to fertilize one plot
fertilizeTime – Time taken to perform fertilize action
fertilizeMissionFertilizeBonus – amount of fertilizer you get when you complete a mission

achievement name=”fertilizecrop”
level count=”100″ xp=”100″ coins=”500″
level count=”500″ xp=”200″ coins=”1000″
level count=”1000″ xp=”400″ coins=”2000″
level count=”5000″ xp=”1000″ coins=”4000″