FANCY SPEED PLOW

FANCY SPEED PLOW

This trick alters the Plow Tool for your hired plowers.

WHAT IT DOES: Removes the Plow “thingie” field selector so the plowing player can use the mouse cursor arrow or (hand pointer is using Chrome) to select which field to plow—which can make plowing very fast.

ADVANTAGE: Plowing player does not have to wait for the plow thingie to line up with a field to plow it.

This trick is especially helpful on slow farms (farms with lots of hedges and animals. No offense, just the facts.) And it’s useful on farms with tight Item/Crop placements. It absolutely smokes when using Google Chrome.

DISADVANTAGE: Does not always work with Firefox. Speed Plowing can overwhelm Firefox—and dramatically so on slower user systems. (Don’t know about Internet Explorer; I don’t use it and the game developers recommend not using it either.)

1. Ask if your hired plower would like to use a speed plow. If so, tell them to sit still and accept two plow hires.
2. Hire to plow as usual.
3. Hire them again.
4. Tell them to plow away.

~Jimmy

MULTIPLE GIFTING TRICK

MULTIPLE GIFTING TRICK

WHAT IT DOES: This trick allows you to send multiple gifts to the same farmers.
WHAT IT DOES NOT DO: It does not allow infinite gifting; when you are out of gift limits for the day, you’re done gifting for the day.

ADVANTAGES: Your farming friends may love you.
DISADVANTAGES: Selfish farmers will ask for more.
DIFFICULTY: Moderate.
TIME REQUIRED: A little more than usual to send gifts, but not much.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS: a Tabbed Web Browser.

This is a Two-Stage Process. Here’s how:

STAGE ONE: SETUP FOR SENDING MULTIPLE GIFTS

1. Go to the Send Gifts page.
2. Right-Click on Send Gifts. Select “Open in New Tab” in the browser drop down options menu.
3. Repeat Step 2 as many times as needed. You will have a row of Tabs at the top of the page.
4. Select Gift Item as normal. DO NOT SEND YET.
5. Select Recipients as normal. DO NOT SEND YET.

Each tabbed window is now loaded with gifts to Send with Recipients selected. Each one must be ready to go. Once a person is sent a gift, that person cannot be sent another one until later that day or until the next day.

STAGE TWO: THE SEND-OFF

Here is the really tricky part. Relax. Relax again. Ready?

1. Hit SEND on the first gift.
2. CLOSE the tab on that page. You MUST Close that Tab BEFORE the game screen loads!
3. Go to the next Tab and repeat the Send/Close Tab process.
4. Repeat until all open Tab windows are closed. If you want, you can send the last gift and just relax so that the game loads as normal.

Maximum gifts allowed to be sent per day are 20 total. Sent Neighbor Requests subtract from the total allowed gift sending that day.

~Jimmy

LAYERED FARMS

LAYERED FARM TECHNIQUE

ADVANTAGE: Can increase potential Farm Yield; can improve Farm Appearance.

This trick fools the game into letting you plant crops under Trees, Flowers and Buildings*. I found it by accident while trying to recreate a more realistic landscape with pines and wheat and then used it on one of my other farms. Later, I found the how-to buried within the Slashkey Farm Town forum. Here's how you get the trick to WORK EVERY TIME.

Let’s use Fruit Trees as an example of how to do it.

TO PLANT CROPS UNDER TREES:

• (1) You MUST start in EMPTY GREEN SPACE. (Go ahead and Bulldoze if you need to.)
• (2) PLANT your Trees there.
• (3) HIDE your Trees in your Preferences.
• (4) REFRESH the game.
• (5) When you return to your farm, DELETE one Field on your farm—it doesn't matter which one.
• (6) PLOW your now "empty" spots.
• (7) TURN ON TREES. Your trees will now be layered on top of your plowed fields.

Turn off Trees and plant your crop Seeds as normal.

CAUTIONARY NOTES:

There is one small issue with this technique when you hire someone to plow your layered farm. It will appear on your end as if they are deleting the harvested field instead of plowing it--IF they have trees turned ON when they are hired. They should not see any little red “hidden tree” squares when they are plowing.

This is NOT the same as layering using Dirt Paths, or as troublesome afterward. It's a trick that we hope the developers won't change, so please don't share this with complainers.

About Using Dirt Paths to Layer Stuff:

I only recommend using Dirt Paths to layer stuff with IF that area will not affect normal farming activities.

I don't recommend planting a tree and a flower on the same exact spot because you might not be able to harvest that tree; using Dirt Paths to layer trees can cause similar problems and causes harvested fields to become deleted when plowed.

Furthermore, planting a tree “through” a building with a Dirt Path can make the game “think” that the building is now a tree in the Preferences settings.

*The game does not recognize every type of tree or building as such. When in doubt, “Hide” the item in question in the Preferences Settings. If it doesn’t hide, then the game “sees” the item in question as an “Item” (and there is no “Show Items” radio button in the Preferences Menu.)

Have Fun! ~Jimmy