Farm Town is one of Facebook’s many apps that millions of people world wide enjoy playing. Farm Town is a game with many layers and the player can be a deadly serious one or a casual one as they choose. It’s quite easy to become “addicted” to Farm Town. I wanted to compile a list of tips for playing to help any level player become proficient and comfortable with the many aspects of the game.
When you first begin playing Farm Town, you’re given a small “plot” of land and some coins. Before you plow your first field, though you should learn the toolbar and what the different settings of the game are.
In the upper right corner of your farm, you’ll see a toolbar. From left to right the icons are a disc which saves the changes to your farm. If there are changes that need saving, it will be blue behind the icon. The next one is a music note. If you have this red as I do, the music is turned off. The speaker icon next to that one determines if the animal sounds and other sounds are played. The next icon is a wrench and this is where you set your preferences. This is the most important icon on the toolbar. The next is a plug which shows if you are connected to the mainframe server or not. It’s green if you are and red if you’re offline. You want to try to play online as much as possible. The last icon is a question mark which is the help menu. This is a good place to go if you have a quick question. The other good place to get information or to ask questions is the forum and there is a tab for that in the tabs to the left of this toolbar. You’ll have to register at the forum, but that’s pretty quick and painless to do.
You need to be familiar with the choices in the preferences menu (the wrench tool) as you will need to know how to change them when you are on other people’s farms harvesting crops or plowing fields.
The show trees option is the first in the list and will more than likely be the one you toggle on and off the most. Often people plant trees where they block a plot and you can’t get the focus of the cursor on it to harvest. By turning the trees off, you hide them from view and can then harvest or plow the blocked plot. It’s the same for flowers and buildings.
Because this is a flash game and the animals were created with animations, having them unfrozen uses up memory that you may need for other tasks. Checking “freeze animals” frees up that memory for use when you’re planting, plowing or setting up your farm.
The remove space between fields allows you to butt the plowed plots up against each other. If this is left unchecked, when you plow, the fields have a space between them. That makes them take up more room on your allowed space, so you can’t get as many crops planted.
Smooth graphics can help make the graphics look nicer on your screen. My personal experience is that it hasn’t made much difference, but your mileage may vary.
Follow Avatar while walking moves the screen as your avatar walks. This can be handy at times, but it’s a memory user, so if you experience other issues with the game you might want to try turning this off until you determine if it makes the game slower for you to have it on.
In the bottom left corner of your farm, you’ll see the Neighbors and chat screen and another toolbar. The left side of this window shows your neighbors. When someone comes to your farm, that slides off screen and a chat window appears. There you can chat with the people visiting your farm.
To the right of this window is another toolbar. It begins with this icon set. The black square with the arrows in opposite corners is the full screen mode switch. By pressing this, the farm becomes full screen size which helps you see what you’re doing. The drawback to using full screen mode is that you cannot chat while in full screen. You can see what the other person is saying because it comes up in a talk bubble over their head, but you can’t reply without going out of full screen mode. The two magnifying glasses make the farm bigger or smaller as you need it. I find it easier to use my scroll mouse to do that with. Rolling the wheel forward makes the screen larger while rolling it towards me makes the screen smaller. This feature can be used in and out of full screen mode.
The next icon enables you to move the entire screen left, right, up, down or diagonally so you can get to all the fields in the farm. You can accomplish the same thing as this by holding down the left mouse button and dragging in the opposite direction you want to see. (*drag downwards to see the top section of the farm, to the left to see the right, etc.)
The next set of icons are all the ones that enable you to work on your farm. The green man is your walk icon. When he is highlighted, you can walk around yours or anyone else’s farm. The next icon is the hoe or plow. You click on this one to plow your fields. Next is the scythe and you click this icon to harvest with. The last icon is a toolbox and when you click on it, another menu pops up that has a camera, a watering can and a bulldozer in it. The camera allows you to take a snapshot of yours or your neighbor’s farm. It will then post it to your Facebook wall. The watering can is used to water flowers with. When you visit your neighbors’ farms, if you water their flowers you earn a few coins. The bulldozer is a delete tool. In my opinion, it’s much easier to just be in walk mode, left click the item you want to remove and choose delete from the menu that pops up.
Underneath this top row of icons is another row. This row contains a set of icons that include one for your buddy list, the trophies you have won (which once achieved can give you access to certain other features of the game, as well as keeping track of how much you’ve spent on crops and improvements to your farm), the shop, your gifts that you’ve received, your storage barn and the map to the market place where you’ll sell your crops and hire workers for your farm, the real estate office where you will purchase more land, the bank where you can purchase coins and the inn where you can just go to hang out.
Ok – now you know how to set your preferences, what all the different icons mean and what they will do for you.
Next we’ll get into planting your first crops.
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