New Release -- February 13th, 2012
 

See Known Issues and Post Release Changes at the end of this post. Last changes released at Feb 15, 6:15PM EST.

Hi There,

We just released a new version of the game with the following features and bug fixes:

1. Valentine Items: Released 10 days ago.

2. 28x28 Farm Expansions for Farms 1 - 5: Here are the prices -> 5,000,000,000 Coins or 25 FarmCash.

3. Show Animals when Hired: This option is now part of the Preference Options so you can hide all animals when you are working other farms.

4. Quests Social Lifelines: Social Lifelines allows you to complete Quest Steps by interacting with friends. When you are stuck in a Quest you may decide to use a Social Lifeline to help you move forward. For now there will be 3 different kind of Social Lifelines:

- Gifting Lifeline: Allows you to complete Quest Steps by using gifts or ingredients from friends. In this case after you accept the gifts or ingredients you will have to Store them for them to be counted toward your Quest Steps requirements.

- Trading Lifeline: Allows you to complete Quest Steps by trading goods with other farmers in the Market.

- Employee Lifeline: Allows you to complete Quest Steps by working for others in farms or facilities. The product bonuses you get by working for others will count toward your Quest Steps requirements.

Here are the rules:

- You'll not know the Social Lifeline you are going to get until you actually request a Social Lifeline by clicking the Lifesaver icon in the top right
- You can only have one Quest with a Social Lifeline active at any point in time
- You can still always make the products yourself, Social Lifelines are just alternative ways for you to procure products for your Quest Steps
- Products procured through Social Lifelines will never count toward the main goal of a Quest (first step)

5. Other Quests Updates:

- A Quests could now be 'Load a Product' in a Service Facility, you will have to make the product in the Regular Facility and then load it into the Service Facility.
- The Info Tool Tip is now positioned in the center so you can always see full information text.
- Fertilized Crops now counts as 2 towards the Quest Step requirements
- Even if all your quantities are done you now have to wait until all of them finishes to be able to start the next product, this was a bug that is now fixed.

6. Belt Popups Update: Once you have posted your 5 Belt Posts allowed in 12 hours you will not see any more popups, instead you will see the fading text at the bottom of the screen. If that still is too much for your liking, the Belt Popups Window now have a checkbox so you can disable all popups in the current session.

7. Belts and Dans for Facility Products: The next 22 Facilities (in order of appearance in the Store) now have Belts and Dans enabled for each product. With each Belt or Dan you achieve you will increase your chances of getting a "free" Batch automatically for every Batch you start from that point on. Free Batches means that a new Batch is sent to production without consuming any ingredients or coins. See previous Release Post for the benefit % table.

8. Content Changes: Increase in mines production:

Iron Ore, Copper Ore, Chromite Ore, Aluminum Ore: 50% increase
Quartz Rock, Soda Crystals: 25% increase

9. New Crop and Tree: Black Beans and Plantain Tree. The Plantain Chips which are produced in the Snack Factory will soon require Plantains instead of Banana. (Coming Tomorrow)

10. Trophy Factory (coins): Produces Trophies. (Coming Tomorrow)

Soccer Trophy
Football Trophy
Writer Trophy
Movie Trophy
Science Trophy
Peace Trophy
Best Farmer Trophy
Best Neighbour Trophy

11. Latin American Restaurant (FC): Produces Latin American Food. (Coming Tomorrow)

Ceviche
Tamales
Pollo a la Brasa
Ropa Vieja
Sancocho
Bandeja Paisa
Dulce de Leche
Mermelada de Guayaba

12. China Buffet (Coins): This is a Service Facility that can be stocked with the products below:

Rice
Mushrooms
Chinise Noodles
Fortune Cookies
California Rolls
Rainbow Rolls
Large Green Tea Bag
Watermelon

13. Gas Station (FC): This is a Service Facility that can be stocked with the products below:

Fuel
Apple Raspberry Cherry Juice
Chocolate Box
Lemon Drops
Pumpkin Pie
Rhubarb Pie
Peanut Snack
Sandwich
Sandwich Supreme
Italian Sandwich

Enjoy!

--Raul

Post Release Fixes - Feb 14, 2:30AM EST

- When you Store Gifts the goods now correctly count towards Quest Steps if Gifting Lifeline is enabled

Post Release Fixes - Feb 14, 5:15PM EST

- The X25 errors when opening the Quest Manager should now be fixed

Post Release Updates - Feb 14, 11:00PM EST

- Black Beans and Plantain Tree are now live in the Store. Pending facilities coming tomorrow.

Post Release Updates - Feb 15, 6:15PM EST

- The Trophy Factory and the Latin American Restaurant are now live
- Plantain Chips now require Plantains (the correct ingredient) instead of Banana

Known Issues:

None

RAUL AND DEVS- you guys are rockstars!!! thank you so much for the awesome updates!!! :D:D:D

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.. Raul and dev's you are fantastic. Another great update love the farm expansions .. Already bought Gas Station!! Will be getting the rest when they unlock. You are the best! :D Thank you for keeping this the best game on Facebook. :D

Fritz

oh yaaaaa, i was first to comment!!! wooooot woooot!!! :D:D

Thanks for the welcome surprise Raul! Was looking more toward the end of the week for this!

Great balls of fire!!! OMG!!! That one was not expected. Thanks so much, this game is once more rocking with so much to keep me interested!!! :D

I thought I was going to be the first....so many with their finger on the post button...lol

When are the black beans going to show up and where are we getting the plantain trees from?

woot!! one of the very first to comment... Great update! And way sooner than I expected. thanks so much!!

thanks very much, love the updates, upgraded all the farms, bought the current facilities, waiting til tomorrow for the rest, thanks again, lol

Ha! We're all happy to be among the first to post. : )

Definitely unexpected! Thanks so much!

where can we get the tree can not find it in the gifts or the store and the black beans are not showing up

Same here - I'm not seeing either of these. I've got the new factories.

new tree
 

when will the new tree be available?
thanks for the upgrade

YAY!!!! Thanks for the new stuff . . . once again you guys rule!!!!!

And I was going to go to bed.....NOT!!!!! Thank you so much for the new goodies. You guys are the best!!!!!! :D :) :D :)

saw the updates and didnt see the thread. Glad to see some more facilities. Thanks as always.

Not seeing the new crop or tree :(

Raul thank you for all the updates but....can you tell me why I cannot get gifts from the top of the screen?

It would be a great update, if the quests hadn't started getting errors :(

Thanks for the updates, bless you for putting the preference to hide those darn animals on peoples farms, lol. Those little critters always slows things down.

Love the update, thank you!

Having some issues with a forced reload when opening the quests window.

Missing some buildings/animals.

I will wait till morning before whining LOL.

Thank you!, Thank you!, Thank you!! loving the new upgrades

Thanks Raul

love the hide animals feature (would be good if they could be hidden completely like even on your own farm or visiting others like when working on facilities or just plain visiting)

great release (-:

Sweet! Thank you.

This is the best part yet! I've come across people who have hundreds of animals on their farms, making them almost impossible for me to visit, let alone actually work them. *This* is *HUGE!*

Awesome, as always! Thank you!

Great update Raul and Team, thanks :)

wf38 cleared flash player, and cache, and i also am getting error saving data x025 click green tick to reload game
it only happens with the quest, i can open facility manager and it is fine i can do everything but the quest. please advise if this is partly due to the upgrade or ?

INCREASE THE CHEESE, INCREASE THE COLA, INCREASE STORAGE CAPACITY ON ANIMAL SHEDS, INCREASE SILK AND CANVAS TEXTILE PRODUCTION ---------- PUH-LEEZ!!!!!!!!!

Sorry for shouting...I want to be READ! LOL

THanks so much. I am so exited got to check it out.

Well, I was expecting it because I just sold a bunch of stuff! :)

Thanks guys, much appreciated as always

THANK YOU !!!

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Oh My, I just sold my husband crops he needed to to do his quest!! How awesome is that!! Thank you Raul and team for this great game.

Well, first of all I would like to say *thank you* for the recent updates. I've been loving the quests, and the Latin American restaurant sounds very cool. And I appreciate the increased production from the mines. But... I would sure like it if you would increase the production of canvas and silk, and maple lumber - even with multiple facilities producing them I just cannot keep up with these, especially after the facilities added in the release before this one. Maybe next time??

Thanks for the update.
Could you please check-out what is going on with the quests and the data saving error X025?

Wow! What a nice surprise! Nice Valentine's gift! Many thanks!!

love love love the increase for the mines, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE increase the gift amounts of all the factory usable items, like tomatoes, flour, potates, etc, at least to 100 like the carbonates water. also, PLEASE INCREASE production of said above items!! thanks!!!;)

WOW!!! I went to bed early last night - good job because I would have never have got there if I had seen this first (Im on GMT time zone).

Love the new Gas station - a way to make more money on fuel. Also the Quest lifelines - a real bonus.
Looking forward to the other goodies.

Thank you thank you
(Knew this would come Monday - and my hand surgery got cancelled so I can still play)

wonder if the new food resturant uses northern pike or walleys?