New Release -- August 30th, 2011

[Ashinez]

I bought the red sprinkler yesterday. I had just harvested flowers on two farms. I then used the red sprinkler on one farm. Today, the flowers are at the same growth rate on both farms. When I put the mouse over the flowers, it has an "F" but not an "FW". So is the red sprinkler not working at all or am I doing something wrong? Thanks for any help you may be able to give!!

[LBarry]

Basically this is a free game. I'm very happy with any updates they give us. I know you have to spend farm cash to get certain items but it's your choice whether you buy them. You can have a lot of fun with the game even without the FC items. Keep up the good work developers.

[Sandraneta]

Yes, this is a free game of sorts, and yes, it is ones choice to play. It is also suggested by the developers that players make recommendations. That said, some of choose to play this free game, pay to play this free game AND make recommendations. Best regards.

[Norlene Adams]

Why can't I post ANYTHING from my farm since the upgrade on Ausugst 30th? My game is totally ruined without being able to post facilities, belts, recipe requests, etc. I keep working crops, of course, and work for my neighbors, but ???????????? WHEN WILL IT BE FIXED? I have notified Slashkey twice to no avail. I'M BEGGING FOR SOME HELP HERE! PLEASE!!! :'(

[tnbravesgirl]

Can someone please explain to me why 8 farms all harvested yesterday, planted at the same time, watered at the same time...........and replanted this morning (close to the same time) and ONE farm will not let me water.
So annoying. Glitches abound with this update. Much thought was put into the update, but not sure it was actually tried out to see if it worked for several days. :(

[Tiger]

Can someone please explain to me why 8 farms all harvested yesterday, planted at the same time, watered at the same time...........and replanted this morning (close to the same time) and ONE farm will not let me water.
So annoying. Glitches abound with this update. Much thought was put into the update, but not sure it was actually tried out to see if it worked for several days. :(

Hello,

There are some issues with the use of the red sprinkler, the devs are aware, i'm sorry but we will all just have to be patient while we wait for a fix. If you scroll up a few posts, other members have found ways to workaround the problem in the meantime. You might find them useful.

[levarti2]

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you ....I love the Red Mobile Sprinkler !

I do too, but is there any way of telling when our 12 hours is up? On this or any of the functions?

it's confusing to think you're going to do something at a particular time only to find out you can't yet with no idea of when to go back.

if this could be fixed, it would be wonderful.

thanks

[Randall_Lind]

Here the issue I have with the RED Sprinkler : You can only water a farm every 12 hrs which I have no issue with. However it's only benefit one crop, let say you plant a 4 hr crop. Water the farm crop becomes ready in 2 hr. Now after you harvest and replant let say another 4hr crop you are unable to water the crop because you are limited to watering once every 12 hrs. which means no matter how many time you plant and replant only the first crop benefits until the 12 hrs are over.

[Taz D]

Raul has just updated the release post at the top of this thread.

[dansd111]

Message for the developers...

You Rock!!!

Thank you for the great updates and for being so responsive to the suggestions of the users.

[suepatches]

Thank you,developers,for listening to us farmers. I love the game and once I get my OCD under control things will be PEACHY again. :)

[JeanieBeanie2]

Thanks for the update...love the harvest time/waste time info on crops!

[KayGee]

The 20 hour irrigation day to match the growth time of a 2 day crop is a nice concession - not perfect, but much better. Thanks also for the mouseover features. They will help. Thank you, Raul.

[maggiel29]

See Known Issues and Post Release Changes at the end of this post. Last changes released at Sep 2, 1:35PM EST.


Post Release Changes - Sep 2, 1:35PM EST:

-Both Stables now have bigger alternative views
-The state (growth) of the crop and the mouseover information message now match (no false gone to waste stages)
-The time remaining for the next irrigation is now shown when you mouseover the sprinkler in the extended tool box icon and also when you click the sprinkler in the farm
-To avoid confusion about when your plants were irrigated or not, the Sprinkler now only show the water animation when you are allowed to irrigate the plants
-The red sprinkler in addition to doubling the growth speed, will also extend the gone to waste time, so even if you double the growth speed unintentionally by reviving your flowers, you will have the same time as before to harvest your crops, this will effectively remove the need to have the brown water sprinkler in the toolbox or storage.
-Time to irrigate is now 20hours instead of 24hours.

Yay - thank you Raul

[InePine]

Love the bigger stables! Thanks! :)

[jeannieb]

Can someone fix the speed on WF2 it sucks big time

[Pustekuchen]

Ty for the bigger stables and the (adjusted 20 hour)time showing for the sprinkler...much better :)

as always, the devs are working quickly to get things fixed !

[Don't feed the beggers]

when I just want to water, I use my water can. If I want to speed up growth I use the red one. Works for me, mind you I also don't have a zillion flowers growing. and what I do have is lined up all nice and neat and not scattered here and there.

[gffarmer]

What's with Raul and so many mods being on?! Something new?

BTW Thanks for the new stables!! Really like all the new updates!!

[tnbskts]

With most other tools where you have to buy one before you can buy another, they're both available in the extended toolbox and can be used on all the farms without having to be taken out for each individual farm. I really don't see why the brown sprinkler can't be available as well as the red one for people who've (a) paid for it and (b) want to use it. Farm Town is usually really good at not trying to impose a particular way of playing, and it'd be a shame to start now. I know the red sprinkler will do everything the brown sprinkler does and more besides, but even so, some people simply want to water their flowers.

[driverdave]

The new stables have a similar footprint (ground area requirement ) to the woolshed ...thought i would post that for the people that have minimal space for it

[Docperk]

Thanks for update for the mouse over for the red sprinkler and the making the time 20 hours instead of 24. It was making my watering time tougher cause it was getting later and I had first used it late at night already. :) I am really enjoying it myself.

[jenifoofoo]

I would like it to show when we hover over the diamond like it does when fertilized.

And I'd like it to water the farm, not the crops that are there right then.

No one's going to get loo loo amounts of xp points or anything. I don't plan on planting rasberries over and over.

The 20 hour watering cycle just doesn't blend with the harvesting and planting rotations.

[SunnyD]

curious......... why if we spent $45 FC on the original water sprinkler it is now actually of no use.........We did get 1000 coins for watering for neighbors..... now we can't do that any more unless we want to be mean and prevent them from using the new sprinkler.......i wasted my real $$ on this toy.........this is not something we are used to happening with FT.......waaaaaaaaaa

[JAS0643]

curious......... why if we spent $45 FC on the original water sprinkler it is now actually of no use.........We did get 1000 coins for watering for neighbors..... now we can't do that any more unless we want to be mean and prevent them from using the new sprinkler.......i wasted my real $$ on this toy.........this is not something we are used to happening with FT.......waaaaaaaaaa

If you water your friends flowers they can still use the red sprinkler and speed up the growth of crops and flowers that same day.

[Randall_Lind]

I would like it to show when we hover over the diamond like it does when fertilized.

And I'd like it to water the farm, not the crops that are there right then.

No one's going to get loo loo amounts of xp points or anything. I don't plan on planting rasberries over and over.

The 20 hour watering cycle just doesn't blend with the harvesting and planting rotations.

That's my point if we are watering the farm every 24 hours then the (W) should remain for the full 24 hours no matter what crops we are able to plant or replant in that time frame.

I guess the red sprinkler was really made for crops 2 days or more. I think they should make it a per crop tool and do away with the 24 hrs limit.

[Bonnie Jo]

I do like the fact that the devs changed it to a 20 hour cycle and I have adjusted my tracking and the way I plant to make use of the red sprinkler. That is great for the long term crops.

I still resent the fact that I have spent 45 FC for the brown sprinkler that I can no longer use just to water flowers on my farm. Not to mention another 50 FC for the red one. No matter what they say to try and justify it, there are times where all I want to do is water my flowers and not have to think about what it is doing to my crops.

[Touch_Stone2002]

I have been waiting for my flowers on my first farm to show ready. They have said "one minute" till ready for over an hour and a half ...whats up with that? For about two seconds they said they were ready so I hired someone to pick them. When we got back they said not ready again and I had to let the worker go. The flowers on my next farm, which were on the same time frame as the first farm's flowers, are ready.

[diannevt]

Thank-you! Once again I'm thrilled with the release (as usual) however my husband says you have to stop with all the great stuff because I keep spending money on it. :)
Especially delighted with the red sprinkler because now I don't have to worry about tying up an entire farm for 4 days.

[maggiel29]

If you water your friends flowers they can still use the red sprinkler and speed up the growth of crops and flowers that same day.

Mine wont work - someone watered my farm 3 which only has flowers and trees so its not really a problem but I think the neighbours watering is sill blocking the use of the red sprinkler. Im not getting a mouse over to say how many hours until next use unlike the other farms and I have found that when there is no mouse over hours showing I can usually use it.

[maggiel29]

Mine wont work - someone watered my farm 3 which only has flowers and trees so its not really a problem but I think the neighbours watering is sill blocking the use of the red sprinkler. Im not getting a mouse over to say how many hours until next use unlike the other farms and I have found that when there is no mouse over hours showing I can usually use it.

Ha Ha just found the secret! It WILL work if there are crops but not if only flowers - obvious really.

[SunnyD]

If you water your friends flowers they can still use the red sprinkler and speed up the growth of crops and flowers that same day.

For Real Jas?? yahoo....... ty so much..........yay.......i am going to invade my neighbors today........ lol

[Deborah1979]

:( I never buy new tools when they are first released, especially something for 50 FC !! Really?? Really!!!

I have reread Raul's original statement for the release several times, and there were definite conflicting statements.

I am paraphrasing and didn't copy and paste, but this is what I understood!

One said that a farm could still only be watered once a day, but the crop would be sped up to 1/2 normal harvest time.

In the very next paragraph he states that new crops will be need to be watered to speed up their time.

NO WHERE was it clarified that a second crop couldn't be watered and sped up, except the statement that you could only water once a day.

I still assumed that this 50 FC tool would work like the manure spreader, but only for one day and not three.

It looks like there were a lot of people that read the release like I did.

I suggest that Raul send a rough draft of the release statement to all of the Mods and maybe 10 other very active players for future releases. With other people reading this over, perhaps the instructions could be made a little clearer to those of us that can't determine which statement is true, before we spend that much on ANY tool!
(And no, I waited and decided not to buy right now.)
A few proof readers, imho, would cut down on the frustration level and countless posts from just not understanding what was intended.:(

Thanks for at least always listening, and trying to resolve the issues.

[leesac]

The way the red sprinkler works really is ridiculous. I just went to one of my farms that has many flowers to harvest and they were ready but wilted, so I had to water them to harvest. Well guess what? After watering they were picked but I am unable to water the new crop with the waterer to decrease the harvest time. I have to WAIT to water until tomorrow. So I WASTED my speed up by watering flowers that were mature, of course having no choice in the matter if I wanted to unwilt them, and I now CANNOT water my new crop of flowers. I want my farmcash back! :mad:

[Deborah1979]

The new stables have a similar footprint (ground area requirement ) to the woolshed ...thought i would post that for the people that have minimal space for it

:) Thanks so MUCH for posting this!! I was very concerned about the size since I already had my farm designed and REALLY didn't want to move a lot of stuff. Your estimation that the new stable view is about the footprint of the wool shed is just about right!! :D

[KayGee]

Maybe if enough of us post a good argument concerning the red sprinkler the developers will realize it's truly an issue...irrigation and watering should be "untied" from each other...the brown thing should be a sprinkler and the red thing an irrigator...and for the amount of farm cash paid we should be able to irrigate when we plant. Untying the two functions would pave the way for doing away with the 20-hour limit. The thing about runaway XP's is a moot point - people who play FT 24/7 are going to accumulate XP's one way or the other. The way the developers have dealt with that is to not release too many levels at once, and I think that's ok. Besides, I don't think the developers have any stake in limiting the amount of XP's people gain.

[maggiel29]

I do like the fact that the devs changed it to a 20 hour cycle and I have adjusted my tracking and the way I plant to make use of the red sprinkler. That is great for the long term crops.

I still resent the fact that I have spent 45 FC for the brown sprinkler that I can no longer use just to water flowers on my farm. Not to mention another 50 FC for the red one. No matter what they say to try and justify it, there are times where all I want to do is water my flowers and not have to think about what it is doing to my crops.

Yes I think this is what a lot of us feel - other than persuading a neighbour to water for you there is no way to water just flowers. Mine were wilted and I had a 4 hour crop which I didnt want to speed up so I had to wait to water the flowers until I have a crop that I want to halve the time of. I dont want to use the watering can as the reason I bought the sprinkler in the first place was because I have a ton of flowers - also Im using my left hand badly at the mo as I had surgery on my right - my mouse control is not good enough to use the watering can

[SunnyD]

i had to go to my farm 1 and turn view on for buildings to harvest my stable.... i had changed the view to the larger one last night... anyone else have this happen??

[rktacntj]

wish when we harvest trees they would be like the ones we cut down so we would know when we have them all then regrow when ready to harvest again

[levarti2]

Thanks again devs for listening to our concerns. That's one of the many reasons FarmTown is such an awesome game. The indicator in the tool bar that shows how much time is left before functional use of Red Sprinkler makes it a valuable tool.

[suepatches]

Maybe since the developers seem to listen to suggestions why dont they have a vote to see who wants both, the red and the brown sprinklers then they would know how most people feel.

[suepatches]

I vote for both.

[JAS0643]

Mine wont work - someone watered my farm 3 which only has flowers and trees so its not really a problem but I think the neighbours watering is sill blocking the use of the red sprinkler. Im not getting a mouse over to say how many hours until next use unlike the other farms and I have found that when there is no mouse over hours showing I can usually use it.

Ha Ha just found the secret! It WILL work if there are crops but not if only flowers - obvious really.

Two days ago my flower farm (only flowers on this farm) was ready to harvest but the flowers where "dead" and I couldn't harvest them without watering them. I did not want to water them myself because I wanted to half the growing time. I asked a neighbor to come water them for me, she used the bucket because she doesn't own the sprinkler and watered all my flowers. I then harvested them and used the red sprinkler to water them right after that, this all happened in probably a 30 minutes time frame. I do not recall if I got the you can only water flowers once a day message but my flowers showed the w in their name and where reduced to a 2 day growing time. I don't know if someone using the brown sprinkler on flowers will be different then using the bucket or if all the changes they have made the last two days has messed something up but as of 2 days ago it was working just fine for me.

[1fritz]

I would vote for both the brown and red sprinkler.

Brown sprinkles flowers, and red irrigates crops.

Fritz

[Docperk]

Ok guys I don't know what complaining about the red sprinkler is all about. Since the last updates to it I have to it to a wonderful tool. I can use it the same way as I did the brown and also have the added benefits that is provides. You just have to pay attention to what you are doing. For example I had a field that I noticed my flowers needed watering, I started to just water them as usual but then I realized I had nothing planted on that on that field so I planted my crops and water and killed two birds with one stone as they say. You just can't blindly go around watering everything like you did before.

Now with all that said. With all the talk in here I have hardly seen a word about the one of the most handy tools that we have been asking for for a very long time. That is the new Add to Animal Building tool in the extended menu. I seen that and went and tested it out. I bought me a new Wool Shed and bought 100 Sheep and 100 Llamas used that to put them in building. WOW just click once on each on and it is in the building. I am impressed. Now for the bad news and this might have been because I was going too fast but I did get several errors say it couldn't add the animal to the building, but I would get that doing it the old way too. So I think it is a very good tool.

THANK YOU DEVS!!! :D:D:D

[Docperk]

Now with all that said. With all the talk in here I have hardly seen a word about the one of the most handy tools that we have been asking for for a very long time. That is the new Add to Animal Building tool in the extended menu. I seen that and went and tested it out. I bought me a new Wool Shed and bought 100 Sheep and 100 Llamas used that to put them in building. WOW just click once on each on and it is in the building. I am impressed. Now for the bad news and this might have been because I was going too fast but I did get several errors say it couldn't add the animal to the building, but I would get that doing it the old way too. So I think it is a very good tool.

THANK YOU DEVS!!! :D:D:D

Ok well the add to animal tool was actually in the last update, but I still don't remember reading any comments about it...

[JAS0643]

I would vote for both the brown and red sprinkler.

Brown sprinkles flowers, and red irrigates crops.

Fritz

I want to keep the ability to half the growing time on my flowers.

[Bonnie Jo]

Ok guys I don't know what complaining about the red sprinkler is all about. Since the last updates to it I have to it to a wonderful tool. I can use it the same way as I did the brown and also have the added benefits that is provides. You just have to pay attention to what you are doing. For example I had a field that I noticed my flowers needed watering, I started to just water them as usual but then I realized I had nothing planted on that on that field so I planted my crops and water and killed two birds with one stone as they say. You just can't blindly go around watering everything like you did before.
For 95 FC, you bet I want to be able to blindly water everything like I did before.

[anneandjuice]

There is a problem with irrigating your flowers. If someone comes in and waters them before they are harvested you can't irrigate them. This defeats the purpose of being able to irrigate them and invalidates the cost of the red sprinkler.

[Tiger]

There is a problem with irrigating your flowers. If someone comes in and waters them before they are harvested you can't irrigate them. This defeats the purpose of being able to irrigate them and invalidates the cost of the red sprinkler.


Hello,

When you were on the farm that you wanted to speed up the crops on, did you check the info in the facility manager by hovering over the red sprinkler? That would tell you how many hours were left since you last did it, if it doesn't show you how many hours are left, then it's ready to use.

[KayGee]

For 95 FC, you bet I want to be able to blindly water everything like I did before.

Amen, sister.

[1fritz]

I want to keep the ability to half the growing time on my flowers.

Jas Yes the ability to cut harvesting time on flowers is wonderful.... what I would like is the choice... If the brown sprinkler is used flowers are watered. If the red is used growing times are halved. Maybe I want too much.. The red sprinkler is great.. Just takes some time to adjust the way I farm.

Thanks
Fred

[Majik Merlin]

I'm sorry, but I didn't read 20 pages to catch up since the latest release, so forgive if I am repeating another's comment/s

Just a small thing, but can Devs fix the Towmart? I am quite sure they intended it to be TowNmart

Also, on a similar subject: I just purchased the tree shaker. Can the Devs correct the word 'shaked' when the comment comes up that "This tree is not ready to be 'shaked'"? I'm sure it should be shaken

Sorry if I sound petty, but I value the English language

[driverdave]

Jas Yes the ability to cut harvesting time on flowers is wonderful.... what I would like is the choice... If the brown sprinkler is used flowers are watered. If the red is used growing times are halved. Maybe I want too much.. The red sprinkler is great.. Just takes some time to adjust the way I farm.

Thanks
Fred

Exactly the point ......the evolution of our technology means that our methods and practices need to evolve to keep us on the leading edge however flowers dont go to waste so its kinda not here nor there with them and i had a crop of cotton that i irrigated....camre back to harvest it and it said 6.1 DAYS to wasted so thats brilliant its a crop preserver as well lol

[Bonnie Jo]

Exactly the point ......the evolution of our technology means that our methods and practices need to evolve to keep us on the leading edge however flowers dont go to waste so its kinda not here nor there with them and i had a crop of cotton that i irrigated....camre back to harvest it and it said 6.1 DAYS to wasted so thats brilliant its a crop preserver as well lol
Evolution of technology? Methods and practices evolving? Leading edge? Seriously? This is just a game. A game where some of us spend real money but still a game none the less. Extended waste time means absolutely nothing to me. I paid 45 FC for a brown sprinkler tool to water my flowers and I expect it to still do that even if we now have a new fangled red sprinkler that cost another 50 FC that does other things. When they put out the harvester/plower/seeder they didn't take away the ability to use just the harvester or just the plower or just the seeder. I expect the same from the sprinklers that cost big FC bucks too.

[driverdave]

Evolution of technology? Methods and practices evolving? Leading edge? Seriously? This is just a game. A game where some of us spend real money but still a game none the less. Extended waste time means absolutely nothing to me. I paid 45 FC for a brown sprinkler tool to water my flowers and I expect it to still do that even if we now have a new fangled red sprinkler that cost another 50 FC that does other things. Combining them was just stupid on the devs part. When they put out the harvester/plower/seeder they didn't take away the ability to use just the harvester or just the plower or just the seeder. I expect the same from the sprinklers that cost big FC bucks too.

i bet u didnt say things like this when the orange manure spreader was released and it cost a similar amount of farmcash .....it was made clear that the red sprinkler was an extension to the brown one in a similar manner that the orange manure spreader was an extension to the other one however its one of those things that you can please some or most of the people some or most of the time but there will always be people that will find fault and complain about the tiniest thing ...

[tnbskts]

I don't see a problem with combining them as such, in that the red sprinkler can also water flowers; I do see a problem with taking away the functionality of the brown sprinkler just because people have the red one. However cutting-edge and glitzy the red sprinkler is, the fact remains that some people sometimes still just want to water their flowers with the tool they paid 45 FC for, and it shouldn't be impossible to let them do it.

Seriously, if the red sprinkler is just an extension of the brown sprinkler rather than a separate tool, it shouldn't cost 50 FC, it should be like the 5x5 tools that are an extension of the 4x4 ones and cost proportionally less.

I was also wondering - and I've seen people asking but I haven't totally understood the answers - if I go along to a friend's farm and water their flowers, does that stop them using the red sprinkler to water their flowers in order to cut the growing time five minutes later, or have I locked them out for a day? I've been trying to water friends' flowers while working their facilities, but I don't want to carry on doing it if I'm just sabotaging them.

[Bonnie Jo]

i bet u didnt say things like this when the red manure spreader was released and it cost a similar amount of farmcash .....it was made clear that the red sprinkler was an extension to the brown one in a similar manner that the orange manure spreader was an extension to the other one however its one of those things that you can please some or most of the people some or most of the time but there will always be people that will find fault and complain about the tiniest thing ...
I bought both the manure spreaders at the same time but the new one didn't negate what the first one did, it enhanced it. The red sprinkler does indeed negate what the brown one did, which is JUST watering the flowers. There are times I want to just water my flowers and not speed up my crops and it is no longer available for that.

[anneandjuice]

Hi Tiger, that is not what I was saying. I had a neighbour who decided to be "helpful" and water flowers that were ready to be harvested. When I harvested them several hours later, I was unable to irrigate them as it was less than 24 hours since my "helpful" neighbour watered them. After forking out 50 farm cash to purchase the red sprinkler, it has no use whatsoever if a "helpful" neighbour comes along and waters the flowers. It seems to me that the developers need to look at this as it appears to be common thread in this forum. There has to be a way where we irrigate them even when neighbours, who do not have a red sprinkler waters our flowers. It defeats the purpose of having it otherwise.

Anne

[JAS0643]

I was also wondering - and I've seen people asking but I haven't totally understood the answers - if I go along to a friend's farm and water their flowers, does that stop them using the red sprinkler to water their flowers in order to cut the growing time five minutes later, or have I locked them out for a day? I've been trying to water friends' flowers while working their facilities, but I don't want to carry on doing it if I'm just sabotaging them.

If someone waters your flowers you can still water your flowers and crops with the red sprinkler and speed up the growth that same day. That information is in the first post of this thread.

Hi Tiger, that is not what I was saying. I had a neighbour who decided to be "helpful" and water flowers that were ready to be harvested. When I harvested them several hours later, I was unable to irrigate them as it was less than 24 hours since my "helpful" neighbour watered them. After forking out 50 farm cash to purchase the red sprinkler, it has no use whatsoever if a "helpful" neighbour comes along and waters the flowers. It seems to me that the developers need to look at this as it appears to be common thread in this forum. There has to be a way where we irrigate them even when neighbours, who do not have a red sprinkler waters our flowers. It defeats the purpose of having it otherwise.

Anne

Two days ago my flower farm (only flowers on this farm) was ready to harvest but the flowers where "dead" and I couldn't harvest them without watering them. I did not want to water them myself because I wanted to half the growing time. I asked a neighbor to come water them for me, she used the bucket because she doesn't own the sprinkler and watered all my flowers. I then harvested them and used the red sprinkler to water them right after that, this all happened in probably a 30 minutes time frame. I do not recall if I got the you can only water flowers once a day message but my flowers showed the w in their name and where reduced to a 2 day growing time. I don't know if someone using the brown sprinkler on flowers will be different then using the bucket or if all the changes they have made the last two days has messed something up but as of 2 days ago it was working just fine for me.

[anneandjuice]

Hi Jas

The neighbour concerned has the brown sprinkler and would have used that. As of a minute ago, I can still not irrigate those flowers and I am getting the "farm can only be watered once a day" message. The system is working fine so long as someone doesn't come and water the flowers.

Anne

[angcling]

my flowers are not maturing....they have been ready in seven minutes all day. I was able to hire someone to harvest them. There were a couple that were not watered. After I watered them they were ready in seven minutes and I can not harvest them...any ideas what is wrong

[JAS0643]

Hi Jas

The neighbour concerned has the brown sprinkler and would have used that. As of a minute ago, I can still not irrigate those flowers and I am getting the "farm can only be watered once a day" message. The system is working fine so long as someone doesn't come and water the flowers.

Anne


Even though you are getting the this farm can only be watered once a day message is the time left on the flowers or crops you are growing on that farm cut in half? It may be an issue where that message comes up but the crops and flowers that are still growing on that farm have their growing time speed up.

[tnbskts]

That's what I was wondering. I've seen statements that watering by neighbours shouldn't make a difference, but I've seen people complaining that it does.

[susieq30549]

cant open farm in any browser .. ran ccleaner and reopened in all browsers .. anyone else having this problem?

[susieq30549]

cant open farm in any browser .. ran ccleaner and reopened in all browsers .. anyone else having this problem?

whew, im back ... maybe slashkey rebooted ..

[anneandjuice]

Even though you are getting the this farm can only be watered once a day message is the time left on the flowers or crops you are growing on that farm cut in half? It may be an issue where that message comes up but the crops and flowers that are still growing on that farm have their growing time speed up.

The flowers' growth time has not been reduced. The only thing showing is that they are fertilised. Luckily it's not one of the farms specifically used for flower growing, but it's annoying just the same.

[Cookie01]

Cookie, this is from Raul's post release update:

"-Some users wants to revive flowers but without doubling growth speed for crops in that farm: The red sprinkler in addition to doubling the growth speed, will also extend the gone to waste time, so even if you double the growth speed unintentionally by reviving your flowers, you will have the same time as before to harvest your crops, this will effectively remove the need to have the brown water sprinkler in the toolbox or storage."

So it seems it doesn't matter if they get speeded up. We will have the option to harvest them at a sooner time, but they will not go to waste until they would have if they had not been speeded up.

I was feeling the way you did until I went back and read all the post release notes.
Thank you for that :)

[kahra01]

Why can't I post ANYTHING from my farm since the upgrade on Ausugst 30th? My game is totally ruined without being able to post facilities, belts, recipe requests, etc. I keep working crops, of course, and work for my neighbors, but ???????????? WHEN WILL IT BE FIXED? I have notified Slashkey twice to no avail. I'M BEGGING FOR SOME HELP HERE! PLEASE!!! :'(

If you are using IE.. hit ALT T , click on Compatibility View Settings, remove facebook.com and all should be good. I had the same problem and Taz made a post because others were also having the problem. It worked a treat for me, hope it helps you :)

If you are having problems with things.. its always a good thing to read on here first because generally someone has the answer and you can solve it straight away and get on with the game lol

[jprettypicture2]

I have a problem when I use the red irrigator on wheat. I does not half the time at all stays the same.

[jsbh821]

Awesome updates as usual! Thanks to all who make this a great game!

[Satis]

Having let it settle a bit, these are my feelings about the upgrade.

1) I like the concept of the red sprinkler but I REALLY want the old brown one back for just doing flowers.

2) I would like the old notice on crops showing 'percentage of growth' to be made available as an optional alternative to the new 'number of hours to go', which I find very confusing.

3) I'd like the wording 'Ready in 1.3 Days' to be changed, as I find that if I just hover the mouse and glance at the message, I often mistake this for 'Ready to harvest.' It slows me down when doing a swift inspection. Perhaps 'Harvestable in 1.3 Days'?

4) A long-term wish; I would love to be able to group items in the Facility Manager according to my own design. For example, I'd have everything that needs cheese together, and everything that requires sugar.

[maggiel29]

my flowers are not maturing....they have been ready in seven minutes all day. I was able to hire someone to harvest them. There were a couple that were not watered. After I watered them they were ready in seven minutes and I can not harvest them...any ideas what is wrong

Have you tried re-loading the game, clearing your cache, re-booting your browser or PC?

Just a thought - it happened to me but behaved when I closed the game and re-opened it.

[KayGee]

Having let it settle a bit, these are my feelings about the upgrade.

1) I like the concept of the red sprinkler but I REALLY want the old brown one back for just doing flowers.

2) I would like the old notice on crops showing 'percentage of growth' to be made available as an optional alternative to the new 'number of hours to go', which I find very confusing.

3) I'd like the wording 'Ready in 1.3 Days' to be changed, as I find that if I just hover the mouse and glance at the message, I often mistake this for 'Ready to harvest.' It slows me down when doing a swift inspection. Perhaps 'Harvestable in 1.3 Days'?

4) A long-term wish; I would love to be able to group items in the Facility Manager according to my own design. For example, I'd have everything that needs cheese together, and everything that requires sugar.

I have lost crops due to mis-reading the "ready" message in haste, so I like number 3. Also, a customized facility manager is a long-time dream of mine, too. I would like to be able to exclude some items from "start all",although I love the concept (e.g. I NEVER make peach liqueur because I would rather use the peaches elsewhere, so I can't use the bottling machine in the distillery). Small thing, but a "dashboard" for the facility manager where we could arrange facilities in a preferred order, choose the order in which they fill, choose what items to start each time, etc. would be terrific. And, of course, my longed-for "super forklift" that would store ALL items at a click. One can dream....

[mindyj5]

A few things I've noticed since the update:
My oil pumps Appear to be working super fast, last night I emptied the done and started all, 28 pending. This morning, 26 pending, 5 done........the math doesn't work, lol. When I stored the "done", I got 2 from each pump, again, the math doesn't work, lol.
I emptied a textile mill, moved it to another farm. I later decided to move it somewhere else, forgot I had already emptied it, check it and it had stuff done even though it was 0 pending and 0 done when I moved it.
I cleared my cache, etc last night so it isn't a problem with that.
It's not a big deal really but if it is happening with the pump and a problem with the textile mill, it could be happening in more facilities.
Thanks for the wonderful update, you all are amazing :)

[Sandraneta]

Thanks for your hard work. :) I must admit that I really enjoyed irrigating all of my neighbors farms, even if there were no flowers. After all, crops need irrigation as well.

[Carrie's]

If you are using IE.. hit ALT T , click on Compatibility View Settings, remove facebook.com and all should be good. I had the same problem and Taz made a post because others were also having the problem. It worked a treat for me, hope it helps you :)

If you are having problems with things.. its always a good thing to read on here first because generally someone has the answer and you can solve it straight away and get on with the game lolI have the same problem. I tried Taz's fix and I am still unable to post! :(

[caligirl62]

Thanks for the new levels but that doesn't help those of us who are already at the highest level. With the new update, I'm not able to advance unless I stop playing FT for 4 or 6 months.

RIGHT!! they need to add 60-100 levels at a time!!:D

[angelsloveyou]

Hi, I just wanted to thank you for all the hard work. I love all the new levels and great new releases. I'd love to know why I keep running out of sugar. I plant and plant and plant and I still run out. Does anyone know why? Thanks.

Angels

[driverdave]

RIGHT!! they need to add 60-100 levels at a time!!:D

we wish...lol...but it wont happen........ too much free farmcash

[Taz D]

Hi, I just wanted to thank you for all the hard work. I love all the new levels and great new releases. I'd love to know why I keep running out of sugar. I plant and plant and plant and I still run out. Does anyone know why? Thanks.

Angels
If you only have 1 of each of the facilities that use sugar you would still need 6330 sugar to fill them all.

[driverdave]

Hi, I just wanted to thank you for all the hard work. I love all the new levels and great new releases. I'd love to know why I keep running out of sugar. I plant and plant and plant and I still run out. Does anyone know why? Thanks.

Angels

you probably need another sugar refinery or 2...i have 4 and they make between them enough to support full productions and with s little over

[angelsloveyou]

Thank you Driver Dave. I bought 3 more sugar refineries so I should be ok now. I appreciate your help.

Angels

[jcassemjr]

Thank you Driver Dave. I bought 3 more sugar refineries so I should be ok now. I appreciate your help.

Angels

It will also be dependent on if you hire your facilities out on a daily/regular basis, how many friends actually work your facilities, if you try to keep your facilities at 100%, and how many of the other facilities that use sugar you have on your farms. 4 May or May Not be enough!

[suepatches]

Hi I have a cow stuck in storage. my neighbor has 100 cows stuck in storage. Any body know what we should do? I do reg clearing of media files, cookies. and get all updates as they arrive. I use IE windows 7.

[driverdave]

It will also be dependent on if you hire your facilities out on a daily/regular basis, how many friends actually work your facilities, if you try to keep your facilities at 100%, and how many of the other facilities that use sugar you have on your farms. 4 May or May Not be enough!

good thought jerry however given that i am an uncaught FTAA candidate they should be fine ....i run max productions in sugar intensive facilitys 5-6 times a week when the mood takes me ...cane is an easy one to put on b4 one goes to bed and harvest the next morning but good point about how well the friends work the facilitys if/when posted

[jprettypicture2]

why is it that my Red Mobile Sprinkler also irrigate crops takes the wheat from 1.6 days then, i use it and it only goes to 19.9 hours. this always happens

[maggiel29]

why is it that my Red Mobile Sprinkler also irrigate crops takes the wheat from 1.6 days then, i use it and it only goes to 19.9 hours. this always happens

This confused me at first - but the Farm Town crop growth day is 20 hours so wheat being a 2 day crop is 40 hours. Therefore half of that is 20 hours. The 1.6 days refers to the normal 24 hour clock - which works out at just under 40 hours - not precisely 2 FT days but close enough. 24 x half the 1.6 (0.8) comes out about 19 hours.
The maths on the calculations the game displays arent precise as they appear to be based on different clocks!

[Bonnie Jo]

This confused me at first - but the Farm Town crop growth day is 20 hours so wheat being a 2 day crop is 40 hours. Therefore half of that is 20 hours. The 1.6 days refers to the normal 24 hour clock - which works out at just under 40 hours - not precisely 2 FT days but close enough. 24 x half the 1.6 (0.8) comes out about 19 hours.
The maths on the calculations the game displays arent precise as they appear to be based on different clocks!
This is also why I preferred the % showing instead of the 1.6 or whatever. Much easier to track.

[maggiel29]

This is also why I preferred the % showing instead of the 1.6 or whatever. Much easier to track.

Yes - the two mouse over displays are not consistent. One is based on the 24 hour clock and one on the 20 hour FT clock

[pythonis]

i like the time showing the way it is now. i like knowing how much time i have. i got tired of fertilizing my crops at 99% then having to sit and wait 3-4 hours for them to be ready. Now i can fertilize at the last possible minute.

[maggiel29]

i like the time showing the way it is now. i like knowing how much time i have. i got tired of fertilizing my crops at 99% then having to sit and wait 3-4 hours for them to be ready. Now i can fertilize at the last possible minute.

Yes I like the time as it is now but I wish the two portions were consistent - either we are working on a 24 hour clock or a 20 hour one!

[pythonis]

its been fine for me. all i ever see is the 20 hour. of course everyone has there own issues as far as how the game runs on their pc so im sure itll be squared away soon.

[driverdave]

This is also why I preferred the % showing instead of the 1.6 or whatever. Much easier to track.

what would be good is for them just to show how many total hours are left and when it gets under one hr make it show minutes that would be the ultimate fix for this in my humble opinion

[pythonis]

already does that. i had one a few moments ago that i fertilized with one minute before time to harvest

[Satis]

This is also why I preferred the % showing instead of the 1.6 or whatever. Much easier to track.

Agree absolutely, as I keep on saying. But if we are to keep this system, then I'd prefer it to be in hours -- not days and hours, and based on the real-time 24 hour clock. There's enough maths involved in this game already!

[Randall_Lind]

I would like to water per crop not farm

[Dr. Dirt]

I see on the first post they claim no known issues. Here's one, My flowers were just harvested on farm 7. Someone has watered them today (not me) because they show the water as being full. When I try to water them it says "flowers can only be watered once a day" and they don't have the "W" showing when I mouseover them. The growth time shows the full 3.9 days The last time I watered them was 2 days ago. When I mouseover the red sprinkler in the toolbox it has no time showing. I thought you could speed up the growth even if a neighbor waters your flowers.

[Dr. Dirt]

OK, I had to plant a crop in 1 plot to make it work. They need to fix this. This has to be the most buggy thing they've come out with.

[thonotosassa]

I have had no issues with the red sprinkler on my crops or flowers. I love it. Greatest thing since deep fried butter. :)

[KayGee]

what would be good is for them just to show how many total hours are left and when it gets under one hr make it show minutes that would be the ultimate fix for this in my humble opinion

That's what I think! Raul told me the developers thought total hours would be unwieldy, but I told him decimals aren't any easier for most folks than percentages! lol The 20-hour/24 hour thing should be standardized, in any case...does anyone know WHY a FT day is 20 hours?? I wonder.

[Dr. Dirt]

I don't get the difficulty of decimals. .1 is six minutes, .2 is 12 minutes, etc.

[maggiel29]

That's what I think! Raul told me the developers thought total hours would be unwieldy, but I told him decimals aren't any easier for most folks than percentages! lol The 20-hour/24 hour thing should be standardized, in any case...does anyone know WHY a FT day is 20 hours?? I wonder.

Maybe it was something to do with the programming and imposed on Slashkey rather than the other way round.
It does make sense to me now but seeing 1.6 days for wheat change to 19 hours when watered does throw one off a little!
Poor developers - they must have only just got over the uproar the belts caused at first!

[maggiel29]

I don't get the difficulty of decimals. .1 is six minutes, .2 is 12 minutes, etc.

I like the time showing as actual TIME rather than percentages - did my head in because I kept having to look up how long the crops took to grow in the first place. Please devs dont change back to %. Maybe the time cant be shown as hours until it gets under one day as the 5 day crop for example would be too many digits??
What DOES confuse folks is that when they speed up growth it appears to be wrong when it says 1.6 days then 19 hours and is a 2 day crop - if it showed 39.9 after planting there wouldnt be so much of a problem.
Just my opinion - I have to say I really appreciate the red sprinkler now Ive worked out the best way to make use of it.

[InePine]

I havent bought the red sprinkler. I think half the harvest time is a brilliant idea, but i would like to be able to water my flowers and not think about what it does to my crops, or vice versa. I have flowers on all my farms and i like them to be ready at the same time, if i were to water only one farm with the red sprinkler they wouldnt be. I also plant several types of crops on the same farm, so using the red sprinkler would just complicate my farming, i prefer to keep it like im used to.
That being said, when i water my flowers with the original sprinkler they still show the W on mouseover afterwords, until the next time i harvest them, and the W reappears when i water them the next time. Its not really a big deal because they still have the same 4 day harvest time, but i doubt they are intended to show the W that would indicate they have been watered with the red sprinkler.

[KayGee]

I don't get the difficulty of decimals. .1 is six minutes, .2 is 12 minutes, etc.

...and .1 days is 2.4 hours is 144 minutes, etc...just saying it could be simpler, is all. I think like mad all day at work...don't really need to think about a game...lol. In a perfect world it would say "corn field ready at 2:40 p.m. Friday"...automatically adjusted for my time zone of course - lol. Again, one can dream...

[Farmer Williehedges]

My neighbor can't hire workers for facilities, collect gifts, erc and can't get Forum to answer her questions or even recognize her user name at this point. She cleared cache, etc and nothing changed. She has used 3 different computers trying for resolution, any suggestions for her?

[melizabeth5]

My red sprinkler is in the tool box. The brown one is not, it is in storage, why is that? I want to use it occasionally and want to water neighbor's farms...would be much easier if it were in the tool box.

[JAS0643]

My red sprinkler is in the tool box. The brown one is not, it is in storage, why is that? I want to use it occasionally and want to water neighbor's farms...would be much easier if it were in the tool box.

You can still water your neighbors farms it will not prevent them from coming right behind you and watering their own farms with the red sprinkler.

[Tonjabell]

Since this release, I am having a great deal of problem posting belt accomplishments....actually, they aren't posting, have had one for the last two days that has actually posted, all the rest ask if I want to post, but don't do anything. And why is the farm freezing up on full screen, have to reload, it does it again. Fancy doesn't work if it is broken folks!

[Docperk]

I know I have seen this posted in here and don't remember if there was a fix for it and I don't see as a bug that has not been fixed.... I have a field with the crops show they have gone waste but mouse over says they will go to waste in 5.4 hours. I tried to harvest them anyway and it does not work.
Do i have to delete them?

[alsam]

Hi,

Since the recent up-grade, when I post work on my facilities they are not appearing on my News Feed. They only appear on my wall.

Can you please advice

thank

Sam

[Taz D]

Hi,

Since the recent up-grade, when I post work on my facilities they are not appearing on my News Feed. They only appear on my wall.

Can you please advice

thank

Sam
My posts don't show on my newsfeed until I refresh the page. Try that first and see if it shows.
Are you seeing any one elses posts on your newsfeed? If not click on Most Recent at top of newsfeed and select games to see if they show up that way. If they still do not show click on that again and click on Edit Options. In there make sure Farm Town is not listed. If it is click on the X next to it to remove it from that list.

[Docperk]

I know I have seen this posted in here and don't remember if there was a fix for it and I don't see as a bug that has not been fixed.... I have a field with the crops show they have gone waste but mouse over says they will go to waste in 5.4 hours. I tried to harvest them anyway and it does not work.
Do i have to delete them?


I have tried harvesting, I tried hiring someone to harvest, they could not harvest either. I tried hiring someone to plow, I can get a message saying that I can only hire someone to plow if the field has been harvested or gone to waste. The only that is possible is to delete the fields.
Again they show as if they gone to waste but the mouse over says they have 3.5 hours before they go to waste.

Any help for this?

[Docperk]

My posts don't show on my newsfeed until I refresh the page. Try that first and see if it shows.
Are you seeing any one elses posts on your newsfeed? If not click on Most Recent at top of newsfeed and select games to see if they show up that way. If they still do not show click on that again and click on Edit Options. In there make sure Farm Town is not listed. If it is click on the X next to it to remove it from that list.

I have always had that issue, I thought it was normal, they don't show on news feed to me until someone replies to them, but they show on their news feed.

[Taz D]

I have always had that issue, I thought it was normal, they don't show on news feed to me until someone replies to them, but they show on their news feed.
Me too. What I do after I post is go over and refresh the page. Then they show.

[alsam]

I have checked all settings. Am not seeing my friends posts either.
This problem has only just started to occur this week since the latest update.

[Dr. Dirt]

You can still water your neighbors farms it will not prevent them from coming right behind you and watering their own farms with the red sprinkler.


It sure did with mine this morning.

[LazyHousewifeRanch]

I just hired someone to harvest my flowers. When she was done, she watered them. Now my red sprinkler won't water them. It says the farm is already watered, and my growth time has not decreased. So I spent 50 fc and now I have to wait till tomorrow to speed my time, if someone else does not come along and water my flowers before I can get to them.

[Tiger]

I just hired someone to harvest my flowers. When she was done, she watered them. Now my red sprinkler won't water them. It says the farm is already watered, and my growth time has not decreased. So I spent 50 fc and now I have to wait till tomorrow to speed my time, if someone else does not come along and water my flowers before I can get to them.

How many hours ago did you last use the red sprinkler ?

[LazyHousewifeRanch]

Day before yesterday. I figured out you could only use it once a day the very first day. :)

[Tiger]

Day before yesterday. I figured out you could only use it once a day the very first day. :)

Thank you for that information, have you refreshed your farm, tried clearing caches or reloaded since your friend watered your farm? If not please try that.

If refreshing and clearing caches has not helped could you please supply the following information....

Have you planted new crops on that farm since you last used the red sprinkler


Is there a (W) showing when you hover your mouse over a crop/flower

can you please look in your extended toolbox, hover over the red sprinkler and tell me what does it says.

supply a link to your farm showing in your post so we can take a look for you

[LazyHousewifeRanch]

OK, I cleared my cashe and tried to water again. I hovered over the sprinkler in my extended toolbox and all it said was Mobile Sprinkler. I tried this on another farm I had watered, and it showed the time left to water again. All that is on this farm is flowers and trees. I might note that it is farm 11, and I've read of a few problems with that farm elsewhere in the forum. I hope I got the addy right.

http://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/play/?farm_id=1471906662&farm_ix=Y

[Docperk]

I know it is too soon for another update but is anybody else running slower than usual tonight?

[Tiger]

OK, I cleared my cashe and tried to water again. I hovered over the sprinkler in my extended toolbox and all it said was Mobile Sprinkler. I tried this on another farm I had watered, and it showed the time left to water again. All that is on this farm is flowers and trees. I might note that it is farm 11, and I've read of a few problems with that farm elsewhere in the forum. I hope I got the addy right.

http://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/play/?farm_id=1471906662&farm_ix=Y

Hello,

If your avatar's name is Sassy and your 1st farm is called Gloryland, then yes your link is correct.

O.k i cant see the (W) showing on your flowers either and as there is no message when you hover over the red sprinkler it should let you use it. All i can suggest is that you try again tomorrow and see if it lets you, you may need to wait the 20hours, but i hope not. For now do not ask or try not to let your workers water your farm when you hire them as this combination may be where the problem is. I have passed your information on. When there is new information on this issue i will post here and the News and Announcements thread will be updated ( probably quicker to check the 1st post there than search for individual posts here).

[LazyHousewifeRanch]

Thank you. I'll make sure to hire someone I know, so they understand not to water. As long as one of my neighbors doesn't slip in and water for me in the middle of the night, I'll manage.

[maggiel29]

My neighbor can't hire workers for facilities, collect gifts, erc and can't get Forum to answer her questions or even recognize her user name at this point. She cleared cache, etc and nothing changed. She has used 3 different computers trying for resolution, any suggestions for her?

I had this prob a while ago - is she able to accept a gift and get the gift page up where you say yes or no to more? At the bottom is a link to send a support message. One of the developers got on my farm and cleared the data files which had become corrupt.

[Docperk]

I have tried harvesting, I tried hiring someone to harvest, they could not harvest either. I tried hiring someone to plow, I can get a message saying that I can only hire someone to plow if the field has been harvested or gone to waste. The only that is possible is to delete the fields.
Again they show as if they gone to waste but the mouse over says they have 3.5 hours before they go to waste.

Any help for this?

Well time ran out, I was able to plow after the time out but still a whole field wasted for no reason.

[suepatches]

Hi I have 11 mineral mines, 11 open pit mines, 6 dairy. Have 600 cows, some are the big holstein kind. I find I am running out of things from the mines too soon and can't fill the cheese and cream to max in the dairy processing plant after harvesting the 6 dairy barns. I could fill those two catagories in the past off one barn and now it seems like the milk is going to never land. Is this a glitch ? I make sure not to sell the milk when I sell stuff, so that isnt the problem.

[JAS0643]

Thank you. I'll make sure to hire someone I know, so they understand not to water. As long as one of my neighbors doesn't slip in and water for me in the middle of the night, I'll manage.

Someone else posted something earlier today that makes me thank I know what the problem is. Try plowing one field on the farm and planting raspberries and then try to water the flowers. See if that will cut the time in half on the flowers. I think there is a glitch in the system if people only have flower and no crops on that farm. It seems that when someone uses the brown sprinkler to water the flowers, it is not letting people use the red sprinkler. If there are crops and flowers on the farm it works just fine if someone has used the brown sprinkler the red one can still be used and will cut the time in half for both flowers and crops.

In another post you said that your employee harvested the flowers then watered them, did she harvest the flowers again after she watered them? If she did she wasted her time harvesting them a second time. While you can check you storage before and after the harvest and it looks like the flowers went into your storage when you refresh the game the second harvest of flowers will not be in your storage, the game will have corrected that little glitch on you.

[cutie_ghing]

why i cant posting and publish in my wall by using IE...but when i used mozilla and chrome i can....what can i do for this.....any helper plzz...thanks

[driverdave]

Hi I have 11 mineral mines, 11 open pit mines, 6 dairy. Have 600 cows, some are the big holstein kind. I find I am running out of things from the mines too soon and can't fill the cheese and cream to max in the dairy processing plant after harvesting the 6 dairy barns. I could fill those two catagories in the past off one barn and now it seems like the milk is going to never land. Is this a glitch ? I make sure not to sell the milk when I sell stuff, so that isnt the problem.

if you look at a post from JAS u will see a link there that describes how to link your farm to the forum correctly ..i would have gone to have a look but you dont have the right link in your post ...to me it sounds like you are trying to post facilities too often and thus do not have enough completed raw materials the mines are a slow producer ...how many dairy processing plants are you trying to fill cheese in one dairy takes 180 milk to max cream takes 720 milk so for those 2 items in one dairy processing plant you need 900 milk hope this info is helpfull

[JAS0643]

Hi I have 11 mineral mines, 11 open pit mines, 6 dairy. Have 600 cows, some are the big holstein kind. I find I am running out of things from the mines too soon and can't fill the cheese and cream to max in the dairy processing plant after harvesting the 6 dairy barns. I could fill those two catagories in the past off one barn and now it seems like the milk is going to never land. Is this a glitch ? I make sure not to sell the milk when I sell stuff, so that isnt the problem.

Just some information for you. If you max out the cream in one dairy factory you will get 4,320 units of cream for that one load. It takes only 1,260 creams to max out the stuff that takes cream. Of that cream 720 go to make whipped cream which will get you 1,440 units of whipped cream if you max out the whipped cream. Now you only need 720 whipped creams to max out the stuff you need whipped cream for. Look in your storage and see how many whipped creams and creams you have I would be willing to bet you have tons of the stuff. If that is the case don't make any cream or whipped cream for a few loads and only make them every other or even every 3rd load after that. The same is true for the metal sheets while it takes a lot of stuff to make them you make way more then you need so you end up with a good stock pile of them and don't need to make them every time you load the facilities.

[maggiel29]

Hi I have 11 mineral mines, 11 open pit mines, 6 dairy. Have 600 cows, some are the big holstein kind. I find I am running out of things from the mines too soon and can't fill the cheese and cream to max in the dairy processing plant after harvesting the 6 dairy barns. I could fill those two catagories in the past off one barn and now it seems like the milk is going to never land. Is this a glitch ? I make sure not to sell the milk when I sell stuff, so that isnt the problem.

I like to empty my facilities and then max them all out and sell off the excess after to avoid a stock pile - I usually only fill them once a week - often near the weekend when I know I will get my friends to work them. Thats just how I work - though I do have two of some facilities and 3/4 of the mines. I find it is next to impossible to keep facilities totally filled up every day.
I beg or buy things I am short on - an ingredient request for copper sheets normally tops up my output with Copper Ore for example - and DH just sells his crops. I DO wish the selling limit was higher than 1000 though!

[Tiger]

Hello everyone :)

Just a friendly reminder that this thread is for Feedback on the New Releases only. Please post questions about other facilities in the appropriate threads or continue your discussions via PMs.

Thank you

[Original Tee]

Post Release Changes - Sep 2, 1:35PM EST:

-Both Stables now have bigger alternative views


I'd love to use the larger stable, but when I use it the horses around it render underneath. The smaller stable renders under the horses. Could this be changed please?

[SunnyD]

I have checked all settings. Am not seeing my friends posts either.
This problem has only just started to occur this week since the latest update.

actually we just had an update on FB too.... it has to do with your feed settings something about being able to view all friends or the friends you communicate with most often.... i checked on my profile page to be sure i can view all friends..... dang i can't remember exactly try to post on your FB wall and hopefully someone remembers how to do it.... so wish i could ....sorry :(

[Deborah1979]

:) In the New Release July 28, 2011...down at the bottom of Raul's post under Bug Fixes & Post-Launch Updates:
#9 The tench fish was removed from all waters.....All fish now have a use except for the Sturgeon which will be used in the next release.
(edit by Raul on August 03, 2011 at 5:23 pm)

Have I overlooked something?? Sturgeon is still showing as a "non-ingredient".

Maybe this was just an oversight?? Can Raul & the devs add this in a "post-launch" update for the August 30, 2011 update, or will we wait for the next update to use the Sturgeon?

Thanks for checking on this to the mods. (And I know the red sprinkler thingy has been getting priority on getting the glitches straightened out and fish would come way down the list.) :D

[suepatches]

Just some information for you. If you max out the cream in one dairy factory you will get 4,320 units of cream for that one load. It takes only 1,260 creams to max out the stuff that takes cream. Of that cream 720 go to make whipped cream which will get you 1,440 units of whipped cream if you max out the whipped cream. Now you only need 720 whipped creams to max out the stuff you need whipped cream for. Look in your storage and see how many whipped creams and creams you have I would be willing to bet you have tons of the stuff. If that is the case don't make any cream or whipped cream for a few loads and only make them every other or even every 3rd load after that. The same is true for the metal sheets while it takes a lot of stuff to make them you make way more then you need so you end up with a good stock pile of them and don't need to make them every time you load the facilities.
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Seems, I dont know what im doinf so wont bother you good people anymore.

[RFMad]

Thank you for the update. I really would like to have more levels for each update. I was at 235 and with the new update, I was already at the new top level of 260. That's only 25 levels and 25 fc. I can't get any of the new items for 25 fc. And I know the object for the devs is probably to get people to buy the fc, but I'd like to have more available to me than just the 25. I really love the game but would like to see more rewards than just once every other update.
Thank you!

[Sheila315]

Has anyone noticed that the current dog house is way to small for the Border Collie. Can an option be made to change the view like the one that was made on the Horse Stable??? Or even add a new one for more coin. I'd be willing to pay coin for one..

[KEKLAOL]

with most other tools where you have to buy one before you can buy another, they're both available in the extended toolbox and can be used on all the farms without having to be taken out for each individual farm. I really don't see why the brown sprinkler can't be available as well as the red one for people who've (a) paid for it and (b) want to use it. Farm town is usually really good at not trying to impose a particular way of playing, and it'd be a shame to start now. I know the red sprinkler will do everything the brown sprinkler does and more besides, but even so, some people simply want to water their flowers.


i have eight farms with lots of flowers. I like to harvest them at the same time. Now with the irrigator it changes when they harvest. We need a sprinkler. And rwe need a seperate irrigator. Not the same.

[KEKLAOL]

maybe since the developers seem to listen to suggestions why dont they have a vote to see who wants both, the red and the brown sprinklers then they would know how most people feel.

we keep talking about a brown sprinkler. In my stor under tools there is a white sprinkler and a red sprinikler.

My friend bought the white sprinkler (she has no floweers) but wanted to be able to irrigate. After buying the white one which she did not need, she tried to buy the red sprinkler and it is locked. She is osut 45 cash and no irrigation

[Tiger]

we keep talking about a brown sprinkler. In my stor under tools there is a white sprinkler and a red sprinikler.

My friend bought the white sprinkler (she has no floweers) but wanted to be able to irrigate. After buying the white one which she did not need, she tried to buy the red sprinkler and it is locked. She is osut 45 cash and no irrigation

Hello,

Ask her to refresh the game and look again, sometimes the game needs a few mins to update the information.

[sonny sexton]

I can not post utilities all this week!!! help!

[kahra01]

I can not post utilities all this week!!! help!

It pays to read previous threads! go to page 57.. a possible solution is on there.. not sure that ur problem has much to do with the new release!

*** If you are using IE.. hit ALT T , click on Compatibility View Settings, remove facebook.com and all should be good. I had the same problem and Taz made a post because others were also having the problem. It worked a treat for me, hope it helps you

[tnbskts]

i have eight farms with lots of flowers. I like to harvest them at the same time. Now with the irrigator it changes when they harvest. We need a sprinkler. And rwe need a seperate irrigator. Not the same.

I know some people have said they want to use the new sprinkler on flowers because they want to speed up the time to harvest.

I wonder if it'd be possible to configure the red sprinkler so you could choose "irrigate crops" or "irrigate crops and flowers" for your once-a-day growth acceleration depending on what you wanted to do. Then if the brown sprinkler was also available to just irrigate flowers any time you wanted to, without affecting the time to harvest, that should cover pretty much all bases, as well as hopefully making people feel they haven't wasted all that Farm Cash on buying a red sprinkler which just makes the brown one disappear.

[kahra01]

I know some people have said they want to use the new sprinkler on flowers because they want to speed up the time to harvest.

I wonder if it'd be possible to configure the red sprinkler so you could choose "irrigate crops" or "irrigate crops and flowers" for your once-a-day growth acceleration depending on what you wanted to do. Then if the brown sprinkler was also available to just irrigate flowers any time you wanted to, without affecting the time to harvest, that should cover pretty much all bases, as well as hopefully making people feel they haven't wasted all that Farm Cash on buying a red sprinkler which just makes the brown one disappear.

Thats a fantastic idea! Would certainly make things so much easier! :)

[maggiel29]

I know some people have said they want to use the new sprinkler on flowers because they want to speed up the time to harvest.

I wonder if it'd be possible to configure the red sprinkler so you could choose "irrigate crops" or "irrigate crops and flowers" for your once-a-day growth acceleration depending on what you wanted to do. Then if the brown sprinkler was also available to just irrigate flowers any time you wanted to, without affecting the time to harvest, that should cover pretty much all bases, as well as hopefully making people feel they haven't wasted all that Farm Cash on buying a red sprinkler which just makes the brown one disappear.

Yes a very good idea : )

[al_bundy]

I know some people have said they want to use the new sprinkler on flowers because they want to speed up the time to harvest.

I wonder if it'd be possible to configure the red sprinkler so you could choose "irrigate crops" or "irrigate crops and flowers" for your once-a-day growth acceleration depending on what you wanted to do. Then if the brown sprinkler was also available to just irrigate flowers any time you wanted to, without affecting the time to harvest, that should cover pretty much all bases, as well as hopefully making people feel they haven't wasted all that Farm Cash on buying a red sprinkler which just makes the brown one disappear.

i think the best idea would be to seperate the sprinklers

the white (brown) Irrigates & or speeds up flowers only
the red Irrigates & speeds up crops

[Satis]

i think the best idea would be to seperate the sprinklers

the white (brown) Irrigates & or speeds up flowers only
the red Irrigates & speeds up crops

I agree. And the operative word is OR. I still want the choice whether or not I want to speed up my flowers.

[al_bundy]

I agree. And the operative word is OR. I still want the choice whether or not I want to speed up my flowers.

personally i dont see why anyone wouldent want to speed up there flowers particularly the rose & white rose which seem to be the 2 highest demand flowers but being able to do them seperatley i think is important as if you irrigate your crops at a different time to harvesting the flowers then it causes problems

[roz1972]

wish we we harvest trees they would be like the ones we cut down so we would know when we have them all then regrow when ready to harvest again

i too would like this to happen

[Original Tee]

personally i dont see why anyone wouldent want to speed up there flowers particularly the rose & white rose which seem to be the 2 highest demand flowers but being able to do them seperatley i think is important as if you irrigate your crops at a different time to harvesting the flowers then it causes problems

I think the real problem is when you know your flowers are ready to harvest but they have wilted so you need to water them before harvesting. If you use the red sprinkler to get the flowers watered so you can harvest them then you cannot get the advantage of speeding the growth time up until 20 hours later. Not all of my friends have the sprinkler and it takes a very long time to water a couple of my farms with the water bucket so I'd love to be able to water my flowers with the brown sprinkler so they can be harvested then be able to irrigate them with the red sprinkler so I will have them again in half the time.

[Sheila315]

I paid for my brown sprinkler and I want it back....I don't think I should have to irrigate a bare farm just to water my flowers. Give it back please or add the option of letting us irrigate more than once a day. I've always agreed with Slashkey and their decisions....however on this one you've done us wrong. We basically paid $95 cash dollars for an irrigator and lost features...

[tnbskts]

i think the best idea would be to seperate the sprinklers

the white (brown) Irrigates & or speeds up flowers only
the red Irrigates & speeds up crops

Yes, but quite a few people who've bought the red sprinkler want to keep the ability to use it to speed up the growth of flowers as well as crops, and will probably complain if an ability they've paid for is taken away. Especially if the ability to speed flowers is removed from the 50 FC red sprinkler and becomes yet another 30 FC extension to the brown sprinkler.

I tend to agree that it would probably have been better to have this new irrigation system be exclusive to crops, but it's likely to create some serious ill will if features are removed after being bought. The thing is, some people seem to be asking for the choice of whether to speed their flowers or just water them (which can be done whenever they need it, regardless of the status of crops on that farm), and they don't necessarily want to "waste" their daily allocation of the red sprinkler to revive flowers on a farm with a short-term crop they don't want to speed. It just makes things stressful and complicated, which isn't how a game should be. It ought to be possible to figure something out that gives people the choice of what they want to do, especially given a cost of 95 FC for the two implements.

IMO the first step should be to bring back the brown sprinkler for people who've bought the red one. That at least allows people to use a one-click system to revive and water flowers without having to worry about timings of crops, and it seems to be the thing that people are complaining about the most. It's almost unprecedented that a current tool just disappears when you buy the extended one, and I hope it isn't the way of the future. My ability to sow some of my farms without creating a real dog's breakfast would be seriously hampered if I lost a 4x4 sower when buying a 5x5 one.

[Simera]

Arrgghh! Sorry! (frustrated now) Please, please, please give us back the Brown Sprinkler in addition to the Red One (which I also bought). As it is now, I have to hide my flowers as they're dead many times.) I do not always want the crops to be ready in half time, and thereby my flowers are getting wittered! (Reminds me of old times when we had to use the water-can to water our flowers, and I never had the flowers shown, as they were all "black") If I want to water my flowers ONLY, I have to take the Brown Sprinkler out of storage and use it on every farm, these days. This, Dev's is a major step backwards, in my humble opinion. Please give us the Brown Sprinkler back in the Tool-box. Thanks for listening.

Regards
Simera

[lavanah]

What happened to my brown sprinkler? I can't water my flowers with the red one. Maybe the flowers should stay watered with the red one every time we water crops. I don't have this red one figured out yet, oh dear. I like it alright. It is pretty spiffy. I just need my gray one back. Thank you for all your help, you are doing a great job.

[minxie63]

about the flowers with the red sprinkler... if we don't irrigate every day until they're harvested, will they revert back to the 4 days before they're ready? or will they stay at half the time even if we only irrigate right after they're harvested?

[JAS0643]

about the flowers with the red sprinkler... if we don't irrigate every day until they're harvested, will they revert back to the 4 days before they're ready? or will they stay at half the time even if we only irrigate right after they're harvested?

When the flowers are watered it cuts the growing time that remains in half, watering them again will not change that. While you can water flowers once a day you only need to water them once every 3 days to keep them "alive" and not wilted.

[Sheila315]

Shouldn't Towmart be TowNmart??? Who forgot the N. And shouldn't Farmart be Farm Mart? Just wondering

[1fritz]

I paid for my brown sprinkler and I want it back....I don't think I should have to irrigate a bare farm just to water my flowers. Give it back please or add the option of letting us irrigate more than once a day. I've always agreed with Slashkey and their decisions....however on this one you've done us wrong. We basically paid $95 cash dollars for an irrigator and lost features...

I agree I would like my Brown sprinkler back...I paid for it...Just tried again took brown one out of storage and watered flowers that wilted.( the brown one turned red) Then planted cotton and tried red one will not cut time in half.

I have the harvester, the harvest plow, and the harvest plow plant. They all still work.

Why can't we have the option with both the brown and red sprinklers.

Fritz

[HelenJS22]

I agree I would like my Brown sprinkler back...I paid for it...Just tried again took brown one out of storage and watered flowers that wilted.( the brown one turned red) Then planted cotton and tried red one will not cut time in half.

I have the harvester, the harvest plow, and the harvest plow plant. They all still work.

Why can't we have the option with both the brown and red sprinklers.

Fritz

Until, and if, they give the option of using either the brown sprinkler, or the red one, you really have to keep your wits about you. If you let the flowers stay as they are until the crop is about to be harvested, plant a new crop then you can water both flowers and crop at the same time with the red sprinkler and both will be halved in time. If you have already watered flowers with the red one within the given period, you will not then be able to water a crop to halve the time.

[Witch Hazel]

ever since the upate it sees my xp's don't register on the bar. I see the numbers change but the bar is lowly.........

[Tony D]

ever since the upate it sees my xp's don't register on the bar. I see the numbers change but the bar is lowly.........Hi, are you on level 260 ? If so that is the highest level and would be why the bar does not appear to move,

[caligirl62]

we wish...lol...but it wont happen........ too much free farmcash

'free farmcash' what is that lol...that is not free!!:D

[Witch Hazel]

Hi, are you on level 260 ? If so that is the highest level and would be why the bar does not appear to move,

With the new update I'm at 260 but the new update gave us new levels. Shouldn't my xp bar move?

[minxie63]

When the flowers are watered it cuts the growing time that remains in half, watering them again will not change that. While you can water flowers once a day you only need to water them once every 3 days to keep them "alive" and not wilted.

ok cool.. thank you :)

[Taz D]

With the new update I'm at 260 but the new update gave us new levels. Shouldn't my xp bar move?
They only added 25 new levels. The old top level was 235 and now it is 260. Whan you are at the top level the bar doesn't move because there are no more levels for the bar to move for. Your experience total still goes up and next time new levels above 260 are added you will jump to the level your experience has risen to.

[maggiel29]

Posted this in the other Help and Support thread but just to make sure its seen posting it here as well.
I changed my two stables - one of each - to the larger view. They were showing as nothing ready to harvest in the facility manager but on the actual stable on my farms they show as ready to harvest!
It seems the facility manager is not recognising the new switched view like the prob when they were first made a facility.
Yes cleared cache and all that - using Google Chrome, Windows 7, Server WF8
Thanks

OK - this STILL doesnt work - the mouse over for my stables on Farm 2 and Farm 4 say they are ready to harvest but in the facility manager it says "no animals to harvest at this time".
Anyone else having this problem and any suggestions?
Do I have to empty them of 100 ordinary horses, and numerous Clydesdales and then put the shed into and out of storage etc like I did with the rabbit hutches?

[Reta J]

Posted this in the other Help and Support thread but just to make sure its seen posting it here as well.


OK - this STILL doesnt work - the mouse over for my stables on Farm 2 and Farm 4 say they are ready to harvest but in the facility manager it says "no animals to harvest at this time".
Anyone else having this problem and any suggestions?
Do I have to empty them of 100 ordinary horses, and numerous Clydesdales and then put the shed into and out of storage etc like I did with the rabbit hutches?

Yes, just had to harvest mine and the same thing happened. It wouldn't harvest through the manager, had to harvest it on the farm instead.

[al_bundy]

Yes, just had to harvest mine and the same thing happened. It wouldn't harvest through the manager, had to harvest it on the farm instead.

my sheds will be ready in a few hours so will test them i know the pig sty the hen house and dairy shed worked fine with the facility manager not sure with the others

will advise

[levarti2]

I agree I would like my Brown sprinkler back...I paid for it...Just tried again took brown one out of storage and watered flowers that wilted.( the brown one turned red) Then planted cotton and tried red one will not cut time in half.

I have the harvester, the harvest plow, and the harvest plow plant. They all still work.

Why can't we have the option with both the brown and red sprinklers.

Fritz

Last night I used my red sprinkler and it said "1 day left" ... after 8 hours it says 16 hours left. That's 24, I thought they fixed it to a 20 hr day.

Are the developers still working on the sprinkler issues?

[KEKLAOL]

I paid for my brown sprinkler and I want it back....I don't think I should have to irrigate a bare farm just to water my flowers. Give it back please or add the option of letting us irrigate more than once a day. I've always agreed with Slashkey and their decisions....however on this one you've done us wrong. We basically paid $95 cash dollars for an irrigator and lost features...


I agree. Also if you use red sprinkler for flowers you can't use it for 20 hours for crops. I watered flowers on eight farms and when I went to use red sprinler on a crop I planted an hour later it wouldn't let me irrigate the cropas. So to me I wasted 50 cash because I want to use it on crops not flowers. 20 hour limit doesn't help for crops less that 1 day. Must be a better solution to this problem.

Thank you for looking into this.,

[maggiel29]

my sheds will be ready in a few hours so will test them i know the pig sty the hen house and dairy shed worked fine with the facility manager not sure with the others

will advise

Thanks Al- the others work fine on mine - its only the two horse stables that dont work - I can harvest them on the farm but not in the facility manager

[AnnieH2009]

I just used my manure spreader that had 215 units of manure. After just 1 (one) farm fertilized, it now has 1.65 units available!!!!!!!!!!! I think this is a bug in your math.

Also I have a stables and rabbit hutch on Farm 1 that does not show up in my Facilities Manager. The ones I have on Farm 2 do.

Didn't know where else to post this feedback. Thanks!!

[StoneFace]

I just used my manure spreader that had 215 units of manure. After just 1 (one) farm fertilized, it now has 1.65 units available!!!!!!!!!!! I think this is a bug in your math.

Also I have a stables and rabbit hutch on Farm 1 that does not show up in my Facilities Manager. The ones I have on Farm 2 do.

Didn't know where else to post this feedback. Thanks!!



Looks like a dev slipped a period in your 165, which would be the correct number after using 50

That period is definitely a ? in the program !

,

[levarti2]

Last night I used my red sprinkler and it said "1 day left" ... after 8 hours it says 16 hours left. That's 24, I thought they fixed it to a 20 hr day.

Are the developers still working on the sprinkler issues?

Clarifying my post above ... the indication I had for 1.0 day left was on a crop of corn (after I had used the red sprinkler on it part way through it's cycle). Then 8 hours later it said 16.0 hours left. Still not sure how this red sprinkler is supposed to work and what it's doing the the crops, but something's plainly set to 24 hours instead of 20. Don't know if it's the crops or sprinkler, we just need clarification so we know how to plan.

thanks

[dottyF]

Wondering why when I use the red sprinkler on my 2 day crops it says its ready in 19.9 hrs? I have 2 day planted on 4 farms and all of them are doing it.It shows using coins when I water. I plant all my 2 day, 3 day etc at the same time.

[Taz D]

Wondering why when I use the red sprinkler on my 2 day crops it says its ready in 19.9 hrs? I have 2 day planted on 4 farms and all of them are doing it.It shows using coins when I water. I plant all my 2 day, 3 day etc at the same time.
Because the red sprinkler cuts the time in half for crops and flowers when you can use it. Half of 40 hours is 20 hours. So all of those 2 day crops will be ready in 1 day (Farm Town day).

[JAS0643]

I just used my manure spreader that had 215 units of manure. After just 1 (one) farm fertilized, it now has 1.65 units available!!!!!!!!!!! I think this is a bug in your math.

Also I have a stables and rabbit hutch on Farm 1 that does not show up in my Facilities Manager. The ones I have on Farm 2 do.

Didn't know where else to post this feedback. Thanks!!

Did you have the stable and rabbit hutch before they became facilities? If the answer is yes you need to take the animals out of the buildings store the buildings then take them back out of storage and put them back on the farm and they will be in the facility manger. On the rabbit hutch a new one cost 20,000 coins so it would be easier to sell the rabbit hutch and buy an new one. You can leave the animals in the hutch when you sell it and when you buy a new one the animals you had in the old one will be in the new one. While this trick will also work for the stable it is a farm cash item so don't sell it just take the animals out and store it then take it back out.

[levarti2]

Posted this in the other Help and Support thread but just to make sure its seen posting it here as well.


OK - this STILL doesnt work - the mouse over for my stables on Farm 2 and Farm 4 say they are ready to harvest but in the facility manager it says "no animals to harvest at this time".
Anyone else having this problem and any suggestions?
Do I have to empty them of 100 ordinary horses, and numerous Clydesdales and then put the shed into and out of storage etc like I did with the rabbit hutches?

I usually harvest all the animal barns from the facility manager ... I bought the stables after the latest update and the horses in it, but in order to harvest I have to physically go to that farm and click on the building to harvest. Facility manager says "nothing to harvest" ... but when I go to the building, it's ready and will harvest for me.

[Angel7]

I don't get this at all. I have decorative flowers on my farm 1. I planted a one day crop this morning and I don't want to use the red irrigation tool on it. I now want to water my flowers. Without the brown sprinkler, how am I supposed to do this if it is not in my tool box. I tried putting the brown one on the farm to water, but when I attempted to use it, it turned into the red irrigation tool. As I see it, you just took away our one-touch watering or am I missing something?

[al_bundy]

my sheds will be ready in a few hours so will test them i know the pig sty the hen house and dairy shed worked fine with the facility manager not sure with the others

will advise

I can harvest all animal buildings with the facility manager except the stables since the switch view was introduced

[levarti2]

speaking of updates, what's with Facebook's new policies about Gifts? Before you could send 26 gifts at a time but could do all your friends ... today it's 35 at a time, but only 70 total. I have to leave off some of my neighbors for gifting until tomorrow???

[levarti2]

speaking of updates, what's with Facebook's new policies about Gifts? Before you could send 26 gifts at a time but could do all your friends ... today it's 35 at a time, but only 70 total. I have to leave off some of my neighbors for gifting until tomorrow???

now it let me send the rest of the gifts. Weird things going on everywhere today.

[AnnieH2009]

Still having the issue with the manure spreader and the wrong decimal point. Looks like someone fixed 1.65 to 165, but when I used it just now, I have 1.15 available instead of 115. Thanks!

[AnnieH2009]

Did you have the stable and rabbit hutch before they became facilities? If the answer is yes you need to take the animals out of the buildings store the buildings then take them back out of storage and put them back on the farm and they will be in the facility manger. On the rabbit hutch a new one cost 20,000 coins so it would be easier to sell the rabbit hutch and buy an new one. You can leave the animals in the hutch when you sell it and when you buy a new one the animals you had in the old one will be in the new one. While this trick will also work for the stable it is a farm cash item so don't sell it just take the animals out and store it then take it back out.

Thanks I will try this with the stables and hutch.

Still having issue with decimal point in manure spreader. After fix to 165 instead of 1.65, I used it again on one farm and have 1.15 left instead of 115.

[levarti2]

they must be working on the barns right now because I just went to a chicken coop and dairy barn and they say "ready to harvest" but when I click on the "harvest" it says "nothing to harvest".

[rjohn726]

Wondering why when I use the red sprinkler on my 2 day crops it says its ready in 19.9 hrs? I have 2 day planted on 4 farms and all of them are doing it.It shows using coins when I water. I plant all my 2 day, 3 day etc at the same time.

A day in Farm Town is 20 hours

[maggiel29]

I can harvest all animal buildings with the facility manager except the stables since the switch view was introduced

Thanks Al so its empty stables, put stables in storage, put back on farm put animals back?

[JAS0643]

Thanks I will try this with the stables and hutch.

Still having issue with decimal point in manure spreader. After fix to 165 instead of 1.65, I used it again on one farm and have 1.15 left instead of 115.

On the manure there is just a decimal where there shouldn't be one but it is still giving you credit the right way.

[AnnieH2009]

On the manure there is just a decimal where there shouldn't be one but it is still giving you credit the right way.

I will check but last time it prevented me from fertilizing. Thanks!

[1fritz]

I don't get this at all. I have decorative flowers on my farm 1. I planted a one day crop this morning and I don't want to use the red irrigation tool on it. I now want to water my flowers. Without the brown sprinkler, how am I supposed to do this if it is not in my tool box. I tried putting the brown one on the farm to water, but when I attempted to use it, it turned into the red irrigation tool. As I see it, you just took away our one-touch watering or am I missing something?

You are right Angel..they took away our ability to just water flowers with one click. The red sprinkler will do it but then you can't do what you paid for with the red one The ability to cut harvest time in half.

Fritz

[suepatches]

Thank you farmtown,, you, with this new release, have managed to do what my kids, husband and other relatives could not do.. You have gotten rid of my addiction to farmtown.. I still play but the fun is now gone. I dont live to play anymore.. Im sure a lot of other people feel the same way. We are not being listened to and I for one am not happy.

[RFMad]

Thank you farmtown,, you, with this new release, have managed to do what my kids, husband and other relatives could not do.. You have gotten rid of my addiction to farmtown.. I still play but the fun is now gone. I dont live to play anymore.. Im sure a lot of other people feel the same way. We are not being listened to and I for one am not happy.

I don't agree. I like the updates. Thank you Farm Town.

[Bonnie Jo]

Thank you farmtown,, you, with this new release, have managed to do what my kids, husband and other relatives could not do.. You have gotten rid of my addiction to farmtown.. I still play but the fun is now gone. I dont live to play anymore.. Im sure a lot of other people feel the same way. We are not being listened to and I for one am not happy.
I have to admit this wasn't my favorite upgrade .. losing the brown sprinkler and the ability to just water flowers with one click still makes me angry, but I also have to admit I do like what the red sprinkler does now that I have adjusted my way of planting my farms. It hasn't killed my love of FT nor has it kept me from buying more things with FC.

[charlies4ng3ls]

Just thought I would add my tuppence worth here - I love the red sprinkler - I know that the Devs will listen to us and the functionality of the Brown Sprinkler may well return (they usually listen to our whining and moaning :) - thanks Rauol). As a workaround for the brown sprinkler - ask one of your kind neighbours to water your flowers for you - they get paid - you don't have to pay 1,000 coins and it won't interfere with your crop growth. Issue resolved.

[Bonnie Jo]

Just thought I would add my tuppence worth here - I love the red sprinkler - I know that the Devs will listen to us and the functionality of the Brown Sprinkler may well return (they usually listen to our whining and moaning :) - thanks Rauol). As a workaround for the brown sprinkler - ask one of your kind neighbours to water your flowers for you - they get paid - you don't have to pay 1,000 coins and it won't interfere with your crop growth. Issue resolved.
If they have a sprinkler - very few of my 90+ neighbors do. If your neighbor has to use the water can that is asking a lot if you have a farm full of flowers.

[Ginnie the Gimp]

I love the red sprinkler too, double the crop with manure spreader then halve the time with red sprikler, WOW doesn't even begin to cover it! Devs or Raul it was so clever to leave the harvest time as is too, no panic period! Love this game, played since one farm only but didn't find Forum 'til relatively recently, great enhancement to knowledge and pleasure. Devs, Mods and Raul you absolutely ROCK!

[al_bundy]

I love the red sprinkler too, double the crop with manure spreader then halve the time with red sprikler, WOW doesn't even begin to cover it! Devs or Raul it was so clever to leave the harvest time as is too, no panic period! Love this game, played since one farm only but didn't find Forum 'til relatively recently, great enhancement to knowledge and pleasure. Devs, Mods and Raul you absolutely ROCK!

It just keeps getting better and better :)

[liza1214]

ok ok
what is going on?
i can only send 35 gifts now where as b4 i could a gift to all of my neighbours?
Is there something going on with face book or farm town and is any1 else having this problem???

[1fritz]

ok ok
what is going on?
i can only send 35 gifts now where as b4 i could a gift to all of my neighbours?
Is there something going on with face book or farm town and is any1 else having this problem???

YES! I just discovered this change, don't know whats going on. I also could send to all neighbors doing it in different groups of 25. Today it cut me off at 35.

[Hornyroo]

Thanks I will try this with the stables and hutch.

Still having issue with decimal point in manure spreader. After fix to 165 instead of 1.65, I used it again on one farm and have 1.15 left instead of 115.

well now i see this, 3 days ago i ran out of manure while fertilizing for the first since i bought it, ive only had one full pigsty, and it was always enough for 10 farms. I just assumed 11 farms pushed me over the edge, so I ran out and bought 3 more sty's and spent hours filling it with little pink pigs?? lol guess i better check in here first before I do that again lol

[StoneFace]

Just thought I would add my tuppence worth here - I love the red sprinkler - I know that the Devs will listen to us and the functionality of the Brown Sprinkler may well return (they usually listen to our whining and moaning :) - thanks Rauol). As a workaround for the brown sprinkler - ask one of your kind neighbours to water your flowers for you - they get paid - you don't have to pay 1,000 coins and it won't interfere with your crop growth. Issue resolved.



While it may not have been the most "exciting" release.... it was still able to enhance the game.

I too think the devs will adjust the sprinkler problem (although I don't see it as a problem, and hope they leave the 20hour reset as it is.)

I would still like to see a no-limit on the buy and sell, if only neighbor-to-neighbor.
I would still like to see an alternative view for the Dairy Plant and Choco Factory.

and

maybe someday we can put multiple facilities on the same farm that will produce,.... like 3 or 4 wineries on one farm that all can produce. Or 3-4 oil rigs on one farm that all produce. They would have to be re-coded to something like WineryA, WineryB, etc. And even if I had to re-buy them all..... so what.... although the change could be handled much like a "view" selection.


maybe.


.

[Scarlet]

I agree. Also if you use red sprinkler for flowers you can't use it for 20 hours for crops. I watered flowers on eight farms and when I went to use red sprinler on a crop I planted an hour later it wouldn't let me irrigate the cropas. So to me I wasted 50 cash because I want to use it on crops not flowers. 20 hour limit doesn't help for crops less that 1 day. Must be a better solution to this problem.

Thank you for looking into this.,

I agree with this too. I planted quick-maturing crops this morning to try out, but now have to wait a whole FT day to speed up anything I have planted subsequently - but some of them are only one day crops. :( I like the idea a lot, but I would much prefer the sprinkler to be able to irrigate everything that has been planted since it was last used.Either that or it needs to work like the manure spreader (which would be logical since ground that is wet stays wet until it dries out; not until new crops are planted!)

[Scarlet]

That's what I think! Raul told me the developers thought total hours would be unwieldy, but I told him decimals aren't any easier for most folks than percentages! lol The 20-hour/24 hour thing should be standardized, in any case...does anyone know WHY a FT day is 20 hours?? I wonder.

I think the 20 hour day might have been so that you could harvest at the same time every day?

[Scarlet]

You can still water your neighbors farms it will not prevent them from coming right behind you and watering their own farms with the red sprinkler.


My neighbour says this is not true if she wants to speed up her flowers. But maybe the timing on the flowers wasn't changing immediately.

[krypto]

I don't get the difficulty of decimals. .1 is six minutes, .2 is 12 minutes, etc.

Part of the issue is the decimal days - not just hours. Mix that in with the 20/24 hours day confusion factor and trying to figure out that 1.9 days is actually 45.6 hours can be tedious... then they change some items from what you once calculated on a 24 hours day to a 30 hours farmtown day (red sprinkler)...

[tnbskts]

I'm still watering with the watering can :( - the brown sprinkler is on the shopping list but under its present configuration the red sprinkler isn't, even though it'd be nice to be able to speed up growth - and I'm finding it a bit inconvenient that recently when I water flowers that are dead, they spring up to their full growth stage whether they're full grown or not. You have to navigate away from the farm and come back in order to see whether they really are ready for harvest, or you can waste people's time hiring them for something that isn't ready.

The weird thing is that it's happening on some farms and not others. Not exactly sure what's making the difference.

[tnbskts]

That's what I think! Raul told me the developers thought total hours would be unwieldy, but I told him decimals aren't any easier for most folks than percentages! lol The 20-hour/24 hour thing should be standardized, in any case...does anyone know WHY a FT day is 20 hours?? I wonder.

Given that there are two sorts of days at FT but hours are hours, I think showing the time as hours would be clearer. Or even as days and hours (and then hours and minutes once you're within less than a day), as long as it's made clear if we're looking at 24-hour days.

[tnbskts]

My neighbour says this is not true if she wants to speed up her flowers. But maybe the timing on the flowers wasn't changing immediately.

Yes, one of my neighbours has posted in her news feed to ask her FT friends not to water her flowers because it stops her being able to use her red sprinkler to do it.

[bcm151]

The new updates are amazing!! I just wish we didn't need so much real $ with today's job market. But love the game & helps me keep my sanity! :)

[Dr. Dirt]

Why does it say "known issues none" in the first post. Every time a neighbor waters my flowers I can't speed up my flowers harvest time. I get the "a farm can only be watered once a day". If I'm supposed to be able to speed up my flowers even if a neighbor waters my flowers and I can't, that's an issue Are they working on this? I've seen others posting with the same problem.

[Majik Merlin]

ust got the manure spreader... do I put it in storage so I can use it on all farms or do I have to move it from farm to farm?

[Taz D]

Why does it say "known issues none" in the first post. Every time a neighbor waters my flowers I can't speed up my flowers harvest time. I get the "a farm can only be watered once a day". If I'm supposed to be able to speed up my flowers even if a neighbor waters my flowers and I can't, that's an issue Are they working on this? I've seen others posting with the same problem.
I don't see "known issues none" in the first post. I do see a statement of "See Known Issues and Post Release Changes at the end of this post."
That particular problem isn't listed there but there were and still are a few issues including that one.

[Taz D]

ust got the manure spreader... do I put it in storage so I can use it on all farms or do I have to move it from farm to farm?
Yes add it to your storage. In fact all tools can be left in storage to be used on all farms from the extended toolbox.

[Dr. Dirt]

I don't see "known issues none" in the first post. I do see a statement of "See Known Issues and Post Release Changes at the end of this post."
That particular problem isn't listed there but there were and still are a few issues including that one.

At the bottom of the first post:

Known Issues - Sep 2, 1:35PM EST:

None

[Docperk]

Man talking about being addicted to Farm Town, I haven't been able to get into Facebook due their maintenance BS for the last 6 1/2 hours and it is driving me nuts. I got crops that are about ready to go to waste and that is really going to p!$$ me off. :)

[anneandjuice]

I have just lost an entire farm of soybean. There is a discrepancy in when the crop went to waste and when it is saying that it will go to waste. This wasted field of soybean still says it will go to waste in 5.1 hours. It was irrigated after planting.

[Farm Lady]

Re: Brown & Red Sprinkler Issues
I've been playing FT since 2009, my favorite game, and I think this is the first time the dev's have seriously messed something up and not fixed it rather quickly. Like everyone else, I can't water my flowers with the missing brown sprinkler if I'm waiting to put in a crop and need to use the red sprinkler to cut the time in half. That being said, I'm not giving up on the devs for developing a solution that will make everyone happy- but they do seem to be taking their time about it.

[JAS0643]

Re: Brown & Red Sprinkler Issues
I've been playing FT since 2009, my favorite game, and I think this is the first time the dev's have seriously messed something up and not fixed it rather quickly. Like everyone else, I can't water my flowers with the missing brown sprinkler if I'm waiting to put in a crop and need to use the red sprinkler to cut the time in half. That being said, I'm not giving up on the devs for developing a solution that will make everyone happy- but they do seem to be taking their time about it.

I have no idea if the developers will give the brown sprinkler back to people but here is something to think about. The developers made the red sprinkler with the idea it would replace the brown sprinkler much like the orange manure spreader replaces the red manure spreader. People that bought the first manure spreader didn't complain when the orange one came out about not being able to just fertilize crops and not trees. They probably thought the same would be true for the watering of crops and flowers. Well they where wrong about that, so they have to write new code for the red sprinkler. This is not easy or quick to do. We are not talking about a quick fix of going in and changing the time from 24 hours to 20 hours that only requires a line or two of code to be changed we are talking about writing lots of code to give people what they want. That takes time and can not be done over night. I do think it would be great of the developers to say that they are working on that but it will take some time to do it but they haven't and communications is not their strong suit. I am sure the brown sprinkler will be back soon we will just have to wait till the developers can get it worked out.

[Scarlet]

ust got the manure spreader... do I put it in storage so I can use it on all farms or do I have to move it from farm to farm?

Put it into storage and you can use it on all the farms.

[maggiel29]

Posted this on the other new release forum under Help and Support but just in case someone here has an idea ...............
I posted a couple of days ago that the new switch view larger stables do not work in the facility manager. I took all the animals and stored the stables. Reloaded my farm put the stables and the animals back - it now says ready to harvest but the facility manager says "No animals ready to harvest at this time".
Any ideas please?
I have both types of stable one on farm 2 and the other on farm 4.
Server WF8, using Google Chrome and Windows 7

[psycho_mommi]

thank you raul, but would you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE increase the gift items for the factories??? 15 tomatoes is not really feasable, because it takes so many for everything!!!! 100 would be good, 200 would be great!!! if you would consider this for all the factory consumable items, that would be fantastic!!!! thanks raul for all the awesome updates!!!! :D:D:D

[Docperk]

I earlier posted that I didn't see much problem with new Red Sprinkler, but after I have been using it for a few days I feel I need to retract that statement and go with the ones that are giving it bad reviews. I love the fact that it does speed up the crops, it is just that I have now had many occasions where I need to water my flowers but had nothing planted or was planning on planting a short growing time plant that didn't need to be sped up in the harvesting and then plant a longer growing time plant that did. So I agree since we did spend so much FC to have them both, we need to to be able to use them independently. The brown one only doing flowers and once a day, and the red one can also only used once a day but would not matter if the brown had been used cause if the flowers are already watered they want need it again anyway. Kind of like the old Almond Joy/Mounds commercial, "Sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don't". :)

[Farm Lady]

I have no idea if the developers will give the brown sprinkler back to people but here is something to think about. The developers made the red sprinkler with the idea it would replace the brown sprinkler much like the orange manure spreader replaces the red manure spreader. People that bought the first manure spreader didn't complain when the orange one came out about not being able to just fertilize crops and not trees. They probably thought the same would be true for the watering of crops and flowers. Well they where wrong about that, so they have to write new code for the red sprinkler. This is not easy or quick to do. We are not talking about a quick fix of going in and changing the time from 24 hours to 20 hours that only requires a line or two of code to be changed we are talking about writing lots of code to give people what they want. That takes time and can not be done over night. I do think it would be great of the developers to say that they are working on that but it will take some time to do it but they haven't and communications is not their strong suit. I am sure the brown sprinkler will be back soon we will just have to wait till the developers can get it worked out.

Agreed, JAS. They probably have to write code equivalent to a new release. Maybe they need to hire a publicist:)

[janisko]

I know some people have said they want to use the new sprinkler on flowers because they want to speed up the time to harvest.

I wonder if it'd be possible to configure the red sprinkler so you could choose "irrigate crops" or "irrigate crops and flowers" for your once-a-day growth acceleration depending on what you wanted to do. Then if the brown sprinkler was also available to just irrigate flowers any time you wanted to, without affecting the time to harvest, that should cover pretty much all bases, as well as hopefully making people feel they haven't wasted all that Farm Cash on buying a red sprinkler which just makes the brown one disappear.

I agree! We desperately need this. I also like to harvest my flowers all at the same time and this has made a real mess of things.

[janisko]

Given that there are two sorts of days at FT but hours are hours, I think showing the time as hours would be clearer. Or even as days and hours (and then hours and minutes once you're within less than a day), as long as it's made clear if we're looking at 24-hour days.

I agree. I know we're all in different time zones so they can't show the exact harvest time but seeing it in hours and minutes would be VERY helpful, even on the 4-day crops. I'd much rather see 80 hours than decimals that I have to figure out on a calculator! At 2am I often make mistakes and forget that the decimal is part of 20 hours and not 24. And as time passes why not allow us to enter our time zone so we CAN see the actual day and time our crops will be ready. The math teachers must be loving all the figuring we're doing these days. LOL!

I may be complaining but I do love this last upgrade. Thanks to the developers!

[ArtsyLady]

With most other tools where you have to buy one before you can buy another, they're both available in the extended toolbox and can be used on all the farms without having to be taken out for each individual farm. I really don't see why the brown sprinkler can't be available as well as the red one for people who've (a) paid for it and (b) want to use it. Farm Town is usually really good at not trying to impose a particular way of playing, and it'd be a shame to start now. I know the red sprinkler will do everything the brown sprinkler does and more besides, but even so, some people simply want to water their flowers.

I, too, feel we should still be able to use the brown sprinkler. Actually, I think the way it should work is that, if you have the red sprinkler, the brown could be used to just water flowers rather than decrease crop growth time. That way we don't "waste" the red sprinkler's features when watering flowers without crops, and can still decrease the growth time of at least one crop per farm even if we've watered the flowers earlier. On a farm with lots of flowers (like many of my own farms) it is much too difficult to use the watering can for just flowers. Another point...we did pay a lot for both - 45FC for the brown and 50FC for the red, so it shouldn't make things harder for us.

....Just saw that it's been suggested that the brown sprinkler for flower watering and/or irrigating (decreasing growth time) and the red sprinkler for crop irrigating (decreasing growth time). That sounds wonderful! I know it will take the devs some time to write the codes for that, but I'm patient! LOL

Other than the above, I love the new features! :-)

[bridgetdunn]

im having trouble with gift sending i can send 35 gifts but i have 65 neighbors any suggestion

[tnbskts]

Send to the first 35 on your list one day and then to the next 30 the next day? Or just be selective and send gifts to your active neighbours and the ones who send gifts to you.

[susieq30549]

know not right place but ...
start all button not workin
and all fuel disappeared
any one else having issues??
btw, did all the cleaning and reloading and reported on support link

[Taz D]

know not right place but ...
start all button not workin
and all fuel disappeared
any one else having issues??
btw, did all the cleaning and reloading and reported on support link
No fuel means that the Start All and Store All will not work as it requires fuel for those to work.

[InePine]

im having trouble with gift sending i can send 35 gifts but i have 65 neighbors any suggestion

You can send to the other people aswell about 30 mins or so after you send to the first 35, should work then :)

[misherkin]

I'm probably in the wrong pew but where do you use the cork oak trees or do you use them at all? Would really appreciate someone answering this. Thanks

[caligirl62]

I WILL NEVER PURCHASE THE NEW SPRINKLER!! not with all the issues (most) every one has!!! not gonna waste my money!!

[RFMad]

I agree with this too. I planted quick-maturing crops this morning to try out, but now have to wait a whole FT day to speed up anything I have planted subsequently - but some of them are only one day crops. :( I like the idea a lot, but I would much prefer the sprinkler to be able to irrigate everything that has been planted since it was last used.Either that or it needs to work like the manure spreader (which would be logical since ground that is wet stays wet until it dries out; not until new crops are planted!)

If this makes sense, I'd like to see the red sprinkler treat the FARM the same way that fertilizing does so that the whole farm is quicker maturing for a whole day just like the fertilized farm crops are for 3 days. So that if you have a short term crop, harvest it, then the next crop is still able to be quick maturing for it, too.

[caligirl62]

I'm probably in the wrong pew but where do you use the cork oak trees or do you use them at all? Would really appreciate someone answering this. Thanks

in one of the newer facilities hon...for the guitar i think...any one else?

[Simera]

Ok, about those Red/Brown Sprinklers; You CAN take the Brown one out of Storage and place it on whatever Farm, and then water the flowers with that one, without losing the ability to decide when to water the Crops with the Red one. Just leave the Brown one there (and remember where you place it), then you can go there and click Irrigate, and water flowers only, as we did before. :D


Regards
Simera

[RFMad]

in one of the newer facilities hon...for the guitar i think...any one else?

It's in the Fishing Accessories for the Fly Rod (a cork for it).

[1fritz]

I'm probably in the wrong pew but where do you use the cork oak trees or do you use them at all? Would really appreciate someone answering this. Thanks

You use cork in the fishing accessories factory.

[Taz D]

I'm probably in the wrong pew but where do you use the cork oak trees or do you use them at all? Would really appreciate someone answering this. Thanks
Cork is used in the Fishing Accesories Factory for the fishing poles.

[gpliew]

Hi, not sure if anyone else is having this problem. My neighbour just watered my flowers; and i harvested them when they're ready. Now i want to water them with my red sprinkler to speed up growing time, but i;m told they can only be watered once a day. :confused: However this is what is posted in the Post Release Changes - Aug 30, 11:15PM EST:

When neighbor irrigate your farm, you can now use the red sprinkler right after that to double plants growth speed

so, i guess they didnt fix it!!!

[rockhopper]

Hi, not sure if anyone else is having this problem. My neighbour just watered my flowers; and i harvested them when they're ready. Now i want to water them with my red sprinkler to speed up growing time, but i;m told they can only be watered once a day. :confused: However this is what is posted in the Post Release Changes - Aug 30, 11:15PM EST:

When neighbor irrigate your farm, you can now use the red sprinkler right after that to double plants growth speed

so, i guess they didnt fix it!!!

I have the same problem here. My neighbour just watered my flowers and now I can't use my red sprinkler to speed up growth. :mad:

[Tiger]

Hi, not sure if anyone else is having this problem. My neighbour just watered my flowers; and i harvested them when they're ready. Now i want to water them with my red sprinkler to speed up growing time, but i;m told they can only be watered once a day. :confused: However this is what is posted in the Post Release Changes - Aug 30, 11:15PM EST:

When neighbor irrigate your farm, you can now use the red sprinkler right after that to double plants growth speed

so, i guess they didnt fix it!!!

I have the same problem here. My neighbour just watered my flowers and now I can't use my red sprinkler to speed up growth. :mad:

Hello,

Could you both go to the farm that your neighbours watered the flowers on, then open the facility manager, hover over the red sprinkler and let us know what it displays please.

Have either of you used the red sprinkler on those farms in the last 20 hours?

Thank you

[Dr. Dirt]

Hello,

Could you both go to the farm that your neighbours watered the flowers on, then open the facility manager, hover over the red sprinkler and let us know what it displays please.

Have either of you used the red sprinkler on those farms in the last 20 hours?

Thank you

This happened to me a couple of days ago and I hadn't watered that farm for 2 days. When I hovered over the red sprinkler it just said "mobile sprinkler".

[Tiger]

This happened to me a couple of days ago and I hadn't watered that farm for 2 days. When I hovered over the red sprinkler it just said "mobile sprinkler".

Thank you for replying, will pass the information on for you.

[rockhopper]

Hello,

Could you both go to the farm that your neighbours watered the flowers on, then open the facility manager, hover over the red sprinkler and let us know what it displays please.

Have either of you used the red sprinkler on those farms in the last 20 hours?

Thank you

Mine just says mobile sprinkler.
I also moved the flowers to a different farm and added some more. That farm also says moblile sprinkler.
Neither farm has been irrigated by me in the last 20hrs

Thanks :)

[Dr. Dirt]

Just harvested flowers on 11 again (same farm). When I tried to water them it said flowers can only be watered once a day. When I hover over the flowers one of the rain drop symbols is clear so I don't think anyone watered there today. When I hover over the sprinkler symbol it just says "mobile sprinkler". I haven't watered that farm since 9/10/11.