New Release -- December 23rd, 2010

[SueW170]

Originally Posted by Kath-H

What is stevia?

Considered to be the "safe" sugar substitute unlike aspertame and other chemically produced sweeteners commonly used in diet sodas and other "sugar free" diet products which, reportedly, have serious health consequences if used long term.

[Texas Belle]

Originally Posted by SueW170

Considered to be the "safe" sugar substitute unlike aspertame and other chemically produced sweeteners commonly used in diet sodas and other "sugar free" diet products which, reportedly, have serious health consequences if used long term.

What happens with Splenda?

[Double T Dude Ranch]

Please, let's keep this thread on topic for news and announcements lol. You can always pm the person if you have a question or google it

[Texas Belle]

Originally Posted by Double T Dude Ranch

Please, let's keep this thread on topic for news and announcements lol. You can always pm the person if you have a question or google it

Sorry double T, my mistake....

[zipprich]

love the up grades

[SunnyD]

the facility manager is the bomb......you don't have to have view buildings checked they can be hidden...... lol great fun for me on dial up lol lol

[leavalerie]

Originally Posted by Raul

Hi There,

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

1. New Animals and Hills (Coins): 5 new animals on the gift page and 4 more animals in the store. Also, 3 different set of Hills now available on the Paths/Ground category: plain grass, tall grass and semi-dry grass. There are also a coupple of Sand Hills at the end.

2. Easy to Return Gifts: When you accept a gift, the confirmation page now have a new section to 'Send a gift back to your friend' to easily return the favor. Notice this section will only be visible if you haven't sent a gift to that friend recently.

3. Fertilizer for Trees (FC): If you already own the *Red* Manure Spreader and you buy the *Orange* Manure Spreader, then every time you fertilize a farm using ANY of them, both, crops and trees will be fertilized. Fertilized trees will produce 2 boxes when harvested and 2 log piles when chopped.

Notice you only need to fertilize a farm once, with any of the Spreaders, it doesn't matter which. You can also use the Manure Spreader in the Extended Tool box.

If you don't like the highliht effect on crops or trees you can disable it in the Preference window.

[UPDATE:] There is no additional consumption of manure, it remains the same as before.

4. Harvest storage increased by 50%.

5. Facility optimization (launched a couple of weeks ago): There should be far less network requests when using your facilities, so working on them should be faster, with less timeouts when you move from one facility to the next or when you start farming after closing a facility.

6. Facility Manager: This is a new tool located on the Extended Toolbox to make it easier to navigate and manage your facilities. For now, you can see all your facilities in the current farm, with summarized information and with the hability to open them and sort them in several ways. In the future we will be adding more functionality to this Manager to make it easier and faster for you to work with them and help friends.

7. Producing Yarn and Rope in the Textile and Spinning Mill: The 'Textile Mill' has been upgraded to 'Textile and Spinning Mill' and will also produce Linen Yarn and Rope from the new Flax crop, and Wool Yarn from Sheep Wool.

8. Knitting and Knotting Mill (FC): Allows you to produce Knitting Clothes and Knotted Products out of the Yarn and Ropes you produce on the Textile and Spinning Mill:

Hay Net
Hammock
Scarf
Snow Cap
Lace Dress
Doily
Boots

9. Distillery (Coins): Allows you to produce Spirits and Liqueurs:

Vodka
Whiskey
Brandy
Rum
Creme de Menthe

Farm 8 and new levels comming on the next release.

Enjoy!

Thanks

--Raul

where do I find this extended tool bar?

[Double T Dude Ranch]

Originally Posted by leavalerie

where do I find this extended tool bar?

Little yellow tool box above the word "map" and you'll see a green arrow to click in the tool box. The tool box is where you have your watering can.

[KathyK]

I love the new release! My only complaint is the hills - they are so pretty I want to use them more extensively, but I can't plant on them. I would love a "rolling hills" farm! Has anyone else tried this?

[Double T Dude Ranch]

Originally Posted by KathyK

I love the new release! My only complaint is the hills - they are so pretty I want to use them more extensively, but I can't plant on them. I would love a "rolling hills" farm! Has anyone else tried this?

Hi we have a thread in social that a bunch of us are experimenting with the hills...we've managed to get flowers on them. I got a scarecrow too and I believe an animal made it

Here's the thread: http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=393182