Updated Chapter 02 Basics

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What is the Tool box?

The Tool box is where you can find all your tools and have methods to access various features of the game which you can find useful as you get involved in more.

• Tools need to be placed in Item storage to be able to you use them from the Toolbox without having to move them farm to farm. Some of them can be used when working for other farmers.
  
  
• Note: Farm Cash items do NOT use up your Item storage space, you can store as many Farm Cash items as you want.
  
  
• When you first start playing the game you will not have many items in the tool box. As you start playing and levelling up you will gradually get access to more items and then again when you start buying the bigger tools and place them into item storage.
  
  
• As you progress in the game you will find things like the Facility Manager, Trains Manager, Seaport Manager and accessing Quests useful to access via the Toolbox.

When there is a number on the Tool box, that means that there are ether:

• Trains for you to boost from your friends in your Train Manager,
• Ships to load from your friends in your Seaport Manager
• You have Neighbour or Buddy Requests in your Farmers Lists
• or a combination of all of those.
  
  The counter updates approximately every 10 minutes as you work your farms.

To open your Tool box, click on the tool box icon.

You will then see something similar to the example below, but it will show you your tools. Anything that is greyed out is something you do not have access to yet due to game level, could be a tool you do not own or that tool when owned has not been not placed it into item storage.

When you purchase ANY tool especially farming tools, ALWAYS place it into your Item Storage so that you can use it on any of your farms. The game can then show them in your Toolbox for you to use from there and also see which ones you own for when you want to upgrade to bigger tools.

Any dimmed out tool is either not owned or one you bought but is not placed in your Item Storage. Do not buy a new tool if you are unsure. If you click on a dimmed out tool in your toollbox, the game will ask you if you wish to purchase it and show you that specific tool in the store.

To use a tool that is not dimmed out in your toolbox, click on it to pick it up, then click on what you want to use it on. To stop using the tool, click the green man in your game bar at the bottom of your game screen.

To close the tool box click on the big white X just beneath the bottom right of the window.

These arrows will show at either the top or bottom of each column when there are more items in the column than can be displayed all at once, just click on them to scroll the column up or down. OR if you have a mouse with a wheel, you can hover over each column and use the mouse wheel to scroll.

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This is the Train Manager where you can manage all your trains on all of your farms from any of your farms.
A number on this Icon means you have trains sent to you from farmers that you need to Boost to help them and to gain yourself some products.
For more details click on this link: https://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showth...30#post6349330

This is the Seaport Manager where you can manage all your ships.
A number on this Icon means you have Ships at your Port sent to you from farmers that you need to LOad to send them on to their next Port and to gain yourself some products.
For more details click on this link: https://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=626622

This is the Trading Warehouse where you can sell primary products and super facility products to other farmers. For more details click on this link::
https://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showth...46#post6302946

This is the My Super Facility where you can make a facility into a super facility, check what products you have available to sell and what you have sold/earned today. For more details click on this link:
https://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showth...30#post6298330

This is the Facility Chains Manager. Available at level 100. For more details click on this link:
https://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=632506

This is the Facility Manager where you can see all your facilites in the game, work them and sort them various ways. You need at least 2 facilites on your farm to use this. For more details click on this link:
https://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showth...22#post6298322

The Farm Selector Manager is where you can rearrange the order of your farms and get your farm link for any specific farm. You need to have 2 or more farms to use this tool. For more details click on this link:
https://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showth...94#post6253594

This is the Super Neighbour manager where you can assign which crop your super neighbour will plant on each farm. For more details click on this link:
https://www.slashkey.com/forum/showt...66#post6548366

The Farmers Lists icon lets you see who your Neighbours and Buddies are, switch them between Neighbour and Buddy Lists, send a message, where In gam Neighbour and Buddy Requests will be seen. For full information on how to use this and what else you can do please click on this link:
https://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=662782




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Farm Pass. Available at Level 100. For more details click on this link: https://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showth...10#post6504910

This is the Neighbourhood Chains Contest manager. Available at level 80. For more details click on this link:
https://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=621846

This is the Co-operative Quest manager. Available at level 20. For more details click on this link:
https://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showth...14#post6057914

This is the Quest manager. Available at level 20. For more details click on this link:
https://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showth...58#post5156958

Farm Stats. Farm Stats is a tool in your toolbox that can help you see the statistics of things like harvestable items or facilities that are currently on your farms and can help to locate where they are, can be very useful as you get more farms and expand them to much bigger sizes.
Click on this link for details on how to use Farm Stats: What is Farm Stats?


Show Times The Show Times tool can also be accessed when you are on another farmers farm.

• The Gamewide section gives you access to information on the following...

  - when you can next buy products from another farmer.
  - open a new Regular Quest (brown dice) and when your next Regular Quest will expire.
  - open a new Co-operative Quest (pale blue dice) and when your next Co-operative Quest will expire.
  - post bonuses.
  - request and receive ingredients.
  - refuel.
  - resend gifts.
  - rework facilities.
  - rework service facilities.
  - reaccelerate trains.
  - prepare ship and next ship dispatch expiration.

• The Per-Farm section shows you when you can fertilize specific farms, water your flowers, or irrigate your plants.
  
  
• The Trains section, shows you which farms your trains are on, if they have arrived or when they are due back.

Trophies are what you can earn by playing the game, buying, adding neighbours. This is also a good quick way to know how many neighbours you have.


Belts and Dans. This where you can see your progress on belts and dans for harvesting and making products in your facilities.

There are separate sections, for seeds, trees, flowers, fish, products.
The A-Z filter lets you sort by belts/dans or product name.
The Funnel filter lets you sort by specific belt or dan.
This is also where you can find your recent belts to post. To see recent Belts/Dans you earned look in the "Recent Belts" section. From there you can chose which ones of the belts/dans you have recently earned to post. You can post 5 in 12 hours.

For more details on Belts and Dans, click on this link: Chapter 30: Belt/Dan Bonuses

The Camera lets you take a photo of your farm and post it to Facebook.

Click on the camera, chose if you want to show the whole farm or a window that only sees a portion of the farm, add a caption if you wish, choose small medium or large for the size of the photo, then choose green or white background.

There is an additional option to post to Facebook. Add the check mark if you want to post it to Facebook. Remove the check mark if you don't.

NOTE: If you do not have a Facebook account or no longer have access to use it. After clicking on the Camera you will need to Remove the check mark for the option to Post to Facebook BEFORE you click on Next.

Then click the Next button.

If you opted to post to Facebook you will see the Facebook posting box with your picture and the blue Post to Facebook button, click on it to post the picture to Facebook.


After clicking on Next. Your photo will also will be published to the Farm Pictures section in the Account tab in the Month that you took the picture. Pictures are only saved for 3 months before being automatically removed. Each month will show a maximum of 200 pictures. For more details on how to find your farm photos CLICK HERE

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If you own the Herding Robot, this tool allows you to add animals on farms in bulk to their sheds as long as there is room in the sheds for them. It also enables the buy Multiple on harvestable animals in the store so you can fill an animal shed much faster. For full details on how to use this tool CLICK HERE

The Add to Animal Building tool, lets you click on any animal and add it to the appropriate shed provided there is a shed on the farm for it and there is room in the shed for it. This adds animals one by one. Click on the tool to use it then click on the animal. Click the green man to stop using the tool.

If you own the Tower Crane, this tool lets you add items to storage in bulk, provided you have enough room in your Item storage for them.

The Add to Item Storage tool, lets you add items, one by one to storage, provided you have enough room in your Item storage. Click on the tool to use it then click on the item you want to add to storage. Click the green man to stop using the tool.

This is the Purple Freestlyle Farm Designer which allows you to select items from the Store or Storage and overlap other items in your farm, without requiring to have physical space in the farm for the new item and without opening the Store every time.

If you own the Orange or Green Freestyle Farm Designers you will see either an Orange OR a Green hand here.

Information on all the Freestyle Farm Designers tools in the following link:
https://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showth...26#post5275626

The Yellow Edit hand, lets you click on any item on the farm, except fields, and move it to a new position on the farm as long as there is room for it to move to the new position. Click on the hand to use it, then click on the item you want to move, move it then click again to set it down. Click the green man to stop using the tool.

The Hide Item tool lets you temporarily hide items on the farm one by one. Click on the tool to use it then click on the item you want to hide. Click the green man to stop using the tool. To bring the hidden items back into view refresh your farm.

The Search tool lets you search for any specific item on the farm that is showing on your farm.

Click on the Search Icon and enter the name of the item you are looking for, then choose whether you want to highlight the item or hide non-matching items, then click the green check mark.
If you have chosen to hide non-matching items, only the items relevant to your search criteria will be shown, and everything else will be hidden. You will then see bottom right “Show Items” which you can click to bring all items back into view.

For more details on the toolbox search tool and how to use the other search tools in the game in various areas please read How to use the Search Tools later in this chapter.

Tools for working things like crops, trees, flowers and fish
can be either a single colour or two colours to help you identify the difference in them.
Move your mouse over the tools and the tooltip will tell you the name and size of each of the tools you own and have placed in Item Storage.

Non extent mode 5x5 tools in the toolbox.
Example:




EX tools have a extra indicator at the bottom right of each tool
which is a Gray X to help you identify which tools have both Highlight and Extent mode.

Example of EX 5x5 tools in the toolbox, we have marked where the X would show up bottom right of each tool with red arrows:




NOTE: None of the plow tools have Extent mode!

For More Information on Tools, please see the Game Guide Chapter 21:Tools

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