New Release -- August 17th, 2010

[dianedrayson]

I think this update has been fantastic! I'm looking forward to what you do for us next.

The tree harvester is wonderful with slow computer and internet connection like mine. I find my cousin working on my trees can still harvest them faster when hired than I do my section with the tree harvester. lol What would I do without it in that case?

Could you please find some more uses for raspberries? I have loads because they're a great crop to plant to fill in that extra 4 hours in a Farm Town day. Raspberry jam would be yummy and a good use for them. They're also delicious in apple and raspberry crumble in the real world, or I cook them in with my flourless chocolate cakes. (There's an idea - use almonds for almond meal, add sugar, eggs, butter, chocolate and raspberries and you have flourless chocolate/raspberry cakes for those with a gluten intolerance.)

[Aussie Rae]

Just wanted to say a big thank you to the devs, love the manure spreader,

[cheftls]

I would like more detail about the manure spreader as well please, and can we maybe put pigs for sale? Moving one pig around to all five farms is a pain!

[tarawa]

Originally Posted by cheftls

I would like more detail about the manure spreader as well please, and can we maybe put pigs for sale? Moving one pig around to all five farms is a pain!

7. Manure Spreader (FC): Allows you to fertilize your farms. All fertilized crops (not trees) will produce 2 boxes instead of 1 when harvested. The main idea is that you use the manure from your pigs as an organic fertilizer for your farms to produce more crops.

-Manure Collection Process:
You need to have a Pigsty (now on the facility section on the Store) to collect the manure from your pigs. The collection process works the same as if you were harvesting animals, the difference is that in this case, the manure from the pigs is stored in your Manure Spreader tool. Each Pig produce 1 Manure Unit every 12 hours.

-Fertilization Process:
You need 50 manure units to fertilize a farm. To fertilize a farm, click on the Manure Spreader tool and select 'Fertilize Farm'. Once a farm is fertilized it will remain fertilized for the next 3 days.

All crops still growing (not ready to harvest) will be fertilized. All new crops planted while the farm is still fertilized will be fertilized also.

Once a crop is fertilized, it will produce 2 boxes instead of 1 when harvested, whether the farm is fertilized or not at the time of harvesting. If you hire others to harvest, you will get 2 Large boxes instead of one. Employees will get twice the amount of coins, and 2 boxes as well every time they receive an additional bonus box when harvesting.

-Additional Notes:
When you buy the Manure Spreader tool, it will come with 250 manure units inside for you to start fertilizing right away!

You can move the Manure Spreader to other farms and it will not lose the manure inside

To check how much time of fertilization is left on a farm or how much manure you have stored just hover the mouse over the Manure Spreader. Notice that each farm is fertilized separately so the fertilization intervals will most likely be different for each farm, however, your manure storage is the actual Manure Spreader, so you can collect manure on all farms but it all gets stored on the same Manure Spreader.

All fertilized crops will have a highlight around them, if you don't like that effect or how that looks, we will add an option soon on the Options window, so you can disable it

[Toranut97]

Just in case anyone doesn't realize it....I WAS joking...! ;-)

[tarawa]

Originally Posted by Toranut97

Just in case anyone doesn't realize it....I WAS joking...! ;-)

We could not tell cuz you didn't add the chainsaw in there

[SunnyD]

Originally Posted by Toranut97

Just in case anyone doesn't realize it....I WAS joking...! ;-)

I hoped you were...... LOL was a bit too funny to not be lol......... yeah you forgot your rant on a chain saw..........

[Toranut97]

I am a girl, not a guy.

Deleted the post due to lack of sense of humor on the premises.

[speedmonkey]

Originally Posted by Toranut97

I am a girl, not a guy.

Deleted the post due to lack of sense of humor on the premises.

I don't know about anyone else but I found it extremely entertaining!

[lulu836]

I'm having trouble understanding why some farmers are still asking for additional farms. The developers just gave us the equivalent of 5 more farms when they doubled the crop output. With the limits on production imposed it is really easy for me to keep the facilities topped up. I didn't buy all of the facilities, just most of them. I don't have the brewery bacause of the paltry amount of yeast available or the sewing facility or the furniture factory but do have most others. I'm just wondering.