New Release -- June 9th, 2015
 

See Known Issues, More Information and Post Release Updates at the end of this post. Last changes released on June 27th, 7:00PM EST.

Hi There,

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

1. 15 Father's Day Items: 3 as gifts and 12 in the store.

2. 25 New Levels: 32 new items in the buildings, motion, furniture, farm decor and other category.

3. Last 4 expansions for Farm 26: See prices below:

34x34 - 12500000000 coins or 30 FarmCash
36x36 - 13000000000 coins or 30 FarmCash
38x38 - 13500000000 coins or 30 FarmCash
40x40 - 14000000000 coins or 30 FarmCash

4. Super Neighbours: When you click on a neighbour in the main neighbour panel you will see a new 'Set as Super-Neighbour' option. It's main purpose is to allow you to select one (or may be a few) neighbours that will be permanently hired to work your farms when you go on vacation or have to be absent from the game for a while.

All Super Neighbours will have a red dot in the neighbour bar. You can also use the Order by Super-Neighbour option if you want to see all the Super Neighbours grouped together.

Super Neighbours will also be able to use your tools and your fuel when they have no fuel.

For now all farming operations are allowed except planting, but in the next release planting will be allowed as well if you grant the permissions to do so, using the coins of the farm owner.

Also for the next release, we hope to extend this concept to the cooperative design as well. Meaning, if a Super Neighbour have the design permission on one of your farms, he will be allowed to move, delete coin items and even buy items with their own coins to put in your farm (based on the farm owners level), this way you can have groups of trusted farmers designing different sections of a farm without requiring your online presence on that farm.

5. Sort by Alpha or Default in the Giftbox: In addition this window now behaves like the rest of the windows in the game, with an improved scrolling and full mouse wheel support.

6. 14 x 14 Crop Tools: Seeder and Harvest-Plant Combine are now available in 14 x 14 mode, this will allow you to perform farming operations over 196 fields at a time.

As mentioned on the previous release, when you purchase these tools we recommend that you use your mouse wheel when the Toolbox is open to scroll up and down to access the bigger tools and also the smallest tools.

7. More efficient navigation of Cooperative Quests: There are 2 new buttons on the Cooperative Quest window, the go to next quest button ( |> ) and the go to previous quest button ( |< ). If you are already on the last quest then the "go to next" button will go to the first quest of the next neighbour and if you are on the first quest then the "go to previous" button will go to the last quest of the previous neighbour.

These buttons will allow faster navigation of your neighbours Cooperative Quests as it will considerably minimize mouse movements.

8. Mark farms as private: Similar to the way you mark a farm as your default farm or as a quest farm, you can now mark one or more farms as private. This will allow players participating in contests to have full privacy while designing their competing farms. Notice that if a farm is marked as private you will not be able to hire anyone to work on that farm.

Another useful scenario where you can use this feature is to mark your quest farm as a private farm, this way you will not be able to hire anyone (including your Super Neighbours) accidentally to work on that farm.

Also, if you have the required dispatched trains, the Mayor will work all the facilities in the private farms of the target user as usual.

9. Other Improvements:

- Added a new filter 'Not in this Farm' to the Facilities category in the Store, this way you can quickly find and buy the facilities that are not present on the current farm.
- Removed the double loading of the farm when landing on a neighbour farm to work facilities or when hiring an employee inside a farm.
- When adding a neighbour, if there is not enough space available we will notify the user and stop the operation, this way you will not lose other neighbours accidentally.
- We frequently receive complains from users that put too many animals on a farm and then can't access the farm because it's too slow. We decided to add a hard limit to how many animals you can have on a farm, this number will be 400, we think this is a good compromise, however this restriction only applies to new animals you try to put in a farm, if one of your farms already had more than 400 animals you will continue too see all of them.

- Moderators will now have access to check when users have used the Cash Out action in the facility manager and when they have sold non-ingredients in the market.

10. Cattle Show Supplies Factory (FC): Produces Cattle Show Supplies.

Cattle Comb
Arena Gate
Neck Sweat
Measuring Stick
Cattle Show Stick
Arena Decor
Cattle Show Awards
Grooming Chute

11. Dance Supplies Factory (Coins): Produces Dance Supplies.

Belly Dance Sword
Dance Stick
Dance Training Bars
Boa Feathers
Ballerina Dress
Flamenco Castanets
Indian Dance Anklet
Cabaret Headdress

12. Australian Restaurant (FC): Produces Australian Food.

Anzac Biscuits
Burger with the Lot
Meat Pie
Chilli Mud Crab
Macadamia Grouper
Minted Lamb Cutlets
Aussie Seafood Platter
Pavlova

New Tree: Macadamia Nuts, you can buy it on the Store, level 126 required.

13. Dance Studio (Coins): Provides Dance Instruction Services and can be stocked with products from the Dance Supplies Factory.

Enjoy!

--Raul

Post Release Updates - June 9th, 5:45AM EST

- Corrected a bug in the Minted Lamb Cutlets produced on the Australian Restaurant

Post Release Updates - June 9th, 9:00PM EST

- Employees should now be able to use employer tools and fuel again if the employer allowed to do so, like it was before.
- Players that currently have more than 400 animals on a farm (outside the sheds) will still see the same amount of animals, the restriction will only be enforced for new animals that you try to put in the farm.

Post Release Updates - June 10th, 11:15PM EST

- Super Neighbours should now be able to use tools and fuel from the farm owner.
- Fixed some inconsistencies with the red dots in the neighbour bar. Right now when you are visiting a farm and you are a Super Neighbour of that farm owner, as an extra hint, you will have a red dot on your own user in the neighbour bar.
- When setting and removing Super Neighbours the neighbour bar will stay in place on the same position.

Post Release Updates - June 10th, 11:45PM EST

- Father's Day items released, 3 as gifts and 12 in the store.

Post Release Updates - June 11th, 8:25PM EST

- When working neighbour facilities some users were incorrectly experiencing an error message saying that the target farm was private.
- The pavlova in the Australian Restaurant now require passion fruit instead of pomegranate.

Post Release Updates - June 12th, 12:25AM EST

- Fixed more bugs related to Super Neighbours and not been able to access tools. Please reload the game and report if you are still finding issues.

Post Release Updates - June 12th, 5:38PM EST

- We just confirmed that the issue with the zoom and the big farms and the quest chart not showing was due to the Chrome/Flash update a few days ago. We have managed to create a workaround so at least the quest chart is fully visible, however we don't think we can do anything about the bigger farms, let's hope Chrome release a fix soon for this.

Post Release Updates - June 12th, 10:30PM EST

- Some users were seeing weird things in the neighbour bar like neighbours with level 0, or named 'Friend', or without coop quests when in reality they had coop quests, we just released some fixes for this but please report if you continue experiencing this behavior.

Post Release Updates - June 16th, 2:40AM EST

- The 'My Neighbours' option is back on the request windows.
- Some users were experiencing weird issues while navigating Cooperative Quests like suddenly moving back to the first neighbour, this should now be fixed.

Post Release Updates - June 22th, 5:30PM EST

- New levels released.

Post Release Updates - June 27th, 7:00PM EST

- The loading issues should have been solved by now. The issue was on our side, sorry guys I took a few days off and was sure it was on the facebook side because we have not released any changes recently so I didn't even post here, when the problem is with facebook we can't even communicate with them, only wait. However I overlooked that we have added a new server to the game, which is a very routinely operation but it turns out it was miss configured and it was failing for the past few days.

Known Problems

- Layout issues when using the Chrome browser due to a recent Chrome/Flash update. They should release a fix soon because the error seems to be widely reported.

Thank you!

Thank you love the new navigation feature in the Co-op quests and the Super Neighbour :)

Thank you for the continued outstanding job you and your team do with FarmTown.
Love this game

An absolutely fabulous update with lots of new features I love, and one or two I hate, but hey ho - hat's off Devs :D:D

Don't think the new Super neighbour has hit my servers yet
The Farmer I've set as a superneighbour keeps losing their red dot evey time I leave the farm.

Seems to be sticking better now - as always, patience is a virtue I could do with cultivating - would make a good new flower too ;P

Tools?
 

My neighbours are not able to use my tools this morning. I can't see anything on the update to say this is a deliberate change.

yipee, guessed this would happen if I went off and did other things than fb and ft.. :)

:-) I like the idea of super neighbors. It sounds like there are some great new features!

Many many thanks for all this Raul

I have noticed that there is no mention in the updates about the Macadamia tree needed in the Austrailian Restaurant

Have noticed the Lamb is not loading into the Aussie Restaurant at all. I have that much lamb in storage i could cook lamb for a year and still have plenty left over. Please fix this. But tyvm for the great update. The Aussie Restaurant is fantastic. From an Aussie FT player.

Lamb
 

Trying to produce a dish in the Aussie restaurant but says I need more lamb in storage.....

I have 70,000 in storage. :confused:

Improved navigation of the co-op quests - AWESOME! My favorite improvement!

Great release!
 

Love the new navigation tools for the co-op quests. But I have a problem - I have one farm with 800 horses on it (but not much else). Do I lose all horses in excess of the new limit of 400? This is a small farm 14x14 with only barns & persimmon trees besides the horses. I did this intentionally since I cannot afford to pay FC for a sufficient number of stables. I was aware it would load slower than other farms so I planned it in such a way that I would only need to visit that farm once a day. Did half of my horses just vanish?

Lamb not acknowledged as stated above and cant hire people to work my farms using my tools. It defaults to theirs.

Thank you....great update!!!

awesome release

love the permanent hire i remember suggesting this a while back :)

Thank you for non-ending innovation of the farms, it's features and all.. i will try to understand and internalized this new features (#4) :-)

382.122 lamb in storage, but Aussie restaurant says I need more in storage ?

Lovely update - thank you devs. How many Super Neighbors are we permitted? (There are 5 I would give this title too.)

Thanks so much!
Serenity Dilsworth

Thank you so much for the super neighbor category! I am so glad you added this.

Does the 400 animal limit mean per animal or all animals on a farm? I read it both ways so would appreciate some clarification; even though logic makes me think it is per animal type therefore 400 super cows AND 400 regular cows etc.

Ok update.
reloaded game and now it sees the lamb in storage.

Thanks for another wonderful update!

awesome!! great changes. :)

It is saying I don't have any lamb to do the minted lamb cutlets in the Australian Restaurant but I have heaps of lamb. Must be a fault

Does the animal limit mean any animals in excess of 400 will dissappear ? I have several farms just loaded with animals .. I never visit those farms , I bought them , bought the animal sheds , put as many animals as I could fit ... and I left them to just be animal farms .

Missing Animals
 

I am not happy with the animal limit. I too have farms where I just loaded them with animals and did not visit.

I visited these farms today and the animals have vanished completely.

I have played this game for a number of years and got gifted them over time and have managed to get quite a large collection of animals.

You could have at least put them in my storage not wipe them out completely.

wow you snucked this one in :) thanks

levels/FC
 

Why are the new levels always delayed? Seems like this should be simple as the devs do it every three months so should be routine?

Thank you!! I have been waiting for the seeder-awesome! Looking forward to new levels and always love the two part release!

Two of the best improvements you have made are: 1. easier helping neighbors with their facilities. (Love this!!) 2. easier navigating through neighbors' co-op quests. Thank you for both of these great ideas. God bless!

I just visited my animal farms .. Aparently the 400 total is ALL animals !!! Most of my animals are GONE! On all my animal farms ... Did you at least give me coins for all the animals you deleted ?? After all I did buy them ...

have a question re animals seeing that I have them as gifts but cant put on farm because of the limit so how can I get rid them out of the gift box, otherwise the updates are great but also as well i did buy a lot of the animals you got rid of so are we credited?

I think that this is just for the animals roaming on the farm, not the ones stored in a shed or coop etc where many farmers have the super animals, and numerous regular animals.

The result of this will probably be players having a full coop/shed/barn on every farm, just to keep up with the demand for milk, eggs, wool etc.

:eek:

Thanks for all the cool ad ons :)

The Pavloava in the Aussie Resturant is missing 1 Major Ingredient

"Passion Fruit" you cant have a Pavlova without Passionfruit!!!

http://www.taste.com.au/images/recip...10/14031_l.jpg

worker cant use my tools either :(

try hiring someone in the market with the options ticked then retry

i have tested it and my neighbour was using my tools and fuel

Thank you all sounds great off to try out my new toy's...