New Release -- May 31st, 2017
 

See Known Issues, More Information and Post Release Updates at the end of this post. Last changes released on June 28nd, 12:00PM.

Hi There,

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

1. 8 Fathers Day decorations: 1 as gift, 5 in the top of the Fathers Day category in the store and 2 at the bottom.

2. 25 new levels: Located in the Buildings, Furniture and Farm Decor categories in the store. The top level is now 850.

3. 44 x 44 Farm expansions for farms 21 to 32: 25,000,000,000 coins or 30 farm cash each.

4. Regular Seeder and Combine Harvest-Plant 18 x 18 (FC): With these regular crop tools you can work on 324 crop fields at a time.

Note: To buy these tools you *do not* need to own any of the extended mode crop tools.

5. Seeder Ex and Combine Harvest-Plant Ex 7 x 7 with extended mode support (FC): These crop tools will work all fields in a squared area the size of 7x7 fields using the new faster method of farming, only highlighting a fixed squared section of the farm.

The main benefit of these tools is for working up to 784 partially overlapped fields at once. Overlapping fields is still not officially supported but if you do it on your farms or work on other players farms that do overlap fields, these new set of tools will enable a much faster farming.

Note: To buy these tools you *do not* need to own any of the regular crop tools 18x18. However, say you are using a Combine Harvest-Plant Ex of any size, if you switch to the highlight mode and you also own the regular Combine Harvest-Plant 18 x 18, then that's the Combine that will be selected instead of the regular Combine Harvest-Plant 16 x 16.

6. Performance Optimizations:

- All tools should perform faster now, this include regular and extended mode tools, however the speed increase is much more noticeably when using the extended mode tools because there is no need to highlight all items. We were able to harvest a farm full of trees at twice the speed using the extended mode tools, however this may vary depending on the users computer.

- The game now consumes much less memory so it should experience much less frequent flash crashes due to memory constrains.

- Most farms filled with workable plants (crops, trees and flowers) will now load much faster. The less variety of plants, the faster the farm should load, however we are still experimenting with more optimizations to make farms with different types of plants load faster as well.

7. Other Improvements:

a) Added new 'Owned' and 'Not Owned' filters in the Store for the Tools category so you can quickly find the tools that you already own and the ones you are still missing
b) Some of the big crop tools when working in highlight (non extended) mode were not highlighting the targeted fields correctly, sometimes they were highlighting fields that were not in the correct squared area for the tool
c) Added tooltip when mouse over the - and + zoom icons in the game panel so it shows the currently selected zoom level (from 1 to 7)

8. Bay Laurel Bush: This bush yields Bay Leaves to be used in the Filipino Restaurant.

9. Photography Supplies Factory (FC): Produces Photography Supplies.

Studio Stool
Leaning Mirror
Photo Album
Photo Prop Hat
Reflector
Backdrop
Dust Blower
Professional Lens

10. Marina Supplies Factory (Coins): Produces Marina Supplies.

Marina Bollard
Piling Cap
Kayak Rack
Piling
Fish Cleaning Station
Marina Gangway
Dock Panel
Dock Lighting Fixture

11. Filipino Restaurant (FC): Produces Filipino Food.

Chocolate Porridge
Pork Adobo
Lechon
Pancit
Kare-Kare
Fish Sinigang
Goat Caldereta
Halo-Halo

New products from other facilities: Shrimp Paste from the Smokehouse.

New primary product: Bay Leaves from the Bay Laurel Bush located in the Tree category in the store.

12. Marina (Coins): Provides Yachts and Boats Moorings and Supplies Services and can be stocked with products from the Marina Supplies Factory.

Enjoy!

--Raul

Post-Release Updates - June 1st, 5:20PM

- Bugfix: When you click on the up and down arrows in the ToolBox the yellow combines are not showing up.

Note: In the case of the combines column, you may need to click on the arrows 2 times to get to the bottom or top of the tools.

Post-Release Updates - June 2nd, 2:40PM

- Bugfix: When buying items from the store and putting them in the farm, when you moved the mouse some place else in the farm, the horizontal progress bar reappeared on the top of the item just bought.
- Removed the 'Oil Pump' from the Owned and Not Owned filter in the store, it was not working properly and causing confusion.

Note: For those users asking why when using the extended mode tools we don't show the crops name under the mouse, the answer is performance. When using extended mode we do not show the highlight on each item and do not need to process them individually when you move the mouse, this is one of the main reasons the extended mode tools perform much better than the regular tools.

So we decided that the extended mode tools should prioritize performance over everything else, and for those cases, which are in the minority, that you really need to see the name of the crop to harvest just that crop, then you should use the regular tools or switch to highlight mode in your Ex tool.

Post-Release Updates - June 5th, 3:40PM

- Bugfix: Crop tools were able to work on crop fields even when the crops were hidden.

Post-Release Updates - June 5th, 11:30PM

- We had to revert back the bugfix in Point #7, Feature b) because it was causing some other negative side effects for the crop tools, final solution for this problem will be released soon.

Post-Release Updates - June 7th, 5:20PM

- Released another version of the bugfix for Point #7, Feature b).

Post-Release Updates - June 7th, 10:50PM

- Continue releasing more optimizations to speed up load time and decrease memory consumption.

Post-Release Updates - June 9th, 3:30PM

- Released the Filipino Restaurant.

Post-Release Updates - June 10th, 3:05AM

- Released 25 new levels, more info in the release post above.

Post-Release Updates - June 22nd, 1:00PM

- Released several optimizations and improvements to the game, we will detail each of them at a later time. If you notice any malfunction or a negative unexpected behavior in the game, please report it on this thread.

Post-Release Updates - June 28nd, 12:00PM

- We opened this thread because we had to release some internal changes in preparation for the release tomorrow, if you experience any bugs or unexpected behavior please post it on this thread.

Known Issues:

- None

Thanks Raul.
I have seen one issue though it may just be me. Trying to switch out tools in short cuts a couple of the spots to place them would not stay highlighted (yellow box) in normal size screen. I had to go to full screen to get it to work.

Thanks again raul and staff

Woo-hoo the ability to search tools by "not owned".
 

Woo-hoo the ability to search tools by "not owned". Thank you, thank you!

woohoo!! doing trees is at *least* twice as fast! can't wait to do more harvesting just to ck it all out... thank you!

Thanks Raul! nice surprise!! :)

All My Yellow Combine Tools Disappeared from My Tools in Farm Town I have them as Individuals But Not The Combine I Cant See It At All ....... :(

Thank you!!! :) :) :)

I ran memcashe cleaner as Google cleaner several times and They finally turned up TY :)

Unable to harvest flowers!!!

Hi can2661,
The developers have been informed about this. They should have it fixed soon.

I just harvested flowers with no problems at all...

Hi Aussie Rae,
The flower harvesters work, but the scythe is not working. The individual doesn't own any flower harvesters.

cant see all the tools like yellow etc anymore and have run memcashe cleaner etc since the new tools

Understand, gosh its been so long since I used a scythe to do flowers... :)

Hi Amanda,
Try using the arrows at the top and bottom of the columns. That way you should be able to see all the tools.

As always, thank you Raul! A nice surprise tonight :)

did use the arrows only show down to the green, how noticed it

Thanks Raul and gang !

Hi Amanda,
I noticed too in the combines, because there are 2 for each level of tools. The rest of the tools do show. We will let the developers know as soon as they get the release published.

when in full screen mode I cant interchange from one tool to another..I have to go out of full screen mode..also the buttons for the zoom in and zoom out arent working in full screen mode. I have cleared cache and rebooted etc. and they still dont work

Hi mastermouse,
Are you using Chrome? If so the zoom problem is a known problem caused by a Chrome update. There is nothing Farm Town can do about that.
From the May 3rd release:
Known Issues:

- The zoom in and out using the mouse wheel is not working on the latest update of the Chrome browser when in full screen mode. It should work when you are not in full screen mode or when you click on the + and - icons in the bottom panel. We hope they fix this issue quickly, as it's also happening on other games in facebook.

indeed it was, hey ms marymarcel

there's just an empty green screen
 

there's just an empty green screen instead of my farm,,,?:confused:

Hi LiseJasmine,
First please try clearing your memcache (link below), then when the page of unsetting text opens close that as it is done.
If your farm is open close it. Then reopen and try again.
https://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/p...lear_memcached

Then if that doesn't work please try all the suggestions in the first post of the following thread link including the ones in the links in that post:
http://www.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=352666

Please post a reply in that thread if you still can't get to your farms.

Hi, I first ran the memcache and then tried the "not owned" filter for the tools in the store. It says I have no oil pumps but I do have several, on farms and in storage. Maybe this should be checked also.
Thanks Raul for all the work you do!!!

yes am using Chrome. The + and - used to work but are not working at all anymore..thank you for your quick response.

Hi mastermouse,
Make sure you have the latest version of Chrome and the Flash for it.

Please try clearing your memcache (link below), then when the page of unsetting text opens close that as it is done.
If your farm is open close it. Then reopen and try again.
https://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/p...lear_memcached

I have tried it and the + & - work for me.

Hi, I checked out the 'Not Owned' section and it says I do not own the Armoured Truck. I have owned that since the day it came out ! Just for your info.

Thanks for the update, look forward to seeing what else is in it. Have bought the facilities so far :D

Same for me. But thanks SO much for this feature anyway - SO useful.

Whoop
 

Loving the new update. I always look forward to the 1st of every month in anticipation and am never disappointed...yay :)

The filter is obviously intended to hide the items you only need one of for use on all farms. You can own more than one Oil Pump so filtering it out would just make life more difficult if you wanted to add another Oil Pump to a farm that didn't have one.

I don't think this needs 'fixing' as it is not a real problem.

thanks for the updates

The Armoured truck has never 'registered' for me either .... it don't say duplicate like the other tools .. Been like that for years ...

Thank you Raul! What a nice surprise!

Nice update, thank you team.

Thanks for the update, and the EX 7 tools work flawlessly and very very fast. I appreciate the attention that is being given to economize the memory usage by this game. It will help a lot of people. However, it still concerns me why no effort has been given to the fact that these new EX crop tools do NOT show what crop is planted and all the other usual data that goes with it when hovering over the field with the new tools. If I switch to "highlight" mode then there it is, all the needed info, then switch back to extent mode it is not there. Why is this? We have been asking this question since EX 5 tools came out and there has been NO response why this has been left out.

Also, you may want to check the item description (in the original posting of this update) of the Photography facility. I am pretty sure those items are not made in that facility.

crop info when hovering using 5x5 (new method)
 

When are they going to add the crop info when you hover over your crops, when using the 'new faster method'? I plant more than 1 crop on my farms. I can't identify all the crops unless I know which ones to harvest. The dev's shouldn't assume that I'm going to harvest all my crops when they're ready, sometimes I save some until I need them for an upcoming quest. It's hard for me to identify which crops on 1 farm that I want to plant over. I have to go out of the combine & look for the crop I was going to replace/harvest. They have that option for all the other harvesters, except for the 5x5 combine ('new faster method').

Wrong Supplies List Under This Factory
 

8. Photography Supplies Factory (FC): Produces Photography Supplies.

Marina Bollard
Piling Cap
Kayak Rack
Piling
Fish Cleaning Station
Marina Gangway
Dock Panel
Dock Lighting Fixture

Should be

Studio Tool
Leaning Mirror
Photo Album
Photo Prop Hat
Reflector
Backdrop
Dust Blower
Lens

McDaddie> I have been asking for the same thing. I guess they assume we can all identify all of the crops, or that we plant only 1 crop on each farm. I need to know which crop I'm harvesting when I hover over the crops. I plant more than 1 crop on my quest farm. I have to constantly go back & forth, release the tool to look at which crop I'm harvesting & then sometimes I forget for that short moment & then have to go back & then I have to go back & look again at what I was doing. They are making productive changes to the game in general, why aren't they considering that another productive, efficient aspect that needs to be done?

FT Devs: We need to see the crop info when we hover over a crop while using the 'new faster method' of combines. Please