New Release -- January 21st, 2012
 

See Known Issues and Post Release Changes at the end of this post. Last changes released at Feb 3, 8:30PM EST.

Hi There,

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

1. 6 new Crops: You can already earn Belts and Dans on them.

Scallions
Alfalfa
Coriander (Cilantro Seeds)
Saffron
Brussels Sprout
Chickpeas

2. 25 New Levels: About 55 items all in coins. There are new items in the following categories: buildings, winter, other, motion, farming and furniture.

3. 26x26 Farm Expansions for Farms 11 and 12: Here are the prices -> 3,000,000,000 Coins or 25 FarmCash.

4. Farm 13: Here are the prices in coins (FC prices remains the same):

12 x 12 Farm 13: 13000000
14 x 14 Upgrade: 10000000
16 x 16 Upgrade: 11000000
18 x 18 Upgrade: 12000000
20 x 20 Upgrade: 1300000000
22 x 22 Upgrade: 1400000000
24 x 24 Upgrade: 1500000000
26 x 26 Upgrade: 3000000000

5. Quests: There is a new icon in the extended tool bar (Mystery Dice) that will allow you to accept new Quests. Here are the rules:

- Quests are only enabled for users at level 30 or higher

- You can only accept 1 Quest per day and it has to be completed before it expires

- You can have several active Quests at the same time depending on your level, here is the table:

Level 30.....1 Max Active Quests
Level 50.....2 Max Active Quests
Level 100....3 Max Active Quests
Level 150....4 Max Active Quests
Level 200....5 Max Active Quests

- A Quest has several steps and it will be completed when all its steps are completed

- Roll your mouse over each Quest Step to find out what needs to be done

- You will earn prizes every time you complete a Quest. The prize in coins will be higher depending on:

a) How fast the Quest was completed
b) The complexity of the Quest (amount of Quest Steps)
c) User Level

- In the future the Mayor might occasionally award you 1 FarmCash and/or ingredients based on your performance in previous Quests

- Right now, Quest Steps need to be completed by working by yourself in your farm or facilities. That is to say, crops or products you get as a bonus working for others, as gifts or by trading at the market won't count, but they will in the future. For now, if you hire others to harvest it wont count either, this may change as well.

- You can use any tool when harvesting, fishihg, etc.

6. Belts and Dans for Facility Products: The next 25 Facilities (in order of appearance in the Store) now have Belts and Dans enabled for each product. With each Belt or Dan you achieve you will increase your chances of getting a "free" Batch automatically for every Batch you start from that point on. Free Batches means that a new Batch is sent to production without consuming any ingredients or coins. See previous Release Post for the benefit % table.

7. Content Changes:

- Mineral Mine now produces Salt
- Cotton crop maturity reduced from 4 days to 3 days
- Sports Accessories Factory now produces Pool Cue Set, Pool Table Brush, Dart Set and Dartboards
- Furniture Factory now produces Pub Tables
- Glass Factory now produces Lantern Glass
- Duplicated production output for the Scented Candles

8. Explorer Accessories Factory (coins): Produces Accessories for Explorer Enthusiasts.

Camping Tent
Mosquito Net
Swiss Knife
Hiking Pole
Rescue Whistle
Signal Mirror
Folding Grill
Candle Lantern

9. Hibachi Japanese Restaurant (FC): Produces Hibachi Food.

Sake Shots
Sushi Combo
Grilled Tofu Steak
Hibachi Vegetables
Hibachi Steak
Hibachi Chicken
Hibachi Seafood
Banana Tempura

10. Explorer Shop (Coins): This is a Service Facility that can be stocked with the products below:

Hammock
Tea Kettle
Camping Tent
Mosquito Net
Swiss Knife
Hiking Pole
Rescue Whistle
Signal Mirror
Folding Grill
Candle Lantern
Veggie Snack
Walnut Snack
Pistachios Snack
Chocolate Peanuts

11. Pub (FC): This is a Service Facility that can be stocked with the products below:

FarmTown Beer
FarmTown Strong Beer
FarmTown Honey Beer
Calamari Rings
Mushroom Burger
Grilled Chicken Burger
Supreme Burger
Cod and Chips
Haddock and Onion Rings
Pool Cue Set
Pool Table Brush
Dart Set
Dartboard
Pub Table

Enjoy!

--Raul

Post Release Fixes - Jan 25, 10:50PM EST:

- The 'Quests' feature described in point #5 above is now live.

Post Release Fixes - Jan 27, 8:30PM EST:

- Issue -> When completing a Quest Step by clicking the +30 or +All button the Quest Manager shows that you have to wait until all the products you just started gets done

Status -> The issue above should be fixed now for future quests. For quests that have been created already, we made it so all timers were reset to 0 so you will not have to wait on products that were currently being made.

Post Release Fixes - Jan 28, 5:20AM EST:

- The 25 new levels are now live. There are new items in the following categories: buildings, winter, other, motion, farming and furniture.

Post Release Fixes - Feb 3, 8:30PM EST:

- Valentine items are now live, include 1 new gift and 8 new items in addition to last year items.

Known Issues:

- The facility product Belt popups are frustrating some users, we will release an update soon that will allow you to disable them in the current session

- Part of the Tooltip in Quest Manager is sometimes hidden

thank you...

Thank you so much for the update!! :)

Yay - a new update!! Love the Pub and Farm 13. I did think Scallions (crop) was a Yorkshire (England) term for naughty children though - giggle.
Thank you Raul and the team - off to play now.

Thank you I wasn't expecting this till next week.

Thank you Raul...Love it...was hunting the levels...went back and saw where that will be next week...thanks again

thanks Raul! :)

Nice update, thanks muchly Raul :)

new Factories use more metal... you need to increase and work on balancing out the ingredients. Maybe come up with a new object like you do for semi... you can then turn a open pit to an advance open pit, producing double, and faster, and even double it again, to a modern advance open pit. same with mine.. could even add rail to advance semi (not that it is needed) Please, Please, help us out here.

Please add Mouse over on top of belt icon in yellow tool box, like on sprinkler... hrs till you can use it again, please add mouse over on belts, showing the hrs till next belt bonus limit and the amount or limit hit. this will let us know when the 5 post (Facebook must limit you to this small amount) will start to pop up again, and to how much we can still get towards our limit.

Belt correction: The next 25 Facilities ........ it the next 26 Facilities :
21> C Winery
22> F Wine Cellar
23> C Sawmill
24> F Seafood Restaurant
25> C Coffee Grindr
26> F Fish Farming Plant
27> C Tea Factory
28> F Coffee and Tea Shop
29> C Sushi Restaurant
30> F Cinnamon Factory
31> C Oast and Malt House
32> F Bee Farm
33> C Pasta Factory
34> F Furniture Factory
35> C Mineral Mine
36> F Brewery
37> C Natural Remedy Shop
38> F Pasta Restaurant
39> C Cereal Factory
40> F Jewery Factory
41> C Paper Mill
42> F Spice Factory
43> C Ink and Pigments Factory
44> F Printing - Packaging Factory
45> C Open -Pit Mine
46> F Ceramic Factory

woot woot!!!

Thank you, LOVE having a pub :) Now off to investigate.

.. and thanks for reducing cotton growth time.

Thanks Raul Appreciated as always :)

would love to see a use for northern pike & walleys fish :)

Thanks Raul..

Great update! thank you!!!!
please do something about the canvas roll production, was ALWAYS short after the circus stuff was added, even with 2 textile facs, now it's going to be impossible to make tents :-(
prices getting a bit steep for farm expansions, don't you think?

great update
 

Quick question... are the new plants used anywhere.. or just crops to grow and sell ?

1 of the new crops is used :)

Scallions is used

Thanks for the upgrades... need more ore (of all kinds) production please...

I must add - im glad you decided to follow a less complicated path for the Quests, and Im releived to find I wont have to beg borrow and bribe my FB friends to accomplish them - Good Call devs!!!

The ore now has belts which will give more production

Thanks for great updates Raul and devs!!!

Hey thanks for the new update! Just logged in and was about to sow some crops when I noticed the new ones. Love it as always!

Thank for the update I can't wait for the daily quest.

Looking forward to the daily quests, will add some fun to the game.

I don't think it was this update, maybe a couple updates ago, but I can no longer freeze flowers unless they are fully grown. I have tried at different stages and they revert to newly planted when I refresh. I used to be able to get lots of different looks from flowers because I could freeze them in the different stages of growth.

I still love playing farm town and always look forward to new releases.

oh and um lol January 21th??? has someone got a lisp today???

Great new upgrade, thanks Devs :-)
Off to play with farm 13. Looking forward to more levels and exciting stuff in some days.

OMG FARM 13 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

i want to invest in some Slashkey stock. Do you sell it??? :)

What a wonderful surprise for a crappy, snowy, freezing rain Saturday morning....Thank you!!!!!!!!! :) :D :) :D

Thank you Raul and Devs, didn't expect another update till Feb 1st. This is great. Really appreciate Farm 13 and expansions of the rest of existing farms. Not sure what I'm going to do yet...but things are going to change. Thanks for keeping this game interesting. Interested to check out the quests.

Again Thank you

Fritz

Thanks Devs,
Wound't you know it, I stayed up as long as I good and as soon as I went the to bed here comes the update. Got to love. :) Now to go investigate it and tell all my neighbors.

I think this release is the best one yet! Its really cool what we have now, I'm not really looking forward to the quests, but the rewards from them I am. I really want the next levels so I buy new farm cash stuff. Oh and I love the new crops, even if only 1 has a use and I can't use it. But the lowering of cotton is awesome!

There is word we use in Yorkshire that is similar...
Scallywag,..
Is this the one your thinking of ?
:)

Thanks Raul... love the new stuff :)

Could you be talking about rapscallions ??

Thank you devs for all the hard work and new releases, they are great.

Woo HOO! Thanks!

Thanks Raul!
 

I always look for your posts when I notice upgrades etc... You help me decide what I want to get into next... I'm nuts about this game, been playing since 6/26/09... 13 farms and all upgraded to 26x26... 262 Facilities & Services in full production, LOL! Love ya Raul... And THANKS to all Slashkey DEV's!
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Forgot to say upthread--Thanks for the salt!!

Yeah! Thanks for the great updates! Esp thanks for the salt. I was always running out of salt. Farm 13..yippee!! Ore belts is a great idea!!!
Thanks for the great job you all do!!!

cool update thanks for mixing up the items in the facilities!!! buying fc right now!!!!!!!

yay for salt!!!!