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Default What are the Bulldozers?

Q: What are the Bulldozers?

A: There are 11 bulldozers in total. They can be used to delete items from your farms.

The Bulldozers do not use Fuel.

Super Neighbours with the right permissions will have access to these tools when designing for you as long as you or your super neighbour owns them.

The bulldozers do not delete the animals that you can buy from the Animals section of the store.
The bulldozers do not delete working animals like cows, hens that give you products when harvested.

The bulldozers CAN delete any decorative animal that you can get by earning rewards in the Farm Pass feature and also from buying them in the various other sections of the store as those are all classified as decorations.







Yellow Bulldozer - This is already in your Yellow Toolbox!!!

It allows you to delete any item on the farm, except for working animals that you get products from like cows for milk and the other animals in the Animal section of the store. Be very careful when using this tool.

To use it click on your yellow toolbox to open it, then click on the yellow bulldozer to pick it up.
Every item you click on with the yellow bulldozer will be deleted.
To stop using the bulldozer click on the Green man located near the bottom of your game screen.

Warning - if you want to make sure that you don't delete something by mistake when deleting a lot of items, only show the item you what to delete in your preferences, like crops or trees etc.


The ONLY Warning you will get is when....
  • deleting a single Item with the yellow bulldozer
  • or when deleting a single item with the bigger bulldozers up to size 20x20

    When deleting a single Item with one those bulldozers you will see a confirmation box which you can disable for the rest of the session if you wish.
    If you choose to disable the popup you will not be warned even if the item(s) you delete are of a high coin value.
    Common question asked:
    Q: What is a Session?
    A: When you load the game you start a session, when you reload the game you start a new session.
    To disable the warning for deleting items costing coins, ADD a check mark to the box before you click on either the green check mark to delete or the red X.
    Clicking the green check mark will then delete the item shown.
    Clicking on the red X will cancel deleting the item shown.



The White Bulldozer (2x2) - This will allow you to delete 4 plowed/ harvested/wasted fields OR trees OR flowers in a 2x2 area. Everything else, including waters, will be deleted one at a time.


The Dark Blue Bulldozer (3x3) - allows you to delete 9 plowed/ harvested/wasted fields OR trees OR flowers in a 3x3 area. Everything else, including waters, will be deleted one at a time.


The Orange Bulldozer (4x4) - allows you to delete 16 plowed/ harvested/wasted fields OR trees OR flowers a 4x4 area. Everything else, including waters, will be deleted one at a time.


The Green Bulldozer (5x5) - allows you to delete 25 plowed/ harvested/wasted fields OR trees OR flowers in a 5x5 area. Everything else, including waters, will be deleted one at a time.


The Purple Bulldozer (6x6) - allows you to delete 36 plowed/ harvested/wasted fields OR trees OR flowers in a in a 6x6 area. Everything else, including waters, will be deleted one at a time.


The Brown Bulldozer (8x8) - allows you to delete 64 plowed/ harvested/wasted fields OR trees OR flowers in a 8x8 area. Everything else, including waters, will be deleted one at a time.


The Pink Bulldozer (12x12) - allows you to delete 144 plowed/ harvested/wasted fields OR trees OR flowers in a 12x12 area. Everything else, including waters, will be deleted one at a time.


The Red Bulldozer (16x16) - allows you to delete 256 plowed/ harvested/wasted fields OR trees OR flowers in a 16x16 area. Everything else, including waters, will be deleted one at a time.


The Light Blue Bulldozer (20x20) - allows you to delete 400 plowed/ harvested/wasted fields OR trees OR flowers in a 20x20 area. Everything else, including waters, will be deleted one at a time.


*** Please be careful when deleting things. The bulldozers will delete planted fields IF you click on them. If you click on the harvested/wasted or plowed fields, then only those of that type will be deleted and crops will be left alone. We advise you to hide in your preferences the things you do not wish to be deleted by accident. You also have the option of using the single yellow bulldozer for single items ***



Bulldozer Ex (8x8) - Delete up to 1024 items at once!!

This tool is capable of deleting a considerable amount of items!
There are NO warning popups about what you are about to delete when you use it!
Be sure about what you are deleting before you proceed to delete them!
For safety this tool will NOT delete facilities or any Farm Cash Items.
There are NO warnings when deleting items with this tool!


The various Options are:
  • Fields Only (works on overlapped fields and will delete ALL types of fields including plowed, harvested, growing crops, ready to harvest crops and wasted crops)
    Unlike the other Bulldozers that are not the EX version they will not delete only one type of field at a time, if you have plowed fields, growing or ready to harvest fields, wasted crops all in the same area they will all be deleted!

  • Plants and Fields (ALL fields and crops and also includes trees and flowers)

  • Buildings and Decorations This includes coin waters and decorative animals that are not bought from the animal section of the store. It will NOT delete any Farm Cash waters, working animals, animals from the Animal section of the store, facilities, ships, trains, ground covers.

  • All of the above - will delete everything except any Farm Cash Items, working animals, animals from the Animal section of the store, facilities, ships, trains, ground covers.

  • The 8 different Size options are, in a squared area from....
    1x1 (one plowed field or 16 trees or flowers at once, more fields if using extent mode.)
    up to 8x8 (64 single plowed fields or 1024 trees or flowers the equivalent of 1024 items at once, more fields if using extent mode)

The EX Bulldozer works similar to the other Extended Mode tools but with more options, you can select the size of the tool and what to delete before you start using it.

Also, the yellow square moves from one tile to the next, similar to the way the Plower Ex tool works, giving you more flexibility on what area to clear.
To use this tool on any of your farms, place it into Item storage.
  1. Open your toolbox and click on the Ex bulldozer, you will then see the following options.




  2. At the bottom of the clearing mode window, select the size of the tool you want. There is a drop down arrow which will let you change the tool size from 1x1 up to 8x8. Click on the size you want and it will turn blue.


  3. Then click on the type of items you want to delete.
    • Fields Only
    • Plants and Fields
    • Buildings and Decorations
    • All of the Above

  4. Move the yellow square to where you want to delete and click to delete.


Selecting Highlight Mode or Extent Mode:

When using an EX Tool instead of the Eye in the bottom right of the game screen you will see the picture of the tool you have clicked on to use.

When you click on that icon, you will see a vertical toolbar with 3 buttons.


  • Clicking on the top icon (Highlight) selects the old method of highlighting each individual item. NOTE: Using the Ex tools in Highlight mode will make the tool work like the single layer tools.

  • Clicking on the middle icon selects the New Method (Extent) of highlighting only the perimeter of the area where the tool will operate. Instead of highlighting all the fields etc, this new method will just highlight a fixed squared section of the farm which works faster and with less manual mistakes. When you use this method you will briefly see "Extent mode selected" in white lettering near the top of the game screen.

  • Clicking on the bottom icon (white X) closes those the box with options.



To use any of the bigger Bulldozers that you buy, the tool must be on the farm or in storage.

You can do 2 things. . .
  • If the tool is on your farm, you can click on the tool and click "Delete Items" and then click on the item.

  • However, it is better to place all tools into your Storage so that the game cans see which ones you own when you want o buy a bigger one and also so that you can use it on any of your farms. That way you can access all your tools from the Yellow Tool box, on any of your farms, without having to move the tool from farm to farm.

    Once they are in Storage, you can click on the Yellow Toolbox to open it, and then click on the tool you want to use. Click the Green man when you want to stop using the tool.

  • NOTE: Farm Cash Tools do not count towards your storage capacity, you can store as many of those as you want.



Last edited by Tiger; Oct 11 2023 at 02:33 PM.