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Old May 22 2019, 08:40 AM
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Default What is the Trading Warehouse?

The Trading Warehouse is where you can offer products for sale and buy products from Neighbours offline and also for other farmers at the Trade Marketplace while you are online.

You can access the Trading Warehouse at Level 20.

If you do not know what a Super Facility is or how to get products from one click on My Super Facility.



MAY 27th 2019 - Initial release.

Currently, the Trading Warehouse can only be used to sell Super Facility products offline to any farmer that has you as a neighbour. There is a new Trading Warehouse icon in the Tool Box (far left column, above the Super Facility icon) that will allow you to create Sale Offers for your Super Facility products. Each farmer that has you as a neighbour will be able to open your Trading Warehouse from the neighbour bar and buy ONE of your sale offers.

Neighbours with valid (non expired) Trade Offers will be marked in your Neighbour Bar with a beige dot to the right of their picture. There is also a new 'Order by Trade Offers' menu option to quickly access the Trading Warehouse of all your neighbours with valid Trade Offers.

All current rules of Super Facilities products apply, for example, you can only sell Super Facility products to a particular neighbour once per day, there is no limit on the amount of products you can sell and all your offers will expire at the end of the day and will have to be created again the next day. This feature uses the players local time to determine when the day starts and ends. Each day starts at 12:00AM and ends at 11:59:59PM.

Later this week we will add the capability to create another set of offers that can be fulfilled by farmers in the Trading Marketplace, this way you don't have to randomly sell products to any farmer, you can just announce that you have Super Facility products to sell and interested farmers can access the offers in your Trading Warehouse using an option in your avatar menu.


JUNE 5th 2019 - Part 2 release.

Added the capability in the Trading Warehouse to create another set of offers that can be fulfilled by farmers in the Trading Marketplace, this way you don't have to randomly sell products to any farmer, you can just announce that you have Super Facility products to sell and interested farmers can access the sell offers in your Trading Warehouse using an option in your avatar menu.

July 2nd, 7:00PM

The Trading Warehouse now shows by default your Trade Marketplace offers when you are at the Trade Marketplace.

When you order your neighbours by 'Trade Offers' the menu option changes to 'Refresh Trade Offers', so you can click on that option again to refresh the order and update your neighbours beige dots.

July 18th

Trade Marketplace and Trading Warehouse improvements:

a) In the Trade Marketplace, farmers with offers available and from whom you haven't bought any products yet will have their avatar labels fully or partially colored in beige

b) Once you buy something from a farmer Trading Warehouse, their beige color will disappear from their label

c) When there are no more available offers in a farmer Trading Warehouse, their beige color will also disappear from their label

d) In the Trade Marketplace there is a new rounded button with the letters 'TO' that will automatically be colored in beige when you have trading offers available on your Trading Warehouse

e) The TO button will also contain a red circle showing a counter of your available offers and will go down every time someone buy something from you

f) When a farmer buy something from you a red text with information about the transaction (farmer and product name) will show up on your chat section

g) When you click the TO button your Trading Warehouse will be shown


July 29th, 7:20PM

When you try to create a new Super Facility offer, if you haven't upgraded any Facility to a Super Facility on the current week yet, we will show a text letting you know about it with a link to open the Super Facility Manager.

Closed offers now show a picture of the farmer who bought your products. The neighbours section will always show the real Facebook picture, as always, the farmer you see may not be your neighbour even when you are a neighbour to that farmer, if you want to remove yourself from that farmer neighbour list, click on her picture to visit her farm and then click the toolbox icon on the bottom left and then the blue neighbour icon with the red cross.

The Trade Marketplace offers will show the avatar picture if you are still at the Trade Marketplace or it will show a generic avatar picture if you are not there anymore. In both cases you can click the picture to navigate to that farmers farm.

SEP 27th 2019 - Buy/Sell Regular Products

Full details to be released. You can sell a pre-determined amount of your crops, logs, tree fruits, flowers, fish, animal products in storage.

OCT 3rd 2019- Create 'Purchase Offers' for Regular Products in your Trading Warehouse:

Create 'Purchase Offers' for Regular Products in your Trading Warehouse: Trading regular products (also known as Primary products) using your Trading Warehouse works totally separate from trading regular products online using the "Sell Products to..." avatar menu option, it has different buying and selling limits, trading interval length and rewards. Here are the rules for buying and selling regular products using your Trading Warehouse:
  • There are a total of 6 categories of primary products: Crops, Tree Fruits, Tree Logs, Flowers, Animal Products and Fish
  • You can have only one Purchase Offer for each of those categories at any given time
  • There will be a maximum of 10 trade periods per day, each lasting 1 hour
  • If there is no current active trading period, one will be created the next time you create a Purchase Offer in your Trading Warehouse or sell a product to a farmer in her Trading Warehouse
  • You can passively buy and actively sell one time per category per period
  • You can buy once and sell once to the same farmer each day
  • You can not sell a product that you are also buying, for example, if you have a Purchase Offer for rice, you can not sell rice to others
  • The regular/primary products you buy in your Trading Warehouse do NOT count toward your quest Trade Lifeline.

Trading Limits:

When you buy or sell a product you are limited to a certain fixed amount each time, a trading limit
  • For Crops, Tree Fruits, Tree Logs and Flowers the trading limits are the same for each product in a category, i.e. all crops have the same trading limit
  • For Animal Products and Fish the trading limits can vary for each product in a category, i.e. cow milk may have a different trading limit than turkey feathers
  • Trading limits are calculated based on your farms production capacity, so if you can generate a yield of 500,000 crops from your farms your trading limit for crops will be 1% of 500,000 = 5,000 crops. If you can generate a yield of 400 salmons from your waters your trading limit for salmon will be 1% of 400 = 4 salmons.
  • Your trading limits will be recalculated about once a week, so for example if you restructure your farms to have less trees and more crops or if you expand your farms and plant new flowers this change will be reflected in your trading limits the next time they are recalculated
  • When you open a Trading Warehouse of another farmer you will see your own limits not the limits of the Trading Warehouse owner, your trading limits will likely be different than hers, i.e. she may have a Purchase Offer for 3000 crops but your crops trading limit is only 1000 so you will only be able to sell her 1000 crops, to compensate for this, the other 2000 will be sold to her by the Mayor automatically. If your limit is 5000, then you will sell her 3000 and the Mayor will buy the rest from you automatically.

Special Reward:

When you sell products from a certain category to another farmer you are going to earn a reward of 2 times the amount of product you are buying from that category, for example:

a) Say you have a Purchase Offer for 2000 tomatoes, and then when you sell crops to another farmer you are going to earn an extra reward of 2 x 2000 = 4000 tomatoes

b) Say you have a Purchase Offer for 4 squids, and then when you sell salmon to another farmer you are going to earn an extra reward of 2 x 4 = 8 squids.

Notice that sometimes the products you are selling are in high demand, like the salmon, however when you sell it, you are going to get twice the amount of squid that you are buying, which is also in high demand.

October 22nd, 2019

Pop-up telling you when you can start your next 'Regular Products' trading period: This will include the trading period number that is about to start.


November 22nd, 2019

Added arrows at the bottom of the warehouse window which allows you to move from one section of the warehouse to the next one (inner arrows) and from one farmers warehouse to the next one (outer arrows) without having to click on each section or close the window. When it is Neighbours you will also see their profile picture if they have one, when it is strangers, you will see their avatar picture instead.

December 6th, 2019 - Trading Fish is released.

June 11th and July 9th, 2020 - Trading Advertising Banner tools Released to increase buying limits of regular products in the Trading Warehouse and reduce the Trading Period.


Last edited by Tiger; Jul 09 2020 at 08:09 AM.