The same questions are being asked again and again by players and
although I have created an entire General Guide for the Island, it might
be useful to post quick answers to the most frequently asked questions
here.
My General Guide, including details about
Missions, Expansions, all Island Items and so on can be found below or
by following this link:
General Guide to Island
How do I unlock the Island?
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Answer:
To unlock the Island, you must complete all six pieces of a Puzzle.
Each piece of the Puzzle contains a series of specific tasks that must
be completed or else 'skipped' by paying RC instead. Note that the
Island is an option for advanced Farmers. Many of the Puzzle Pieces
include tasks that represent significant progress on your Seaside Farm,
such as the need to have upgraded your Warehouse to Level 4 or to have a
total of 4 Batch Production Slots. If you are interested in unlocking
the Island option but have not made sufficient progress in your game,
take a look at the Puzzle pieces and simply perform one at a time until
you have met the most important requirements. Note as well that the
Island is an EXPENSIVE Option. You will need a tremendous amount of
Coins to do anything there.
What are Dev Points and how do I earn them?
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Answer:
Dev Points are one of the key elements in making any progress on the
Island. You cannot earn them until you make the Island expansion that
unlocks the Helipad and Helicopter Orders. You then will be able to
complete Helicopter Orders daily in order to earn Dev Points. Dev
Points can be earned by completing specific Island Missions as well.
Each
Helicopter Order requires a total of two different items either from
the Seaside Farm or from the Island. There will be a total of four
different Orders on the Board at any given time. The Dev Point Reward
will depend on the number of Orders filled from midnight to midnight.
The first two Orders carry a Reward of 10 Dev Points each. The next
five Orders that you fill carry a Reward or 5 Dev Points each.
Following that, the next 5 carry a Reward of 3 Dev Points each. Then,
the next five will have a Reward of 2 Dev Points each. Finally, the
Orders will carry a Reward of only 1 Dev Point each. Any Orders that
remain on the Board at midnight will have the Dev Point Reward reset to
10.
In the middle of February, a new option in the form of 'Landmark Decorations' that are crafted with materials obtained, inter alia, from the new Mine, was introduced. When you make any of these Decorations for the first time, you will earn a significant number of Dev Points.
To see how many Dev Points you have earned, tap on
the purple Star on the top left of your screen that shows your current
Level of experience. A screen will be displayed that shows the name of
your Farm, the number of XP Points you need to reach the next Level, how
many Neighbours have 'Liked' your Farm and finally, how many Dev Points
you have earned.
Note that Items that are made on the
original Seaside Farm must be transported to the Island before they can
be used either to fill a Helicopter Order or to use in any Island
Machine or Building. Transport of Items to and from the Island is made
by zeppelin.
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How and why do I transport Items?
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Seaside
Farm Animals, Trees and Machines cannot be placed on your Island nor
can Island Animals, Trees and Machines be placed on your original
Seaside Farm. The constant transport of Items to and from each Farm is a
vital component of Island gameplay. In my game, three out of the four
Helicopter Orders displayed on the Board ALWAYS require Items from the
original Seaside Farm. You therefore must transport these Items by
zeppelin before you can fill the Order.
Many of the
Island Machines require ingredients that can be harvested or produced
only on the orignal Seaside Farm. Again, these Items must be
transported by zeppelin before they can be used. The Seaside Barn and
the Island Barn are separate.
At this point in time,
there are only a few ways to use Island Items on the original Seaside
Farm. One of these is the Beauty Shop where some ingredients can be
made only on the Island. If, however, you wish to sell Items directly
from a Barn, it is only the Seaside Barn that will give you this
option. You therefore would have to transport Island items to the
Seaside Farm if you wish to sell them.
Tip: One of the
first Seaside Items that you will need in large quantities is Honey.
Another is Wool, produced by any Sheep on the Seaside Farm. Begin use
of your Zeppelins to transport Honey and Wool as soon as possible for
future use.
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How do the zeppelins work?
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The
zeppelins should not be confused with the Helicopter even though
Felicia may speak of both in the same way. Helicopter Orders are
specific and each Order takes 20 minutes. Each Helicopter Order has a
specific Coin value and is worth a specific number of Dev Points.
Zeppelin
transport on the other hand, is open to any Item that you wish to
transport and you are free to choose the path. You will have the use of
two Zeppelins when you unlock your Island but you can build three
more. Each Item takes a specific amount of time to transport and there
can be a significant difference in transport times. Crops tend to take
the least amount of time, but transport time will depend on quantity as
well.
For example, each Grape that you transport from
the Seaside Farm to the Island takes 1 minute to reach its destination.
Each Island Crop that you transport to the Seaside likewises takes 1
minute. Thus, 50 Grapes will take 50 minutes.
Each
portion of Honey, on the other hand, takes 4 minutes to transport from
the Seaside to the Island. If, therefore, you choose to ship 90 Honey,
that Zeppelin will be out of commission for other Orders for more than 6
Hours.
When you have only two Zeppelins, it is a good
idea to limit the number of Items that you transport at any given point
in time as one of your goals will be to earn Dev Points by completing
Helicopter Orders. Helicopter Orders usually do not require more than 6
or 7 items of any sort. They do include Cooked Dishes, however, which
require more time than Crops or Tree Fruits to transport. Each Cooked
Dish requires 8 Minutes to transport. If you need six of that Cooked
Dish for a Helicopter Order, it will take 48 Minutes to transport. As 3
out of 4 Helicopter Orders may require Items from the Seaside Farm, you
will need both of your Zeppelins to tranport the Items needed to fill
one Order.
Finally, the way to use a Zeppelin is by finding the
Zeppelin and tapping on it or by tapping on the Barn Icon in the lower
left of your screen. There is a difference between these two methods,
however. If you tap on the Barn, your only option will be to transport
any Item in the Island Barn to the other Farm. When you access the
Seaside Barn, your only option will be to Sell any Item. If you tap on
the Zeppelin, however, a Menu will open that will allow you to choose
tranport in either direction. That Menu will display the current uses
of your Zeppelins and the number of hours and/or minutes that each must
travel before current transport is completed.
There is
one other distinction between the two methods as well. If you tap on
the Barn, you will see ALL the items in that Barn. If you tap on the
Zeppelin, however, only a selection of the Items that you have in either
Barn will be displayed. This can be frustrating when you are trying
to fill Helicopter Orders.
For example, if a Helicopter
Order requires 2 Orange Crumble and you have none on your Island,
tapping on the Zeppelin and then on the Cooked Dishes icon will open the
Menu that displays the Cooked Dishes you have on your Seaside Farm.
Even if you have large quantities of Orange Crumble in your Seaside
Barn, however, you may or may not see this in the Zeppelin Menu. It is
only if you yourself travel to the Seaside Farm and tap on your Barn
there that you definitely will find the Orange Crumbles stored there.
The
Zeppelin Items Menu therefore is a nice shortcut when it works. If you
do not find the Item you need when you open that Menu, however, you
need to go to the Farm where the Barn is situated to discover truly
whether or not the Item is stored there.
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Zeppelin Tips
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When
you first unlock the Island, you may think that you need EVERYTHING but
in fact, as time goes on, you may become weary of the constant zeppelin
movement in both directions. Additional Zeppelins always must be built
and Materials become increasingly expensive as the list of materials
begins to include such items as Wrenches and Screwdrivers. I have four
out of five of the Zeppelins and it is MORE than sufficient for my
needs. You have infinite time to complete the Missions, infinite time
to unlock new items by earning Dev Points. Why rush?
Some Items are needed regularly, however. I always try to send some Honey and Goat Milk to the Island on a constant basis.
To
replenish your Coin totals, you will find it useful to send Island
Items to the Seaside Farm in order to be able to sell them. I suggest
that you send the most valuable items. Zucchini Bread, made in the
Flavoured Bread Machine, is a good choice as it sells for 400 Coins.
You have to process your Zucchini in the Dehydrator first, however.
Single
Ingredient Products that have a good sale value include some of the
Essential Oils. In many cases, the ingredient has to be transported
from the Seaside but even Honeysuckle Oil, which sells for 103 Coins, is
a better choice than many Island products. Peacock Hats sell for 226
Coins, another fairly good choice as, after completing some of the
Island Missions, you will have an enormous stockpile of these!
Originally,
I let some of my zeppelins idle while waiting for a new list of
Helicopter Orders. This was an error. You need to remember that you
always have the option to turn back a zeppelin at any time, cancelling
the transport. Zeppelin transport is one of the few Island options that
is free, so it never hurts to cancel the trip. Better though to have
the zeppelin in use while waiting to see if you need any item
desperately!
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Where do I find Materials to build Machines?
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Whenever
you purchase or obtain any Machine on the Island, you will find that it
is in an unfinished state. To complete it, you usually will need four
different Materials in specific quantitites. One of the four types of
Materials needed usually can be requested as a Free Gift from
Neighbours, but the other three types must be crafted on the Island.
The Building where Materials are crafted is the Hardware Store.
You
can have a total of four Hardware Stores. This is one situation where
more than one can be extremely useful, given the number of Materials
you will need. Each Material that is crafted in your Hardware Store has
its own Coin price, its own Mastery level and its own time frame for
completion.
The first Item in the Hardware Store menu
is the Crosscut Saw. This costs 25 Coins to make and will be completed
almost instantly. You need saws to harvest any Wood Trees on the
Island.
The next couple of items will be used to
complete the first Machines you buy or find on the Island. Start to
craft as many Nuts and Lag Bolts as you can as soon as possible because
you will need extraordinary quantities of both.
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How do I unlock new Machines?
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Unlocking
new Crops, Animals, Trees and Machines always is based on Dev Point
totals. If you wish to purchase any new Crop, Tree, Animal or Machine
in the Market, you will be required to meet its Dev Point requirement
first.
There is one other way to acquire a new Machine,
however, and that is by completing a specific Island Expansion. When
you look at unexplored parts of the Island, you will see a number of
unfinished Machines. Complete the expansion where the Machine is placed
to obtain that Machine.
Even when the first Machine of
any type is obtained through Expansion, however, you will be unable to
buy a second Machine of that type unless you have met the Dev Point
requirement.
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What Crops should I grow first?
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As
on your original Seaside Farm, Crops are used both to feed Animals and
as ingredients for Products made in Machines. Growing Crops will earn
you XP but it will not increase your Dev Points. Nor will Tree
Harvests, Animal Harvests or Machine Production have any effect on your
Dev Points. You do need to produce as many Products as possible in your
Machines to advance your Mastery of those Machines.
If
you cannot use a Crop in the early stages of the game, there is not
much point in growing it in quantity. One Crop that cannot be used in
the early stages is Garlic. The Crops that you will use first probably
are Alfalfa, Flax and Cassava.
Alfalfa is used to feed
the Angora Goat that produces Mohair. Mohair can be used in the
Spinning Machine to produce your first Yarn in the form of Mohair Yarn.
Remember that production of ANY Item in any Machine will advance your
Mastery and that Mastery is the key to unlocking new Items.
Flax is used in the Loom to produce Linen. You therefore should grow Flax in quantity from the start.
Cassave
is used in the Watermill to produce Cassava Flour. This is another
Crop that should be grown in quantity from the start.
Cranberries
cannot be used really until you have a Pie Machine or a Dehydrator.
You can grow a few for future use or to create a beautiful display on
your Farm, but the three Crops that are needed more at the start are
Alfalfa, Flax and Cassava.
Why do my Trees vanish?
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Trees
on the Island are divided into two categories. These are the Fruit
Trees and the Wood Trees. Fruit Trees, once purchased and placed, like
Seaside Trees, will remain on your Farm forever unless you sell them.
Wood Trees, on the other hand, have a limited niumber of Harvests.
There are two ways to discover how many Harvests any Wood Tree will
yield. The first is by tapping on the little information icon in the
form of an 'i' when you access the Tree in the Market. This will give
you the following details about the tree: the product that it produces
when cut, the number of times it can be harvested, the number of hours
between harvests and the value of the Wood it produces.
You
can discover how many harvests remain for any Wood Tree placed on your
Island Farm by tapping on the actual tree. You will see a fraction that
indicates how many harvests remain out of the total number of possible
harvests. For example, 4/6 indicates that you have harvested the Tree
twice and that four out of the total six possible harvests remain.
How Far Can I Go with RC?
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In
terms of the Island, even a Player with infinite RC can make only a
certain amount of progress by skpping Tasks in Missions and purchasing
expansions with RC instead of fulfilling Item requirements. The fact of
the matter is that progress ultimately depends upon Mastery and Dev
Points. Mastery is earned only through the use of your Machines. Dev
Points can be earned both through Mission completion and completion of
Helicopter Orders. You cannot purchase them with RC.
In
a single day, from midnight to midnight, the greatest amount of Dev
Points you can earn through Helicopter Orders is 78 I believe. Order
Rewards (not the Orders themselves) are reset every Midnight to 10 Dev
Points but you only can fill two Orders with that Reward. The Reward
then decreases to 5 Dev Points for the next 5 Orders you complete.
After that, you can complete 5 more Orders with 3 Dev Point Rewards,
then 5 more Orders with 2 Dev Points and finally all remaining Orders
will carry a value of 1 Dev Point only. I honestly am not certain as
to whether you can keep filling Orders for 1 Dev Point indefinitely
until Midnight or not. I never thought it was worthwhile to do so after
completing the 5 Orders with 2 Dev Points. The point of this is that
one cannot earn significantly more than 78 Dev Points each day by
filling Helicopter Orders.
The Dev Point value of any
Mission depends on that specific Mission. The first few Missions on the
Island have no Dev Point Rewards. Once you progress through different
Mission sequences, you will discover that they will begin to carry Dev
Point Rewards. Beginning with 8 Dev Points, you ultimately can earn 15
Dev Points for completing a more advanced Mission.
Ultimately,
the Missions themselves require that you achieve specific Dev Point
totals and whether or not you wish to pay RC to 'skip' that requirement
is your choice of course. In some cases, if the next few Missions in
the sequence can be completed without meeting that Dev Point total, you
may find it worthwhile to skip the Dev Point requirement in that
specific Task. In other cases, however, you will find that the Dev
Point requirement for the Mission actually is based upon the need to
have unlocked Crops, Trees, Animals or Machines that can be unlocked
only when you have achieved that number of Dev Points.
You
therefore will find yourself at a standstill where the Missions are
concerned until you have earned the Dev Points and there is no way to
use RC to do THAT!
Machine Mastery is simply a matter
of using the Machine in question. You can make ANY Item in the Machine
to earn Mastery Points. It usually is best to use Island ingredients
rather than being forced to transport ingredients from the Seaside
Farm. 1 Star Mastery is earned with a total of 80 Items. 2 Star
Mastery requires 600 Items and 3 Star Mastery requires 1800 items.
Again, this is nothing something that you can 'skip' by paying RC.
What is that Volcano on the Island?
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Yes,
one of the later expansions does have a smouldering Volcano on the
land. When you have expanded to this point, you will find a working
Volcano that produces 6 Power every three hours.
How do I know where to find Ingredients for Island Machines?
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I
have made a list of all Machines with their Ingredients. Each
Ingredient includes a description with the Farm where you can find it,
method of harvest or production and the amount of time needed to harvest
it. Always remember that any Items from the Seaside Farm must be
transported to the Island by Zeppelin before they can be used in a
Machine there.
Here is the link to the page:
All Island and Seaside Items Needed for Island Machines
What Crops Should I Grow on the Island
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You
do not unlock new Crops by growing Crops on the Island. It is not
general XP that will unlock new items, unlike the situation on the
Seaside Farm. It is your Dev Point total that decides whether or not a
new Crop, Animal, Tree or Machine will be unlocked. Your choice of
Crops, therefore, should be based, at least at the very start, on
whether or not you can use it at once for an Animal or Machine.
The
first Animals and Machines you will be able to use are the Watermill,
Loom, Spinning Machine and Angora Goat. Here are the Crops that can be
used initially:
Alfalfa: Feed Alfalfa to the Angora Goat to produce Mohair
Cassava: Use Cassava in the Watermill to produce Cassava Flour
Flax: Use Flax in the Loom to produce Linen
Here are the products that can be used initially:
Mohair: Use the Mohair produced by the Angora Goat in the Spinning Machine
You
need to use all Machines constantly to obtain Mastery of them. It is
Mastery that will unlock new Product options in each Machine.
Once
you have completed a number of Missions and earned some Dev Points, you
will discover that Cranberry probably is the next useful Crop to grow.
It is used in at least three different Machines on the Island. You can
use it in the Yogurt Machine, the Pie Machine and the Dehydrator. The
Dried Cranberry made in the Dehydrator can be used in the Flavoured
Bread Machine.
Another Crop that is used in more than
one Machine is the Camomile. Camomile is used in the Essential Oil
Machine, the Flower Basket Machine and the Tea Master. They are more
'advanced' Machines than the ones that use Cranberry, however, and
Cranberry will be available sooner.
Although Garlic is
available to farmers initially, it cannot be used until you have the
Flavoured Bread Machine and 1 Star Mastery of that Machine. Its only
use initially would be to transport it to sell on Seaside. It costs 88
Coins and sells for 100 Coins. Your profit therefore would be 12
Coins. There are other Crops and Items that give more profit in sales.
How do I earn Coins on the Island?
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The
Island is extremely expensive, both in farming and in Machine use.
Every Machine that you obtain is unfinished and you will be required to
complete it, primarily by making Materials in your Hardware Store.
Every Nut, Lag Bolt, Nail, Wrench and Screwdriver has a Coin cost as
well as time factor for completion. Even if you have saved Millions of
Coins when you first unlock the Island, you will find yoru treasury
completely depleted quite rapidly.
The only way to earn
Coins ON the Island is by completing Helicopter Orders. Every
Helicopter Order has a coin value. When the Helicopter returns, you
will receive the Cois allocated to that Order. This, unfortunately,
offers a fairly limited income.
The way to earn more
Coins from Island gameplay is by transporting Items FROM the Island Farm
to the Seaside Farm. You do this by using the Zeppelins. The real
problem with zeppelin transport is twofold: you only have a limited
number of Zeppelins and transport of any Item takes time.
Every
Crop that is transported by Zeppelin takes 1 Minute. If, therefore,
you ship 50 Crops, it will take 50 minutes for them to reach the Seaside
Farm where they can be sold for Coins.
Every Product,
whether it is an Animal or Machine product, takes 5 minutes. If,
therefore, you ship 10 pies, it will take 50 minutes for them to reach
the Seaside Farm where they can be sold for Coins. If you split the
Order in half, using two Zeppelins, it will take 25 minutes for each
Order of 5 pies to reach Seaside.
As on Seaside, every
item has its own specific Coin value. Products tend to be worth more
than Crops, but as you can see, take longer to transport. It is a good
idea to plan your shipments, using the Zeppelins for larger Orders when
you are not playing actively and using them for small Orders to fill
Item requirements for Helicopter Orders when you are playing actively.
Examples
of Items that are worth the effort to transport and sell include
Peacock Hats. Obviously you must transport the Peacock Feathers first
from the Seaside Farm, but when the finished Hat is sent back to
Seaside, you can earn almost 10,000 Coins (9944 Coins to be precise) for
44 Peacock Hats.
Cost and Profit
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Obviously,
the actual Profit made in the sale of any Item is not the Coin amount
that you receive. You must deduct the original Cost of producing the
Item before you can see what the actual profit is. In the case of the
Peacock Hat, you must deduct the price of the Camel Hair and the Peacock
Feather first.
Camel Hair is made when a Camel eats
Cactus. Cactus costs 55 Coins to plant. If you transported the
Cactus to the Seaside and sold it there, you would receive 57 Coins, a
profit of 2 Coins. By feeding it to a Camel instead and then shipping
the Camel Hair, you would receive 60 Coins. Deduct the original cost of
the Cactus and you have a profit of 5 Coins.
A Peacock Feather is
produced when a Peacock eats Rice. The cost of Rice is 95 Coins and a
Peacock Feather sells for 132 Coins. That means that selling a
Peacock Feather will net you a profit of 37 Coins. If you combine Camel
Hair and Peacock Feather in the Hat Machine to make a Peacock Hat, you
can transport that to the Seaside Farm and sell it for 226 Coins.
Deduct the cost of the original Cactus and Rice, a total of 150 Coins.
The profit is 76 Coins. That is a far greater profit than you would
receive by selling the raw ingredients.
The only
problem here is the trouble and time it takes to transport first, the
Peacock Feathers TO the Island and afterwards, the Peacock Hats FROM the
Island back to the Seaside Farm. Note, however, that the time it takes
for ANY Product is the same. You therefore are best advised to ship
only the most valuable Items to the Seaside if you wish to earn Coins
from them.
Perhaps we can compare the profit gained
from the sale of Peacock Hats to that gained from the sale of Goose
Hats. The primary ingredient, Camel Hair produced by the Camel when it
is fed Cactus is the same. The only difference will be the cost of the
Goose Feather. A Goose eats Lotus Flower, which costs 35 Coins to plant
and takes 4 hours to mature, as opposed to the 14 hours it takes the
Rice that the Peacock eats to mature.
If you sell the Lotus
Flower, you earn 41 Coins, a profit of 6 Coins. Feed it to the Goose to
produce a Goose Feather that can be sold for 49 Coins, increasing the
profit to 14 Coins. Transport those Feathers instead to the Island and
produce a Goose Hat. The Goose Hat, when transported back to the
Seaside Farm, sells for 128 Coins. Deduct the cost of the Cactus fed to
the Camel and the Lotus Flower fed to the Goose and you have a profit
of 38 Coins.
The profit made from selling Goose Hats,
therefore is about half that of selling Peacock Hats. The only
advantage to the Goose Hat is the fact that Lotus Flowers can be
produced much faster than Rice.
How do I earn Mastery?
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Mastery
is earned, quite simply, by use of the Machines that you build on the
Island. Constant use of any Machine will allow you to unlock new
products as quickly as possible. Some Machines are harder to keep in
use than others. In particular, a Machine such as the Flavoured Bread
Machine or Flower Basket Machine that requires an ingredient that must
be harvested first from a Tree, cannot be used constantly without the
use of expensive Farm Aides such as Watering Cans to speed your
harvests.
The Flavoured Bread Machine requires Chestnut
Flour. Chestnut Flour is made in the Watermill using Chestnuts
harvested from the Chestnut Tree. Buy as many Chestnut Trees as you can
as soon as possible, harvest and then produce Chestnut Flour as early
as possible in the game even before you have the Flavoured Bread Machine
in anticipation of this need. Do not sell these!
Similarly,
the Flower Basket Machine uses Bamboo Baskets as a required
ingredient. Bamboo Baskets are made from Bamboo Shoots fed to a Panda.
As soon as you unlock the Bamboo Tree, therefore, buy as many as
possible and begin to harvest them and feed the Panda in anticipation of
this need. Do not sell these!
There are a couple of
Machines on the Island that require a Seaside Item as an ingredient
The first Item that you will need to operate an Island Machine probably
is Honey. Honey is a required ingredient both in the Yogurt Machine and
in the Pie Machine. Another Seaside Item required to operate the
Yogurt Machine is Goat Milk. One other Machine that requires an Island
ingredient is the Hat Machine. You cannot use the Hat Machine without
having at least one type of Item produced on the Seaside Farm. The
default item is Peacock Feathers. Finally, the Hot Dog Machine, like
the Hat Machine, requires a Seaside Ingredient in the form of a Sausage
produced in the Salami Machine on Seaside. The default item here is
Beef Salami. I sue the term 'default' ti signify the Item that ican be
made without any Mastery of the Machine.
There are many
Machines that use Seaside Items and many Missions that require the
production of Items that use Seaside ingredients. Early Missions
require Wool to be shipped from Seaside and used in the Spinning
Machine.
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What is Going On with My Trees?
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New Island Trees:
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There
are both Fruit Trees and Wood Trees in the Market. Fruit Trees once
purchased and placed will remain on your Farm forever. Wood Trees, on
the other hand, each have a specific number of possible Harvests. Once
these are made, the Tree will vanish from the land and you will have to
purchase another if you wish to be able to continue to harvest that type
of Wood. Tools are needed for the harvest of any Wood Tree as well.
Whenever a Wood Tree is ready to be harvested, you will see a small icon
of a log on it. Tap it to see the tools that are available. There
are two different possible tools. One is the Crosscut Saw which you can
make in your Hardware Store and which, alone of all the Items you can
craft there, has no cost. The second is the Electric Saw, purchased in
the Market for 1 RC. For 1 RC, you obtain three uses of the Electric
Saw. Each when used, doubles your Wood Harvest.
Here are the Trees that can be purchased on the Island:
Fruit Trees
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Chestnut Tree
You can purchase a total of 5 Chestnut Trees
Harvest every 2 Hours
Third one costs 1 RC
4th costs 3 RC
Tea Tree
You can purchase a total of 5 Tea Trees
Harvest every 4 hours
2200 Coins for the first Tree and 250 Dev Points to unlock it
Produces Tea Tree Leaf every 4 hours
Bamboo
You can purchase a total of 5 Bamboo Trees
Harvest every 8 Hours
3200 Coins for the first Tree and 900 Dev Points to unlock it
2nd Bamboo: 6800 Coins
4th Bamboo: 3 RC
Morus Tree
You can purchase a total of 5 Morus Trees
Harvest every 5 hours
7000 Coins for the first Morus Tree and 1760 Dev Points to unlock it
15000 Coins for the 2nd Morus Tree
40000 Coins for the 3rd Morus Tree
Wood Trees
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Wood
Trees when purchased are limited in life to a specific number of
Harvests. The Tree then will disappear and you will have to buy
another. Each additional Tree purchased will be more expensive than the previous one purchased.
Oak Tree
You can own a total of 5 Oak Trees
Harvest every 2 Hours
10 Total Harvests
2000 Coins for the 1st Oak Tree
Cedar Tree
You can own a total of 7 Cedar Trees
Harvest every 6 Hours
8 Total Harvests
4500 Coins for the 1st and 150 Dev Points to unlock
Red Sanders
You can own a total of 5 Red Sanders Trees
Harvest every 13 Hours
6 Total Harvests
22000 Coins for the 1st and 1100 Dev Points to unlock
When Should I Buy Duplicates?
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There
is a limit to the total number of any type of Item you can buy on the
Island Farm apart from Crops. Does it really make sense to buy more
than one of any Item, especially when the price of the 2nd may be an RC
price rather than the Coin price of the original, first Item of its
kind?
Basically, I feel there are only a few Items
that merit a duplicate, especially in the early days of farming on the
Island. The first of these is the Hardware Store. The Hardware Store
is one of the most important buildings you will have on your Island
Farm. In it are produced most of the Materials that you will need to
complete any Machine or Zeppelin as well as the primariy item used to
harvest Wood from Wood Trees. Every Item made in the Hardware Store
takes time, apart from the Crosscut Saws used to harvest Wood. There is
a Coin price attached to each as well, apart from the Crosscut Saw. If
you need a total of 20 Nails to complete a Machine and each Nail takes a
total of 12 Minutes to complete, you obviously will have the Materials
you need twice as quickly if you can make Nails in two Hardware Stores.
The
other Items where it is extremely useful to own more than one are the
various Fruit Trees on the Island. For example, Chestnuts are
harvested from the Chestnut Tree every 2 hours. Chestnuts then are
ground into Chestnut Flour in the Watermill for use as a required
ingredient in the Flavoured Bread Machine. At first, when you have not
unlocked the Flavoured Bread Machine, you may feel that you have more
Chestnut Flour than you ever could need, but once that Machine is
unlocked, you will find that your stock of Chestnut Flour depletes
rapidly. Buy as many Chestnut Trees as you can. I do believe some will
be placed on the Island when it is first unlocked but there is no harm
in adding to the total.
The Bamboo Tree is another one
that is needed in quantity. The Panda eats the Bamboo Shoots produced
by the Bamboo Tree and then makes Bamboo Baskets for use in the Flower
Basket Machine. Bamboo Trees can be harvested only every 8 hours.
Again, you will find that your stock of Bamboo Baskets will disappear
rapidly.
Finally, the Morus Tree, producing the Morus
Leaf that is fed to the Silkworm Home to produce Natural Silk, is
another Tree that you may wish to have in quantity. Natural Silk,
however, although used in the Loom to make Silk when you have earned
full 3 Star Mastery of the Loom is not a required Ingredient to USE the
Machine, unlike the Bamboo Baskets made by the Panda. One of the
Missions does require you to purchase a total of 2 Morus Trees, however,
so if you do not choose to skip that task, you will have two of those
Trees on your Farm.
The Tea Tree, on the other hand, is
NOT a required ingredient in any Machine although the Leaves it
produces can be use in the Essential Oil Machine. One Tea Tree,
therefore, is sufficient.
The primary reason why you
need to be able to produce Items in any Machine in any quantity and as
quickly as possible, of course, is Mastery. Without Mastery of a
Machine, you will be unable to unlock new Products.
Do
you then need more than one Machine of any type? Well, although you
would be able to produce items twice as quickly if you had two Machines
instead of one, remember that the price for a second Machine usually is
an RC price and furthermore that the Machine you buy will be
unfinished. That means that you will be forced to produce MORE
Materials, all of which carry a Coin price and take time to make.
Finally, in terms of Machines with required Seaside ingredients or
ingredients that are made from Fruit Tree products, you may find it
difficult enough to keep ONE Machine going at all times, let alone two.
The
only Machines that might be useful in duplicate are the Essential Oil
Machine, a single ingredient Machine and the Watermill. Even so, I
doubt it is worth spending 15 RC on a second Watermill or 12 RC on the
unfinished second Essential Oil Machine and then God only knows how much
Coin on the various Materials you will need to complete it, at least at
this particular stage in the island's history. The reason why the
second Watermill might be more useful than a second Essential Oil
Machine is the fact that ALL types of Flour used in various Island
Machines are ground in the Watermill.
What happens after I finish all the Missions?
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Even
if you complete all existing Missions by skipping some Tasks, you still
will need to earn Dev Points and Mastery in order to unlock all
possible items on the Island. In many cases, it will not have made
sense to skip Tasks, because the requirements for the Task you skipped
will be needed for the next Mission. For example, what is the point of
skipping a Task that asks you to have a Silkworm Home, unlocked at 1920
Dev Points, if you have not achieved the 3 Star Mastery of the Loom that
will allow you to make Natural Silk? The Missions were devised partly
as tutorials to show Farmers how to use the Island options and partly in
a sequence that allowed Farmers to progress naturally through the
different stages of Mastery and Dev Points.
When you
have finished all the Missions on the Board, therefore, continue to use
all Machines on the Island to earn 3 Star Mastery of each and continue
to fill Helicopter Orders to unlock the remainder of the Crops.
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Is there any Reason why I should choose to make one Product instead of another in any Machine?
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If
you are earning Mastery of any Machine, you can make ANY Product to
progress. Basically, there are two considerations here when choosing
which product to make:
Initially, of course, you will
have few choices and the default Item that you can make in most cases
uses Island Ingredients rather than Seaside Ingredients. The exceptions
to this are the Hat Machine, where the first default item that can be
made requires Peacock Feathers, a Seaside Item, the Pie Machine, where
ALL products require Honey, a Seaside Item, the Yogurt Machine, whre ALL
products require two Seaside Items in the form of Honey and Goat Milk
and finally, the Hot Dog Machine, where ANY product requires a sausage
produced in the Salami Machine on Seaside. With the required
Ingredients in stock, however, it probably is best to make the default
Item when you can, as it is easier to keep Island Ingredients in
quantity. When you have earned sufficient Mastery to make ALL possible
products in any Machine, it may be a good idea to keep at least 4 of
each in your Barn for possible Helicopter Orders. Apart from that,
until Mastery is earned, you may wish to make the default item as
previously stated.
The only other consideration is the
value of the Item made as you will find that your Coins diminish rapidly
on the Island. In other to sell Island Machie products, they first
must be shipped back to the Seaside Farm. Every Machine Product takes 5
Minutes to make the trip from one location to the other. Cooked Dishes
take longer. Crops only take 1 Minute per item. With your Zeppelins
in constant demand for filling Helicopter Orders and keeping Seaside
Items used in Island Machines in stock, it makes more sense to ship
valuable Products than inexpensive Products whenever possible. After
all, the time of transit is the same. Once you have more than
sufficient Coins to do anything you please, you can start to ship the
inexpensive products to Seaside but until then, it may be more practical
to ship the most valuable. Sometimes, these are Products made with
Seaside ingredients, but you usually should be able to find a Product
that is worth the same amount but uses Island Ingredients instead.
How Long does it take to ship Items?
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Note that the time of transport will depend on the type of item being
shipped. Crops take 1 minute per Crop to ship and Items harvested from
Trees take 2 minutes per Fruit. Animal Products take 4 minutes per
item while Machine products take 5 minutes per item and Cooked Dishes
take 8 minutes per item. Collectables likewise take 8 minutes per
item. Raw seafood take 6 minutes per item and finally, processed
Seafood as well as Beauty Shop items take 10 minutes per item to ship.
Why should I continue to earn Dev Points and Mastery Points?
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Earning Mastery and Dev Points
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Progress
on the Island depends primarily on two different factors: Mastery and
Dev Points. mastery of Machines is absolutely vital. Often a Mission
task will require a specific degree of Mastery where a Machine is
concerned. Furthermore, your ability to make a specific product in any
Machine depends upon your Mastery of that Machine. There is no way to
gain Mastery other than using the Machine again and again.
At
present, 3 Star Mastery, requiring that you make a total of 1800 Items
in the Machine, is the final degree of Mastery but it is interesting to
note that the game continues to log your totals even after you achieve 3
Star Mastery. It is possible that in the future, your total beyond 3
Stars may become significant, unlocking new products. You therefore
need to continue to use your Machines even after you achieve 3 Star
Mastery and complete all existing Island Quests.
Dev
Points are the other factor that influences your Island gameplay. New
items are unlocked in every category of the Market only after you have
achieved specific Dev Point totals. Dev Points are earned in two ways,
either by completing Missions or by completing Helicopter Orders. A
total of 75 Dev Points can be earned daily by completing all Helicopter
Orders from midnight to midnight. The number of Dev Points you earn by
completing Missions varies with the Missions. In the early Missions,
you will not earn ANY Dev Points but as you advance, you will find that
Missions include Dev Point Rewards as well as Coins and XP.
Finally,
as with the continuing Mastery points that you earn by using your
Machines after achieving 3 Star Mastery, I should imagine that as new
Items are added to the Market, they will require higher Dev Point totals
than the existing Items. It therefore makes sense to continue to earn
Dev Points by completing Helicopter Orders even after you have cleared
ALL Missions from the screen.
How Can We Ship All of our Island Items?
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With
a potential for 5 Zeppelins to be in operation at all time, you can
ship Items from the Island to sell on the original Seaside Farm on a
constant basis, but it makes more sense to ship the valuable Products at
this point in time.
I noticed that there is a Fishing
Pier on the Island. It is not active yet, but perhaps when it does
become active, we will be able to use our Island Products and Items to
trade for Bait as we do on the original Seaside Farm. That would make
it possible to use our less valuable Items rather than using Zeppelin
space for Items that sell for a pittance.
