26 September 2014

Teahouse Time-Restricted Quest and Macaron Collections Mission



The Teahouse Mission is twofold.  It involves a Collections Mission wherein you randomly collect Macarons of different colours from designated items as well as a traditional Quest sequence.

Above, the screenshot shows Rewards from both the Collections Mission and the Quest in the form of a Teahouse Decoration and a Flower Swing Decoration.


Collect Macarons

Try to collect Colourful Macarons when making farm products

70 Orange Macarons from Carrots

50 Red Macarons from Ketchup

30 Blue Macarons from Blueberry Jam

10 Brown Macarons from Chocolate

Rewards from Collections Mission:  Grapefruit Tree and Teahouse Decoration

As is usually the case with respect to timed Missions, a traditional Quest sequence operates in tandem with the Collections Mission.  Here are the tasks for the Teahouse Quest sequence:



Teahouse I
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Felicia:  The weather is changing and Grandma doesn't feel so well.  We should better help her out and prepare some fresh fruit for her to eat!

Harvest 4 Lemons
  Skip for 4 RC

Harvest 40 Tlomatoes
  Skip for 20 RC

Harvest 60 Daisies
  Skip for 30 RC

Felicia:  Oh, Grandma can't eat any fresh fruit!  I'm really worried now!  I hope the scent of daisies will make her feel better.

Reward: 90 Coins, 12 XP

Teahouse II
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Felicia:  I have decided to take Grandma to see a doctor.  The doctor advised me to buy some magical medicine, which could give her bak her old spirit!  She also needs to stay in bed for awhile...

Prepare 20 Sunrise Porridge
  Skip for 20 RC

  Ingredients:  Orange Crumble, Cornmeal
  N.B.  Ingredients for Orange Crumble are Batter and Orange x 3.  Ingredients for Cornmeal are Corn x 2.

Prepare 20 Bean Stew with Crumbly
  Skip for 20 RC

  Ingredients:  Crumbly, Bean Stew
  N.B.  Ingredients for Crumbly are Oat Flour and Egg and ingredients for Bean Stew are Beef Salami and Green Bean

Prepare 60 Cheddar Cheese
  Skip for 30 RC

  N.B.  Feed Holstein Cow Clover to produce Milk.  Milk in the Cheese Maker or Fast Chese Maker produces Cheddar Cheese.

Felicia:  Grandma seems to have lost her appetite... Let's get her the magic medicine!  I hope it's not too expensive.

Reward: 100 Coins, 12 XP

Teahouse III
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Felicia:  Luckily I can work as a tour guide for exchange students that have just arrived in my school.  This way I can earn some money to buy magical medicine!

Complete Daily Order Board

Produce 50 Milk
  Skip for 25 RC

N.B.  Feed Holstein Cow Clover to produce Milk.

Harvest 50 Corn
  Skip for 25 RC

Felicia:  The farm tour was successful, but the exchange students realised that I'm not in a happy mood.  Oh, I just worry so much about Grandma!

Reward: 100 Coins, 14 XP

Teahouse IV
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Felicia:  One of the foreign students made grapefruit tea to cheer me up!  She said grapefruit is full of Vitamin C and if I drink it then I can feel more peaceful!  I want to drink the tea!

Place Grapefruit Tree
  (Reward from Collections Mission or purchase for 8 RC)

Prepare 6 Pitchers of Grapefruit Tea
  Skip for 6 RC

  N.B.  You will need Oranges as well as Grapefruits to make Grapefruit Tea.

Produce 20 Maple Sugar
  Skip for 10 RC

N.B.  Maple Sugar is made in the Sugar Machine using Maple Syrup harvested from the Maple Tree.

Felicia:  She was right!  I feel much better now, and warmer.  Grandma should also try this tea!

Reward: 110 Coins, 14 XP

Teahouse V
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Felicia:  So interesting!  All the exchange students say that their country's tea is the best and now they are all making their own tea.  Which tea will be the best?

Collect 20 Tea Pots from Neighbours
  Skip for 20 RC

Prepare 20 Cups of Maple Milk Tea
  Skip for 20 RC

N.B.  Milk and Maple Syrup are the ingredients in Maple Milk Tea, one of the new Recipes.

Prepare 10 servings of High Tea
  Skip for 10 RC

N.B.  High Tea requires Maple Milk Tea and Lavender Cupcakes.  This is rather cruel in a way as you will need to make Lavender Cupcakes in the next step of this Mission in Teahouse VI so all in all, you will need 10 Lavender Cupcakes for Teahouse V and 10 more for Teahouse VI.

Lavender Cookies has Coconut Milk as one of its Ingredients.  Coconut Milk is a Kitchen Recipe that uses Sugar made from Cane in the Sugar Machine as well as Lavender.  Make enough Sugar in advance for 20 Lavender Cupcakes if you can as well as enough Sugar for the Blueberry Candy required in Teahouse VIII.

Felicia:  All the neighbours were led to the farm by the nice aroma from the tea.  They want try the tea and some even said they want to buy some!

Reward: 110 Coins, 15 XP

Teahouse VI
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Felicia:  Wow!  Did you see this beautiful house?  Turns out that the exchange students planned to open a Teahouse to help me buy Grandma's magical medicine!

Place Teahouse
  (Reward from Collections Mission)

Prepare 6 Condensed Milk Grapefruit
  Skip for 6 RC

Prepare 10 Lavender Cupcakes
  Skip for 10 RC

Felicia:  The Teahouse will draw lots of customers!  Let's make some tea and desserts for our customers and get ready to welcome them!

Reward: 110 Coins, 15 XP

Teahouse VII
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Felicia:  We are going to open the Teahouse now!  Do you think we will do well?  Oh, don't forget!  To enter the Teahouse, every one needs to bring a tea bag as an entry ticket!

Collect 20 Tea Bags from Neighbours
  Skip for 20 RC

Prepare 10 Carrot Pastries
  Skip for 10 RC

N.B.  Each Carrot Pastry requires Carrots x 3 and Soft Dough to make.  If you have a chance, make 10 Soft Dough in advance.  Soft Dough is one of the basic Ingredients used in many different Recipes.

Sell 12 Grapefruit Pies'
  Skip for 12 RC

N.B.  Grapefruit Pie is made with Condensed Milk Grapefruit and Cake Flour.   Cake Flour is another Basic Dish that you should have on hand, made with Oat Flour and Rye Flour in any Mill.

Felicia:  Wow!  So many customers!  And they all heard about the Teahouse from their friends, we didn't even advertise it!

Reward: 120 Coins, 16 XP

Teahouse VIII
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Felicia:  Now I have enough money to buy the magical medicine for Grandma!  We should visit her all together!  She must be so happy!

Produce 60 Blueberry Candy
  Skip for 30 RC

N.B.  Blueberry Candy is made in the Candy Machine with Sugar and Blueberries.

Collect 8 Jars of Nectar
  Skip for 8 RC

  N.B.  Nectar is made in a Butterfly House whenever Butterflies pollinate Trees.  Various Butterfly Houses exist and each has its own Tree List.  Trees will turn an orange colour when they have been pollinated.  Once harvested, they can be pollinated anew.
 
Prepare 10 Egg Soup
  Skip for 10 RC

  N.B.  Note that Egg Soup is made with Seaweed and Egg.  I personally find that Seafood items are the most difficult to keep in stock in the Barn in any quantity, so I will begin to fish immediately in order to try to amass the 10 Seaweed required to make 10 Egg Soup.  I only have 2 at the moment in my Barn.

Teahouse IX
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Felicia:  Grandma wants to invite every one to celebrate today!  Let's make soe dishes and prepare presents so every one will be happy!

Produce 20 Cherry Chocolate
  Skip for 10 RC

  N.B.  Cherry Chocolate is made with Dark Chocolate and Cherry in a Chocolate Machine.

Prepare 10 bowls of Fruit Salad
  Skip for 10 RC

  N.B.  Fruit Salad is made in the Kitchen using Bananas and Cherries harvested from Trees.

Produce 60 Love Cakes
  Skip for 30 RC

Felicia:  What an adventure!  It taught us to never give up!  We have a new Teahouse now, new friends and Grandma is back to her old self!

Reward: 120 Coins, 16 XP

FINAL REWARD: Flower Swing Decoration
  This Decoration can be cleaned and will yield a Purple Cleaning Gift Box
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New Recipes in the Kitchen are as follows:

Grapefruit Tea: 61 Coins, 1 XP
  Ingredients:  Grapefruit, Orange

Condensed Milk Grapefruit: 224 Coins, 1 XP
  Ingredients:  Condensed Milk, Grapefruit

Grapefruit Pie: 568 Coins, 1 XP
  Ingredients:  Condensed Milk Grapefruit, Cake Flour

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Maple Milk Tea: 68 Coins, 1 XP
  Ingredients:  Milk x 2, Maple Syrup

Lavender Cupcake: 485 Coins, 1 XP
  Ingredients:  Coconut Milk, Lavender x 3

High Tea: 622 Coins, 1 XP
  Ingredients:  Maple Milk Tea, Lavender Cupcake

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Strategies for Quest Completion
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As always nowadays, the real problem in completing the traditional Quest sequence with any speed is the limit to Power.  You are given 30 Power and time will replenish any Power that you use.  When you look at the tasks, however, you will see that 30 Power is nothing compared to the amount needed in some cases to complete a single step.  For example, as early as Teahouse II, you are required to prepare 20 Sunrise Porridge and 20 Bean Stew with Crumbly.  Each of these Recipes has two ingredients, both of which are dishes created in the Kitchen. Actually, Orange Crumble requires Batter as one of its ingredients, another dish made in the Kitchen.   If you do not have any of these stored in your Barn at the time of the Quest, you will need a total of 140 Power to complete Teahouse II alone!

Cleaning Gift Bags randomly contain Power as well as other useful items such as OP.  If you save these for a 'rainy day', eg. a timed Quest or Mission, you should have a few extra Power in your Gift Box.    Making basic Dishes such as Cornmeal, Batter, Condensed Milk, Cake Flour and so on, and storing them in your Barn will help as well.

Family Farm Seaside has become more difficult in terms of saving Power, however, in that the Cooking Stand Quests require the preparation and sale of 200 Dishes from the Kitchen at every stage.  You will have to balance this need against the need for Power in the Teahouse Quest in order to succeed at both in the time frame allocated to each Farmer.

Note that you can obtain some extra Power by registering certain Items now as well.  Registrationn of Animals tends to give a Reward in the form of Power, while registration of Trees gives Watering Cans and registration of Machines gives OP.  The amount that you obtain of any of these depends on the specific item that is registered.  Only one Item of any type can be registered.  In other words, if you happen to have four Holstein Cows, only registration of the first is possible.

If you do not have the Cooked Dishes that are required as Ingredients for Dishes needed to complete one of the Teahouse tasks, try to make these Dishes when you are involved in a task or tasks that does not need Power.  Plan ahead a little.

I find it difficult to maintain space for Machines now, even with the largest Farm expansion.    Although I hate to store Decorations that can be cleaned, timed Quests often require this sacrifice as tasks tend to be associated with Machine Products as well as Animal Products.

I have learned NEVER to sell anything from my Barn if it is not mandated by a Daily Order or Quest.  Sooner or later, I will find that every item is needed.

Speaking of Items that are needed for Tasks, the Collections Mission will require a large number of Tomatoes for the Ketchup and Blueberries and Honey for the Blueberry Jam.  Remember that Blueberries can be requested as a Free Gift if you lack sufficient quantities.  Tomatoes unfortunately are not in the Gift List but you do need to harvest 40 of them for Teahouse I.  Carrots are the Crop that randomly yields the Orange Macarons in this particular Collections Mission.

Sugar is an Item that will be required in some quantity for use as an Ingredient both in the Kitchen and in Machines.  You will need 20 Sugar to make the Coconut Milk that is one of the Ingredients in the Lavender Cupcakes required in the course of the Quest sequence as well as 60 Sugar for use in the Candy Machine to make Blueberry Candy.

You do have 11 days from the release of any timed Quest or Mission to complete it, so there is no real urgency here, but some players like myself, prefer to move forward as quickly as possible.  One of my own reasons for doing so is the unreliability both of my system (rather old) and internet connection.  I try to complete these Quests as early as possible in case I lose the connection.

As you will need the Rewards from the Collections Mission in order to complete the traditional Quest sequence, it is a good idea to complete that as quickly as possible.  The Grapefruit Tree, needed in Teahouse IV, can be purchased for 8 RC in the Market, but you will need the Teahouse Decoration in Teahouse VI.  

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