New Options in Seaside: Building Plots and Garden on Island

There are a number of new options in Family Farm Seaside.

Some are less major than others but very useful,  including the introduction of Batch Production to the Island and, when one accesses Crops in the Market, the total number of each Crop that is stored currently in your Barn.

One of the new options is a number of new possible expansions on your original Seaside Farm.  Be warned, however, that these are not ordinary expansions but only 'Building Plots' where you can place your Buildings such as the Kitchen, Beauty Shop, Well, Cooking Stand, Warehouse and so on  and the Cropinator.  You cannot place Decoration Buildings here nor can you place plots here.

As previously indicated, one welcome new option on the Island is Batch Production.  You now can use Batch Production both on Island Animals and Island Machines.  This will help enormously with Missions as well as earning Mastery.  In using Batch Production, you will have all existing upgrades to your Batch Production station.

Another new option on the Island is the Garden option.  Here you can grow new flowers in pots.  Flowers can be cross-bred and in some instances, placed in a Neighbour's garden.

Note that the Mystery section of the Market has been expanded to include items that can be purchased with Coins.  Today, these items included Trimmers x 10 for 8000 Coins, Green Mystrons x 4 for 200 Coins, Tulip for 63 Coins, 1 Oval Stone for 100 Coins, a Blue Swimmer Crab, a Plum and a Chrysanthemum.  You can purchase only one of each Item offered.  If the item is in the form of a set, such as the Green Mystrons x 4, you can purchase only one set.  The Coin section of the Mystery Shop is quite separate from the Green Mystron and Yellow Mystron sections.

Note that you can refresh the list of items that can be purchased with Coins in the Mystery Shop by tapping on the clock at the right top of the screen when the Shop window is open.  You will be able to see as well how long you must wait until you can refresh the list again without paying.  It appears that you can refresh the list four times before you must wait four more hours.  When I refreshed for the third time, I actually was able to purchase Electric Saws and a Treasure Chest using Coins.  Quite interesting.  Parts for Island Machines were available as well.  Island Crops and Products now can be found in the Coin section of the Mystery Shop which allows players to amass items they have not unlocked yet for the purpose of Helicopter Orders.

Incidentally, after refreshing four times, there was no option to speed the time needed to change the Menu.  One has to wait it out.

It appears as though there is a total of 12 places for flowerpots in the garden and four places for Neighbour flowerpots.  Only two of your own places will be unlocked at the start.  Tools that can be used on flowerpots include trowels called 'spades' and trimmers.  These can be used at specific intervals only.  It apepars that one cannot purchase any of the possible upgrades for the Garden, whether in the form of more places for flowerpots or to unlock the 'Glasshouse'.  You only can unlock new options by growing flowers and engaging in other Garden actions.

Other tools apart from the Spade and Trimmer that will be unlocked at higher levels include Insectiside, a UV Light and Music.

Your Garden Level is displayed on a pillar with a five-petal flower or five-point star on top of it.  After planting a second flower and using 1 Trowel/Spade on each of the flowers, my Level remained Level 1 but I had earned 3 out of the 8 points needed to ascend to Level 2.  Each Level upgrade requires more points.

There are three little stalls to the right of the Pillar.  The first is the Mystery Shop.  The second is a Flower Book akin to your Fish Book, listing all possible Flowers and your own mastery of them.  The third is a help stall, indicated by a question mark.

Once a flowerpot is placed, tending the flower is time-based.  The icon of the Tool that is needed to tend the Flower will appear above the flowerpot and, provided you have the Tool ins question, all that is needed is a tap of a finger.  It appears that the actual Tool that is needed is random, although certain tools such as the UV Light and Insecticide require a specific level of Garden experience.

The Flower Book contains the following:

Ordinary Flower Chapter:
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Venus Flytrap

Viola Tricolour

Chrysanthemum

Epiphyllum

All ordinary Flowers can be purchased from the Shop.  You need to access the Shop regularly to see what is available on any given day at any given time.  Remember that you can refresh the list of Items offered for Coin purchase.

Each Flower has a different growing time and the time that must elapse before another Tool can be used is different in each case.  The Chrysanthemum is one of the slowest-growing flowrs.  The Viola Tricolour appears to be one of the fastest.  You need not grow two of the same type of Flower in order to complete the requirement to grow 2 Level 2 Flowers for the Mission.  Obviously you do not need two of the same type to create a hybrid.  As the Mystery Shop Coin Menu will change each time you refresh, you can choose to wait until the flower you want appears, even when you have an empty space in your garden.

Super Flower Chapter
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Super Venus Flytrap

Super Viola Tricolour

Super Chrysanthemum

Super Epiphyllum

Super Lily

Super Jagger Lips

Super Flowers are obtained through cross breeding.  There is a low chance of achieving these.

Mega Flower Chapter
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Maga Chrysanthemum

Mega Epiphyllum

Mega Lily

Mega Jagger Lips

Mega Rose

MEga Rafflesia

Mega Venus Flytrap

Mega Viola Tricolour

Mega Flowers are obtained through cross breeding.

Extraordinary Hybrids
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Doughnut Flower

Super Lollipop Flower

Cupcake Flower

Super Doughnut Flower

Super Cupcake Flower

Mega Doughnut Flower

Meag Cupcake Flower

Lollipop Flower

Mega Lollipop Flower

These flowers are obtained on rare occasions through cross breeding.

A new Island tutorial Quest is involved in this.

Trading Places
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Trading Places I
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Darryl:  I made a bet with Felicia on whose tasks are harder.  Now I have to do all Felicisa's tasks for a day and she'll do mine!  And guess what?  I'll be working in the flowr garden all day!  No way, it's so girly!

Have 2 flowers in the garden
  N.B.  You will begin with one flower.  I was able to purchase a second flower using Coins in the Mystery section of the Market.  I do not know if the new items available in the Mystery section change daily or if they always are available but today, one can purchase 10 Trimmers for 8000 Coins.

Help 2 flowers with the Spade
  Skip for 3 RC

  N.B.  When you are able to use a 'spade' on a flower, the icon of a trowel will appear above the flower pot.  It really is a trowel and not a spade...

Help 2 flowers with the Trimmer
  Skip for 6 RC

Reward: 1500 Coins, 250 XP, 15 Dev Points

Darryl:  That wasn't too hard!  Especially with your help!  I wonder how Felicia has been getting on with my work!

Trading Places II
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Oh dear!  Felicia left me instructions and according to them, I have to crossbreed flowers.  I have no idea on how to do this!  Can you help me, so that Felicia won't laugh at me?

Have 2 matured Level 1 Flowers
  Skip for 6 RC

Crossbreed 1 level 1 flower
  Skip for 6 RC

Reward: 1500 Coins, 250 XP, 15 Dev Points

Darryl:  Wow!  Did you see that?  Look, we've got a special flower!

N.B.  The Chrysanthemum takes far longer to mature than the Epiphyllum.  When my first Chrysanthemum finally matured, I had been continuing to feed the Epiphyllum for a day or so at least.  Cross-breeding the two resulted in a Super Chrysanthemum in this case.

Trading Places III
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DarryL;  Oh!  I think I can even win the bet you know!  All we need to do is take care of these little flowers when they need something!  Look, I'll show you!

Have 2 Level 2 Flowers
  Skip for 6 RC

Help 2 Flowers with the insecticide
  Skip for 6 RC

Help 2 flowers with the UV Light
  Skip for 6 RC

Reward: 1500 Coins, 250 XP, 15 Dev Points

Darryl:  These garden flowers are so delicate.  I was scared about hurting them when I used the garden tools!

Trading Places IIV
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Darryl:  Remember the flowers which you helped me crossbreed for the first time?  We need to find another flower to crossbreed with this one!   I still need to learn how to do this!  Please help me one more time!

Have 2 matured level 2 flowers
  Skip for 6 RC

Crossbreed 2 level 2 flowers
   Skip for 6 RC

Rewards: 1500 Coins, 250 XP, 15 Dev Points

Darryl:  Yes, ow we have one more resident for our garden!  Grow, little guy!  Become big and beautiful!

Received a Mega Epiphyllum by crossbreeding a Super Epiphyllum and Super Chrysanthemum incidentally.


Trading Places V
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Darryl:  I was planning to run to  the fishing pier with my friends for a few hours, but these flowers need constant attention!  I give Felicia credit, this juob isn't as easy as I thought it would be!  But I still want to win the bet!

Have 2 Level 3 Flowers
  Skip for 6 RC

Help 2 Flowers with Music
  Skip for 6 RC

Reward: 1500 Coins, 250 XP, 15 Dev Points

Darryl:  Nice!  All flowers have had their fair share of my attention!  Now I have some free time!

Trading Places VI
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Darryl:  We have enough flowers in our garden!  Time for some experiments!  I will corssbreed flowers and try to get a totally new type of flower!  Felicia will be stunned!

Have 2 Matured level 3 flowers
  Skip for 6 RC

Crossbreed 2 Level 3 flowers
  Skip for 6 RC

Reward: 1500 Coins, 250 XP, 15 Dev Points

Darryl:  It's so peaceful here in this garden!  No wonder Felicia spends hours here!

Trading Places VII
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Darryl:  I need to free up some space in the garden.  Can you help me decide which one I should sell?  I am so attached to them now that I won't be able to make a choice!

Sell 1 Matured Flower
  Skip for 6 RC

Reward: 1500 Coins, 250 XP, 15 Dev Points

Darryl:  Thank you for your help!  Now we have more space and more coins! Gardening sure is an awesome thing!

Last quest in sequence.

Mystery Shop
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The new Mystery Shop offers the opportunity to buy new Flowers for the Garden, more implements for the Garden, as well as items from both the original Seaside Farm and the Island Farm, provided always that you have unlocked the Island and the Garden.  If not, you will not see the Items from the Garden or the Island Items.   On my second farm initially, I had unlocked the Island but not made the expansion that allowed the Garden to appear.  I therefore saw only regular Island Items and Seaside Items in the Mystery Shop.  Note, however, that Crops and products you may not have unlocked yet WILL appear in the Mystery Shop from time to time, as well as a multitude of Sea creatures.  For players like me who dislike the fishing option, it is great to be able to buy seafood supplies in the shop now.

The Mystery Shop moreoever, in terms of the new Coin option is on a timer that allows the player to refresh up to four times, depending on the amount of time that has passed.

Be advised that you can have only a limit of 99 tools of any kind for the Garden.  When you have 99 Spades, you cannot purchase more until you have used some of them.

Seeds for flowers cannot be stored.  If you do not have a spot to plant the seed, you cannot purchase it.


Building Plot Expansions
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There are a total of six Building Plot Expansions and each has its own set of requirements.  I am sorry I did not log the first two completely but each consists of three tasks, one of which is a Cooked Dish.  The first required six Grape Cornbread, I believe and the second required 3 Polish Dumplings with Sour Cream.  Here is the thrid:

3rd Building Plot Expansion
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Reach Level 20

Have 12 Steak Burgers

Have 5 bowls of Spaghetti

4th Building Plot Expansion
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Reach Level 23

Have 6 Smoked Menhaden
  Skip for 6 RC

Have 6 Plates of Stuffed Turkeys
  Skip for 12 RC

5th Building Plot Expansion
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Reach Level 31

Have 20 Bowls of Dumpling Soup
  Skip for 20 RC

Have 20 bowls of White Wine Crab
  Skip for 20 RC


6th Building Plot Expansion
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Reach Level 37

Have 30 plates of Peach Cobbler

Have 30 Lavender Aroma Bottles


Other New Options
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Stats
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When you tap on the purple star in the top left corner of your screen, more information now appears:

How many points you need to reach the next Level
How many likes you have from Neighbours
How many Island Dev Points you have
How many visits from Neighbours today
How many times Neighbours helped you today
How many free gifts received
How many free gifts sent
How many days you have logged into the game (total, not consecutive)