Note that one rule has changed... definitely for the better. There will be a limit on the number of duplicates of any Coin Purchase Decoration that will count in terms of Charm Points. This rule was instigated because of the proliferation of farmers who cheated by 'flattening' items in order to be able to place more on their farms. It is beneficial as well in terms of creating farms with actual 'beauty' rather than farms with hundreds of ladders or firecrackers side by side simply for the purpose of increasing Charm points.
A few of the Theme items were Theme Items in the previous Farm Beauty Contest as well, oddly enough, including the 2 types of Chocolate Trees, the Chocolate Fountain and the Bouquet Bunny.
The Theme Decorations for this Contest are:
Trees
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White Chocolate Tree: 1 Vote (Available for 8 RC from Market or as part of a current sales offer)
Dark Chocolate Tree: 1 Vote (Available for 6 RC from Market or as part of a current sales package)
Collectable Decorations:
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Chocolate Fountain: 1 Vote (Available in past)
10 Charm Points, Gives Dark Chocolate when collected
Easter Chocolate Tree: 1 Vote (Available in past and in future sale offer)
Gives a random type of Chocolate when collected
Toy Bunny on Bike: 1 Vote (Available in past, randomly on Lucky Wheel or in Blue Mystrons Shop and in Buddy Share Boxes)
Gives coins when collected
Decorations
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Angel Rain Egg: 1 Vote (Available only in 2014)
Easter Bunny: 2 Votes: (Available in the past and offered now in sale)
3 Charm, Used to give a Purple Gift Box but NOW gives only a Silver Gift Box
Flower Pot Bunny: 2 Votes (Available in past and now in sale)
2 Charm, Gives Blue Gift Box
Rabbit Statue: 1 Vote (Available in past and now in Share Boxes and randomly on Lucky Wheel)
2 Charm, Gives Purple Gift Box
Chicken in Egg : 1 Vote (Available in current sale)
No Charm Point value yet, Gives Purple Gift Box
Bunny Hedge: 1 Vote (From the past and now temporarily available in the Decorations section of the Market for 2 RC)
1 Charm, not Cleanable
Easter Chocolate Bunny: 1 Vote (Available in the past, in Yellow Mystron Mystery Shop randomly, on Lucky Wheel randomly and in Buddy Share Boxes)
6 Charm, Gives Purple Gift Box
Buddy Easter Egg: 2 Votes (Will be available from Saturday, 12 March from Red Mystrons Shop)
This is NOT a real Decoration but a temporary Buddy Item similar to the Christmas special Snow Mailbox and Bench)
Easter Lamp: 1 Vote (Decoration Reward for this Farm Beauty Contest)
All previous Decoration Rewards have yielded a Gold Gift Box
Easter Table: 1 Vote (Available randomly in Yellow Mystrons Shop and on Lucky Wheel, as well as in Buddy Share Boxes)
3 Charm, Not Cleanable
Bunny in Basket: 3 Votes (Available in sale now)
8 Charm, gives 5 Blue Mystrons per day and then Blue Gift Box
Egged in Bunny: 2 Votes (Available from past and in current sale offers)
5 Charm, gives Gold Gift Box
Easter Picnic Base: 3 Votes (Purchase in Shop and build)
24 Charm when completed
Glassed in Bunny: 1 Vote (Avaialble in past, in Blue Mystrons Shop randomly and on Lucky Wheel randomly as well as Buddy Share Boxes)
2 Charm, gives Purple Gift Box
Egg Statue: 1 Vote (Available from past and currently in Sales Offer)
1 Charm, gives Gold Gift Box
Sweet Chicks Cart: 3 Votes (Available in past and in current Sale offer
15 Charm, gives Blue Gift Box
Bouquet Bunny: 1 Vote (Available in past and currently randomly on Lucky Wheel or in Buddy Share Box and randomly in Blue Mystrons Shop)
5 Charm, Gives Purple Gift Box
Easter Backdrop: 2 Votes (Available in sale now)
6 Charm, Gives Purple Gift Box
Festival Mystrons
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Festival Mystrons have returned and are used now to purchase materials for the Easter Picnic Base as well as the International Eggs from the past. There are 19 different International Eggs: American, Arabic, Brazilian, British, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Thai and Turkish. Each costs 300 Festival Mystrons. None are included as Theme items for the Happy Easter Farm Beauty Contest.
Festival Mystrons are given as Rewards in the current Beauty Contest as well as for completing other activities such as the Daily Quest Path and Weekly Activities.
The following is taken from the last Farm Beauty Contest and will be updated if anything else has changed, apart from the limit on the number of each Coin Decoration that will count towards your Charm Total:
Rules for Votes
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Maximum Character Votes
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To obtain the maximum from each Character as far as the Crops, Animals, Machines and Trees are concerned, this is the total you need to place before taking a photograph:
16 different Crops
21 different Trees
13 different Machines
10 different Animals
As far a 'high level' is concerned, you originally needed to be at Level 160 to have maximum votes for THAT, so most of us fail there, although I think it has been modified to Level 150 for the maximum. .. as far as Expansions are concerned, you do not need the maximum farm expansion to get the maximum Vote for that. In fact, even if you do not have the 20 x 20 Expansion, you will get maximum votes for your expansion of your farm.
Note here that Beehives and Butterfly Houses as well as the Bat House are Animals for this purpose.
What Characters Value
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The Characters gave their Votes for the following:
First of all, the idea that every change will be worth 1 Point is misleading. Originally, the developers wanted to keep it all a mystery. Now each category is given a total:
Felicia:
Charm Points: 24
Theme Items: 24
Animals: 16
Expansions: 16
Dad:
High Level: 16
Expansions: 16
Machines: 16
Theme Items: 24
Darryl:
Charm Points: 24
Theme Items: 24
Large variety of Crops (used to be Trees): 16
Gallery Registration: 16
Grandma:
High Level: 16
Charm Points: 24
Trees: 16
Gallery Registration: 16
How Character Votes Work
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Now, it is important to remember that 'theme-related Decorations only account for a percentage of the Votes given by Felicia, Darryl and Dad. I believe that once you achieve the total that is the maximum those Characters can give to you for theme, you will not be able to earn any more Votes from them for THAT, irrespective of the number of Theme Decorations that you purchase and place. Bear this in mind when you are tempted to go mad in the upcoming sales. Originally you had to purchase the NEW Theme Decorations in order to achieve the maximum of 24 Votes for Theme from each of the three Characters but that may have changed as on the very first day of the Contest, Harvest Moon FDC this time had 24/24 for Theme and 24/24 for Charm. Now bear in mind the fact that two of the 'new' items in the current sale were offered last year as well so those two were on the farm even before the contest began... whether they would be considered 'new' or not is another matter. It is entirely possible that not being able to earn the maximum before one purchased the 'new' theme decorations was a glitch or programming defect that has been fixed.
As for Charm Points, some indication of the maximum total needed for Character Votes can be seen with respect to Rosewood Farm where 1558 Charm gave 23 out of 24 for Charm. Today added Decorations to give 1578 Charm Points and will see if that allows the final Vote to be given for Charm. In fact, it did.
Duplicate items count only towards total Charm Points and will not add to the Votes that you receive from any of the four Characters.
Although there is a 'ceiling' to the number of Votes you can earn from the three Characters for Theme or Charm, there is no limit to the possible Charm Point total for global ratings. How does this benefit you? For the Characters who value Charm, once again, you can achieve only a total of 24 Votes each day for that aspect of your Farm from those Characters... once you achieve that, additional Charm points will not be considered by the Characters. After that total is reached, additional Charm only benefits as far as your global rating is concerned. It does not affect your Votes from Neighbours. Each Farmer has 3 Votes per day to give to Neighbours.
The Votes from the four Characters dropped off once the final Reward was received in some of the Contests but continued to accrue in others. Even after receiving the Avatar Reward, Farmers did continue to receive Votes in at least one of the Farm Beauty Contests. It remains to be seen whether this one will continue to give Votes or not.
Voting for my Farms
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Of course, I would be thrilled if farmers who used my site would be willing to send their Votes to Harvest Moon or Rosewood Farms. Winning the Contest may be hopeless but I would love to be able to obtain the special Decoration and the Avatar if possible. I would like to thank every one who voted for me again. As I wrote previously, I do not make any money with my site. I do not have any adverts on it and do not promote anything other than the game itself. I write the guide because I always find a good guide useful when playing a game and I believe other players feel the same, so if you wish to give me anything, please give your Votes! To do this, tap on the FINAL icon for 'My Neighbours' and then 'Visit' Harvest Moon FDC or Rosewood. Once at the farm, you can choose to Vote once for it or use all three Votes in quick succession. That is how the Voting procedure works. On the left you will see 'My Snapshot' menu where you interact with your own options to post a new secreenshot, collect your Rewards as well as the Votes you are given each day from Characters and Neighbours. On the right you will see 'Vote for Others'. Tap on the 'Vote for Others' and you will be given three choices: Random Pick, Great Farmers and My Neighbours. I personally think 'My Neighbours' is the only really fair option. You then will be taken to a list of your Neighbours who have entered the Contest. You have to choose to 'Visit' one in order to be able to vote and you can Vote up to three times either for one farm or for different farms.
Voting for Items
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There is an option to vote for any Item, whether it is a Crop, Tree, Machine, Animal or Decoration on a Neighbour's Farm when you give your Vote for the Contest. On both Harvest Moon FDC and Rosewood, there are Iris Flowers. Please do 'Like' the Iris. I am hoping this one day will persuade the developers to return it to the Market as a permanent Crop. On Harvest Moon FDC, there is one Love Rose and one Primrose as well. Please 'Like' them if you can!
How to Vote
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For farmers who are participating in the Contest for the first time, a brief set of instructions on voting:
First either tap on the little gold trophy on the top right of your screen or go to your Menu and tap on the Farm Beauty Contest icon there. You will be taken to the general Farm Beauty Contest Menu.
Your Photograph
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According to Support, your current Photograph or Screenshot is the basis for the Votes of the four Characters each day. You cannot participate in the Contest until you submit a Photograph. You can change your Photograph once each day, but many players do not do so unless they have changed something on their farms to obtain more Votes either from the Characters or to achieve a better global rating by increasing Charm Points.
To take a new Screenshot, access the General Farm Beauty Contest Menu.Tap on 'My Screenshot' and then tap on the small icon of My Screenshot that appears in the top left corner. Now you will see options below to 'Re-Take or to 'Check'. You will see an option to write a new message to visitors and potential Voters as well. Tap on Re-Take when your Farm is at its best and a new Screenshot will be submitted. To write a new message, tap on the script box and you will have the option to change it and then 'Save' it.
When you access the Farm Beauty Contest menu and then tap on My Snapshot, you should see a countdown of how much time remains until the next Character Votes are logged for you to collect.
Boosting Character Votes
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Now, how can you boost the Votes of the four Characters even if your Charm totals are low and you cannot afford to buy Theme Decorations with real Cash?
First of all, each of the four Characters bases his/her Votes on different aspects of your Farm as you can see from the list of farming aspects that each favours.. As shown in the list of Theme Decorations, there are three Characters who give Votes for the Theme. Votes are given by different Characters, however, for a wide variety of Crops, for Trees, for Animals and for Machines. Gallery Registration will give you Votes with two Characters. Expansions count as well...
So what I suggest to every Farmer is to make certain that you have registered as many items on your Farm as possible before the Contest begins and if you cannot complete this task prior to the start, keep registering your Items until they all have been added to the Gallery. This cannot give you more than a total of 16 Votes daily but if you do qualify for the maximum number of Votes for Gallery from the two Characters that value this aspect of Farming, you will be in a good position.
Expansions give Votes as well. Actually, you can get the maximum of 16 Votes for Expansions even without the last farm expansion.
It is not mere ownership of items that gives Votes but PLACEMENT of them on your Farm. When the Contest begins, place a good balance of Animals and Machines on your Farm and plant a variety of Crops as well as making certain that you have as many different types of Trees as possible. Again, each of these aspects of farming will not give more than a total of 16 to 24 of the Votes of the Character or Characters who value them. As indicated, each Character has four different categories of farming upon which his or her Votes are based.
The one aspect of Character votes that is difficult to obtain is the maximum given for 'high Levels'. It appears that one would have to be at Level 150 in order to obtain the maximum number of Character Votes for high level. At Level 90, you obtain only 9 Votes!
As previously discussed, Charm is valued by some of the Characters but piling Decorations on your Farm is pointless as there is a ceiling to the number of Votes given by the Characters for your Charm. I therefore would recommend that farmers who cannot place in the top 50 globally focus more on creating a balanced Farm with a good mixture of Crops, Trees, Animals and Machines than attempting to load your Farm with duplicate Decorations or indeed Decorations that are not cleanable once you have exhausted your normal stock of Theme Decorations and a certain number of Charm points. The members of my Group on Facebook, Family Farm Seaside Freyashawk and I experimented with this during the last Contest to see how Votes would be affected. It really did not require too many Decorations to achieve the maximum number of Votes from a Character who valued either Charm or Theme... beyond that, one was using space on the farm that would be better allocated to ANOTHER aspect of farming that would garner Votes from a Character.
Theme-related Decorations only add to 'Theme' Votes from a Character ONCE.
Now, this is how low level Farmers can benefit from full participation in the Contest. There is a list of Rewards given for achieving specific Vote totals. Every couple hundred Votes or so, you will receive a specific Reward. Most of them consist of Farm Aids, Coins and Purple Mystrons but there is a Decoration Reward and at the very top of the list, two Rewards that consist of RC, the final one being paired with a special Avatar. In the current Contest, the Decoration is a Balloon Decoration that no doubt can be placed on the Lovely Planter Base when it is complete. The Decoration really is more significant than the Avatar Reward for most farmers.
Your Votes from the four Characters DO make a difference, therefore, even if you cannot achieve huge totals of Votes or place globally. You can achieve a number of the Rewards on the list if you maintain a balanced Farm.
NONE
of this will count, however, if you do not take photos of your Farm.
The Votes of the four Characters are determined by your CURRENT PHOTO
in the Contest. In other words, give your Farm the greatest advantages
in terms of Crops, Trees, Animals and Machines as well as Decorations,
take your photograph and THEN AND ONLY THEN store items or do whatever
is necessary for REAL work on your Farm. A new time-restricted Mission
should be released next Friday if everything goes according to the
regular schedule. You may need to store items in order to produce
products and so on... so start your day by registering for the Farm
Beauty Contest by taking a photo after you have made your Farm as
profitable, vote-wise as possible. You then will be free to get on with
the business of real farming.
Buddy System and Easter Picnic Base
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The Buddy System is becoming increasingly important and both the Easter Picnic Base and the Buddy Easter Egg, two Theme items are linked to the Buddy option.
You need Festival Mystrons to build the Easter Picnic Base. All materials for the base are found in the new Festival Mystrons shop. One of the ways to earn these Festival Mystrons is by tending the new Buddy Easter Egg.
You need to be at Level 2 with a Buddy to be able to interact with his/her Buddy Trees and Buddy Easter Egg. Here are some tips about increasing your Buddy Levels and the value of the new items used to tend the Buddy Easter Egg.
Each of the Materials costs 60 Festival Mystrons. Go to the Festival Mystrons shop to find them. Note that you can buy only one of each in any given day so it is better to use them as you receive them rather than saving them.
Buddy Easter Egg
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The Buddy System is becoming increasingly important in Seaside and if you wish to be able to participate fully in all options, you really need a few good Buddies. The new Buddy Easter Egg can be found in the Red Mystrons Shop for 50 Red Mystrons. It can be upgraded to a total of 400 Buddy Heart Points before it disappears, much like the Christmas special Buddy items.
There are four different ways to tend a Buddy Easter Egg but you need to be at Level 2 with the Buddy to be able to interact with his/her Buddy Trees and Buddy Easter Egg. At Level 1, however, you can send and receive one of the items used to tend the Buddy Easter Egg. Two of the items can be crafted in the Beauty Shop. The fourth item simply is 1 RC.
Thus, if you have come late to the Buddy System, the first move is to ask your neighbours to be your Buddies. The second is to level up in your relationship by visiting your Buddies every day until you reach Level 1 when you can begin to send and receive the Coloured Pencils that are used to tend the Buddy Trees.
Whenever you visit your Buddies, you can perform the same actions that you perform when you visit ordinary Neighbours but each will give a Buddy Point. These actions include: fertilising or harvesting a total of 5 Crops or watering a total of 5 Trees or any combination of these actions. Another point is earned when you clean any cleanable Decoration. If there is a current Cooking Stand Contest and any Cooking Bags to be collected, you will earn an extra point for doing that. Now you can earn a few more points AFTER you have performed 5 farming actions by using your own fertilisers or watering cans on your Buddy's Farm but this is not possible until you reach a higher level with the Buddy. At Level 0, you cannot do this.
When you reach Level 1 with any Buddy, make certain that you 'Confirm' the Buddy relationship in your Buddy List. Now move forward to earn Buddy Points to reach Level 2. Level 2 really is the critical level.
Meanwhile, you can make the two Buddy Easter Egg items in your Beauty Shop. At Level 2 with any Buddy, you should be able to tend a Buddy Easter Egg twice every day. Why is this important? Well, if you purchased the Easter Picnic Base and wish to complete it, the only method of doing it is by purchasing the materials in the temporary Festival Mystron Shop using Festival Mystrons. Each reward bag that you receive from tending a Buddy Easter Egg contains Festival Mystrons. Not many by any means, but you will need as many as you can collect!
At Level 1 with any Buddy, you not only can begin to send and receive Free Gifts but you can send and receive Special Gifts. There are two paths that can be purchased with Coins and sent every hour. The Special Gifts are found in the second tab of the Buddy Gifts Menu. The two Coin purchases are:
Stone and Flower Path: 500 Coins
Send every hour
Forest Path: 800 Coins
Send every hour
Each are worth only 1 Buddy Point but it adds another point to the points you earn daily with your visits.
If you are willing to spend RC, there are other gifts that either add more Buddy Points, like the Elephant that costs 10 RC and adds 30 Buddy Points or useful Farm Aids such as Super Fertiliser and Super Watering Cans. At high levels, you probably receive enough of these through farming rewards but at lower levels, you may find that you need to purchase them from time to time. Why not make an arrangement with a Buddy to reciprocate instead of purchasing them for yourself? That way, you will gain in Buddy Levels while receiving the items you need.
One advantage of the Buddy Gifts is that you can attach a message to any gift that you send. Another way to communicate both with Buddies and with Neighbours is by joining a Facebook Group for Seaside. My group is Family Farm Seaside Freyashawk. We are active, friendly and helpful players. If you need good neighbours or Buddies, you will find them there. I post Buddy Request threads for players frequently as it is difficult to maintain a total of 15 active Buddies sometimes.
All you have to do to apply to the group is do a Facebook search for Freyashawk and Family Farm Seaside, then ask to join.
Buddy Easter Egg Items:
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New Buddy Item:
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The Buddy Easter Egg is listed as a Theme Decoration but is in fact a Buddy item that is placed on the farm and 'built' by your Buddies. When fully upgraded, it will disappear. You will be able to find it in the Red Mystrons Mystery Shop from 12 March onward. Like the special Christmas Buddy items in the form of the Snow Mailbox and Bench, it is not a permanent item in the Buddy System.
As with the special Christmas items, there are new aids that can be crafted for the Buddy Easter Egg as follows:
Rabbit Ears: 274 Coins, takes 10 minutes
Ingredients: 1 Angora Hair, 1 Daisy, 1 Red Rose
Painting Brush: 332 Coins, takes 3 minutes
Ingredients: 1 Wool, 1 Cane, 1 Rainbow Fruit
The Coloured Pencil Set is the other aid that can be used to tend the Buddy Easter Egg now and can be requested from your Buddies as a Free Gift.
Other than that, you only can opt to use 1 RC to tend a Buddy Easter Egg at present.
Yesterday, my game showed me the new Buddy Easter Egg items as the items used to tend Buddy Trees as well. This was a glitch. You still use the regular items for the Trees.
Note that you will receive only 1 Gift Bag per day for each item used. In other words, if you have the option to use Buddy Heart Items twice because you are at Level 2 or above with a Buddy, you only can receive 1 Gift Bag from the Painting Brush. Use of a second Painting Brush will give you Buddy Points but no Bag. To receive a second Gift Bag, you need to use a DIFFERENT Heart Item on the Buddy Egg. Use the Bunny Ears rather than the three Coloured Pencils if possible as the Bunny Ears gives a better Gift Bag. The use of 1 RC gives the best Gift Bag but that can become expensive!
When the Buddy Easter Egg is claimed, helpers will receive a Helper Easter Egg Helper Gift (either one or two depending on how high the Buddy ranks in terms of how many points he/she gave to the Egg when it was being built) that contains 2 Festival Mystrons and 3 Green Mystrons (or other).
Easter Picnic Base and Buddy Easter Egg
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It is becoming clear that if you wish to complete your Easter Picnic Base without waiting for all the activities to expire so you can use RC, you MUST do as much as possible where activities that yield Festival Mystrons are concerned. The new Buddy Easter Egg items when you use one to tend a Buddy's Easter Egg give you a few Festival Mystrons. The number of Festival Mystrons is determined by the item used. You will receive Coins and random Farm Aids as well from every item.
Here is what I obtained:
Buddy Easter Egg Helper Gift from 1 RC: Contains 4 Festival Mystrons, 100 Coins, 1 Farm Aid such as Fertiliser
Buddy Easter Egg Helper Gift from Brush: Contains 3 Festival Mystrons, 100 Coins and 1 Farm Aid (Watering Can, Power or...)
Buddy Easter Egg Helper Gift from Bunny Ears: Contains 2 Festival Mystrons, 100 Coins and 1 Farm Aid (Watering Can, Power or...)
Buddy Easter Egg Helper Gift from Coloured Pencils: Contains 1 Festival Mystron, 100 Coins and 5 Farm Aids (OP, or...)
You need 60 Festival Mystrons for each Material. The total number of Materials needed to complete the base will cost a total of 2400 Festival Mystrons... a very slow process indeed!
Note that the Buddy Easter Tree can be upgraded in the same way that the Trees or Christmas Buddy items were upgraded. The Buddy Easter Tree will go into a 'growth' period lasting almost 8 hours when it reaches 200 points. It can be upgraded twice in this manner and then be fully built and disappear when it reaches a total of 400 Buddy Hearts.
The Buddy Heart Point Values for each item have been confirmed and are:
3 Coloured Pencils (a single use) gives 2 Buddy Heart Points
1 Bunny Ears gives 5 Buddy Heart Points
1 Painting Brush gives 10 Buddy Heart Points
1 RC gives 20 Buddy Heart Points
When the Buddy Easter Egg is fully grown, you can claim it, with the following rewards: 6 Festival Mystrons, extra reward of either 700 Coins or 5 Green Mystrons. Those who helped the most will receive 2[ special Bunny Helper Bags. The others who helped will receive 1 special Bunny Helper Bag.
Buddy System and Easter Picnic Base
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The Buddy System is becoming increasingly important and both the Easter Picnic Base and the Buddy Easter Egg, two Theme items are linked to the Buddy option.
You need Festival Mystrons to build the Easter Picnic Base. All materials for the base are found in the new Festival Mystrons shop. One of the ways to earn these Festival Mystrons is by tending the new Buddy Easter Egg.
You need to be at Level 2 with a Buddy to be able to interact with his/her Buddy Trees and Buddy Easter Egg. Here are some tips about increasing your Buddy Levels and the value of the new items used to tend the Buddy Easter Egg.
Each of the Materials costs 60 Festival Mystrons. Go to the Festival Mystrons shop to find them. Note that you can buy only one of each in any given day so it is better to use them as you receive them rather than saving them.
Buddy Easter Egg
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The Buddy System is becoming increasingly important in Seaside and if you wish to be able to participate fully in all options, you really need a few good Buddies. The new Buddy Easter Egg can be found in the Red Mystrons Shop for 50 Red Mystrons. It can be upgraded to a total of 400 Buddy Heart Points before it disappears, much like the Christmas special Buddy items.
There are four different ways to tend a Buddy Easter Egg but you need to be at Level 2 with the Buddy to be able to interact with his/her Buddy Trees and Buddy Easter Egg. At Level 1, however, you can send and receive one of the items used to tend the Buddy Easter Egg. Two of the items can be crafted in the Beauty Shop. The fourth item simply is 1 RC.
Thus, if you have come late to the Buddy System, the first move is to ask your neighbours to be your Buddies. The second is to level up in your relationship by visiting your Buddies every day until you reach Level 1 when you can begin to send and receive the Coloured Pencils that are used to tend the Buddy Trees.
Whenever you visit your Buddies, you can perform the same actions that you perform when you visit ordinary Neighbours but each will give a Buddy Point. These actions include: fertilising or harvesting a total of 5 Crops or watering a total of 5 Trees or any combination of these actions. Another point is earned when you clean any cleanable Decoration. If there is a current Cooking Stand Contest and any Cooking Bags to be collected, you will earn an extra point for doing that. Now you can earn a few more points AFTER you have performed 5 farming actions by using your own fertilisers or watering cans on your Buddy's Farm but this is not possible until you reach a higher level with the Buddy. At Level 0, you cannot do this.
When you reach Level 1 with any Buddy, make certain that you 'Confirm' the Buddy relationship in your Buddy List. Now move forward to earn Buddy Points to reach Level 2. Level 2 really is the critical level.
Meanwhile, you can make the two Buddy Easter Egg items in your Beauty Shop. At Level 2 with any Buddy, you should be able to tend a Buddy Easter Egg twice every day. Why is this important? Well, if you purchased the Easter Picnic Base and wish to complete it, the only method of doing it is by purchasing the materials in the temporary Festival Mystron Shop using Festival Mystrons. Each reward bag that you receive from tending a Buddy Easter Egg contains Festival Mystrons. Not many by any means, but you will need as many as you can collect!
At Level 1 with any Buddy, you not only can begin to send and receive Free Gifts but you can send and receive Special Gifts. There are two paths that can be purchased with Coins and sent every hour. The Special Gifts are found in the second tab of the Buddy Gifts Menu. The two Coin purchases are:
Stone and Flower Path: 500 Coins
Send every hour
Forest Path: 800 Coins
Send every hour
Each are worth only 1 Buddy Point but it adds another point to the points you earn daily with your visits.
If you are willing to spend RC, there are other gifts that either add more Buddy Points, like the Elephant that costs 10 RC and adds 30 Buddy Points or useful Farm Aids such as Super Fertiliser and Super Watering Cans. At high levels, you probably receive enough of these through farming rewards but at lower levels, you may find that you need to purchase them from time to time. Why not make an arrangement with a Buddy to reciprocate instead of purchasing them for yourself? That way, you will gain in Buddy Levels while receiving the items you need.
One advantage of the Buddy Gifts is that you can attach a message to any gift that you send. Another way to communicate both with Buddies and with Neighbours is by joining a Facebook Group for Seaside. My group is Family Farm Seaside Freyashawk. We are active, friendly and helpful players. If you need good neighbours or Buddies, you will find them there. I post Buddy Request threads for players frequently as it is difficult to maintain a total of 15 active Buddies sometimes.
All you have to do to apply to the group is do a Facebook search for Freyashawk and Family Farm Seaside, then ask to join.
Buddy Easter Egg Items:
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New Buddy Item:
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The Buddy Easter Egg is listed as a Theme Decoration but is in fact a Buddy item that is placed on the farm and 'built' by your Buddies. When fully upgraded, it will disappear. You will be able to find it in the Red Mystrons Mystery Shop from 12 March onward. Like the special Christmas Buddy items in the form of the Snow Mailbox and Bench, it is not a permanent item in the Buddy System.
As with the special Christmas items, there are new aids that can be crafted for the Buddy Easter Egg as follows:
Rabbit Ears: 274 Coins, takes 10 minutes
Ingredients: 1 Angora Hair, 1 Daisy, 1 Red Rose
Painting Brush: 332 Coins, takes 3 minutes
Ingredients: 1 Wool, 1 Cane, 1 Rainbow Fruit
The Coloured Pencil Set is the other aid that can be used to tend the Buddy Easter Egg now and can be requested from your Buddies as a Free Gift.
Other than that, you only can opt to use 1 RC to tend a Buddy Easter Egg at present.
Yesterday, my game showed me the new Buddy Easter Egg items as the items used to tend Buddy Trees as well. This was a glitch. You still use the regular items for the Trees.
Note that you will receive only 1 Gift Bag per day for each item used. In other words, if you have the option to use Buddy Heart Items twice because you are at Level 2 or above with a Buddy, you only can receive 1 Gift Bag from the Painting Brush. Use of a second Painting Brush will give you Buddy Points but no Bag. To receive a second Gift Bag, you need to use a DIFFERENT Heart Item on the Buddy Egg. Use the Bunny Ears rather than the three Coloured Pencils if possible as the Bunny Ears gives a better Gift Bag. The use of 1 RC gives the best Gift Bag but that can become expensive!
When the Buddy Easter Egg is claimed, helpers will receive a Helper Easter Egg Helper Gift (either one or two depending on how high the Buddy ranks in terms of how many points he/she gave to the Egg when it was being built) that contains 2 Festival Mystrons and 3 Green Mystrons (or other).
Easter Picnic Base and Buddy Easter Egg
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It is becoming clear that if you wish to complete your Easter Picnic Base without waiting for all the activities to expire so you can use RC, you MUST do as much as possible where activities that yield Festival Mystrons are concerned. The new Buddy Easter Egg items when you use one to tend a Buddy's Easter Egg give you a few Festival Mystrons. The number of Festival Mystrons is determined by the item used. You will receive Coins and random Farm Aids as well from every item.
Here is what I obtained:
Buddy Easter Egg Helper Gift from 1 RC: Contains 4 Festival Mystrons, 100 Coins, 1 Farm Aid such as Fertiliser
Buddy Easter Egg Helper Gift from Brush: Contains 3 Festival Mystrons, 100 Coins and 1 Farm Aid (Watering Can, Power or...)
Buddy Easter Egg Helper Gift from Bunny Ears: Contains 2 Festival Mystrons, 100 Coins and 1 Farm Aid (Watering Can, Power or...)
Buddy Easter Egg Helper Gift from Coloured Pencils: Contains 1 Festival Mystron, 100 Coins and 5 Farm Aids (OP, or...)
You need 60 Festival Mystrons for each Material. The total number of Materials needed to complete the base will cost a total of 2400 Festival Mystrons... a very slow process indeed!
Note that the Buddy Easter Tree can be upgraded in the same way that the Trees or Christmas Buddy items were upgraded. The Buddy Easter Tree will go into a 'growth' period lasting almost 8 hours when it reaches 200 points. It can be upgraded twice in this manner and then be fully built and disappear when it reaches a total of 400 Buddy Hearts.
The Buddy Heart Point Values for each item have been confirmed and are:
3 Coloured Pencils (a single use) gives 2 Buddy Heart Points
1 Bunny Ears gives 5 Buddy Heart Points
1 Painting Brush gives 10 Buddy Heart Points
1 RC gives 20 Buddy Heart Points
When the Buddy Easter Egg is fully grown, you can claim it, with the following rewards: 6 Festival Mystrons, extra reward of either 700 Coins or 5 Green Mystrons. Those who helped the most will receive 2[ special Bunny Helper Bags. The others who helped will receive 1 special Bunny Helper Bag.
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