New Lab, Coffee House and other Tech Options in Seaside

A new update has brought three new Buildings to Seaside.  The first is a Research Lab that you have to complete as soon as you enter the game once you have the update.  The others are the Coffee House and the Stove House.  These are purchased from the Building section of the Market for Coins and can be placed either in the Building Plot area or on your farm.  You cannot store them once you have purchased them.

The following is the introduction to the Research Lab:

Research Lab
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Darryl's Grandpa:  Hey you there!  Looks like you can use some help on your farm.  I am not as good at farming as Darryl though.  How about you help me rebuild my lab so I can find some ways to help you with my tech skills?

Thank you. Now this feels like home... Oh!  Let me show you around the lab.

Some techs require Farmium to power.  Get more Farmium every day from the Daily Quest treasure chests.

This is the research direction we are specialising in.  Right now it's only basic stuff.  We'll get into more as we level up the lab.

Great!  Now let me sho you how to use a tech that helps you produce lots of honey.  Don't worry.  It's really easy.

Tap here to open Tech Tray.  Tap on the Bumblebee icon.  Tap on a highlighted Beehive to instantly produce lots of Honey from ripe clovers.

Amazing job!  Looks like you really have a kncka for this.  Oh I forgot to introduce myself... I am Darryll's grandpa.  Now let me hide before he finds me!


The Tech Tray is next to the Batch Production Tray.  You only can use the Honey option now.

The only option at the start is to gather Honey immediately.  Open the Menu to see:

Level 1:  Immediately pollinate 5 ripe Clovers to receive the Honey.

Level 2:  Immediately pollinate 7 ripe Clovers to receive the Honey.

Upgrade: Flight of the Bumblebees 0/5
Honey: 12/12

You need to use the Flight of the Bumblebees 5 times to get to Level 2.

Each use requires 50 Farmiums  You begin with 200 of these.

The other Techs you can unlock are:

Gold Finger:  Immediately collect 3 products from Holstein Cow or Cheese Master
  Requires: Level 2 Lab and unlocking of Flight of the Bumblebee

Farmium Recharge:  Farmium now recharges 1 point every 24 minutes
  Requires Level 3 Lab and unlocking of Gold Finger first

Farmium Containers:  Increase your maximum Farmium to 140.
  Requires Level 4 Lab and unlocking of Farmium Recharge first.

New Buildings in Market
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A Coffee House is available in the Buildings section of the Market for 1000 Coins.  Its description:  Customers come here with Daily Requests

A Stove House is available in the Buildings section of the Market for 1000 Coins.  Its description: Challenge your Cooking Skills with some special recipes!

WARNING:  Once purchased, these buildings cannot be stored!

Coffee House
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The Coffee House will be complete upon purchase.   You can place it either in the Building Plot area or on your farm. Tap on it to access customer daily requests.  Completing requests gives you 'smiley' rewards that can be used to purchase/obtain other Rewards, including special Farm Aid bags and so on.

You can access two different Characters for Requests at the start.  One is Grandma and the other is Felicia.

Grandma's Requests:

Example:

Craft 3 Festival Food
Craft 1 Sweet Dumplings

Reward: 280 Coins,1 Pink Smiley
  (Evidently you need 35 of these individual Smileys to use the 1 'smiley' that will purchase the first recipe because completing 2 of the orders gave me only 2 out of 35 required)

NOTE THAT YOU CAN USE RC TO FINISH ORDERS AS WELL.  3 RC required to finish an order for 3 Orange Jam Cookies for example.

Other Requests were:

Finish the Quest by harvesting a certain crop or fruit
46 Strawberries
11 Chestnuts

Other Requests required items that were obtained solely through Neighbour requests:

9 Asian Floor Lamps
1 Toothpick

It is very similar to the Daily Order Board but with different rewards and different tasks.  In a way, it is a combination of the Daily Quests and the Daily Order Board.  Any sort of request can be generated randomly from visiting neighbours to cooking specific Dishes to selling specific items.     Furthermore, there is a difference in terms of the actual items requested in the 'Quests' to sell.   They may include items that were requested from Neighbours in past Quests!  It is here that being a packrat benefits a farmer.  I always saved all the extra items rather than trading them so when Grandma requested 9 Asian Floor Lamps, I had them in my Gift Box!

When I completed ALL of Grandma's Quests, I received a grand total of 2 Blue Mystrons.

Felicia's Requests today for me were:

Finish the Quest by cooking certain dishes:

1 Sweet Dumplings
1 Golden Peach Sago Pudding

Finish the Quest by selling certain goods
5 Allspice Crumble

Reward: 300 Coins, 1 Pink Smiley

Finish the Quest by visiting Neighbours

31 Visits

(This means visiting 31 different neighbours, not performing a total of 31 actions on Neighbour farms)

Reward: 300 Coins, 1 pink token

The next Quest was a Collections Mission:

10 Pink New Year Cards
6 Blue Cupcakes

You have only a Chance of getting these by collecting Peacock Feathers

Reward: 300 Coins, 1 Pink Smiley

The first items you can earn with your 'smileys' are:

Champagne Punch Recipe:  1 Smiley required

Lab Storehouse Shelf: 2 Smileys Required

Chili Con Carne Recipe:  3 Smileys Required

Living in Farm Package:  Collect all Smileys from customers and finish all the day's quests to get this reward

Stove House
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The Stove House costs 1000 Coins and is complete upon purchased.

Select a Recipe and move the ingredients into the stove to start cooking.  Ingredients will tranfer Flavour Points to your dish.  You receive 1 point per second.  Collect certain Flavour Points to finish the dish.  Each ingredient gives a specific number of Flavour Points.  Better not overcook them!

Tap the Book to choose the Recipe.  The only recipe available at the start is Macaroni and Cheese.

You need to cook the Macaroni and Cheese 50 times to unlock the next Recipe.  Note here that there are two different aspects to cooking here:  the time needed and the Flavour Point total.  For Macaroni and Cheese, the time is 15 seconds but this time will elapse before  you have reached the maximium Flavour Point total that you can earn.  You need to watch the slider gauge and hit 'Finish' when the gauge reaches 75.  Note that the 15 seconds elapses when the slider gauge is at 50 I believe, so you need to wait for it to reach 75 and then hit Finish there instead.

You can put the Stove on 'Pause' if you need to leave the area temporarily.


There are Quests linked to the new buildings.

Grandma's Present Quest
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Felicia:  Grandma's Birthday is coming up and I saw a cookbook yesterday that she will love!  But it is a bit expensive!  There was an add in the local paper that they're searching for a waitress in the Coffee House!

Place a Coffee House on your Farm

Prepare 5 Butter Pies
  Each requires 1 Batter and 1 Orange Crumble

Sell 1000 worth of items from your Seaside Barn

Rewards: 350 Coins, 15 XP

Felicia:  The Coffee House job was really fun and I made some good money!  More than enough to get the cookbook!  Can't wait to see Grandma's face!

Grandma's Present 2
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Felicia:  Grandma loved the cookbook so much, she got a bit too excited and bought a new stove!  Let's see what she will cook for us!

Place a Stove House on your farm

Prepare 3 Macaroni and Cheese
  Each requires 15S
  Ingredients:  Wheat Flour x 3, Cheddar Cheese x 2, 2 Power

  Drag the ingredients into the cooking pot, tap Cook and wait.    Tap Finish when the time has elapsed.  Tap on the Cooked Dish to complete the task and do this two more times for this Quest task.

N.B.  You must cook Macaroni and Cheese 50 times to unlock the next Recipe.  I assume if you do not tap 'Finish before the slider gauge expires, you will burn and lose the Dish.  You basically need to stay at the building watching the stove in order to make the dish perfectly and try to hit the 'Finish' button as soon as it reaches the time given for the specific recipe and the maximum Flavour Point total shown on the slider by the chef's hat.  In the case of Macaroni and Cheese, the maximum flavour point total is 75.

Produce 5 Cheese Burgers

Rewards: 500 Coins, 25 XP

Felicia;  Wow, the dishes are delicious!  Let's practice more to make them even faster and faster!

What do these Options Signify?
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At this point in time, it is difficult to know whether or not these are simply extras, like the Upgraders or whether they will be required in time-restricted Quests like the Botanic Garden on the Island.  You have no choice but to complete the Research Lab.  Like the Botanic Garden, it completes automatically on land OUTSIDE your Farm and Building Plot areas.  Whether you need to use it or not remains to be seen.

The Coffee House and Stove House are similar to the other Buildings that, once purchased and placed, cannot be deleted.  The Coffee House is like the Daily Order Board, giving a series of Recipes that have to be completed in order to earn specific Rewards.  These are cumulative evidently, rather like the Blue Mystrons that have to be earned in quantity in order to buy a Decoration with them.  The new 'Smileys', however, are not linked to a Mystery Shop but have their own Menu of Rewards inside the Coffee House Menu itself.

The Stove House is an entirely different Kitchen from the regular one with different Recipes.  It probably would be a good idea to try to complete the 50 Macaroni and Cheese at some point to gain a new Recipe as I expect this will feature in the time-restricted Quests.  The ingredients you need are Wheat Flour and Cheddar Cheese, both available as Free Gifts.

Other New Options
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There are a few other new options that are essentially improvements on existing aspects of the game.

Fishing Totals
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Now, whenever you fish with a specific hook, the number of each item that you have in your Barn will be shown next to the icon of each item you can catch.  This is very helpful if you wish to replenish your stock in general or if you are fishing for a specific number of an ingredient for a task or activity.

Neighbour Visits
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Now, when you visit any Neighbour or Buddy, AFTER you perform the usual 5 actions of fertilising or harvesting, you can use your own Farm Aids up to three times.

Buddy Farms
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When you increase your Level with a Buddy, you will be able to help on his/her farm more often.


Coffee House and Stove House
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From Shannon Hurley of our Group:

Chili Con Carne Recipe:
For the recipe you need 4 power and 2 beef, 3 chili peppers (RC tree), 2 adzuki beans (RC tree), and 3 ketchup.  I now have the chef unlocked in the coffee shop. He gives the same reward and pretty much asks for the same type of stuff as the other two.

Stove House Instructions
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Cooking French Fries:

Takes a total of 30 minutes to cook.  The ingredients are Potatoes and Sugar.  Critical to ALL Stove House recipes are the Flavour Points.  Flavour Points are used at a rate of 1 per second.  Potatoes have 1800 Flavour Points but Sugar has only 300 Flavour Points.  If you place both ingredients into the mix immediately, your Sugar will burn in 300 Seconds (about 5 minutes).  The Dish then will FAIL.  (This is where you get Fish Bait).  You need to add the Sugar only in the last 5 minutes.

If you tap on the Clock, you can activate a timer.  Set the timer to 24 minutes.  What this will achieve is that the Stove will pause after 24 minutes, giving you the right time to add the Sugar.  Once the cooking begins again, you wait until your dish gauge reaches the second star, a blue star.  Press Finish now and you will have your French Fries.