A new update makes some major and minor changes to the game. One is the Island Wharf, another is the ability to clean more than one Decoration on a Buddy's Farm provided you are at a high enough level, and others involve mainly cosmetic and procedural changes to the Beauty Shop and Seafood House. Changes in the form of additions have occurred with respect to the Daily Quest tasks for some farms as follows: Use the Monkey Boost once for Today, Use Batch Production once, Complete all Daily Requests for one Customer and claim Reward in Coffee House, Use 5 Liquid Fertiliser on your Farm.
A very welcome addition to the game is a new Search option in the Tools Menu. Tap on the Magnifying Glass and then type in the name of an item to find it anywhere on your Map!
Finally, there is a Betting option in Voting for the Farm Beauty Contest. You are given two random farmers and asked to choose which has the higher rank. If you are correct, you receive some Farm Aids that include Mystrons and the farmer you chose receives 2 extra votes. This really changes the entire voting system for the Contest and makes it far more random. You can perform the Betting option three times each day. What this means is that the farmer or farmers you CHOOSE for your regular 3 Votes only receive a total of 3 Votes from you as before, but you may be giving a total of 6 more votes to RANDOM Farmers.
Island Wharf
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One of the new options from the update for Family Farm Seaside will set a Wharf on your Island. Note that you have to have the expansion that gives you access, which is the expansion with the unfinished Essential Oil Machine on it.
If you have played the original Family Farm, you will find this option very similar to the Market Orders in that game. If not, well, here is a brief explanation of the system as far as I have explored it.
When you access your Wharf, you will find your Boat with three Orders. Each is for a specific amount of a specific item. What is annoying here is that you may not have unlocked ANY of the items. You cannot refresh or change the Orders, although you can choose which one of the three to fill. Whether you fill one order or none of them, you can send your Boat out to sea by tapping on the little icon of the Boat in the far right bottom corner of the Boat Menu. Do NOT tap on the 'Send to Trade Centre' bar. That simply will cancel all of the orders for the day and allow you no further access to your own Boat until the next day. You only should tap on the option to Send to Trade Centre AFTER all your Boat's Orders have been filled. It then will sail away and return instantly with a reward of some Boat Tickets.
The other component of the Wharf at the outset is a dock for another player's boat. This can be either a Neighbour's Boat or a Buddy's Boat, but you only can choose one at a time. I never have been able to call a single Buddy Boat to my pier yet. There never are 'any in the water'. I think every one may have the same number of options for this, irrespective of level or Club Membership or anything else. There will be two Whistles to the left of the jetty. One is the Buddy Whistle to call a Buddy's Boat to your dock and the other is a Sea Whistle to call a Neighbour's Boat to your dock. Choose one and use it. If you use the Neighbour Whistle and there is a Neighbour's Boat currently at sea, it will come to your Dock. The same holds true for the Buddy Boat. When the Boat arrives, you will be given the option to fill a specific order. Again, it may or may not be an item you have unlocked. You have about two hours to fill the Order, giving you time to make or ship the item from the Mainland if you do not have it but can obtain it. The number of 'whistles' are shown at the site of the Whistle. For example, if the Buddy Whistle shows 0/3, it means that you have no more Whistles for the day... 3/12 for the Sea Whistle means that you should be able to use the Sea Whistle three times to summon a Neighbour Boat.
If you fill the Order, the boat should depart instantly. If not, it will depart when the time limit expires.
Now, this is very important. You have to send out your own Boat to sea before you can fill a Neighbour's Order or Buddy's Order evidently. With my own Boat still at dock, despite the fact that I pressed 'Load' again and again for the Neighbour's Order, the menu would revert to my own Boat's Order Boxes.
To fill your own Boat, choose one of the orders in the Boxes, THEN click on the icon in the far right bottom corner to send it out to sea. When your boat finally returns with all the boxes filled by other players, choose the 'Send to Trade Centre' option. It will return instantly with the Tickets you have earned.
Essentially, this is an activity that is limited by the number of Order Boxes you have as well as the number of Whistles for the Buddy Whistle and the Sea Whistle selections. Once these are all completed or exhausted, you must wait until the next day for the entire affair to be refreshed and restarted.
As with the Research Laboratory, you can upgrade your Boat gradually. You will earn little chits called 'Boat Tickets' each time you fill an order and send it out to sea and you can trade those for items needed for the upgrades. At present, these upgrade materials are the only real reward for engaging in this activity but in the original game, one actually could earn special Decorations ultimately.
The upgrade menus are accessed by tapping on the Boat that actually is landlocked.
Boat Upgrader Level 0: Get one more order slot on the Boat. Cost: Finish Boat Order 5 times. 2 Anchors.
Boat Upgrader 1: Finish Boat Order 10 times, 3 Anchors (Pay 1 RC for each or obtain through trade)
Boat Upgrader 2: Finish Boat Order 25 times, 5 Anchors (1 RC or obtain with Boat Tickets)
5 Boat Wheels (1 RC each)
The other option evidently is to improve your Boat by adding parts to it. Parts are:
Basic Boat Body
Boat Body (Can be obtained from Boat Ticket Mystery Shop)
Unlocked at Level 2
Wood Raft (Can be obtained from Boat Ticket Mystery Shop)
Unlocked at Level 4
Yacht Body (Can be obtained from Boat Ticket Mystery Shop)
Unlocked at Level 7
When you have any of these, apart from the first Basic Boat Body, which is what you have initially, you can change your boat and save the changes.
The Boat Ticket Mystery Shop is the final tab in the Mystery Shop Menu. It contains the following:
Anchor: 10 Boat Tickets
Anchor: 10 Boat Tickets
Boat Wheel: 5 Boat Tokens
Wood Raft: 75 Boat Tickets
Evidently, items appear randomly in the Shop. You always will be able to buy 2 Anchors, however, and now the Boat Wheel has been added to the list. Originally there were only three items but that has been increased to 5. The last two are boat parts. One is for Part 1 and the other for Part 2 presently.
Boat Body: 75 Boat Tickets
Wood Raft: 75 Boat Tickets
Yacht: 75 Boat Tickets
Boat Lifebuoy: 100 Boat Tickets
You need 2 of the Anchors to upgrade your Boat the first time to add another Order Box to it.
The Boat components are divided into four parts. At Level 2, I see the following:
Boat Foundation: Basic Boat Body, Boat Body, Wood Raft, Yacht Body
Part 2 (at the stern): Boat Lifebuoy, Boat Whistle, Boat Oar, Boat Outboard Motor
Part 3: will be unlocked when boat reaches Level 4
Part 4: Will be unlocked when your boat reaches Level 7
Buddy Farm Decorations
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At Level 2 or 3, you now can clean 2 Decorations on a Buddy's Farm instead of 1.
Beauty Shop Changes
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The Beauty Shop now has a Wheel Menu and allows you to save 'Favourites' rather like the Kitchen Menu.
Seafood House Changes
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The Seafood House now has a Wheel Menu that allows you to save 'Favourites' rather like the Kitchen Menu.
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