Update including Darryl's House and new Sea Resort Levels and Expansions

The new update includes the addition of Darryl's House, a sort of playhouse or 'Wendy House' where you can purchase and place a variety of furniture items as well as changing floor and wallpaper, more importantly, new Sea Resort expansions in the form of Levels 9 through 11 and finally the requirements for the new 32 x 32 Seaside Farm Expansion.  I have added the requirements for the new Passenger Seats on the Sea Plane as well.  The ability to bind your farm to Google Play is a welcome improvement.

Here is a link to my original Post for the Sea Plane and seat upgrades as well as Attractions and their upgrades:

Sea Plane and Upgrades, Sea Resort Attractions and Upgrades

TIP: Do NOT collect your points from shops in Sea Resort if you can update your game until you have performed the update. They then WILL count towards Level 9 totals.  See section below on how the Sea Resort Points are used once you have the update and came to update at Level 8 with accumulated Resort Points.

Incidentally, you will find Update Gifts in the form of 6 Super Watering Cans, 150 OP and 1 RC in a message from Felicia.

Many thanks to Cindy Dale Keating, one of our valued administrators in the Family Farm Seaside Freyashawk Group for her support and help.  Thanks to Elizabeth Puglisi, also an administrator of our Group for sharing her White Wine Crab and Macadamia Salad with me so that I could complete the upgrades to the Paradise Restaurant as quickly as possible for this post.

Binding your Farm to Google Play:
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Another new feature of the update, which should be very attractive to many players is the ability to bind your farm to Google Play instead of Facebook or Game Centre.  I suggested this to FunPlus a long time ago and am very glad it finally has been implemented, as some of Facebook's regulations are tiresome.

Darryl's House
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Darryl's House is a new option that exists next to the original Building Area on your Seaside Farm.  There are a total of four plots that are allocated to Darryl's House.  It is located between the Building Area and the Gallery.

By completing Darryl's House, you will meet new requirements for a Seaside Farm expansion but beyond this, you will receive two gifts per day from the House and Darryl.  One is based on the Level you have for Darryl's House and is a gift box below the actual House.  The other is obtained by accessing the interior of the House and tapping on the gift bag over Darryl's head.  Both will be available once daily at reset.

Tap on the unfinished House to obtain the first expansion.  The only requirement is:

Reach Level 23.

Once the house is built, you will be required to look in the wardrobe for clothing changes.  He has a pair of jim jams.

You then need to place a Bed, which you will find in a new building called the Furniture Warehouse.  Here you can obtain furniture for the House.

To unlock the 2nd area:

Have 10 House Points
Save and use 10000 Coins to unlock the area
Use 30 Lily to unlock the area

To unlock the 3rd area:

Have 20 House Points
Save and use 20000 Coins to unlock the area
Use 10 Roasted Tomato Soup to unlock the area

To unlock the 4th and final area:

Have 45 House Points
Save and use 50000 Coins to unlock the area
Use 10 Stuffed Turkey to unlock the area

Furnishing Level Rewards:  These are on timers.

There is a little Quest that accompanies the new House option:

My new House:

My New House 1
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Darrykl:  We are such good friends.  You must miss me a bit when I'm at my own farm, right?  Never mind.  I decided to stay near here and keep you company.  But I want to build a house to live in.  Can you help me?

Place 2 Brown Wooden Chairs in Darryl's House
  Skip for 5 RC

You will find these in the Chair tab of the Furniture Warehouse for 1000 Coins

Place 1 Round Wooden Table in Darryl's House
  Skip for 5 RC

You will find this in the Table tab of the Furniture Warehouse for 1000 Coins

Reach 10 House Points
  Skip for 10 RC
  This will occur when you have placed the required furniture items as each item has a specific House Point value attached to it.

Reward: 1000 Coins, 230 XP

Darryl:  Now we can add m ore space to the House.  Make it bigger!

My New House 2
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Darryl:  I feel like the house is missing something: a kitchen!  I always have wanted to cook as well as Felicia.  Her pancakes are fabulous!

Prepare 12 bowls of Roasted Tomato Soup
  Skip for 12 RC
  Each requires 2 Ketchup and 1 Egg Soup

Place 1 Stove in Darryl's House
  Skip for 5 RC

Expand to the third area to be able to buy a Stove

Reach 20 House Points
  Skip for 3 RC

Note that each item of furniture has a House Point value.  When you purchase an item with an RC price, it is worth more than coin price items.  You need to raise your House Points to 20 before you can expand to the third area which is a requirement for unlocking the Stove!

Rewards: 1000 Coins, 230 XP, 1 Fancy (Blue) Bed

Darryl:  Great!  We can add another area now.  Try to open the whole house.  There is no such thing as too much living space after all!

N.B.  Find the Fancy Bed in your Gift Box and place in Darryl's House to raise the House Point total.  It has a value of 4 House Points.

How to Decorate Darryl's House
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The Key to the House, whether to buy new furniture, move existing furniture or to store items is the little Furniture Warehouse building.  Access that by tapping on it at any time and you should see a Move tool at the top right of the screen as well as the Shop tabs at the bottom.

You earn House Points by buying and placing new items.  Please look at the Furniture Warehouse Menu to see all House Point values for each type of furniture.  The RC furniture is worth more than the Coin price furniture for the most part.

Note that certain types of furniture have a maximum limit for the points you can obtain by purchasing and placing them.  For example, you can have a maximum of 9 Chairs of any kind that will count for points.

Storing and Moving Items
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To store or move any item IN the House, use the Move Tool by tapping on it.  A new Tool Menu will open allowing you to move it, turn it, leave it where it stands and finally store it.

Actually, if you simply wish to move or store items, you can use the regular Move Tool in the general Farm Tool Menu to move or store any items in Darryl's House provided only that you have opened the House to display the interior.

It is when you wish to retrieve stored items from the Furniture Warehouse that you must access the actual Furniture Warehouse Building.

Significance of House Points
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Your House Point total is linked to some other options in the game.  Having a total of 60 House Points is a requirement for the new and largest expansion of the Seaside Farm.

Your House Point total is linked to the new Furnishing Level shown to the right of the Furniture Warehouse.  When you tap on it, you should see a timer and a gift.  The list of 'Possible Rewards' becomes more comprehensive when your Furnishing Level increases.  At Level 8, for example, you can receive the following:

Coins, TC, Super Fertiliser, (some item that will not load at the moment), Super Watering Can, Gasoline (Petrol), Lucky Wheel Tokens

60 House Points will give you a Furnishing Level of 6.  The biggest difference between Level 6 and Level 8 Rewards is regular Organic Fertiliser and Watering Cans instead of the more potent varieties.

125 House Points are required to reach Level 9.
160 House Points are required to reach Level 10.

Level 9 does not give different Rewards from those given at Level 8 but you may receive a slightly larger number of Rewards.  The Rewards are not that significant at any level.

I raised my Furnishing Level to 9 only to be able to write this guide.  It was a waste of RC really... you cannot purchase enough Coins items to reach the point total needed and in fact, the House now is stupidly overcrowded.

To reach the higher levels, however, you must spend RC.  At this point in time, the highest House Point total NEEDED is 60.  This may change!

Note on 20 May:  With the addition of the Wedding Theme, you now can raise your total House Point level to 11 and possibly even 12 if you buy two of the Flower Petal Shooters, each worth 15 points.

The Effect of Storing Furniture
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Your Furnishing Level and House Point total depends on the furnishings actually in your House. When you store any item, your House Points may be affected.  Bear this in mind.  I have a sneaking suspicion that they may add a new Category to the Farm Beauty Contest in the future that is based on Darryl's House. 

How the System Works
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Every item of furniture that can be placed in Darryl's House, apart from 'Special Furniture' has a point value and a category in which it belongs.  Every category allows a specific number of items of that type to be counted towards house point total.  If you exceed the total number of items allowed, placement of further items in THAT category will not add to your House Point total and therefore will not serve to increase your House Level.

Perhaps it is easiest if I give an example.

If you open the House Menu, either for the Furniture Store or the Furniture Warehouse, you should see a little window at the top left of the screen.  This will give you your current House Level with the total number of House Points you have and beneath it, a category of furniture with the maximum number of items in that category that will count.

The first category is Chairs and the maximum allowed is 9, which if you have placed 9, will display a notification of:  Max Counted: 9/9.

Two sub-categories to the right is Beds.  You will see that you are allowed a total of 2 Beds.  The Standard Bed with which you start only has a House Point value of 2.  If it is placed currently in your House, only one more Bed will be counted.  If you placed the Fancy Blue Bed you obtained as a Quest Reward for the original Darryl House quests, you will have a total of 6 points from that Bed plus the 2 Points for the Standard Bed.  That gives you a total of 8 points for Beds. 

All other Beds that you can obtain have higher values than this but if you place them in addition to the two mentioned, you will not raise your House Point total.  By removing the Standard Bed and the Fancy Blue Bed and placing two of the Beds that have a House Point value of 15 each, you will be given credit for 20 House Points instead of 8.

How to Retrieve Stored Items
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When you access the Furniture Warehouse, you will see a little icon of a Warehouse above the Shop Menu.  It will show the Furniture Store by default.  Tap on it to change that to Furniture Warehouse and you will have access to any items you have stored.

Darryl's House on Screen
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Go to Settings, Switch and for Darryl's House Interior, choose 'Off' to make the house smaller on your screen.  In fact, it is quite pretty.  (Thanks, Cindy!)

Darryl's Daily Gift
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If you do not put him to bed permanently (ha ha!), Darryl will be on a sort of endless pacing manoeuvre throughout the day and night with little icons over his head that indicate various tips and notifications.  Each day, however, you should see a little gift bag at some point over his head.  Tap on that to receive gifts that can include TC.  Again, not really that significant in value, but I suppose every item helps a little.

Tree Nursery Search
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There now is a Search option in the Tree Nursery which should make it easier to find a specific Tree needed for a Quest task.

Sea Resort Expansions
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All expansions available prior to the update are given in another post.

Level 9 Expansion
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Upgrade your resort to Level 9

Use 1500000 Coins to expand your Resort

Use 170 White Rose Lamps to expand the Resort

Level 9 Requirements
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To reach Level 9: 650000 Sea Resort Points

Level 10 Expansion
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Upgrade your Resort to level 10

Use 200 Parrot Water Floats

Use 2000,000 Coins to expand the Resort

Level 10 Requirements
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To reach Level 10, you need a total of 950000 Sea Resort Points

Level 11 Expansion
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For the Level 11 Expansion, you will need the following:


250 Mackerel Sashimi
3000000 Coins
1250000 Sea Resort Points

Level 11
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To reach Level 11, you need a total of 1250000 Sea Resort Points


Sea Resort Building
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You still have two separate tabs in the building and the building can be altered in physical architecture depending on your Level.

How Sea Level Points are Used
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The first tab is Holiday Retreat giving the total Sea Resort Points needed to reach the next Level.  Prior to the update, if you had reached Level 8, all this tab would show would be MAX Level 8.  Now it appears to start players with 400000 Points.  A total of 650000 Points is needed to reach Level 9.

The second tab is the Resort Boutique.  You will see a note to the effect that the current Max Resort Level is 11 and your current accumulated Resort Points will be Points you earned after reaching Level 8 but PRIOR to the update.

These old Points can be used only to purchase Boutique Decorations in this shop.  In other words, if you do not have the update yet, the Sea Resort points you are earning can be used only to buy Decorations.

New Boutique Requirement
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If you had reached Level 8 BEFORE the update, you will have the use of all 'Accumulated Points' after the Level 8 total was reached.  If, however, you did not reach Level 8 before the update, you now must attain the new maximum Level 11 before you will begin to accumulate any points that can be used for the Sea Resort Boutique.

New Seaside Farm Expansion
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You now can expand your farm to 32 x 32.

Requirements are:

Have 60 House Points in Darryl's House

Save and use 6000000 Coins to buy expansion

Produce 500 bundles of Angora Velvet to buy the expansion
  Angora Velvet is produced by the Angora Rabbit using the Level 5 Angora Velvet Gadget but the Rabbit must be fed Fruit Platter, not Carrots.  You can use Goldfinger to produce Angora Velvet even if you not have the Fruit Platter Gadget. You do NOT need to produce any new Angora Velvet if you have stored 500 bundles in your Barn previously.

New Economy Seats on Sea Plane
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Note that you now can have a total of 16 Seats on the Sea Plane, but if you have not progressed beyond Level 8, the maximum number you can use is 12 and that only if you have purchased all Attractions and upgraded all of them, including the Sea Volcano,.  So for many players, there is no reason to rush to unlock all the new Seats.

For the 9th Economy Seat:

1 Economy Class Seat (Request)
50 Watermelon Juice
20 Wrench
700000 Coins

For the 10th Economy Seat:

1 Economy Seat (Request)
25 Wrench
55 Brown Angora Hair
800000 Coins

For the 11th Economy Seat:

1 Economy Seat (Request)
25 Screwdriver
60 Venison Burger
900000 Coins

For the 12th Economy Seat:

1 Economy Seat (Request)
30 Screwdrivers
65 Rose Wine
1000000 Coins

New Paradise Restaurant and Parasailing Boat
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After reaching the levels beyond Level 8, you will find a new business in the Sea Resort in the form of the Paradise Restaurant and a new Attraction in the form of the Parasailing Boat.

When you complete the Level 10 Expansion, you unlock the Paradise.

For the first upgrade, you will need:

50 Lemon Cakes
10 Wooden Cylinders
50 Tofu Vegetable Soup
50 Wine

For the 2nd upgrade to the Paradise Restaurant, you will need:

30 Turkey Sausage (27 TC each if you do not wish to make them)
10 Wooden Planks (50 TC each if you do not wish to craft them)
50 White Wine Crab (no option to skip)
50 Macadamia Salad (no option to skip)

(Thanks to one of our administrators, Elizabeth Puglisi, for sharing her White Wine Crabs and Macadamia Salads with me so I could log this quickly!)

For the 3rd upgrade to the Paradise Restaurant, you will need:

10 Showcase Design (1 RC each)
10 Wooden Panels (no option to pay instead of crafting)
20 Vegetable Rolls (no option to pay instead)
20 Salsa Verde (no option to pay instead)

This is the final upgrade.  The same rules apply here as to the other shops in the Sea Resort.  With all three upgrades, you will have four slots for a single item in your initial Showcase.  Unlock the 2nd Showcase when you sell a total of 3 items.  The third by selling 297 and the fourth by selling 500.