All About Pinkleby

(Above, incomplete first Map, when the option first appeared in Seaside)

In my own Community, there are a few members who still do not understand how the Pinkleby, that gigantic greedy mutant pink Rabbit operates.  Although I wrote a post when the update first occurred, giving all details about the various Chapters and Techs associated with this creature, I feel it may be helpful to publish a basic step-by-step tutorial now for those who have not been able to explore the system yet.

Before I go on here, I wish to thank every farmer who votes for HM. Freyashawk in the Farm Beauty Contest.  Believe it or not, updating this site takes a great deal of time and energy and, although I have some important issues, none of them pleasant, that must be dealt with in the real world, I am trying to keep this site up to date.  If you still use my site, please consider sending your votes to HM. Freyashawk, especially in these last days of the Farm Beauty Contest where EVERY Vote is needed to rank. 

First of all, your Community Leader or Sub-Leader has to unlock the Chef Tech in the Town Office in Watertown.  This is the pink building with the green roof where you can find all the new Community Techs.  There are two separate tabs now.  The first one shows the Techs that can be unlocked for the Seaside Farm, Island and Sea Resort.   I dealt with these in detail in another post.  What you need here are the Techs in the SECOND tab.

The primary Tech that has to be upgraded from the second tab is the Chef Tech. The Recipes Techs below this primary Tech are unlocked by upgrading the Chef Tech, much like new Stove House Lab Research Recipes are unlocked in Seaside by upgrading the Molecular Gastronomy Tech.

Note there that you CANNOT feed Pinkleby any of those Molecular Gastronomy Recipes from Seaside, although you can feed the creature the raw Lab Crops, Tree Fruits, Zoology and Mechology Items.  In the case of Zoology and Mechology, you must process the materials you obtain into the actual items before they can be used either to feed Pinkleby in their raw form or used in the Baking Station to make Watertown Recipes.

The Recipe Techs that you see when you access the Town Office are based on your Active Topic in Seaside.  In other words, you will see a different group of Recipes for each Topic.  I originally wrote my description of these Techs based on my own Active Mechology Topic, but the principle and operation is the same for each of the four Techs.

Baking Stations
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Once you unlock and upgrade any of the Recipes in the Town Office, you will use one of the four Baking Stations to prepare them.  The Baking Stations are th four buildings at the bottom of Watertown.  From left to right, they are: Mechology, Zoology, Treeology and Cropology.

Although in Seaside, you can cook any Research Stove House Recipe you previously unlocked provided only that you have the necessary ingredients, Watertown is very different.  You ONLY HAVE ACCESS TO THE RECIPES FOR YOUR ACTIVE RESEARCH TOPIC.

If you wish to unlock all possible Recipes for all four Topics, you must switch Topics in Seaside and then proceed to upgrade the Chef Tech FOR THAT TOPIC, and unlock and upgrade all of the Watertown Recipes for the new Topic.

In other words, upgrading the Chef Tech is Topic-specific as are the Recipes you can make in Watertown and you ONLY CAN ACCESS THE BAKING STATION FOR YOUR ACTIVE TOPIC.

Introduction to Pinkleby Chapters
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Pinkleby squats in the middle of the plaza and when you tap on this creature, there should be two separate maps containing 8 Chapters.  It is likely this will change shortly and another Map will be added, but for now, there are 8 Chapters.  Your final point score as a Community for completing any Chapter is linked to your Community's Beauty Points, which you can see on a bar at the top left of your screen, much like your own Landscape Points total.

Only a Community Leader or Sub-Leader can activate a Chapter, but they can be replayed as many times as you wish to earn more Gems and Medals and sometimes raise your Beauty Point total if it was not very high the first time round.

Once any Chapter is activated, tap on the Pinkleby to see its current demands.  Demands always follow the same sequence and pattern.

FEEDING PINKLEBY: For members of Communities who have not participated yet, a quick explanation.  Every Chapter has the same basic system in place.  First, the Pinkleby will ask to be fed 'anything'.  Only Research Lab items or their Water Town derivatives are accepted, however.  Each member can feed 5 items in this way per day.  Reset with another chance to feed 5 items of your choice will occur at reset.  When the Pinkleby reaches 100% in this stage, it then will demand x number of a specific item.  Again, it will be a Research Lab item or its Water Town derivative.  When that phase is completed, 'feed anything' again.  The items and quantities depend on the Chapter you activate.  The first time you complete a Chapter, you receive a Deco that can be placed on a pedestal in Water Town by a leader or sub-leader and will have a Beauty point value.  Whenever you replay a Chapter, you will not receive a new Decoration, but if you have a better score than before, it will boost the value of the existing Decoration that you have.  Each replay, however, will give both Community Gems and Reputation Medals.



IMPORTANT TIP:  All of the items demanded by the Pinkleby are Research Lab items that require Essence to grow or make.  Essences are given by any Guest Groups.  You can invite them and simply send them away without filling ANY Orders to obtain the Essence if you are too busy or lack resources to fill their orders.  Obviously, you will not obtain any Pink Paint or Pet Cards when you follow this strategy but if you need Essences, it is the fastest and easiest way to obtain them.



Buddies who visit your Farm can donate Essence, but in very small quantities.  The number a Buddy can donate is based on Buddy Level.  For any Crop or Tree, the Buddy taps on the actual Crop or Tree that needs the Essence but for Zoology or Mechology, you tap on the Rare Material Bank, formerly the Seed Bank, but now outfitted with refrigeration for the Animal and Machine materials!



Note that EACH Member of a Community should be able to feed the Pinkleby 5 times in one time period until it reaches 100% in any phase.  In other words, every member has 5 chances to feed, but if the Pinkleby's hunger is satisfied, members who did not feed must wait until the next request for any item to use their chances.



The phases of Pinkleby Chapter feedings alternate between 'feed any item' and demands for a specific quantity of a specific item.



Beginning with Chapter 1, we discovered that 'feed any item 5 times' actually is restricted to the basic items one can obtain with any of the four Topics in Seaside as well as the Water Town 'baking station' dishes that are produced using those Seaside items.  Moreover, the 'feed any item' phase operates on a percentage of hunger bar and once it reaches 100%, the Pinkleby will demand a specific total of a specific item 'for winter'.  In other words, the bar may reach 100% without allowing every Member to feed the giant creature.  There will be other chances within the Chapter path, however, as the demands alternate between 'feed anything' and the specific demands.  The last phase will be 'feed anything'.  With 100% completion of the last phase, it began to build the decoration, giving a timer of 19 hours.



This Pinkleby is linked to a path where feeding takes you further to a Chapter reward in the form of a 'Beauty Decoration'.  Currently, there are two separate Maps and 8 Chapters to follow.  Only a Leader or Sub-Leader can choose a specific chapter to follow.  You can choose the same path more than once but you will earn the Beauty Decoration reward only the first time you complete a chapter.



The Decorations you obtain in this fashion will raise your Water Town Landscape Points.  Indeed for the first Chapter, we received a Beauty Decoration that I was able to place on any pedestal in Water Town that raised our Landscape Points there by 72 points.  Note here that other Communities received higher scores than this for the 1st Chapter.  If we replay the Chapter, we can raise our score.



When the second Chapter was activated.  The Pinkleby in this Chapter demanded items that must be prepared in the recipe Stations in Water Town. Specifically, Smoked Drumsticks.  To be able to make the Smoked Drumsticks, your current Topic has to be Zoology and you need to be at Level 1 for the Recipe in Water Town.



As the Pinkleby continued to demand items for the second Chapter, they included Clover Pudding which is the first Recipe in the Cropology Building.  Note that you can activate the same chapters again and again to earn rewards, but you will not receive more than one decoration for any Chapter.



The quality of the decoration or at any rate point total given to it evidently is based on the rapidity with which you completed the Chapter and the actual items given to the Pinkleby.  When you restart and complete any old Chapter again, you can boost your total Beauty Point reward if you perform it faster or better.  The real reason to do these again is to gain Community Gems and Reputation Medals.



In later Chapters, the items demanded required higher levels of upgrade both in Seaside and in the Water Town Techs.



Ideally, your Community should be organised so that you have at least one or two Members for each of the four Research Topics.  Anne and I have logged almost every Chapter demand now, so find the section below that gives the specifics for each Chapter BEFORE you activate the Chapter and try to prepare the items needed in advance.  That way, you will be able to respond to its demands instantly without spending any TC to speed the baking process or without being forced to purchase items in the E-Mart.



Strategy Tip:

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Sadly, the game encourages speed and value in these gifts to Pinkleby above all.  The difference in the point value of the decoration for a Community that makes haste and one that allows contributions by as many members as possible remains to be seen, but our Community received 72 Points for the first Decoration when placed on a Pedestal and I know two other Communities who received 74 and 76 Points respectively.  So I do not think the difference that significant.  Our Community is trying to stockpile the Water Town Dishes for future use, but instead of one player switching active Techs, we feel it might be better for us to organise our contributions by keeping all four Techs active among Community Members and working out Pinkleby requests accordingly.

Pinkleby Item Values:

Here is a list of all item values, organised by Research Topic.  Anne and I worked on these together.  She is one of my wonderful administrators in my new Group.  If you wish to join my group, feel free to contact familyfarmseaside.blogspot.com on Facebook with your request.

Item Values:


Cropology, Seaside:


Four-Leaf Clover: 3

Glass Gem Corn: 7

Pumpkin Tomato: 4

Hainan Pepper: 8

Fire Bean: 7

Morchella Mushroom: 7

Heart Watermelon: 8



Cropology: Water Town



Four-Leaf Porridge: 8

Glass Gem Corn Porridge: 13

Pumpkin Tomato Porridge: 11

Hainan Pepper Porridge: 16

Fire Bean Porridge: 16

Morchella Mushroom Porridge: 17

Heart Watermelon Porridge: 19



Treeology, Seaside:



Cubic Apple: 22

Rambutan: 23

Surinam Cherry: 30

Diamond Lemon: 34 Reputation Medals

Donut Peach:

Sand Pear: 31

Crystal Olive: 34





Treeology, Water Town:



Cubic Apple juice: 27

Surinam Cherry juice: 36

Rambutan juice: 30

Diamond Lemon Juice: 42

Donut Peach juice: 39

Sand Pear juice: 41

Crystal Olive juice: 42 or 45?



Mechology, Seaside:



Gluten: 8

Whey: 15

Toast: 15

Grape Seed Oil: 15

Dark Brown Sugar: 18

Beef Jerkey: 18

Dried Rose Petal: 18



Mechology, Water Town:





Baked Gluten: 13

Baked Whey Biscuits: 21

Baked Flavour Toast: 22

Baked Grape Seed Oil Biscuits: 23

Baked Dark Brown Sugar: 27

Baked Beef Jerky Biscuits: 28

Baked Rose Cake: 29



Zoology, Seaside:



Tenderloin: 15

Drumstick: 8

Lamb: 15

Duck: 15

Turkey Egg: 18

Golden Egg: 18

Ostrich Egg: 18





Zoology, Water Town:



Smoked Drumstick: 13

Smoked Lamb Rack: 21

Smoked Duck: 23

Smoked Tenderloin: 22

Smoked Turkey Egg: 27

Smoked Golden Egg: 28

Smoked Ostrich Egg:  29





Chapter 5:  When you open the second Map, only one destination or Chapter will be displayed.  When you complete it, the next will be displayed.  At this point, there are a total of 8 Chapters for Pinkleby, but when you look at Water Town, you will see there are pedestals for more Decorations (for the future...)









Pinkleby Beauty Point Totals

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Once you have unlocked a Chapter and completed it, you can restart and complete as many times as you wish.  You will not receive a new Decoration when any Chapter is replayed, but if you obtain a better point total at the end of it, it will replace the old total, thus boosting your Beauty Points.



The primary reason to replay Chapters is to earn more Community Gems and Reputation Medals.



Pinkleby's Demands

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We have discovered that although every Chapter may have different demands, the Chapter itself always will demand the SAME items.  You therefore can prepare for any Chapter before you start again,  Thanks to Anne for helping me log these Chapters and confirm items and Rewards.



Note that 'Feed 5 times any item' is the ability of each Member of the Community to donate up to 5 items of any kind from the Lab or Baking Station until the Pinkleby reaches 100% on a 'fullness' graph.  In other words, if you come to this late in  a 'feed anything' phase, one donation may push the total to 100%.  You then have to wait until the next 'feed' anything phase to use your other 4 chances to donate.  This 5 item ability will be given again at reset, so if your Community does not complete the Chapter BEFORE reset, each member will have the ability to donate up to 5 items again.



Furthermore, there is a limit to the number of specified items that each Community member can donate in a day.  The limit appears to be change with the item requested.   With a replay of Chapter 2, for example, HM. Freyashawk had the total number of Baked Gluten required, but after donating 6 was unable to donate the last two needed.  Another member, however, was able to feed 8 of the 10 Smoked Drumstick, which is odd.



N.B.  Dishes cooked in the Kitchen using the rare Research Lab Topic items cannot be given to Pinkleby.  You must give him either the basic rare Topic item (Crop, Fruit, Meat Tech Item, Machine Tech Item or the items made in the Water Town Baking Stations with those original basic items.



For example, you can give Rambutan or Rambutan Juice but NOT Fruity Layer Cake, which is the Kitchen Recipe unlocked in the Lab when you upgrade Molecular Gastronomy for Treeology at Seaside.



In other words, the Pinkleby gastronomic menu is a little different from the Seaside Topic upgrades.  The kitchen dishes that are unlocked in Molecular Gastronomy are used often in response to Guest demands on Seaside, to Coffee House Orders and for specific Lab Upgrades on Seaside.  The basic raw items associated with any Topic can be used both in Seaside and to feed Pinkleby, but the Baking Station Dishes so far are used solely to feed Pinkleby... or at least that is my own experience.  Note that you can purchase ALL of these in the Rare section of the E-Mart.  Materials are the only 'products' that cannot be bought or sold.  You must process them into the actual Item before they can be used in any Recipe or placed in the E-Mart or fed to Pinkleby.  (I refer here to the items in Mechology and Zoology known as Materials.)



A helpful tip with respect to Materials:  We all feel the pinch of lack of sufficient Essence.  If you are not obsessively trying to obtain cards for Pets, invite a 1 Star Guest Group daily and simply send them away to obtain Essence for processing.  A 2 Star Guest Group gives more Cards in any case.  If you have time to fill 2 Star Guest Orders, by all means invite them and fill the orders, but if not, you can follow the same strategy: invite and send away to obtain more Essence.  It is far better than not using your Passports at all!



Chapter 1 Demands:

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2 Cubic Apples

10 Four-Leaf Clovers

6 Drumsticks

10 Gluten



Chapter 2 Demands:

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Feed 5 of any item (per member until reaches 100%)

10 Smoked Drumsticks

Feed 5 of any item

3 Cubic Apple Juice

Feed 5 of any item

5 Four-Leaf Clover Porridge

Feed 5 of any Item

8 Baked Gluten

Feed 5 of any item



Chapter 3 Demands:

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4 Glass Gem Corn

10 Baked Whey Biscuits

8 Smoked Lamb Rack

4 Rambutan



Chapter 4 Demands:

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Feed 5 times any item

7 Toast

Feed 5 times any item

4 Diamond Lemon Juice

Feed 5 times any item

18 Pumpkin Tomatoes

Feed 5 times any item

6 Smoked Lamb Rack

Feed 5 times any item



Reward: 3750 Community Gems



Chapter 5 Demands:

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Chapter 2-1

Feed any item 5 times

15 Glass Gem Corn Porridge

Feed any item 4 times

5 Surinam Cherry Juice

Feed any item 5 times

10 Smoked Lamb Rack

Feed any item 5 times

11 Baked Whey Biscuits

Feed any item 5 times



Reward: 3900 Community Gems



Chapter 6 Demands:

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16 Gluten

5 Rambutan

16 Crystal Olives

19 Pumpkin Tomatoes



Chapter 7 Demands:

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Feed 5 times any item

10 Smoked Tenderloin

Feed 5 times any item

20 Pumpkin Tomato Porridge

Feed 5 times any item

5 Rambutan Juice

Feed 5 times any item

11 Baked Flavour Toast



Reward: 4200 Gems



Chapter 8 Demands:

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17 Duck

20 Grape Seed Oil

25 Hainan Peppers

8 Diamond Lemons



Decoration List Beauty Point Bar

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When you visit Water Town, you now will see a bar on the top left of the screen with the icon of a pink musical note giving your current Beauty Point total.   There is an icon of a bag at the end of it.  Tap on that bag and you will receive a Reward daily... a bag that contains Coins and Tokens for the most part.




New Community Techs

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There is a second tab now in the Town Office with the following:



Baking Chef (Passive Tech)

  Requires 8000 Gems to unlock

  Only Team Leader can unlock



VERY IMPORTANT:  UPGRADING THIS TECH IS TOPIC-SPECIFIC.  In other words, when you switch topics, you have to upgrade the Tech again for the new Topic and of course, unlock the ability to make all the Recipes for the NEW tech.



You need to upgrade this Tech once unlocked using Reputation Medals.  50 Medals required to upgrade to Level 1.  Upgrading this Tech is what unlocks the ability to cook another Dish in the Recipe Station.  As mentioned above, upgrading the Baking Chef for one Topic will not upgrade for any other Topics.  Each must be performed separately and you ONLY CAN UPGRADE YOUR ACTIVE TOPIC and use THAT Baking Station.  If you wish to upgrade all four Topics, you must switch Topics on your Seaside Farm first.



To upgrade to Level 2: 80 Reputation Medals



To upgrade to Level 3: 80 Reputation Medals



To upgrade to Level 4: 80 Reputation Medals



To upgrade to Level 5: 80 or 150 Reputation Medals



To upgrade to Level 6: 150 Reputation Medals



To upgrade to Level 7: 150 Reputation Medals



Level 7 is the highest level, unlocking all Recipe Stations for Mechology.



After a Recipe Station is unlocked, it MUST be upgraded from Level 0 to Level 1 before it can be used.



There are four Stations, each of which is connected to one of the Topics.  Will log all as time permits.



In Mechology, Level 1 allows you access to Baked Gluten at Recipe Station.

  Note that you can upgrade Recipe Stations as well, which reduces production time.  It is only by upgrading the actual Baking Chef Tech, however, that you gain access to more of the Recipe Stations.  You will have access only to the Baking Station for your current active Topic.



For Mechology, the Recipes you can unlock and upgrade are:



Baked Gluten

Baked Whey Biscuits

Baked Flavour Toast

Baked Grape Seed Oil Biscuits

Baked Dark Brown Sugar

Baked Beef Jerky Biscuits

Baked Rose Cake



Baked Gluten: to raise to Level 1: 20 Medals







(Above, a screenshot of the Baking Station that will appear if Mechology is your active Topic.)



Zoology Baking

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The Chef Tech for Zoology is called Smoked Animal Chef.  You need to upgrade to Level 7 to have all the Recipes.



Smoked Drumstick

Smoked Lamb Rack

Smoked Tenderloin

Smoked Duck

Smoked Turkey Egg

Smoked Golden Egg

Smoked Ostrich Egg



Treeology:



Cubic Apple juice

Surinam Cherry juice

Rambutan juice

Diamond Lemon juice

Donut Peach juice

Sand Pear juice

Crystal Olive juice



Cropology:



Four-leaf Porridge

Glass Gem Corn Porridge

Pumpkin Tomato Porridge

Hainan Pepper Porridge

Fire Bean Porridge

Morchella Mushroom Porridge

Heart Watermelon Porridge



Production Time Reduction

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Upgrade to Level 1 for 20 Medals, Level 2 for 50 Medals, to Level 3 for 80 Medals, to Level 4 for 80 Medals.  Each upgrade reduces production time, but you cannot even make the Recipe until you upgrade from Level 0 to Level 1.



At Level 1, production time reduced by 10%.

At Level 2, production time reduced by 15%.

At Level 3, the reduction in production time is 20%. At Maximum Level 4, the reduction in production time is only 25%.



When you choose a Recipe you have unlocked in the Baking Station, there is an option to request help from another member of your Community.  If you do, production time is further reduced AND the member received a little reward bag.  You can see the option to enlist help in the screenshot of the Recipe Station Menu above.



Treeology Recipes:

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Cubic Apple Juice

Surinam Cherry Juice

Rambutan Juice

Diamond Lemon Juice

Donut Peach Juice

Sand Pear Juice

Crystal Olive Juice



The following is not related to Pinkleby but is a note based on the Market in Seaside on 21 January.

New Decorations in Market
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There are a number of new premium decorations in the regular Market (Decorations section) in Seaside) as follows:

Rainbow Door: 18 RC

Teacup Flower: 16 RC

Picnic Tree: 20 RC

Red Rabbit Fence: 1 RC

Blue Rabbit Fence: 1 RC

New Coin Decorations
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Picnic Mats: 20000 Coins
Green Fence: 500 Coins
Blue Fence: 500 Coins