Insect Garden, Seaside Pass and Farm Beauty Contest

Some new options in the game appear to be confusing for some players.

Insect Garden

We are finding our way here still, but the insect garden is next to the Botanicak Garden and linked to it.  To some extent, the flowers growing in your Botanical Garden determine the insects that will be attracted to your Insect Garden.

There is a timer for these as well.  Certain rare insects only will appear on set days.  I do not think these days are the same for every one, although I need more time to confirm this.  I believe the week is a matter of consecutive days.  The rarest insect of all, the Dreamy Papilio, only appears on Day 7. Its favourite flower is the Mega Rose.

Now there are two different markets connected to the Botanical Garxen as well.  One sells Garden tools and ordinary Level 1 flowers as previously, but a welcome change is that you can buy ALL Garden tools at one time.   The limit of 99 has been eliminated as well. Appearance no longer is random.   If needed, you can buy all of them every day.

The other Market accepts Insect Coins, earned by catching insects with a net.  There are two different nets by the way.  One is crafted in the island Hardware Store using 1 Wooden Cylinder and 1 Cotton Cloth.  The other can be purchased for 1 RC.

The different insects have different values in Insect Coins.  You can use these coins to purchase Level 1 Friendship Flowers or two new Levell 1 Flowers in the form of the Helios Flame Sunflower and the Coryphantha Cactus Flower.  Each costs 400 Insect Coins.

In theory, you can catch one insect in a buddy's garden each day.  Whether or not a buddy's insect garden is open for you to catch an insect may be determined by that buddy's actions.  I have tested this now more than once.  When I visit a buddy OK did not catch all insects in his/her garden that day, I am able to catch one.  If that Buddy has caught the quota, the garden is shut.   You may consider leaving a couple of rare insects in your garden for your Buddies once you have the rewards you need.

To discover what day it is in your Insect calendar, look at the insects currently in your garden.  For example, the Chafer appears only on the even numbered days.  The Blue Morpho on  1, 2, 6 and 7.  The Leaf Moth on Days 1, 3 and 5.  Sk by seeing which ones are present, you often can work out where you are in terms of Day 7 when the elusive Dreamy Papilio appears.

Seaside Pass

The Seaside Pass is similar in some ways to the Daily Quests and sometimes performance of a task is rewarded by both.

There are two rows for the Seaside Pass.  If you opt to purchase the premium Decoration for Seaside (currently a Flamingo), you will unlock the second row of tasks and rewards as well as adding points.

Without the premium decoration, you still can earn both daily rewards and seasonal rewards, but you are limited to those on the first row.

Note that one daily task is to claim votes in the Farm Beauty Contest. Another is to dig 10 Chests.  Claim Daily Quest Silver Box. Claim Dedicated Farmer Bonus once.  Complete 3 Orders on the Order Board.  Some of these overlap with Daily Quest tasks.

There are other rewards apart from farm Aids.  On the free row, there is a Summer Flamingo Avatar. On the premium row, there is a Summer Flowers Avatar Frame.  Note that the premium Decoration gives 100 bonus points that can be counted towards rewards.  You can opt to  

exchange TC for Points to earn rewards faster,  but I believe the Seaside Pass premium row is unlocked only.by purchasing the decoration. 

Farm Beauty Contest

There are farmers who still do not understand how this works, even at high levels.  

Really, the most important reward is given when you reach a total of 4000 votes.  There is no reason why even lower level farmers should not be able to achieve this using o ly the votes given by the four characters who assess your Farm every day. 

The important requirements are having a variety of Crops, Trees, Animals, Machines, a few but not that many farm Expansions, four pets fully outfitted and on the Farm (not in the Pet House), a decent total of Landscape Points, and as decent number of Theme decorations.  Theme items are shown in a little red book in the Farm Beauty Contest Menu.

By completing and placing the new base in any Farm Beauty Contest, you usually will increase votes for theme by 9 votes per day. Premium decorations often give 6 or 9 more votes per day as opposed to the 3 votes given to non premium decorations.

There are players who believe there is no point in registering if they cannot reach maximum votes.  That is absurd. There are Farm aids as well as Coins that are given at lesser totals, and this is where you earn purple mystrons. The decoration given at 4000 votes is cleanable.  Furthermore, by voting each day, you earn a gift box that contains rewards.such as OP, purple Mystrons and coins. 

I do not know if requirements have changed at all, but lower levels farmers confirm you do not need even the 30 x 30 expansion to receive maximum votes for 'big farms'.  Do register as many items in your Gallery as possible to receive 18/18 for Gallery.  A farmer with only 2284 Landscape Points confirmed she receives maximum votes of 24/24 for 'beautiful paths with high Landscape Points'. 

I have written many posts in the past about the Farm Beauty Contest and how to maximise your own character votes.  The totals may have changed, but with 16 different Crops, 16 different Trees, 12 different Animals and 12 different Machines on your Farm, you should receive maximum for those categories.

Beehives and  Butterfly Houses count as Animals.

There actually are two different Beauty Contests.  One is for the votes that give the Decoration at 4000 and an avatar and a couple of RC at 6000, but the other is for rank.  Only the top 100 farmers in the world are ranked.  With 2000 votes above 6000, you will not be in the top 100.  To rank in the top 10, you need between 12,000 and 13,000 votes.

I know I have requested that farmers who use this site vote for HM. Freyashawk.  This is for rank, for trying to be in the top 10 to give visibility to this site.  I never ask for votes for any other farm.  

In this current Contest, they gave increased the theme total.  Thus actually helps the farmer, because the total of votes needed to attain the rewards has not changed.   All it means is that they are counting more thene items on your Farm.

You do not need more than 200 votes per day to attain 4000.  You do not need more than 300 to attain the final rewards at 6000.  In fact, it is possible than the actual total is less for both as there is one extra voting period. 

Remember always that the screenshot you submit determines your Farm's value in votes.  If you forget to place your new completed base or take all four pets out of the Pet House,  submit a new photo.   Otherwise do not meddle with it.  Often it will disappear if there is a new update.  Do not worry.  It still counts.  Do not take a new one!

Note that theme decorations are included in the Lucky Wheel for each contest.Contest.  There are four that can be found for the us Contest. Some theme items can be purchased in the Market.  That means you can use RC instead of cash to buy them.  As far as new premium items are concerned, they usually are worth more votes than other theme items and will be used in future contests.  They tend to give better gift boxes when cleaned as well.  

Finally, I hate to have to make this clear, but I never made a penny from this game and never shall.  I make no money from Google,  have never asked for gift cards or friendship flowers even.  If any one claims to be me and asks fir remuneration of any kind, that person is an imposter.  I only request votes.  If any one does try to claim to be me to obtain financial advantages, please report that to me at once!