31 March 2023

Easter Day Quest and Bunny Ears Mission

Bunny Ears Collection

70 from Lavender
50 from Milk
30 from Lwmon Gum
10 from Cherry
Reward:  Mini Chocolate Egg Tree

Easter Day Quest

1. 
Harvest 40 Oat
Produce 40 Oat Flour
Harvest 8 Maple Syrup

2.
Harvest 40 Corn
Collect 40 Eggs
Harvest 8 Lemon

3.
Harvest 40 Cane
Produce 40 Sugar
Prepare 8 Butter

4.
Harvest 40 Sunflowers
Collect 20 Honey
Prepare 8 Honey Syrup

Reward: Mission Gift Box

5.
Harvest 50 Green Beans
Produce 50 Beef Salami
Prepare 8 Bean Stew

6.
Harvest 50 Blackberries
Produce 50 Blavjberry Jam
Prepare 8 Cereal

7.
Harvest 50 Celery
Collect 15 Cracked Freekeh
Prepare 8 Freekeh Pilaf

8.
Harvest 50 Cocoa
Place Mini Chocolate Egg Tree on your farm
Prepare 8 Hollow Chocolate Easter Eggs

Reward: Crocodile Pet House Hat

9.
Harvest 60 Mushrooms
Produce 8 Maple Sugar
Prepare 8 Air Fryer Mushrooms

10.
Harvest 60 Peanuts
Produce 60 Peanut Sauce
Prepare 8 Mushroom Scotch Eggs

11.
Harvest 60 Strawberries
Produce 60 Sunflower Bouquets
Prepare 8 Bean Stew with Crumble

12.
Harvest 60 Pineberry (Island)
Harvedt 8 Breadfruit
Prepare 8 Boules

Reward: Island Mission Gift Box

13.
Harvest 60 Flax (Island)
Produce 60 Linen (Islabd)
Prepare 8 Broiled Asparagus

14.
Harvest 20 Chestnuts (Island)
Produce 20 Chestnut Flour (Island)
Prepare 8 Bunny Bread

15.
Produce 60 Dried Pineberry (Island)
Produce 60 Pineberry Bread (Island)
Prepare 8 Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars

16.
Cook 4 Pavlovas in the Stilove House
Tend flowers in Botanical Garden 15 times
Prepare 8 Easter Rocky Road

Final Reward: Bunny Holding Balloons Decoration

17 March 2023

Spring Picnic Quest and Picnic Basket Mission



Picnic Basket Collection

70 from Corn
50 from Turkey
30 from Cinnamon Cupcake
10 from Oranges

Reward: Sapodilla Tree

Spring Picnic Quest

1.
Harvest 40 Wheat
Produce 40 Wheat Flour
Harvest 8 Coconuts

2.
Harvest 40 Oat
Produce 40 Oat Flour
Harvest 8 Cinnamon

3.
Harvest 40 Green Lettuce
Collect 20 Honey
Prepare 8 Honey Syrup

4.
Harvest 40 Rye
Produce 40 Rye Flour
Prepare 8 Cake Flour

Reward: Mission Gift Box

5.
Harvest 50 Cane
Produce 50 Sugar
Prepare 8 Egg Rolls

6.
Harvest 50 Leeks
Produce 50 Duck Eggs
Prepare 8 Egg abd Green Onion Crêpes

7.
Harvest 50 Tomatoes
Collect 15 Potato Starch
Prepare 8 Sour Sauce

8.
Harvest 50 Rice
Place the Sapodilla Tree on your farm (Collection Reward)
Prepare 8 Dried Sapodilla Fruit

Reward: Crocodile Pet House Ears

9.
Harvest 60 Daisies
Produce 60 Mayonnaise
Prepare 8 Egg Salad

10.
Harvest 60 Carrots
Produce 60 Beef Salami
Prepare 8 Coconut Barfi

11.
Harvest 60 Blue Roses
Produce 60 Turkey Sausages
Prepare 8 Sliced Sausages

12.
Harvest 60 Fern Flowers
Harvest 8 Japanese Pagoda Flowers
Prepare 8 Steamed Japanese Pahoda Flowers

Reward: Island Mission Gift Box

13.
Produce 60 Wool
Craft 6 Blue Hearts
Prepare 8 Flowers and Egg Roast

14.
Produce 60 Angora Hair 
Fish 8 times with Treble Hook
Prepare 8 Pan-Fried Mackerel

15.
Craft 6 White Cord Necklaces
Craft 6 Glass Bottle Necklaces
Prepare 8 Fried Mackerel with Sour Sauce

16.
Cook 4 Obentos in Stove House
Take care of flowers in Botanical Garden 15 times
Prepare 8 Sapodilla Barfi

Final Reward: Bread-eating Hamster Decoration



03 March 2023

Family Movie Night Quest and Popcorn Collection Mission

A new 11 day Quest and Farm Beauty Contest.

Note the potential issue of the Exhivition Hall with reaoect to the Contest.  Theme items will be vivid in the Book if they are on your farm but grey if in the Exhibition Hall.  Remove them briefly and place them for your screenshot.  It is important to leave some empty space on your farm in case a glitch forces you into Edit mode.  If this occurs, however, close and reload your game, keeping your fingers crossed.  All of my bases came out of Exhibition Hall, game in edit mode and nowhere to place them!!!

Farm Beauty Contest
It is possible to organise your own Farm to get 6000 votes from the four characters but you need to take the best screenshit on the first day.  Look at the book that shows thene items, place them next to paths to maximise landscape totals, have a good variety of crops, trees, animals and machines ON YOUR FARM, make certain you have four pets fully equipped working on the farm and not resting in the Pet House.  These are the requirements to maximise votes.  
To add 9 theme votes daily place the new Romantic Sakura Base on your farm and complete it becore you take your snapshot. 
I do ask that you vote for HM. Freyashawk if this site is useful.  You need to be my neighbour if you wish to do this.  It is for rank which I cannot earn by myself. 
I had to buy the Sweet Pea Plant from the Market for 9 RC so I could write this post quickly as I have a busy day today.

Popcorn Collection Mission

70 from Cucumber
50 from Buffalo Milk
30 from Red Rose Swiss Roll
10 from Lemons
Reward: Sweet Pea Plant

Thr Sweet Pea Plant is a Collectable.  You can buy it for cash in a 'special sale' or find it in the Market for 9 RC if you do not wish to perform the Collection Mission.

N.B.  One task requires tje crafting of 6 Wooden Chairs, each of which uses 4 Wooden Cylinders and 1 Wooden Plank.  If you interact with the insects at all, you need Nets and each of those require 1 Wooden Cylinder and 1 Cotton Cloth.  I no longer EVER have any Woodwn Cylinders to spare.  I cannot say whether the developers do not think befote they create these tasks, do not care or deliberately try to force us to strip our barns of materials or else use RC to spare ourselves the stress.

Family Movie Night 

1.
Harvest 40 Oats
Produce 40 Oat Flour
Harvest 8 Oranges

2.
Harvest 40 Corn
Collect 40 Eggs
Harvest 8 Almonds

3.
Harvest 40 Wheat
Produce 40 Wheat Flour
Prepare 8 Batter

4.
Harvest 40 Rye
Produce 40 Rye Flour
Prepare 8 Soft Dough

Reward: Mission Gift Box

5.
Harvest 50 Chardonnay
Produce 50 Champagne
Prepare 8 Lemon Champagne

6.
Harvest 50 Cane
Produce 50 Sugar
Prepare 8 Whole Wheat Pasta

7. 
Harvest 50 Red Roses
Collect 15 Cloudberries
Prepare 8 Cloudberry Mousse

8.
Harvest 60 Radishes
Place a Sweet Pea Plant on the farm (Collection Mission)*
Prepare 8 Sweet Pea Shoits Salad
*Collect 12 Sweet Peas Shoots instantly when placed

Reward: Crocodile Pet House Base

9.
Harvest 60 Strawberries
Produce 60 Wheat Bread
Prepare 8 Double-Crust Cloudberry Pie

10.
Harvest 60 Sunflowers
Produce 60 Buffalo Milk Cheese
Prepare 8 Herb Cream Cheese

11.
Harvest 60 Lucky Stars
Produce 60 Oat Bread
Prepare 8 Cream Cheese Bagels

12.
Harvest 60 Pineberries (Island)
Harvest 8 Sweet Dreams
Prepare 8 Sweet Dreams Infusion

Reward: Island Mission Gift Box

13.
Harvest 8 Oak Wood (Island)
Create 8 Wooden Cylinders (Island)
Prepare 8 Cloudberry Silver Dollar Pancakes

14.
Harvest 8 Cedar Wood (Island)*
Craft 8 Wooden Planks
Prepare 8 Brave Toast
*Use Electric Saw to harvest 2 from each tree)

15.
Produce 60 Dried Pineberries (Island)
Craft 6 Wooden Chairs (Island)
Prepare 8 Midnight Snacks

16.
Cook 4 Norwegian Porridge in the Stove House
Tebd flowers in Botanical Garden 15 times
Prepare 8 Pasta Salad with Pea Shoots

Final Reward: Puppy Watching a Movie Decoration

02 March 2023

Crazy Fruit Activity

The Crazy Fruit Activity to me seemed simple yet bewildering.  The game instructions as often left gaps in the chain of events that became apparent only when one began to play.  I found it vexing but not worth the trouble of truly analysing it.  I simply shot the balls at the balls identical to them and hoped for the best.
Although you cannot purchase any of the Rewards or add to your points using RC, you can buy Grapefruit tickets with RC to use to play the game.  You can use 1 RC to purchase a bomb or other 'aid' as well.  The value of this is a little random as often the bomb does not improve the total. 
The other way to obtain the Grapefruit tickets you need to olay is by growing the temporaey crops and tree.  They then can be processed for items of greater value.
The develipers unfortunately have found our Achilles Heel which is watering cans.  They look to that by generating more orders for the fruit from the tree than the crops.  It is slightly helpful to plant the meximum numbers of this tree and you can change the order by refreshing it.  Even so, the numbet of watering cans required nowadays can be brutal.
The action is simple: point the fruit gun and shoot.  Now here is where strategy can be employed.  If you shoot at an identical fruit, the two merge to create the next in size.  In other words, two tiny blue fruits create one red fruit.  If you create a formation where the fruits in the circle are perfectly placed to increase gradually, and then shoot the fruit in the gun at the one identical to it, it will generate a chain reaction to blast all the fruits in the chain and merge into the next size larger than the one at the very end.
It is imlortant to understand that some of these fruits only appear through merging.  The smallest of these merged fruits is the 'peach'  that is created with two lemons.  Next there is the orange, created by two peaches.  The other large fruits all must be created through merging.
It sounds simple, but again, paying attention to the order of the fruits in the circle can be helpful.  For example, if you have a tiny blueberry between two lemons, you have two options to improve that:
1.  Shoot another blueberry at it to create an apple, then shoot an apple to create the purple fruit.  Now you have the fruit directly below the lemon in the chain and when you shoot a purple fruit at its mate, a short chain will exist to take the lemon as well.
2.  The second strategy is to leave the blueberry in place, but shoot an apple, the next size of fruit, to its side.
The results are not that different, but creating chains within the circle really is the point of this game, and the longer the chain, the more points you receive when the chain reaction that merges the fruits occurs.
Each round of the game is on a timer, so you do need to make fairly quick decisions.
Note that a chain can be created at either end of the circle, as well as in the middle of all the other fruits.  You do not need to deal solely with the fruit at either end of the circle.
Essentially though, the main thing is to create the largest fruit and if possible, wipe as many off the table with your own chain reaction before the timer expires.  As I wrote at the start, I never really studied it in the past and simply shot at whatever fruit was identical.  
My real issue with an activity like this one is the inabilty to opt out by paying RC for the prizes, and the sheer smount if time required to earn all of the prizes.  Instead of farming, we are playing a merge game.
As previously indicated, you can nake products that are worth more than the original ingredient when exchanged for Grapefruit tickets.
The Bomb and Random Fruit can be purchased for 1 RC and then when you touch either, it will load into the gun taking the place of the fruit there.  So do not do it when the fruit in the gun is useful!
I found little value in the bomb.  The Random Fruit is good for ceearing the largest posdible merge fruit, especially if it then can be used in a chain.  The bomb simply cleara three fruit from the curcle.  Useful I suppose if you are running out of time and three fruit are obstacles to a chain.  For example, if you have two nice dragon fruit in the centre of your circle but there is a blueberry, a lemon, and an apple between them, and little time left, you can use the bomb to get rid of those three, bringing the two dragon fruits together for a merge.  It is better to make those obstacle fruits larger and then make them into their own little chain if you can, but if you do not have sufficient time, the bomb can clear them from the centre of your circle.
Yakon Cake in Cake Machine
Prickly Pear Jam in Jam Maker
Prickly Pear Jam Bread
Yogurt Yacon Cake
Starfruit and Indian Gooseberry Juice

It is difficult to take notes while playing because of the timer but I believe the merge fruits in order are:
Peach 
Orange
Pink Dragon Fruit 
Brown Fruit
Green Fruit?