Photo Studio Activity April

I am not writing a walkthrough.  The rules have not changed and you can access earlier walkthroughs if in doubt.  

I will list the rewards and the generators here.

I suggest if you engage at all that you purchase the VIP Pass.   I feel there is no point putting in all the graft if you do not receive all the rewards that count

as follows:

VIP Pass Rewards:

Lv 4: 4 Star Card

Lv 7: 5 Star Card

Lv 19: 5 Star Red Card

Lv. 20: Easter Badger (Animal)

Lv 25: Wreath Easter Duck (Red Gift Box when cleaned)

Free Rewards:

Lv 5: Rabbit Easter Egg

Lv 7: 3 Star Card

Lv 8: Easter Badger Avatar

Lv 19: 5 Star Card

Lv 20: Easter Clouds Avatar Frame

Lv 25: Greedy Easter Bunny (Blue Gift Box)

Generators:

Lv 1: Grocery Basket

  Makes Chocolate Treats

Lv 2: Small Pantry: 

  Makes Chocolate Treats and Easter Bread

Lv 4: Easter Egg Storage

  Makes Easter Eggs

Lv 4: Deluxe Easter Egg Pot

  Created by merging Easter Eggs and is a temporary Generator that will make a total of 20 items if using 1 Energy for each until it disappears; generates Easter Chicks

Lv 6: Toy Cart

  Generates Easter Plush Lambs

Lv 8: 1st Recipe

Easter Workbench: 

Chocolate Caramel Bun + Hatching Chick = Eggshell Carriage

Lv 10: Medium Easter Egg Bucket makes same items

4th Order has appeared

At Level 12, the Handicraft Storage Cup generates unlocked.  It produces Easter Balloon Crafts.

Power Boosts:

1st Power Boost unlocked at Level 7. 2 Stamina instead of 1 required when it is active.  Tap Purple button to the left of Stamina bar.

Strategies and Tips:

Note that you will activate the Double Point temporary bonus only if your Energy is low and only after reaching a specific level.

If I have a low Energy total, I try to anticipate the Double Pount Bonus by making as many high level items as possible, then setting up the Orders without filling them until the Bonus kicks in.

Remember that Stamina that appears on the map can be merged.  

I store the highest level items in thw backpack to use when needed, leaving more open squares on the map.

I recommend using a Deluxe Easter Egg Pot temporary generator until only 1 item remains and then placing it in front of all others.  When you receive an Order for it, the first one on the map is taken.

Current Farm Beauty Contest Rules

Note from Freyashawk:  I appreciate every neighbour who votes for my farm.  Unfietunately the rules have changed.  Please try to send your votes as soon after reset as you can.  There is a limit daily now of 100 neighbour votes, but if I miss the total even once even by 1 vote, there is no way to make up the difference.  I know it is frustrating to be told I reacjed the maximum, but if you do not try and I do not reach that total each day, I will be out of the running.

I wrote about this before but a neighbour asked that I do it again.

The ordinary Rewards are obtained with vote totals.  Significant rewards first are for  a total of 4000 for a Seaside decoration and second, 6000 for an Avatar.

In the Farm Beauty menu, there are more rewards in the form of farm aids and purple mystron.  Tap on the '1' icon to claim them.   It is interesting that there is no time limit for collecting any of them.

So there are two different types of 'wins'.  One is determined by vote totals.  The other is determined by rank.

For rank, these are the new rules in theory but the results either are very defective or dishonest.

First, the chances of being in the top 100 are not high.

To even try to reach the top, you need the following:

Maximum NPC votes from Day 1;

The maximum of 100 votes from neighbours every single day.

There will be a number of farmers world wide who achieve this.  They will be tied in terms of their vote totals with the total of 9856 votes at the end of the contest.

What then determines the rank?  It is the Landscape Point total shown on the first screenshot taken for the contest.

Do not confuse this requirement for rank with the requirement from the 4 characters who 'give votes for beautiful paths with high landscape points'.  That requirement is fairly low. 

It sounds simple but the reality is skewed.  The top three farms had actual lower landscape point totals than other farmers in the top 20.

How did they get the top three slots?  Well, when the final points were counted, their farms showed impossibly high landscape point totals initially.  Whatever AI was counting and deternining winners accepted these impossible totals but then their landscape point totals were almost immediately changed to the real ones that were not the highest by any means.  I asked Support to investigate.  I first  repeated the rules and was told that was correct.  For a week, they sent messages asking me to be patient.  A few hours before the new contest began, they told me I needed to show 'solid proof' and that they had found nothing wrong.

What kind of response is that?  Any farmer can see the 100 farms that rank in the top 100 and actually visit their farms at the point where the first contest screenshot was taken.  So what more solid proof is needed?  Every one could see the winners were not the top farms in terms of landscape point totals.  So why are they allowing these farms to win sgain and again?

To give farmers a clear example of what is needed for maximum votes from the 4 characters for landscape point totaks and expansions, I asked my cousin to share screenshots from her farm.  At Level 60, she has only 8 votes out of 18 for high level farm, but without ever expanding to the 32 x 32 farm, she has the maximum of 16/16 for 'big farms' and with only 2,355 Landscape Points, she has the maximum for 'beautiful paths with high landscape points'.

Thanks to my cousin for sharing this data.

Her global rank now is 74,779 by the way but she lost major interest in this game long ago and although she logs in daily and tries to help her Community a little, she is no longer a truly dedicated farmer.  She usually will earn the Decoration but not the avatar.

Spring Outing Quest and Picnic Basket Collection Mission

Note from Freyashawk:

Posting this one in honour of our aged but much loved Chinchilla Kiffle.

Please note that there is a post for all the new farm expansions,  In most cases, the machines you need can be purchased in the regular market for 16 RC.  High level players especially really ought to be able to make the items needed.  The gears needed also are in the Market now.

Picnic Basket Collection:

70 from Carrots

50 from Angora Hair

30 from Coffee Frozen Yogurt

10 from Oranges

Reward: Fruit Slice Basket

Spring Outing Quest

Crop List:

40 Coffee

40 Oats

40 Rye

40 Cane

50 Wheat

50 Lotus Flowers

50 Rice

50 Potatoes

60 Leeks

60 Chardonnay

60 Spinach

60 Kiwi Fruits*

1.

Harvest 40 Coffee Beans

Collect 40 Milk

Harvest 8 Lemons

2.

Harvest 40 Oat

Produce 40 Oat Flour

Harvest 8 Maple Syrup

3.

Harvest 40 Rye

Produce 40 Rye Flour

Prepare 8 Cake Flour

4.

Harvest 40 Cane

Peoduce 40 Sugar

Prepare 8 Condensed Milk

Reward: Mission Gift Box

5.

Harvest 50 Wheat

Produce 50 Wheat Flour

Prepare 8 Batter

6.

Harvest 50 Lotus Flowers

Produce 50 Wheat Bread

Prepare 8 Thai Fish Sauce

7.

Harvest 50 Rice

Collect 15 Lotus Roots

Prepare 8 Lotus Roots wirh Sticky Rice

8.

Harvest 50 Potatoes

Place a Fruit Slice Basket on your Farm (Collection Reward)

Prepare 8 Colourful Danishes

Reward: Easter Wreath Pet House Hat

9.

Harvest 60 Leeks

Collect 60 Eggs

Prepare 8 Avocado Baked Eggs

10.

Harvest 60 Chardonnay

Produce 60 Champagne

Prepare 8 Lemon Champagne

11.

Harvest 60 Spinach

Collect 60 Beef

Prepare 8 Fried Lotus

12.

Harvest 60 Kiwi Fruits

Harvest 8 Rainbow Fruits

Prepare 8 Rainbow Smoothies

Reward: Island Mission Gift Box

13.

Harvest 20 Chestnuts*

Produce 20 Chestnut Flour*

Prepare 8 Rainbow Cake

14.

Produce 60 Dried Kiwi Fruits*

Produce 60 Kiwi Fruit Bread*

Prepare 8 Rainbow Delight

15.

Produce 60 Mohair*

Produce 60 Mohair Yarn*

Prepare 8 Lotus Pond Afternoon Snacks

16.

Cook 4 Laab in the Stove House

Tend flowers in Botanic Garden 15 times

Prepare 8 Spring Energy Bowls

Final Reward: Chinchilla Tour Guide

Guardians of Azuma Site

This is a very honest game with an ethical philosophy and incredible beauty, a world that offers honest rewards for honest labour.  It has seen me through a time when grief and loss have outweighed joy, and where physical pain has been increasing steadily.  This game offers another life if you choose to make one, with a loving partner and children even.  It is a farming game but it is a game where you restore balance to a universe that became too greedy and stripped the land of its power and life force.

There are villages for each of the four seasons.  Spring is filled with exquisite sakura blossoms.  Summer has the seaside and a volcano.  Autumn fearures the red maple leaves of Jaoan.  Winter has gorgeous white-capped mountains and frozen watwrfalls.  And then there is the Underworld with the  civilisation of the oni, and the Heavenly Kingdom, prustine and clean... and then there are islands afloat in the skies.

There is spiritual wisdom.

There is friendship.

There is romance.

There is humour.

There is exploration.

There is healing for the heart.

The concept of a 'free game' may be attractive but nothing in this life is truly free.  You may pay for the cartridge but YOU then own the game.

And believe me, it is well worth the investment.

Guardians of Azuma Site

Penny's Magic Cauldron April 2026

The reward is yet another Water Base, the Egg Coral Base

1.

Blue Rose, Green Beans

2.

Green Beans, Carrot

3.

White Rose, Red Rose

4.

Lemon, Maple Syrup

5.

Tomato, Cherry, Birch Tree Syrup

6.

Lemon, Mangosteen, Gisela Cherry

7.

Venison Steak,  Horse Hair, Buffalo Milk

8.

Mutton, Wheat Flour, Cheddar Cheese

9.

Wool, Wheat Flour, Buffalo Milk Cheese

10. 

Birch Tree Syrup, Yellow Croaker, Oat Flour

11.

Tilapia, Venison, Coral

12.

Gulfweed, Wakame, Mutton

13.

Wheat Flour, Message in Bottle, Rye Flour

14.

Green Beans, Carrot, Rice Flour, Tomato

15.

Blue Rose, Lemon, Mangosteen, White Rose

16.

Maple Syrup, Red Rose, Horse Hair, Buffalo Milk

17.

Wool, Cherry, Yellow Croaker, Venison

18.

Tilapia, Gisela Cherry, Yellow Croaker, Venison

19.

Buffalo Milk Cheese, Mutton, Coral, Cheddar Cheese

20.

Gulfweed, Oat Flour, Mangosteen, Wheat Flour

21.

Tomato, Wakame, Rye Flour, Rice Flour