Showing posts with label Easter Picnic Base. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter Picnic Base. Show all posts

07 April 2017

A Day with Granny Quest, Stars Collections and Easter Farm Beauty Contest

There is a new time-limited traditonal Quest sequence in tandem with a Stars Collection Mission. Tips for the new Easter Greeting Farm Beauty Contest will be added in a section at the end of the post.  There is a little Q and A section at the end to direct players who are not familiar with the rules of the Farm Beauty Contest.

Note that because of some problems with updates, changes may have occurred with respect to tasks... will update as often as possible to reflect current tasks.  The two tasks that required items requested from Neighbours originally have changed.

The reward for the Collections Mission is a Stove House Recipe used in one of the tasks for Part 8 of the Quest Sequence.

Prepare the dish as follows:

Stove House - Aubergine Kebab Recipe (Need 30 seconds to cook this recipe)
This recipe is given as the reward for completing the Stars Collections Mission.
3 Beef (1 hour)
1 Eggplant (1 hour)
3 Tomato (5 minutes)
3 Onion (50 seconds)
6 Power
This recipe is simple: Place all ingredients in pan; tap cook and watch until bronze star (10 seconds remaining) or continue until all flavor points are gained, stopping just as time reaches zero seconds.
(Thanks to Kaye Webb, an administrator of our Family Farm Seaside Freyashawk Group)

Here is the quest but here I wish to thank all of my wonderful Neighbours... I have been playing this game for four years and I have made some fabulous friends and neighbours.  Thanks to all in our group who have given their support as well!



A Day with Granny
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Note that the Reward for completing this is a darling Egg Basket Decoration that gives a Purple Gift Box when cleaned.

A Day with Granny 1
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Grandma Blair:  Howdy farmer!  You already have an idea of what a farmer's day is like by now. What if we go through my daily chores together now?  Let's have something to drink while we discuss what to do.

Harvest 40 Corn
  Skip for 20 RC

Harvest 6 Apples
  Skip for 6 RC

Produce 6 Glasses of Apple Juice
  Skip for 6 RC

Reward: 2500 Coins, 160 XP

Granny: Open your ears and listen well!

A Day with Granny 2
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Granny: I wake up at 5.00 a.m to milk the cows, then I make delicious cheese with the milk.

Collect 40 Milk
  Skip for 10 RC

Produce 40 Cheddar Cheese
  Skip for 10 RC

Harvest 6 Lemons
  Skip for 6 RC

Reward: 2500 Coins, 160 XP

Granny:  Waking up early, working with nature, producing natural food... what more could you ask for?

A Day with Granny 3
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Granny:  Usually as I finish dealing with the cows and cheese, Darryl and Felicia wake up and start screaming: 'Granny, GRANNY, we're hungry!'  So I quickly finish up and and go prepare a nice breakfast.

Produce 40 Eggs
  Skip for 20 RC

Harvest 40 Tomatoes
  Skip for 10 RC

Prepare 8 Candied Apples
  Skip for 8 RC
  Each requires 2 Apples and 1 Maple Syrup

Reward: 2500 Coins, 170 XP

Granny:  After breakfast, the children go out to run and play!

A Day with Granny 4
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Granny:  Then I go out myself to take care of the animals and machines.  The animals need feeding and the machines require maintenance.  Let's go check on them together!

Collect 40 Duck Eggs
  Skip for 10 Rc

Produce 10 Jars of Orange Jam
  Skip for 10 RC

Prepare 8 Condensed Milk
  Skip for 8 RC
  Each requires 1 Milk and 1 Sugar

Reward: 2500 Coins, 170 XP

Granny: Farming is indeed tiring, but a lot of fun too!

Special Reward: Mission Gift Box

A Day with Granny 5
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Granny:  Of course, I never neglect my pets even with all the work I need to do.  I feed them and keep the guests' moods high all the time.

Dig 8 Chests on the Path
  Skip for 8 RC

Produce 40 Love Cakes
  Skip for 10 RC

Prepare 8 Orange Smoothies
  Skip for 8 RC
  Each requires 1 Condensed Milk and 1 Orange Jam

Reward: 2500 Coins, 180 XP

Granny:  That's why they're so happy to see you!

A Day with Granny 6
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Granny:  I have lovely neighbours.  We often visit and help each other out.  We like to have a coffee and chat.

Prepare 8 Sandwiches
  Skip for 8 RC
  Each requires 2 Beef and 2 Corn Bread

  N.B.  If you wish to save power and ingredients, use Goldfinger on the Baker to make Corn Bread.  You need no ingredients then and it does not use Power to produce.

Harvest 6 Guavas
  Skip for 6 RC

Prepare 6 Guava Chiffon Cakes
  Skip for 6 RC
  Each requires 1 Love Cake and 1 Guava

Reward: 2500 Coins, 180 XP

Granny:  Chatting is best done over coffee!

A Day with Granny 7
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Granny:  You'd think that I'd sit on a couch the whole day now at my age, right farmer?  I even go camping and fishing!

Use the Treble Hook for Fishing 8 times
  Skip for 8 RC

Produce 6 Smoked Mackerel
  Skip for 6 RC

Note that you now can sell your fish at the Pier for shells and then use the Shells to 'buy' the Fish you want.  If you use the Coin Shop, you should have some fish that are fairly valuable but never used in Recipes such as the Flower Horn Cichlid that sells for 225 Shells or the Seahorse selling for 228 shells.  You can buy a Mackerel for 273 Shells.

To use this option, tap on the icon of the fish on a scale to the right of the actual pier.  You will see one tab for selling and one for buying.

If you have a fully upgraded Goldfinger tech, you can make Smoked Mackerel in your Smokehouse using the Tech even if you do not have any actual Mackerel in stock.  It should count for this task.

Finally, for the purposes of a task like this, you can 'Miss' a catch to bring the total to 8 if you are impatient to complete the task using your default of 7 attempts.

Harvest 60 Eggplants
  Skip for 15 RC

A little note about Eggplant:  Fried Eggplant, a Kitchen Recipe is one of the best dishes to trade for Pet Food!

Reward: 2500 Coins, 190 XP

Granny:  How can you stay fit with this much delicious food?

A Day with Granny 8
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Granny:  I try new recipes and tastes all the time.  Darryl and Felicia also like my cooking.  Would you join me while I try to cook something different?

Cook 4 Aubergine Kebab in Stove
  Reward for Collection Mission
  Skip for 10 RC

Prepare 6 Virgin Vesper Martinis
  Skip for 6 RC
  Each required 2 Lemons and 2 Apple Juice

Produce 20 Strawberry Jam
  Skip for 10 RC

Reward: 2500 Coins, 190 XP

Granny:  Your dishes are always tasty!  I almost ate my fingers!

Special Reward: Bee Pet House Hat

A Day with Granny 9
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Granny:  No matter how busy the farm gets, I always visit the Island Farm daily and try to follow orders, machines and zeppelins closely.

Complete 4 Helicopter Orders
  Skip for 4 RC
  Although task states 'complete' the orders, the order will be counted as soon as items are placed in the helicopter.

Harvest 8 Chestnuts
  Skip for 8 RC

Transport 8 Chestnuts to your Seaside Farm
  Skip for 8 RC

Reward: 2500 Coins, 200 XP

Granny: We've got a lot to learn from Granny.  She never gets tired.  (speaking of herself in third person here?  But why not?  It is true!)

A Day with Granny 10
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Granny:  Flowers are fragile and need tending.  That's why I take care of the flowers on the Island.  It's a great way to release stress.

Take care of flowers on the Botanic Garden 6 times
  Skip for 6 RC

Craft 6 Scarecrow Toys
  Skip for 6 RC
  Each requires 2 Mohair Yarn and 1 Cedar Wood as well as 1 Power in your Workshop on the Island

Prepare 8 Strawberry Guava Smoothie
  Skip for 8 RC
  Each requires 2 Strawberry Jam and 2 Guavas

Reward: 2500 Coins, 200 XP

Granny:  You learn a lot by doing farm work with Granny!  And have a lot of fun!

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Granny:  Of course, all this work makes one hungry!  Now it's your turn, Farmer!  Show us what you've got by cooking us your best dish!

Harvest 8 Ice Cubes
  Skip for 8 RC
  You must harvest from the Ice Tree.  Collecting from the Ice Dolphin does not count towards total.

Produce 10 Orange Ice Cream
  Skip for 10 RC
  Note that his dish is made in the Kitchen rather than Ice Cream Machine
  Each requires 1 Ice Cube and 2 Orange Smoothie

Prepare 10 Crumbly
  Skip for 10 RC
  Each requires 2 Oat Flour and 2 Eggs

Reward: 2500 Coins, 210 XP

Granny:  Not bad at all, farmer.  Your food was very delicious!

A Day with Granny 12
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Granny:  Would be nice to have a drink and a treat after such tasty food.  We did quite a bit today, so let's rest a little now.

Transport 50 Love Fruit to the Island Farm
  Skip for 12 RC
  Split between zeppelins to complete task quickly

Produce 20 Chestnut Flour
  Skip for 10 RC

Prepare 6 Shaved Ice
  Skip for 6 RC
  Each requires 1 Ice Cube and 1 Syrup . (Syrup is obtained from a Collectable, Syrup Dispenser)

Reward: 2500 Coins, 210 XP

Granny:  Snacks go well with good times!

Special Reward: Mission Island  Gift Box

A Day with Granny 13
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Granny:  I usually check the beehives and collect honey in the afternoon.  You do get stung sometimes, but ... oh well, you get used to it!

Collect 20 Jars of Honey
  Skip for 10 RC

Harvest 50 Cassava
  Skip for 12 RC

Prepare 8 Guava Sorbet
  Skip for 8 RC
  Each requires 1 Strawberry Guava Smoothie and 1 Shaved Ice

Reward: 2500 Coins, 220 XP

Granny:  You have to be as hardwoking as these bees, Farmer!

A Day with Granny 14
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Granny:  I like designing jewellery and other beauty products with the machines on our farm.  You need healthy food, a good massage and therapy to keep fresh!

Make 6 Clay Facial Masks in the Beauty Shop
  Skip for 6 RC
  Each requires 2 Algae Powder, 1 Batter and 1 Distilled Water to make.  Item is counted towards task total when first placed in slot.  Takes 5 minutes to complete.

Craft 6 Red Cord Necklaces
  Skip for 6 RC
  Each requires 1 Angora Hair, 1 Wool and 2 Red Roses and takes 2 minutes to make.  Counted as soon as placed in slot

Prepare 8 Festival Food
  Skip for 8 RC
  Each requires 1 Candied Apple and 1 Shaved Ice

Reward: 2500 Coins, 220 XP

Granny:  You need to keep healthy and cheerful for a happy life!

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Granny:  After I collect products from animals, I have dinner and rest.  Darryl and Felicia go to sleep after having their milk.

Produce 60 Cassava Flour
  Skip for 15 RC

Produce 50 Love Fruit Pies
  Skip for 12 RC

Prepare 8 Glowing Tonic Water
  Skip for 8 RC
  Each requires 1 Virgin Vesper Martini and 1 Ice Cube

Reward: 2500 Coins, 230 XPWW

Granny:  Farm life is so active and healthy!

A Day with Granny 16
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Granny:  That's how my days are, farmer!  I know it's not easy work, but it's fun being close to Nature.  I hope you had fun!  Here is a small gift to remember our time together.'                                                          
Harvest 8 Pears
  Skip for 8 RC

Produce 10 Pear Ice Cream
  Skip for 10 RC

Produce 10 Plum Ice Cream
  Skip for 10 RC

Reward: 2500 Coins, 230 XP

Granny:  I learned a lot, Granny!  See you later at the farm!

Final Reward: Egg Basket Decoration

Happy Easter to all from Freyashawk!

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Collection Set
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The Collection Set for this is the Plum Tree, the Ice Cream Machine and the Egg Basket Decoration.  If you do not have the Plum Tree or Ice Cream Machine (both needed for tasks in the traditional quest sequence), they are included in some of the special sales offers at the top right of the screen, some in bundled packages with theme decorations in DIY.

Rewards: 1 Clam Friendship Flower, 1 RC, 88 Green Mystrons

Note that the Clam Friendship Flower is a special Reward for claiming the Collection Set within a time limited period usually associated with the quest time.  You can receive the other two Rewards even if you have to activate the Quest from the Lighthouse later.

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Easter Greeting Farm Beauty Contest
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A new Farm Beauty contest has begun.  My first suggestion is not to let the game persuade you to make your application until you have organised your farm a little to maximise your Votes form the four Characters.  If you are a fairly low level or new player who has few Decorations, you may wish to consider buying the new special Decoration offered in the sales in the top right of your screen.  It is the Chicken Bunny and it is worth 3 Votes instead of the usual 1 from three of the four Characters.  Once you have registered it, it should give you 9 votes per day for Theme... there are other decorations worth more than 1 Vote but at the moment, this is the only one worth 3 Votes from 3 Characters.

The rules of the Contest appear to be the same as before. I will post more details as to how to get maximum Votes from all the four characters every day.  If you want the Reward Decoration from the Beauty Contest that requires a total of 4000 Votes, you can do it fairly easily by obtaining a total of 200 Votes from the Characters alone each day.  The Avatar at 6000 Points is more difficult.

Theme Item List
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This is a work in progress.  I intend to add information about decorations in Lucky Wheel and more details about acquisition of each item.

To view all theme items, tap on the icon of the Red Book on the right top side of the Beauty Contest Menu.  Many thanks to members of Family Farm Seaside Freyashawk Group and especially Kaye Webb and Amanda Nelson for making prices of Lucky Box theme decorations available quickly.

This contest has the following theme items:

Trees
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White Chocolate Tree
  Price:
Dark Chocolate Tree

Decortions
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Easter Picnic Base
  From past, can be purchased now in Market for 3000 Coins, but will be unfinished.  You can use RC to complete it instantly but if you place on your farm and take a new screenshot, it may count as a Theme item even if incomplete.  You now will find the Materials for the Easter Picnic Base in your Daily Specials Shop for 70 TC each.  As of Tuesday, 11 April, however, a player with one Base cannot buy Materials from the Daily Specials Menu for TC.  Option is greyed out.

Angel Rain Egg
  No longer available

Easter Bunny
  Available in current sale offer, gives Silver Gift Box

Easter Table
  Available in Gallery for 100 Yellow Mystrons

Rabbit Statue
  Available in Lucky Wheel
  Available in Gallery for 300 Blue Mystrons

Chocolate Fountain
  Not available at present

Easter Chocolate Bunny
  Available in Lucky Wheel for 10 RC
  Can buy from Gallery for 100 Yellow Mystrons

Chicken Bunny
  Available in current sales offer: gives Blue Mystrons and then Blue Gift Box
  3 Votes per day from 3 of the Characters

Toy Bunny on Bike
  Available in Lucky Wheel for 15 RC
  Can buy in Gallery for 300 Blue Mystrons

Glassed in Bunny
  Available in Lucky Wheel for 20 RC

Egg Statue
  Not available at present

Easter Lamp
  Not available as far as I can see

Bouquet Bunny
  Available in Lucky Wheel for 20 RC

Egged In Bunny
  Available in current sale offer.  Gives Gold Gift Box

Flower Pot Bunny
  Available in current DIY offer; gives Blue Cleaning Box

Bunny in Basket
  Available in current DIY offer; gives Blue Mystrons and then Blue Gift Box

Sweet Chicks Cart
  Available in current DIY offer; gives Yellow Mystrons and then Blue Gift Box

Easter Chocolate Tree
  No longer available

Chicken in Egg
  Not available at present

Easter Backdrop
  Not available at present

Egg Shape Background
  Reward Decoration for having 4000 Votes in Contest

Garden Torch
  Available in Lucky Wheel for 12 RC

Angel Rain Egg
  Not available currently

Egg Tree
  Calendar Reward for April 2017
  Currently unavailable

Please note that some of these items, including the Easter Table have been available in the past from the Lucky Wheel... it therefore may be possible to find them in a Buddy Share Box (but not the Wheel itself) if you have a Buddy who does not remove old Decorations.

Beauty Contest Q & A or 'What am I doing wrong?'
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Question: Over half of my farm has crops growing on it.  Why am I not getting the maximum from Darryl for Crops?
Answer:  You have to have 16 DIFFERENT types of Crops on your Farm at the tine when you take the screenshot.  Remember always that the Votes are based on the current photo of your farm!

Question:  I have 20 machines on my farm.  Why am I not getting the maximum from Dad for machines?
Answer:  Duplicates do not count.  If you have 2 Wine Makers, for example, only one Vote will be given for that Machine.  You need 12 different machines in the current photo of your Farm.

Question:  I have 18 Animals on my farm, but Felicia is not giving me 16/16 for Animals!
Answer:  Like the Crops and Machines, duplicates do NOT count.  Make certain you have 12 different types of Animals on your Farm and then take a new photograph for the Contest!  Note that the different Beehives and different Butterfly Houses each count as a different type of Animal.

Question:  When I look at the red book in the Contest Menu at all of the Theme Decorations, I know that many of them are on my Farm but they are not given the green chequemark there and I do not think they are being counted by the three Characters for Theme. Why is that?

Answer:  First of all, you need to register any Decoration in the Gallery before it will be recognised usually for the Contest.  Second of all, you need to take a new Screenshot for the Contest after you place any new or additional Theme item on your Farm.

Question:  How many Votes do I need each day to get the Theme Decoration in the Farm Beauty Contest Rewards Menu?

Answer:  You need a total of 200 Votes each day to get the Reward Decoration.  It is far better to organise your own farm to get this total from the four Characters than to try to rely on the Votes of Neighbours.  It is not that difficult to get 200 Votes each day.  First of all, plant 16 different types of Crops, then make certain you have as many different Trees as possible on your Farm.  (You may only need 12 different trees this time.) . Place as many different Machines as possible on your Farm.   (Again, you may need only 12 different machines, no duplicates.)  Place at least 12 different Animals on the Farm... remember that each type of Beehive and Butterfly House is considered to be a different Animal in this context.  Now, finally, look at the Theme Book in the red top corner of the Farm Beauty Contest Menu and see how many of those Decorations you have on your farm.  THEME DECORATIONS MUST BE REGISTERED IN ORDER TO COUNT!  Is your Landscape Point total over 2200?  Not certain what is required for this contest, but if you have 2350 Landscape Points, you definitely will receive the maximum votes for Landscape.  Finally, only AFTER you organise your farm for maximum votes should you take a NEW PHOTOGRAPH.

Harvest Moon FDC
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Please do request to join our Family Farm Seaside Freyashawk Group if you need neighbours or help with the game.  My farm is Harvest Moon FDC (Freyashawk de Conde), and if you use this site and wish to let me know you appreciate my work, I would be most grateful for your Votes in the Contest. This is a 'clean' site without advertising of any kind.  I don't get paid in any way to do the work. Apart from anything else, though, I feel that when Harvest Moon FDC ranks high in the Contest, it may direct more players to our groups and this site.  Thank you!


















21 March 2016

The Coffee House, Easter Picnic Base and Festival Mystrons

Recently, a new update included new buildings in the form of the Research Laboratory, the Coffee House and the Stove House.  The writing is on the wall... Family Farm Seasides is in danger of becoming a clone of the Zynga mobile games such as FarmVille 2: Country Escape and Castleville.  I personally deprecate the trend.  I do not play ANY Zynga games now.  They became too frantic and tiresome for me.  I loved Family Farm Seaside because it was a FARMING game, pure and simple.  Yes, there were machines and then the Kitchen, but primarily, the game relied upon Quests with storylines, farming and animal husbandry.

Now with the Research Laboratory, the Upgraders, the Coffee House and the Stove House, players are being asked to invest an entire REAL life in the game, performing tasks that amount to busy work as well as tasks that ultimately are geared towards expenditure of RC, which is premium cash.

That having been said, I now will explain how the Easter Picnic Base, the Coffee House and the Festival Mystrons are linked.

The Easter Base
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The newest seasonal Base in the Easter Base.  You can buy it in the Market for 3000 Coins if you are at Level 23 or higher.  When completed, it will have a Charm Point value of 24.  The building of this base is different from previous seasonal bases in that ALL materials must be purchased with Festival Mystrons.

I have listed all the items that can be stacked on every single base at the end of this post.  Now, however, you really do not need my list as whenever you use the Move Tool on a  Base, you will see a new option to use a Magnifying Glass.  Tap on that and you will see a list of all the items that can be stacked on that base, their positions and if you select any item, a preview of how it will appear on the base!

Each week, there are different activities that give the Festival Mystrons... which brings me to the Coffee House

The Coffee House
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The Coffee House is a sort of clearinghouse for every possible activity or task in Family Farm Seaside.  When you first purchase it, you will have two Character that each give four 'Orders' daily.  They differ from the Daily Order Board in two ways.  First of all, the Orders cannot be changed or 'refreshed'.  You either do them or pay RC to complete them.  Second, where the Daily Order Board consists of orders for Crops, Animal Products, Machine Products, Cooked Dishes and Beauty Shop Products, the Coffee House can ask for these OR generate almost every task found in Missions.  For example, it can ask you to plant and harvest x amount of Crops, to produce X amount of product from any Animal or Machine, to request specific Items from Neighbours, to visit X number of Neighbours or to perform a mini-Collections Mission that is specific only to your Farm.    It can be quite onerous, especially to lower level farmers who barely can complete their Daily Order Boards.  Nonetheless, it is here that you obtain the greatest number of Festival Mystrons this week.

The Coffee House costs 1000 Coins and will be complete when purchased.  Once purchased and placed, it cannot be sold.  It can be placed either on your Farm or on a Building Plot.  At the start, you will have two Characters with 4 Orders each day.   One looks like Grandma and the other resembles Felicia. 

Each Order has a little reward in the form of coins and pink Smileys.   You must obtain a total of 35 of these little pink Smileys in order to be able to obtain a REAL Smiley.  It is the real Smileys that unlock other Characters as well as new Stove House Recipes. 

Completing Grandma's 4 Orders gives you 2 Blue Mystrons, 30 Festival Mystrons and 20 Lucky Tokens.  Completing the young girl's 4 Orders (Felicia?) gives you 2 Blue Mystrons and 30 Festival Mystrons.  You unlock more Characters by obtaining

Filling a Product Order:
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This is no different from an Order on the Daily Order Board.  You will be given an Order for x amount of an item, whether a Crop, Animal Product, Machine Product, Cooked Dish or Beauty Shop Product.

Farming Order
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For this one, you actually need to plant and harvest x amount of the Crop required.   Unlike the Product Order, you cannot use items from your Barn.

Neighbour Visits
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It appears that neighbour Visits that were performed prior to viewing the Order will count.  You need to complete the total required to obtain the Reward.  I have not seen any requirement to fertilise or harvest or perform any specific activity on the Neighbour's farm so far.

Neighbour Request Items
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These can be new items or items from previous quests.  On Harvest Moon FDC, having played for almost four years now and never traded anything, I find that I often have the items that are required to complete the Order without having to request any items from my Neighbours again.

Mini-Collection Quest
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These usually consist of a requirement to collect two different items from two different Crops or Trees or Animals or a combination of these.  You have to harvest the Crops to randomly receive the items needed as in any ordinary Collections Mission.  It is slightly annoying as you will not receive an item each time the harvest is made.

The other methods by which you obtain Festival Mystrons are by placing a Buddy Easter Egg and having your Buddy's build it, by tending your Buddies' Easter Eggs, by completing the Daily Quest path and opening all the Treasure Chests and by participating in the current Farm Beauty Contest.  You will receive a couple of Festival Mystrons when you obtain the Treasure Chest reward for having voted and each step on the Reward Path gives Festival Mystrons as well.  The Farm Beauty Contest Rewards begin with 5 Festival Mystrons but as you move up, you will receive 10 and then 15 for each Reward point you reach.

International Eggs
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The Festival Mystrons can be traded in a special seasonal Festival Mystrons Shop found in the Mystery Shops menu.  Each material for the Easter Picnic Base requires 60 Festival Mystrons.  The International Eggs are found randomly in this Shop as well for 300 Festival Mystrons each.

Initially, you only could purchase the International Eggs with Festival Mystrons but now they are found randomly on the Lucky Wheel and thus in Buddy Share Boxes where each can be purchased for 5 RC.

If you intend to complete your Easter Picnic Base, you may wish to use all of your Festival Mystrons on Materials and if you have a desire for a specific Egg, try to spin the Lucky Wheel for it or look in a Buddy Share Box.  You need to be at Level 2 with your Buddy to be able to access his/her Share Box and this can be done only if you visit the Neighbour/Buddy from your Mainland (Original) Farm.  If you travel to it from the Island, you will be unable to gain access to the Share Box.

The International Eggs now have been added to the Gallery so register them if you have them.  A 'great Gallery' is one of the Voting values in the Farm Beauty Contest for two of the Characters.  The Eggs will count for less than a Decoration like the Boy Cupid, but it still is worth doing.  It is your Gallery Level probably that determines the number of Votes you will receive for it.

Stackable Decorations for the Easter Picnic Base
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Stackable Decorations for your completed Easter Picnic Base include the following:  Bunny in Basket, Chicken in Egg, Easter Backdrop, Tree Arch, Flower Pot Bunny, all International Eggs, Bouquet Bunny, Egged in Bunny, Easter Lamp, Wind Chimes, Ranch Bell and I daresay the Garden Torch.

ALL BASES AND THEIR DECORATIONS
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Decorations for Bases
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A member of my Family Farm Seaside Freyashawk Group on Facebook asked for a list of items that can be placed on the various bases so I am adding a section here for that information.

Generally speaking, with the exception of the Bird Home Bases that are interchangeable, Decorations generally are Base-specific.  In other words, if a Decoration goes on one Base, you will be unable to place it on any other Base.

There are a couple of exceptions to this, however, in the form of the Snowman and Snow Man that can be placed both on the Snow Base and the Ice Base.

So far, the only Bases that are available on a permanent basis in the Market are the Bird Bases.  The Bird Bases are linked to the Time Machine in the Gallery wherein the completion of two-part Missions will give a Decoration as a Reward.  These Decorations can be placed on the Bird Base.  So far, there are only 8 Missions and thus 8 Decorations.  You can place them on one or two Bird Bases, however.  A Base has a limit of four Decorations.

The Bird Base Decorations are not cleanable, but the Bird Base itself will give a Blue Box when cleaned.  All other Bases so far have been seasonal in nature.

The current Animations that occur when you place specific Decorations together on a Bird Base all are linked to the Farm Bird House.  The Farm Bird House when placed with the Hamster Friend allows another Hamster to exit the house to eat from the food dish while the first Hamster runs on his Wheel.  When the Farm Bird House is placed with the Bird Seesaw, a second little yellow bird will exit the house to leap onto the seesaw to play with the first.  When the Farm Bird House is placed with the Bird Pool, the Mini Water Pump and the Bird Ball Pool on the base, the Blue Bird will float on a ball in the Bird Pool, drink from the water in the Mini Water Pump, fly up to use the pump to add more water, then fall asleep to fall off the base to land in the Bird Ball Pool with flying feathers all round.

Lovely Planter Box Base
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As of 22 February, the following can be placed on the Lovely Planter Box Base.    No doubt others will be added, but at present, these are:

Lovely Mister Cat Decoration, Lovely Lady Cat Decoration, Lovely Heart and Lovely Balloons.  The Lovely Balloons is the Reward for the current Farm Beauty Contest.  I expect that the reward for February, the Lovely Boxwood will be stackable on this base in the position of the Lovely Balloons for players who failed to obtain that Reward.

The alternatives at present are the Boy Grass Hair Deer and Girl Grass Hair Deer.  They can be placed in the positions of the Lovely Mister Cat and the Lovely Lady Cat.  Other alternatives are the Blue Ducky and the Red Ducky who respectively take the place of the Lovely Lady Cat and Lovely Mister Cat as well.  The Mum cannot go on this base at all.

Halloween Base
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The Halloween Base was the first of the seasonal Bases.  It no longer can be purchased in the Market and all activities that gave Materials have expired.  You can complete the Base if you have it by purchasing the materials you lack using RC.

The following can be placed on the Halloween Stage (Base):  Skeleton Rockstar Frontman, Skeleton Rockstar Diva, Stereo Coffin, Pumpkin Tower and the Ghost Broom.  As always, there is a limit of four items that can be placed.  The Pumpkin Tower and the Ghost Broom occupy the same position on the Stage, so you have to choose between them.  The Pumpkin Light, Wind Chimes, Witch Legs and the Shovel now can be placed on this Base as well.  The Flower Pot now can be placed on the Hallowe'en Stage in the position of the Pumpkin Tower et al.

As of February, two Decorations have been made stackable for this particular base in the form of the Flower Stand and the Mystic Rose.

Thanksgiving Base
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The Thanksgiving Base incorporated more choices from Decorations available in the Market.  These included the Woodpile and the Mushrooms and the Hay.  Other items that can be placed on the Base are the Thanksgiving Turkey, the Colourful Tent, the Indian Hat, the Harvest Hat and the Hedgehog.  The Woodpile occupies the same position as the Indian Hat and Harvest Hat and the Mushrooms occupy the same position as the Hedgehog as does the Lacquer Horn and the Cornucopia.  The Haystack can go in the position of the Indian Hat.

Once again, although one no longer can purchase the Thanksgiving Base in the Market, farmers who were unable to complete the activities associated with the materials can purchase any remaining materials needed for RC.

Snow Base (Christmas)
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The following should be able to go on the Snow Base:  Tree Reindeer, ALL Snowmen including Snowman, Snow Man, Snow Magician, Bunny Snow Girl, ALL Snow Globes including Snow Globe and Christmas Crystal Ball, Small Snowflake Fence and the Snow Tree Arch . Other arches that initially could not be placed now can, including Tree Arch, Autumn Arch, Welcome Arch, Balloon Door and Welcome Sign, Christmas Wreath Fence and Candle Stand.  All of these now can be placed.  Note that the default position for the Tree Arch will not allow it to be placed on the base.  You must turn it first and then the jigsaw icon will be available to allow placement.

There is a new Decoration that players will receive after 5 Ice Cream Friendship Flowers have been crossbred.  It is the Ice Queen, with a Charm value of 7.  It is a stackable and cleanable Decoration and can be placed on the Snow Base in the position of the Bunny Snow Girl.

Ice Base:
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Bobo Fishing on Ice, Fish Ice Pond, Snowy Owl, Bobo's Backpack, Ski Penguin, Ice Swan, Ice Cat, Ice Dolphin.  The Ski Penguin can be substituted for Bobo and the Ice Swan, Ice Cat and Ice Dolphin substituted for the Snowy Owl..  Bobo's Fish BBQ now can go on the Base in the position of the Fish Ice Pond.  Thus, he can first catch the fish and then grill it. Bobo Bear's Guitar can go in place of Bobo Bear's Backpack as can his original Backpack.

Research Laboratory
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I have not had time or energy to work through this one to any advanced state yet, but members of my Family Farm Seaside Freyashawk Group are helping with the advanced techs.

Warning:  You can have a total of 600 Farmium initially.  If you earn more Farmium without using the 600 Farmium, it will be wasted.  The total does not increase.  It therefore is necessary to use your Farmium if you want the Farmium you earn by opening Daily Quest Chests to be given to you.

For a start, you have to USE the first option, which is to have Bees gather honey from a beehive again and again before you can unlock any other options.  Note here that only a REGULAR Beehive will be able to be used.  Any of the special Beehives, even if they gather Clover for Honey like the ordinary one, will not be recognised.

The first level is Basic Research.  It uses 50 Farmium each time.  Tap on the Bee to use 50 Farmium to obtain 5 Honey.  The Active Tech is called 'Flight of the Bumblebee'.  You need to use it to reach 120 points to go to Level 2.  You can upgrade your 'Flight of the Bumblebee'  after five uses and 12 Honey, but that will not change the Active Tech.  It only will allow you to collect 7 Honey immediately instead of 5.

Upgrading Flight of the Bumblebee
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As previously indicated, you can upgrade the techs, but that does not unlock new techs.  It simply makes the existing tech more effective.

Upgrading the Flight of the Bumblebee to Level 2 requires 5 Uses and 12 Honey.  It allows you to collect 7 Honey immediately.

Upgrading to Level 3 requires 20 uses of Flight of the Bumblebee, 30 Honey and 20 Clover.

Upgrading to Level 4 requires 85 uses of Flight of the Bumblebee, 80 Honey and 12 Cheese Salads.
 

When you have gained 120 points with 'Flight of the Bumblebee', your Laboratory will reach Level 2, unlocking 'Gold Finger'.

Now you can change the Research Topic to use either Flight of the Bumblebee as before or Gold Finger.

At the start using Gold Finger, you can immediately collect 3 products either from a Holstein Cow or from a Cheese Master.

A little mini-quest must be completed before it becomes usable as follows:

Reach Level 13

Produce 10 glasses o Apple Juice
  Skip for 10 RC

Harvest 30 Lavender
  Skip for 15 RC

Grandpa:  You learned a new skill!  Gold Finger can help you save a lot of time!

Reward: 300 Coins, 50 XP

Upgrading Gold Finger
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At Level 1, you can collect 3 products only from a Holstein Cow or a Cheese Master.  Note that this is possible with the Upgrader as well.

It is at Level 2 that more options are unlocked, allowing you to collect 3 Products instantly from the Angora Rabbit, the Dutch Mill and the Chicken Coop as well as the original Holstein Cow and Cheese Master.

To upgrade to Level 2, you need the following:

12 Uses of Gold Finger
15 Apple Milkshakes

Use of Gold Finger requires only 20 Farmium as opposed to the 50 Farmium required to use the initial Flight of the Bumblebee Tech.

To take your Research Laboratory from Level 2 to Level 3, you need to earn a total of 300 points.  When you reach Level 2, the top left corner will show that you have achieved 120/300.  Note that you can do nothing without Farmium.

Use of the Level 1 Gold Finger Tech gives you 2 Points towards the total of 300 needed to upgrade the Laboratory to Level 3.


Treeology
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First level: The tool is 'Tree Zapper'. You can select a ripe coin tree (no RC trees) and 'zap' it to get 2 extra fruits (3 total) and 100% of the price to buy a new tree. The tree then disappears entirely. There is a little viewfinder to select the tree -  This uses 100 farmium.

Farmium Recharge
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This is a Passive Tech.

Farmium now recharges 1 Point every 24 minutes.

Requirements to unlock:

Reach Level 16
Use 'Flight of the Bumblebee' 10 times
Use Gold Finger 20 times 









04 March 2016

Easter Picnic Base and Festival Mystrons

You can find the new Easter Picnic Base in the Market in the Decorations section for 3000 Coins.   It has a value of 24 Charm when completed. 

The materials needed to complete the Base are:

9 Easter Turf
8 Easter Blankets
10 Easter Mowers
7 Easter Deco Eggs


All materials for this Base now are being offered in the new Festival Mystrons Mystery Shop for 60 Festival Mystrons each.  Other items offered include the international Eggs that were available a couple of years ago.  The Eggs appear randomly and cost 300 Festival Mystrons each.  At this point in time, they are not stackable.

The list of Eggs includes 19 Eggs from different nations and are: American, Arabic, Brazilian, British, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Thai and Turkish.

You can find all International Eggs randomly on the Lucky Wheel which mean that you eitehr can buy them yourself for 5 RC when your own Wheel stops on one or you can find them in a Buddy's Share Box.

Meanwhile, other activities now give Festival Mystrons, including the Coffee House Quests, the Daily Quest Treasure Chests, the highlighted Order on the Daily Order Board as well as tending a Buddy Easter Egg.

After 28 March, Festival Mystrons no longer will be available but, until then, you can obtain them through various activities which will change every week.

One player received 12 Festival Mystrons after opening 11 Easter Cooking Bags.  Note tht the Treasure Chests obtained by completing the Daily Quest path now may contain both Lucky Tokens and Festival Mystrons.  The highlighted Order no longer includes Lucky Tokens.

All players were given 40 Festival Mystrons by Felicia after all Mystrons that had been earned in the course of the weekend were 'lost' somehow.

For new players, do not confuse the Lucky Tokens with the Festival Mystrons.  These are used to spin the Lucky Wheel.  The Festival Mystrons, on the other hand, are used in the Festival Mystron Mystery Shop to buy special items, including ALL materials for the Base.

Each of the Materials costs 60 Festival Mystrons.  Go to the Festival Mystrons shop to find them.  Note that you can buy only one of each in any given day so it is better to use them as you receive them rather than saving them.

Buddy Easter Egg
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The Buddy System is becoming increasingly important in Seaside and if you wish to be able to participate fully in all options, you really need a few good Buddies.   The new Buddy Easter Egg can be found in the Red Mystrons Shop for 50 Red Mystrons.  It can be upgraded to a total of 400 Buddy Heart Points before it disappears, much like the Christmas special Buddy items.

There are four different ways to tend a Buddy Easter Egg but you need to be at Level 2 with the Buddy to be able to interact with his/her Buddy Trees and Buddy Easter Egg.  At Level 1, however, you can send and receive one of the items used to tend the Buddy Easter Egg.  Two of the items can be crafted in the Beauty Shop.  The fourth item simply is 1 RC.

Thus, if you have come late to the Buddy System, the first move is to ask your neighbours to be your Buddies.  The second is to level up in your relationship by visiting your Buddies every day until you reach Level 1 when you can begin to send and receive the Coloured Pencils that are used to tend the Buddy Trees.

Meanwhile, you can make the two Buddy Easter Egg items in your Beauty Shop.  At Level 2 with any Buddy, you should be able to tend a Buddy Easter Egg twice every day.  Why is this important?  Well, if you purchased the Easter Picnic Base and wish to complete it, the only method of doing it is by purchasing the materials in the temporary Festival Mystron Shop using Festival Mystrons.  Each reward bag that you receive from tending a Buddy Easter Egg contains Festival Mystrons.  Not many by any means, but you will need as many as you can collect!

At Level 1 with any Buddy, you not only can begin to send and receive Free Gifts but you can send and receive Special Gifts.  There are two paths that can be purchased with Coins and sent every hour.  The Special Gifts are found in the second tab of the Buddy Gifts Menu.  The two Coin purchases are:

Stone and Flower Path: 500 Coins
  Send every hour

Forest Path: 800 Coins
  Send every hour

Each are worth only 1 Buddy Point but it adds another point to the points you earn daily with your visits.

If you are willing to spend RC, there are other gifts that either add more Buddy Points, like the Elephant that costs 10 RC and adds 30 Buddy Points or useful Farm Aids such as Super Fertiliser and Super Watering Cans.  At high levels, you probably receive enough of these through farming rewards but at lower levels, you may find that you need to purchase them from time to time.  Why not make an arrangement with a Buddy to reciprocate instead of purchasing them for yourself?  That way, you will gain in Buddy Levels while receiving the items you need.

One advantage of the Buddy Gifts is that you can attach a message to any gift that you send.  Another way to communicate both with Buddies and with Neighbours is by joining a Facebook Group for Seaside.  My group is Family Farm Seaside Freyashawk.   We are active, friendly and helpful players.  If you need good neighbours or Buddies, you will find them there.  I post Buddy Request threads for players frequently as it is difficult to maintain a total of 15 active Buddies sometimes.

All you have to do to apply to the group is do a Facebook search for Freyashawk and Family Farm Seaside, then ask to join.

Buddy Easter Egg Items:
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New Buddy Item:
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The Buddy Easter Egg is listed as a Theme Decoration but is in fact a Buddy item that is placed on the farm and 'built' by your Buddies.  When fully upgraded, it will disappear.  You will be able to find it in the Red Mystrons Mystery Shop from 12 March onward.  Like the special Christmas Buddy items in the form of the Snow Mailbox and Bench, it is not a permanent item in the Buddy System.

As with the special Christmas items, there are new aids that can be crafted for the Buddy Easter Egg as follows:

Rabbit Ears: 274 Coins, takes 10 minutes
  Ingredients:  1 Angora Hair, 1 Daisy, 1 Red Rose

Painting Brush: 332 Coins, takes 3 minutes
  Ingredients:  1 Wool, 1 Cane, 1 Rainbow Fruit

The Coloured Pencil Set is the other aid that can be used to tend the Buddy Easter Egg now and can be requested from your Buddies as a Free Gift.

Other than that, you only can opt to use 1 RC to tend a Buddy Easter Egg at present.

Yesterday, my game showed me the new Buddy Easter Egg items as the items used to tend Buddy Trees as well.  This was a glitch.  You still use the regular items for the Trees.

Note that you will receive only 1 Gift Bag per day for each item used.  In other words, if you have the option to use Buddy Heart Items twice because you are at Level 2 or above with a Buddy, you only can receive 1 Gift Bag from the Painting Brush.  Use of a second Painting Brush will give you Buddy Points but no Bag.  To receive a second Gift Bag, you need to use a DIFFERENT Heart Item on the Buddy Egg.  Use the Bunny Ears rather than the three Coloured Pencils if possible as the Bunny Ears gives a better Gift Bag.  The use of 1 RC gives the best Gift Bag but that can become expensive! 

Easter Picnic Base and Buddy Easter Egg
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It is becoming clear that if you wish to complete your Easter Picnic Base without waiting for all the activities to expire so you can use RC, you MUST do as much as possible where activities that yield Festival Mystrons are concerned.  The new Buddy Easter Egg items when you use one to tend a Buddy's Easter Egg give you a few Festival Mystrons.  The number of Festival Mystrons is determined by the item used.  You will receive Coins and random Farm Aids as well from every item.

Here is what I obtained:

Buddy Easter Egg Helper Gift from 1 RC: Contains 4 Festival Mystrons, 100 Coins, 1 Farm Aid such as Fertiliser

Buddy Easter Egg Helper Gift from Brush:  Contains 3 Festival Mystrons, 100 Coins and 1 Farm Aid (Watering Can, Power or...)

Buddy Easter Egg Helper Gift from Bunny Ears:  Contains 2 Festival Mystrons, 100 Coins and 1 Farm Aid (Watering Can, Power or...)

Buddy Easter Egg Helper Gift from Coloured Pencils:  Contains 1 Festival Mystron, 100 Coins and 5 Farm Aids (OP, or...)

You need 60 Festival Mystrons for each Material.  The total number of Materials needed to complete the base will cost a total of 2400 Festival Mystrons... a very slow process indeed!

Note that the Buddy Easter Tree can be upgraded in the same way that the Trees or Christmas Buddy items were upgraded.  The Buddy Easter Tree will go into a 'growth' period lasting almost 8 hours when it reaches 200 points, and this will occur twice.  It then will be fully built and disappear when it reaches a total of 400 Buddy Hearts.

The Buddy Heart Point Values for each item have been confirmed and are:

3 Coloured Pencils (a single use) gives 2 Buddy Heart Points
1 Bunny Ears gives 5 Buddy Heart Points
1 Painting Brush gives 10 Buddy Heart Points
1 RC gives 20 Buddy Heart Points

When the Buddy Easter Egg is fully grown, you can claim it, with the following rewards: 6 Festival Mystrons, extra reward of either 700 Coins or 5 Green Mystrons.  Those who helped the most will receive 2[ special Bunny Helper Bags.  The others who helped will receive 1 special Bunny Helper Bag.

Stackable Decorations for the Easter Picnic Base
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Stackable items for Easter Base include Easter Backdrop, Easter Lamp, Bunny in Basket, Chicken in Egg... as well as the International Eggs, Flower Pot Bunny, Bouquet Bunny, Egged in Bunny and I daresay, the Easter Torch when we finally receive it.