FAQ Beginner's Guide: Navigation Bars

Navigation bars

Click on these links, or scroll down
to read more about the different Navigation bars

Top bar
Left bar
Right bar
Bottom bar
on the frame​

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Top bar

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This is your stock of Barnyard Bills (BBs)
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BBs are a game currency that you can get:

• you'll get 1 BB every time you level up on your main farm
• as Quest rewards in the Farmer's Society Building
• By watching movies in the Movie Theater (Cinema)
• By participating on Cash for Action partner deals
• You can buy some in the bank, you'll find several packages
• From time to time, Forum competitions have BBs as prizes too

With BBs you can:

• buy items in the Shopping Center
• buy Super-Grow and Power-Feed
• speed up Artisan Village recipe making
• activate the Harvester Helpers
  

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This is your stock of Country Coins (CCs)
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CCs are a game currency that you can get:

• by delivering items to virtual customers in the Farmhouse
• by selling some items in the market
• as quest rewards in the Farmer's Society Building
• You can win some on the Farm Wheel
• by buying some CC packages in the Shopping Center with your BBs
• by exchaning some BBs to get some CCs (the exchange rate is 1:10) in the Bank

with CCs you can:

• buy items in the Market
• buy items in the Shopping Center

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This is your stock of Stars
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Stars are visible from level 14, when you unlock the Tree of Wisdom (Skill tree) in the Magical Glade (see FAQ Magical Glade, Tree of Wisdom)
You will collect stars:

• Each time you level up you'll get one star
• as quest rewards in Farmer's Society Quests (Silver tasks give 1 star, Gold tasks give 2 stars, Diamond tasks give 3 stars)
• You can win some on the Farm Wheel
• The reindeer pet will give you 1 star / week

With stars you can:

• Unlock runes in the Tree of Wisdom

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This is your Experience Points (EP) bar.
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It shows your current level, and the white line in the middle becomes progressively green to show you how close you are to the next level.
If you have your 'tooltips' set to "on" in Game Settings (see below) you can hover your cursor over the EP bar, and it will show you

• How many EPs you now have
• An amusing name to the level you are on now
• How many EPs are required to finish this actual level
  
  The EPs are illustrated graphically as Graduation Caps (you'll see this also in Quest Rewards for example)
  If there are bananas next to the Graduation Caps, it represents Bahamarama EP (TEP).

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The first 2 tabs contain shortcuts to important features/settings​

1. 
   These are very useful links to:
   
   1 - link to Farmerama Forum index page (depends on the language you are playing in)
   2 - link to the ingame help pages (basic game info)
   3 - link to Support, it opens a Contact Form
   4 - link to Keyboard Shortcuts pop-up
   5 - link to take a picture of your farm - link to Top 10 farmers
   7 - link to enter Bonus Codes​

1. 
   Here, you'll find your Game settings
   Game settings including:
   
   1. Sound on/off
   2. Ambient sounds on/off
   3. Music on/off
   4. Account settings (see FAQ Changing account settings)
   

   • Confirming your email upon registering
   • Changing your game username (this will not change your forum username)
   • Changing your game password
   • Chanigng your email address
   • Farmerama Newsletter subscription

   5. Game Settings
   

   Standard settings:
   

   • Animation
   • Tooltips
   • Alternative build mode
   • Graphics quality
   • Sound: effects, environment, music
   • Theme: no on/off graphic themes: Activate Pink Design, snow, halloween etc
   • Activate Vacation Mode

   Additional settings:
   

   • Show additional neighbours (4 per page instead of 3)
   • Activate window animations (sliding to appear)
   • Only show field info when clicked
   • Activate harvest animations
   • Show field information for farm machinery
   • Show gifts as pop-ups (to know when you receive gifts)
   • Always show buff menu
   • Show info box at mouse cursor
   • Activate the logout security confirmation
   • Show the farm map after login

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   6. star - inactive
   7. scarecrow with hat - inactive​

1. 
   This button allows you to log out of your farm.
   
   NOTE: to change your language settings,
   
   When you are on the landing page, you'll be able to switch languages in the drop down menu at the top right.
   
   You can also change language ingame, whilst you are playing,
   by adding &lang=en to the internet address bar
   

   • http://farmerama.bigpoint.com/?action=internalGame
   • http://farmerama.bigpoint.com/?action=internalGame&lang=en (for english game)
     or other languages:
   • http://farmerama.bigpoint.com/?action=internalGame&lang=de (for german game)
   • http://farmerama.bigpoint.com/?action=internalGame&lang=fr (for french game)
     etc...

   
   

   
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This tab in the middle of your top bar​

will allow you to show/hide the whole top bar​

 

Left bar






This icon will glow when there are events on.​

When you click on the timer, it will open a tab showing which events are on.
Hovering over these 'event icons' will show you which event is "on" at the moment, and the remaining time.
Clicking on these 'event icons' will take you straight to the Event itself.
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This icon will show you when you have some buffs activated.​

• This could be Artisan Village products
• Pet bonuses (see FAQ Pets)
• Various EP/Buffs won on the Farm Wheel (see FAQ Farm Wheel bonuses)

1. Click this tab to ope the Farmer's Society and Farm Orders quick cuts:

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• The number represents how many updates are available

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2. This tab takes you to the news and the Daily Login Bonus Window:​

3. This tab shows fields that can be placed on your land.​

• 1x1
• 1x2 (see Various plot sizes)
• 2x2
• Link to Breeding house (see FAQ How to make Coloured animals)
• Swift meadows
• Quick-seed chart, will open up your seed chart.

4. This tab shows items in your Inventory.​

• Trees
• Animals
• Decorative items / decorations / consumables

5. This tab contains shortlinks to various parts of the Shopping Center.​

• Trees + upgrades
• Stables + upgrades
• Seed shop
• Decorative items
• Farm Supplies, service

6. This Multi-Tool tab contains 4 tools:

(see also: FAQ Multi-Tool)​

• Rotate items: particularly useful to flip over 1x2 items.
  note: you can also use the 'space bar' to flip item over, just before placing items on your land).
• Move items: moving items to other areas on the same land.
• Delete items: remove items and/or return them to inventory (see also FAQ Deleting items / Moving to another land) Note: the harvester Helper: Builder also optimizes deleting all similar items (acres, trees, stables, etc.)
• Farm Restore: Save/Delete farm layouts for quick placement/deletion of items

This tab on the left
will allow you to show/hide all the left-side tabs​

 

Right bar



These tabs concern your Neighbours.

(see also FAQ Neighbours)​

They show

• your neighbour's activity thermometer
• if your neighbour is online/offline
• if your neighbour has leveled up

Clicking on your neighbour tab, you can choose to:

• send your neighbour a gift
• send an ingame message (or Suzy Air mail)
• delete this neighbour from your list
• receive some EPs when your neighbour has leveled up

The tab at the bottom allows you to:

• invite by email real-life or social-life friends to play Farmerama
• invite a farmer to be your friend or your neighbour
• see statistics of players who you invited to play (and get some gifts when they reach certain levels)
• rent-a-friend
• rent-a-super-friend

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This tab on the right
will allow you to show/hide all the right-side tabs​

 

Bottom Tab

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This tab concerns your Farm Log.​

It 'logs' actions such as:

• gifts sent/received (including gifts from Fuzzles Woolytop. (See FAQ Daily login bonus)
• gifts sent during Gift & Trade; items sold to the vendor during Gift & Trade
• drop items won
• items bought with CCs
• items bought with BBs
• EPs harvested
• Farmhouse orders fulfilled
• and many more...

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This tab at the bottom has 3 positions and it will allow you to show:

• 1 line, or
• show several lines, or
• hide the bottom tab.

 

On the frame

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Situated on the bottom of the wooden frame, you'll find​

• Your Username and Game ID#
  
  This is information that is regularly requested on the forum (or Support), if you have some technical difficulties.
  The Game ID# will allow the Admins and Support to check your account and hopefully help you​