For new farmers a little encouragement...

Hi friends, I see a lot of good advice and positivity here. Unfortunately, couldn't see this thread earlier.
As a result, did some blunders. Opening bakery instead of confectionery is one of those and I badly regret it now. No CACs, no hope to buy a confectionery. Any advice???

 

You can win the option to open a 2nd trade at Renzo. Also there are a lot of quests offering BB so you can save up enough to buy the cac recipe without having to spend real money in the game. Takes time yes, but doable. Also you gain 1 BB every time you level up.

A quick glance and count on the FAQ for the quests, made the total of BB reward to 1582 BB in 42 quests. Yes, a lot of them are breeding quests, but others are not. So plenty of possibilities. Good luck!

Spoiler: Quests that gives BB

Resturant	40BB
Sheep Wool	24BB
Flock of Sheep	45BB
Angora Frenzy	16BB
Rampant Rabbits45	45BB
Clucks, Cackle & Co	10BB
Gertrude's Organic Egg	10BB
Lunch	30BB
Milk for Everyone	20BB
Cows, Calves and Bulls	54BB
Little Blood Suckers	60BB
Guano Quest	18BB
No Rest on the Farm	17BB
Theme Party	11BB
Piggy Mania	45BB
Castle Fright	11BB
Deranged Goats	45BB
Magical Trek	17BB
Wild Steed Breed	45BB
Crazy Crows	42BB
Monkeying Around	45BB
Garden Expo	22BB
Duckling Brood	45BB
Ostrich Breeding	80BB
Shipwreck Bay 12345	35BB
Art Collective	80BB
Water Volleyball	45BB
Camel Breeding Quest	45BB
The Chosen Panda	45BB
Un-bee-lievable	45BB
Donkey Business	45BB
Color Chameleons	45BB
Open House	45BB
The Golden Eggs	45BB
Busy Beaver	45BB
Poker Night	45BB
Rocket Mouse	45BB
Kiss Chase	54BB
Trade it Up	54BB
Eco Parade	12BB
Wedding Bells	50BB
Anti-Stomping Class	45BB

 

Wow Moraine!! What a great chart!! Many, many thanks for posting it!!

 

Thanks Moraine, I'm already on it.

 

Just a word about Shipwreck Bay. Make sure you look at the requirements that will be needed to open each area. Each one has an FSQ that must be completed before you can use it. It's better to use your GB's to open all needed items before you use them to open an area of Shipwreck.

 

Thank you Moraine I'm already on it.

 

Thanks LDCrow, am so grateful.

 

I don't think there has been a post about levelling up with the Artisan's Trades (if there has, apologies for the double post).

If you are looking to buy a certain recipe (ex. CaC) but you're only on level 2 or 3 with the confectionery trade, one way to level up quickly is to buy certain craft items (which I will list below) and then use them to 'Improve your skills and level up'.

When you click on your trade - ex Confectionary - you will see a window at the top with the craft items currently in your barn suited to that trade. When you click on one of them, you get four options of what to do with it:

Gift to your neighbour
** Improve your skills and level up
A little hand that will put the item to use on your own farm
Sell your products at the market

We're now looking at the second option - improve your skills and level up:

3 or more items in each trade will award you 270 points to help level up. Whichever is cheapest in your market, buy those and use it every day (there's a limit of 5 you can use per day) to help you level up.

For Bakery:
Pinky Pie Pie, Quiche and Spinach Pie (on my market, cheapest is pinky pie pie)

For Confectionary:
Slime fungus jelly, Easter marmalade, Island paradise jam (on my market, cheapest is Island paradise jam)

For Florist:
Royal wreath, Spring wreath, Winter wreath, Tentacle wreath, Winter garland (on my market, cheapest is winter wreath)

For Spa:
Yellow coconut, Sanquine coctail, Green Mateato (on my market, cheapest is Yellow coconut)

For Alchemist: 2 options:
270 points:
Happiness serum, Aroma of love, Silver flame incense, Crystal ball (on my market, cheapest is Crystal ball - when in stock )

405 points:
Philosopher's stone, Essence of wisdom, Vial of Growth (on my market, cheapest is Vial of growth)


Buy 5 items each day to level up in your trade (you can use several of the same items, no need to buy different ones and spend more CCs). It will still take time to level up, but this way, you speed it up a little every day...

 

Hi, I'm new, just started my farm last night. Need your wise advice friends. I'm level 12 now.
Can anyone explain what actually mentor and chickadee means?

 

Welcome to the game and to the forum. Hope to see you post a lot

Advice about what part of the game ?

My top 4 I think:
* Work to open more land, the meadow and the glade. Once those are open, work on getting enough stars for the tree to open Bahama. (tropical farmland)

* From L40 (I think) you can open an Artisan trade. Most popular is the confectionery due to the Carrot apple chutney (Cac for short )which is a buff that gives you +2 per plot harvested. Very useful.

*check the posts in this thread, lots of useful tips

*Remember it's not a sprint, whatever your goals are - you'll get there in the end. Aner perhaps the long scenic route is the road that gives you the most fun

Edit: counting to 4 seemed a bit tricky, or was it sticking to only 3 advices that was too hard for me ?

 

Thank you Moraine for your words of wisdom.

 

Hi Dory - Welcome!

I am not an expert meteor, but basically this is a system where older farmers (not age - length of playing) give gifts to younger farmers. The younger players can then send gift back to the older farmer.

There is also an agreement that the older farmer will answer any questions that the younger farmer.

This is were I'm not so good. I am more likely to answer questions and give encouragement here on the forum.

This feature is a good feature and definitely worth participating in.

BTW, older farmers love receiving the box of love stuff.

 

Started another farm (Brakenjan84 and EElse84 are my other 2)

This one was started 2 days ago (today being day 3) and I have developed a new strategy with this one which I would like to share with new farmers who struggle with CCs (market currency).

I have already made various purchases (42 chicken stalls, 5 apple trees (plus 2 I got from FSQs), 7 walnut trees, 7 plum trees and 5 mulberry trees - also 100 eggs to get started on Gertrude's Organic Egg quest (which cost about 250 000CCs) - for some stars to open up my Magical Glade but despite those expenses, my current balance is half a million CCs.

How?

Cress

Plant and harvest for 30 -50 minutes and you will have a stock of about 3000 cress (2x2 fields without any nuking). You can sell those in the market and make a fair sum but I advise you to rather make Newt feed - they sell for more per feed (which take a 100 Cress to make) than what the Cress sell for. When you're tired of the repetitiveness of planting and harvesting cress, plant something else and give yourself a break. Do this a few times a day and the CCs will come rolling in.

Buy crops from the shop each day as well, and then sell them in the market or use them in the FSQ to complete quests and gain stars.

Start small, selling 100 Cress, to build up your balance for the 10% market fee that's needed but DON'T be scared to sell 1000 Cress altogether when you do have the funds to pay that 10% fee - many of the established farmers prefer buying 1000 Cress in one shot, rather than buying 10 lots of 100.

Just wanted to give a bit of advice on quickly gaining CCs - and also from a 'new' farm's perspective

EDIT:
After gaining my first million, I started milling Bear feed. It takes two apples (selling for approx 300 cc in market) and 1 plum (selling for approx 700 cc in market) to make 1 bear feed. The bear feed sells for about 7000 cc so now I can concentrate on growing animals and such while still gaining CCs by selling feed.