Guide credits : Sonya and Knowlege Base
Gameplay Preview
1. How do I buy and plant seeds?
Firstly, click on the seed icon on the bottom right of your screen.
Click View Shop to see what you can buy.
After buying the seeds, they will be available in your inventory. Click on the seed you want to
plant.
After choosing the seed, the seed icon will now change to your chosen seed. Click on ploughed
plots to start planting them.
You can check how long until you can harvest your crops at any time by selecting the white
arrow icon and hovering over the crop, this will also tell you which crop it is!
You unlock new crops as you level up.
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2. How do I water my crops?
To water your crops, first select the blue watering can icon. To fill your watering can, select the
well towards the top left corner of your farm. Then select the plots that you wish to water by
clicking on them one at a time.
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3. What are animals (chicken, sheep, and cow) for?
The animals give produce which can help you earn additional income, chickens will given you
eggs, sheep will give you wool and cows will give milk.
When you have an animal you will notice it will have a timer. The initial timer is the time until
your animal is full grown and hence capable of producing eggs/wool/milk, the timers after this
point is how long until the next produce is ready for you to collect.
You will need to feed your animals regularly to keep them growing/producing. If you feed them
fully, the food should last for 22 hours until you need to feed them again. Chickens eat Chicken
Wheat, and Sheep and Cows eat Grass.
Chicken Wheat and Grass are crops that if you just grow to sell, you will not make profit from, so
you should grow them primarily to feed your animals!
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4. What are sticks and stones for?
Sticks and Stones are used to build/upgrade your animals housing and other farm structure,
they are also used in some quests.
You will be able to collect a total of 5 sticks and/or stones from each friend’s farm each day.
When visiting a friend’s farm simply click sticks or stones to pick them up! The sticks and stones
reset each day at midnight GMT.
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5. How do I earn coins?
You can earn coins by selling harvested crops and animal produce, and completing quests. You
can find your crops and produce that you can sell in your ‘storage’ section.
You can also earn some random coins when ploughing plots and watering crops.
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6. How do I earn experience points?
From the Knowledge Base:
Experience points are earned by doing various tasks around the farm, ranging from plowing the
soil, planting seeds, watering crops and harvesting crops.
You can also gain experience points from helping out other players on their farms and by
completing quests.
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7. What is the stamina bar for and how do I replenish stamina?
From the Knowledge Base:
other players farms, you lose stamina. Once the stamina has completely depleted, you will no
longer be able to work - and therefore must wait until it replenishes itself again. It takes about 6
hours to replenish stamina without food.
You can buy food at the market in order to replenish stamina more quickly, and do more work
on the farm. The cost of the food varies, as does the amount of stamina that particular food
replenishes.
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8. What are friendship points and how do they work?
From the Knowledge Base:
Friend points indicate how friendly you are with a friend. Friend points are used when you ask a
friend to help you look after your crop.
Click on the friendship icon to view your friend points.
Friend points increase when you give a present that is more than 100 coins to a friend. Take
note that anything less than 100 will not be noticeable. In addition, the maximum number of
friend points can only increase by 10 per day per friend. There will be no further increase even if
you give more presents.
For every gift that’s worth 100 coins, you get 1 friend point. The points can be used to ensure
your crops are looked after by that particular friend, and this stops other friends from stealing
from you!
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9. What is the weather system (sunshine, clouds and bars) all about?
This indicates whether it is day or night and also displays the weather. Once the little bars
surrounding the weather is filled up, it will change from either day to night or night to day. Day
and night changes are approximately one hour.
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10. Can I move plots I’ve ploughed, decorations or animals?
You are not able to moved ploughed plots.
You can move your decorations and animals. To move your decorations, select ‘Decorate’ and
then click and drag any decoration to the new location you want it. To move your animals open
your storage, select your animals tab, and then it should allow you to click and drag your animals
to a new location.
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11. What do the different fertilizers do?
Fertilizers will reduce the growing time of your plants. Right now you can only buy them with
Playfish Cash, and receiving them from quests, don’t know if they will add it for coins in the
future or if it will stay this way.
You can find out how much time they reduce by clicking on them in the store fertilizer tab.
Level 1 Fertilizer : 2 Playfish Cash reduces grow time by 4 hrs
Level 2 Fertilizer : 4 Playfish Cash reduces grow time by 9 hrs
Level 3 Fertilizer : 6 Playfish Cash reduces grow time by 14 hrs
Level 4 Fertilizer : 8 Playfish Cash cash reduces grow time by 19 hrs
Level 5 Fertilizer : 10 Playfish Cash reduces grow time by 24 hrs
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12. What is stealing and how does it work?
Stealing, is when you go to a friend’s farm, or a friend comes to your farm, and uses the black
glove to take some of the fully grown crops.
Initially, you have up to 5 grabs from each friend, and each grab can take 2 fruit/vegetables.
Once you gain your stealing trophy, your available grabs will increase. Your amount of grabs
available each day resets at midnight GMT.
As you are taking crops from your friend, this reduces what they are able to harvest, so there is
a maximum amount that can be stolen from each fully grown crop. Once this maximum is
reached, if you try and steal from that crop, you will receive a message letting you know that you
need to leave some for the owner.
Also, if they have assigned a friend to look after a particular crop, you will not be able to take
anything from that crop. If you try you will receive a message letting you know that that crop
belongs to a friend.
You can use your friendship points to assign friends to look after your crops to protect them if
you wish. Also, once you have a dog, the dog will also assist in protecting your crops.
Please remember that some people may not be keen about participating in this feature, so think
before you swipe!
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13. I’m having issues loading Country Story, what should I do?
Make sure you have the latest version of flash installed. You can check what version you
currently have here: http://playerversion.com . And can download the latest version from the
Adobe website: http://www.adobe.com .
Clear your cache! (The Knowledge Base has instructions for this!) And re-start your computer!
Check that Java is enabled on your browser, for instructions on how to enable Java, check out
this site: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/enable_browser.xml
Sometimes people have this issue when they have a lot of friends on their list, you can try
removing some (particularly relevant if you have over 150 friends).
Check out: http://www.playfish.com/support/
Use the Support Link if all else fails!
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