FrontierVille Cheats & Tips: Goals Mastery Guide

Hey there, homesteader! If you're a FrontierVille fan, you're going to need this guide.

Why?

Well, one of the surprising things about FrontierVille is that it's got no place for players to see or display their achievements. Most games supply a way for players to proudly display, and keep track of, in-game milestones. These could come in the form of ribbons (FarmVille), medals (Happy Aquarium), statues (Pet Society), etc.

Without this future knowledge, you can't anticipate tasks, so you can't plan ahead to make sure you've got everything you need.

In FrontierVille, achievements are called "Goals", and they seem to appear and disappear like the wind. Sometimes, there can be as many as three goals at once. Sometimes, until you clear one goal, you can't see what the next one may be. Some goals can only be completed through sheer chance. Another annoyance is that you could complete a task, but be forced into a do-over, just because you did it before the goal showed up and told you to!

There are probably over a hundred tasks in the game at this point, divided into about 30 main goals. And now, we've made it our mission to report every one.

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FrontierVille Goal Icons
Tend Your Homestead
Earns 50 Coins, 3 XP, and Experience Point Bonus for Friends

1) Harvest Three Tomatoes
2) Feed Three Chickens

Hint: Ripe Crops will wither if not quickly harvested. You can always plant more.

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Clear the Land
Earns 100 Coins, 6 XP, and Wood Bonus for Friends

1) Clear Three Grass
2) Chop Down Two Trees
3) Clear One Rock

Hint: Chop trees multiple times to cut them down. Only trees that take more than one chop count for missions.

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Find Lost Sheep
Earns 100 Coins, 6 XP, and 100 Bonus Coins for Friends

1) Find Your Sheep and Feed It
TIP: It's hiding under some trees on the upper right side of your homestead.

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FrontierVIlle Clover in the storePrepare the Harvest
Earns 500 Coins, 10 XP, 40 Food, and Free Feast (15 Food) for Friends

1) Buy One Fruit Tree at the Market
TIP: Buy the Cherry Tree for 620 Coins; it's the cheapest tree available.

2) Buy One Pig at the Market
TIP: Unlocking the Pig for purchase requires 3 neighbors or 5 Horseshoes.

3) Plant Seven Crops
TIP: Plant Seven Clovers at 10 Coins each. It's the cheapest option, but you must harvest 'em within 5-10 min.

Hint: Crops, animals an' fruit trees are a major source o' food and coins, but they take time to mature.

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Start Building A Cabin
Earns 250 Coins, 6 XP, and Wood Bonus for Friends

1) Buy a Cabin at the Market
TIP: Cabin costs 4 Wood.

2) Whack the Framework Three Times
TIP: You need 7 Whacks to complete the Cabin's framework and 6 Wood per Whack.

Hint: What you buy at the market is just a framework. It takes multiple whacks to complete a building.

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FrontierVille Visit NeighborsVisit Your Neighbors
Earns 400 Coins, 20 XP, and Cloth for Friends

1) Visit Two Neighbors
TIP: Don't visit your neighbors until this goal appears or you'll have to wait a day to try for this again.

2) Have Ten Cloth
TIP: If you've already visited your neighbors, this task would be fulfilled.

Hint: Invite friends to be neighbors, then click their icons to visit them. You get gifts of cloth for every visit.

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Move Lost Sheep
Earns 20 Food, 10 XP, and XP for Friends

1) Move Your Sheep
TIP: If you've moved your sheep before, you're going to have to move it again.

2) Own or Buy Four Fences (any type).
TIP: Don't buy fences until you get this task. If you already bought some, those old purchases won't count.

Hint: Use the Move and Rotate tools (inside the My Tools menu) to move and spin objects.

--- You should start seeing the following goals after making it pass Level 4 ~ Addleheaded Tenderfoot ---
FrontierVille Level Up
Prepare the Ground
Earns 100 Coins, 20 XP, and Food Bonus for Friends

1) Clear Seven Grass
2) Clear One Skull
3) Clear Two Rocks

Hint: Watch out for snakes!

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Lay In Supplies
Earns 200 Coins, 6 XP, and 10 Bonus Food for Friends

1) Have 25 Wood
2) Have 50 Food

Hint: Feed animals and harvest crops for more food.

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Tame The Wilderness
Earns ??? PENDING

1) Clear Ten Grass
2) Chop Down Three Trees

Hint: Grass can regrow as time passes

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Spruce Things Up
Earns 300 Coins, 40 XP, and a free decoration for Friends

1) Buy Two Hay Bales at the Market
2) Buy One Pitchforck at the Market
3) Buy Three Other Decorations (total of six)

Hint: Decorations don't take energy to buy, and they give you XP.

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FrontierVille Clobber SnakesClobber Snakes
Earns 45 XP and Food Bonus for Friends

1) Clobber 3 Snakes

Hint: Snakes live in grass, under rocks, and especially inside skulls.

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Finish the Cabin
Earns 400 Coins, 25 XP, and Food Bonus for Friends

1) Finish the Cabin

Hint: First you need wood to finish the framework. Then you can send for building materials, or buy them yourself.

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Customize Your Cabin
Earns 100 coins, 25 XP, and 100 Coins for Friends

1) Customize Your Cabin

Hint: To customize any building, click it and use the "customize" option.

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Keep On Farming
Earns 55 XP and Food Bonus for Friends

1) Plant 25 Crops
2) Harvest 25 Crops

Hint: Planting takes no energy, just coins.

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FrontierVille planted CloverMake Medicinal Tea
Earns 3 Energy, 50 XP, and free Energy for Friends

1) Own One Clover Tea
2) Own Two Mushrooms
3) Own Two Purple Flowers

Hint: Clover tea is found harvesting clover, mushrooms are found by clearing, and purple flowers can be found in any color of wildflower.

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Lay in Firewood
Earns 35 XP, 1 Fire, and Wood Bonus for Friends

1) Buy One Forest Saw at the Market
2) Cut More Wood (50 times)

Hint: Watch out for bears!

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Keep the Land Clear
Earns 50 XP and 100 Coins for Friends

1) Clear 25 Grass
2) Buy One Goat

Hint: Clearing the grass makes room for more wildflowers.

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Make An Orchard
Earns 50 XP, 25 Food, and Apple Trees for Friends

1) Plant Two Fruit Trees
2) Have Six Fruit Trees

Hint: Fruit trees are bought at the market; some can be sent as gifts.

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FrontierVille Just Got Married
Do Family Chores
Earns ??? PENDING

1) Have Your Spouse Chop Down Five Trees
2) Have Your Spouse Feed 20 Chickens
3) Have Your Spouse Harvest 50 Wheat

Hint: To pick who will do the work, just click the avatar.
Tip: You can tell an avatar has been selected if it has a little silver star floating above its head.

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Time For Breakfast
Earns 50 XP and Food Bonus for Friends

1) Buy a Breakfast Meal
TIP: Buying it requires 6 Neighbors (or 5 Horseshoes for early unlock), gives you 7 Energy, and costs you 80 Food.

2) Harvest 12 Crops

Hint: To get more energy, you can buy meals at the market. To harvest crops, ya might have to plant some first.

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FrontierVille Scare BearScare Bears
Earns 65 XP and XP for Friends

1) Scare 6 Bears

Hint: Bears live in the forest, especially near really big trees. Don't cut 'em all down.

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...to be continued.

Check out the rest of our FrontierVille Cheats & Tips right here.

FrontierVille Thanksgiving Feast Missions: Everything you need to know

While we're all familiar with the basic set of Thanksgiving Missions in FrontierVille - those being "Thanksgiving Part I of V" and so on, once you complete Part IV of V (which sees you preparing the First Course of the Thanksgiving Feast at your Feast Table) you'll actually trigger the unlocking of a second themed mission set, all concerned with continuing the feast.

Meet us behind the break for details concerning this Thanksgiving Feast Mission set.

The first part of this mission set is entitled "Kickstartin' Your Appetite Fer Thanksgiving!" and it asks you to simply prepare the Second Course at the Feast Table.

You'll be able to complete the Second Course in much the same way as you completed the First. Simply click on your Feast Table, click on "Prepare Second Course" and then collect the items necessary on the menu that appears, as seen below.

For those that have yet to attempt completing the first Course (back in the regular Thanksgiving Missions), you'll need to give FrontierVille permission to automatically post to others' walls on your behalf, in order to ask for Feast RSVPs and the Serving Spoons. In order to do this, you'll need to click on the "Allow" button when asked if you'd like FrontierVille to be given this right.

As for the other four ingredients, the Cranberry Sauce, the Sweet Potatoes, Delicious Pie, and Roast Turkey, you can earn these by posting regular requests to your wall for your friends to respond to. However, when you respond to such a request yourself, you'll actually be given the chance of collecting any of the four items for yourself, rather than just receiving the same item in return. This gives you a chance to more easily finish these Courses, as you'll be able to collect just the right ingredient that you still need for the meal.

After completing the second course, you'll move onto a mission called "Jack's Burnin' the Thanksgiving Salad!" which requires you to prepare the third course. This is done in the same way as shown above, you'll just need to collect more of each ingredient in order to fulfill the mission.

Likewise, after completing the third course, you'll move onto "Fowl Language," a mission that asks you to complete the entire Feast. This is actually the "Fourth Course," if it were titled in such a way, and will see you collecting even more ingredients yet.

As you complete these Courses, your Thanksgiving Feast Table will expand and change in complexity, along with gaining more of the in-game characters that will grab a seat around the dinner table. After finishing the first course, Frontier Jack will be joined by Fanny Wildcat, the school teacher, and so on and so forth after that.

Both of the Thanksgiving Mission sets will expire in a little over 11 days, from the time of this writing, so start collecting these ingredients quickly if you want the best chance of completing them all.

FrontierVille Thanksgiving Contest: Bake goodies for massive rewards

Similar to the FarmVIlle Dessert Contest that is asking users to bake FarmVille themed goodies in the real world for a chance to earn prizes in Zynga's massive farming game, so too has the developer announced a new contest for FrontierVille players, also asking them to let go of the computer mouse (at least for a few minutes) in order to create a FrontierVille-themed dish in the real world for submission in the FrontierVille Thanksgiving Contest.

This contest asks users to cook any sort of FrontierVille-themed dish, whether that ends up being a dessert, an entree, or otherwise. Simply take a picture of your dish, add a brief description about the dish (what is it, how is it themed, and so on), and post it to this thread on the official FrontierVille forums.

Zynga will let the community vote on entries, and the top ten that receive the most votes will receive a whopping 1,500 Horseshoes, 1 million coins, and 1 Mystery Animal Crate. You have until November 28 to submit a dish, so get cooking!

FrontierVille Pony Express: Everything you need to know

Ever since FrontierVille first launched last year, Frontier Jack has been reminding us of the existence of the Pony Express, which has been responsible for delivering your mail in the game. Now, though, it seems like we'll finally be able to meet these dedicated riders in the flesh (or, the virtual flesh, that is), as we can now build our very own Pony Express building in the game.

This new building is hitting users' accounts on what seems to be a very slow rollout, so if you don't have the building upon reading this, be patient! We're sure it will be released into your own game in the very near future. Once you are able to access the Pony Express, you'll need to purchase it from the market for 665 coins and 8 Wood.

After placing the base on your land, you'll need to whack the building 16 times to complete the frame, with each whack costing 4 Wood. Of course, this is only part one of the building's construction - meet us behind the break for the rest of the requirements for building the Pony Express.
Once you have completed the frame of the Pony Express, you'll need to go about the process of asking your friends to help you gather a total of 66 building materials - 10 each of Bags of Gravel, Moldings, and Whitewashes, and 12 each of Paintbrushes, Wax Seals, and Pony Express Plans.

As usual, these six items are split evenly between those that you'll need to request from individual players, and those that can be earned through general news feed posts. In this case, the Bags of Gravel, Whitewashes, and Moldings can be received by clicking on the Ask button and then sending out individual gift requests to those neighbors that you think will help you, while the other three items (Paintbrushes, Wax Seals, and Pony Express Plans) are earned through general news feed posts that any friend can click on. Unfortunately, you'll only be able to post one of these general wall posts every few hours, so be sure to be on the lookout for your friends' posts, so that you can earn some bonus items while you are waiting for the ability to post again.

So what's the point of building the Pony Express? It's actually a fairly complex reason. To put it as simply as possible, each day, you'll be able to collect a Daily Bonus from the Pony Express building, just as you can any other building in the game. Doing this gives you a chance to earn a "Special Delivery" package from a traveling Pony Express Rider. This rider will drop off satchels that can be opened to receive prizes (we'll bring you more on these prizes when we've learned more).

You can also trigger an additional Special Delivery each day, by clicking on Bonus items (coins, experience points, food, wood, etc.) in a fast enough succession to reach the "Insane" level in the Bonus Bar. Again, you can only receive a Special Delivery through this method once per day.

We'll make sure to bring you images and more information about the Pony Express as soon as we have them. In the meantime, while you're building the Pony Express building, why not also take a look at the equally new Pony Express Goals that were also released in FrontierVille, via our new guide.

FrontierVille Makin' Room Storage Expansion Missions: Everything you need to know

While we've been able to expand both our land and our Storage Shed in FrontierVille in the past, in an effort to de-clutter our homesteads, with Zynga releasing so many new buildings, and so many new decorations, the current limit of 35 items in storage simply wasn't cutting it. Luckily, Zynga has addressed this issue in a big, big way, with the release of repeatable Mega Storage Missions in the game (as Zynga is lovingly calling them).

When the update hits your game, you'll see a pop-up like the one above, introducing you to these new, repeatable, missions. These repeatable missions (did I mention they were repeatable?) will allow you to add 15 spaces of storage each time you complete them, and there currently doesn't appear to be a limit on how big your Storage Shed can get (either that or even Zynga hasn't decided what it should be yet). Do you know what this means pioneers?! It means that we're potentially looking at unlimited storage in FrontierVille, with a couple of catches.

First, these missions will take quite a bit of time and materials on your part (I hope you've been saving up coins and wood). Secondly, you'll be subject to a "Storage Expansion Timer," which will only allow you to move onto your next expansion once every four days. You can, of course, pay Horseshoes to unlock a new set of missions earlier, if you wish.

So what exactly does it take to expand your Storage Shed into the "mega" storage range? Meet us behind the break for all of the details.
The Storage Expansion Mission has three parts. Part I of III is called Stacking Wood, and it has you chopping down trees on your own Homestead, and while it might seem like a tedious task, believe me - you'll need the wood you receive from doing so.

Chop Trees 50 Times on your Homestead
Visit 25 Neighbors
Have 25 Cloth

You don't have to actually do anything at your neighbors' homesteads, luckily enough, so just visit and move onto the next. As for the trees, each individual chop on a tree counts, so if you have full-grown trees, these can of course count for more than one chop if you entirely remove them. If you're a stickler for a clear homestead, though, remember that you can receive free trees for turning in either the Pine Tree or the Oak Tree collection, or you can simply purchase the saplings in the market. Your rewards for finishing this first mission are 300 XP and 100 Food. You'll be able to share some Cloth with your neighbors.

Part II of III will take you some time, as, even if you complete two of the steps, you physically can't complete the third in a single day (without the aid of Horseshoes). This mission, called Mortise and Tenon, requires the following three tasks be completed:

Have or Craft 100 Planks
Have 16 Tools
Collect Two Storage Shed Bonuses

The Storage Shed Bonus can only be collected once every day, and if you've already collected it before starting this mission, you'll be put even further behind. As for the Planks, they can be crafted inside the Covered Wagon for 7 wood and 250 coins each. That's 700 wood, if you currently own zero planks - hence my saying I hope you've been saving up. As for the Tools, you'll be able to earn these from your friends if they hire you, or visit you and happen to receive that as the random bonus they can leave behind. Finishing this second quest rewards you with 400 XP and 800 coins. You'll be able to share Tools with your friends.

This brings us to the final part of the Mission portion of Storage Shed expansion (oh yes, there's more). Part III asks you to complete three more steps:

Clear 15 Debris on your Homestead
Craft 8 Sawhorses
Expand your Storage Shed

Sawhorses can be crafted inside the Barn using, wait for it, more Planks. I suppose this is why Zynga only takes 50 of your 100 Planks when completing the last mission. You'll also need to use up the Tools you just gathered from the previous mission, as Sawhorses take 5 Planks and 2 Tools each to craft.

As for the actual expansion of your Storage Shed, you'll need to gather six construction materials, in a same fashion as when you first build the average building in FrontierVille. To start, you'll need to gather 10 Shelves, 10 Bins, and 10 Padlocks by sending out individual requests to your friends. Three more items are 5 Elbow Grease, 5 Cement and 5 Carpenter Pencils, all of which can be asked for in a general news item on your feed.

Here's where things get tricky. The first time you complete these three missions, and collect all of the construction materials to physically expand, you will receive 15 extra storage spaces inside the Storage Shed. That's all well and good, but when four days have passed and you go to work on another expansion, this final building step will have changed, becoming incrementally more difficult each time you complete it. This is due to the fact that each of the six construction materials will be required in quantities that are two units higher than previously.

As an example, since you only needed to collect 10 and 5 of each ingredient the first time, when it comes time to expand again, you'll need to gather 12 Shelves, Bins, and Padlocks, and 7 each of Elbow Grease, Cement and Carpenter Pencils. On your third expansion, you'll need 14 and 9 of each, and so on.

As you can see, expanding your Storage Shed to any great number will likely take you quite a bit of time, as you'll need to gather the wood and tools necessary to create Planks and Sawhorses, not to mention the time it will take to request more and more collectible items from friends. We can't really complain though - we'd much rather be spending time completing these missions than trying to find places to "hide" seasonal decorations because we don't want to sell them.

What do you think of this new storage shed expansion ability? Are the quests too demanding, or are you willing to do whatever it takes to receive more room on your homestead?

FrontierVille: Syringe now available as a free gift

With the release of the Doctor's Office in FrontierVille, many players were left at a standstill as to how to go about earning a Syringe to complete one of the accompanying missions. It's not that the physical acts in the game were difficult to complete (you'd earn a Syringe, supposedly, through collecting the Doctor's Office daily bonus or whacking its frame during construction), but actually getting a Syringe to appear in-game seemed downright impossible.

We brought you a detailed tips and tricks guide on how to try and force a Syringe to load in your game, but Zynga has gone a step further, answering user complaints once and for all by doing what was previously unthinkable - they have added the Syringe to the free gifts page.

By this point, you've likely already received a Syringe through some other method (a friend gifting an extra via your wishlist, or simply receiving it in what appears to be a more frequent drop rate as a Daily Bonus), but if you're still struggling, your virtual prayers have been answered. Simply let your friends know that you still need a Syringe, and you'll likely receive half a dozen or more from its new appearance on the free gifts page. Now why can't receiving all items be as easy as sending a free gift?

Were you still looking for a Syringe in FrontierVille, or have you now been swamped with unneeded Syringes by well-meaning friends?

March Madness Facebook Game Showdown: Final Four

Upsets galore in the second round of our March Madness Facebook Game Showdown, just like in the real NCAA Basketball tournament.

In our quest to determine the best Facebook game, most of our match-ups have been cruising along without any major upsets. No longer! In the second round of our Showdown, things went haywire with several favorites finding themselves on the outs, including three of Zynga's most popular games.
Pet Society by Playfish continued its unlikely run as its fans backed it all the way through to the Final Four. Pet Society defeated Zynga Poker 57% to 43% in a close match-up. Pet Society has now defeated two higher seeded Zynga produced opponents in Cafe World and Zynga Poker.

In what is likely the biggest upset this side of VCU over Kansas, Treasure Isle defeated the heavily favored FarmVille. The two Zynga made games went head to head and in unbelievable turn of events, Treasure Isle squeaked by FarmVille 52% to 48%. Unreal, considering how much Games.com -- The Blog! readers favor FarmVille over all else.

The last in our upset trifecta is the defeat of staff favorite FrontierVille by Pop Cap's plucky arcade classic Bejeweled Blitz. In what has to be the triumph of the name brand, Bejeweled over the newer FrontierVille, Bejeweled Blitz won 54% to 45%.

Rounding out our final match up of the second round and last Final Four participant CityVille, the number one seed in the tournament defeated Mafia Wars. CityVille is the only top seeded game to advance to the Final Four trounced Mafia Wars handily 66% to 33%

Here the Final Four match-ups for the March Madness Facebook Game Showdown:

FarmVille scams are out of control; Zynga can stop them with Goals

It seems that at least once a day a new FarmVille scammer emerges, and we're always here to report the news, spread the word in warning. Unfortunately, that's about where our powers of prevention stop. Admittedly, I am no security expert, so suggesting methods for either Zynga or Facebook to track and thwart these scam artists is beyond my knowledge. However, the creators of FarmVille have one tool to impede the scammers' progress: the game itself.

Thanks to the release of FrontierVille, there has not been a more powerful feature at the hands of Zynga: Goals. In fact, these series of requirements guiding players into new content have been incorporated into every one of its games since. Even the original FarmVille has seen its fair share of Goals. These Goals make themselves known before the player can even resume their daily routine of farming or city management.

FarmVille Scam
It's been said that the ultimate prevention is education, and considering that stopping these scammers would be a job in itself, this is likely the best method to bring their impact to a screeching halt. Isn't this exactly what Goals do? They educate players in new ways to interact with features and content, most times without the player even realizing it. It's a brilliant method, really.

Zynga could easily create Goals detailing the dangers of News Feed scams and the like through all of its games. Of course, the Goals would have to be available to all players regardless of their progress. More importantly, they would have to be included in the first few levels of each for brand new players months from now to learn of the dangers of News Feed scams. Sure, some players are likely asking their computer screens, "How does fit in with the overall theme of the game?"

FrontierVille Goals
It doesn't nor does it have to. When is the last time the words "This doesn't fit with our theme" stop Zynga from introducing McDonald's to FarmVille? It sure didn't stop the company from adding a new building surrounding Intuit, the business website builder service to the game. (Not to mention a bear using a laptop within the loading screen.) So, somehow simulating a scam situation and tasking players with making the right moves to prevent its effects--and later spread--doesn't sound unreasonable.

How the Goals would look and play is entirely up to Zynga. In fact, this would be in the company's best interest, no? Surely the FarmVille scams have scared plenty of players away. Better yet, this would likely reduce call after call into Zynga customer support for something that's generally out of their control. But it doesn't have to be. Instead of releasing the next big feature, push it back and release some educational Goals--this is far more important than the next Crafting Building.

[Image Credit: Virus Removal Support]

Have you fallen victim to a FarmVille scam before? Do you think this would be helpful in preventing future successful scams?

FrontierVille Unwither Boosts less effective: Plan ahead before spending Horseshoes

If you're the kind of FrontierVille player that likes the Boosts system in the game, that lets you do everything from speeding up crop growth to making your trees instantly ready to harvest (and more), you'll want to pay very close attention to the Unwither Crop Boosts available in the General Store the next time you go shopping.

While we've all been used to the Unwither Crop Boosts that you receive from trading in the Peanut Collection that (as of this writing) still unwither every withered crop on your land without limit, these General Store Boosts aren't as useful. While they may look fairly similar visually, if you hover over the item, you'll see that they only "restore a section" of your crops back to life. As of right now, that appears to be either a single crop, or five crops per Boost (there are conflicting reports, leading us to believe that Zynga might have changed them recently).

One look at the FrontierVille forums confirms this, as users have been able to unwither just a single crop per a single Boost, or have been able to unwither five. Either way, we'll make sure to keep an eye on this situation, and will let you know if a definitive number comes out in the end. For now though, make sure to save your Horseshoes if you're expecting an entire field to magically be saved - you'll end up very disappointed if you don't.

FrontierVille: Zynga enables quick posting of item requests to save you time

In an effort to save users some time when beg... err, asking for the many items we need in FrontierVille on a daily basis, Zynga has started to roll out an optional system of Quick Posting to certain pop-ups.This Quick Post method isn't anything sinister - unlike how it sounds, this won't see you posting tons of unknown items to your news feed, that you didn't approve or even know existed. This will simply save you the step of waiting for the Facebook news post window to appear before being able to confirm that yes, you do want to post a request asking for more Salt Licks, as in the image above.

To be especially clear, you'll still play the game as normal, clicking on the "Ask friends" or "Publish" buttons (among others) that would normally pop-up a Facebook confirmation window, but this last step will be skipped. You have to manually choose what to post, as usual, as FrontierVille won't simply post anything without you telling it to (at least where this new feature is concerned). Again, this is a voluntary step, and you can continue in your old ways if you'd prefer. If you'd like to save a few clicks though, the option should be rolling out to all players soon.

[Image Credit: WebGameTips]

Will you enable quick posting of your item requests, or do you like adding personal messages before your news feed items are posted?