Easy ways to make money for kids

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• 1 Avatar Creation and Editing
  • 1.1 How do I create an account?
  • 1.2 How do I change my appearance?
  • 1.3 How can I change the name and sex of my Avatar?
• 2 Game Basics
  • 2.1 What are Farm Town Coins?
  • 2.2 How can I earn Farm Town Coins?
  • 2.3 How do I make money quickly?
  • 2.4 How do I visit other people’s farms?
  • 2.5 How do I move around the marketplace?
  • 2.6 How do I change my farm name?
  • 2.7 Is there another way to move my farm besides clicking on the green diamond-shaped logo?
  • 2.8 What is the Farm Town Lottery message that appears on my screen each day?
• 3 Toolbox (top right of farm screen)
  • 3.1 What is the Computer Disk Symbol?
  • 3.2 What is the Musical Symbol?
  • 3.3 What is the Speaker Symbol?
  • 3.4 What is the Wrench Symbol?
  • 3.5 What is the Plug Symbol?
  • 3.6 What is the Questions Mark Symbol?
• 4 Trophies
  • 4.1 Why can’t I sell the items on my farm?
  • 4.2 I won a trophy and it says I have got $500 to spend in the store – is this correct?
• 5 Neighbours
  • 5.1 Who are my neighbours?
  • 5.2 How do I add friends as a neighbours?
  • 5.3 How do I my neighbours farms if they are not on my immediate neighbours tab?
  • 5.4 What are the differences between neighbours and buddies?
  • 5.5 Can I have more than 8 neighbours?
• 6 Buddies
  • 6.1 How do I add someone to my buddy list?
  • 6.2 How do I visit my buddies?
  • 6.3 What are the buddy lists for?
• 7 Farming
  • 7.1 How do I plant crops in my farm?
  • 7.2 How do I harvest crops and trees?
  • 7.3 How do I put down the plowing tool once I am finished?
• 8 Tending
  • 8.1 How do I buy a water hose, gloves or a rake?
  • 8.2 Why do my exp points go from 6 to 1 when tending a neighbours farm?
• 9 Harvesting
  • 9.1 How long does it take for a planted field to be ready for harvesting?
  • 9.2 Why did some of my crops go to waste?
  • 9.3 Can other people visiting my farm harvest my crops?
  • 9.4 Why is there a plus (+) sign in my storage area instead of the number of crops harvested?
  • 9.5 Why do some of my harvested crops that I sell say “Large” and others don’t?
  • 9.6 If a group of people harvest my crops do I earn more money?
  • 9.7 Can we harvest our neighbours crops when they are away on holiday?
  • 9.8 How do I sell my harvest or gifts in the marketplace?
• 10 Hiring
  • 10.1 When should I hire someone?
  • 10.2 How do I hire someone to work on my farm?
  • 10.3 What are the benefits of hiring somebody to work at your farm?
  • 10.4 If I am hired and I work at somebody else’s farm, how many coins do I receive?
• 11 Flowers
  • 11.1 How do I water my flowers?
  • 11.2 Do flowers die if not watered?
  • 11.3 How long does it take for flowers to be fully grown?
  • 11.4 Do I earn experience points for watering flowers on my farm or a neighbours farm?
  • 11.5 Why can I not see the flowers I placed on my farm?
  • 11.6 Why do I get a message that says “Flowers can only be watered once a dayâ€?
  • 11.7 How much am I charged for watering my flowers?
  • 11.8 Can I harvest the flowers?
  • 11.9 Can I water a buddies flowers?
  • 11.10 Can you freeze your flowers if you go away on holiday and cannot water them?
  • 11.11 Why did a flower revert back to the first stage of growth when I moved it?
  • 11.12 I cannot plow/harvest my plots near flowers, what do I do?
• 12 Animals
  • 12.1 How can I add Animals to my farm?
  • 12.2 My animals are all over the farm. They are eating my crops!
  • 12.3 What is the “Eat” command on the menu when I click on an animal for?
  • 12.4 How do I sell an animal?
  • 12.5 What can I do with the animals on my farm?
• 13 Items on Farm Town
  • 13.1 Why won’t my animals stay in the pens I made using the fence pieces?
  • 13.2 How do I rotate the fencing?
  • 13.3 What are the bales of hay, barrels and other items available for purchase for?
  • 13.4 When I click on a tree I get a “Send as a Gift” option – what does that do?
  • 13.5 I have accidentally hidden a tree – how do I get it back?
  • 13.6 Why won’t the pop-up menu activate when I try to select my well to move it?
  • 13.7 Why did the fruit disappear when I moved a tree and reset it to 0%?
  • 13.8 Why are some of the trees locked for purchase in the store?
• 14 Farm Town Gifts
  • 14.1 How do I send gifts to my Farm Town Facebook Friends only?
  • 14.2 How many gifts can I send per day?
  • 14.3 Why are some of my gifts missing – I accepted them in Facebook?
  • 14.4 Why am I no longer receiving gifts from a specific friend?
• 15 Blocking Users
  • 15.1 How can I report users for inappropriate behavior?
  • 15.2 I accidentally Ignored one of my neighbours/buddies, how do I unblock them?
  • 15.3 Can someone leave me messages on my farm wall if I blocked them?
• 16 Messaging System
  • 16.1 What is the envelope on my farm screen for?
  • 16.2 Why can’t I type in the chat box when I am in full screen mode?
• 17 Other areas in Farm Town
  • 17.1 How do I access the Real Estate Office to increase the size of my farm?
  • 17.2 What is the Inn for?
• 18 Super Rewards Offers
  • 18.1 I did not receive the coins from an offer that I completed, what do I do?
• 19 Technical Advice
  • 19.1 Will removing & reinstalling the application help fix errors and glitches?
  • 19.2 What are the minimum computer requirements to successfully run Farm Town?
  • 19.3 How do I stop Farm Town e-mailing me notifications?

Avatar Creation and Editing How do I create an account?

When you first log into Farm Town, the mayor will guide you through the setup process. You need to enter a name for your Avatar and select your gender. On the next screen you are presented with the Avatar Editor, where you can change how you want your avatar to look.

How do I change my appearance?

You can change your look at any point by clicking on your Avatar and selecting ‘Change Appearance’ from the popup menu. This will launch the Avatar Editor where you can change your look.

How can I change the name and sex of my Avatar?

Click on the Account tab at the top of your farm screen (it is the last tab on the far right). This will take you to another screen where you can key in your new name. Once you have changed your name it will automatically update all your neighbours and buddies listings to reflect your new name. You also have the option here to change the sex of your Avatar.

Game Basics What are Farm Town Coins?

Coins let you buy seeds, trees, animals, buildings and more for your farm.

How can I earn Farm Town Coins?

Coins can be earned by selling your harvests or by working at someone else’s farm. You can earn Coins by selling the gifts your friends send you. Or by tending your friends farms.

How do I make money quickly?

When your crops are ready to harvest, make sure you hire someone to harvest them for you so that you make more money. For the first few days, re-invest all the money you make into planting new crops. Potatoes are a good starter crop since they take a single day to grow. You’ll then find you have made a decent enough profit to at least buy a couple of fence pieces. Always re-plant your plowed squares before spending money so that you have a constant source of income.

How do I visit other people’s farms?

You can click on people in your neighbours list to visit their farms, or you can click on the list of people right at the bottom of your screen when you are in your farm (it has a horizontal list of people playing with their Avatars underneath).

How do I move around the marketplace?

When you arrive in the marketplace click on the walk button and then click your cursor on an area you would like to walk to. Your avatar will move there. If you have sold crops and then want to move you might get a Saving message. Just wait for a couple of seconds before trying to move again.

How do I change my farm name?

Click on the bar on the top of your farm screen to the right of the experience points bar. When you hover over it you will see a message appear that says “Click to edit farm name”

Is there another way to move my farm besides clicking on the green diamond-shaped logo?

You can pan by clicking on a specific spot on your farm and dragging your farm around with your mouse.

What is the Farm Town Lottery message that appears on my screen each day?

This is an amount of money that you earn for each day that you log into Farm Town.

Toolbox (top right of farm screen) What is the Computer Disk Symbol?

This is a new save function and it must be clicked every time you exit the game, visit another page on Facebook, exit the browser window, log off etc…

Every 20 seconds or so the system reloads on its own saving 99% of data, however when you don’t use the save button there is still a margin of time where you could be kicked out or signed off/timed off of facebook/view another page/or for whatever reason have to close the window. When this happens, and you haven’t clicked on the save button, you have more chances of losing data, or one or more items on your farm.

What is the Musical Symbol?

This is the Toggle Music feature which will turn off the music in the game. Click on the musical symbol and the button will turn red . You will no longer hear the music while playing the game.

What is the Speaker Symbol?

This is the Toggle Sound feature which, when clicked will turn red and will turn off the sounds the animals make.

What is the Wrench Symbol?

This is the link to the Preferences Menu. The following options are available:

• Show Trees / Show Flowers / Show Buildings – If these options are unchecked, all trees, flowers and buildings will be hidden from your view. You will be able to plow and plant on your own farm with these items out of the way and you can use this option on other farms when harvesting.
• Freeze Animals – this option allows you to halt the movement of your animals so that you can move fences without your animals escaping.
• Remove Space Between Fields – this option will allow you to place plots side-by-side when plowing instead of having a space in between. It is advisable to start plowing from the top left of your farm when using this option, also make sure that all existing harvested plots are deleted first.
• Smooth Graphics – this option may produce higher quality graphics, but depending on the computer, may create slow-downs.
• Follow Avatar While Walking – this option, when unchecked, stops the screen from jumping and following the Avatar around when you are plowing or harvesting.

What is the Plug Symbol?

If you click on the green Online Mode (plug symbol) you can select to go into Offline Mode. Once you do this you will become invisible on your farm. You will be able to plow and plant your crops without being interrupted by other farmers. They will still be able to access your farm and leave you messages, they just won’t see you. You can also use this mode to tend neighbours farms without seeing them if they are on their farms. This only works if you select your neighbours from your neighbour bar at the bottom of your farm screen. If you access them through your neighbour listing (top of farm screen) this will reset itself to online when you enter their farm. You can also use Offline Mode to go to the marketplace to sell your crops without seeing everyone else.

When you enter Offline Mode, you are still connected to our servers. So all your activity, farm changes, purchases, gifts, etc, continues working as usual. The only functionality that doesn’t work is the multi-user functionality (e.g. chat, hiring, etc).

Why would you want to go in Offline Mode? Users who are behind a firewall or a router, until now couldn’t play Farm Town at all. With this new mode, these users can play the game with most functionality enabled. Also, in cases that our servers become unavailable, you can play offline while the servers come back online. You will NOT lose anything using Offline Mode.

What is the Questions Mark Symbol?

This is the Help feature. It repeats the help that you received when you first set up your farm by indicating where the plow tool and the harvesting tool are, as well as the Store access. You can click on this button at any time to repeat these instructions.

Trophies Why can’t I sell the items on my farm?

To be able to start selling items on your farm e.g. animals, trees etc… you need to have earned the Influential Neighbours Trophy. To earn that trophy you have to have 8 neighbours (Facebook Friends that are playing Farm Town).

I won a trophy and it says I have got $500 to spend in the store – is this correct?

The trophy is won by SPENDING 500 coins in the store e.g. buying seeds, animals, hay bales, fences, barrels, windmill etc… You are not awarded actual money for this. You just earn the trophy once you have accomplished this.

Neighbours Who are my neighbours?

Your neighbours are friends whose farms are close to yours.

How do I add friends as a neighbours?

Go to the ‘My Neighbours’ tab. If your friends have a farm in Farm Town, click on ‘Add as a Neighbour’. If your friends do not own a farm yet, select them from the list, and invite them over.

How do I my neighbours farms if they are not on my immediate neighbours tab?

You can visit your other neighbours (Facebook Friends with the Farm Town app) by clicking on your neighbours tab at the top of your farm screen. This will take you to a list of all your neighbours. If you click on their farm it will take you there directly. You have no way of knowing whether these neighbours are online or not – a good suggestion is to put those neighbours on your buddy list when you see them. When you click on your buddy list in future and scroll down a green light will be activated to the right of their name if they are online at the same time as you. You can also get to their farms from there.

What are the differences between neighbours and buddies?

Neighbours have to be Facebook Friends and you can send them gifts. When you visit neighbours you will have the option to help them rake, water or pull weeds on their farm. You will be able to do this once a day per neighbour. You cannot do this with buddies.

Can I have more than 8 neighbours?

You can now have more than just 8 immediate neighbours. You can accept other people as Facebook Friends and they will be added to your My Neighbours listing. You can change your immediate neighbours by clicking on their pictures in the neighbour slots at the bottom of your farm screen. An option will appear to Change Your Neighbours. You will be redirected to your neighbours listing where you can click on a specific neighbour and choosing the option to Remove someone from Neighbours. It will not delete them from your app but will place them lower in your list and will give you the option to add someone else as an immediate neighbour. You will be able to send and receive gifts from all of these neighbours regardless of whether or not they are one of your immediate neighbours. To add neighbours from your listing onto your neighbour bar, just use the arrows to move across to an empty slot and click on that to add neighbours from your listing. They will receive a neighbour request which they will have to approve. To appear on their neighbour bar, they will need to send you a request too.

Buddies How do I add someone to my buddy list?

When someone is on your farm you can click on their Avatar and a list will pop up. Click on the add to buddy list option. They will receive a message asking them to become your buddy.

How do I visit my buddies?

Click on the two person logo at the bottom right of your screen and you will get a list of all the people you have added to your buddy list. If there is a green button on the far right of their name then they are online. If you click the “walking person” symbol on the left of the green button it will allow you to visit their farm.

What are the buddy lists for?

It gives you the option to visit people who are not your Facebook Friends and they can hire you to work on their farm. You can refer to your buddy list when you need someone to harvest your crops for you. When they are online a green button appears to the right of their names.

Farming How do I plant crops in my farm?

To plant crops you need to till the ground using the Plow Tool (Hoe icon) . After the field is tilled, you can go to the Store and purchase seeds for crops you want to plant, then with the seed bag selected, click on the tilled fields to sow. Note: You are only charged for seeds when you actually click on the plot to sow them.

How do I harvest crops and trees?

Once a planted field is ready to be harvested, use the Harvest Tool (scythe icon) and click on the field or tree to be harvested. Every time you harvest you are given the option to sell your harvests right there from your farm, or to collect them and place them in storage. If you sell the harvests from your farm, you earn less coins than if you place them in storage and go to sell them at the marketplace.

How do I put down the plowing tool once I am finished?

Click on the button with the Walking Symbol or the Harvesting Scythe to deactivate the plowing tool.

Tending How do I buy a water hose, gloves or a rake?

You cannot purchase these items in the store. When you are asked to help on another farmers farm a screen will pop up telling you what needs to be done e.g. if their farm needs watering it will ask if you want to do that. You will get two options – either Use Water Hose (if you have already bought one before) and Buy Water Hose. You click on this option and you will automatically purchase a water hose with 5 uses.

Why do my exp points go from 6 to 1 when tending a neighbours farm?

You earn 6 exp points for every neighbour whose farm you tend (watering, raking and pulling weeds) within a 24-hour period up to a limit of 50. After that you earn 1 exp point until the clock resets.

Harvesting How long does it take for a planted field to be ready for harvesting?

This varies among the different types of crops. The time it takes for each crop is shown in the store next to the bags of seeds.

Why did some of my crops go to waste?

If a crop is ready to be harvested and is not harvested right away it may go to waste. This time varies from crop to crop and is about the same time it takes for the crop to mature. Note: a Farm Town day is approximately 20 hours. At this point in time, fruit on trees do not go to waste.

Can other people visiting my farm harvest my crops?

No they can’t. They can chat with you if they are in your farm at the same time as you. They can also help pull weeds, rake or do other related tasks for which they will earn money.

Why is there a plus (+) sign in my storage area instead of the number of crops harvested?

Once you have over 100 crops in storage it will be reflected as a plus (+).

Why do some of my harvested crops that I sell say “Large” and others don’t?

Crops will appear in storage and in the marketplace in bags or crates, depending on which crop it is. If someone else harvests your crops for you then your crop will be labelled as e.g. sunflowers (Large). These are the crops that you receive more money for. Crops that you have harvested yourself will just say “Sunflowers” and you receive less money for them.

If a group of people harvest my crops do I earn more money?

You don’t earn more money if more than one person harvests your crops. One particular plot can only be harvested by one particular person and therefore you will only earn the regular set price on that particular crop.

Can we harvest our neighbours crops when they are away on holiday?

This is not possible but the developers are looking at taking this into consideration in the future. The best advice for now is, if you know you are going away for an extended period of time, to harvest all your crops and not replant anything until you return.

How do I sell my harvest or gifts in the marketplace?

When you first arrive a screen pops up asking you what you would like to do in the marketplace. One of the options is to sell your harvest or gifts. If this screen disappears just go over to Tom who is a stationary figure in the marketplace and click on him. The same screen with instructions will appear and you can sell your items that way.

Hiring When should I hire someone?

You only need to hire someone when you have crops that are ready to be harvested.

How do I hire someone to work on my farm?

The easiest thing to do is to go to the marketplace and to click on someone’s Avatar. A screen will pop up with a number of options – one of them reads as follows: Hire to work at your farm. If they agree to do it for you, you will get the option to go with them to your farm or to hang out in the marketplace. You will receive a notification to let you know when they are done and the harvested items will be placed into storage. You can then sell them in the marketplace. You can also go to a friends farm if they are active (a green light on their neighbour profile) and ask them to do it for you.

What are the benefits of hiring somebody to work at your farm?

When a hired user harvests fields at your farm, you get Large boxes of the corresponding vegetable or fruit. Earning you more coins when you sell them at the marketplace.

If I am hired and I work at somebody else’s farm, how many coins do I receive?

You will receive 25% of the coins fetched by the crops you harvest.

Flowers How do I water my flowers?

Click on the toolbox on the lower right-hand menu and select the watering can from the pop-up menu. Move the green square that appears over the flowers you would like to water. Hold down the mouse button, not simply click (you don’t have to hold it down too long though) to activate the watering process. All the flowers beneath the square will be watered, and 1 coin will be deducted for each flower/plant watered within that square. This process will fill all the raindrops regardless of how many drops were empty when you started.

Do flowers die if not watered?

Flowers do “die” if they aren’t watered at least once every three farm town days (a farm town day is 20 hours long). As soon as you water them again they come back to life.

How long does it take for flowers to be fully grown?

The flowers take about 3 days till they are fully grown and are in full bloom.

Do I earn experience points for watering flowers on my farm or a neighbours farm?

You do not earn experience points when watering flowers.

Why can I not see the flowers I placed on my farm?

Make sure you have “Show Flowers†checked (click on the wrench symbol on the upper right menu of your farm) and refresh your farm once you have done so.

Why do I get a message that says “Flowers can only be watered once a day�

Your neighbours can water your flowers for you and earn 1 coin for each flower when they do so. Watering flowers is on a first-come-first-serve basis. Once a neighbour has watered them, you will not be able to water them as well. You are only able to water your flowers if there are two empty rain drops. When you activate the watering can all flowers will show a blue square around the base. Those that need watering are a light/dull blue and those that have been watered are a darker/brighter blue.

How much am I charged for watering my flowers?

You are charged 1 coin per flower/plant that is watered. If your neighbours water your plants for you, they will earn 1 coin per flower/plant that they water.

Can I harvest the flowers?

The flowers cannot be harvested but you can sell them. If you click on them (whether just planted or in full bloom) the pop-up menu will give you the option to sell.

Can I water a buddies flowers?

You can only water a neighbours flowers (and only those neighbours who are on your neighbour bar at the bottom left of your farm – NOT neighbours on your neighbour listing that don’t appear on your neighbour bar). You cannot water buddies flowers.

Can you freeze your flowers if you go away on holiday and cannot water them?

This is not possible. The flowers, at this point in time, will die if not watered but, will revive once watered again. If you click the “Freeze Growth” option on a flower, it DOES need to be watered as all you are doing is stopping it at whatever stage of growth it is at. In other words, if you like your roses to be rosebuds rather than in full bloom, you can freeze them at the rosebud stage. But the flower still needs to be watered. Please remember though that, when you unfreeze them, they will revert back to the first stage of growth.

Why did a flower revert back to the first stage of growth when I moved it?

When you move a flower it goes back to the first stage of growth. Once you have refreshed the game the plant will be back to the size it was BEFORE you moved it.

I cannot plow/harvest my plots near flowers, what do I do?

If you’re trying to plow/harvest your plots near flowers, deselect “Show Flowers” in your preferences (remember to reselect it when you are done) or you can simply “Hide†the flowers temporarily.

Animals How can I add Animals to my farm?

You can purchase animals in the store. Some animals are made available as you progress in the game. You can also ask your friends to send you animals as gifts (using the Send Gifts page).

My animals are all over the farm. They are eating my crops!

You can fence in your animals, to keep them from wandering around. To do this, buy fences in the Store, in the ‘Barn, Other’ tab. Note: this option has not been brought online yet.

What is the “Eat” command on the menu when I click on an animal for?

This is a command to make your animals eat e.g. if you do that with a squirrel it will sit and eat a nut. This does not make them eat your crops and is not a command for you to eat them either.

How do I sell an animal?

Click on the animal, and select ‘Sell’ from the popup menu. Notice that the sell price is much less than what you paid on the store.

What can I do with the animals on my farm?

You can sell the animals by clicking on them and choosing the option to sell. This is only worth your while if you have received them as gifts. They currently don’t have any other function.

Items on Farm Town Why won’t my animals stay in the pens I made using the fence pieces?

Bear in mind that a small pen e.g. 1×1 is not big enough for a lot of animals and they won’t remain in there. Make sure that your fence pieces connect properly. You can also use the perimeter of your farm as outer fencing, which also gives you more yardage. If you animals still escape you can use hay bales where the fences connect to stop them from getting out.

How do I rotate the fencing?

You cannot turn them manually but each piece you buy in the Store goes in a certain direction (one horizontal and one vertical – that is how you build your fences)

What are the bales of hay, barrels and other items available for purchase for?

At this point in time they are just for decoration. The bales of hay might be used to feed the animals at some point in the game.

When I click on a tree I get a “Send as a Gift” option – what does that do?

This does not send the actual tree you have clicked on. It merely redirects you to send a gift to a Farm Town Facebook Friend (neighbour). You can only do this is you have that specific tree unlocked in the game. This will also count towards your 24 daily gift limit.

I have accidentally hidden a tree – how do I get it back?

The hide function was introduced by the developers to help farmers reach crops that may be hidden by trees or buildings. When you click on a tree (or any other item like buildings) you will receive an option to “Hide” that tree. When you activate the option the tree will temporarily disappear from your screen, leaving behind a red square where the tree normally sits. To clear this you need to reload your farm page and the tree will be back in its old position. This option is not available to people harvesting your trees – the developers are looking at a way to introduce this at a later stage.

Why won’t the pop-up menu activate when I try to select my well to move it?

Make sure that the item you are trying to select is not too close to another item on your farm e.g. a tree. You can either move the tree out of the way or use the Hide function to hide the tree. You will now be able to select the well and the pop-up menu will appear.

Why did the fruit disappear when I moved a tree and reset it to 0%?

This is only temporary. All you need to do is to reload your farm page and the tree will be back, ready to be harvested.

Why are some of the trees locked for purchase in the store?

This part of the store has not been activated yet.

Farm Town Gifts How do I send gifts to my Farm Town Facebook Friends only?

There is a Farmer Friends Tab in the middle between the All Friends and Facebook Friends tabs. When you have clicked on a gift and have proceeded to send the item these options will appear. The Farmer Friends list will show all those people who are your Facebook Friends who all have the Farm Town app loaded (these are your neighbours in Farm Town).

How many gifts can I send per day?

The current limit is around 28 (this is determined by Facebook and may change on a daily basis). You can send a gift to the same friend twice during the space of a day (AM & PM) e.g. you can send 14 gifts to 12 friends in the morning and then again to the same friends in the afternoon, or 28 gifts to different friends once a day. Gift requests reset at 12am PST (you then have a full 24-hours from that period to send your daily allotment within). Bear in mind that your neighbour requests are part of the daily limit that you have for sending gifts e.g. if you send three neighbour requests you will only be able to send 25 gifts for the day.

Why are some of my gifts missing – I accepted them in Facebook?

You need to ensure that you accept your gifts one at a time. Each time you have accepted one, click on Yes to go back and accept the others. If you try to rapidly accept your gifts in Facebook you WILL lose gifts.

Why am I no longer receiving gifts from a specific friend?

Below the accept gift button in your requests box is a small link that reads ” Ignore All Invites From This Friend” Is it possible you accidentally clicked this at some point when accepting a gift from this person?

To check this hover your pointer over the setting link in Facebook, wait for the drop down menu to pop up and choose Privacy Settings. When the page refreshes choose the Applications option. Next choose the Settings tab. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and you will see a link that says “Ignored Application Inviters”. Is the persons name listed there? If so, there should be a link to remove the block. Remember to save your changes.

Blocking Users How can I report users for inappropriate behavior?

Click on the user, and select ‘Ignore User’ in the popup menu. This will keep the user from contacting you again. If a user is reported by enough people, the user will be banned for all eternity and thereafter.

I accidentally Ignored one of my neighbours/buddies, how do I unblock them?

Click on the Accounts tab at the top of your farm screen. Click on Blocked Users next to Preferences and then unblock the user from the list that appears. Note: As soon as you have ignored someone they will be the first person on the ignored user list.

Can someone leave me messages on my farm wall if I blocked them?

Once you have blocked someone they can still access your farm if you are on their buddy list. You cannot see them or any messages they may try to leave in your chat box or on your farm wall. People visiting your farm will still be able to see them and to interact with them.

Messaging System What is the envelope on my farm screen for?

This is the messaging centre. When you have received a message red numbers will appear indicating the number of messages you have available. Click on the envelope and your messages will be opened. The message centre stores the last 10 messages that you have received. You can access these by clicking on the empty envelope. These will be overridden by incoming messages. If you click on the walking symbol on the bottom right of the message screen, you will be able to visit the farm of the person who left you the message.

Why can’t I type in the chat box when I am in full screen mode?

This is a limitation of Adobe Flash. When the game is in fullscreen mode, the keyboard is disabled. A quick fix for this is to type the message in a program like Word or Notepad and to copy and paste it into the chat box. You can also type the message in your browser address bar and copy it from there. Ctrl C can be used to Copy and Ctrl V will paste.

Other areas in Farm Town How do I access the Real Estate Office to increase the size of my farm?

You gain access to the Real Estate Office at level 15. The first upgrade will cost you $20 000 coins, the second $25 000, the third $30 000 (increasing in increments of $5 000 coins) except for the final upgrade (24×24). To gain access to each upgrade, you need to purchase the one before it – they have to be purchased in sequential order, you cannot skip an upgrade as all other upgrades will remain locked. You have to buy the 14×14 farm upgrade first and the next upgrade (16×16) will be unlocked. The 14×14 will then disappear from the Real Estate Screen. When you upgrade to the next size up the same thing will happen.

What is the Inn for?

The Inn is somewhere for players to congregate and to get to know one another. It is not a venue for people to ask for work – that is what the marketplace is for.

Super Rewards Offers I did not receive the coins from an offer that I completed, what do I do?

The service is provided by a third party which the developers of Farm Town have no control over. If you have problems click this link:[1]] for your Super Rewards Status and click on the Awarded Offers tab. This will show the current status of your purchases and offers and should provide you with a contact link.

If not, find the specific advertizer that you used on the offer list and to click on their link to access their individual site. Once there, look for their contact number or email address and contact them directly.

Technical Advice Will removing & reinstalling the application help fix errors and glitches?

Removing and reinstalling Farm Town will not make any difference at all and will not help fix any errors or glitches you may be experiencing.

What are the minimum computer requirements to successfully run Farm Town?

Many new systems are often under-powered when it comes to one critical component, RAM (memory). Some antivirus programs are notorious users of RAM, and it’s important to have enough to go around, or your operating system starts having to use disk space as temporary RAM, which is a very slow process. A minimum of 1 GB is required for XP and 2GB for Vista. If you are a gamer you will require much more. To quickly determine how much RAM your system has see this link: [[2]] You should consult your computer vendor’s website or customer support to determine if you can add more RAM to your system. Sites like Newegg’s Memory Configuration System Tool at this link: [3]can help you determine what RAM is appropriate for your system. If the RAM is cheap, my personal preference is to replace the existing chips with matched new RAM. Using RAM from different vendors in a single machine can lead to trouble.

Refer to this document (Computer Hygiene Tips) by fellow farmer, Farmer Jay, for excellent resources and advice on how to protect your computer via this link: [4]

How do I stop Farm Town e-mailing me notifications?

Hover over Settings at the top of Facebook and click Account Settings. Click the Notifications tab and if you scroll down you can turn off particular applications from notifying you by e-mail when something happens. Just turn the Farm Town one off.