10 Tips to Earn Coins and Level Up in Farmville
Published by Mitchell Carrington on August 26, 2009 in Online
Admit it, you’ve played FarmVille. Heck, you’re probably just as addicted to it as I am. I feel I’ve accomplished a lot on my farm and I’d like to share my 10 FarmVille tips with you! Happy Farming!
- Invite your friends to be your neighbors. This will help you unlock ribbons (which gives you some extra cash and XP) and allows you to unlock additional farm sizes.
- Send gifts to your FarmVille friends as much as you can. They will appreciate it and return the favor. When a friend send you a gift, keep it in your gifts box. The more unique gifts you can get, the more ribbons you will unlock.
- Try to focus on using seeds. Seeds are cheap and are currently much easier to mass produce than trees and animals.
- Buy seeds according to the amount of time you play. If you play all day, buy seeds like raspberries, as they are ready to harvest in 2 hours. If you only play once a day look into seeds that take a day (or more) to grow.
- Buy the tractor when you have the required level and money. Not only does it save time, it gives you a large amount of XP which helped me gain 2 levels in 2 minutes!
- Check out the ribbons (achievements) you can earn, as these will earn you money and XP if you achieve them. The early ribbons have small rewards, but as you advance towards the blue ribbon the rewards become more hefty.
- When are able to buy a larger property, buy it. This will help you with mass production, which is what you want to succeed as a farmer in FarmVille.
- Set a timer to remind you when your crops will be ready to harvest. Last thing you want is to open FarmVille and find all your raspberries withered. This can turn into a big deal if you have a huge farm full of withered crops.
- Unless you are trying to achieve ribbons, try not to buy many decorations or buildings, these cost money and take up valuable space! Sell them once you get your achievement, that way you get spare coins and more free space for crops.
- Place everything you own as close together as possible; leave no empty space on your lot! You can never plow all of your land, there is always that little spot that will stay unplowed. Fill it with trees and animals, this way every inch of your land is making you money!
If you’ve enjoyed this article, please check out my other FarmVille article: 10 Farmville No-Nos and 10 Farmville Tips for a Good Looking Farm
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Actually, I disagree about the crops thing. I’ve been playing for months and except to get the “Green Thumb” ribbon I only harvest soybeans because you get an over 400% profit. It’s got the biggest cost-to-profit ratio. Then, even as I was trying to get the “Green Thumb” ribbon I would only plant, like, 5 of any other crop. So I would suggest only planting soybeans because you will get more profit for your buck.
interesting name carrington quite rare! just becom addicted to farmvill along with the rest of my family, i agree the best way to get to higher levels is to pack as much as possible on your farm and buy the cheapest buildings and decorations to achieve required levels for ribbons the sell them off.
regards, don carrington,(cornwall, england)
These are great points. I find it helps if you have friends who are in higher levels, so they can gift you stuff that you cant buy.
Can someone explain the strategy behind the FV cash…. How does it get accounted……. Please help!!!
I don’t know how you are evaluating profit to recommend soybeans. By my calculations (yeah, I’m so addicted I keep spreadsheets on crops and friends) this is not true. What I found was once you reach a certain level, the profit margin changes. I have used this to my advantage by planting crops with the best return and keeping a small section for every new crop at each level so I can work toward another ribbon. I also spent one whole day not gifting anyone so I could use all 20 of the combined gifts and neighbors — I maxed out my blue ribbon in a day and now can gift almost all of my neighbors each day.
Shirlyn, you need to account for profit per hour not overall profit margin… subtract the cost of the seed from the sell price of the plant and divide by the number of hours it takes to be ready to harvest… this will tell you which plants give you the most profit per hour which is a much better metric than the one you speak of to maximize capital growth.
When you get to the level to plant Grapes. I suggest planting ONLY Grapes, they are amazing at exp and coins.