First, there is a new buildable building called the Winter Workshop, and here is a Guide:

The Winter Workshop is now available in FarmVille! This new constructible building is the first major step to our FarmVille holiday season and soon enough you’ll be able to harvest special Holiday Gifts from the Winter Workshop for special use later. But first, however, just worry about getting them built as much as you can. (Updated for a little clarity.)

Workin’ on the Workshop

You’ll get the base for the Winter Workshop for free the first time you play FarmVille after the game update, and you will immediately be entered into Placement Mode. You can place the Winter Workshop base on your farm now, or you can choose to place it in your Gift Box for use later.

You’ll only be able to have one Winter Workshop at a time. If you sell yours and want another, you can find it in the Market in the “Buildings” tab for 5,000 coins. You’ll need to be level 5 in order to place and use the Winter Workshop.

The basic Winter Workshop looks pretty but you’ll need to level it first before you can start to harvest it for Holiday Gifts (when Holiday Gifts are implemented). Twelve (12) parts (4 bricks, 4 nails and 4 wooden boards) will be needed to complete construction of the first level:

Like other constructible buildings, you can acquire these parts by:

• Asking your neighbors for these parts by posting a help request to your feed (click on the “Ask For More” button for each type of part).
• Give parts to your neighbors via the Free Gifts page or the “Send Gifts” button.
• Acquire individual parts by spending Farm Cash (click on the “Buy” button for that particular part). Each part is 1 Farm Cash.
• Acquire all needed parts for the building by spending Farm Cash (click on the “Complete Now” button to purchase parts for the rest of the building). The Cost is X Farm Cash, where X is the amount of parts left needed to finish the building.
• Parts awarded through Special Delivery Boxes.
• Using individual parts available in your Gift Box.

Once you complete construction of the first level you’ll see this new window:

There are two more levels of construction; the second level requires forty-five (45) total parts (15 bricks, 15 nails and 15 wooden boards), where the meter will be halfway filled, while the third level requires an additional sixty (60) parts (20 each of the 3 above). The bigger the level of the Winter Workshop, the more Holiday Gifts you’ll get when you harvest it.

Here’s how the Winter Workshop will look:

Harvesting for Holiday Gifts will begin soon. Your neighbors will be able to harvest your Winter Workshops for Holiday Gifts as well. Enjoy!

Get your Winter Workshop today!

Second, there are some new Winter Wonderland Quests, and here is a Guide:

We are slowing rolling out this feature. Some of you may not see it for some time, so please be patient while we test it out.

Coupled together with the introduction of the Winter Workshop, the Winter Wonderland Quest is a mission to make your farm into a beautiful wonderland. And you’ll get some cool gifts for finishing this multi-stage quest, so why not get started?

You can see the quest icon at the lower left-hand side of the game. It’ll look something like this:

Click on the quest icon will bring up the quest window, which will display your current quest, your quest progress and objectives. The first Winter Wonderland Quest window looks like this:

As shown, the quest objectives are to:

• Place a Winter Workshop on your farm and
• Buy 1 Candy Arch, which you can get in the Market.

You’ll see a green checkmark by the objectives you’ve already finished. You can click “Okay” to close the window; the icon will still appear on the lower left.

Once these objectives are all reached you’ll see the completion window:

And once you close that window, the prizes will automatically be given to you (in this instance, the Pine Tree will go into your Gift Box) and you’ll return to your farm. You also have the option to Share the special gift (the Pine Tree) with your friends by making a post to your feed.

A new icon will show up if there is a next part to the Winter Wonderland Quest (there are a few more to do):

Here you can see three quest objectives; for this one you can see I’ve already added some parts to my Winter Workshop but haven’t gotten the new snow blanket for my farm, or acquired the holiday lights. For these, you can see that you have the option of posting a request to your feed, asking for Holiday Lights (“Ask Friends”) or you can simply purchase these lights for 10 Farm Cash (“Skip FV 10”). These should show up in your Gift Box (they won’t be immediately credited against the quest objective if you get them from friends).

The rest of the Winter Wonderland Quests are similar in structure, but we don’t want to give it all away—you should experience it for yourself!

Go on a wintry quest today in FarmVille!

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First, there are some new Winter Holiday Themed Decorations in the Market:

Pink Holiday Tree

Mrs. Claus Gnome

Holiday Planter

Eggnog Fountain

Dancing Snow Lady

Second, there are some new Winter Holiday Themed Buildings in the Market:

Winter Cafe

Toy Shop

Third, there are some new Winter Holiday Themed Animals in the Market:

Candy Cane Cow

Snow Goose

Fourth, there is a new Winter Holiday Themed Costume in the Market:

Santa Suit

Fifth, there is a new Winter Holiday Themed Crop in the Market:

Poinsettia (Masterable)

Sixth, there is a new Masterable Crop in the Market:

Peppermint

Seventh, the constructible Ginger Bread House has come to the Market:

(Problems are Occurring with this Feature)

Eighth, Zynga breaks ground with the launch of "CityVille,” from the Pressroom:

SAN FRANCISCO – November 17, 2010
Zynga today announced the global launch of CityVille, a new social game allowing anyone anywhere to build their dream city from the ground up. Available in beta in the coming weeks, CityVille is debuting in five languages – marking the first international game launch for Zynga. CityVille is Zynga’s most social game to date with new features that allow players to build a city, interact with friends’ cities, and build franchises with the help of their friends. The game follows on the heels of the widely-successful launch of FrontierVille, which currently has 28 million monthly users. CityVille will be available in English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish on Facebook at CityVille.com.

While Rome may not have been built in a day, the growth of a CityVille town is in the hands of the player. CityVille represents the most sprawling game board for Zynga allowing players to grow a thriving city, balance the needs of citizens, run restaurants and businesses and harvest crops. CityVille also features Zynga’s first 3D-rendered buildings and characters and represents the most interactive Zynga game board to date.

“CityVille is where Monopoly meets Main Street," said Sean Kelly, GM of CityVille. "We are thrilled to bring the world our most social game to date – building on the best-of-breed gameplay that Zynga fine-tuned with FarmVille and FrontierVille. Instead of harvesting crops you’re harvesting your neighborhood, instead of clearing your friend’s frontier you’re working on a friend’s franchise. We hope players from around the world have as much fun playing CityVille as we had building it."

As the city leader, players must guide their city to become a thriving metropolis, clearing the land and getting play-by-play tips from their own city advisor. CityVille game features include:

City Building

Build your town from the ground up! Once the land is cleared, make way for deliveries by assembling a road. Keep your residents out and about by building restaurants, stores and city services such as post offices, schools and fire departments. Build homes for your townies, and earn more money for your city by decorating them to increase the rent.

Run Your City

A happy city, is a lucrative city. Plan the layout to make residents happy, and earn money as they eat and shop. Keep them well fed at restaurants, and run sales at businesses to attract a crowd.

The People

Your characters won’t all look the same – dozens of characters and city officials will be available on launch day, including the ones who keep the city running – business owners, doctors, firemen and police officers. More people will become available as your city expands.

Goods & Trading

Goods and trading are the lifeblood of your thriving city. Plant and harvest crops to keep restaurants stocked, and population stuffed. Send ships to import goods from places such as Shanghai, London and Rome to give your townies a taste of a different culture, and buy more storage, piers and farm plots to grow the city rapidly Trading between players is encouraged – buy or sell goods to others to avoid stomach rumblings.

Neighbor Cities

Love thy neighbor. Visit your neighbors’ cities to help them secure more energy, decorations and collectible items. Be a good buddy by helping friends accelerate crop growth, expedite shipping times and construct buildings faster. Send them gifts to finish city service buildings and clear ground for them to build on. You can even own something in a friend’s city. As you go you earn experience and buy things for your own collections and to share with more friends.

Commerce & Franchises

Put that economics class to good use and grow your city. Trade with neighbors by buying or selling goods sent by rail. Offer goods to friends or buy their extra supplies when they come by to offer them. Deliver supplies via trains running at the edge of your town between all the neighbor cities. Friends can also run businesses in your city. Build an empire of business locations but don’t forget to supply them with goods. The more locations you get, the bigger you can grow your business headquarters in your own city.

Guided Play

As the city leader you must guide your city to become a thriving metropolis. The city advisor will always show you fun things to try next to make a great metropolis. Once tasks are complete, you can unlock rare buildings and decorations.

CityVille will be available at CityVille.com in English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish.

For game assets and additional information please contact press@zynga.com .

About Zynga

Zynga is the world’s largest social game developer with more than 225 million monthly active users playing their games. Zynga’s games include FarmVille, FrontierVille, Mafia Wars, Zynga Poker, Café World, Treasure Isle, YoVille, FishVille and PetVille. Zynga games are available on Facebook, MySpace and the iPad and iPhone. Through Zynga.org, Zynga players have raised more than $3 million for world social causes. Zynga is headquartered in San Francisco. For more information, visit www.zynga.com or www.zynga.org.

Ninth, the new Candy Cane Cow will produce an offspring for you friends:

Candy Cane Calf

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First, FarmVille has released the Farm Estate (28×28) for 120 Farm Cash in the Market:

Second, the Limited Edition Candy Cane Crop has been released for users after donating.

 

Candy Cane Mastery Sign

Candy Cane Bear (Reward for Donating)

Reward for Your Neighbors

Third, the Candy Canes for the Kids Co-Op has come to FarmVille:

PRIZE:

 

Candy Cane Sheep

Fourth, the Gift Box will and has increased to 500:

Fifth, FarmVille has released the Message Gifting Center:

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First, there are some new Winter Holiday Themed Decorations in the Market:

Winter Carriage

Snow Track V

Snow Track IV

Snow Track III

Snow Track II

Snow Track I

Snowy Crossing

Santa Gnome

Holiday Train

Holiday Flatbed

Holiday Cart

Holiday Car

Second, there are some new Winter Holiday Themed Buildings in the Market:

Winter Station

Holiday PO

Third, there is a new Winter Holiday Themed Animal in the Market:

Gypsy Horse

Fourth, the Unwither Ring has returned to the Market as part of the Winter Holiday Theme:

 

Fifth, the Mystery Game has been restocked with Winter Wonderland Themed Items (Nov. 28):

 

Candy Cane Unicorn

Winter Reindeer

Winter Wheel

Winter Sleigh

Winter Fountain

Arctic Hare

Sixth, FarmVille 40% Off Farm Cash for Cyber Monday only:

Seventh, Double Mastery Weekend has been extended due to Previous Technical Issues:

Eighth, the new Gypsy Horse will produce an offspring for your friends:

Gypsy Foal

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First, there are some new Winter Holiday Themed Decorations in the Market:

Lighted Train

Candy Gate

Candy Fence

Candy Arch

Second, there is a new Winter Holiday Themed Animal in the Market:

Grey Goose

Third, there are some new Thanksgiving Themed Decorations in the Market:

Pocahontas Gnome

Orange Pumpkin

Autumn Fall

Fourth, there are some new Thanksgiving Themed Buildings in the Market:

Harvest Store

Fall Nursery

Fifth, there are some new Thanksgiving Themed Animals in the Market:

Black Turkey

Paint Horse

Sixth, the new Paint Horse will make an offspring for your friends:

 

Paint Foal

Seventh, this weekend is the return of Double Mastery Weekend through Sunday:

Eighth, there are many Sponsored Links running around, like this one for Bing:

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First, the market has been changed to look more appealing, here is a guide from Stumpgrinder:

The Market has been completely updated! We’ve integrated a lot more functionality to the FarmVille Market, added some new features, and streamlined the user interface to give you a much more enjoyable shopping experience.

Note: Currently only some of you will see the new Market while we make sure everything is working properly. Don’t worry, soon enough you will all get access to it!

Black Rose seeds: Right now the giftable Black Rose seeds are not showing up in the updated Market. You haven’t lost them, they’re just not displaying—we’ll get that fixed soon.

Navigating the Updated Market

You can access the Market by simply clicking on the Market button at the bottom right of the FarmVille screen as always. The Market is now divided into seven categories:

• Specials
• Seeds & Trees
• Animals
• Buildings
• Decorations
• Farm Aides
• Clothes

The first time you see the Market you’ll be on the Specials tab by default, though afterwards you’ll be first shown whichever tab you were on the last time you used the Market. The Specials tab is arranged a little differently than the others; you are shown three special items we’d like you to know about, like the Mystery Game, specific Limited Edition theme sets, or other new features. If they are sets of items you can click on the “View” button to look through those selections; other features like the Mystery Game will have a “Play Now!” button that’ll bring you directly to it.

All purchasable items (including Limited Edition theme and other timed items) are split up into the other six categories. You can easily navigate between these categories just by clicking on them. Each category is also split into a number of sub-categories, depending on the category. By default you’ll always be on the “All” subcategory, which displays everything in that category.

Each Market display page shows up to six items; if there are more than six, you’ll see arrows on the right- or left-hand side of the window that you can click on to move between the pages of items. Each item entry has all the information you’re used to seeing in the old Market, including Buy and Sell prices, harvest times, XP gain, how much time left to purchase that item (if it’s on a timer), the Limited Edition theme it’s a part of (if applicable) and an icon representing the item. If the icon has a “?” symbol on the upper left, it’s usually a special item (like a buildable structure) and you can move your mouse over the “?” to see the longer description. An item that cannot be purchased will show the “Locked” image in place of the “Buy” button; moving your mouse over this will tell you why you can’t buy it. The “Send” button will also appear for certain items that you can buy and immediately send to a neighbor.

You’ll also see a “Preview” button under the icon for many of the items.

Clicking this will pop up a new window and show the item on a farm field next to a typical avatar, empty farm plot and a hay bale (for size purposes). This way you can see exactly what it’d look like on your farm.

For Clothes we use the “Try On” button, which will bring you to the Character Customization window.

To the right of the line of sub-category boxes you’ll see the “Sort By” pull-down menu. Here you can select how you want to sort and display the items in that sub-category. For instance, if I click on “Seeds & Trees” and then “Sort By”, I’ll see that I can display all of the seeds and trees in ten different ways such as Lowest Price, Longest Harvest Time, etc. Here we’ve sorted everything by Shortest Harvest Time:

Not all categories will have all of these sorting options, however. The sort method will stay the same as long as you stay in the sub-category, so if you select to sort by “Mastery Level” for “All” on “Seeds & Trees”, this type of sorting will stay as you move through “Fruits”, “Grains”, etc. until you change the way the information is sorted or you change categories.

The last new feature you’ll see with the new Market is the “Best Sellers” strip at the very bottom. Here you can see some of the top selling items in FarmVille at that moment. Moving your mouse cursor over each item will show all the standard information about that item mentioned above, including the “Preview” and “Buy” buttons.

Second, there are some new Thanksgiving Themed Decorations in the Market:

Turkey Balloon

Pumpkin Planter

Pilgrim Carriage

Pilgrim Girl

Third, there is a new Thanksgiving Themed Building in the Market:

Squash Home

Fourth, there are some new Thanksgiving Themed Animals in the Market:

Autumn Cow

Silkie Chicken

Fifth, the Mystery Game has been updated with some new prizes (Nov 23):

 

White Unicorn

 

Fall Bridge

 

Autumn Fountain

Skunk

 

Hedgehog

 

Chaffinch

 Sixth, there are some new Winter Holiday Themed Decorations in the Market:

Santa Scarecrow

Mini Train Set

Gumdrop Tree

Seventh, there are some new Winter Holiday Themed Clothing in the Market:

Reindeer

Holiday Tree

Snowflake Sweater

Snowman Sweater

Eighth, there is a new limited edition Snow Collection Set in FarmVille:

 

 

Icicle

Snowball

Snowflake

Coal Lump

Wool Scarf

Mitten

 

Reward – Cow Snow Globe

Ninth, you can now make some special Thanksgiving recipes:

Tenth, there is a new iPhone Only Thanksgiving Themed Decoration in the Market:

Thanksgiving Cart

Eleventh, there are some new Chicken Coop Expansions available, guide by Stumpgrinder:

We’ve introduced an additional two rounds of expansions to the Chicken Coop! Previously you could expand your Coops twice so it could hold sixty chickens; now with an additional two expansions your Chicken Coop can now hold one hundred!

Making your Super Coop
The mechanic for expanding the Coop has not changed. Click on the Chicken Coop, and then choose “Expand Storage”:

You’ll be shown this Storage Expansion page, where you can see all of the storage buildings currently on your farm, as well as access to your stored Inventory and the option to expand that storage (you can also get to this screen by accessing your Storage Cellar/Barn):

Expansion for the Chicken Coop can happen one of two ways:

• The “Expand” button – asks you to make a post about a barn raising. Ten of your neighbors will need to click on the feed post over the next three days to create the expansion.
• The “Buy” button—instead of the barn raising, you can purchase the next expansion for ten (10) Farm Cash.

Each expansion increases the number of chickens the coop can hold by twenty (20). If you had previously expanded your coop to sixty before the added expansions, you can now expand two times more, each expansion adding the ability to hold twenty more chickens.

Once you have the ability to store one hundred chickens, your Chicken Coop now becomes the Super Coop.

Start expanding your Chicken Coop now!

Twelfth, the new Autumn cow will produce an offspring for your friends:

Autumn Calf

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Hey there, Farmers!

This week’s podcast is now live. Check it out to get information on our new features, as well as an exclusive sneak peek of things coming your way soon!

Please find the Transcript of this week’s podcast below:

FarmVille Podcast – Nov 19th:

Hey Farmers and welcome to this week’s installment of the Official FarmVille Podcast! My name is Lexilicious and I am here to bring you all of the latest news and information about FarmVille from Zynga. This week, we will be discussing our latest releases and you guys will all be getting an exclusive sneak peek of things coming to FarmVille in the near future. 

This week we will be spending a majority of the Podcast discussing our new Thanksgiving Feast and new Limited Edition items, however before we get into the details of our latest releases, I would like to give everyone a quick reminder about our latest Community Event. Now, we know that our Farmers can harvest crops, plow fields and tend to livestock like no one else. But the holiday season is fast approaching, and the FarmVille team has decided to celebrate the fall harvest a little differently this year. 

It’s time for everyone to get off their tractors, put down their pitchforks and grab an apron! We want to see FarmVille come to life… in baked form! Get those creative juices flowing and recreate your favorite FarmVille themes, animals or decorations into yummy desserts and post a picture on the forums for us to see.

We’ll be picking five winners for the best cakes, five winners for the best cookies, and five winners for any original dessert! (This means you can make pies, cupcakes or whatever dessert your heart desires). Bonus points will be given to farmers who name their desert and give us a brief explanation of their creation.

The winners from each category will be receiving 1000 Farm Cash, 1,000,000 Coins and any Limited Edition FarmVille item of your choice (as long as it is currently available in-game or has been previously released*). 

Now, there seems to be a little bit of confusion around how this event works, so I just want to re-iterate that this contest requires you to go out to your grocery store, bake something for us in real life, take a photograph of your creation and post it on the Official FarmVille forums. This is not an in-game event.

The dessert contest will be ending at 6:00 PM on December 1st, so pre-heat those ovens, grab your flour and enter today for your chance to win big.

And as we all know, It’s now the season to give thanks in FarmVille and what better way of doing that than distributing some tasty Dishes to your neighbors and collecting enough to redeem some exclusive prizes along the way? The new Thanksgiving Feast allows players to not only show their generosity to their Neighbors, but also gives you a chance to earn brand new items for your Farm.

You’ll get your Thanksgiving Feast for free the first time you play FarmVille, and you will immediately be entered into Placement Mode. You can place the Thanksgiving Feast on your farm now, or you can choose to place it in your Gift Box for use later. You’ll need to be level 5 or higher in order to place and use this new feature.

Once the Thanksgiving Feast is on the farm you can click on it, then select “Look Inside” to see information on your Feast. The Thanksgiving Feast works like many of the other “basket”-type events in FarmVille. You can gather various Dishes and put them into the Feast and then redeem these Dishes for one of six exclusive prizes like the “Thank Ewe” and “Harvest Fountain”.

You can acquire Dishes by Requesting a Dish from your neighbors directly, purchasing Dishes with Farm Cash, Opening Special Delivery Boxes and Harvesting your Turkey Roost.

As you gather the Dishes in your Gift Box, just click on the “Use” button and they’ll go into your Thanksgiving Feast. The corn meter will fill up on the left side of the Feast window as you add in more Dishes. You can click on the “Comparison” button to compare how many Dishes you’ve accumulated with your neighbors.

There are 5 dishes available on the free gifts page that you can redeem for Prizes. To get a prize, simply click on the “Redeem” button next to the prize you want. if you have enough Dishes, you’ll be asked to confirm the purchase, and if you hit “Accept” the prize will be stored in your Gift Box.

The look of the Thanksgiving Feast on the farm and your event “title” also changes depending on how many Dishes you’ve accumulated. The more dishes you have gathered, the more colorful and elaborate your Feast will be.

If you sell the Thanksgiving Feast, you can purchase a new one for 5,000 coins in the Market. After December 1, 2010 you will no longer be able to gift additional Dishes, ask for additional Dishes, or purchase Dishes with Farm Cash from the Market. The Thanksgiving Feast will also be removed from the Market and Dishes will no longer be available with the Special Delivery Box.

Along with the new Thanks giving feast, we have also released new Limited Edition Thanksgiving items and a very enchanting new theme. The Agricultural Alchemy Limited Edition set was introduced on Tuesday, bringing with it some very magical new items, like the Sorcerer Pig and the Griffin. For anyone who has purchased the Sorcerer Pig, please know that we are working on fixing the animation for this item, so your pigs will soon fly around your farm as originally intended. Now, our Agricultural Alchemy theme is a completely different take on our Limited Edition items, and we are very interested to hear your feedback about this particular style of art. Are you a fan of items with a fantasy theme? Or would you prefer that our Limited Edition sets were more realistic? Make sure to let us know what you have to say by visiting the “feedback” section of the Official FarmVille forums.

And on that note, let’s get into the coming soon segment of this week’s podcast! 

First up, I want to let everyone know that the Limited Edition Winter Holiday items will start in the very near future, and will feature re-releases of some of your favorite items from last year!

We will also be releasing expansion for your Chicken Coops and the new Winter Workshop! The Winter Workshop is a constructable building from which you can harvest coins. When the Holiday Tree makes its debut, you will also be able to collect special goodies that will help you make presents!

Be on the lookout for all of these great new features in the coming weeks and make sure to tune into our future podcasts for more details. Alright folks, that’s it from me this week. Again, my name is Lexilicious and I would like to thank everyone for listening. I will be back December 3rd to bring you all the latest news and information from around the Farm. Happy Farming everybody!

Link: FarmVille Official Forum

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