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• gameplay improvements:
  – we have a new setting, Stock indicators, that when enabled, shows little circles of different colors in the Gear selector popups, Kitchen, Craft Shack, Lemonade Stand, etc. This way, it’s much easier for you to see at a glance what produce or recipes you don’t have, and what you need more of. Especially useful when completing Orders.
       – Red circle = no stock in your Barn.
       – Yellow circle = stock under 5 items in your Barn.
  – Recipes popup (the one with the Make button) now shows how many recipes you have in your Barn, so you don’t have to always get out to this popup. Hover over the Recipe image or Recipe title.
  – added when is the next time a Special Order appears, after you complete one. Hover over any Special Order in the Special Orders popup.

• bug fixes and performance improvements:
  – improved game loading performance and size at refresh.
  – improved UI, so it takes less RAM space, so for players with old computers on the RAM limit should give less freezes.
  – fixed a Chicken Coop bug, Tyrone freezing when eating Popcorn plus other several bugs.
  – improved the way the game handles Out of sync events.

• new Settings menu. We have regrouped the settings to be more clear and fixed some issues there. There is also a new Privacy section in the XP Bar > Farmer Profile tab, that also got an upgrade. Two settings have moved there.

• Mushroom House bug:
  – there was a bug with the Mushroom House since last year, that always gave Energy bars, between 1 and 2. Supposed behavior was that it should give Energy Bars in the same amount as the other gifts, not always.
  – also there was another bug (this one since many years ago), that didn’t limit how many houses you are allowed to have on your farm (a maximum of 1).
  We fixed the bug, but many players wrote us asking about why the houses don’t give Energy Bars like they used to. Upon more investigations, we saw many players had more than 10 Mushroom Houses. This clearly was not the intended goal when we launched them.

  Please keep in mind that you should always read the items descriptions, consult the Help section, or ask us directly about details of the game. The Mushroom House description says “Visit every 3 hours during Easter to receive a new gift! The Mushroom House is inhabited by a very generous character. It also has at least 3 rooms, because you can turn on and off the lights by clicking on the windows.” — it does not promise any gift in particular, it just says you receive gifts. This is in response to players writing us about the Gifts.

  Also, as per our Terms and Conditions (and as any game’s Terms, for that matter), if you find a bug or an exploit, you should report it to us. However, clearly this wasn’t your fault or an obvious bug, so:

  – all players with more than 1 Mushroom House will have them deducted and the RC refunded to their accounts, with 49 RC for each Mushroom House.
  – you obviously get to keep also all rewards the little villages of Mushroom Houses gave.

  Next year, we will reintroduce the Energy Packs back in the Gifts list for the Mushroom House, and it will be as generous as before or even more, comparative to a single house now.

• various improvements:
  – fixed an Automation bug where when moving Lemonade and Ice Cream Stands gave an Automation error.
  – various other bug fixes.

• removed the Easter decorations from the Shop and made a few “neutral” ones available all-year-round.

  PS: we know that for some players Tulips, Narcissus and chocolate eggs are missing from Barn. This happened during a scheduled upgrade of our servers. You will have them back on your Barn very soon.

• new feature! You can claim Ribbons directly from the Activity tab for Orange Neighbors, since you are not friends on Facebook and you can’t collect through the Facebook channels (posts on their page, groups, Fan Pages).
  – working on Ribbons activities remain in the Activity tab for 3 days.
  – earned a Ribbon activities for Facebook friends remain in the Activity tab for 3 days.
  – earned a Ribbon activities for Orange Neighbors, for Like & Collect! remain in the Activity tab for 1 day.

• there is a second page for Frank’s Exchange, where you can exchange Purple Vouchers for Train Tickets and Fuel for Power.
• various improvements:
  – Orders texts now don’t overflow their cards.
  – effects when earning XP, OP, Power are now more precise when icons go to their value bars.
  – clicking on an Order items (Info, Go to Gear…) now work for many more items, and when you click on any of these buttons to open a popup window, when you close it, you get the Orders popup back.

• various additions and improvements:
  – players who won the Easter Contest now can claim the Rooster. You can also name him. In the following days, we will continue to improve the Coop and Rooster behaviour.
  – added hedges and topiaries (the ones from the Beau Jardin set, the one with the Peacock) in the Decorations tab. Added a new Hedges & Topiaries sub-filtering category (bottom left of the Shop window).
  – added the Water Lilies Pond in the Shop and added small animations. If you find the center leaf on the pond and click on it, you will disturb the cousin of Dennis (the little creature from the Bellflower Meadow swamp).
  – edited the Easter Quests popups for clarity. Now we have Quests and Subquests (each Quest can have between 1 and 4 Subquests). No more of that confusion with days and what a quest is not being clear enough, we hope.

• various additions and improvements:
  – added the Chocolate Eggs Collection to the Seasonal Collections tab. It will remain there for farmers who completed this Collection.
  – NEW FEATURE! – you can now add your Ameraucana Eggs Collection to the Barn for a really nice profit and XP, and start another Collection!
          Features:
          – only the first Ameraucana Eggs Collection gives a Golden Chicken statue.
          – now, when you find a new Ameraucana Egg color, it will be added to the Collection, and the others (already discovered colors) are added to the Barn. Before, the egg ‘magically’ was added to both the Barn and Collection.
          – you can click to pack the Collection in a nice display Crate. This step is undoable, just in case you don’t want to start another collection and just clicked out of curiosity. In the next popup, you can Unpack it (undo), or Add it to the Barn (permanent change) and start another Collection.
  – added the Lily of the Valley, Magnolia Fairy Cream, Snowdrops, Lilac and Crocus seed boxes to the Shop, for players who didn’t complete last year’s contest.

• bug fixes:
  – fixed a bug with crops growth time in Bellflower Meadow not being calculated correctly if you had irrigation and/or greenhouses.

• New Easter Contest! Head over to our Fan Page to check out the big prize for this year’s contest, the Rooster. A cool gift also awaits you in our first comment to our last post. And, don’t forget to LIKE and SHARE if you like the contest!

  Click here to see the article about the contest.

  Contest prizes:
  – 1 Rooster
  – 1 single new type of Chicken Coop
  – 3 Tulip varieties
  – 3 Narcissus varieties

  Features:
  – the old Chicken Coop is now named Chicken Yard. The new Chicken Coop, the one with a blue house, shelters up to 5 Chickens and 1 Rooster.
  – the new Chicken Coop sometimes boosts egg production with up to 1 Egg (because the chickens now have a sheltered coop and feel more protected, thus happier).
  – the Rooster also boosts egg production with up to 2 Eggs (he protects the chickens and they are happier, and sometimes we suspect he finds worms and other delicacies for them, plus… other stuff).

  So, if you have a Chicken Coop with 5 Chickens and 1 Rooster in it, you can collect up to 8 Eggs with just 5 feedings of Corn!

  Happy Easter from the CLM team! 🙂

• today we’re introducing a new feature, Daily Tasks! These are simple tasks you can complete for extra rewards. Key characteristics:
  – a Daily Tasks quest appears daily and resets once the interval expires. To see the countdown, hover over the quest.
  – once you complete them, you can claim the reward from inside the popup. Once you claim it, the quest disappears and appears again the next day.
  – if you clear the Blue Dot, the quest appears again, so you can claim the reward for the Blue Dot.
  – if you miss claiming a reward, the rewards queue up in the popup.
  – completing the Daily Tasks and also clearing the Blue Dot instantly activates the Daily Player badge.
  – Daily Tasks requirements increase as you level up. Rewards increase also.

February 22, 2022 (lots of 2’s)

UPDATE: ‘Orange’ Neighbors is a Beta feature, so there might be a few hours until we iron things out, and about a day until we implement all your suggestions. This feature is absolutely necessary for the future of the game.

• New Feature! You can now add Neighbors without having to be friends with them on Facebook! How it works:
  – there is a new tab in your Neighbors popup. There you’ll find players you can add to your Neighbors bar. They will appear in your Neighbors list with an orange color instead of the usual green color.
  – you can add up to 10 ‘orange’ Neighbors.
  – you can Send/Receive up to 50 invites for this new type of Neighbors.
  – after you’ve added a Neighbor, you will have to wait for 3 days in order to remove them from your Neighbors bar.
  – before accepting or sending invites, you can look over their stats by checking out their Farmer Business Cards (details below), to see if they are daily players, etc.
  – there is a new Neighbor Key (a unique 6-digit code generated automatically for you). You can give your key to anybody, and they can send you invites, or you can invite them to be your Neighbor, if they give you their Neighbor Key. Of course, if you post your Key on groups, you might get LOTS of Neighbor requests, so WE ADVISE GIVING THE NEIGHBOR KEY ONLY IN PRIVATE MESSAGES, NOT ON FACEBOOK GROUPS.
  – there is a new Setting – Appear in search for Neighbors. If you disable it, you won’t be visible in the Search For Neighbors tab for other players.
  
  Adding Facebook Friends as Neighbors works just as before. The only difference is you will find their invites in the new Invitations tab, instead of the Inbox tab, so you don’t mix Neighbors with Gifts.

  Why this feature?

  We saw that 60% of players don’t have any Neighbors, and farming is a lot more fun with Neighbors. Neighbors send you gifts, precious building materials and special ingredients. Also, they can be a great source of inspiration in farm design and game progress.

  Of course, some of you prefer to play alone, and in this case you can just ignore the new Search for Neighbors tab. But many players want to have Neighbors, but they don’t want to befriend somebody on Facebook for it. So, we listened to you and created this new feature.

  When we created the Neighbors system, Facebook worked in a different way, and games did things according to that. What we do now is just adapting our system to the new way of doing things, so the initial social part of the game works again as intended.

• New Feature! Farmer Business Cards – express your style by creating your own Business Card that shows your stats and records! Choose between 11 backgrounds and 10 symbols, for a total of 110 combinations!
• bug fixes and improvements:
  – level up reward is received AFTER closing the popup, so you can clearly see it adds up.
  – fixed Joe cutting shrubs one by one and not finishing the Plan.
  – shop info popup optimization and bug fix (some black triangles appearing).
  – fixed Evaporator sometimes not showing tasting results for slow computers.
  – mine boulders generated correctly before entering The Mines.
  – fixed Seeding tool (1 4 9) sometimes not saving which seeds have been planted.
  – skip delete confirmation for shrubs and shrub beds.
  – improved joe path towrards objects when executing plans

• added the Christmas Lollipops collection to the Collections tab, for players who completed this contest.

• fixed a bug where Neighbors appeared and disappeared. Was related to some invites not being answered in less than 24 hours.

• updated the Game so that you can claim Conan if you got the 3 Donkeycoins to save him.

  How it works:
  – to find Conan around the farm, hover over the Map icon and click on Find Conan. He roams anywhere on the free land around the farm.
  – you can feed Conan 1 Carrot (this resets every 3 hours), and receive 100 XP. Once you select the Carrot, Conan will run after it, so you can guide him around the farm like this… in a way. You should feed him faster if you care for your ears, though. 🙂

  With this little donkey, you achieve more with the carrot than with the stick.

  Bonus:
  – if you have the Smelter (thus Bellflower Meadow), you can put Donkey Shoes on Conan and have him wear them for good luck.
  – after 20 hours, you can click to startle him, so he can kick back and lose a shoe each time he’s startled. He only loses the back ones, so you’ll have to do this twice.
  – craft Lucky Donkey Shoe Souvenirs in the Craft Shack and sell them. There is no special order for them, and they will bring a NICE profit.

  Wishing you and your families happiness, health, and prosperity in 2022. All the best from the CLM team! Happy New Year! 🙂

• The Holidays are here! Head over to our Fan Page, where you finally get to know the story of Conan the donkey, who his owner is, and why you are finally able to rescue him. A cool gift also awaits you in our first comment to our last post. And, don’t forget to LIKE and SHARE if you like the contest!

  Click here to see the article about the contest.

  But, if I buy the donkey, I won’t get any more Fuel for the Orchard Grass, you say? Well, don’t worry about that. 😉

  Happy Holidays from the CLM team! 🙂