How to build Farm Cash for your Items:
A lot of us struggle with Farm Cash and finding ways to afford the expensive items for our farms is becoming more of a test all the time, especially as they seem to be getting more expensive with each new addition!
Here is a possible solution to the problem. It is not essentially against the TOS of facebook, as long as you use your head.
The object of this How-to is to help you to create Farm Cash for those items you can't afford on your main account. There's no sensible way to increase your own FC without new levels being introduced or digging into your wallet and spending real dollars to buy them, so what I do is Gift the Items from a Secondary Account.
How do we achieve this?
Firstly, you need a second or alternate account on Facebook. TOS states that you can only have one personal account with them, so you need to set it up using a family member's name and email address. I have 6 children, so I didn't have a problem!
Ok, you now have the alternate account set up with facebook, so invite them to play Farm Town! I'm sure your son or daughter would love to play!
The farm is up and you go through the wonderful introductory help to get to your new farm. It has a few coins and some crops ready to harvest, and don't forget the Mayors gift!
This is where we start to play crafty. Don't do anything on the farm, except harvest those crops for the coins! Now, head straight for the Market Place and get some more coins under your belt, and the first few levels out of the way. they go very quickly, and one good plow-hire will usually set you up to level 7 straight away.
The goal here is to reach level 25 and full size on the farm. This can take an hour or a day, depending on how much work you can get, or if you play like I do, you work your main account's farm to get this underway. Make the most of the double coins for fertilized crops too.
If you really want to get started on the farm, plant a short-term crop for points while you work to expand and build coins. Also, go to the gift links and download trees by the hundred! Pick the 2 day harvest trees, they hold a good market value for crops and are a fast turn-around, as well as free!
As you expand the farm up to full size, add more trees and plow under them, wall to wall. Remember the target here isn't to make the farm look nice, isn't to make it beautiful, it's to make FC, so don't spend one cent on anything other than crops and plowing! Every coin will count later on.
Usually, within a day you will have reached the first goal, full sized farm and cash to spare. Now comes the real planning stage. We need coins, not points here. Here we have two options, and you can use either or both if you are able to. Due to the un-reliability of the Tab Harvesting, I have detailed a second option for raising coins.
Option 1: Tab Harvesting
Start by layering the farm with one, two, three and four day crops. 4 layers will suffice, but 8 will make sure! If you can't get enough coins from this first plant, you may repeat it again.
Choose your crops carefully, I would recommend using Mint for one day, Rice for two day, Coffee for three day and pumpkins for 4 day. Why those crops? Because they hold the highest coins return at the level you are now!
You may have hit another level or two by the time you're planted up, but that's ok. Here we go into the final stage of the plan:
Let the one day crop ripen. When it's ready, then it's time to harvest, but we are going to do it differently this time. Open as many tabs as your pc can handle. For harvesting, ten tabs is brilliant, but if you can't get ten, then go as far as you can. You can even use several computers here to open more tabs! I know of one person that reportedly used 7 laptops for harvesting this way! Beg or borrow if you need to.
Ok, you have all the tabs open now and are ready to get going. But how?
The first tab you set to harvest to store. this puts crops into the store for sale later on. ALL the other tabs are set to Harvest for Coins! Divide the farm into 4 quarters, using either a count of fields, (16 x 16 if you have planted wall to wall) or some other method that you devise.
Start to harvest. Pick one quarter only and harvest that same quarter on all the tabs. The reason for doing it this way is simple. There is a cut-off built into the game that only allows you to repeat harvest a portion of your farm. Once you exceed this number, (around 250 - 300 IME) then you get nothing from the extra tabs. So harvest the farm one quarter at a time, resetting all the tabs after completion of each quarter. 4 runs and the one day crop has been harvested, the coins went up substancially and you have stock in the store! If you went ahead and planted more than 4 layers, then you may have a second harvest to do too!
Day two is a repeat of the process all over again, as is day 3 and 4. By the end of day 4, if you managed to run 10 tabs per harvest, you will have realised a huge stock of coins, and still be on level 25-27.
Now comes the fun part! when the final harvest is in, delete the fields so you have a clear farm. Oh, by the way, don't forget you should have also been harvesting the trees too! Sell your crops and empty the store, it all counts.
Option 2: Facilities Working
If you have good friends that play the game, this is a very viable alternative to the tab harvesting. Get as many farmer friends as you can to accept your friend request. They do not need to become neighbours. Then just watch your wall and answer every facilities request! Work all their facilities and then sell the produce at the market. This will bring in very good returns in quite a short space of time if your friends have good facilities! (Thank you Marcia for the suggestion!)
Ok, your coins target here is 50 million coins. It may sound a lot, but it's not very difficult to reach it using either or both methods. Read on!
You have a wonderful empty farm now, so lets fill it up...... with something from the store! The small items, like hay bales are great, buy one, then repeat with the multi-buy, when the farm is full, delete with the dozer and choose the option not to keep asking! In theory 10 million coins will be ample to get you to level 115 in comfort, but using small items like this it takes a while to get there! You get 5 points per bale at a cost of 50 coins per bale, so it's a 10 coins per point ratio as opposed to the more expensive items that return a 100 coins per point ratio. If you did particularly well on the tab harvesting, then the big items will achieve the result much quicker, but otherwise, use the items below 5000 coins, as they can be deleted without any problems.
It takes time to fill and empty the farm with items, but it all counts towards the end result, Farm Cash! The larger items cost more but build faster, the smaller items take much longer to reach the target, but save a lot of coins. How you go about spending all the money you accrued is up to you, but watch the coins as they shoot in a downwards direction! If you fall short of the target, then repeat the layering and run the harvesting again, but in any event, the whole procedure shouldn't take more than a week to complete to level 115! That will realise at least 120 FC, enough to gift 3 or 4 FC items to your main account.
