- Open your game, harvest the crops and plow.
- Go Offline, using the plug symbol on the top tool bar
- RIGHT CLICK on Play, and open in new tab (or new window) (I will refer to them as tabs from hereon, since that's the method I use personally)
- Go to the new tab (or new window) and take that one offline too
- Repeat the process from 3. until you have all the tabs you need, and all are offline. 4 tabs will allow for 4 different crops, 5 will give you 5 crops and so on. The number of tabs you need is dependent on what your pc will do and what you want to plant.
- You can plow the harvested layer, but DO NOT PLANT ON IT! Refresh your screen and plow it again! Every time you plow, the xp and coins count will be correct, both for you and the helper, but, you will be charged the rate for plowing, with 10, 15 or 20 coins, depending on the method you use. This is great if you have loads of money, to help your neighbours or buddies to level up, but if you are short of cash, don't do it! You can plow the layer right up until the time for the next crop to be harvested, at which time you go to second choice. This option has now been disabled for Facebook users.
- The second choice is simply to remove the harvested fields using the bulldozer. You get green grass when you do this, which can be worrying, but when you finish clearing, just refresh and the next layer becomes visible. you can then go ahead and harvest if it's ready, (if you planted all the same term crops, it would be) or wait for it to ripen to harvest.
Here's the method:
Preparation:
Planting:
Make sure you have enough coins to cover the full cost of planting all the layers! A rough guide for 500 fields is: for one day crops, allow no less than 100,000 coins, for 2 day, 350,000, 3 day 550,000 and if you want to mix them up, then 700,000 should see you through! This can get considerably larger depending on the number of fields you plant, the types of crops, and the number of layers.
Plant crops in day order, longest time period crop first. This only matters if you are planting multiple days, or raspberries and grapes. For example, if you are planting 1, 2, 3 and 4 day crops, plant them in reverse order. So the order would be pumpkins on the first tab, coffee on the second tab, peas on the third and Cabbage on the last. There is no reason why you can't mix and match the crops on each tab, so long as they all have the same growth time, i.e. cabbage, strawberries, watermelon and potatoes all on the one layer. just take care not to plant different time crops on a tab, as it will affect the crops further down. you don't want a 3 day crop above a one day crop, do you?
Plant the entire area you want to layer on the first tab, then save it. Don't be tempted to swap from one tab to another, the crops will all get mixed up if you do.
Close the tab down and start with the next layer. Keep saving after each tab is finished until you get to the final one, when you save and refresh. If you get the timeout screen, save, don't hit the green tick! (This process can take a while, so it isn't unusual for the tabs to time out before you get round to using them)
Don't worry about the xp and coins counters, they will catch up at the end. If you want to check your points tally, then make a note of the starting xp, then when you refresh after the last layer, note that number too, deduct the one from the other and be amazed!
Harvesting:
This is simple if you follow the steps below:
When the first layer is ready for harvest, call in the harvesters! Myspace Users: You now have two choices;
When you reach the final layer, harvest and plow, ready to replant, then refresh to make sure that all the crops are removed.
One final note:
There is no guarantee that this will not change in the future. the game is under development and if the developers consider this to be a "glitch" they may well stop it without notice! Do this at your own risk!
It may take a while for you to work out the best plan for you, so try a small area first and see how it works.
