A Late Summer Vacation Menu
New Tropical Recipes! Be sure to check our Fan Page for more details, and where a cool (and useful) gift also awaits you inside the post text, as a Coupon Code you can claim from inside the game. And, don’t forget to LIKE and SHARE if you like making Recipes, and for more Gifts!
These Recipes are meant to patch the holes for the new Crops and Fruits, and we will add more in the near future, for the ones that still aren’t used in any Recipes.
Beautified the Cows
As announced before, we redesigned the Cows, and reordered them by their Milk production. Holstein is now the Cow that produces Milk the fastest, just as in real life.
To the left is the original Cow from 2009, middle is the one that was replaced.
We hope you’ll enjoy their new look, and the few extra animations (they look at the trough and moo sometimes, to signal they’re hungry, whereas before we had no animations for the moo, the Cows were mimes.
In the game, we just renamed the IDs between them, so you have the same number of RC premium Cows you had before.
Improvements
- We massively improved the performance of the game in several areas, to best fit Instant Games upcoming launch, and overall game experience:
- for a maxed out farm, now memory is down from about 450MB to 360 MB. Our target was under 500 MB. When we initially started the optimization process, the game had 700-1000 MB.
- initial download size for a maxed out farm is significantly less too. This benefits players that won many Event animals, and also makes adding more animals in the future easier. Why – now the game loads their animations progressively, on demand. Before, it loaded them all at once.
- overall game size is 12% less, after some cleanup and optimizations. We went from Flash to HTML5, and all migration and refactoring left behind unused files that we now discovered and removed.
- Fixed Neighbors
- we refactored and simplified Neighbor list – now they are all brown, and your Facebook friends have a blue dot when you hover right over their name. Daily Players are in green.
- When you send Gifts to a Neighbor, now the inactive ones go to the bottom of the list, no matter what sorting you choose. This makes sending Gifts simpler and easier.
- Added smooth scrolling for the list.
- added Filtering, and separated Zzz Neighbors into their own list, and separated them by how long they are sleeping, longest at the top.
- fixed a long-standing bug that didn’t show you Neighbors to add in the Add More! tab.
- over a hundred of small layout fixes and other tiny fixes – input fields, out of place layouts, popup performance improvements, animation fixes and improvements, QOL improvements.
Other
- Added Deer, Baby Deer, Baby Chicks, Ducklings, Duck, Drake and Raccoon to the Gallery, so you have more Profile pic options, beside Quinoa.
- Added 2 more Badges for the Badges board – Recipes Rank, where the badge gets automatically upgraded to the next one, and Competitions Winner. Now you can fully reorder your Business Card.
Happy cooking!