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• 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! 🙂

• Updated the Activity > Best Neighbors tab to correspond with the Neighbor updates. The gifts received/sent counter should work much better too. The counters update once per day.

• We fixed the bug with people receiving gifts from other players. It was there for a long time, but only now it was brought to light by the new Neighbors management. We didn’t change anything related to how Neighbors work, we just added new ways you can manage them. You could say new Neighbors popup is a victim of its own success, since it shows who the best players are, and they received lots of gifts. 🙂

  Also, you should accept all gifts you have in your list.

  A few clarifications on how Neighbors work:

  1. If you unfriend somebody on Facebook and you have them in your Neighbors bar, you will have to remove them from the Neighbors bar too. The game does not automatically remove them from both places. Why: many players want to be Neighbors, but not friends on Facebook (for good and obvious reasons), and over the years we saw many of these cases.

  2. If you remove somebody from your Neighbors Bar, you will be removed from their Neighbors Bar too. This will update when you refresh the game.
       a) if you’re not friends on Facebook, they will disappear forever.
       b) if you’re friends on Facebook, you will see them in the Facebook Friends tab.

  So, if you see Neighbors missing, it’s because they removed you from their Neighbors Bar AND Facebook.

• New Gear: Pastry Oven! Be sure to check our Fan Page, where a cool gift awaits you in our first comment to our last post. And, don’t forget to LIKE and SHARE if you like the new pies, and for more gifts!
  – 7 new delicious pies are available to bake, with great new graphics.
  – Pastry Ovens can be customized, with a total of 704 unique combinations to express your style!
  – redesigned old pies and moved them to the Pastry Oven. We will soon also move some pastries from the Kitchen to the Pastry Oven.
  – changed prices for the old pies, due to them having more ingredients:
       – Apple Pie > Coins before: 185, Coins now: 371.
       – Blueberry Pie > Coins before: 205, Coins now: 751.
       – Pumpkin Pie > Coins before: 525, Coins now: 831.
       – Strawberry Pie > Coins before: 370, Coins now: 1199.
  Everybody who had stocks of these pies had their profit increase by a lot.
  – compared to other similar Gear (Lemonade Stand, Spice Shack, Kitchen), you can have 2 Pastry Ovens, and you can customize the looks of each one. It is not unlimited number like the Pie Machine, we know, but we believe advantages written below more than compensate for this, for players who had more than 2 Pie Machines. Plus, soon we will add double capacity Gear. Also, there are other technical considerents that we can’t go into detail about.

  Why did we remove the Pie Machine?

  Adding more recipes to the old Pie Machine wasn’t really possible, as it’s a Gear where you click to add each ingredient (honey, flour, fruit). We got lots of great messages regarding having new pies in the game, we looked over the recipes, and saw we can’t really add new recipes that would try to respect what ingredients go into a pie with the current Pie Machine, because there are more than 3 ingredients in these pies, like cream and butter. Anything with more than 3 ingredients needs to be a Gear like the Kitchen, Spice Shack or Ice Cream Cart.

  We basically have 2 types of Gear in the game:
  Simple Gear (1-3 ingredients) – Cheese Master, Juicer, where we can represent each ingredient easily when you click to add it.
  Complex Gear (more than 3 ingredients) – Kitchen, Spice Shack, Craft Shack, Ice Cream Cart, where there are too many ingredients to make placing each one somewhere on click possible. Plus, that would be a lot of extra clicks.

  Advantages:
  – less OP consumed per pie: before – 4, now – 3.
  – faster baking time: before – 1m 15s, now – 1m.
  – more XP/Hour: before – 144, now – 240 > 360.
  – great profit overall, similar to the Spice Shack.

• the Pie Machine is now obsolete and we advise you to sell it. It does not work anymore. We will remove it anyway soon, to optimize the game graphics and performance. Of course, you will get the same price you paid for it, 15,000 coins, plus any ingredient that was added to it back.
• you can now remove Neighbors directly from the Neighbors popup. Hover any of them, and a red small circle will appear to the right of their name. Click on it to remove them from your Neighbors Bar.
• we again improved collecting Maple Sap, so it works both like before, and like now: to deselect the Sap Tap/Sap Bucket and open the Backpack, simply double click on Joe. PLUS, now Joe  magnetically collects the Sap Taps and Sap Buckets.
• the Christmas contest will arrive soon!

• Neighbors features and improvements:
  – added possibility to add up to 20 Neighbors to Favorites (bookmarks). Open the new Neighbors popup, then hover over any Neighbor, and a golden star will appear. Click on it to Add to Favorites. You can add up to 20 Neighbors to Favorites.
  – moved all Zzz Neighbors that were inactive for more than 3 months to the Facebook Friends tab.
  – Neighbors that are inactive for less than 3 months remain in your Neighbors bar. This will increase your chances of getting gifts back, since now you will have only the active Neighbors in your first tab, so you can send requests to them.
  – color coded each Neighbor category:
      – green – Facebook friends that you added to your Neighbors bar.
      – brown – Facebook friends that play the game, but are not your Neighbors.
      – light blue – Zzz Neighbors or Zzz Facebook friends that play the game.
  – you can finally sort your Neighbors by level, daily players, etc.
  – Neighbors data is updated once a day. Sorting them is based on this data, so please take this into account.

  ATTENTION: if you have LOTS of Neighbors (over 100), it will take some time when you sort them. This is also the reason why we didn’t have this sorting before (needed to move the Zzz ones to another tab). If you have thousands of Neighbors, we have to get ALL of their data from Facebook in order to sort them, and this takes some time AND computing power, making the game slow. Many years ago it made sense to have lots of Neighbors, but now, not so much. That is why, it is better to have fewer (less than 100), but active players, that can gift you back. Naturally, playing is more fun with friends. 🙂 That is why, we will very soon add the possibility to add Neighbors without you having to befriend them on Facebook.

• fixed a bug with the Snowball Fight not working on some browsers. Also we did some performance improvements to it. We added 60 snowballs to all players that have the Snowball Fight for the trouble with the bug.
• fixed a 5159 bug where Joe was collecting a different number of Silver and Gold Star plants than instructed by the servers. Bug appeared when trying to add Silver and Gold plants to the Train crates, or used them in other places.
• improved the way you install/remove Sap Taps and Sap Buckets on Maple Trees: now if you select a tap or bucket to install, it remains selected, so you can install on all trees without having to repeatedly click to open the Backpack. For 9 buckets, this will save you 16 useless clicks, and collecting and refilling is much more enjoyable.

• NEW Weekly Events for Special Orders (beta):
  – each week, a Special Order will give an Extra Reward, upon completion.
  – Extra Rewards can change daily.
  – there can be multiple Special Orders with events: this week, we begin with Charity Orders and Restaurant Silver Star Recipes.
  – the week time is global (the same for all players).
• by popular demand, we added a new product for Distillery, Vodka, and changed the Ghost Plant Tincture to be made with Vodka, so players without Bellflower Meadow can make this recipe.

• New Feature! Have even more control over your game, and choose what Special Orders to accept. Some players only want to complete simple Orders (white cards), or like completing some Special Orders, but not others (colored cards – green, purple, red, blue). Now, there is a button in your Orders popup that opens a window, where you can check or uncheck what Special Orders you want.
  – when unchecking a Special Order, if you have that order type on your board, then you will have to delete it manually.
  – if you uncheck all Special Orders, once you delete all colored cards, you will only get normal orders.
  – if you have deleted Orders (glass-hour), changes take effect after the glass-hour orders.
• new Spice Shack product: Ghost Plant Tincture. You’ll find that it generates a nice profit, and if you complete the 2x order for it, even more so. Product appears only if you completed the Halloween contest.