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- 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.
- added the Mocktails collection.
- bug fixes:
– cleaning up the Log Cabin is fixed.
– breaking wood and stone chamber entrances in The Mines is fixed.
- added the 5 plants from the Halloween contest prize. We apologize for the delay, having multiple plants in pots was way more complicated to implement than initially estimated. We also got set back a few days with the Facebook issue. Good news is, this will allow us some cool things to have in the future, that will allow you to create even more diverse farms.
Notes:
– each special contest (Halloween, Christmas, Easter) usually gives as the big prize a special animal or plant that practically is a game expansion that generates a lot of coins or XP, by itself or through 3x Orders. These Halloween plants are no different, and the profits you make are similar to other prizes, such as Alpacas or the Angora Goat.
– you cannot use fertilizer on Black Bat Flower, Doll’s Eyes and Ghost Plant. However, they reap considerable profits. As a bonus, we gave you a box of 20 each, with a total worth of 83,260 coins.
– Black Bat Flower and Doll’s Eyes grow really fast during Autumn season (we will keep this season for an extra month starting now), then will grow a lot slower when out of season. Next year, we will activate the season starting September 1 and it will last for 3 months.
– Ghost Plant grows really slow all year round, but gives considerable profit and XP. Unlike Peacock or Alpacas, where you have to collect every 3 hours and perhaps you don’t have time to log in multiple times per day, Ghost Plant grows in 36 hours, but gives similar rewards per hour, so you don’t have to work hard, and very easily maximize the profits.
– you can use Rain 100% to grow all these new plants, except the Ghost Plant.
– none of these plants grow faster in Greenhouses (at the moment), can have irrigation installed, or are harvested/seeded automatically by Joe, except Spider Lily.
– all these plants count towards your Sea of Colors Achievement.
– we are working on some products and orders for them.
– prices, times and XP are subject to change, based on your use of them and feedback. - MAJOR breakthrough for the performance of the game: multi-texture support (BETA). When the game reloads, you will be asked to check a box to enable it.
– WARNING – it won’t work perfectly on older computers, or some computers with Google Swiftshader cards.
– what does older computer mean? For example, any recent laptop, no matter how low-spec is, supports multi-texture.
– if you see weird graphical glitches, like a tornado came on the farm and scrambled all images, just uncheck Multi-texture support from Settings.
– for the vast majority of computers it should work perfectly, and you should see a clear improvement in the game’s performance.
– what is multi-texture support? Multi-texture support is a technique to load multiple atlases (big photos with all the game’s graphics) all at once. This will allow us to add much more content to the game, without worrying what combination of things you put on your farm. Without multi-texture support, the processor calls an image from one atlas, then another image from another atlas, and alternates between them fast (these are called draw calls), and the game gets sluggish. With multi-texture support, these draw calls are in some cases 10 times fewer, and your game will run faster. You will also see improvements when visiting Neighbors.
- we increased the contest deadline with 1 day and other similar counters. We also unfroze the daily reward counter (it was frozen so you don’t miss any day).
- we added a popup to ask for your email address, to prevent similar issues not related to us, with the game not being accessible. This way, you will also be able to play on the standalone version of CLM, on our website, coming soon.
- we’ve been working with Facebook to solve the issue, and the game is now working.
- we will update the game very soon with a gift pack and the main contest prizes. We also took this standby time to improve the Ghost Plant implementation, and add a nice quest for it.
- updated the Privacy Policy to state that we ask for your email, and what we use it for: login into your game on our website if you wish to do so, and for a future newsletter (it will be opt-in, meaning you will have to check that you want to receive it first – we don’t like Spam either-). All newsletters (once a month, most probably) will contain a Coupon Code that you can redeem for Gifts.
- [update] – added a second Halloween Party Table and 2 chairs directly to the Cabin Basement, for farmers who completed the Mocktail Contest a second time. After you complete it, you will be able to claim it from the main contest popup. After you place it inside the Cabin, click on different areas on it, we think you’re going to like the surprise. 🙂
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article about the Halloween Contest 2021 here: https://clm.beetree.games/help/general-gameplay/halloween-event-2021/
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added Halloween Deals.
– the Flower Pots included in the Deals are EXTRA, beside the 10 Flower Pots you will receive if you complete the Halloween Event. This means you will have between 4 and 8 (depending on the Deal) extra pots, that do not count towards your Shrub/Plot limits. You can only plant Black Bat Flower and Doll’s Eyes in these pots. - bonus Raven Potions! Use Coupon Code HLW2021 for 5 extra Raven Potions, by clicking on XP Bar > Stats & Skills > Vouchers!
- if you complete the Spooky Mocktails collection twice, you win another cocktail table that you can take inside the Log Cabin, along with 2 extra chairs, flippable 4 ways, as depicted in our Fan Page post.
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small updates and improvements:
– Halloween Lemonade Stand Theme is available to install, if you’ve found all 11 unique mocktails. The white ghost has small lights and is blinking on/off.
– the main Halloween contest popup now skips the moonrise animation after first time you’re opening it each session.
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Halloween is here! The big prize is a collection of 5 rare and spooky plants:
– Black Bat Flower, a tropical flower with black, wing-like flower petals and long “whiskers”.
– Doll’s Eyes – a normal looking plant with creepy looking fruit.
You can grow these 2 plants in limited-number pots that do not count towards your limits. Also, they don’t grow intensively all-year round (WIP).
– Ghost Plant, a flower that grows in the dark. Can you guess where?
– Red Spider Lily, a beautiful but scary-looking flower that you can grow as a regular crop.
– Black Mondo Grass, a plant that you can grow as a decoration and you can multiply same as Glass Gem Corn. Does not count towards your limits.
More info about the plants coming soon.You can also win a cool Halloween theme for your Lemonade Stand, and the Halloween Party Table will light up, and you will be able to choose a dark-golden tablecloth.
- be sure to check our Fan Page, where a cool gift awaits you in our first comment to our last post, particularly now that Gifts from the Big Site seem not to work flawlessly. And, don’t forget to LIKE and SHARE if you like the contest, and for more gifts!
Happy Halloween!