Getting Started In Farmville

If your questioning what most people do on Facebook, the possible answer is that they are playing Farmville. It's really quite simple to learn how to play Farmville and earn millions of coins and make your farm different, you just have to know the right strategies and techniques to get you there. However, we can worry about that later.

For now, I just want to give you a brief overview of how to play Farmville and what is required to play it.

Facebook is free, so all you need is a name and age, and a valid email address. Facebook is an online networking site like MySpace. It is free to join up and takes only minutes to start playing Farmville on it. There are various different ways to get to Farmville once you have logged in. Firstly, you can click on Applications from the lower-left of the page, and you can search for it with there. Otherwise you can find it really quickly by typing it into the search field towards the top of your page.

Upon jumping into Farmville, you will quickly understand the initial aim of the game. You are to harvest your crops to build up your money. This will grow your coins and XP in Farmville. Planting and harvesting crops will get you right into the basics of learning how to play Farmville. By hanging around more often in the game you start to notice more details, such as how to build buildings, buy vehicles, share items with your friends and loads more.

You will find that the most logical and usually quickest way of increasing your coins and XP is simply planting and harvesting your crops often. The three steps to harvesting crops must be followed in order, this is plowing the land, planting the crop, and harvesting when the crop is ready.

Plowing is the first of these steps, it requires you to get the soil ready for your crop. The entire farm is made up of little squares, these squares are called plots. Only one plot can be plowed at a time. However, once you have purchased a tractor for $30,000, you can plow 4 plots at once. Even though it is a time-saver, it needs fuel to run!

Once you have plowed all your plots, you can then continue to learn how to play Farmville by learning how to plant your seeds! Each seed will have its own specific growing time. So you can plant a short crop and watch them grow, or plant a long crop and come back later. To see the full list of crop growing times, profit per seed, and profits per month, I highly recommend you take a look at the Farmville spreadsheet

Once your plots are ready to harvest, you can collect the fruit/grains that have grown. You earn coins and experience coins by harvesting. You will be able to re-plant more seeds once you have harvested and re-plowed all your plots.

So now that you know the basis of how to play Farmville, take a look further into the game:

You will need to earn some more experience points before you can plant certain crops and tree's. XP points can be gained a number of ways, from harvesting crops to working on a friends farm.

Your land can also be expanded to make space for more plots and therefore you will be earning more coins and experience points. There are different ways to complete a land expansion The common way is to gain enough coins and Farmville neighbors to upgrade, or simply by buying the expansion with "Farm Cash", which is real money that you can put into the game.

As you continue to earn more coins and xp, you will level up and by doing so, you will unlock new items such as seeds/fruit/tree's, special items and animals, etc.

I can't continue showing you how to play Farmville without mentioning that there are also ribbons that you can collect. These ribbons are awarded for various tasks you complete on you farm, many of them you will do without purposely aiming towards a ribbon. For example, simply planting lots of flowers will allow you to earn ribbons. By gaining a ribbon, you are basically showing off what you can achieve in Farmville.

The most important 'how to play Farmville' tip is actually to just farm smart. Smart farming is basically the art of knowing what you are going to plant and when. You must also harvest and replant your crops without delay. if your crop has been ready to harvest for three hours then you have just lost 3 hours of coins! I can't stress it enough, but you mustn't ever let your crops wither, this will result in lost xp needed to advance in the game. To increase your coins and experience points quicker, you can combine planting/harvesting with things like completing ribbons, constructing buildings etc. It is also a good idea to add lots of neighbors, not just to show off your farm, but also to bag some additional experience points because they will fertilize your crops. You can also get some fantastic inspiration this way by just viewing your new found friends farms.

Of course, the best way to learn how to play Farmville is to just jump in there and go for it!

Farmville is an extremely complex game, and you often require some sort of help if you want to reach the top. Free guides for Farmville are hard to come by, here is my favorite beginners guide to Farmville.