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Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Invest In Your Future!

We've had premium items before, the Rejuvenation Plant and the Energy Windmill for example, but how many of them have offered to give your Horseshoes back... with interest!?

Say hello to a new breed of flora on the homestead, Frutex Solea Ferrea and Nemus Solea Ferrea, or to give them their common names, the Horseshoe Bush and Horseshoe Tree.

Although expensive, these fine additions to any landscape are known far and wide for their ability to fruit horseshoes once a week, always giving back more than you've paid for it!

In fact, after one year the return is guaranteed to be TWICE what you put in, the Bush costs 260HS but will drop (in weekly batches of 10) 520HS...


...and the Tree which COSTS 520HS will, in the course of 52 weeks, drop a magnificent 1040HS!


In fact, if you buy Horseshoes and there's a 50% discount, you're even looking at a 4-times return on your investment!

We know this won't suit some folks who like their gratification with a little more "instant" but there's not many legal ways to get that kind of payoff, so if you've got yourself the shoes... a little addition to your garden may pay off big time.

[Disclaimer: This is not for the impatient or hedonistic.]

Thursday, 23 February 2012

There's Gold in Them Thar Hills...

...and we're gonna get ourselves prepared to go GET IT!

You can't just wander off into bandit country on the search for gold, you gotta git yerself all prepared and ready to hit the Trail with a vengeance (and with good food supplies).

So, set up the wagon to carry some weight, it's preparing time...


There's no building with this one, just 6 missions (three overview and three repeatable missions) and a window to show just how prepared you are.

From here you start the three missions (all details HERE) that will get y'all all set up on the hunt for the yellow stuff...

For a full crafting guide for the missions click HERE.



We'll pick up some special Gold goodies along the way and also find some new market items...


...we'll help out a new animal who's found himself under the weather... well, under the rocks...


...AND an old favourite is gonna become easier to get a hold of, the Badger is now a free gift!


Oh, and y'all know nothings right without a collection, these items drop from opening the prep crates we receive as mission rewards!


It aint gonna be pretty and it aint gonna be easy, but with riches as the reward, it aint never was gonna be...

Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Celebrating the Bun in Fanny's Oven

Well, it's fair to say Fanny's looking quite a bit... rounder these days (apparently the gestation period for Baby Hank's is the same as your average gerbil) so it's probably time for all the Frontier gals to gather round and hold Fanny a Baby Shower!

Unfortunately, as usual, it seems up to you to make sure things go smoothly or face the wrong end of Granny's wrath, so we know what that means.

Steel yourself, keep a tight grip on the shopping list Bess and Granny have given you and get to work trying to plan a baby shower for the ages... *Examines the shopping list* and apparently a baby shower with a few hundred guests...


It all starts off by placing the Family Park, which just needs one whack to get ready, no building supplies needed.



Once that's done you'll be given all the planning tasks for Fanny's Baby Shower, kicking off a four mission thread (all details HERE) and a set of crafting tasks (all details HERE)


The missions will even give you another chance at some of those limited edition Yosemite items with the new Baby Shower Animal Crate containing Bighorn Sheep, Mink or Bobcat and the Flower crate which can hold Baby Blue Eyes, Alpine Lily or Yellow Sneezeweed.



 So get your work boots on and celebrate the pitter patter of coming little feet!

Thursday, 16 February 2012

Enjoy a bit of rough...

After the Rejuvenation Plant and the Irrigation Station it's time for the next magical buildable on our homesteads, and this one is going to get you a bit of rough, and best of all, no Horseshoes! This is a homestead buildable.

Yes, it's been teased before but it's finally here, the Debris Generator!

Worry no more about the randomness of debris appearances as you collect your bundles of debris straight into your inventory on a daily basis!



With a pair of simple missions (all details HERE) the Debris Generator wont be too stressing on our homestead and you can start collecting from it even from the first build, although as you work through it's five stages the rewards keep getting better and better! (And the Generator starts looking prettier and prettier...)


Each stage gives you the chance of getting better debris. Stage 1 is wildflowers, stage 2 is rocks, stage 3 skulls, stage 4 cactus and stage 5 is thorns.

Each time you collect the daily bonus you'll get a chance at ALL the debris up to that point, so once you reach the final 5th stage you'll get four items from the five each day, helping stock up your inventory with debris before you know it!


These are the requirements for each of the stages, click the pictures to make them bigger!




So get building, and soon those "harvest so many cactus" or "harvest so many thorns" will be a walk in the debris strewn path!

Monday, 13 February 2012

Get Them Gold Rushers Ready!

Now your Railroad's up and running you're gonna find your homestead gets a lot of visitors on the way to Gold Rush!

Now, being the entrepreneurial spirit you are it's time to take advantage by building yourself a supply outpost!

That outpost will help 5 folks on the road to Gold Rush get stocked up and prepare for the rigours of the road ahead with everything they'll need in their wagon...


It'll all start off with the usual popup (above) and a prompt to place the Supply Outpost. The building has a small footprint and takes no building supplies, one whack and it's done!


Once it's built you'll start yourself off a five mission thread (All details HERE), one mission per character which will include making up them up a supply package inside the Outpost (all crafting details HERE). Finishing that package will gift you a mission reward meaning you get two rewards per mission!


We'll also see the introduction of a number of new items in the market and one free gift!


Plus the obligatory Collection...


AND... In a sneak preview ahead to Gold Rush (The next expansion) we'll also see the Gold Rush Ticket... All together now... Oooooooh...


Are you looking forward to Gold Rush? Let us know on our Facebook Page...

Friday, 10 February 2012

Valentines is here!

It's Valentines on the old frontier!

However, we know y'all, and we know full well that Valentines day is something that's a little like Marmite, you love it, or you hate it.

So, we here at Frontierville Express would like to introduce the very first... Frontierville Express INTERACTIVE POST! For full enjoyment of the post please select the option below that best describes you... All the news, satisfaction certified!

If you think "I LOVE Valentines Day"

There's no better time than Valentines to show your love to your spouse, when the world takes on an aura of love!

You've been working hard to build up your frontier but that might not leave too much time for closeness, so lets take this opportunity on the most romantic day of the year to do few little tasks that'll show your other half just what they mean to you!

It all starts with a letter from your spouse, pointing out just how proud and loving they are of you and saying how much they love spending time with you, leading you to want to do even more to rekindle the flame between you.


That'll pop up a new window with another 10 daily mission thread (all details HERE) the kind of which we're well aware, because you KNOW your spouse is worth the work.


Each day will pop up a new mission and each mission gives two rewards that'll be used for special things.

The first item is collecting love notes between you and your spouse, the most valuable thing in the world. Those love notes will both count towards the three overview missions (all details HERE) and each will be a ticket to enter you in the big sweepstakes with a top prize of $2'500!


The other reward is love! Well, love hearts to be precise.... And they'll be used in the brand new Valentines market to fill your homestead with beautiful Valentines decorations and animals to give you a fizzy pink cloud of romance!





We'll also get a new flower in the free gifts! These will be used during the missions...


So what are you waiting for? Show your love and make your spouse a very, very loved up person! As they say, what's more rewarding than rekindling your love?!



If you think "I HATE Valentines Day"

There's no better time than Valentines to show commercially acceptable amounts of buyable love to your significant other to make up for 364 days of only showing your love in ways that weren't made by Hallmark (other companies are available to sell you flattened pieces of tree with a flower on).

You may have been working too hard to take notice of your spouse but now is the perfect time to let the world tell you to show your romantic side!

It all starts with a letter from your spouse, pointing out just how proud and loving they are of you but frankly they're sick of the fact you've spent the last year or so setting up other couples, providing opportunities for adulterous kissing under a big pink tree and spending most of your time around your neighbours homesteads asking to borrow a cup of sugar, some coffee and ugly green curtains... so if you could pay them some attention that would be appreciated...


That'll pop up a new window with the traditional way of showing your adoration, 10 Herculean tasks containing everything you need for Valentines night like candles, alcohol and a few tubs of pistol lubricant. (all details HERE).


Each day will pop up a new mission and each mission gives two rewards that'll be used for special things.

The first item is collecting love notes between you and your spouse, trading bad poetry and plagarised lines from romantic movies you hope your spouse hasn't seen for both items to use in the three overview missions (all details HERE) and each will be a ticket to enter you in the big sweepstakes with a top prize of $2'500!


The other reward is un-anatomically correct hearts! They'll be used in the brand new Valentines market to fill your homestead with saccharine-infused decorative tat and animals, one of which is cute enough to make Walt Disney nauseous, all to give you a cloying pink smog of romance!





We'll also get a new flower in the free gifts for our friends (because nothing says you love your spouse more than sending other people flowers)! These will be used during the missions...


So what are you waiting for? Today is the day you either show your love or face cold shoulders and making your own sandwiches for a year, so best get to it, eh? As they say, what's more rewarding than rekindling your love in a way that keeps card manufacturers and florists in business?