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Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Greenhouse Expansion

If you're feeling a little flush you can get yourself some extra crop space! (What can I say? Glass is expensive!)

For 299 Horseshoes you can get over double the current space in a brand new Greenhouse Expansion. This will increase your Greenhouse space from 36 all the way up to 81 spaces.




At the moment we haven't heard that this will be available via missions, this is, for now, only a premium purchase.

Relative Enjoyment

You've been havin' all sorts of fun with your brother Jasper lately but what abouts the rest of the family?

Well, Granny's decided, as the matriarch of the family to hold a family reunion and everyone's been running hither and thither to get it organised.

Only one thing though, ya kid's never met most of the family and you've been too busy to tell and family tales so Granny's decided to sit the lil one down and talk 'em through your family tree...


There's no buildable for this feature, just a five mission thread reachable either via the button on the right hand side or by clicking on Granny herself...

...That'll bring up the missions and crafting window. See all the mission details HERE and all the crafting details HERE.

We'll see a number of new things in the missions that will either be in the market...



...or in the free gifts section in the case of the new lumber tree, the willow!


So get sat down and get those stories rolling to complete the family tree!


Monday, 12 March 2012

Baby Naming Mystery Crate

As you may have noticed, one reward is a brand new Mystery Animal crate. But what's in I hear you cry... Well, it can be:

An Apaloosa Horse (non-rideable)



A Potbellied Pig

An Arapawa Goat


All are unique to this crate and it's an identical 1 in 3 chance for each one.

It's Naming Time!

It's time to give Fanny and Hank another hand on the road to a perfect family life, this time with that oh so important task, naming that little Fun-Size Fanny or Mini-Hank.

It's time to build the perfect little Baby Wagon and pick which names you think are the best, then give Fanny and Hank a little hand around the homestead to convince them you know best.


The first steps are to build the Baby Wagon the sprog will get to spend their time in. The wagon has three levels of build to get it as perfect as it can be.



You'll also be asked to pick one girls name, and one boys name (as we don't know the sex of the rugrat just yet).

While this is going on we'll see a set of two overview missions and 6 game missions, three for Hank, three for Fanny.


Completing those missions will do two things, firstly they'll work towards choosing the name of the child, secondly you'll get baby ribbons to spend in the special market on new items, including a rideable bicycle, two sacks of letters that unpack so you can write messages on your homestead and an unlock of a brand new crop!


The letters from the sack in action!

We'll also see a brand new crop, the Baby Carrot, which will be on the free gifts page.


So get your fingers flexing and get your votes in for your favourite names!


Monday, 5 March 2012

Build Your Wagon and Roll to Prospect Falls!


It's time to get moving and hit PROSPECT FALLS!

However, if y'all want to get there before everyone else arrives on the train you need to build yourself a fancy stagecoach! (To those asking how a stagecoach is faster than a train... well, lets say a magic horse, eh?)

And so begins... the great Stagecoach Race!


The coach is built on your homestead across three stages, the first is a simple request and build...



...and the second...




...and third builds are request items and crafting.




Then, once it's fully built... just click the coach and away you go to PROSPECT FALLS! (click the link for ALL the information about what to expect!)



Thursday, 1 March 2012

Build The Iron Horse!

We've got ourselves a pair of sparkley steel rails... We've got ourselves a big fancy railway station... But there's something, well, missing?

That's right folks, we're not going to leave brother Jasper scooting up and down those tracks on his little cart, it's time to build us a big ol' proper train to ride those rails!


When you accept the popup it'll start a four mission thread (all details HERE) and, I'm afraid to say a fair bit of crafting that will see us creating a Train, piece by piece (see all crafting details HERE).

The train gets built in five stages next to the current railway station...


We'll also see a number of new additions in the market that will be used during missions.



Any that are Horseshoe purchases will either be on the free gift page...


...or found during missions!

So it's time to make that final thing we need to have a REAL railroad going... the Train!