Farmville Tips: Week 13

I didn't write any tips for Weeks 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12 (so don't waste any time looking for them). I still want to write about ribbons, but I’m currently obsessed with finding a queen bee.

Beehives were introduced on 07/13/2010 (two weeks ago). It took me a few days (maybe a week) to collect all the materials to complete my beehive, now I need to find a queen bee before I can fill the hive with bees. I've been receiving bees as gifts, but I can't put them in the hive until I find a queen bee. Queen bees are a rare item. There is a 6% chance of finding a queen bee whenever you harvest or fertilize flowers, so I've been planting my whole farm in flowers for a few days now, but I haven't found the queen bee yet, so the quest continues.

Last night (07/26/2010) I finally received my crafting cottage. This is going to be a rather complex feature in FarmVille. Inside the cottage, you can use bushels to craft goods. You can sell the goods to your neighbors for coins. Your neighbors can trade the goods for fuel (and other bonuses). By pollinating your crops (with bees), you increase your chances of finding bushels, so the bee hive and the crafting cottage and the farmers market all work together. I think that's what makes this part of the game a little complicated. I think I like complicated.

My personal challenge is going to be collecting bushels from what I call the short-date crops. That is, the crops that must be harvested less than 24 hours after planting. I can really only plant these crops on the weekend because during the week, I can really only play in the evening after work, so here I've decided to create some tables listing the recipes for the goods and the length of time to harvest each crop. Boldface indicates crops which are ready to harvest in less than 12 hours (because they will start to wither in less than 24 hours).

Farmville Bakery Recipes
1-Star Recipes (recipes which can be made in a 1-star bakery) Preparation Time: 6 hours Yield: 2 for sale & 1 for personal inventory
Pumpkin Bread	4 Pumpkin Bushels	8 hours
	4 Wheat Bushels	12 hours
Strawberry Shortcake	4 Strawberries Bushels	4 hours
	4 Wheat Bushels	12 hours
Spicy Muffins	3 Carrot Bushels	12 hours
	1 Pepper Bushel	1 day
	3 Ghost Chili Bushels	6 hours
2-Star Recipes (recipes which are unlocked in a 2-star bakery) Preparation Time: 6 hours Yield: 2 for sale & 1 for personal inventory
Pattypan Tart	2 Onion Bushels	12 hours
	3 Rice Bushels	12 hours
	3 Pattypan Squash Bushels	16 hours
Triple Berry Pie	3 Blueberry Bushels	4 hours
	2 Blackberry Bushels	4 hours
	3 Raspberry Bushels	2 hours
Peanut Butter Cookies	2 Peanut Bushels	16 hours
	3 Rice Bushels	12 hours
	3 Sugar Cane Bushels	8 hours
3-Star Recipes (recipes which are unlocked in a 3-star bakery)
Raspberry Blondie	2 Wheat Bushels	12 hours
	3 Rice Bushels	12 hours
	3 Raspberry Bushels	2 hours
Vegetable Tart	1 Broccoli Bushel	2 days
	2 Asparagus Bushels	16 hours
	3 Peas Bushels	1 day
Mocha Blackberry Tart	3 Coffee Bushels	16 hours
	2 Rice Bushels	12 hours
	3 Black Berry Bushels	4 hours
4-Star Recipes (recipes which are unlocked in a 4-star bakery)
Oatmeal Cookies	4 Oat Bushels	8 hours
	2 Wheat Bushels	12 hours
	2 Sugar Cane Bushels	8 hours
Baked Cucumber	1 Cucumber Bushel	1 day
	4 Basil Bushels	10 hours
	1 Pepper Bushel	1 day
Pizza Bread	4 Wheat Bushels	12 hours
	2 Tomato Bushels	8 hours
	2 Basil Bushels	10 hours
5-Star Recipes (recipes which are unlocked in a 5-star bakery)
Ginger Snaps	2 Ginger Bushels	18 hours
	2 Sugar Cane Bushels	8 hours
	2 Oat Bushels	8 hours
	2 Rice Bushels	12 hours
Potato and Onion Bread	1 Potato Bushel	3 days
	2 Onion Bushels	12 hours
	2 Wheat Bushels	12 hours
	1 Posole Corn Bushel	12 hours
Carrot Cake	2 Carrot Bushels	12 hours
	1 Red Wheat Bushel	3 days
	1 Soybean Bushel	1 day
	2 Cranberry Bushels	10 hours

Farmville Winery Recipes
1-Star Recipes (recipes which can be made in a 1-star winery) Preparation Time: 6 hours Yield: 2 for sale & 1 for personal inventory
Sweet Sake (aka Sweet Energy Drink)	5 Rice Bushels	12 hours
	3 Cranberry Bushels	10 hours
White Sangria (aka White Grape Cooler)	3 White Grape Bushels	12 hours
	2 Sugar Cane Bushels	8 hours
	3 Strawberry Bushels	4 hours
Red Table Wine (Rich Grape Juice)	2 Grape Bushels	1 day
	5 White Grape Bushels	12 hours
2-Star Recipes (recipes unlocked in a 2-star winery) Preparation time: 6 hours Yield: 3 for sale & 1 for personal inventory
Fruit Wine (aka Fruit Punch)	3 Raspberry Bushels	2 hours
	3 Blueberry Bushels	4 hours
	2 Sugar Cane Bushels	8 hours
Spicy Tomato Juice	3 Tomato Bushels	8 hours
	3 Pepper Bushels	1 day
	3 Carrot Bushels	12 hours
Dry Sake (aka Spiced Lilac Tea)	4 Rice Bushels	12 hours
	2 Green Tea Bushels	10 hours
	2 Lilac Bushels	10 hours
3-Star Recipes (recipes unlocked in a 3-star winery)
Blackberry Wine (aka Blackberry Explosion)	3 Black Berry Bushels	4 hours
	1 Grape Bushel	1 day
	3 White Grape Bushels	12 hours
Strawberry & Cranberry Juice	3 Strawberry Bushels	4 hours
	2 Raspberry Bushels	2 hours
	3 Cranberry Bushels	10 hours
Raspberry Wine (aka Raspberry Energy Drink)	3 Raspberry Bushels	2 hours
	2 Black Berry Bushels	4 hours
	2 Grape Bushels	1 day
4-Star Recipes (recipes unlocked in a 4-star winery)
Blueberry Wine (aka Blueberry Delight)	4 Blueberry Bushels	4 hours
	2 Black Berry Bushels	4 hours
	2 White Grape Bushels	12 hours
Herbal Elixir	3 Basil Bushels	10 hours
	3 Ginger Bushels	18 hours
	2 Green Tea Bushels	10 hours
Pumpkin Vinegar	4 Pumpkin Bushels	8 hours
	2 Acorn Squash Bushels	10 hours
	2 Rice Bushels	12 hours
5-Star Recipes (recipes unlocked in a 5-star winery)
Cucumber Wine (aka Cucumber Cooler)	2 Cucumber Bushels	1 day
	1 Squash Bushel	2 days
	2 Acorn Squash Bushels	10 hours
	1 Rice Bushel	12 hours
Rose Petal Water	1 Pink Rose Bushel	2 days
	1 Lavender Bushel	2 days
	2 Morning Glory Bushels	12 hours
	1 Sunflower Bushel	1 day
Melon Juice	1 Yellow Melon Bushel	4 days
	1 Watermelon Bushel	4 days
	2 Carrot Bushels	12 hours
	1 Strawberry Bushel	4 hours

Farmville Spa Recipes
1-Star Recipes recipes which can be made in a 1-star spa Prepartation Time: 6 hours Yield: 2 for sale & 1 for personal inventory
Fresh Sachet	3 Pumpkin Bushels	8 hours
	3 Cranberry Bushels	10 hours
	1 Sunflower Bushel	1 day
Floral Perfume	4 Blueberry Bushels	2 hours
	4 Morning Glory Bushels	12 hours
Soothing Herbal Lotion	4 Aloe Vera Bushels	6 hours
	4 Green Tea Bushels	10 hours
2-Star Recipes (recipes unlocked in a 2-star spa) Preparation Time: 6 hours Yield: 3 for sale & 1 for personal inventory
Relaxation Oil	4 Blackberry Bushels	4 hours
	4 Morning Glory Bushels	12 hours
Devotion Perfume	3 Blueberry Bushels	4 hours
	3 Lilac Bushels	10 hours
	2 Basil Bushels	10 hours
Petal Sachet	1 Iris Bushel	1 day
	2 Sunflower Bushels	1 day
	1 Pepper Bushel	1 day
3-Star Recipes (recipes unlocked in a 3-star spa)
Energizing Lotion	1 Red Tulip Bushel	3 days
	3 Aloe Vera Bushels	6 hours
	3 Black Berry Bushels	4 hours
Restoring Candle	4 Green Tea Bushels	10 hours
	2 Ghost Chili Bushels	6 hours
	1 Sunflower Bushel	1 day
Lily of the Valley Soap	1 Lily Bushel	1 day
	3 Blueberry Bushels	4 hours
	3 Morning Glory Bushels	12 hours
4-Star Recipes (recipes unlocked in a 4-star spa)
Iris Soap	2 Iris Bushels	1 day
	3 Aloe Vera Bushels	6 hours
	1 Sunflower Bushel	1 day
Meditation Candle	3 Lemon Balm Bushels	6 hours
	3 Green Tea Bushels	10 hours
	2 Ginger Bushels	18 hours
Pick Me Up Sachet	3 Lemon Balm Bushels	6 hours
	2 Coffee Bushels	16 hours
	3 Basil Bushels	10 hours
5-Star Recipes (recipes unlocked in a 5-star spa)
Iris Soap	2 Ginger Bushels	18 hours
	1 Lavender Bushel	2 days
	2 Lilac Bushels	10 hours
	2 Purple Poppy Bushels	8 hours
Meditation Candle	1 Daffodil Bushel	2 days
	2 Aloe Vera Bushels	6 hours
	2 Strawberry Bushels	4 hours
	1 Lily Bushel	1 day
Pick Me Up Sachet	1 Pink Rose Bushel	2 days
	1 Daffodil Bushel	2 days
	2 Lilac Bushels	10 hours
	2 Morning Glory Bushels	12 hours

Of course, you can level up your recipes and you can level up your crafting cottage which unlocks more recipes. The crafting cottage will actually change appearance as it levels up, much like the other buildings change appearance when the expand. I think I'll try to combine co-op farming with my quest for bushels, I know there are carrot, cranberry, grape, pumpkin, and rice co-ops. That should help because not only would I find lots of bushel, but my neighbors would find bushels, too. I'll have to find out which neighbors have the same crafting cottage that I do, and then invite them to be a part of my co-op. Yeah, that's a great idea.

The tables I made before to help me keep track of which trees and animals are most profitable are proving too complicated, so I'm making up some new ones. These group the trees and animals together in groups based on how many coins per day per square each item produces.

Level	Animals (coins per day per square)
Level 1 (1-10 coins per day per square)	cow (1.5); brown, groovy & Holstein cows (3); circus elephant (3.5), pink cow (4.5); silver pony (7); chicken (8); white-tailed buck (8.3); sheep & birthday sheep (9.3); reindeer (10)
Level 2 (11-20 coins per day per square)	male ostrich (11.3); duck, party duck, chinchilla, pig, black pig, Ossabow pig, rabbit, gray rabbit & squirrel (15); brown chicken (16); black sheep (18.7); bull, chocolate cow & foals (20)
Level 3 (21-40 coins per day per square)	horses & ponies (21); party pig (25); goat, Boer goat & Saanes goat (27), Mouflon sheep, llama & poncho llama (28); black cat, Himalayan cat & turlte (28.7); grey tabby & lop-eared bunny & white kitty (30); black chicken (32); brown goose, farm goose, swan & turkies (40)
Level 4 (41-80 coins per day per square)	peacock (45), golden chicken, Cornish Chicken, Rhode Island Red & Scots Grey (64); calves (80)
Level 5 (81-160 coins per day per square)	snow leopards (150)

Level	Trees (coins per day per square)
Level 1 (1-10 coins per day per square)	cherry (9); apple (9.3); orange & plum (10)
Level 2 (11-20 coins per day per square)	fig (11); tamarind (11.7); peach (11.8); avocado (12.3); yellow maple (12.5); white apple (13.3); cashew (13.7); lemon (13.7); apricot (14); lime (15); durian & star fruit (16.3); grapefruit & walnut (16.7); guava, gulmohar, almond, breadfruit & wax apple (18.3); passion fruit (18.6); banana (18.7); rainbow apple & mandarin (20)
Level 3 (21-40 coins per day per square)	pomegranate (12.6, available as a mystery gift); date (23, available as a gift at Level 20); olive (28, available as a gift at Level 32); mango (32.5, available as a gift at Level 40)
Level 4 (41-80 coins per day per square)	ginko (43.3); arjuna (46.6); jackfruit & lychee (46.7); acai (79)

Nursery Barn Another thing I've been meaning to pencil out is the profitability of using the nursery barn. Like the chicken coop, dairy barn and stable, the nursery barn makes it easier to harvest coins from calves and foals; however, the nursery barn also transforms them into cows and horses. Generally, cows and horses produce fewer coins per day than calves and foals, so it might not be worth it.

The nursery barn occupies 63 squares on the farm (7x9=63), but it only holds 20 animals. Twenty calves would only occupy 20 squares on the farm, but 20 foals would occupy 80 squares (4x20=80), so from a land use perspective, it is only profitable to fill it with foals.

Foal and calves both produce 80 coins per day, but because foals occupy four squares and calves occupy one square, calves produce 80 coins per square per day and foals produce 20 coins per square per day (80/4=20).

All foals (80 coins per day) transform into a black horse, a cream draft horse or a light blue pony. The horses and pony earn 21 coins per day outside the stable, but they earn 84 coins per day inside the stable, so if you have plenty of room in your stable, it IS profitable to transform your foals to horses. It's also fun to see if you can fill your stable with black horses, cream draft horses or light blue pony because then you can start producing black foals, cream draft foals and blue pony foals for your neighbors.

All calves (80 coins per day) transform into Holstein cows (12 coins per day) or chocolate cows (80 coins per day). Because the Holstein cows earn so very much less than the calves, but chocolate cows earn just as much, I've created the following table to remind me which calves I might transform, and which ones I definitely shouldn't.

These calves will transform into Holstein cows and earn only 12 coins per day. They should not be placed in the Nursery Barn.	These calves will transform into chocolate cows and earn 80 coins per day. They can be placed in the Nursery Barn.
calf brown calf Holstein calf Longhorn calf belted calf groovy calf chocolate calf	pink calf pink patch calf fan calf green calf Kelley green calf Neapolitan calf