FarmVille slowly rolling out 26 x 26 farm expansion

Tonight, observant FarmVille players may have noticed a new banner below the game tonight that proudly announced that 26 x 26 land expansion is being released. The message does say that this new feature will be rolling out over time to all farmers, however, so you may not actually have the expansion just yet. Many players on the official forums have confirmed that they have the Grand Plantation in their Market, and many others do not have it yet.

Once the Grand Plantation comes to your market, you'll need to shell out a bit in order to purchase it. Here are the requirements for purchase:

    Must have 35 neighbors, with 5 new neighbors
    80 Farm Cash or 2 million coins to purchase


This price is quite a bit higher than the 24 x 24 expansion, which only cost 500,000 coins. Don't go to hog wild with planting and taking up all of your new space, you'll want to leave room for the crafting stations and buildings that are undoubtedly coming soon. There are also a ton of new Swiss Alps decorations available that you may want to leave space for.

FarmVille releases Swiss Alps themed items

FarmVille released a huge set of new Swiss Alps items tonight, including many animals, buildings, decorations, and two new crops. These items are all available for anywhere from 16-21 days depending on the item, and some are available for Farm Cash and others are coin items. There are plenty of nice looking items for your farm in this set, even if you aren't familiar with Swiss culture. Check out the full list of new items below!

Crops:

Alpine Roses
Cost 145 to plant
Sell for 250 coins
Harvest in 10 hours
XP Gained: 1

Swiss Chard
Cost 35 to plant
Sell for 100 coins
Harvest in 14 hours
XP Gained: 2
Animals:

Hampshire Lamb
Cost: 12 FV
Harvest in 3 days
Sell for 90 coins

Simmental Cow
Cost: 14 FV
Harvest in 1 Day
Sell for 18 coins

Breton Horse
Cost: 22 FV
Harvest in 3 days
Sell for 140 coins
Buildings:

Swiss Cottage - 32 FV
Swiss Farmhouse - 36 FV
Swiss Cabin - 250,000 coins
Swiss Barn - 30 FV
Swiss Tool Shed - 24 FV
Swiss Chalet - 85,000 coins


Decorations:

Swiss Alps - 42 FV
Miss Swiss Gnome - 18 FV
Mr. Swiss Gnome - 18 FV
Evergreen Tree II - 40,000 coins
Rocks with Lichen - 25,000 coins
Firewood Basket - 5,000 coins
Shaded Picnic - 8 FV
Floral Fence - 10,000 coins
Oval Planter - 8,000 coins




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FarmVille Farmer's Market update lets you request bushels from friends

Today an update was made to the way farmers obtain bushels. Since the Crafting Buildings were released we all have been hard at work trying to upgrade and level up our recipes. This has been difficult at times because of recent restrictions on how many bushels we can purchase from neighbors, as well as not being able to find bushels at all.

Well, now there is a way to 'request' bushels.

FarmVille Farmer's Market Request Bushels As Gift

If your neighbors are not currently offering the bushel you need to make a recipe you can request them on Facebook homefeed and neighbors can send them as a gift.

FarmVille Farmer's Market Request Bushels As Gift Facebook Image

When your neighbors see this on their Facebook homefeed they will be able to send you the bushel you need when clicking on the post!

FarmVille Farmer's Market Send Bushel As Gift To Neighbor

If your kind neighbors send you a bushel from a request, you will need to accept them from your FarmVille gift requests. After accepting the bushel will go directly to your bushel inventory, NOT YOUR GIFT BOX.

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

FarmVille Unreleased Animated Mule

Thank you FarmVille Freak Vezok for finding this unreleased FarmVille Unreleased Mule!

Note: Unreleased items have no official release date or guarantee that they will make it to the FarmVille Market.


This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

FarmVille Mystery Game stocked with new prizes, plus one free spin

FarmVille has populated its Mystery Game with a slew of new Tuscan-themed items (see what they are after the jump), and *drumroll* please, a free chance to play the game. To find the Mystery Game, open the Market and then the Decorations section and the game is the first item on the list. Click 'Play' to open the game, and you'll get a pop-up like the one at the top of this article. Click Accept, and then throw a dart. Remember only the first dart is free, each subsequent throw will cost 16FV

farmville mystery game





*Spoilers*

Here are all of the items you have a chance to win if you play the Mystery Game today:

Rare – Rosetta Hall
Rare – Bee Catcher x 2
Uncommon – Bellissimo Falls
Uncommon – Fattoria
Common – Florella Fountain
Common – Roe Deer (New item)

Have you played the Mystery Game today? What did you get?

FarmVille 'Fertilize All' limited edition gift: It's back!

FarmVille 'Fertilize All' is one of the nicest gifts you can send to neighbors (outside of free fuel). It lets you -- with a single click -- fertilize all of your crops. This gift made an appearance this weekend, then disappeared and now, it seems to be back for a limited time.
farmville fertilize all -- it's back

To send these to your lucky friends, look for the icon above on the left-hand side of the screen, click it and pop-up window with a friend selector will appear. Pick whom you want to send this gift to -- and voila!

farmville fertilize all

If you receive a 'Fertilize All' gift, accept it and then look for it in your gifts box. Click 'use' and all of your crops will be fertilized, which means extra XP and bonuses when you harvest.

farmville fertilize all


Send 'em now -- there's no telling how long these will stick around.

FarmVille Megamind promotion is in full bloom for 24 hours only

As promised, the FarmVille Megamind promotion is in full swing today. Farmers can visit Megamind's farm, where they are asked to 'help' activate the blue alien's contraption. The kicker is, after you agree that you want to help, you just watch the action unfold on screen, i.e. the blimp-like contraption projects a movie promo onto a field of white hay bales.

After the promo is over (it takes about 30 seconds or less), you will be rewarded with Mega-Grow, which will instantly mature your crops and offer wither protection and a Megamind Decoration, which you can display on your farm if you so desire. You can find these two items in your gift box and use them at your discretion.

See how the entire FarmVille Megamind promotion works in the video below.





This is the second promotion of this type for FarmVille (the first being McDonalds), and I am happy to report that this is available to international players as well. I also can't help but feel a little disappointed that there's not much more to do once you get to the Megamind farm. Would be interesting if FarmVille creator Zynga would bake in a few more things to do on the farm -- maybe grow or plow some crops -- so it feels less like you're simply a spectating an advertisement.

Either way, I'm sure this 24-hour promotion will prove very popular with FarmVille die-hards, and we can expect to see more of these types of advertising integration in the not-too-distant future.

Pre-order FarmVille for Dummies on Amazon.com

No folks, this one isn't a joke. FarmVille for Dummies now available for pre-order on Amazon.com. In case you still need to learn more about how to play everyone's favorite social game, this 288-page paperback book will teach you everything you need to know.

Aimed for new FarmVille players who are just starting out, FarmVille for Dummies will teach you how to find neighbors, how to achieve all of the ribbons and collections, how to shop at the FarmVille Market, how to do co-op missions, and how to deal with any technical issues that might be keeping you down. FarmVille for Dummies is written by Angela Morales of FarmVille Freak, and co-authored by Kyle Orland (who has done quite a bit of writing for us here).

The book is $13.59 USD, and has a release date of February 15, 2011. What could make a better Valentine's Day present than a copy of FarmVille for Dummies? We'll definitely be picking it up!

Preorder FarmVille for Dummies on Amazon here >

FarmVille Holiday Avatar Costumes: Polar Bear & Snowman

Still looking for that perfect holiday costume for your avatar in FarmVille? How about a costume that will last you through the holiday season and the rest of winter to boot? If you've said yes, then you might be interested in the two newest offerings that have been added to FarmVille this week.

The costumes are the Polar Bear and Snowman costumes. Both of these costumes are limited edition, and are part of the Winter Holiday theme of items, giving them a time limit of 17 days remaining in the game's store. They are both premium, costing 10 Farm Cash each. For purchasing either costume, you'll gain 350 experience points as a reward.

If you've spent most of your Farm Cash on other items this holiday season, remember that Zynga has offered compensation to those users affected by the many glitches in the Snowman event, which we told you about earlier this week, so you may have 20 free Farm Cash on hand and not even know it. Conveniently enough, that's just what these costumes would cost to add to your wardrobe. Whether or not you do in fact purchase them, though, is of course up to you.

Check out the rest of our Holiday 2010 coverage right here.

What do you think of these newest costumes? How many holiday costumes have you purchased for your avatar this month?

Have Facebook's platform policy changes killed free cash promotions?

At the end of July, Facebook changed their platform policies (rules that regulate the actions developers can take in their Facebook applications / games), and mostly for the worse. TechCrunch caught onto the changes today, and let me tell you: they reek of fear. One particular change seems to completely eliminate the ability for developers to cross-promote their applications across a wide variety of social networks, as developers are now told:

"Apps on Facebook may not integrate, link to, promote, distribute, or redirect to any app on any other competing social platform."

Let's put this more simply. Let's say a game that's available on Facebook also happens to be available to play on Google+ Games. If that developer mentions Google+ Games at all within the Facebook proper app, Facebook will now apparently block or remove the app from the site altogether. Our first reaction (that which makes perfect sense) is that this is Facebook corporate's attempt to stop all references of Google+ Games specifically from infiltrating the minds of players, to keep users right where they are (and keep the money flowing into its pockets). It looks like Facebook isn't entirely confident in its own abilities to combat the new social gaming platform after all.

The more interesting change, though, comes elsewhere, as the rules surrounding rewards of free virtual currency and items have changed. Here's the updated listing:

    Applications may reward users with virtual currency or virtual goods in exchange for user actions that do not involve third parties, but rewards for user actions that involve third parties must be powered by Facebook Credits by integrating Facebook Credits offers.

    For example, you may not reward users with virtual currency or virtual goods in exchange for any action in which personally identifiable information is shared with a third party, you may not reward users with virtual currency or virtual goods in exchange for third party downloads, such as toolbars or ringtones, and you may not reward users with virtual currency for engaging in passive actions offered by third parties, such as watching a video, playing a mini-game, or taking an anonymous poll.


See that last sentence? If you're like me, the first thing that comes to mind might be something along the lines of FarmVille's many, many free Farm Cash promotions. The question then becomes whether or not these have now been blocked. Technically, users do watch videos and answer poll questions anonymously, and are rewarded with virtual currency for doing so, but since Zynga now deals in Facebook Credits, does that really violate the terms of this new Platform Policy? In typical legal speak, it's hard to really decipher exactly what's being said here, but it's definitely something to think about.

If Facebook continues to limit the possible actions of game developers, aren't they effectively pushing them into the arms of another host (I hear Google+ Games looks nice this time of year)? Sure, Zynga's locked in for a bit of the long haul, but what of other huge developers like EA/Playfish or Disney/Playdom? I'm reminded of the phrase "don't bite the hand that feeds," but we'll just have to wait and see if developers decide to actually bite back.

FarmVille Winter Wonderland Theme Showcase: The farm goes skiing

In the most recent edition of the FarmVille Showcase by Zynga, the Winter Wonderland Theme is put on display for us. And surprisingly, we can gather quite a lot from 13 seconds of video. In fact, just about all of these items have already been released in the game like the Caribou, Totem Pole, Ski Shop, and Winter Fire Pit. Also released last night was the new animated Ski Jump. Watch in awe as this brave little man performs a back flip from atop the hill only to do it all over again. And again.

Also included in the video are the Fiorland Penguin, which has already been released in the game, what looks to be a black bear cub, a Koala and a giant Panda Bear. For good measure, Zynga threw in a B0V1NE-09 and a Gold Gnome--no farm is complete without them, really. Stay tuned for when the rest of these items go live in-game.

Games.com's 2011 social gaming predictions: Mobile, 3D, MMOs and more

For social gaming, 2010 was a roller coaster ride with stories of ups and downs almost weekly. In the end, it turned out to be a year that witnessed some truly wonderful games, so everyone was a winner, really. But now it's time to look forward to a year that will surely be rife with change. And like any self-respecting journalists and bloggers would, we gaze into the future with wild theories, educated guesses and speculation. We give you Games.com's Predictions for 2011.

facebook game predictions 2011
Social = Mobile
If you thought the slew of social games-gone-mobile like FarmVille for iPhone and Mafia Wars across iOS, Android Blackberry and webOS was a step forward in 2010, just wait for what's to come. While major developers like Zynga, Playfish and Playdom have all started to expand to mobile devices using their existing games like My Empire and Social City, 2011 will see many more original mobile social games--just look at games like Raise the Village. (Bonus prediction: Zynga's recent cross platform strategy using mobile browsers might take off elsewhere.)

Find the rest of our predictions for 2011 after the break.

facebook game predictions 2011
Faster, Prettier Games
It's inevitable, really. With games like Godswar Online and the upcoming EA Sports PGA Tour for Facebook, both of which in full 3D, it's almost certain that there will be more where that came from. The two technologies that will be most responsible for this are HTML5 and the Unity Engine. The former being the next step in how websites are created, HTML5 can do things that Flash can without the need for Flash at all. (Just take a look at what's possible with HTML5.) The Unity Engine, however, is much like Flash in that its software through which developers can create browser games. But in detailed, appealing 3D that can run smoothly in websites without extra downloads (i.e. Facebook). Not to mention that developers are getting much better with Flash (take CityVille, for instance).

facebook game predictions 2011
CityVille Can't Stay on Top Forever
As much as some of us here at The Games.com Blog love CityVille, there's no way it's going to last forever as the top Facebook game. Sure, FarmVille was on top for months, but it too fell from its ivory tower made of Zynga Game Cards. Admittedly, the game isn't doing anything that's seriously groundbreaking, which means a game that does city building better could have a chance at dethroning CityVille. But good luck competing with both the Zynga name and its pool of over 100 million potential players. It's sad to say that, if anything, it will probably be another Zynga game that topples CityVille.

facebook game predictions 2011
Ads, ads, and more ads-Oh, my!
Some social games have more players monthly than most countries have people living in them. As big wigs in the advertising world would say, "That's a lot of eyeballs." With huge companies like McDonalds and Coca-Cola along with big-time rappers such as Dr. Dre getting into the game early, it's only natural that the rest of corporate America is itching to dig its pickax into the social gaming gold mine. That said, advertising in social games could become as second nature as, say, viral marketing has become in the world of YouTube (we've all seen the Old Spice Man).

facebook game predictions 2011
Is Zynga Creating its Own Network?
If eight major purchases in the last eight months and its most recent weren't hint enough, then we'll say it now. More than likely, this is what Zynga is ultimately up to. Zynga CEO Mark Pincus even came forthright in saying that his vision for the future of gaming is a "dog-activated world." Now that we've squashed all doubt, one question remains: What does it mean? Well, it could mean a lot of things, but most importantly is that it could spell independence from Facebook for Zynga.

facebook game predictions 2011
Hey Guys, Check Out Our "Game"
You've seen them already. Out there, just waiting to trick you, thinking what you just clicked on will be a remotely entertaining or enjoyable experience. Advergames. Instead of partnering with major developers, some companies pushing products are saying to themselves, "You know what, screw working with an experienced game developer. I'll make my own game. How hard can it be?" And what we get is a quasi-game, a series of Flash animations and a few clickable buttons designed for one purpose: to show us how cool Product X is and that we should totally buy it immediately.

facebook game predictions 2011
There's an MMO in my Facebook
There are now at least two full blown massively mutliplayer online games (MMO) currently on Facebook, Godswar Online and Milmo. While browser-based MMOs have existed for over a year if not longer, this will be the year when the lines between Facebook game and MMO blur. The two genres are too similar not to. Both are free to play, involve transactions for individual virtual goods or boosts and can now run right within Facebook. However, the Facebook game genre-bending likely won't stop there. With a full 3D golf game (see above) coming to Facebook, who is to say other types of games can't?

facebook game predictions 2011
The Big Will Undoubtedly Get Bigger
Call us pessimistic, but it's just how things work, people. Companies like Zynga are attracting over half of the social gaming market's audience. Numbers like that are tough to crack even for other juggernauts like PopCap who have all but ruled the casual gaming space with Bejeweled, Peggle and Zuma. Even Disney--you know, the guys who thought up Mickey Mouse?--are having trouble competing with them through Playdom. Zynga is likely going to be on top for a long, long time. The question of the day will remain, "Who is number two?" with companies like EA's Playfish, CrowdStar, PopCap and Playdom battling fiercely for second best.

facebook game predictions 2011
Facebook Will Be Our Friend Again
As much as it looked like it was working against us in 2010, Facebook could turn a new leaf this year. In fact, it already has. Just in the second half of 2010, Facebook created an entire games engineering team dedicated to making Facebook better for us social gamers. Not to mention that even more recently the 600-million strong social network hired a social games partnerships director to keep developers like Zynga happy (pictured right). It's too bad that its already looking to grow beyond Facebook. Maybe the two can cut another deal?

FarmVille Lunar New Year Trees: Chinese Lantern & Money Tree

Earlier this evening, FarmVille users started reporting that they were receiving Chinese Lantern trees as Mystery Seedlings on their farms. If you haven't been so lucky, however, you can now purchase said Chinese Lantern Tree, and an accompanying Money Tree for your farm from the game's store.

Both of these trees are part of the Lunar New Year limited edition item theme, with the Chinese Lantern tree being available for 10 Farm Cash, and the Money Tree being available for 5 Farm Cash. When placing a Money Tree into your Orchard, you'll have the ability to spawn these Chinese Lantern trees, so feel free to skip purchasing the latter from the store, if you're confident in your luck at producing Mystery Seedlings.

Both of these trees will be available in the game for the next two weeks, and while that does give you plenty of time to do a bit of shopping, if you're like me, you'll want to purchase these trees as soon as possible, simply due to their cool appearance. What do you think?

FarmVille Valentine Animals: Red Heart Chicken, Pink Gypsy Horse and Foal

Attention all chicken and horse lovers! If you're looking for a new chicken or horse to add to your collections in FarmVille, you'll be happy to know that tonight's FarmVille update brought with it one of each, both of which fit into the current Valentine's Day limited edition item theme.

The first animal is the Red Heart Chicken, and while some users are reporting that you can receive this animal at random from Golden Mystery Eggs, if you'd like a guarantee at adding this little fella to your farm, you'll be able to purchase it from the store for 14 Farm Cash. It can be harvested once per day and you'll receive 64 coins when doing so.

As for the Pink Gypsy Horse, you can purchase one for 26 Farm Cash. This horse can be added to your horse stable, or you can harvest from it individually once every three days for 140 coins each time. If you do choose to place it in your Horse Stable, you'll have a chance of breeding Pink Gypsy Foals. Remember, if you'd like to have one of these new foals on your land, simply keep an eye out on your news feed for someone else who has bred one and is sharing it.

Both of these animals will be available in the game for the next two weeks. Will that mark the finale of the Valentine's Day theme in FarmVille? Only time will tell, but we'll make sure to let you know if and when Zynga releases more items in the theme.

Check out the rest of our Valentine's Day 2011 coverage right here.

Which of these animals is your favorite, or will you purchase them both?

FarmVille Valentine Decorations: Wedding Tent, Groom Gnome, Heart Balloon Arch and more

Another large wave of Valentine's Day decorations was released tonight as part of a new FarmVille update, with these new items allowing those users that prefer to shop with only coins to have plenty to be interested in. There is one new building to purchase (mercifully available for coins), along with four new decorative items.

The building is the Wedding Tent, and while not technically a solitary building, it will still make quite the statement on your farm. It displays an outdoor wedding scene, along with white tent and chairs covered in flowers, and a walkway for the bride to make her entrance. It can be added to your farm for 250,000 coins. For that high price, you'll receive not only the item itself, but also 2500 experience points as a reward for purchasing. As one final note, even though this item is technically listed in the game as a building, it can not be decorated with either snow or lights, so keep that in mind if it will affect your purchase decision.

As for the new decorations, there are four to choose from, three of which are available for coins. The one premium item is the Groom Gnome, which has already received his companion, a Bride Gnome, in the game via this week's Mystery Game. He can be purchased for 15 Farm Cash, and while there is no word yet as to when exactly the Bride Gnome will be released, it would only be presumable that she would cost the same amount.

As for the three coin decorations, you can now pick up a Heart Balloon Arch (a fairly large item, all things considered) for 20,000 coins, a set of Rose Petals (taking up about a bit more than a fourth of the size of one crop plot on your land) for 2,000 coins, and a single piece of Wedding Fencing for 5,000 coins. All of these items reward varying amounts of experience points for purchasing them, relative to the purchase price. The Heart Balloon Arch, as one example will reward you with 200 experience points, and so on.

If you're like me, your farm is now stuffed - nay, overflowing - with Valentine's Day goodies. Where we'll be able to store all of these items after the season is done is anyone's guess, but that won't stop at least this farmer from shelling out more virtual cash to have them in my collection.

Check out the rest of our Valentine's Day 2011 coverage right here.

Do you agree? Do you simply have to have one of every item released in the game?

FarmVille Lunar New Year Decorations: Magpie, Red Lantern, Beckoning Cat and more

While the Lunar / Chinese New Year may have already come and gone in the real world, that doesn't stop Zynga from continuing the celebration virtually in FarmVille. Tonight's FarmVille update saw the release of not only a new duo of trees in this theme, but also four new decorative items that can now be purchased from the store. Some of these items are re-releases, so make sure to dig through your Storage to make sure you don't already have these items in an effort not to duplicate.

One such re-released item is the Beckoning Cat, an animated item that sits on your farm and waves its paw up and down. Last year, you could purchase the cat for 2010 coins, and would gain 20 XP in the process. This year that's no different, but it seems to me that it would make much more sense with a price of 2011 coins, to correspond to the year. I guess we'll give Zynga the benefit of the doubt on this oversight however.

The other returning item is the Red Lantern. It too retains its pricing from last year - being available for just 700 coins, and rewarding you with just 7 experience points for purchasing.

The other two decorations released this evening are entirely new to the game, and come in the form of a Master Gnome, and a Magpie. The Master Gnome will make gnome collectors screech with excitement from his cute appearance and tiny fighting stick, but the price might turn some as the Master Gnome is only available for 15 Farm Cash. You'll receive 1500 XP for purchasing the Master Gnome.

As for the Magpie, this is an entirely decorative set of two birds that sit upon a branch. You'll be able to purchase these feathered friends for 120,000 coins, but again, they are only decorative, so you won't actually make any return on that investment unless you decide to sell the item altogether. You will receive some experience points for your purchase however - 1200 XP to be exact.

All four of these items will be available in the game for the next two weeks, taking the Chinese / Lunar New Year holiday to new lengths in the game. Hopefully by then you'll have had time to decide whether to purchase these items, the equally new Valentine's Day items, or both.

FarmVille St. Patrick's Day Animals: Irish Cob Horse & Irish Hare

Tonight's FarmVille update (which was delayed due to the change in Daylight Saving Time) brings with it two new animals in the current St. Patrick's Day limited edition item theme, but these animals are far more realistic than those we've seen in the past (that is, no green bodies and shamrock patterns here). The two animals are the Irish Cob Horse (which we brought you a sneak peek of in the past) and an Irish Hare.

Both of these animals are premium, as we've come to expect. The Irish Cob Horse costs 26 Farm Cash, and will spawn an Irish Cob Foal when placed inside your Horse Stable and allowed to breed (which happens randomly). You'll gain 2600 experience points for purchasing the horse, which can be harvested once every three days if not placed inside the Horse Stable where you can harvest it daily. The Irish Hare, meanwhile, costs just 12 Farm Cash and will reward you with 1200 experience points for purchasing it, which is still a rather large sum for the price.

Both of these animals will be available in the game for the next two weeks.

Check out the rest of our St. Patrick's Day 2011 coverage right here.

Do you like either of these animals, or do you prefer the ones that take the theme more literally (green animals for St. Patrick's Day - pink animals for Valentine's Day and so on)?

FarmVille St. Patrick's Day Decorations: Shamrock Manor, Clover Flower Bed, Mossy Stone & More

Tonight's FarmVille update brought with it quite a few new decorative items to the game in the current St. Patrick's Day limited edition theme - five items to be exact, with one building and four true decorations being available to purchase from the in-game market. The new building is the Shamrock Manor, which is quite large in size, being comparable in size to something like a large barn, rather than a smaller cottage. The building comes with an equally large price of 40 Farm Cash.

For that price, you'll receive a bonus of 4,000 experience points for purchasing the building, and should you choose to sell the building when the holiday has passed, you can do so to receive 20,000 coins in return. Of course, most users would agree that you aren't likely to spend that many Farm Cash just to sell an item a few weeks later, but the option is there if you want it.

Meet us behind the break for a look at the other four items released in tonight's update.
Two of these new decorative items cost Farm Cash, and come in the form of a Leprechaun Girl gnome and a Rainbow Fountain. The Leprechaun Girl gnome costs 15 Farm Cash, but we can't say we're surprised at the fairly high price, as all gnomes tend to be fairly expensive. The Rainbow Fountain, meanwhile, costs slightly more at 18 Farm Cash. For the price, you'll receive a four-tiered fountain made of clouds and dark blue water, with three sections of rainbow connecting the levels. It's actually quite a lovely item, and it would go great with any Rainbow Trees you happen to have on your farm.

Meanwhile, if you'd rather save your Farm Cash and spend coins instead, you also have two new items to choose from, although these are less impressive visually (as can be expected). A Clover Flower Bed is available for 10,000 coins, while a Mossy Stone decorations is available for 50,000 coins.

Regardless of the item you'd like to purchase, all come with the same expiration date in the store - that being two weeks from now. Yes, this means that these items will be available in the game even after St. Patrick's Day has passed, but at least this will give you a chance to stock up on items for next year.

Check out the rest of our St. Patrick's Day 2011 coverage right here.

What do you think of these new decorations in FarmVille? Will you purchase any of them for your farm?

FarmVille: Lucky vehicles return for St. Patrick's Day

Tonight's FarmVille update brought with it a return of the three "Lucky" farm vehicles released in last year's St. Patrick's Day theme. These vehicles are the Lucky Tractor, Lucky Seeder, and Lucky Harvester. Joining them is the new Lucky Combine, which of course combines all three of the former vehicles' abilities into one convenient (albeit expensive) package.

Like last year, the Lucky Tractor costs 5,000 coins while the Lucky Harvester and Seeder cost 30,000 coins each. If you've yet to add one of these vehicles to your land, or you just want a green option to show off for St. Patrick's Day, then these are at least fairly cheap options.

Meanwhile, the new item is the Lucky Combine, which is premium. The Lucky Combine costs 110 Farm Cash, which equates to around $20 US with the current Farm Cash exchange rate. If anything, at least this vehicle is decidedly St. Patrick's Day in theme, as it has a shamrock on its roof, while the other three are just green in color. If you choose to purchase these vehicles, they can be stored in your Garage and upgraded to tend more squares of land at a time, just as with other vehicles.

These green farm vehicles will be available in the game for the next two weeks. We'll make sure to let you know if more themed vehicles are released in the future.

Check out the rest of our St. Patrick's Day 2011 coverage right here.

Do you like these green vehicles enough to replace your other vehicles on your farm? Or, will you simply purchase these as fun decorations to place around the farm?

FarmVille Mystery Game (3/13/2011): St. Patrick's Day items now available

The Mystery Game in FarmVille has been updated this evening with a new set of six animals and decorations available to win. This week's theme is "St. Patrick's Day," meaning that you'll be able to find plenty of green items here, along with some that are simply inspired by Ireland.

There are three animals and three decorations to win here. Here's a list of what you can win:

Shamrock Unicorn
Green Gazebo
Greenwig Duck
Green Parrots
Irish Elk
Green Farm House

Luckily, even with the inclusion of a unicorn (which is a highly sought after species of animal in the game), this week's Mystery Game only costs the standard 16 Farm Cash for a single dart to throw at the board. Of course, you're not guaranteed the Shamrock Unicorn when you play the game, but at least you won't lose more than the minimum Farm Cash in your attempt.

As usual, this Mystery Game set will only be available for the next week, at which point the available prizes will be swapped out for new items.

Check out the rest of our St. Patrick's Day 2011 coverage right here.

Which of these prizes would you most like to win on your farm? Are you hoping for the Shamrock Unicorn, or is another animal more your style?