by T3iffany

Created on: August 19, 2009   Last Updated: August 20, 2009

Farmville is a game played on Facebook. Once you get the application, you create a virtual farm. On the virtual farm you can have animals, paths, flowers, trees, houses, and mostly crops.

When you start off it is best to start planting a crop that will harvest in a few hours or just one day. To plant a crop first you must click on the plow button. Then select where you want to plow. Then you must go to the store and select what type of seeds you want to buy. Grapes are a good crop to use, because they can be harvested in four hours.

Add your friends to Farmville as neighbors - this helps your experience level go up. The more experience you have, the more things your avatar is able to do and the more items are available. To make extra money while you wait for your crops to be ready to harvest, you can get a job.

To get a job, go to the market place. Once there, type in the chat box "hire me" and wait until a message pops up asking you to accept the job. Once you accept it, you will be taken to someone's farm to work. There you can either harvest or plow their crops. When you harvest their fields, you make money. When you plow on their fields, you make money and also gain experience.

Once you have some money, go to the store and a buy a few trees. Trees are a good investment to make money because you pay for them only once, but continue to make money every time you harvest them. Then once your crops are ready to harvest on your farm, click the "harvest" button. Then click on the crop that you want to harvest. A menu will pop up for the crop; click on "harvest and store." This way you make more money than just selling the crops.

Once you have a crop in storage go to the market place and choose the option sell crops. Then a page with your stored crops pops up. Choose which one you would like to sell, then go back to your farm by clicking "go home." Now it is time to plant new crops. You should have made enough profit to plant even more crops than last time. Another way to make money is going to your neighbors farms and helping them out. You get paid for watering and raking or by using gloves on these farms. By repeating this process you will become a rich virtual farmer on Farmville using Facebook. Good luck!

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