Country Story Tips

1. How do I buy and plant seeds?

Firstly, click on the seed icon on the bottom right of your screen. Click View Shop to see what you can buy. After buying the seeds, they will be available in your inventory. Click on the seed you want to plant.
After choosing the seed, the seed icon will now change to your chosen seed. Click on ploughed plots to start planting them.

You can check how long until you can harvest your crops at any time by selecting the white arrow icon and hovering over the crop, this will also tell you which crop it is!

You unlock new crops as you level up.

2. How do I water my crops?

To water your crops, first select the blue watering can icon. To fill your watering can, select the well towards the top left corner of your farm. Then select the plots that you wish to water by clicking on them one at a time.

3. What are animals (chicken, sheep, and cow) for?

The animals give produce which can help you earn additional income, chickens will given you eggs, sheep will give you wool and cows will give milk.
When you have an animal you will notice it will have a timer. The initial timer is the time until your animal is full grown and hence capable of producing eggs/wool/milk, the timers after this point is how long until the next produce is ready for you to collect.

You will need to feed your animals regularly to keep them growing/producing. If you feed them fully, the food should last for 22 hours until you need to feed them again. Chickens eat Chicken Wheat, and Sheep and Cows eat Grass.

Chicken Wheat and Grass are crops that if you just grow to sell, you will not make profit from, so you should grow them primarily to feed your animals!

4. What are sticks and stones for?

Sticks and Stones are used to build/upgrade your animals housing and other farm structure, they are also used in some quests.
You will be able to collect a total of 5 sticks and/or stones from each friend’s farm each day.
When visiting a friend’s farm simply click sticks or stones to pick them up! The sticks and stones reset each day at midnight GMT.

5. How do I earn coins?

You can earn coins by selling harvested crops and animal produce, and completing quests. You can find your crops and produce that you can sell in your ‘storage’ section.

You can also earn some random coins when ploughing plots and watering crops.

6. How do I earn experience points?

From the Knowledge Base:

Experience points are earned by doing various tasks around the farm, ranging from plowing the soil, planting seeds, watering crops and harvesting crops.

You can also gain experience points from helping out other players on their farms and by completing quests.

7. What is the stamina bar for and how do I replenish stamina?

From the Knowledge Base:

The stamina bar shows how much stamina you have left – when you do work on your farm or other players farms, you lose stamina. Once the stamina has completely depleted, you will no longer be able to work – and therefore must wait until it replenishes itself again. It takes about 6 hours to replenish stamina without food.

You can buy food at the market in order to replenish stamina more quickly, and do more work on the farm. The cost of the food varies, as does the amount of stamina that particular food replenishes.

8. What are friendship points and how do they work?

From the Knowledge Base:

Friend points indicate how friendly you are with a friend. Friend points are used when you ask a friend to help you look after your crop.
Click on the friendship icon to view your friend points.
Friend points increase when you give a present that is more than 100 coins to a friend. Take note that anything less than 100 will not be noticeable. In addition, the maximum number of friend points can only increase by 10 per day per friend. There will be no further increase even if you give more presents.

For every gift that’s worth 100 coins, you get 1 friend point. The points can be used to ensure your crops are looked after by that particular friend, and this stops other friends from stealing from you!

9. What is the weather system (sunshine, clouds and bars) all about?

This indicates whether it is day or night and also displays the weather. Once the little bars surrounding the weather is filled up, it will change from either day to night or night to day. Day and night changes are approximately one hour.

10. Can I move plots I’ve ploughed, decorations or animals?

You are not able to moved ploughed plots.
You can move your decorations and animals. To move your decorations, select ‘Decorate’ and then click and drag any decoration to the new location you want it. To move your animals open your storage, select your animals tab, and then it should allow you to click and drag your animals to a new location.

11. What do the different fertilizers do?

Fertilizers will reduce the growing time of your plants. Right now you can only buy them with Playfish Cash, and receiving them from quests, don’t know if they will add it for coins in the future or if it will stay this way.
You can find out how much time they reduce by clicking on them in the store fertilizer tab.

Level 1 Fertilizer : 2 Playfish Cash reduces grow time by 4 hrs
Level 2 Fertilizer : 4 Playfish Cash reduces grow time by 9 hrs
Level 3 Fertilizer : 6 Playfish Cash reduces grow time by 14 hrs
Level 4 Fertilizer : 8 Playfish Cash cash reduces grow time by 19 hrs
Level 5 Fertilizer : 10 Playfish Cash reduces grow time by 24 hrs

12. What is stealing and how does it work?

Stealing, is when you go to a friend’s farm, or a friend comes to your farm, and uses the black glove to take some of the fully grown crops.
Initially, you have up to 5 grabs from each friend, and each grab can take 2 fruit/vegetables.
Once you gain your stealing trophy, your available grabs will increase. Your amount of grabs available each day resets at midnight GMT.
As you are taking crops from your friend, this reduces what they are able to harvest, so there is a maximum amount that can be stolen from each fully grown crop. Once this maximum is reached, if you try and steal from that crop, you will receive a message letting you know that you need to leave some for the owner.

Also, if they have assigned a friend to look after a particular crop, you will not be able to take anything from that crop. If you try you will receive a message letting you know that that crop belongs to a friend.

You can use your friendship points to assign friends to look after your crops to protect them if you wish. Also, once you have a dog, the dog will also assist in protecting your crops.
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