NEW RELEASE - 18th April 2013

See Known Issues, More Information and Post Release Changes at the end of this post.

Last changes released at Apr 22nd, 7:30PM EST.

Hi There,

We just released a new version of the game with the following features and bug fixes:

1. New Crops, including new 2h crops: Fennel (2h), Echinacea Purpurea (2h), Chamomile (4h), Yucca (8h) and Dandelion (12h)

2. 34 x 34 Farm Expansions for farms 1 - 5: 30 FarmCash OR

Farm 1 Expansion: 4000,000,000
Farm 2 Expansion: 5000,000,000
Farm 3 Expansion: 6000,000,000
Farm 4 Expansion: 7000,000,000
Farm 5 Expansion: 8000,000,000

3. Hide menu option improvements: When you click 'Hide' in the item menu you will be offered 3 choices: 1. Hide current item 2. Hide all items like the current item 3.Hide all items in the same category.

Notice that to hide several items manually one by one you should better use the Hide tool in the extended tool box (closed eye icon)

4. Speed Improvement: When using Sow and Plow multitools, the slowness associated to the first click has been eliminated and in general they should work better on bigger farms.

5. Extra Warning Message when trying to delete or sell a farm cash item

6. Turbo Tools for Regular Facilities: The new Turbo tools 'Turbo Bottling Machine' and 'Turbo Drive Thru System' allows you to Start Products into multiple Regular Facilities with one click. To use these tools use the 'Start All' button in the Facility Manager.

All products will be produced in the same order as they appear in the Facility Manager and according to the filters selected. For example, if only 'Facilities in current Farm' are shown then only Regular Facilities in current farm will have productions started. If 'Facilities in all Farms' are shown, all Regular Facilities in all farms will have productions started.

Mod Edit Please Note :- The Turbo Tools for regular facilities only work in conjunction with the regular loading tools . They will only load all facilities that fall under the particular category I.E. The Turbo Bottling machine will load all of the following facilities .. Brewery, Distillery, Juice Factory, Oil factory, Plant Milk Factory, Soft Drink Factory, Winery, Wine Cellar.
The Turbo Drive Thru Sytem will load all ..Bakery, BBQ Restaurant, Breakfast restaurant, Coffee and Tea Shop, Donut Shop, Fish and Chips, Hamburger restaurant, Pizza restaurant, Sandwich restaurant. Taco restaurant


7. Railroad Baron Minigame: As usual, you have 3 stages and you can go into Practice mode to play each of the stages and improve personal records or you have the option to play multiplayer with all your friends currently in the farm, in this case, the user who finish all the 3 stages first win.

The Goal of this minigame is to build train paths and coordinate the flow of the trains to their destinations.

8. New Custom Order sort option in Facility Manager: Select this option to rearrange your facilities the way you like it in the Facility Manager view. By default, the custom order show first all regular and service facilities sorted by production chain and then all animal facilities.

Click the blue Up/Down arrow icon and drag and drop any facility to any place you like and this final order will be the one used in the Facility Manager every time you select the Custom Order sorting option.

This option is specially useful now with the Turbo Tools for regular facilities if you want to prioritize some facilities before others to administer and control better the use of your ingredients.

9. Multifarm tools improvements: When using multifarm tools (water sprinklers and manure spreaders) it will disable the farms that are already watered, irrigated or fertilized.

10. Other Bug Fixes:

- When 'Mouse Over' items in any zoom level you should always see the full title of the item without truncation, including info tokens like W,I and F
- XP not incrementing for users with very high XP count, this is now fixed
- Flower fixes from 2 weeks ago: (please report if you are still experiencing issues with the flowers)
a) Flowers should not go back to 'Ready to Harvest' after watered/irrigated
b) Better feedback message when trying to harvest a frozen flower in the last grown stage

11. Animal Remedy Factory (FC): Produces Animal Remedies.

Infection Remedy
Calmative Remedy
Colic Remedy
Constipation Remedy
Kidney Failure Remedy
Arthritis Remedy
Antitumoral Remedy
Antiworm Remedy

New Products in other facilities: Pumpkin Seeds in the Snack Factory

12. Transport Supplies Factory (coins): Produces Public Transport Supplies.

Bike Rack
Reserve Parking Barrier
Parking Sign
Garbage Bin
Parking Pass
Parking Bollard
Parking Block Set
Bus Stop
Traffic Cone
Pavement Marker
Traffic Barrier
Speed Bump
Animal Crossing Sign
Asphalt Concrete Pile

New Products in other facilities: Asphalt Barrel in the Oil Refinery

13. Public Transport Office (FC): Provides Public Transport Services and can be stocked with the following products:

Bus Stop
Traffic Cone
Pavement Marker
Traffic Barrier
Speed Bump
Animal Crossing Sign
Asphalt Concrete Pile

14. Multi Level Parking (coins): The Multi Level Parking building was converted to a Service Facility which Provides Public Parking Services and can be stocked with the following products:

Bike Rack
Reserve Parking Barrier
Parking Sign
Garbage Bin
Parking Pass
Parking Bollard
Parking Block Set

Enjoy!

--Raul

Post Release Updates - Apr 19th, 8:50PM EST

- Multihire option working again for trees and flowers
- Hiding and Showing items using the preference window is stable again
- More clear help messages (blue messages) in the store for facility tools. It's clear now that Turbo Tools only works for a set of facilities as the non-turbo tools.

Post Release Updates - Apr 22nd, 7:30PM EST

- Help (?) icon for the new turbo tools or the new facilities is now working again for all users
- If you hire someone for trees or flowers only, he/she will not be able to harvest your crops
- Long Crop titles like Echinacea Purpurea, Brussels Sprout and a couple of others now display fully when mouse over including the Gone to Waste information
- Railroad Baron minigame fixes

Known Issues related to this Release:

- Still some flower issues incorrectly reporting ready to harvest