Chapter 28 Quests
 

• What are Regular Quests?
• How do i start a quest?
• How many quests am i allowed?
• How do i complete the quest?
• How much do i get for a quest?
• How do i claim my prize?
• What are the lifelines?
• I did what it said, and there's no checkmark, what now?
  
  
• Quest Farms -how to set a farm as a Quest Farm
  Includes information on the Private Farm Setting and Disable Super-Neighbour Setting.
  
  
• What are Cooperative Quests?

  Update - April 18th,2024
  
  When you can buy a product from a farmers co-operative quest there is now a dark blue BUY note so you don't have to click on quests that are not useful to you.
  The number on the note indicates how many you can buy.
  
  https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg...COOP BUY 2.png

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What are quests?
 

Q: What are the Regular quests?

A: Quests are a way to earn extra coins on your farm by performing goals. These goals are products that you make using your facilities. A quest might require you to harvest crops, animals, trees, fish etc. You will then use those harvests to make other products until you reach your goal.

You can also earn Farm Cash by completing Quests within a certain time.

How do i start a quest?
 

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg...olbox 2019.PNG To start a quest click on your yellow toolbox to open it and look in the far left column for the brown Quest icon shown above and click on it. The Quest Manager will open.


Then click the blue "Accept Quest" button at the bottom left of the window.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg...cept Quest.JPG

How many quests am i allowed?
 

Q: How many quests am i allowed?

A: You can have several active Quests at the same time depending on your level, here is the table:

• Level 20 - 1 Max Active Quests
• Level 35 - 2 Max Active Quests
• Level 50 - 3 Max Active Quests
• Level 65 - 4 Max Active Quests
• Level 80 - 5 Max Active Quests

You can only accept 1 Quest per farmtown day (every 20 hrs) and it has to be completed before it expires.

How do i complete a quest?
 

Q: How do i complete a quest?

A: Once you've accepted a quest, you will see a window like this...

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg...fork quest.PNG

At the top of the window it shows you how much time until the quest will expire and no longer count. You need to complete your quest before time expires.

As you can see, this particular quest is to produce Pitch fork. You have to follow the steps in order to complete the quest. The steps that you can do right now are those that are highlighted. In this case, Harvest oak log pile, produce chromite ore, produce iron ore. As you see from the picture above, there is also a number 0/11 etc.. That lets you know how many you will need to complete that step. Fertilized farms DO count as 2 harvests in quest steps.

Each step that you complete, will show a green checkmark on it...

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg...rk quest 1.PNG

Steps that require you to make something in a facility can be done from the Quest Manager. Hover over the facility and you will see an "Open" button. Click it to open the facility and start your batch.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg...rk quest 2.PNG

Some steps you may see a black circle, that shows you how much time is needed to produce that quantity of the item needed. In the case of the step below, It's just under 6 hours. You can hover your mouse over that circle to get an exact time till it's complete.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg...rk quest 3.PNG


If you hover your mouse over a step thats not highlighted, it will let you know what steps have to be completed first before that step, as shown below.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg...rk quest 4.PNG


You MUST complete ALL steps in order to complete a quest

If you can't complete a quest because you don't own a facility, try a lifeline, but please note, that lifelines do NOT help with the final step of the quest. You can also buy that facility to complete a quest with. If you can't do either of those, then you can just let the quest expire.

How much do i get for a quest?
 

Q: How much do i get for a quest?

A: The prize in coins will be higher depending on:

• How fast the Quest was completed
• The complexity of the Quest (amount of Quest Steps)
• User Level
• The maximum amount of coins you can earn for a quest is 15 million coins.

Earn Farm Cash while completing Quests: Here are the rules:

• Earn 1 FarmCash if you have completed at least 3 quests in the last 7 days
• Earn 2 FarmCash if you have completed at least 8 quests in the last 7 days, this is difficult, only about a 1000 users have done it in the past week, and is more difficult to do continuously

Once you get your FarmCash, you'll have to wait at least 7 days to qualify for more FarmCash rewards. In other words, if you play frequently you should be able to win 1 or 2 FarmCash a week.

The coins and farmcash buttons are independent of each other, so collect the coins!!! then collect your farmcash. Once the 7 days are up and you are able to collect farmcash again, you will either see a black box, which means you haven't done enough quests in order to collect.. or a blue box, which means you are now able to collect either 1 or 2 FC.

These rules may change in the future, specially if we do more changes to the Quests functionality.

How do i claim my prize?
 

Q: How do i claim my prize?

A: Once you've completed all the steps required, and you have all green check marks, as shown in the image below, you can then click the blue button at the bottom left side of the screen to "Collect Coins"

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg...rk quest 6.PNG



Q: What is the Show Quests button? "Show Quests" button located bottom right of the screen will show you how many quests you have completed and collected the coins for and how long ago they were completed

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg...ted 7 days.JPG

As you can see in the above picture, it shows 5 completed quests done in the last 7 days and one in red text which shows one that is more than 7 days old and will NOT count for the weeks quests.


Q: What is the Claim FarmCash button?
When this button turns blue you may claim your farm cash according to the rules.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg...ward rules.jpg

What are the lifelines?
 

Q: What are the lifelines?

A: Quests Social Lifelines: Social Lifelines allows you to complete Quest Steps by interacting with friends. When you are stuck in a Quest you may decide to use a Social Lifeline to help you move forward.

http://r1.slashkey.com/images/gamegu...saver icon.JPG - Click the lifesaver icon in the top right of the quest window. The type of lifeline given to you is random, so you will not know what it is until you have clicked it. For now there will be 3 different kinds of Social Lifelines:-


http://r1.slashkey.com/images/gamegu...t lifeline.jpg - Gifting Lifeline - Allows you to complete Quest Steps by using gifts or ingredients from friends. In this case after you accept the gifts or ingredients you will have to Store them for them to be counted toward your Quest Steps requirements.

Example : If you need an ingredient that can be gifted from the gift page or sent via requesting ingredients from a product in a facility that you own, you can use this lifeline to request the item or exchange a gift for it. Once stored it will count towards your quest.


http://r1.slashkey.com/images/gamegu...r Lifeline.jpg - Trading Lifeline
When this lifeline is added back it will allow you to complete Quest Steps by trading goods with other farmers in the Market. This will help if you need a Primary product ( crops, harvested animal products, tree logs, tree fruits, fish and flowers) that can be bought from another farmer . You would need to meet up with them somewhere in the game and both be on line, then they would click on you to sell you what you need.

You can not buy products made in facilities from another farmer. The exception to this rule is if the product you need is made in a Super Facility. You can use this lifeline to buy from another farmer that has a Super Facility making the product you need. Example: If you needed FarmTown Beer and someone has the Brewery as a Super Facility, they can sell that product to you and it will count for your Quest.

The regular/primary products you buy in your Trading Warehouse do NOT count toward your Quest Trade Lifeline.


http://r1.slashkey.com/images/gamegu...e lifeline.jpg - Employee Lifeline - Allows you to complete Quest Steps by working for others in farms or facilities. The product bonuses you get by working for others will count toward your Quest Steps requirements.
This will help if you can gain what you need by being hired to work on a farm or by working a facility to gain the products made in that facility. Example, if the middle part of the quest (not the final step) required a product made in a facility that you do not own yet but a neighbour does, you can work their facility to gain that product for part of your quest.


Lifelines can not be used for the final step of the Quest (1st box shown top left of the Quest). Also, you can only have 1 lifeline in use at any given time.

I did what it said, and theres no checkmark, what now?
 

Q: I did what it said, and theres no checkmark, what now?

A: There are 2 common reasons why this would happen :-

• If you haven't stored the previous steps, and you have none in storage, then there would be nothing to complete the next step with, what is already pending in the facility does NOT count towards the step, you must START the required batches for it to count.
  
  
• If you have already used those previous items leaving none in storage before getting to the step needed, or used them in something else, like while filling facilities, then there would be nothing left in storage for you to start the next step.

Be careful, and make sure you have the products needed, if for some reason you have used them, then you will need to make more, providing you still have the needed ingredients to do so.

Quest Farms - Includes information on the Private Farm Setting and Disable Super-Neighbour Setting.

How and when you can set a farm as a Quest farm and what changes when you own the Animal Harvesting tools.

Setting a farm as a Quest Farm can be done when you have at least 2 Farms.

For those that like to keep a farm with some of the crops/tree/flowers etc that are often needed for Regular Quests this prevents those items from showing up in Farm Stats when you also remove the check mark at the bottom of the Farm Stats for "Include products due to Fertilization, belts and bonuses"

It will also prevent anyone visiting your farms from using the mobile sprinklers to water the flowers on that farm or irrigate that farm.
However it does NOT prevent anyone from using the watering can to water the flowers.

As of March 2023, you no longer have to own the Animal Harvesting tools to set a farm as a Quest farm.

When you ALSO own the Animal Harvesting tools, the Quest farm setting ALSO prevents the animal sheds from being harvested on those farms using the Harvest All at the top of the Facility Manager.
This can be useful for Quest Purposes so you will need to harvest those animal sheds on those farms one at a time either form the sheds on the farm or via your Facility Manager.

To set a farm as a Quest farm when you have 2 farms. Go to the farm that you want to set as a Quests Farm and click on the Name of that farm at the top of your game screen. You will then see these options:

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg...D MAR 2023.png

Add a check mark to Make this farm a Quest Farm and then click the green check mark to save that change.

Only you will be able to use the mobile sprinklers to irrigate or water your Quest or Private farms.

Neighbours, Buddies, Super Neighbours or anyone visiting or any stranger that you hire to work your farms can not use the mobile sprinklers on those farms.

Remember that the flowers on a Quest farm can be watered using the watering can.

Private Farm - prevents farmers from going to that farm.

This would also prevent anyone from using the watering can to water flowers on that farm. If you also set it as a Quest farm, the mobile sprinklers that you or any super neighbour owns can not be used either.
ONLY you will be able to use the watering can and the mobile sprinklers you own on those farms.

You will need to consider if you wish to do that if you have facilities that need to be worked on that farm and have friends that don't have the 2 trains requirement for the mayor to do all the work on every farm for them without going to each farm.

The Disable Super-Neighbour farming would prevent Super Neighbours from doing any farm work on that farm, like crops, trees, flowers, fishing.

Chapter 28: What are Cooperative Quests?
 

You can Earn Farm Cash by completing a number of Quests within a 7 day period.

The 7 day timer starts counting down the second your first Quest completes.
You must complete enough Quests AND claim BEFORE the first Quest that completed is 7 days old!!!
When any Quest reaches 7 days old it no longer counts towards your Farm Cash Claim.

You will need Neighbours that also participate in the Cooperative Quests

Your Neighbours need to have some open Quests for you to buy from.
The more Neighbours that you have that participate, the easier it will be for you to find the steps you need for your Quests.

You must be willing to sell some products to your friends for their Cooperative Quests.

You can open a Cooperative Quest every 10 hours.

• There are no lifelines for co-operative quests like there are in regular quests.
• Each Quest is selected for you at random, you can not chose one!
  
• Quests can be for producing or loading a product in any of the facilities in Farm Town even if you do not own them or are not a high enough level to buy one.
  
• some Quests only have a few steps to complete, some can have over 20 steps to complete.
  
• The final step you must complete could take a short or long time to complete. In the case of making wine/champagne even days to complete, so always check you have time to complete them before you claim.
  
• Buying from a farmer's co-operative quest or selling a product to a farmer using a help note placed on one of their steps does not require any approval of the transaction.
  
  Buying form a stranger WILL cost considerably more coins than buying from a Neighbour. Always try to buy from Neighbours co-operative quests first if you are getting short on coins.

You can have up to 5 Cooperative Quests open depending on your level

If you open a Quest in the morning, you can open another one in the evening.
If you are playing daily that's a total of 14 Quests you could open and complete.

Level Requirements:

• Level 20 - 1 Quest
• Level 40 - 2 Quests
• Level 60 - 3 Quests
• Level 80 - 4 Quests
• Level 100 - 5 Quests

To Open a Cooperative Quest click on your yellow toolbox and then click on the Pale Blue Dice with a question mark which is near the top of the 2nd column on the left.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg...ER TOOLBOX.png

The Co-op Manager will open. At the top you will see it's title My Cooperative Quests

If you can open a Quest you will see a Blue Dice on the left side. Click on the Blue dice and a Quest will automatically be selected and shown to you.

If you can not open a Quest yet you will see a Padlock instead of a Blue Dice.
https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg...op/PADLOCK.png

At the top of the window it tells you what the Quest is.

In this example the Quest is to Produce 10 x Onion Pizza.
There are 7 steps for this Quest.
Each step has it's own box.
When there are more than 12 steps in a Quest a scroll bar will be on the side that you can click on and drag up/down to view more steps OR if you are using a computer mouse and it has a mouse wheel you can use that to scroll through them.


To know what facility the product is made or loaded in mouseover the final step which is always top left.
It will be dimmed out as you can not do the final step until you complete all of the previous steps.
The tooltip will show you the name of the facility.
This final step often referred to as the last step of a Quest is the one you need to in your own facility to complete the Quest.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg... MOUSEOVER.png

The steps that are not dimmed out are the ones you complete first, in this case it's to buy tomatoes, onions, wheat and cow milk using your Neighbours Co-operative Quests.

When you are unable to buy from your Neighbours Co-operative Quests there are other methods you can try which will be explained later.


To complete steps using your Neighbours you can order your neighbours bar at the bottom of the game screen, by clicking on anyone in the bar and then clicking Order by Cooperative Quests

Any Neighbours that have co-ops open have a blue dot on their picture.
Use the arrows on the right of the neighbours bar to see more of them.

NOTE: When searching for products for your own Quest, you may find it quicker to to start with any Neighbour with a blue dot furthest left, then you can then quickly go through them all.


To view a Neighbours Co-Operative Quests click on their picture and then click on Show Cooperative Quests

All the large pictures on the left side are Quests.

What you are looking for are Buy and Help notes on those Quest pictures. The number on the Note can be different to the examples below. They are there to indicate how many steps you can buy from them or how many steps they need help with.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg...HELP NOTES.png

BUY notes indicate when a Neighbour has a Quest with the same product that you need for your quest.

Help notes indicate when a Neighbour needs help with a step on their own Quest.

BUY notes take priority over Help notes when you are able to do both things, Buy from a Neighbour and also Help your Neighbour.

When you see either of those notes, click on that Quest with a note on the left side to View it.

You can buy as many steps as you wish from any of their quests as long as they have the products in their storage, BUT you can only HELP that farmer with ONE step per Quest.

This example shows 1 Buy button so this farmer can click on Buy on the Wheat needed for their quest to complete that step. If they have that product in storage that step in your quest will get a green check mark to show it's completed.

The Quest owner needs help with 2 steps on their Quest so this farmer can click on Sell to sell one of those products to help them.As long as you have enough product to sell to them, that step on their Quest will complete.


You can also mouseover the steps to get more information.
Examples:

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg...S BUY SELL.png

NOTE:
Expired and Completed Quests can not be used to buy products.

Gift items can not be used for buying or selling in co-operative quests.

Example: If there is help note on blueberries and all you have is blueberries that you accepted as a gift, you can not help them with that step.
If you had a help note on blueberries in your own quest, and all your friend had in storage was blueberries that were accepted as a gift, they can not help you with that step. Only the regular (medium) and large boxes can be used. Gifts are the small size.

It is possible to to change gifted items to regular size by zipping storage, but each farmer must decide if they want to do that as it converts all sizes of everything in storage into regular size. More information on how to Zip is located here: https://www.slashkey.com/forum/showt...54#post6341354



At the bottom of the Quest window:

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg...RROWS DICE.png

In the middle is the profile picture of the farmer whose quest you are viewing.

The Arrows at the bottom of the window when clicked on will let you scroll through all the Quests. The Arrow with a Line lets you scroll to the next Neighbour.

The small Envelope at the bottom left of the Window when clicked on, lets you send a message to that farmer. This can be handy if you think one of your neighbours may be struggling to get their Quest steps done. If you have what they need in your own quest steps then you can let them know by sending them a message.

They will find the message in their in game message envelope located at the top of their game screen. They can then click on the green man at the bottom of your message to go to your farm to view your quests if they wish to buy from your co-op quests.

You can also send a farm link in a message, if you find what they need in one of your Neighbours co-op quests. For details on how to do that click on this link: NEW: How to send a farm link in a Message


Clicking on the Blue Co-operative icon bottom right of the window, will allow you to view your own quests. When you are done click the x at the top right of the window to close them and you will go back to viewing the other quests.

If you are unable to find all the products you need for your quest you can place a help note on a step.

A Neighbour can sell it to you if they have one in storage and see the Help Note. They can help you with one help note per Quest.

We recommend that you avoid placing these Help notes until you have at least one for every step left (this does not include the very last step which you must always complete yourself).

Top right of your Quest are the yellow Help notes. The number on the Help note tells you how many you have. As you use them that counter will count down to zero.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg... NOTES X 3.png

To use a Help note click on it to pick it up, then click on the step that you need help with to place it.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg...WHEAT STEP.png

If you placed it on the wrong step or changed your mind before you were helped you can click on it again and place it on another step or back on the Help notes at the top right.

IMPORTANT: You will not always have enough help notes to be able to put one on every step so always try to get them from others first. Remember that when you can open 2 of these co-operative quests a day you can try going through your Neighbours quests later as they may have more Quests open that can help you.

Always look for the easy steps like ingredients that are very common to find like commonly used crops, logs, tree fruit, animal products that are used in a lot of facilities. Keep your help notes for much harder steps that are not as easy to find or may only be used in a few products in the game like echinacea purpura, maple log, mugo pine, flowers, uncommon products that can be used to make other products etc.

If you have a Load Quest always keep a Help note for the Produce step of the Quest. It can be very hard to find someone with the exact Quest that you can buy from for that step. For example a Load Haggis Neeps n Tatties Quest will have a step to make Haggis, but Haggis is only used to make Haggis Neeps n Tatties so you are very unlikely to find someone else with a Load Haggis Neeps n Tatties Quest so that you could buy the Haggis from them to complete that part of your Quest.

Example of a Help Note placed and what it will look like when you have been helped. You will see the profile picture of the farmer that helped you and the green check mark means that step is completed.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg...AND HELPED.png

To complete the final step of a Quest you must have check marks on all of the previous steps and enough of the ingredients or products needed for the final step in storage. Completing steps does not always mean you will have them if you have also been using your products in facilities.

The final step where the product is produced or loaded will have an open button when you own the facility and it is on one of your farms.

If the button is dimmed, check that you have that facility out on your farm and check your Item storage incase you already own on and it's in there instead of on your farm.

When the Open button is not dimmed, click on it and your facility will open.

If it's a Produce Quest start a single batch of that product.
If it's a Load Quest load a single batch of that product.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg...AND DIMMED.png

A time will show how long until that final step is completed.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg...ZA 2 HOURS.png

When it has completed you MUST claim the coins for it to show on the Cooperative Quests Completed chart at the bottom of your Quest window. A number will be added to the day that the Quest was completed so you can easily see what days you completed quests on and how many.

To collect the coins click on the Collect Coins button and you will earn up to 15 million coins for completing the Quest.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg...LECT COINS.png

That Quest will then be added to the Cooperative Quests Completed chart at the bottom of your Quest window on the day that it completed. In this example it shows one was completed on Sunday.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg...T ON CHART.png

The days and numbers show which day you completed a quest. If you hold off on collecting the coins for any reason, the quest will be added to the day that the Quest was completed, NOT the day you collected coins.

Not claiming the coins does not save a Quest for the following weeks claim.
Quests that are still listed but are part of a previous claim will not count towards your rewards in the following week.

ALWAYS Click on the Show Quest button after completing a Quest and claiming the coins. CHECK the times on each Quest. When a Quest reaches 7 days old it no longer counts.

This example show 2 Quest completed in the last 7 days.
Hours and minutes will only show when the time is less than 1 day.

[IMG]https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/coop/SHOW QUESTS COMPLETED X2.png[IMG]


The Claim Farm Cash button when it is black will tell you the quest rules and how many quests you have completed and when you can next claim a Farm Cash reward.
When it is blue, you have completed enough quests to claim at least 1 FC and it will tell you.

Farm Cash Reward Rules - You must complete 4 quests in 7 days to claim 1 Farm Cash or you must complete 13 quest in 7 days to claim 2 Farm Cash.

Other Methods to open Co-Operative Quests of other farmers and the cost of buying from a stranger.

You can open a farmers Cooperative Quest Manager by clicking on the blue quest icon shown at the bottom left when you visit their farms. When there is no Quest icon they do not have any Quests open.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameg...HETTY COOP.png

When you are online in an area of the game where you can see other farmers you can open a farmers Cooperative Quest Manager by clicking on their Avatar and then clicking on View xxx Co-operative Quests

If they have co-operative quests you will be able to see them and be able to buy what you need for your own quest. At the bottom of the window you will have the same navigation arrows to go from quest to quest or farmer to farmer as you do when viewing your neighbours quests. The only difference is that instead of a profile picture you will see their avatar picture.


NOTE: Buying from a stranger will cost you considerably more coins than buying from a friend/neighbour.
Example:
If 1 item costs 180 coins. What you pay is 180 x 2000 so it will cost you 360,000 coins!!!
If you are not buying much, this will not seem so bad when you can earn up to 15 million coins for completing the quest, so even though you paid a higher price than buying from a Neighbour you will still be making a large profit when you complete the Quest and claim the coins.


You can not help strangers with their help notes. If you see that they need something that you have in your own quest, you can send them a message to let them know you have what they need. Depending on where you are there are 2 methods to send a message to a stranger:

• If you are on line and can see them, you can use the message envelope at the bottom of the co-op window to send them a Private Message. This then appears to them in the chat window at the bottom of the game screen, so if they are still at the same location you are, they will see it. No-one else will be able to see that private message.
• If you are visiting a strangers farm and are viewing their co-ops, they may not be online or in the same location you are, so in this case do NOT use the message envelope at the bottom of the co-op window to send a message. Instead, you need to close the co-op window and click on the little notepad located bottom left of the screen to send them a message. This then sends the message to their in game messages instead of the live chat window, which they would only see if they were on line and are in the same location as you. When they read your in game message, if they wish to buy from your quest, they can then click on the green man at the bottom of the message to go to your farm to view your quests.