New Release -- May 5th, 2012
 

See Known Issues and Post Release Changes at the end of this post. Last changes released at May 15th, 5:30PM EST.

Hi There,

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

1. Mother's Day items: All 6 new items are in the Store.

2. 30 x 30 Farm Expansions for farms 1 - 5: Here are the prices -> 4,000,000,000 Coins or 30 FarmCash.

3. Floor Level items support: This feature should fix the "sinking" items in the paths and roads. You should now be able to put any items over any paths (including train interceptions) and it should display correctly. Rivers/Ponds should have less issues as well. You should also be able to put items over these other "floor level items" without issues:

Helicopter Pad
Big Blue Picnic Blanket
Big Pink Picnic Blanket
Big Red Picnic Blanket
Floral Picnic Blanket
Hollow Land
Snow Patches

4. 4 new Crops and 1 new Tree:

Crops: Yerba Mate, Hibiscus, Rose Hip and Passion Fruit.
Acacia Tree: Produces Gum Arabic.

5. Pizza Rush Minigame (Coming next week): Memory enhancing minigame with Practice and Multiplayer support already enabled. 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 make pizzas for your customers with the right ingredients.

6. Trains: We are still working on the Freight Trains, they will be ready on the next release, in the meantime there is a new Green Passenger Locomotive and Wagon in the Motion Cagetogy in the Store.

7. Sprinkler bug while watering flowers in 28 x 28 farms is now fixed.

8. 5 new Tea Blends in the Tea Factory:

White Tea Bag
Green tea blend
Black tea blend
White tea blend
Green-White tea blend

9. Shipping Supplies Factory (Coins): Produces Shipping Supplies. You can obtain Gum Arabic by harvesting the Acacia Trees.

Kraft Tubes
Letter Envelopes
Document Envelope
Farmtown Stamp Roll
Pallet
Mailbox Rentals
Adhesive Tape
Hand Stamping Machine

10. Herbal Tea Factory (FC): Produces Herbal Teas.

Mint Herbal Tea
Fruit Herbal Tea
Wild Berry Herbal Tea
Passion Herbal Tea Lemonade
Strawberry Herbal Tea Lemonade
Spice Herbal Tea
Raspberry Mate Herbal Tea
Orange Blossom Herbal Tea

11. Post Office (Coins): This is a Service Facility that can be stocked with all products from the Shipping Supplies Factory.

12. Tea House (FC): This is a Service Facility that can be stocked with the products below:

Tea Spoon Collection: This is a new product made in the Cookware Factory
Porcelain Golden Cup: This is an old product made in the Ceramic Factory
Green tea blend
Black tea blend
White tea blend
Green-White tea blend
Mint Herbal Tea
Fruit Herbal Tea
Wild Berry Herbal Tea
Passion Herbal Tea Lemonade
Strawberry Herbal Tea Lemonade
Spice Herbal Tea
Raspberry Mate Herbal Tea
Orange Blossom Herbal Tea

Enjoy!

--Raul

Post Release Updates - May 7th, 3:00AM EST

- Dirt Path now also preserves old behaivor allowing you to create waterfalls and other designs.
- Acacia Tree, Plantain Tree, Cedar and Bamboo Tree can now be rotated.

Post Release Updates - May 7th, 6:10PM EST

- Cedar and Bamboo show correct image when rotated.
- Passion Fruit new crop and Passion Herbal Tea Lemonade.
- Stone Path now also preserves old behaivor allowing you to create waterfalls and other designs.

Post Release Updates - May 15th, 5:30PM EST

- Passion Fruit herbal tea added to the Tea House

Known Issues

- Right now the dirt and stone path have some mixed (old/new) behaivor, they are still floor level items meaning they will not overlap (sink) other items in them, they will always appear under other items close to the floor, but they will still allow to do some of the tricks designers used to create waterfalls, etc. That's the simple solution and could be a good compromise.

But based on user feedback we may decide instead to add another "duplicate" of the dirt path and stone path, they will both look exactly the same in the store and in the farm but:

1. One set will behaive exactly the same as before, it will allow the same tricks and they will not be floor level items, so other items may sink in them

2.The other set will be floor level items, they will always be under other items close to the floor, will not sink other items, and also, they will allow to put other stuff on top of them.

The downside of this alternative is that it can be quite confusing, having both sets of items in the farm that looks the same and behaives differently. We will listen to feedback and to the moderators feedback and make a decision based on that.

Awesome. Thanks Raul and Devs :)

WOO HOO!! Thanks!!

Thankyou Raul Looks Good (-:

would still love to see a use for northern Pike And Whalleys Fish (-:

Like it, but have one question. Why do the new facilities and service not rotate?
Also when are the trains going to rotate? Ok, that is 2 questions...:D

Thank you Raul, great release!!!!
was wondering when we will get belts for the rest of the facility's

Thanks Raul you are a Sweetheart & all the DEV's too!
http://apps.facebook.com/farmtown/pl...3634&farm_ix=1

Yes i been wondering about that 2 for the last 2 updates..:)

Great Release, Thanks:)

I can't wait to do some remodels using the paths and other items that will sink!

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you all ...I am very excited about all the new trains and the freight train to come...well done all...

Where are the Acacia Trees
 

Must be getting old since I can't see the tree in the store.

thank-you - cant wait to try out the new improved paths etc, love the farm expansions and new crops etc. The new Facs look good and the herbal teas. Looking forward to the freight train -and please can we have the belts/dans on the rest of the Facs. Thanks for all your hard work

Its a new free gift - top row of the gifts page

o yes love the fix to the sinking problem

i just fixed the pavers around my pools so now i wont be rushing all the Farmer/Avatars Children off to the Farm Town Hospital with head injury's anymore :D:):D

Don't mean to sound ungrateful, I have been screaming for the trains for over a year now. But can we please get passenger trains like Amtrak or modern day, and not what you would see at Disney World, or a kids zoo??? I do realize you put a lot of work in what do you, and do thank you for it.

No Ingredients request box in Post Office
 

I already had the Post Office and it has converted to a facility nicely (its in the Facility Manager) - but there is no request ingredients "+" box - it appears to be in the other new Facs.
My friend has it in her Post Office which she bought just now as a new Facility so perhaps is an issue with the existing one being converted.

Hi, it is a service facility, you cannot request ingredients from them :)

Duh - Im an idiot :eek: Ive just realised that Thanks Tony - Im not awake yet - need more caffiene - slinks off to coffee pot..................................

I too already had the Post Office and yes it now appears in the Facility Manager.....BUT.... it won't load any items despite me having what is needed..... is this maybe a glitch? or do I need to buy another Post Office?

You are not the only one, I can't find them either :confused:

But GREAT update as usual ty to the Devs. :D

Hi

The New Tree is a Gift Only Item

Top Row in Position 1 on the gift page

:)

try adding it to storage then placing back on farm

that sometimes works (-:

I already had it in my storage.... but put it back.. re-booted and put it out again.... and still it won't load.

The post office is a service facility so you wont have made anything to load into it until you have had items in the shipping supplies factory finish production and stored

I think i know what the problem is the post office is a service facility it doesent produce anything it onsells

you will need to produce the required goods using the facility that makes the appropriate items (-:

Is the new Acacia tree harvest or Chop?

Thanks for the New Release, I was hoping in this release that there was going to be a "Y" and fork intersections for the train tracks so I could finish up redoing some of my farms.

Love having the sinking path problem fixed. Thanks :)

It is a harvest :)

OOOOOOOOPs silly me lol

Many thanks for in the info.

I've been watching like a hawk for the new stuff and turned my back for ONE day. Just ONE day! Remind me to turn my back more often. Wheeeeee! I'm off to check everything out thoroughly and spend some FC. Thanks Devs!

thanks for the Tea House as well as the post office.

I noticed that you changed my old Post office to the new one in my little town.

great stuff! thank you! i hope you can also fix the fences the same way as with the paths..they tend to eat up some of the stuff in the farm (n__n)

sO000 great!!! thank you... hope with the trains we might get a bridge .. pretty Please

Whoot whoot love the non-sinking, new crops fabulous. Thanks Raul :D

Problem with the new update.
 

My north bound and my south bound passenger train are going to collide since there is no way to switch one of them to a siding.

I can just see it now, avatars taking a trip piled up all over the place in the wreck.

I like the quick fix to my missing Acacia tree. ( followed the information that was posted here and found them pesky trees.)

OK back to enjoying the game,

now where did I plant that new crop at 2am this morning? instead of being asleep.

Weak Release
 

This release is like using a tea bag for the 6th time.