New Release -- March 19th, 2010

**Raul** · #1 Mar 19 2010, 02:04 PM

Hi There,

We just released a new version of FarmTown which contains support for new facilities. These facilities will allow you to produce additional goods out of the harvested products in your farm. We created a new section in the store named 'Facilities', where we put all the buildings in the game that produce any kind of goods. In addition to the buildings that allow you to harvest the animals, now you have:

1. Red Windmill – Produces Flour
2. Stone Windmill – Produces Flour Faster
3. Sugar Refinery – Produces Sugar
4. Dairy Processing Plant – Produces Cheese, Goat Cheese, and Butter

You can only have one type of facility per farm that will actually produce goods, although you can have several other instances of the same type of facility for decorative purposes.

To access facility details, just click on the corresponding facility in your farm, and select the first option in the menu, 'Show Facility Details'.

Every facility has two sections:

1. Things To Produce: Here you can see a list of the products that you can produce on that facility. Each product displays information like batch size, batch sell-price, and production time. If you click on the help icon (?), you will see what’s required to produce that product.

2. What’s Cooking: This section provides information about all the products that are currently being produced by your facility, how many are pending, and how many are done and ready to be placed on your storage to be sold later on. Although different types of facilities can be producing goods at the same time, any given facility can only have one batch per product type in production at any given time.

As part of this release, you can now also harvest the cows and goats every 8 hours, instead of the 3 days that we had before, which will allow you to store more milk per day to be used on the Dairy Processing Plant.

Enjoy!

Thanks,

--Raul

candlelight · #2 Mar 19 2010, 02:07 PM

Thank you, Raul!!

Molly Mew · #3 Mar 19 2010, 02:07 PM

Fantastic. Thanks Raul.

SirDaywalker · #4 Mar 19 2010, 02:08 PM

Dang it...LOL, gotta rearrange aaaagain!

Thanks for the new stuff, and for keeping things exciting.

Oh, and I'm ready for the next set of levels please and thank you.

Lmer · #5 Mar 19 2010, 02:11 PM

Thanks for the stuff.... lol i was before 10 mins on the farm and nothing......

SunnyD · #6 Mar 19 2010, 02:50 PM

Dude your crazy Raul... Man I just was at my farm and the producing buildings would not hide..... I'm like what is up with that.... so i said ok look in the store and wow you are unreal the dev's of farm town rock.......... ok now can you make my pineapples i just planted grow faster so I can get all the new buildings??????/ LOL LOL you rock dude..........YAY Are we going to be able to hide these buildings again........ This is a needed thing for real..........Industrious people like me want to have a farm full LOL you will have to hide them to harvest most farms.........Hoping you will be able to re-implement hiding these fantastic buildings...........

TraceyMush · #7 Mar 19 2010, 02:59 PM

l also just noticed that when l hide my buildings, the chicken coop and dairy barn stayed visible.
Thanks everyone for the awesome free game!! ;-)

annette85035 · #8 Mar 19 2010, 03:14 PM

Good timing folks! I have been considering adding a windmill!

*Farmer Brad* · #9 Mar 19 2010, 04:14 PM

Thank you so much; this is a wonderful idea! I love updates!!

handee · #10 Mar 22 2010, 10:12 PM

I have bought a dairy processing plant, and after harvesting the milk I have chosen to process into butter and/or cheese. It tells me that it can be harvested in 30 minutes or 4 hours. But when I go back to redeem product, there is none, and it won't let me try again. Am I doing something wrong with this new addition?