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Crafting Buildings are now here! For more information on this feature, please review the following guide.
Please note: This feature is slowly being rolled out to everyone over the next few days. As such, not all users will be able to access this feature immediately.
Crafting Buildings:
If you are level 25 and above, you will be able to turn your bushels into crafted goods with the new Crafting Buildings feature.
Upon logging into FarmVille, you will see the following pop-up.
This brief tutorial explains the basic functionality of this feature. Scroll your cursor over each of the boxes within the pop-up to see more detailed information about how Crafting Buildings work.
Now it is time to pick your profession. There are three types of Crafting Buildings available; The Winery, Bakery and Spa. Each building features its own unique set of recipes you can use to create crafted goods.
If you did not pick a profession when the Crafting Buildings preview was released, you will see the following pop-up.
This pop-up shows you how many of your friends have selected each type of building. Clicking “What is this” will give you more detailed information on each of the buildings. Once you have decided on your profession, clicking “Yes, Place” will close the pop-up and let you place your new building on your Farm for free.
If you already selected a profession in the Crafting Buildings preview, you will receive a different pop-up. If you are happy with your initial selection, simply click “yes, place”. If you would like to choose a different profession at this time, click “choose another”. This will bring you to the menu mentioned above where you can select the building of your choice.
Upon placing your building, you will be able to post a feed to your wall informing your friends of your new business. The first 5 friends who click on this feed within 24 hours will receive 1 of the following items: (Please note: The item your friends receive from your feed depends on the profession you selected)
- Baker : Lvl 10 Triple Berry Pie
- Spa Host: Lvl 10 Relaxation Candle
- Wine Maker: Lvl 10 Tropical Wine
Your Buildings Recipe menu will automatically appear once you have posted a feed.
In this menu, you will start with one level 10 good that is 1 minute from completion. You will also see one empty crafting spot.
Clicking on “Make a good” will bring you to your recipes menu. Here, you will be able to make your first crafted good. Depending on what profession you have selected, your default recipe will be different. Click “Make it” from the bottom of the menu to create your good.
Remember, to make recipes, you need to collect bushels from your friends. These bushels are the key ingredients for your goods.
Once you have made your good, it needs time to cook. Click on “Make Goods” to return to the main menu. Once you have done this, you will see that the level 10 good you started with is now complete. Click on the “Finish it” button.
Once you have done this, you will receive the following pop-up that will allow you to post a feed to your wall. The first three neighbors who click this feed within 24 hours will get 1 of the type of good made.
Clicking on “goods I am selling” from the crafting menu will show you the goods you currently have for sale. Selling goods improves existing recipes and unlocks new ones! Each time you sell a good to your Neighbors, you will receive 1 recipe experience point.
Down the bottom of this menu is your “Sales Report”. This report shows you what goods you have sold and how many were purchased. If Neighbors purchased from your store while you were away, a bouncing arrow will appear over your building. Clicking on this will show the following menu.
You earn 90% of the sale price of items sold. The Daily Sales Report will display the amount of total coins and experience earned in your absence.
If you wish to make a thriving business, you will need to level your Building. The level of your Building determines the number of crafting spots you have available for use. Leveling your building will also unlock new recipes.
You can level your Building with Farm Cash by clicking the “Cash Upgrade” option or you can level with coins by unlocking the option. To unlock the coin option, you have to level a certain amount of recipes. Please see the requirements below:
- 1 Star: Level up recipes 6 times + 50,000 coins
- 2 Star: Level up recipes 18 times + 100,000 coins
- 3 Star: Level up recipes 27 times + 400,000 coins
- 4 Star: Level up recipes 36 times + 1,000,000 coins
Leveling a recipe is quite simple. Each time you make a recipe, it will count towards your level progress. Simply keep making goods of that type to level your recipe up. The higher level your recipe is, the better your crafted goods will be. There is no limit on how high you can level your recipes.
Currently, your Crafting Building can only be upgraded to 5 Stars. Once you have a 5 star Building, the buttons to level with coins/cash will disappear.
When you level your Building, you will receive a pop-up that allows you to post a feed to your wall. The first three neighbors who click this feed within 24 hours will receive a level 3 crafted good.
In addition to selling your crafted goods to your friends, they can also be traded for rewards. To access goods that you have in your inventory, click “Use” from the crafting menu and select “Goods”.
This menu will display how many crafted goods are in your possession. Please note that you can only have 200 Crafted Goods in your inventory at a time. This capacity limit only pertains to your Crafted Goods. Your Bushel inventory does not count towards this capacity.
If you click the “use” button underneath a good, you will trade it for fuel. The higher the level of the crafted good you use, the more fuel you will get. You can see your fuel gauge increase within the inventory menu.
Now that you know how to use your own crafted goods, it’s time to move on to purchasing goods and bushels from your friends. There are two different ways you can visit your Neighbors Buildings.
- From the Crafting menu, click “Buy”. You will then see the option to select “Shop for Goods” or “Shop for Bushels”. Clicking “Shop for Goods” will bring up the following menu.
From this menu, you can select the type of good you would like to purchase. Clicking “select” underneath a good will bring up another menu that will automatically display the highest level goods for sale first. Select the good you want to purchase and you will be brought to the following screen:
From this screen you can not only purchase your desired good, you can also shop for bushels from your Neighbor’s store if they are available.
- When visiting a friends Farm, simply click on their crafting building to open the menu(s) mentioned above.
Upon purchasing an item from your Neighbor’s store, you will receive a pop-up allowing you to post a feed to their wall informing them of your actions.
The first 3 Neighbors to click this feed within 24 hours will receive 1 good of the same type as the one you purchased.
Remember, Goods purchased from your Neighbors can also be traded for fuel, so make sure to visit their shops often.
If for some reason you wish to delete your Crafting Building, all progress on the level of the Building and recipes will be saved. However, you will lose all goods that are being sold in your store. If you wish to purchase a new Crafting Building, it can be purchased from the “Buildings” section of the Market for 100,000 coins, provided you do not have any other Crafting Buildings on your farm at the time. If you wish to purchase the two additional Buildings, they can be bought for 80 Farm Cash apiece.
You may only own one of each type of Building at a time.
Source: http://forums.zynga.com/showthread.php?t=659249
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I’m level 53 and I still have not received a craft building.
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To all Fatmville users who are stressing out over crafting cottages: Give Zynga a chance to roll out new features. The world will not end because you don’t have your crafting cottage today! OMG!!! IT’S JUST A GAME!!!
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Well I done it. Crafting came to my farm today. I wasn’t sure what I wanted and choose winery. I changed my mind but didn’t know how to make a new choice so I sold my winery. Now I don’t have crafting. Now what?
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I have not place on my farm i my Winery is gone. Please help me I want it take back!
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I find it. It’s was in my gift box.
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Today I found my crafting building. But I haven`t room to place it on my farm. So I lost it….In the market vinery is locked…What can I do?
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Is farmville going to change its name to factoryville?
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I received the notice today about the craft buildings today. Did not know too much about it, logged to do research to decide which building I would like the best. I logged in again as I was accepting gifts, again was asked if I wanted a building and as I was busy researching and going other things I had to log out again. Next logged in from the website to collect by gas, again was asked about a building…however this time was said if I don’t choose then I have to buy one. well thanks for the final offer…so now I must decide….so I open a webpage..and funny thing it opens up on the same page I have Farmville open and I loose that session. Once I come back with my decision, lo and behold, I no longer have the choice and now must buy. I don’t feel this fair and would like to know what Zynga does in these situations. I like the game but if I am offered a choice I would like to make informed decision and thus have some time to consider. 3 logs is nothing with compared to day to day sessions on Farmville.
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how do i move or delete my crafting building???? I click on it and it gives me no option!
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I have the same problem as Antonio – I had no space so cleared one. Now the market suggests that I already have my crafting building. What is the fix as I’m not going to be alone on this one?
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i hve choosen the bakery bt i hve found vinery!!!!!!!! hw cn i gt bakery??????????
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Two of my friends have the same problem as Antonio (don’t understand English very well so therefore I submit the question). They had no room for Spa/Bakery, made some room but now they don’t have the crafting building they chose. Will they get an other pop-up/change to place the crafting building?
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Hey Antonio, I am facing the same problem…how did u solve it?
Neha
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Antonio – how did you solve your lost craft cottage? Same thing happened to me – no space, clicked on multitool, cottage gone, not in giftbox and market says I have one already!
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Having some problem as Antonio. “I saw the pop up, I chose the bakery and then “yes, place”, but there was no room for it on my farm, so I clicked on the Multi Tool and made room for the bakery. I reloaded the page, in order to see the pop up again and then place the bakery, but it just didn’t show up, so I went to Market> buildings> crafting and it said that the bakery was locked because I already had one, but I don’t, I never placed it on my farm, so I DON’T HAVE ONE. What do I do? P lease send me a reply.”
Help!
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I want my crafting building! I couldn’t have it yet. How do I get it?
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I did about the same thing that James did. The pop-up came up but couldn’t decide what I wanted. Logged out. It came up again but wanted to know more about each building and no one had any yet. anyway, I didn’t get to accept a building and now have to buy one. Is there anyway I can get one without paying for one since I have never had one?
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only in faemville, when i get a pop up box, i cant close it to continue my faem so i have to reload the page everytime it locks up, but im not having any problms in frontierville or zoomaye or any others
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@Gloria and others with same problem: If you lost your crafting building look in your giftbox. There it should be.
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I received my winery pop-up the other day, and placed it on my land. I went to do the things it was telling me to do, but I got an “out-of-sync” message. When I reopened the program, the winery was gone. I’ve waited a few days to see if it would reappear, or go into my gift box, but it hasn’t. Does this mean that I will have to buy one if I want one? Or will I eventually get another offer?
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darlene little Reply:
July 18th, 2011 at 4:21 am
i didnt have enough room when i tried to place my winery and puff it disapeared forever .how can i get it back
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darlene little Reply:
July 18th, 2011 at 4:23 am
i didnt have enough roon on my f v english countryside and puf it was gone forever .how do i get it back?
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Did not get the crafting building when first offered as was busy doing other chores on farmville and wanted to find our more. Then I didn’t have space for building so didn’t receive. Now what can I do to grt into crafting business? Thanks for help.
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I have not received a pop-up nor have I received anything about the crafting building,I’m at level 36,does everyone not get a chance to have a crafting building?
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suddenly my winery does not produce wine, but “sweet grapes juice”!!! WHY? What was the problem? Were some people complaining because of the virtual alcohol? Well guess what, kids dont become alcoholic because of some cyber drinks. Really this bothers me BIG TIME. I m thinking of quitting fv and telling all my friends to do the same. GIVE ME A BREAK PLEASE! I want my winery back!!! I really dont need this pseudo “politically correct” CRAP!
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darlene little Reply:
July 18th, 2011 at 4:38 am
please give this commited player the real deal . If they wanted to work the aa program,im sure they would not be so disipointed at this game .
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vicky,
I noticed that, too, and I am super annoyed. What kind of winery makes sweet energy drinks and rich grape guice?? Why still call it a winery? So stupid.
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I have a Bakery, and I am trying to upgrade. I press the coin button, but it does nothing, I press the FV button, and it asks if I want to upgrade. Why can’t I upgrade with coins? And do I need a certain level of each product in order to upgrade?
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I was fertilizing a neighbor’s farm when the message popped up and it said I had to choose which craft building. I somehow must have chosen one while I was trying to see what product each produced and then the pop up said I didn’t have space on my farm to place the craft building. But when I would go to my farm and try to make space I kept losing it. I tried about three times and I finally lost it. Couldn’t find it in my gift box and it says now I have to buy. Wondering if Zynga plans to correct this and return the buildings that were lost??
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TO all who tried to place a craft building and didn’t have room and then lost the option, I found mine in my gift box.
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how do i go up a star in my bakery?
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So basically I’m having the same problem as manu pther people. I Did chose my cottage when the first pop up came to me and now it says I have to buy it for 100,000 in the market! Do I really ahve to buy or or is there something I can do?
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The Winery does come out with the look as it was on the pop up ads pages few months ago.
I took the screen shots of the ads that started when farmville was loaded. That time the Winery Cottage had a flooring of slate, some plants with chained fence on the perimeter. To me it was so beautiful. I have reached a 5-Star Winery. I have paid the 1M coins. There are 6 production spots, 7 barrels lying on the right side, but there ain’t no stone flooring, no primeter plants and fence.
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My problem is,I chose a Bakery, when I am in my bakery,I choose a Recipe to make, maybe it take’s 3 ingredients, I only have 2 ingredients,there will be a small box under the ingredient I need, that say’s GET, when you click on it, it will let you look to see if anyone has what you are needing,if not, it will tell you to (ask for the ingredient) you need, my question is, where do you go to ask for the ingredient you need???
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FOR EVERYONE MISSING THEIR BAKERY-WINERY-or SPA—ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS LOOK IN THE GIFT BOX — IT SHOULD BE THERE!!
JUST TRYIN TO HELP YA OUT
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darlene little Reply:
July 18th, 2011 at 4:26 am
Ive tried that many time .not there
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What is the purpose of buying other peoples goods other than they get money for it?
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I am at level 79 and very active, as are my friends, with our crafting buildings. After weeks, I am noticing that it is extrememly difficult to retain coins. We spend them on seeds, upgrades, and when others buy our products, those coins do not come back into our “coin account”. I had 2 million coins and am at level 4 of the crafting upgrade. I chose to do the farm expansion, to grown more crops. This left me struggling, in worse shape than I did getting from level 1-15 in the very beginning!! I spend coins on seeds, do find as many of the free inventory as possible to trade in for fuel, buy my friends goods, etc., but when they buy mine…no coins is going to my account. I have an MBA in real life and this is not how a business is ran!!! You HAVE to get some return on an investment in order to maintain!! I cannot even build any coin balance back up to stay above 100,000 again, let alone get a final upgrade. This is seriously messed up!!! Please fix this!!!
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The Crafting information is good but not complete. I would like to know how to get the master signs… I have a level 20 master in a spa item. In the bakery I have gone above the 20 level and no master sign. AND…do you level the receipe every time you make it? If multiple recipes were made of the same item would it still count on the level it was made? EX. Level 21 and make one then level 22. OR Level 21, make 2 of the same item and it would count as level 22 and 23 or because baked at the same time would both be the next level. There should be a chart to go by. Thanks.
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howdy,
my winery dissapeared last night and it is not in my gift box. I don’t have enough coins to purchase another one…will it be returned for me?
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darlene little Reply:
July 18th, 2011 at 4:32 am
there is not a winery for sale in the English countryside .I have 20million dollars in fv coins and cant even buy a winery or a storage barn .
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hi, pls give information when we’ll received mastery sign . level wise . pls tell us for winery ,spa and bakery. and how much xp and coins we earned when we’ll received mastery sign.
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i received red cow.from zlooto ticket. on 3rd sept. in afternoon. but when i login at night around 9pm .it disappeared . pls tell me what is the prob.
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Why don’t I get the money which i earn in my crafting building?
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will you bring back the lighthouse collection to farmville
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Every time I finish a co-op job I get my first free crafting building again, I pick winery, place it and game goes OUT OF SYNC when page refreshes my winery is gone. This has happened at least 10 times . Any ideas out there WHY and What I can do to get my winery to stay so I can use it and not have to buy one.
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My question is somewhat like the above, I found the crafting building, but it is locked!!!! I am above the required level (27), so what’s going on????? Please HELP!!!!!
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I CAN’T CRAFT BECAUSE MINE HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE 8-8-2011.
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