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With the introduction of Orchards farmers can now group their trees into a new type of building that can be harvested for special mystery seeds. Tree Mastery has also been added for those who truly love their trees. Unlike other buildings where you can place items inside, all of the different trees are visible within, so you can make colorful and compact unique displays.
Building Orchards
You’ll get your first Orchard frame for free the first time you play FarmVille after it updates, and will immediately be entered into Placement Mode. You can place the Orchard frame on your farm now, or you can choose to place it in your Gift Box for use later. There are no level restrictions for the Orchard.
The Orchard is a constructable building, so you’ll need a grand total of 30 parts (10 bricks, 10 nails and 10 wooden boards) to finish it. Like other constructable buildings, you can ask your neighbors for these parts by posting to your feed, give parts to your neighbors via the Free Gifts page, or acquire new parts by purchase (with Farm Cash) or through Special Delivery Boxes. If you have some leftover parts in your Gift Box you can also use those.
Once an Orchard is fully complete, you can choose to start building another one by buying an incomplete Orchard frame in the Market (for 1,000 coins) or a fully complete Orchard (30 Farm Cash). You can have as many Orchards as you have farm space for, provided you are building only one at a time.
Making Your Orchards Pretty
Each Orchard can hold up to 20 trees, which you can move into the Orchard simply by clicking on tree, selecting Move, and then clicking on the Orchard you want to move the tree in to. Visually the Orchard will show each of the individual trees you put into it. You cannot directly choose where the trees are placed in the Orchard, but you can choose the order by which they go into the Orchard, and that order determines how the Orchards look visibly.
This means that the look of the Orchard can change wildly depending on the trees you put into it. Orchards can also be lined up and arrayed quite easily, so making large colorful displays is entirely possible.
You can also look inside the Orchard by clicking on it and choosing “Look Inside”. Here you can see all the types of trees currently in the Orchard, and lets you remove trees individually from the Orchard. If you click on “Buy More Trees” you’ll be taken to the Market page for Trees; “Ask for Trees” will make a post in your feed asking for more trees. You’ll also see 3 stars by each type of tree as well as a separate button for Tree Mastery—see that section below for more details!
The Mysterious Seeds
An Orchard is harvestable once every 24 hours. When you harvest it, you’ll gain the total amount of coins each of the trees would normally give during a harvest if they were placed individually on the farm.
Harvesting an Orchard may also give you a Mystery Seed. When this happens you’ll get a notice, and the Mystery Seed will be placed in your Gift Box. The Mystery Seed is a new tree—the exact identity of the type of tree depends on the makeup of the Orchard. For example, if your Orchard has 15 Apricot Trees and 5 Guava Trees, chances are the Orchard will produce an Apricot seedling rather than a Guava seedling. In addition, the Mystery Seed is an upgraded version of tree that produced it. To continue the example used above, if the seedling comes from an Apricot tree then it will produce an Apricot Golden tree (a Level 2 tree). Note that some Level 2 trees may already be available in FarmVille in one form or another, and they do not produce anything better than Level 2 trees (there are no Level 3 trees… yet). That doesn’t mean you can’t have them in your Orchard though!
You won’t know what kind of tree it is until it’s fully grown. In order to grow a Mystery Seed into a tree, you’ll need to first place it on the farm and then water it ten times. You can gift individual Water Cans through the Free Gifts page (and that’s how you can receive them from your neighbors), or you can buy them from the Market for 1 Farm Cash each. To water the sapling, simply click on it and choose the Watering option (if you don’t have any Water Cans, you can use the menu to ask or buy for more).
Once watered ten times, the Mystery Seed will now be fully grown into the new tree. This new tree acts like any other tree—you can harvest it individually, move it, store it, or put it back into the Orchard.
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Master Your Trees
Harvesting trees will also now contribute to Tree Mastery! That’s right, you can now Master all of the different Tree types and receive Mastery Signs for them. In this fashion they work just like crop mastery—each time you harvest a tree it leads towards mastery of that tree (whether the tree is on the farm or in an Orchard). You can earn 3 stars for each tree type, which is also reflected in the Tree Mastery Sign (which you’ll earn for getting the first star for that tree). Level 1 and Level 2 trees are both masterable. Once you’ve harvested a tree type enough to get the first star, you’ll see a reward window and the Mastery Sign will show up in your Gift Box.
You can check on how far along your Mastery is in a couple of ways. When you look inside the Orchard you can see how many stars you’ve earned for each tree as well as the progress bar that shows how far you have to go to get the next star. You can see the same level of information by clicking on the revised “Collections” button in the UI menu on the bottom right.
Previously you were able to select from “Collections” or “Ribbons” but now you have a third option for “Masteries”. That will bring you to the new Masteries windows, which visually shows all of your Crop and Tree masteries. This is also the window you’ll see if you click on the “Tree Masteries” button in the Orchard window.
Source: Official Farmville Forum
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hello i redeem my farmville credit and it did not show up on my fb….thank u
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Mine is finished but it looks like a small version of the botanical garden….
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I highly doubt it’s 24 hours…
6 Hours after i put trees in my first orchard, it was at ~13%, so by my calculations i predict the orchard can be harvested every 48 hours.
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My Orchard is complete but its looking like a botanical garden… What to do now??
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Can you see what you can find out about the reported changes in horse breeding? The forums are full of bitching and very few answers. lol Thanks.
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Will you be able to place trees that you already have in the orchard? I’m a little confused.
Thanks
Pauline
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My orchard that I finished looks just like the Botanical Garden instead of what was showed on the picture
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Heidi Johnston Reply:
November 9th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
When you put your trees in your orchard you need to put all of the same type in one at a time. For example in my orchards I have 5 of each type. I put in all of my apple trees first then all of my lemon trees and so on and on. If you put in a different kind of tree each time it’s gonna look funny. Hope this helps!
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THE ORCHARD WILL BE READY TO IN ONE DAY??? THANK YOU. LILY
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barclay Reply:
November 7th, 2010 at 8:56 pm
it will take twov days for your orchard to be ready to harvest
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no se que es esto en español porfabor ??
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looks interesting…but have a question….what about all the trees we have already spent money on or gifted to each other? do we get credit of some sort for them? If not I am not so thrilled as I was before….
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where are the seeds?
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I have had mmine done for 23 hours and says it is 20%. No way will it be done in 1 more hour. Also as of tonight my trees are gone from the orchard. However when you click to look inside they are listed. What am I cuppose to do????
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Heidi Johnston Reply:
November 9th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
When you put your trees in your orchard you need to put all of the same type in one at a time. For example in my orchards I have 5 of each type. I put in all of my apple trees first then all of my lemon trees and so on and on. If you put in a different kind of tree each time it’s gonna look funny.
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i think,the farmville quit hard to play, but i try my best
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Where do I get the seeds to put in the orchard?
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i wish to have more fv cash,my friends have much more than me, thanks
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i finished 2 of them but mine also look like mini botanical gardens with a peace of black fence above it =S really weird.. how can we fix this?
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Looks like the harvest time may be based off of the total harvest time of the individual trees divided by the number of trees placed in the orchard. I’ve got an orchard I started yesterday with a mix of trees in it (some with 4 day harvests) and it’s already at 55%
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When you put a tree in the orchard to make seeds, does it give the tree back or is it used up?
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Sheila Crawford Stafford Reply:
November 10th, 2010 at 4:42 pm
your tree will stay in the orchard until you take it out, even after you harvest it.
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My first orchard looked like a mini botanical garden and then when I purchased and started building the second one the first one changed to look like the picture and the 2nd one was the same.
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vicki brown Reply:
November 11th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
someone stold it
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I dropped my seedling on top of the orchard instead of on the ground. It was watered but I don’t know where my seedling is. I have a message that it is half done – guess it needs more water. where is my seedling? Where will my new tree show up at?
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I dropped my seedling on top of the orchard instead of on the ground. It was watered but I don’t know where my seedling is. where will my new tree be?
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There seems to be a problem with the Watering Cans. Even though I had 20 in my gift box, when I tried to water two seedlings, FV took my 20 water cans and also 20 FV dollars, as if I bought the water cans. I reported the problems to Zynga. Let’s hope they fix it soon, in the meantime, refrain from watering your seedlings. Good luck.
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i have water cans from friends but when i water new tree it takes cash in minus but no result after ten times tree is still small. and my cash in minus but i had my watering cans. i did not like it i think i will never play farmville anymore. it is not good to do such lie. i thought that farmville is the best but now it is over.
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Does not work, if I take watering can from my gift box and click on a seedling fvcash disappears, xp is raising and nothing else happens. Cash and XP are normal after a new start of FarmVille, but I can’t water seedlings!
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My orchard looks like a miniature botantical garden. Can you fix it?
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i had finished my orchard for the 10 of 10 parts and now it is telling me i need more parts again for the first time you can see in the feed where i finished it
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after completing my orchard and placing my 1st seedling in it, someone stold it and replaced it with a botanical garden. Can i have the beginnings of my orchard again please.
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I had one orchard with 20 trees and when i bought another to build and went to place it, the first one disappeared..along with all of my trees..I had a caramel apple tree, waxed apple tree, just to name a few..How can i get my trees back? I am so upset..please help:)
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when you post after watering seedling with 5 cans, how many can get water from each post?
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Vikki Reply:
January 15th, 2011 at 1:12 pm
So far I have only had 2 people get a watering can from my post.
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i never got the 1st orchard. It looks neat but so far..i can’t even buy the frame.
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Vikki Reply:
January 15th, 2011 at 1:11 pm
Look under buildings, then storage. You can buy as many as you want for 1000 coins then takes 10 each of Bricks, Nails, and Boards to build.
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Mike Reply:
January 17th, 2011 at 8:34 am
Thank you, I saw this and it worked. Thank you so much!!!!!!
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Does anyone know where you can get a revenue calculator for trees like the one offered for crops. I have over 50 orchards which I collect from every other day. Some give over 4000 coins others only 500 Have already mastered 15+ trees so if these do not give as much as other I want to have less of the lower profiting ones and replace with high profit trees. Gave up trying to eep all of one kind in the same orchard since I had so many and not enough of the same kind.
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I never got my orchard. Could someone help me?
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why or how did i lose my orchard?
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