Farmville can be puzzling to the beginners. However, it is very simple once you have played a couple of times.

Six Buttons in the Lower Right of Your Screen

The Multi-Tool
The multi-tool button is by far the most useful and you will normally want to have your cursor set to this. To set your cursor to the multi-tool, click the first button, the one that looks like your regular mouse cursor. This will then transform into anything you will need. If you position your mouse above a regular crop, it’s a harvesting tool. It is a plow tool if you position your mouse over a fallow ground.

The Plow Tool
The one that looks indentical to a green hoe and the second one on the top row is the plow tool. You will use this tool to create new fields and plow fallow ground to get it ready to plant.

The Shovel (Delete Tool
Be extremely careful that you do not start clicking everywhere when your cursor is set to this tool! Things around your farm will be deleted and —all items that you click on will bring up this message:

“ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DELETE “(item’s name)”?” Click

The Market
You will be able to see a button with a tomato and pepper on it with the text MARKET. Just look at the lower right part of your computer screen. It will take you to the Market when you click it. Spend your coins and cash at the Market. The Market is set up with pictures of the seeds that you want to purchase and a price below. It will also reveal how much xp an item earns you and the price of harvest from one square of ground will be. Each square of dirt can take 1 unit of seeds, the cost that you see in the Market. Items indicated as LOCKED are not available to you at this time because of your level. You will unlock additional items as you level up. The Market has tabs for Seeds, Trees, Animals, Buildings, Decorations, Expand Farm, and Vehicles. Take a look through them and see a few things that you may want to buy. By far you’ll spend the most time browsing through the seed catalog to figure out what you want to grow.

Ribbons
Look at the button with the blue ribbon. That’s your Ribbons section which keeps track of all your accomplishments. If you’d want to see what you need for you to collect the next color of ribbon for an accomplishment or just feel proud about your accomplishments, scroll through and take a look.

Buttons at the Uppermost Part of the Screen
You can see three brown buttons stacked on top of each other at the distant upper left of the screen. When you move your mouse over them, they will show a message to tell you what they control:

• Eye: toggles graphic quality
• Speaker: turns the sound on and off
• Musical Note: Turns the music on and off

You will notice a green button with a heap of gold coins next to it if you look to your right. It will show the amount of Farm Coins you currently have. The amount will fluctuate with your acquisitions and harvests.

You can see a blue button with a plus symbol, marked “ADD COINS & CASH” below it. It takes you to a page where you can buy Farm Coins and Cash with real cash so do not click this.

On the Extreme right, the blue button further right shows you how much Farm Cash you have. You will get one Farm Cash each level you achieve.

The xp bar, blue with a star with it can be seen in the middle of top of your screen. As you earn points through different farming activities such as plowing and harvesting, the bar fill up with with experience points.

To post a message in your farm for your neighbors brown button with the speech bubble attached to it. It’s a good way to display requests or thank yous.

The name of your farm is at the far right of your screen. It should say (your name)’s Farm. Right now, you cannot change the name of your farm.

These are the essential buttons that you will use In Farmville. Enjoy playing!

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