FarmVille 2 - Big Harvest Guide!

reposted from Official FarmVille 2 Blog

Big Harvest Is Here!

Now that you have restored your family farm to its former glory, it’s time to take it to new heights of productivity! Inspired by your accomplishments, Cornelius has decided to start a new business that will supply accomplished farmers like yourself with upgrades that you can use to make your farm more bountiful than ever.

Cornelius believes you are ready to deal directly with the local townsfolk, so he’s giving you a new Order Board that you can use to earn Favors. Trade these Favors into Cornelius and unlock exciting new upgrades that will allow you to increase production and save space. Explore the limits of your farming creativity with the latest release from FarmVille 2, Big Harvest! 

If you are level 25 or higher, you will see the following pop-up. Click on the “Get Started!” button to get started.

After clicking the button, Cornelius will drop by to upgrade your Market Stand.

New Market Stand & Order Board

Cornelius's upgrades will completely change the appearance of your Stand. In addition to aesthetic upgrades, you may notice the new Order Board on the left-hand side of your Market Stand. The Order Board gives you the opportunity to earn Farm Favors and Coins by completing Orders for the local Townsfolk. 

Click on the new Market Stand to check out your brand new Order Board Menu. The "Order Board" Tab displays what orders you currently have available to complete and the "Sell Goods" Tab will allow you to sell your Goods as you normally would with the old Market Stand. 

Completing Orders will earn you Farm Favors that you can use to upgrade your farm. The number of Favors you receive per Order is indicated by the blue thumb on top of an Order Card. 

As you can see by the green check marks in the image above, Cornelius already helped you out with your first two Orders. Click on the first one to open the following menu:

The Order shown above will give you 3,900 Coins and 1 Farm Favor for crafting 3 Apple Pies. Since Corny has already provided the pies, Click on the “Complete” button to submit the order and get the rewards. 

Return to the main Order Board menu and click on the second Order that Cornelius has assisted you with. This order will give you 590 Coins and 1 Favor. Click on the “Complete” button to submit the order. In addition to your prizes, you will see a pop-up congratulating you on beating your weekly goal. 

Click on the “Collect” button to claim your 100 Farm Favors. After clicking the button, your Order board will reset. We will cover more information about Weekly Goals later in the guide, but for now, let's take a closer look at your Order Board Menu. 

Using The Order Board - Main Menu

As shown in the tutorial, you must craft items and/or collect goods for the Townsfolk to complete Orders. The menu below shows all of your available Orders (Order Cards). 

A - The Order requirements. You must complete these tasks to finish the Order. 

B - The number of Coins you will earn for completing the Order. 

C - The number of Favors you will earn for completing the Order.

D - How long you have left to complete your Weekly Goal. 

E - This bar tracks your progress towards your Weekly Goal. As you complete Orders, the bar will fill. Read on for more information about Weekly Goals. 

F - If you don't like the requirements of an Order, you simply can click on the red "X" button in the top-right corner of an Order Card to replace it with a new Order. Once you click the button, a pop-up will appear. After confirming the dismissal of the order, you have to wait the number of hours listed for another order to appear.

G - If you want to speed up the timer for a new order, you can post Fliers to your wall. When you've collected enough Fliers, a new order will appear and you can skip the wait.

H - If you don't feel like waiting or posting Fliers, you can get a new Order immediately by spending Farm Bucks. 

Note: Once you complete an Order, a new Order will appear on your board for you to complete.

Using The Order Board - Order Cards

Click on Order Cards in the Order Board menu to see more details about the Order requirements. 

A - The Order requirements. You must complete these tasks to finish the Order. 

B -  If you don't like the requirements of an Order, you simply can click on the red “Discard” button to replace it with a new Order. Once you click the button, the following pop-up will appear. After confirming the dismissal of the order, you have to wait the number of hours listed for another order to appear.

C - Click this button to return to the main Order Board menu. 

D - The number of Coins you will earn for completing the Order. 

E - The number of Favors you will earn for completing the Order. 

F - The number of Farm Bucks required to complete an Order Requirement. This is an optional choice for players who wish to skip the task.

G - Once you have fufilled the Order Requirements, click this button to complete your order and claim your prizes. 

H. This bar tracks your progress towards your Weekly Goal. As you complete Orders, the bar will fill. Read on for more information about Weekly Goals. 

Weekly Goals

Each week you will be asked to complete a certain amount of Orders. If you beat this goal, you will be rewarded with additional Favors, as shown in the image above. The bar on the right-hand side of your Order Board menu indicates how you are progressing towards your weekly goal, and the timer at the bottom of the Order Board menu indicates how long you have left to complete your weekly challenge. Once this timer expires, you will receive new orders and a new weekly goal. If you do not hit your weekly goal by the time the timer expires, you will not receive additional Favors as a prize. 

If you complete all 15 orders before the time runs out, you will get special orders, which brings you more Farm Favors and Coins than usual orders.

Farm Favors

After collecting your first Farm Favors, you may be wondering what they are for. Trade Favors into Cornelius to unlock exciting new upgrades that will allow you to increase production and save space. Currently, you can use Favors to upgrade your Groves and Plots, but we have more exciting upgrades planned in the near future. 

Double Favors often appear after completing orders, so keep you eye out for them to get bonus favors and share them with friends! As their name implies, a Double Favor will grant you two Favors instead of just one. They will appear on your farm in a similar fashion to Prize Goods.

If you find a Double Favor, you will see the following pop-up:

Upgrading your Farm

To upgrade your farm, click on the new upgrade button. It's located on the bottom right-hand side of your screen, next to the Inventory button. 

The Upgrade Menu shows all of the upgrades that are currently available and the requirements needed to unlock them. 

Note: Not all upgrades are currently accessible. Some upgrades require a certain level or other upgrades to advance. Click on any upgrade to see what requirements you need to fulfill in order to unlock it. 

A - The list of upgrades and the level required to unlock them. 

B - Use this bar to scroll though all of the available upgrades. Click on “Upgrade View” button to see what items on your farm are upgradable.

C - A list of the perks an upgrade will provide you. In the image above, you can see that upgrading to a Field will provide more crops, faster mastery and more Prize Crops. 

D - The number of Coins and Favors required to unlock an upgrade. 

E - Use this button to purchase your upgrade once you have completed all of the requirements. 

Fields

Big Harvest is all about allowing you to explore the endless potential of your Farming creativity. In order to really unlock your full farming potential, we recognize that many of you need more space. Our answer to this problem is Fields. Fields will allow you to plant more crops, master your crops faster, get more prized crops, and save space! One Field is the equivalent of 5 plots, but it only takes up the space of 4. 

Before you can use a Field, you have to build one. If you reached Level 25 or above, you can select Level 1 Fields from the Upgrade menu. Once you have selected the field, place the construction frame on your farm.

Note: If you place your construction frame on existing plots, we'll harvest these plots for you and refund any water, fertilizer and coins you have spent.

After placing the construction frame on your farm, you have to wait for the Townsfolk to help you finish building it. If you want to see how long you have to wait until the construction is finished, you can click on the construction frame.

Note: If you don't feel like waiting, you can skip ahead with Farm Bucks. 

Once the timer is done, click on the “Finish Now!” button to let the Townsfolk complete the construction.

Before you can use your new Field, you have to put 5 normal plots into the field construction. Click on the “Tools” button in the bottom right-hand side of your screen, and move 5 plots into your field. Now, your new field is ready to be used!

Note: When you unlock Fields for the first time, you can purchase up to 5 of them for your Farm. You have to purchase each of these Fields individually (you will not recieve 5 level 1 Fields in a single purchase).