FrontierVille Cheats & Tips: Tree cheat sheet with all values

FrontierVille Trees
This is the definitive FrontierVille tree data for the two trees in Zynga's popular Oregon Trail-themed game. This table shows you how much of a reward you will get from each tree, how long they take to grow, and what the chance is for a bear to attack after chopping down the tree. If you're looking for information on FrontierVille trees -- you have come to right place.

Right now there's only data available for two trees, but this guide will be updated regularly. Stay tuned!

Looking for animals? Click here for our FrontierVille Animal Cheatsheet.

Name     State     Grow Time     Max Chops     Reward for Chop     Reward for Final Chop     Bear Attack Chance
XP     Wood     XP     Wood     Any Chop     Final Chop
Pine     New     1 day     1     1     1     1     1     -     -
Small     2 days     2     1     1     2     2     -     -
Medium     3 days     3     1     1     3     3     -     -
Large     5 days     5     1     1     4     5     2%     5%
Extra Large     -     8     1     1     10     10     3%     100%
Oak     New     1 day     1     1     1     1     1     -     -
Small     3 days     2     1     1     2     2     -     -
Medium     5 days     4     1     1     4     4     -     -
Large     7 days     7     1     1     6     7     2%     4%
Extra Large     -     12     1     1     12     15     3%     100%
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FrontierVille 'Mafia Wars Quest': Clobberin' and clearin' for a Mafia Wars reward

Logging in to Mafia Wars right now might activate a pop-up asking you to log in to FrontierVille and start a promotional quest on your homestead.

Once there, all you have to do to complete this quest and receive the Bowie Knife (31 Attack, 58 Defense) in your Mafia Wars inventory is clobber three snakes, clear three skulls (snakes hide in skulls) and chop down three trees. That's it. Just do those things like you would in everyday life on the virtual frontier, click on the "Mafia Wars Quest II" pop-up to claim your reward and the Bowie Knife should be in your mobster's hands in no time.

You can unlock each requirement for an obscene amount of horseshoes compared to how boringly easy each requirement is, but, please, save your money. In case you truly are the impatient type, Mafia Wars Maniac found a shortcut to making the quest appear that we've included behind the break.
Mafia Wars Quest guide

This code will take you directly to the pop-up in Mafia Wars to activate the "Mafia Wars Quest" in FrontierVille.


    Copy-paste this link on your browser :

    http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/track.php?next_controller=index&next_action=do_promotions&next_params={"promo"%3A"ftv_5wayin_mafia"%2C"uid"%3A"xxxxxxxxx"%2C"ts"%3A"1285477867"%2C"sig"%3A"e6ca3969646e22939232fa517cb914b1"}&zySnid=1&zySnuid=633355684&zy_user=633355684&zy_ts=&zy_session=&zySig=06d6f729083254198c0c2e1544b35fe9


    Note :
    Please change the "xxxxxxxxx" in the link I've provided above to your Facebook's UID.

If you read over this and your eyes glazed over for a second, then allow us to explain. Before doing this, go to your profile page and in the address bar, look for a number that follows "php?id=". That number is your Facebook User ID. Copy the URL into a blank browser tab, then copy and paste this UID number into where that series of "x's" appear. Works like a charm.

New FarmVille, FrontierVille & Cafe World Cross-Promotion

UPDATE: See our FarmVille Guide on how to complete the FrontierVille's FarmVille Quest I and how to claim your FarmVille Mule.

If you've been farming tonight, you may have noticed the in-game pop-ups below. Starting tonight, there has been frequent advertising for two new Zynga games and FarmVille cross-promotions with FrontierVille and Cafe World.
farmville cafe world free cafe cash cross promotion
From time to time, Zynga likes to offer cross-promotions for their games by rewarding players with special items and perks for playing multiple games. They like to make sure that us FarmVille Freaks haven't forgotten about their other games by giving us a push towards life outside of farming. This time around, playing FrontierVille and completing the FarmVille quest can unlock a special Mule for you to use in FarmVille, while playing Cafe World could potentially earn you 50 free cafe cash (for FarmVille players to use in Cafe World).

Q: Is the Mule for FarmVille or FrontierVille?

A: The Mule is for you to use in FarmVille. Though you must complete the quest in FrontierVille to claim your Mule reward.

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

Will you participate in these Zynga games and FarmVille cross-promotion or is it just another gimmick to get you to play?

FrontierVille Storage Space III Timed Mission: Everything you need to know

For those of you that have been keeping up with the various Storage Shed expansion missions in FrontierVille, you'll be happy to learn that the third and final mission in this trio has been released.

Appropriately, the mission is called "Storage Space III," and for those that have completed Storage Space I and II, released over the past two weeks, this will give you the chance to earn your final five free additional storage shed slots, so that you can store more items from your Frontier. This is a timed mission, only being available for three days once you accept it. To be clear, you have all the way up until January 7 to accept this quest, but once you do, you only have three days to complete it.

There are three tasks in this mission, and they will prove to be quite a challenge for those players with no debris or crops on their land:

Clobber 5 Groundhogs
Clobber 10 Snakes
Collect 10 Crowbars

You'll need to draw Snakes out on your land by clearing rocks, thorns, or skulls, and you can bring out Groundhogs by harvesting crops. As for the Crowbars, you'll be able to ask your friends to help you by posting a general wall post to your news feed so that you friends can send you a crowbar. This is a "Give one, get one" situation, so everyone that decides to help you will receive a Crowbar in return (and vice versa).

The rewards for this new mission are the aforementioned five free slots in your Storage Shed, along with 400 experience points and 750 coins - not a bad deal, if you can manage to lure out 15 varmints in a three day time.

Trouble loading FrontierVille? Update your Flash player, says Zynga

According to several FrontierVille forum-goers and FrontierVille Info readers, the game was experiencing significant issues yesterday from playing the game effectively to loading it at all. Of course, it garnered the attention of the Zynga community team. FrontierVille forum moderator NikkiKing posted on the forums in response, "Effective 1/25/11 you will need to have the latest version of Adobe® Flash® Player installed in order to play FrontierVille."

She then provided a link a to the Adobe Flash Player download website, which you can also find here. But for Google Chrome users, don't even worry about it--Chrome updates its built-in Flash plug-ins automatically. Personally, I didn't even notice the issue because I always have my Flash player up to date, because, well, it's my job. This is certainly not the first time the game has experience Flash-related performance issues. (Though it has gotten better.) Hopefully this will solve the headaches once and for all. And from here on out, be sure to keep abreast of Flash player updates if you want a near-seamless experience on the homestead.

FrontierVille crops glitch not giving up Food or Coins, players report

Are your crops not giving up the goods when harvested in FrontierVille? Then just refresh the browser, according to a few folks on the FrontierVille forums like JaneTheFarmer. A disgruntled forum user named luvHI asked her fellow players, "Usually when I plant crops I get coins and food. When I planted corn for the chicken mission no coins no food anyone know anything about that?" A good amount of forum users responded, claiming that the cause of the issue is a glitch that has gone unfixed for some time.

However, luvHI mentions only planting crops and not getting coins or Food in return. This is 100 percent normal, which is why we're lead to believe that it was merely a typo based on several responses in the forum thread. According to JaneTheFarmer, all you need to do is refresh the game and harvest the crops once more, but the same issue happens to her two to three times a week.

Frankly, who has the time to do this on a regular basis when I'd most FrontierVille players are sneaking that time in on their lunch break or before bed. FrontierVille officials have yet to respond to the thread nor does this appear to be a known issue in the Bugs and Bug Reporting section. Regardless, we imagine the team will be on it shortly for A. It's been far too long and B. At least the community team is normally quick to respond.

[Image Credit: West Karana]

Have you experienced this bug in FrontierVille? What have you done to either get around it or temporarily fix it?

FrontierVille Doghouse Collection offers Goose Ready Boost as reward

While many FrontierVille players (myself included) still don't have access to the Doghouse goals that were released this evening, most everyone should already have access to the accompanying collection, called simple the "Doghouse Collection."

While the details surrounding the construction / purchase of the Doghouse are still slim (as we said, this feature is one a slow rollout), it is presumed that you'll receive these Doghouse Collection items from collecting the daily bonus from the structure, or during its building process. Here are the five items you'll need in all:

Dog Ball
Chew Toy
Chewed Shoes
Pig's Ear
Flying Disc

While you might think this would be the perfect kind of collection to reward some sort of dog-themed exclusive decorative item, the prize here is instead rather odd - a Free Goose Ready Boost and 25 XP. Whether or not you'll go through the trouble of turning in this collection then, as opposed to saving these items should they ever be needed elsewhere, will of course be up to you.

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Let us know what you think of this new collection in the comments. Do you have the Doghouse feature on your farm yet? What do you think of your dog?

FrontierVille: Finding the Hungry Old Dog and building the Doghouse

Everything you need to know about the oncoming Doghouse Goals is right here, but how does the elderly pup find his way onto your homestead in the first place? Well, since he's old and all, he hobbles like any other Injured Critter in FrontierVille. That said, cleaning up your homestead will cause the Hungry Old Dog to appear, so clear debris and feed your pets like mad. As soon as it appears, you will have to nurse it back to health, but instead of providing it with Critter Milk you will have to feed it 10 Chunky Chow treats. Ask your friends for these like you would Critter Milk with the White Buffalo or the Black Deer. Don't stop there--this geriatric canine still needs a home.
The Doghouse
While you'll be asked to place and build the Doghouse through the relevant Goals, putting the shack together is another mission entirely. After buying it from the Market and placing the foundation, whack the building 10 times for 1 Energy and five Wood each time. Finally, the all too familiar building menu will appear. (Really? It's just a doghouse, people!) Here are the items you'll have to ask your friends for one way or another:

    10 Dog Bone
    10 Dog Door
    10 Dog Blanket
    15 Puppy Love
    15 Dog Whistle
    15 Dog Biscuit


The first three can be requested via the tried and true Wall Post, but for the final three you'll have to request them from your friends directly. Unless you have over 45 dedicated neighbors, this building is going to take more than a day (or two) to put together. Once it's all through, you'll have one happy, hungry Basset Hound on your homestead and another Daily Bonus to collect.

[Source and Image Credit: FrontierVille Info]

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Have you seen the Hungry Old Dog appear on your homestead? What tips might you have to find the pup and build his house?

Pioneer Trail Capital One Goals: Everything you need to know

While we've already taken a look at the Capital One cross-promotions in FarmVille and CityVille, Pioneer Trail's version of the promotion is definitely the most complex, taking four goals to complete. The first of these goals introduces you to the Capital One Goat, who hopes that you can help him find his lost band mates, and bring their bandstand to life on your Homestead. That's right - there's a new building to create as part of this cross-promotion, along with the four goals. Here's a complete rundown of the event.

Sterling the Bloodhound

    * Collect one Bandstand Upgrade Part
    * Visit Capital One Facebook Page
    * Craft Sterling's Guitar in the Bandstand


First things first, the Bandstand can be purchased inside the store for under 10 coins if you have the discount enabled in your game. You won't have to whack a frame or collect items to create a functioning Bandstand; however, you will have to collect these parts to upgrade the building. This is done by clicking on the Bandstand and then clicking "Upgrade" on the menu that appears. From here, it's the familiar process of asking your friends for items.

You'll need to collect 10 each of Stage Lights, pieces of Band Merchandise and Concert Wristbands, all of which are earned through general news posts, while 15 each of Sandbags and Scaffolding are earned by sending out individual requests to your friends for help. The final item - the five Band Groupies - are earned by completing these new goals, as they'll be earned automatically. That being the case, you don't have to be in too great of a rush to collect the rest of the ingredients, as you literally can't complete it anyway.

As for finishing this first goal, you'll need to head inside your Bandstand to craft items as you would in other buildings. From there, you'll need three Guitar Fretboards and five Guitar Strings to actually craft the guitar. These are both new items, requiring you to tend goats or simply ask your friends to help you earn them, among other tasks. Finishing the entirety of this first goal will give you 250 XP, Sterling the Bloodhound and 250 coins.

Toonie the Bear

    * Chop 10 Trees on your Neighbors' Homesteads
    * Feed 30 Goats on your Homestead
    * Craft Toonie's Upright Bass in the Bandstand


Again, you'll need to head inside the Bandstand to craft Toonie's Upright Base, which requires three Tailpieces and five Bass Strings. Again, you can ask your friends to send you the Bass Strings, and can craft the Tailpieces, also inside the Bandstand.

Once you finish this second goal, you'll receive 500 XP, Toonie the Bear and 500 coins.

Penny the Bullfrog

    * Feed 30 Geese on your Homestead
    * Have or Collect 3 Termites
    * Craft Penny's Banjo in the Bandstand


Again, just head inside the Bandstand to see the parts you need to craft Penny's Banjo (in this case the Banjo Pot and Banjo Pick), and then make sure you have three termites from the Oak Tree collection to finish this one off. For doing so, you'll receive 750 XP, Goat and Penny (the two remaining band members) and 5 Band Groupies. Remember those Groupies that you needed to complete the upgrade of the Bandstand? There you go.

Entertainment, Not Food

    * Collect the Upgraded Bandstand Bonus Once
    * Collect 10 Wildberries
    * Harvest 50 Corn


Like a regular building, the Bandstand has a daily bonus that can be collected, so complete that and these other simple (albeit time-consuming) tasks and you'll be golden. You'll receive 1,000 XP, a Rockin Horse (a new mount for your avatar that wears sunglasses) and 1,000 coins for finishing this final goal.

All told, we're not given an expiration date for when this cross-promotion and these goals will leave the game, but your best bet would be to finish everything off as soon as possible just to make sure you don't miss out on anything. Have fun!

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What do you think of this entire Capital One promotion in Pioneer Trail? Are you going to make your avatar ride this horse-with-shades? Sound off in the comments.