Farmville -- Quick and Dirty Tricks and Tactics

Ah FarmVille. This game with its constant requests for you time is both simple yet addictive. Building a farm seems so easy and yet picking and planting the right crop, then maintaining it, harvesting it, and even taking care of animals have devoured many an afternoon for myself.

But as fun a time sink as it is, FarmVille can be exploited for fun and profit.


This game like many sim-type or level grinding games on Facebook requires so much time invested to gain enough cash, levels and items to maintain that little virtual farm. Some are happy with the slow pace, and some (like me) aren't. So to those not so patient types here are some cheats to help that farm grow even better (and faster).

Gaining vast amounts of Farmcash from the get go.

If you head over to farmville.com they have a little thing at the page bottom. Down there is mentioned a FarmVille game bar. Clicking and downloading it will start a download that is compatible with both Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer.

When it is fully installed, your FarmVille account is rewarded 10 Farmcash. Now the loophole here is simple. Just uninstall and reinstall the bar as many times as you want. The system won't notice the constant downloads so stock piling a bit of farm cash is easily done this way.

The gift that keeps on giving.

Gifts tend to contain many rare items and upgrades. But maybe you don't have a lot of Facebook friends that play FarmVille.

Here's a way to make everyday a gift day. Simply make a bunch of Facebook accounts. Start a FarmVille account on all, and then have each account send gifts to your main account. Speaking of gifts-

Sending friends more than one gift per day.

You can also spread the wealth to other Facebook friends by sending them extra gifts. When you log into FarmVille, click the 'Free Gifts' option. Down the list of gifts, select one and then click proceed. Then go through and check off the list of friends you want to send things.

Now before you hit that send key, make new browser tabs pulling up FarmVille. Repeat the process up to the check off of people keeping all windows open. When you feel you've made enough tabs, click send to all of them.

Speed racer farming.

Yes, you can indeed make your character work faster…by holding them hostage. Trapping your character at the bottom of hay bales promotes faster productivity. Just entrap them in about twelve hay bales, three on all four sides of them.