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All the latest information on the newest glitches and crashes making your game a little more entertaining, along with articles about how to do various semi-game related things to help you or your neighbours.

Sunday, 23 June 2013

Doubling Drops, the full list....


A full list on how to get double (or more) drops from various things, sorted by type... Remember all the boosts can be maximised by using ready boosts while they last.

General

Smoked Buffalo Ribs
Comes as regular reward, from the Security Badge and can be crafted in the Smokehouse
Duration One Hour


Note: this gives double drops throughout the homestead (including when using tools and on stored items). As always, it won't double drops from items that cannot be boosted.

Sixshooter
Comes from: Sharpshooter Collection / Lassoing in the Wild West Booth / the Sharpshooter Badge
Duration 36 seconds SIX times the usual drops


Note: this gives 6 times the drops throughout the homestead (including when using tools and on stored items). As always, it won't double drops from items that cannot be boosted.

Battered Bacon Ferris Wheel
Mission reward, five only rewarded. Choose wisely before using them.
Duration One Hour TEN times the usual drops

Bo's Secret Weapon
Preserving the Frontier
Maybe It's True
Far Out!
The Key to Success


Note: this gives 10 times the drops throughout the homestead (including when using tools and on stored items). As always, it won't double drops from items that cannot be boosted.

Animals

Ghostly Pioneer
Comes from: Witchy Crates / Possible reward when Making a Deal with the Leprechaun King
Duration 15 Minutes TRIPLE boost


How to use: Activate the boost and click animals. 

Note: This can be used with any Feeder tool and does work on stored animals. This also works on healable items that are classed as animals.

Shearing For Shave Tails
Comes from: Crafted in the Library / Possible reward when Making a Deal with the Leprechaun King
Duration: 15 Minutes


How to use: Activate the boost and click animals. 

Note: This can be used with any Feeder tool and does work on stored animals. This also works on healable items that are classed as animals.

Wikiwah Pride Boost
Comes from Wikiwah Crate
Duration 15 Minutes


How to use: Activate the boost and click animals or decorations. 

Note: This can be used with any Feeder tool and does work on stored animals. This also works on healable items that are classed as animals.

Sweet Payoff Boost
Comes from Golden Fiddle missions / Possible reward when Making a Deal with the Leprechaun King / Legal Collection / Jack's Deed Daily Bonus
Duration 10 Minutes


How to use: Activate the boost and click animals or Lumber Trees. 

Note: This can be used with any Feeder tool and does work on stored animals. This also works on healable items that are classed as animals.

Animal Magnetism Boost
Comes From: Mission Rewards and the Daily Bonus of the Spirit Wolf, Free Range Animals and Scoring Runts(*2) and  Cooking at Bo's Kitchen / Possible reward when Making a Deal with the Leprechaun King / Cultured Animals / Fishing in the Huge Fishtank
Duration: 5 Minutes


How to use: Activate the boost and click animals. 

Note: This can be used with any Feeder tool and does work on stored animals. This also works on healable items that are classed as animals.

Crops

Crop Whisperer
Comes From: Crafted in the Library / Possible reward when Making a Deal with the Leprechaun King
Duration: 15 Minutes


How to use: Activate the Boost and harvest Crops. 

Note: This works while using the Harvester, inside the Greenhouse and on crops harvested inside the Raised Beds.

Strange Elixier Boost
Comes from Golden Fiddle missions (Stranger Collection,  Jack's Deed Daily Bonus)
Duration 10 Minutes


How to use: Activate the boost and click animals or crops or debris. 

Note: This works while using the Harvester, inside the Greenhouse and on crops harvested inside the Raised Beds.

Crop Mumbler
Comes From: Mission Rewards, the Daily Bonus of the Spirit Buck, Scoring Runts and tending Free Range Animals / Cooking at Bo's Kitchen / Possible reward when Making a Deal with the Leprechaun King / Fair Games / Cultured Animals / Fishing in the Huge Fishtank
Duration: 5 Minutes


How to use: Activate the Boost and harvest Crops. 

Note: This works while using the Harvester, inside the Greenhouse and on crops harvested inside the Raised Beds.

Spouse Memory Boost
Comes From: The Daily Bonus of the Memory Cabinet.
Duration: 20 Minutes


How to use: Activate the Boost, SELECT YOUR SPOUSE and harvest Crops. 

Note: This only works on crops harvested by a SPOUSE avatar. It does not work with the Harvester, inside the Greenhouse or in Raised Beds.

Lumber Trees

How to Jack Lumber
Comes From: Crafted in the Library / Possible reward when Making a Deal with the Leprechaun King
Duration: 15 Minutes


How to use: Activate the Boost and chop trees. 

Note: This works while using Baby Bunyan, Sharp Axe, Golden Axe or a Chocolate Rush. It also works on chops from the Lumber Yard.

Sweet Payoff Boost
Comes from Golden Fiddle missions / Possible reward when Making a Deal with the Leprechaun King / Legal Collection / Jack's Deed Daily Bonus
Duration 10 Minutes


How to use: Activate the boost and click Animals or Lumber Trees. 

Note: This works while using Baby Bunyan, Sharp Axe, Golden Axe or a Chocolate Rush. It also works on chops from the Lumber Yard.

Eco-Jacking Boost
Comes From: Mission Rewards, the Daily Bonus of the Spirit Bear, Free Range Animals and Cooking at Bo's Kitchen / Possible reward when Making a Deal with the Leprechaun King / Fair Games, Cultured Animals / Fishing in the Huge Fishtank
Duration: 5 Minutes


How to use: Activate the Boost and chop trees. 

Note: This works while using Baby Bunyan, Sharp Axe, Golden Axe or a Chocolate Rush. It also works on chops from the Lumber Yard.

Fruit Trees

Spouse Memory Boost
Comes From: The Daily Bonus of the Memory Cabinet.
Duration: 20 Minutes


How to use: Activate the Boost, SELECT YOUR SPOUSE and harvest Trees. 

Note: This only works on Trees harvested by a SPOUSE avatar. It does not work in the Orchard or with the Tree Harvester.

Peppermint Earthquake
Comes From: Crafted in the Candy Shop / Possible reward when Making a Deal with the Leprechaun King
Duration: 15 Minutes


How to use: Activate the Boost and harvest Fruit Trees. 

Note: Unlike other boosts this TREBLES drops. It works on Fruit Trees tended inside the Orchard and while using the Tree Harvester.

Debris

Squeezing the Stone
Comes From: Crafted in the Library / Mining Collection / Possible reward when Making a Deal with the Leprechaun King / Fair Games
Duration: 15 Minutes


How to use: Activate the Boost and clear debris. 

Note: This works while using the Debris Clearer.

Strange Elixier Boost
Comes from Golden Fiddle missions (Stranger Collection,  Jack's Deed Daily Bonus)
Duration 10 Minutes


How to use: Activate the boost and click Crops or Debris. 

Note: This works while using the Debris Clearer.

Debris and Me Boost
Volcano decoration  / Free Range Animals / Cooking at Bo's Kitchen / Possible reward when Making a Deal with the Leprechaun King / Cultured Animals / Fishing from The Huge Fishtank / Volcano Daily Bonus
Duration 5 Minutes


How to use: Activate the boost and click Debris. 

Note: This works while using the Debris Clearer.

Buildings

Daily Doubler
Comes From: The Town Hall Menu or the Town Hall entry inside the Civic Centre
Duration : 2 Minutes



How to use: Activate the boost then collect building bonuses.

Note: The Boost can be reset by crafting a Doubler Reset inside the Town Hall. You can only hold TWO Doubler Resets in your inventory at any time.


Decorations

Espresso Boost
Comes From: Mission rewards and bought in the Gold Dust Market / Possible reward when Making a Deal with the Leprechaun King
Duration : 15 Minutes


How to use: Activate the Boost and Collect the Daily Bonus from Decorations.

Wikiwah Pride Boost
Comes from Wikiwah Crate
Duration 15 Minutes


How to use: Activate the boost and click animals or decorations. 

Note: This can be used with any Feeder tool and does work on stored animals. This also works on healable items that are classed as animals.

Saving Grace Boost
Mission reward, the Golden Fiddle Collection, Jack's Deed, Wikiwah Crate, Fine dining crate, Goldie's Trunk, Great Fiddle, Hibernators and a reward when Scoring Runts.
Duration 10 Minutes


How to use: Activate the boost and click Decorations. 

Note: This TREBLES drops, not doubles.I th

Fishing

Early Worm Boost
Comes From: Mission rewards, the Daily Bonus of the Giant Mounted Fish, Laketorn Wagon, Prospector Gear and Recovered Boat, Fishing in the Bait 'n' Tackle and Lakefront Dock, healing Filthy Water and Holey Boat.
Duration : 10 Minutes


How to use: Activate the Boost and Fish.

Thursday, 20 June 2013

Soda Shop Building Guide

If we're going to collect and sell those bubbly drinks we're going to need to get us a Soda Shop.

That means a four step build to coincide with the missions, and it'll have all the usual mix of items.

6 per stage involving posts, crafting and homestead drops, so lets see what we're going to need to get the fizz flying...

Stage One

12 Storin' Tanks - Wall Post
10 Extra Bottles - Wall Post
10 Pourin' Funnels - Direct Request
12 Soda Stools - Direct Request
12 Booth Leather - Hide Prepping Stations
10 Booth Stuffing - Adult Standard Sheep


Stage Two

14 Parlour Mirrors - Crafted
10 Bottle Crates - Crafted
15 Soda Cappers - Wall Post
12 Ice Chests - Direct Request
12 Tabletops - Fully Grown Pine
14 Table Legs - Skulls


Each Mirror requires 5 Reflective Glass (Wall Post) and 3 Solid Frames (Oak)


Each Bottle Crate requires 8 Crate Nails (Direct Request) and 5 Thin Wood (Bamboo)


Stage Three

10 Soda Bars - Crafted
10 Mystery Sodas - Crafted
15 Soda Colouring - Wall Post
12 Soda Straws - Direct Request
16 Sweet Treats - Mountain Blueberries
18 Sugary Syrup - Sugar Cane


Each Bar requires 10 Brass Detailing (Wall Post), 6 Lockin Boxes (Tin Forges) and 6 Bar Tops (Direct Request)


Each Mystery Soda requires 5 Doc's Mystery Mix (Direct Request) and 5 Water Glasses (Recycling Bins)


Stage Four

12 Soda Kegs - Crafted
10 Old Player Pianos - Crafted
20 Fancy Glasses - Wall Post
18 Placemats - Wall Post
25 Piano Music - Direct Request
20 Nice Napkins - Silk


Each Keg requires 8 Pressure Pumps (Wall Post), 8 Pour Spouts (Steel Forges) and 6 Tap Handles (Direct Request)


Each Piano requires 9 Sound Sheets (Direct Request), 6 Rolling Pins (Prickly Pear Cactus) and 6 Piano Bases (Wall Post)


Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Dino Exhibit Names

Here's a full list of the Dino Exhibits and their names so you know what to search for, along with some text from Dr Andy, Doctorate of Paleontology, University of Made Up Studies, 1999.

Remember, they appear from Bone Crates, the reward from the Dino Collection, and appear in the inventory.

Carnosaur


Poor Carnosaurs are something of a dumping ground for Paleontologists. For years anything with a couple legs and teeth that would make a dentist faint were popped into the Carnosaur territory. Finally some scientists ran a duster around and hoovered a lot of the ones designated Carnosaurs into slightly more defined drawers in the Dino Filing Cabinet.

Mammoth


Always a movie favourite (Lord love Manny) the Mammoth is most famously known as an elephant with fancy teeth and a hipster haircut, but they were just the last of a long line of elephantine ancestors who, like humans, had a variety of haircuts. They're also the only thing on this list we humans may well have had a hand in removing from the gene pool, although that's under debate.

Parasaur

Largely known for its somewhat phallic protective bone crest that protruded from the back of it's head, the Parasaurs are a family of three different dinos that differ in small ways such as the size of it's crest. There's so  far little scientific evidence they compared crest sizes and that the ones with the smallest crests had the flashiest cars.

Raptor


Raptor is usually an informal term for the Jurassic Park favourite, the Velociraptor. Sadly the movie did take a few small artistic licences with the Raptor, such as the fact it actually stood at below waist height for most humans (which considering where that put the teeth, might be even MORE scary). They also ignored the fact that they were covered in feathers... An American movie full of historical inaccuracies, who saw THAT one coming?

Sabretooth


Here kitty, kitty... Yes, the Sabretooth Cat, a feline so scary you would DEFINITELY let it has cheezburger. Instead of posing hanging from trees these pussy cats were incredibly dangerous hunters with front legs far more powerful than any other animal of this type. Trust me, when these suckers are hungry they'll do a bit more than smack you in the face while you're asleep.

Spinosaur

This Spinosaur skeleton is missing one small detail, which is the spines, usually creating a massive "sail" on the back of the animal. So far nobody's totally sure WHY they had the sail, although it probably comes down to sex, it usually does. They also had quite unique teeth in that that were arranged in a fanned out pattern, meaning before THESE guys could have appeared in Jurassic Park it would have cost a fair few bob in Orthodontic work.

Stegosaur


Back in Dino times even vegetarians needed a little extra protection. There wasn't just a little teasing regarding sprout soufflés and fights over the right way to cook soy protein. These veggies needed to protect themselves from some pretty mean so-and-so's, which is why they've got more armour plating than a Challenger tank and a spiky tail that would put a crimp in anyone's day.

Triceratops


Speaking of well armoured Herbivores, we find ourselves at the Triceratops, with their big neck frill (again suggested to be for pulling a mate, "cor, look at the neck plates on that") and anything up to three horns adorning its head, usually one on the nose and a couple in traditional devil horn locations, showing that in Dino times, you could never be horny enough.

Wooly Rhino


Shall I let you take a guess at what the Wooly Rhino was? Anyone still reading and not skipped on? OK, just for you, lets describe it. It's a rhino that's wooly. With all their latin and long names sometimes scientists obviously just go "screw that for a game of soldiers" and say it like it is. Look people, it's a rhino and it's wooly, let's just call it a wooly rhino and go to the pub.

T-Rex
(NOTE: This does not come from a Bone Crate but a mission reward and doesn't count as one of the nine for the wrapper.)


Big Daddy, el Dino Grande, the "Tyrant Lizard" is commonly known as the most fearsome, and famous predator in Dino times. Much of the general aggression and angst of the T-Rex probably came from it's tiny arms making such destressing activities as pushups, video gaming and... other things impossible. Recordings have shown the T-Rex, when not killing, eating or mating with anything in sight, had a more than useable singing voice with hits such as Get It On and Children of the Revolution.