Howdy, Farmers!
Get your Seeds and Fertilizer ready, because the County Fair has come to town! Now, everybody knows that a little healthy competition with your Friends and Neighbors is all in good fun. Grow Prize Crops to win medals and other great rewards and compete with Friends and Neighbors in weekly events.
Note: The County Fair is a complex feature that touches many elements of the game. We are slowing rolling this out to all players over the upcoming months, so please be aware that you may not have this feature right away. We are very excited to get this out to all of our players as soon as possible, and we appreciate your patience.
If you are level 20 or higher, you will see the following pop-up. Click on the green “Check it out” button to get started:
Walter will pay you a special visit in a shiny new truck with a wagon hitched to the back.
Click the green “I Will” button and then go harvest some Crops.
Prize Crops:
Prize Crops linger on your farm and appear to be larger than your regular harvested Crops. Once you have found your first Prize Crop, click on it to view its size and weight.
Stunning! Your Prize Crop is perfect for the County Fair. Click the “View Progress” button to check out the County Fair Board for the first time.
Rewards:
You will receive Coins, Medal points, and XP each time you find a Prize Crop. If you are the first to find a Prize Crop of a certain type, you will receive extra “bonus points”. If you are the “Top Producer” of a certain crop, you will also receive extra “bonus points.” In addition to this, you will earn even more Coins once you attend the County Fair Awards Ceremony at the end of the week! (See the “Bonus Hints” section below for further details).
County Fair Board
The County Fair Board will keep track of your progress for Prize Crops, Points, and Medals. In addition, you can view Bonus Hints (tips & tricks), the County Fair countdown timer, rules, and the Prize Shovel. The image below provides a high level description of each individual feature and click the corresponding link to view further details.
a) Medal Meter: Displays your total points, Medal status, and how many points needed to reach your next Medal goal.
b) My Friends: The “Leaderboard” that shows how your score compares with your Friends.
c) My Prize Crops: Displays all of the Prize Crops you have collected and the points for each.
d) Rules: Displays the game rules, and tips & tricks for how to get bigger Prized Goods.
e) Bonus Hints: This Section suggests Crops to plant to get special point bonuses.
f) Prize Shovel: The special Prize Shovel, which gets you twice the Prize Crop points for a day when purchased.
g) County Fair Timer: This countdown timer indicates how much time remains until the next County Fair event.
This meter displays your Medal status, total points, and how many points needed to reach your next Medal goal. See section “Earning Points & Medals” to learn more about how to earn points and Medals.
The “My Friends” tab is the Leaderboard that shows how your score compares with your Friends. Here you can view how many points each Friend has and who is behind and in front of you. Hover over your Friends to view their best Prize Crop and which prized crop has earned them the Most Points. Click the “Congratulate” and “Brag” buttons to share Fertilizer with Friends so they can grow Prize Crops, too!
Note: The Prize Crop points will reset every week after the County Fair Awards Ceremony.
This tab displays all of the Prize Crops you have collected and your total points for each one. It also shows if you are the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd “Top Producer” among your Friends for that Prize Crop (if you earned the most points per that Prize Crop).
Top Producer:
Players who get the most points for a certain Prize Crop out of their Friends receive special “Top Producer” bonus points. You will see your place for each crop on the “My Prize Crops” tab. Be 1st at the end of the week to earn bonus points at the County Fair! (See the “Bonus Hints” section below for further details).
Note: The “Top Producer” ranks and Prize Crop points will reset every week after you take your crops to the County Fair Awards Ceremony.
This tab displays the game rules, and tips & tricks for how to get bigger Prize Goods. See the “Bonus Hints” section to view even more Prize Crop hints and special tricks.
This section suggests Crops to plant that help you earn special bonus points. Use the yellow triangle tabs to view additional tips. See the “Rules” section to view even more tips & tricks about how to maximize your Prize Crops.
You can easily tend to the “Bonus Hints” Crops. Simply, hover over the image to the left of the tip & trick and click the following option:
- Plant: Plant the Crop in an open plot.
- Water: Water the planted Crop.
- Fertilize: Fertilize the watered Crop.
- Speed-Grow (not shown above): Use Speed-Grow on the planted, watered, and Fertilized Crop, then harvest it right away.
Earning Points & Medals
You earn points for every Prize Crop you grow, which will unlock special Medals: Bronze, Silver, and Gold. Prize Crops that weigh more will earn you more points. In addition, Mastered Crops will produce bigger Prize Crops that are also worth more points. Note: Only Fertilized Crops will earn you Prize Crops. Tip: Using Speed-Grow will increase your chances of finding a bigger Prize Crop.
Medals
There are three different types of Medals: Bronze, Silver, and Gold. Each Medal is complete with a tiered series of levels. As you accrue points, you move up through each level (per your total amount of points) each week.
- Bronze: 1 – 3 Levels
- Silver: 1 – 6 Levels
- Gold: 1 – 9 Levels
The diagram below illustrates the three different Medals (Bronze, Silver, & Gold) and each level specific to that Medal (18 levels total):
Each week you can move up one Medal. For example, if you have Bronze Medal 1, you are working towards Bronze Medal 2; if you have Bronze Medal 3, you are working towards Silver Medal 1.
If you do not reach your next Medal goal in time for the County Fair Awards Ceremony, you will go back to the base of your previous Medal level. For example, if you have Silver Medal 3, you will go back to Silver Medal 1; if you have Gold Medal 1, you will go back to Silver Medal 6; if you have Gold Medal 5, you will go back to Gold Medal 1, and so forth.
Fertilize and grow Prize Crops to maintain and boost your Medal level status! Check the “Bonus Hints” on the County Fair Board for tips & tricks on how to maximize your chances of finding a Prize Crop, and leveling up your Medals.
Jumbo Time:
Once you have filled your Medal Meter to the top, you will earn even bigger Prize Crops that are worth even more points for the remainder of the week (regardless of your Medal and Medal level).
While in Jumbo Time, click your Wagon to view your Medal Meter and progress:
Note: The Jumbo Time status will reset every week after the County Fair Awards Ceremony.
The special Prize Shovel gets you twice the Prize Crop points when using it to harvest Crops. After purchase, it is yours to use for 25 hours. You can view the cooldown timer on the County Fair Board.
To use the Shovel, simply harvest your fertilized Crops!
After the cooldown timer runs out, you can purchase more from the County Fair Board or from your Medal status in the Neighbor Bar. See section “Fame” to learn more about this feature.
Rewards for Medals: More Visit Actions and More Visitors
Having a Medal means you will be more helpful to your friends! If you have a Medal, you will get more Visit Actions when visiting your friends. Your friends will appreciate the extra actions, and you’ll have more chances to get rewards!
- Bronze: 6 Visit Actions
- Silver: 7 Visit Actions
- Gold: 8 Visit Actions
Also, if you have a Medal, your friends will get special Rewards for visiting your farm (Water, Fertilizer and Prized Crops). Better Medals mean that your friends will get more Rewards. If you have a Medal you will be sorted to the front of your friends’ Neighbor Bar, so better Medals means more helpful visitors to your farm. Get more and more visitors to make your farm famous!
- Bronze: Visitors to your farm will get 1 Water, 1 Fertilizer, and 1 Prize Crop
- Silver: Visitors to your farm will get 2 Water, 2 Fertilizer, and 2 Prize Crops
- Gold: Visitors to your farm will get 3 Water, 3 Fertilizer, and 3 Prize Crops
To view a Friend’s Medal level and Neighbor Visit rewards, hover over your cursor over their avatar in the Neighbor Bar:
Note: Neighbor Visit bonuses only depend on the Medal, not Medal level. For example, players with Bronze Medal 1, 2, and 3 will all receive the same amount of Visit Actions, and their visiting Friends will receive the same rewards. However, players with Silver Medal 1 will receive more visit actions and their visiting friends will receive more rewards than players with a Bronze Medal. You can tell the Medal level by looking at the ribbon above the Medal (see image below).
After visiting Neighbors and completing your Visit Actions, share some rewards with your Friends! Click on “Share Rewards” to post a feed to your wall that your Neighbors can click to collect rewards, too!
You can only visit a Neighbor once every 18-hours. Once you have completed all Neighbor Visit Actions, your Friend’s avatar will grey out until the 18-hour cooldown has expired (see image below).
Visit your Neighbors with Medals to maximize your bonus rewards and help level up your Medals faster. If you want to be an extra helpful Friend, Fertilizer your Neighbors’ Crops and maybe they will return the favor!
Fame
More Visitors makes your farm more famous. Winning Medals at the County Fair will bring you more helpful Visitors. You will receive one Fame point from each player who visits your farm. To view your Fame, hover over your name in the Neighbor Bar. You can also view your current Medal and points total.
This countdown timer indicates how much time remains until the next County Fair Awards Ceremony event.
Awards Ceremony
Every Thursday, you will go to the County Fair Awards Ceremony to collect amazing rewards and see how you performed among your Friends and Neighbors. A purple icon will hover over your Wagon to let you know that the Ceremony is about to begin. Click your Wagon to head on over with your Prize Crops.
Once you arrive at the County Fair, you will see how many points you earned for that week and which special bonuses you’ve earned.
Afterwards, you will then see what Medal you earned for all of your hard work that week, and your new goal for next week. Click “Get Rewards & Share” to share some with Friends and view the rest of your rewards:
Such as, many Coins!
Last but not least, you can which Friends you beat and whom you are close to passing for next week. In addition, you can see which of your friends got first place! Go visit their farm by clicking the “Visit Winner” button:
Or, Click the green “Go Back to Farm” button to return home and start planting your Crops for this week’s County Fair event!
Additional Information:
- You must be at a minimum of level 20 to participate in the County Fair feature.
- You can only receive Prize Crops from harvesting Fertilized Crops. You will not receive Prize Crops from harvesting Trees, tending to Animals or Buildings.
- All players must go and can only go to County Fair once a week (Thursdays).
- Your Medal status will decrease each week you do not attend the County Fair.
- The County Fair Wagon is unmovable.
- If you want to see how much time remains until the County Fair, hover your cursor over the wagon.
