QUESTS EXPLAINED
We are going to give you a basic guide to the quests, which will explain how the Quests actually work. It will also provide a good reference source for you, should you need to clarify anything.
Quests are a way to earn extra coins on your farm by performing goals. These goals are products that you make using your facilities. A quest might require you to harvest crops, animals, trees, fish etc. You will then use those harvests to make other products until you reach your goal.
To start a quest, go to your extended tool box and click on the mystery dice....This is the dice icon with the question mark and coloured brown!
Once you have clicked on the dice, you will then need to accept the quest. You will find this towards the bottom of your quest box.
You can have several active Quests at the same time depending on your level, here is the table:
You can only accept 1 Quest per farmtown day (every 20 hrs) and it has to be completed before it expires.
Down the side of your Quest box, you will see "tabs" that have a padlock. These are your Quest tabs, and even if you have not finished your task from the previous day/days, you can still click the next tab, on each subsequent day, and unlock the quest for that day.
Once you've accepted a quest, you will then need to follow the steps, in order, until you have finally completed it.
Each step, when complete, will show a green checkmark on it.
Some steps you may see a black circle, which shows you how much time is needed to produce that quantity of the item needed. You can hover your mouse over that circle to get an exact time, up untill it's complete. If you hover your mouse over a step that's not highlighted, it will let you know what steps have to be completed first before you will be allowed to complete that step.
You MUST complete ALL steps in order to complete a quest. If you can't complete a quest because you don't own a facility, then you can use your lifeline. Lifelines are explained more fully, in our "Lifelines Explained" Doc. You can, of course, always buy the facility, that is needed to complete your quest, if you have the available funds.
The prize in coins will be higher depending on:
Once you've completed all the steps required, and you have all green check marks, as shown in the image below, you can then click the blue button (at the bottom of your quest box) to "Redeem Prize"
Quests are a way to earn extra coins on your farm by performing goals. These goals are products that you make using your facilities. A quest might require you to harvest crops, animals, trees, fish etc. You will then use those harvests to make other products until you reach your goal.
To start a quest, go to your extended tool box and click on the mystery dice....This is the dice icon with the question mark and coloured brown!
Once you have clicked on the dice, you will then need to accept the quest. You will find this towards the bottom of your quest box.
You can have several active Quests at the same time depending on your level, here is the table:
- Level 20 - 1 Max Active Quests
- Level 50 - 2 Max Active Quests
- Level 100 - 3 Max Active Quests
- Level 150 - 4 Max Active Quests
- Level 200 - 5 Max Active Quests
You can only accept 1 Quest per farmtown day (every 20 hrs) and it has to be completed before it expires.
Down the side of your Quest box, you will see "tabs" that have a padlock. These are your Quest tabs, and even if you have not finished your task from the previous day/days, you can still click the next tab, on each subsequent day, and unlock the quest for that day.
Once you've accepted a quest, you will then need to follow the steps, in order, until you have finally completed it.
Each step, when complete, will show a green checkmark on it.
Some steps you may see a black circle, which shows you how much time is needed to produce that quantity of the item needed. You can hover your mouse over that circle to get an exact time, up untill it's complete. If you hover your mouse over a step that's not highlighted, it will let you know what steps have to be completed first before you will be allowed to complete that step.
You MUST complete ALL steps in order to complete a quest. If you can't complete a quest because you don't own a facility, then you can use your lifeline. Lifelines are explained more fully, in our "Lifelines Explained" Doc. You can, of course, always buy the facility, that is needed to complete your quest, if you have the available funds.
The prize in coins will be higher depending on:
- How fast the Quest was completed
- The complexity of the Quest (amount of Quest Steps)
- User Level
Once you've completed all the steps required, and you have all green check marks, as shown in the image below, you can then click the blue button (at the bottom of your quest box) to "Redeem Prize"
Quests Social Lifelines: Social Lifelines allow you to complete Quest Steps by interacting with friends. When you are stuck in a Quest, you may decide to use a Social Lifeline to help you move forward.
Gifting Lifeline - Allows you to complete Quest Steps by using gifts or ingredients from friends. In this case after you accept the gifts or ingredients you will have to Store them for them to be counted toward your Quest Step requirements.
Example : If you need an ingredient that can be gifted from the gift page or sent via requesting ingredients from a product in a facility that you own, you can use this lifeline to request the item or exchange a gift for it. Once stored it will count towards your quest.
Example : If you need an ingredient that can be gifted from the gift page or sent via requesting ingredients from a product in a facility that you own, you can use this lifeline to request the item or exchange a gift for it. Once stored it will count towards your quest.
Trading Lifeline - Allows you to complete Quest Steps by trading goods with other farmers in the Market, on your farm, or on a friend/members farm. This will help if you need a basic ingredient that can be bought from another farmer ( e.g. harvested crops, harvested animal products, chopped trees, fish, harvested flowers). You can not buy products made in facilities from another farmer.
Employee Lifeline - Allows you to complete Quest Steps by working for others in farms or facilities. The products you receive, by working for others will count toward your Quest Steps requirements. This will help, as you can gain what you need by being hired to work on a farm or by working a facility (to obtain the products made in that facility). Example, if the middle part of the quest, requires a product made in a facility that you do not own, but a neighbour does, you can work their facility to gain that product for part of your quest.
You can only have 1 lifeline in use at any given time.
If you think that you have completed a step, yet you do not have the checkmark, there can be two common reasons for this:
If you have none of the required ingredients for the next step, in your storage, then you will need to "store" what you have just produced (in your previous steps), in order to give you the ingredients you need. What is already pending in the facility does NOT count towards the step, you must START the required batches for it to count.
If you have already used the previous items (maybe filling your facilities etc), that you produced (during your quest steps), leaving none in storage before getting to your next step, there would be nothing left in storage for you to start that next step. So, you will need to produce another batch, in order to replenish that particular ingredient.
Be careful, and make sure you have the products needed, if for some reason you have used them, then you will need to make more, providing you still have the required ingredients to do so.
COMPLETING YOUR QUEST
There has been a lot of speculation, regarding the "Final Step" of a Quest. A lot of groups are informing people that the final step has to be done by yourself and on your own farm. THIS IS NOT THE CASE. Given the right lifeline, it is possible to use it, to complete the final step, and in turn, complete your quest. . In most cases, you will need to have the Employee lifeline, or in some cases, the Gift Lifeline can possibly help.
The only time a lifeline cannot help you, is if your final step is to "load" a product. In this case, many groups again, are reporting that you then have to complete the final two steps yourself, as the final "produce" stage has to be completed by yourself, as well as the "load" step. All "produce" steps, whether they are the final step, next to final, or at any point throughout your quest, can be obtained, as I have said, if you are given the right lifeline.
Unfortunately, there is no way to "load" a product, with the use of any lifeline. So, if you do not have the facility, you will not be able to complete the quest.
There is a new preference named 'Skip Funeral Facilities' in the preference window (wrench settings) that when checked will always skip the funeral facilities when you work for others, therefore you will never see any new products produced on them in your storage. This setting is also applied to quests. If you choose this option, you will never be given a quest to complete an item, from the Funeral Facilities. This was introduced, when the Funeral Facilities were release and proved to be a very sensitive area with most players.
You can only have 1 lifeline in use at any given time.
If you think that you have completed a step, yet you do not have the checkmark, there can be two common reasons for this:
If you have none of the required ingredients for the next step, in your storage, then you will need to "store" what you have just produced (in your previous steps), in order to give you the ingredients you need. What is already pending in the facility does NOT count towards the step, you must START the required batches for it to count.
If you have already used the previous items (maybe filling your facilities etc), that you produced (during your quest steps), leaving none in storage before getting to your next step, there would be nothing left in storage for you to start that next step. So, you will need to produce another batch, in order to replenish that particular ingredient.
Be careful, and make sure you have the products needed, if for some reason you have used them, then you will need to make more, providing you still have the required ingredients to do so.
COMPLETING YOUR QUEST
There has been a lot of speculation, regarding the "Final Step" of a Quest. A lot of groups are informing people that the final step has to be done by yourself and on your own farm. THIS IS NOT THE CASE. Given the right lifeline, it is possible to use it, to complete the final step, and in turn, complete your quest. . In most cases, you will need to have the Employee lifeline, or in some cases, the Gift Lifeline can possibly help.
The only time a lifeline cannot help you, is if your final step is to "load" a product. In this case, many groups again, are reporting that you then have to complete the final two steps yourself, as the final "produce" stage has to be completed by yourself, as well as the "load" step. All "produce" steps, whether they are the final step, next to final, or at any point throughout your quest, can be obtained, as I have said, if you are given the right lifeline.
Unfortunately, there is no way to "load" a product, with the use of any lifeline. So, if you do not have the facility, you will not be able to complete the quest.
There is a new preference named 'Skip Funeral Facilities' in the preference window (wrench settings) that when checked will always skip the funeral facilities when you work for others, therefore you will never see any new products produced on them in your storage. This setting is also applied to quests. If you choose this option, you will never be given a quest to complete an item, from the Funeral Facilities. This was introduced, when the Funeral Facilities were release and proved to be a very sensitive area with most players.