FarmVille Cheats

There is a lot of confusion surrounding this particular little gift and how it works. The following is a quick run through of the Special Delivery Box (From here on referred to as SDB.) and the items you can receive from them.

These boxes are designed to gift you items you need to complete construction projects.

The first items these boxes are designed to give out are 2 Shovels for your Storage Cellar and a single Honeybee for your beehive. These are the two items with the highest requirement in the game for the status of the project to change from "in progress" to "completed." You will continue to receive these from your SDBs until your cellar has reached a completed depth of 500 and your beehive has reached a full maximum of 200 bees.

Once your cellar has been dug and your beehive filled, these boxes will shift to handing out a wide variety of construction material (Bricks, Boards, Nails, Bottles, Blankets, Harnesses, even building materials that have been retired such as the La Mason and Greenhouse material). Equally is the chance to receive a watering can. However, if your need for one item or the other becomes drastically unbalanced (Say, you have 20 mystery seedlings needing watered and only a single building project going) your chances for receiving the item you need more of goes up. I suspect that these two items trump the Vehicle Parts based on my own experience, but as I have no solid proof, they have been lumped into this group as well.

This group is activated if you are not currently working on any projects. The gifts from this group ranges from fuel, arborists, and farm hands to the current Mystery Gift prizes and collection items. If you find you aren't liking anything you are receiving out of these SDBs once you reach this stage, it is best to stock pile them until you have an active project again. This way, they aren't being wasted on junk you don't need or want.

SDBs can be useful gifts from our neighbours, but they are vastly misunderstood. I hope this little guide helps to increase your knowledge and appreciation for these nifty little helpers.

Finding and adding neighbors is one of the fastest ways to level up in Farmville. You need 50 friends to obtain the Local Celebrity blue ribbon which gives you 10,000 coin and 100xp. However, having plenty of Farmville neighbors has many other advantages as well. The more neighbors you have the more gifts you can receive, the more you will benefit by getting a bonus when they receive awards, and the more opportunities you will have to help your neighbors toward the Good Samartian ribbons. Plus, having friends in the game is just fun!

Unfortunately, adding people you don't know in Facebook also exposes your personal information, your profile, and your status updates. It wouldn't be very difficult for someone to pretend to play the game, get added as your friend, and steal all of your personal information and invade your privacy.

You should strongly consider following my 10 easy steps for protecting your Facebook profile before you add a single person you don't know:

1. From your Facebook main page, click on the "Account" button in the upper right-hand side of the page and select "Edit Friends" in the dropdown box.

2. Select the "+Create" link on the bottom left-hand side of the page below Lists. If you don't see the "+Create" link, click on the "All Connections" link on the upper left-hand side and you will see a link for "Create New List" in the upper-middle area. If neither of these work for you, go here for more directions on how to create a list.

3. You should see a new window. Title your new list, "Farmville friends", "Farmville neighbors" or whatever you want to call it. Select "Create List".

4. After you have created your new list, click on the "Account" button again in the upper right-hand side of the page and select the dropdown for "Privacy Settings".

5. Now you should see the Privacy Settings page. Select "Profile Information".

6. Select the dropdown box for each option and select "Custom".

7. Once you have selected "Custom" you should see a new window. At the bottom it should read, "Hide this from". In the box in this window type the name of the list you created in Step 3 and select the list.

8. Repeat this process for every option on the page EXCEPT "Posts by Me" or your Farmville neighbors will not be able to see your updates when you share your awards, ribbons, lost animals, etc.

9. Once you have customized every option on the Profile Information page, click "Back to Privacy" on the upper left-hand side to return to the Privacy Settings page.

10. Now select the link for "Contact Information" and repeat steps 6-8 for every option on the Contact Information page.

Congratulations, you are finished! Very Important: Whenever you add a new friend for Farmville before you confirm them, select the "Add To List..." dropdown and select the name of your list (chosen in Step 3). You must put them on this list for this to work!

If you want to test and make sure it works, click on the "Preview My Profile..." link on the upper right-hand side of the Privacy Settings>Profile Information or Contact Information pages.

UPDATED 2/10/2010 TO REFLECT THE LATEST CHANGES TO THE FACEBOOK LAYOUT.

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