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The Almond Tree is not available in the FarmVille Market. Currently the only way to receive an Almond Tree is through a FREE Mystery Gift that you get from one of your FarmVille neighbors.

The Almond Tree is ready to harvest in ___ days and yields almonds for ____ coins.

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

Having fun collecting your Valentines?

If you want the prizes to be a surprise, please do not read this post. After collecting enough Valentines in your Valentine Box, you can then trade them in for a special limited edition Valentine's themed prize that you will not be able to purchase elsewhere.

Here are the Confirmed Valentines Trade-In Prizes:

• 10 Valentines = Love Ewe (animal)
• 20 Valentines = Giant Teddy (decoration)
• 30 Valentines = Pigs in Love (balloon)
• 40 Valentines = Pecking Ducks (bench)
• 50 Valentines = 3 Hearts Fountain
• 150 Valentines = Eiffel Tower

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

FarmVille has added five new free giftable Valentines.

You may send these gifts to your FarmVille neighbors for a limited amount of time, and likewise, the only way to receive one of these gifts is as a gift from one of your neigbhors.

They cannot be purchased in the FarmVille Market.

Any of these items can be placed in the Valentine's Box!

The Valentines Giftables include:

• Red Heart-Shaped Candy Box
• Purple Roses
• Blue Teddy Bear
• Valentines Cards
• Blue Round Box

FarmVille Red Heart-Shaped Candy Box Giftable	FarmVille Purple Roses Giftable	FarmVille Blue Teddy Bear Giftable
FarmVille Valentines Cards Giftable		FarmVille Blue Round Box Giftable

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

Valentine's Day is booming in FarmVille.

Along with the other sendable Valentines Gifts used for your Valentine Box, there are also additional gifts that can be sent.

Whenever you receive Valentines requests from your neighbors you will have the option to "Send Love" free gifts. Notice that when you open these gifts they give you an instant prize and do not go into your Valentine Box or count as part of those Valentine gifts.

Unwithers can be purchased in the FarmVille Market for 30 FV$ or farm cash and can be found under the "Upgrade Farm" tab.


The Unwither package contains 3 Unwithers that you can use to save your withered crops or your neighbors withered crops for a total of three times. Each usage will cover the entire withered crop and will automatically restore the withered crops to their fully grown ready-to-harvest state.


Additionally, you may receive free Unwithers by visiting your FarmVille neighbors when helping tend to their farms.

What do you think of Unwithers? Will you purchase?

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

In a very delayed update, FarmVille has added lots of new Valentine's themed decorations to help get your farm in love mode.

These special limited edition decorations can be purchased in the FarmVille market for the next 7 days. They require either farm cash or coins to purchase. Those items purchasable with farm cash only, are also sendable items that may be purchased and then sent as gifts to your FarmVille neighbors.

All of the new Valentines decorations except two require farm cash.

Valentine's Decorations (farm cash only)

• Swan Fountain – 24 FV$
• Cupid Gnome – 18 FV$
• Love Balloon – 18 FV$
• Cupig – 15 FV$
• I Love You I – 2FV$
• I Love You II – 2FV$
• XOXO – 2FV$
• 5 Valentines (works with the Valentines Box) – 5FV$

Valentines Decoration (coins)

• Love Arch – 2,200 coins
• Valentine's Box – 1 coin, if needed for replacement due to deletion error. You may only own ONE.

Which Valentines decoration is your favorite?

In honor of today's Super Bowl 2010, Indianapolis Colts versus the New Orleans Saints, several FarmVille Freaks paid homage to their favorite NFL teams by decorating their farms.

You can check out their farms after the jump. Thanks to everyone that shared their football farms with us. Geaux Saints!

Valentine's Day in FarmVille is even sweeter with the introduction of a Valentine's Box.

The FarmVille Bonus Checker application gives players a leg up by pulling together FarmVille neighbor's bonuses in one spot, so it's easier to collect as many goodies as possible. For more information, please read: FarmVille Bonus Checker application: Everything you need to know

There have been rumors going around that this handy app was shut down for good, but today, creator Xavier Derry posted on the app's Facebook page that he's asking for fans to have "a little bit of patience" while he works on the database in an effort to make the program run faster and that he'll "make a major update on [sic] saturday or sunday."

We contacted Derry to confirm that the app is coming back and to find out why it has been running so slowly (its popularity is likely to blame).

Don't worry, FBC fans, all hope is not lost yet.

FarmVille's been making moves to attract more virtual farmers without relying on Facebook -- first by launching FarmVille.com and now, on MSN Games using Facebook Connect. This new partnership will give "Tens of millions of MSN Games visitors" access to the virtual farming game, and this will be the first time the game can be played on a dedicated game site.



"Social gaming has gone mainstream," Mike Verdu, senior vice president of games at Zynga, says. "People love to connect with their friends through our games, which are broadly accessible and have universal themes. Bringing FarmVille to a major site like MSN Games is a great way to expand the reach of social games and is a logical next step in how we deliver them to consumers."

To play FarmVille in this new environment, head to MSN Games FarmVille page, and start playing. We didn't have to actively login using Facebook Connect -- it just started working. The whole experience is similar to that on FarmVille.com -- a simple page that contains the game and, below that, a Game Feed, with notifications from FV friends.

Later on this year, other Zynga games (most likely Mafia Wars, which also currently has its own site) will launch on MSN Games and Windows Live Messenger.

A limited number of farmers have early access to a new FarmVille feature called "Unwithers." Please note that not everyone has access to this function yet.



Unwithers work by letting you apply the special formula to restore withered crops! You can use it on your farm or on your neighbor's farm.

FarmVille stables arrived today, and instead of a fully formed building, players quickly discovered that they'd have to do a little more work before moving in their horses. That work consists of acquiring 50 items used to complete the building.

Materials required to complete the stable are the following:

10 boards
10 nails
10 bricks
10 bridles
10 horse shoes

These materials can be acquired in two ways:

1. Convince friends to send them to you as gifts

Staring today, everyone will have two of the materials in the "Free Gifts" tab of the game. Each player will have a different pair of items -- it's completely random -- which they can send to their friends. Items will change every week. The goal is to convince all of your friends to gift the items required, and the best way to do that is by sending gifts to them as well.

Once you receive the items as a gift, accept it and it will appear in your gift box. Open the gift box and click the Use button on the item and the item will be stored in the stable.


2. Buy materials from the FarmVille Market

If you don't want to wait for friends to send all of the right items, there's also an option to purchase them in the Market for FarmVille cash. Each item costs 1 FV$ each, so getting everything you need will cost 50 FV$, which is not exactly cheap. Once you buy the items, they will automatically be stored in the stable.

Once the stable is complete, you'll be rewarded with a gray horse. You can also move up to 20 horses into the stable and harvest every 24 hours.

Related:
FarmVille stables arrive: Learn how to build your own

[Updated] We heard that FarmVille horse stables were coming this week, and they have arrived. *Insert applause here* When you check into your farm, a pop-up notification announces that stables have arrived, and you'll be directed to your gift box.



Inside, you'll find the frame for a horse stable, which can be placed on your farm. Note: These horse stables require lots of room, so you might have to clear some space before planting this monster building.