FarmVille Lighthouse Cove Pirate Bonus Goals: Everything you need to know

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As we told you last night, the next set of Lighthouse Cove goals in FarmVille will continue in the spirit of Halloween, but will transition from ghosts to Pirates on the high seas. After you've completed the three basic Pirate Goals - check out our guide to doing just that - you'll be able to move onto three harder Bonus Challenges, according to the folks at FVNation. Here, the goals will reward you with a few themed items (animals and decorations), but they'll also require you to do plenty of recipe crafting, plenty of farming and more, all within a very short time limit. Here's your guide for what to expect.

Bonus Challenge 1 Get Creamed Corn to Level 20 Harvest 110 Daylilies Harvest Lighthouse Cove
Daylilies take 16 hours to grow. In that time, you'll need to be working on your Cream Corn recipe (unless you're lucky enough to have reached this milestone ahead of time). Each individual Creamed Corn requires three Butter & Sugar Corn, three Tarragon and one Pepper Bushels. Since these goals haven't technically launched yet, and as you'll need to complete the first three Pirate Goals anyway, you still have some time to work on this before you're actually required to, which is a smart idea. For finishing this first Bonus Challenge goal, you'll receive 500 XP, a spooky, plant-covered Tombstone decoration, and 2,500 coins.

Bonus Challenge 2 Achieve Level 1 Mastery of Butter & Sugar Corn Improve the Cove to Level 7 Make Jonny Cakes 4 Times
Butter & Sugar Corn takes 12 hours to grow, and the first star of mastery is earned at 425 harvests (if you don't have it already). Jonny Cakes are crafted inside the Restaurant using two Butter & Sugar Corn, two Rye and two Daylily bushels each. Finishing this second bonus goal gives you 1,000 XP, 2,500 coins and a long-tailed Duck (the exact name might be different).

Bonus Challenge 3 Harvest an Aviary Harvest 110 Dill Harvest one Orchard
If you haven't built an Aviary on your Lighthouse Cove, here's our guide to doing so. Meanwhile, Dill takes 12 hours to grow. For completing this final Bonus Challenge, you'll receive 500 XP, 2,500 coins and a Pirate Sheep. Plus, you'll also walk away with the satisfaction of knowing that you completed all three Bonus Challenges, which is sometimes a prize in and of itself.

Remember, you'll only have a matter of days to complete these goals once they launch in your game, so you'll want to do as much as you can before they arrive to prepare. Make sure to start crafting Cream Corn to level it up, or even expand your cove to hold more crops at once. How far you go will be up to you, but we wish you luck regardless.

Check out the rest of our Halloween 2011 coverage right here.

What do you think of these Pirate Goal Bonus Challenges? Are they harder than previous Bonus Challenges that we've seen? Sound off in the comments.


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FarmVille Lighthouse Cove: Inlet Garden and Harbor Homestead expansions available for coins

UPDATE: It has come to our attention that some users aren't seeing the 18x18 expansion available for coins. We'll try to figure out what's going on and will update this space when we can.

If you're looking to expand your land in FarmVille's third farm, the Lighthouse Cove, but don't want to shell out Farm Cash to do so, you can now expand for coins... at least for a bit. While the Coastal Patch expansion (14x14) was already released for coins (750,000 coins to be exact), you can now get to 18x18 for coins as well.

To be specific, there are two expansions now available for coins. The first is the Inlet Garden - the 16x16 expansion. This one costs 40 Farm Cash normally, but can now also be purchased for 1 million coins. The Harbor Homestead, meanwhile, is the 18x18 expansion, which normally costs 50 Farm Cash but can now be purchased for 1.25 million coins.

Of course, as with the Coastal Patch expansion, it looks like many farmers are going to have to add neighbors before these coin options are available. For my own example, I'm going to have to add one neighbor to unlock the Inlet Garden and three neighbors for the Harbor Homestead. It seems that how many neighbors you already have will alter the amount of neighbors you need to add, if any. When the Coastal Patch farm released previously, we received reports of farmers having to add up to five neighbors, but before you delete current neighbors and re-add them for the credit, know that that doesn't tend to work.

Either way, these coin options now leave us with seven additional land expansions that are currently only available for Farm Cash. It took just over a week to see the selection of coin options go from one to three, so could this mean we'll see coin options for all of the remaining expansions just as quickly? We'll make sure to let you know if that's the case.

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FarmVille Lighthouse Cove: Coastal Patch expansion now available for coins

If only they had released it sooner! In a move that is sure to both infuriate and excite plenty of FarmVille players (trust me, it's possible to do both at once), Zynga has released a coin option to purchase the first land expansion in Lighthouse Cove, called the Coastal Patch. Why would this be a bad thing? If you recall, we needed to reach at least this expansion for the first set of Bonus Challenge goals in the Lighthouse Cove, but many people (myself included) decided to skip it (and all of the prizes available therein) due to the Farm Cash cost.

Either way, this new coin-option itself does come with a catch. As of this writing, it looks like the vast majority of users need to add more Neighbors to their game in order to unlock it. This isn't a case like in the English Countryside where you must simply ask your friends for help; this is a case where you legitimately need to add new farmers to your account (and whether or not the new FarmVille Friends feature neighbors count remains to be seen).

The amount of neighbors you'll need to add seems to vary across users, but I personally only had to add two (for your reference). Once you've fulfilled whatever the game asks of you, you can then purchase the Coastal Patch expansion for 750,000 coins. If we're starting out with that price, which I wouldn't consider to be inexpensive, I can only imagine how high the prices will soar for additional expansions in the future. In the meantime though, I suppose it's best not to argue and accept this land expansion for coins while we can.

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FarmVille: Lighthouse Cove land expansions on sale for "select users"

Just what makes someone a "select user?" We're not exactly sure, but if you're even remotely interested in expanding the size of your land in FarmVille's Lighthouse Cove farm, and aren't afraid to spend some Farm Cash to do so, you'll be happy to know that "some" users are being offered the ability to do so at a discount. So far, these are the sale expansions, with their prices:

Harbor Homestead (18x18) - 40 Farm Cash (down from 50)
Oceanside Farm (20x20) - 50 Farm Cash (down from 60)
Seaside Farmland (22x22) - 60 Farm Cash (down from 80)

Unfortunately, that seems to be where the discounts stop for now. It could be that different users have different selections of expansions on sale in their own games, but as the Lighthouse Cove currently supports up to the 32x32 size (the Waterfront Land expansion), this 22x22 cutoff is pretty low. Still, by the time you reach that point, you'll have already shelled out 150 Farm Cash, so maybe that's enough (for now).

Again, the game's loading screen [pictured] says that these sale prices are only available for "select users," but I haven't personally come across anyone that doesn't have the option to expand with sale prices. That's not to say this is a lie, but I'd simply make an educated guess that more people have the ability than not. After all - Zynga wants your money, so why not release the sale to more users to entice them to actually spend some? Either way, this sale isn't going to be around forever, so make sure to browse through the Farm Aides section of the store soon to see if the sale prices are available to you.

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Zynga Launches Second Major FarmVille Expansion, Lighthouse Cove

Six months after launching the English Countryside expansion to FarmVille, Zynga follows up with Lighthouse Cove — a new addition to the base game that allows players an entirely new setting in which to build a farm.

Speaking to Inside Social Games during a press briefing last week, FarmVille General Manager Nate Etter walked us through a few segments of the expansion to showcase its key features. Players are invited to visit a coastal town, where a recent storm has damaged the port and lighthouse. Encouraged by non-playable characters local to the Lighthouse Cove area, players take on objective driven quests that have them growing new crops and nurturing new animal types to restore the town to its pre-storm glory.

“It’s like FarmVille meets Martha’s Vineyard,” Ette explains. “We’re responding to the fans’ desire to [be near] the water with a fall getaway to a coastal village.”

Like English Countryside, Lighthouse Cove introduces new “crafting” buildings that allow players to convert their harvested crops into local dishes — like clam chowder. The cove itself can also be harvested once per day for special ingredients used in the recipes. Ette says that each week, an NPC will present players with a new themed quest. He did not say how many weeks out Zynga has planned for, but to give you an idea of scope, the English Countryside quests concluded roughly six months after its March 2011 launch.

FarmVille’s expansion strategy is very traditional compared to its Zynga sibling, FrontierVille. While Pioneer Trail introduced an entirely new core gameplay element, English Countryside and Lighthouse Cove are essentially providing players more of the same — but in a new location and with the added value of “starting over” without players having to scrap their progress on their original farm.

It’s too soon to tell if one expansion strategy is ultimately more successful than another — but we do observe from our AppData traffic tracking service that FarmVille overall lost monthly and daily active users in the six months period following English Countryside’s versus FrontierVille’s apparent spike in both MAU and DAU. Recall that FrontierVille migrated from its original app ID to a new one:

FarmVille: Lighthouse Cove launches on Facebook today.

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FarmVille Lighthouse Cove Sneak Peek: Chandler Blueberry crops in the wild

Here we go again, farmers. More news about FarmVille's upcoming Lighthouse Cove has been released today by Zynga itself. This new "news" comes in the form of a single screenshot, containing two animals and an area of nine crops. To go along with this screenshot, we're given the following text:

Not only Lighthouse Cove will have exclusive animals, but there will also be new crops like the Lady Slipper and the Chandler Blueberry. Will you be ready to master more crops?

While we already knew that Chandler Blueberries existed, based on Mastery Signs we've previously seen, the Lady Slippers do look to be new. We can also spot two animals in this picture, with one looking to be a new kind of Rooster, and a fluffy gray sheep.

What we still haven't been able to determine is where exactly our farm will "end," and where the Cove landscaping will begin. In this new picture, the crops and sheep are placed incredibly close to the water, without a dark line separating interactive farmland from background picture. If this is deliberate, it opens up a whole world of possibilities for new game features out on the water, which would further explain why so much is going on out there in the Lighthouse Cove loading screen we discovered just days ago.

Whether this screenshot really sheds light on big features or not (I suppose it doesn't, depending on your viewpoint), it does continue to raise at least this farmer's hopes for something fantastic. We'll make sure to bring you all of the continued news about Lighthouse Cove as we know more, so keep checking back.

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