New Items: English Forest, Castle Bridge, and More

Geez, what an update! There is plenty to take in on the Decorations page, entirely related to the meta-theme within the English Countryside theme revolving around the new King Castle that has arrived. Let’s take a peek!

This is one of the very few unrelated items on the Market tonight in accordance with the royalty theme. This is the English Forest. This is entirely decorative and massive, compiling a boatload of different pieces of greenery to create a true wilderness look about your farm. We truly wish these decorations were available for Coins, as they look so out of place when shoved by themselves as opposed to with a pack of the same Decoration. This costs 5 FV Cash, and gives 50 EXP.

Here is yet another piece that will look entirely out of place unless you are building the entire King Castle, complete with every item surrounding it. This is the Castle Bridge, yet another FV Cash item involved with creating this gigantic item in its entirety. Talk about an expensive endeavor! It features no animation, so you can rotate it all you like. You will have to fork over 7 FV Cash in order to obtain this one, which gives you only 70 EXP.

We’re about to nerd out, so bear with us, because this new Decoration in the English Countryside theme is, in our opinion, the best item to arrive out of everything tonight. This is the Sword Statue, and works much like the legend of the Sword in the Stone. As you can clearly see, a gigantic long sword is stuck within a boulder that is connected to the ground, and only but one hero can wield this blade… Highlander, we’re lookin’ at you. What you cannot see is the very cool glowing aura surrounding the sword that glows a teal color in pulsating fashion. This costs 4 FV Cash and is easily worth the cost.

Elsewhere on the Market outside of building that King Castle to its completion is the lone premium Coin item, the Royal Table. Of course, this is an obvious reference to the Round Table, wouldn’t you think? All we need is a King Arthur Gnome and we’ll be all set… we just hope he resembles Sean Connery, because that would be beyond awesome. You can own this nice decorative piece for only 150,000 Coins, which will give you 1,500 EXP – much more than the FV Cash Decorations in tonight’s update.

Lastly, here is the very many Moat pieces found to build around the King Castle; after all, what good is a castle without a little home security in the form of a waterbed to keep the black knight at bay? The Moat pieces range from corners in every direction (non-rotatable) to long streams and cut-offs (rotatable), ranging from 5,000 to 10,000 Coins. At least they’re Coins is all we can say, otherwise this would be beyond expensive to construct your own version of the Castle theme.

The Mystery Game awaits us!

New Items: Stone Bridge, Garden Pond, and More

Oh my! It seems that the Decorations page has received a healthy boost of English Countryside after such a dry spell the other night during the main English Countryside expansion’s arrival. Now there is tons of goodies to mess around with, the best of which is a Coin item!

Here is the aforementioned best item in the entire update, the Stone Bridge. This new entry can be purchased on both your original and English Countryside farms, and if you are like us, it looks perfect on both! You are looking at the rotated view of the Stone Bridge, as the sun shines softly on the bridge itself from this viewpoint.

It is hard to dislike this true countryside item, with its carefully crafted suspended walkway comprised of stone and wood across a waterbed that truly gives credence to the idea that your farm is in a habitat all its own. You can purchase this for 250,000 Coins, which is a steal at that price, and also receive 2500 EXP in the process.

For the FV Cash side of things, there is another lovely Decoration that is not land-locked, thus making it freely available to both of your farms. This is the Garden Pond, a tiny Decoration with a tiny footprint for those of you out there operating on a limited amount of space on your farms. It features some animation, meaning that it cannot be rotated to better adjust to your farm. With that said, it is pretty small, rendering the lack of rotating a minor inconvenience. It costs quite a bit of money for the size, clocking in at 15 FV Cash (giving you 1500 EXP), but is worth it for size-crunching decorators.

On the English Countryside-only side of things, why not have one of the Queen’s glorious, never-sniffing guards as a Gnome? That’s right Gnome lovers, the new Gnome in FarmVille is the Queen’s Guard, standing at attention waiting on command. We’ve tried everything to make him laugh, from showing him the Silkie Chicken to tickling his nose with a Chicken’s butt. Nothing works. He costs 15 FV Cash and has all of the traits you’d expect of a Gnome, including no rotation.

Back to the Coin items that can be used across either of your farms, we have the Flower Barrow, designed for combining the luxury of glorious, beautiful flowers with the hard country work of picking them in the barrow. The styles clash, as do the culture differences, and we love it. The design is the perfect mixture of the English Countryside work ethic and the beautiful Crops the soil can produce, so it’s a good PR design as well. It costs 120,000 Coins, which is steep for a tiny Decoration, but who doesn’t have a lot of Coins by now, anyhow? You will receive 1200 EXP for the purchase.

How about those of you who want to spruce up your English Countryside farm into looking like a fresh spring meadow? What better way to do that than with the two different types of grass: Lush Grass and, obviously, Spring Meadow! The Lush Grass is tall, green growth that looks fantastic and natural on the English Countryside, while the Spring Meadow features a little bit of floral balance throughout the grass. The Lush Grass runs 1,000 Coins per plot, while the Spring Meadow will cost you 2,000 Coins per plot.

Lastly is a brand new piece of Fencing, the Drystone Wall. At first glance, we immediately fell in love with this design, but quickly learned the hard way that the Fencing does not link up with one another, thus making it look blocky and out of synch with the rest of the farm. Each link costs 5,000 Coins, and while we like the design itself quite a bit, just look at how awkward the other Fencing looks. Ick.

That does it for tonight’s Market update! What was your favorite addition to the Market tonight?

New Items: Troll Bridge, Fairy Gnome, and More

Overall, tonight’s update was pretty good, and largely in part to the Decorations tab, which offers a few cool solutions to a drab farm for Coins instead of FV Cash! And for those of you who enjoy buying stuff with virtual dollars, the FV Cash items are pretty cool, too.

Let’s start off with the premium Coin item of the night, the Troll Bridge. Bridges in FarmVille have become sort of like waterfalls and ponds, in that they occasionally pop up to much fanfare. This one is easily the best Coin object we have seen in a long time, and could have fetched around 25 FV Cash on the Market; instead, it can be yours for 200,000 Coins – an absolute steal, if we do say so ourselves.

On its own, the Troll Bridge features just the slowly rocking feet of a purple troll who resides underneath the structure, but by clicking on the Troll Bridge, you will find an option called “Look Out!” that will make the purple troll peer out from underneath his cobblestone fortress. This one is just made of awesome. It cannot be rotated, but we will do everything we can to make it a permanent fixture on our very own farm, for certain. Buying it will give you 2,000 EXP, so you have pretty much no reason not to, eh?

Up next is possibly the best entry into the Gnomes we have seen in a long time, and easily the best female Gnome since the Frankstein’s Bride Gnome from the Halloween theme. This is the Fairy Gnome, and feature intricate wings that look like that of a butterfly. The light purple wings do not necessarily mesh well with the teal dress that the Gnome is wearing, but it is a very unique Gnome, nonetheless, and one that will be vastly popular. It’s a bit expensive at 18 FV Cash, but if you like Gnomes, it’s a must-buy.

Speaking of 18 FV Cash, the other premium FV Cash item on the Decorations tab exclusively tonight is the Magic Waterfall, which also goes for 18 FV Cash – and gives back 1,800 EXP for those who take the plunge, pun-intended. We’re full of puns tonight, sorry. Like all animated Decorations, this one cannot be rotated, but it features some gorgeous foliage. This Decoration is like a party of colors on your farmland, with the pinks, purples, blues, and of course greens, all wind up coming together as one blast of nature for your eyeballs. Mushrooms, ivy, bushes, and many kinds of trees all mingle to create something so elaborate, it’s hard to take your eyes off of. We also like and approve of this one.

Four winners in one night for the Decorations tab, it seems. The Mushroom Knoll is a cheap Coin item under the Decorations tab that clocks in at 20,000 Coins, enough to spread the wealth and buy several of them to bolster your decorative roster for the new theme. Our only beef with this one is that it cannot be rotated. Two rolling hills are scattered with various mushrooms of sizes and types, with red, orange and yellow colored mushrooms playing their part in spicing up your green farm. It will, of course, look out of place on snow or beach landscapes.

Keep it tuned to FarmVille Post, as we will have a new Crop Spotlight up on Thursday evening!