New Items: Romantic Cottage, Wedding Fountain, and More

There are a lot of returning items in FarmVille with the arrival of the Enchanted Love theme, as well as some new ones. Let’s take a look at both the Building and Decorations tabs in one post for a change, due to the smaller amount of new stuff.

The only new item in Wednesday’s Market update under the Buildings tab is the Romantic Cottage, a cutesy, homey addition to the Market. This is a very soft Building on the eyes, with easy browns and tans to look at, which blend nicely with the pink flowers that grace the topiary surrounding the Building. We particularly enjoy the threshold that sits at the doorstep, covered in beautiful roses. This is a plain Jane type of Building, and the price is too steep at 20 FV Cash, but it’s very cute. 2,000 EXP will be awarded to those who purchase this rotatable structure.

A pairing of returning Gnomes is also on the Market, but they are of the old sort. On the new side of Decorations, we have a new Coin item that is quite bulky: the Wedding Bouquet. This is a very large rendition of what we typically think of when we hear “wedding bouquet,” right? It is due to the excess flowers, as well as the podium they rest atop. This is a cute addition to your farm if you’re recently wedded or to be wedded, as well as if you’re just nutso about flowers. It costs 100,000 Coins.

Back to the FV Cash items for the week, the Wedding Fountain is easily our favorite Decoration of the week’s update, clocking in at 7 FV Cash so it can technically, by FV Cash standards anyway, be affordable. It is a white fountain that is held up with purple-lined pillars and adorned with a pair of lovebirds at the top. White roses line the bottom of the structure, as the animated water flows down the multi-tiered decoration. If you buy this one, it will give you 1,200 EXP.

If the Wedding Bouquet is too large for your farm, you can try the lesser-expensive option, which is the Wedding Flower Pot. It is a gold flower pot containing beautiful red and white flowers springing out of greenery, sitting upon a pristine pedestal. It costs 20,000 Coins. If you’re looking for something new to fence in your items, the Wedding Fence provides a solid white surface with big pink ribbons draped along it. Each piece of fencing costs 5,000 Coins.

What is your favorite item this week?

New Items: English Mill and Spring Cottage

As always, we’ve got the Buildings tab’s latest arrivals right here! Are they worth purchasing? Here are our reviews!

To all of you folks complaining about the overabundance of FV Cash items on the Market as of late, it looks like Zynga has listened to your statements and have delivered a very expensive, very lovely Coin item under the Buildings tab tonight with the introduction of the Spring Cottage, another item that is technically on the English Countryside theme, yet crosses over into the newly introduced Spring theme. We really enjoy the quaint look of this one, as it truly resembles a Building you can find across the countryside of England. You will be able to purchase this ivy-ridden Building for 350,000 Coins, good for 3,500 EXP. This one can be rotated.

Now, if you are searching for additional FV Cash Building, we do have a lovely returning structure that certainly matches our Home farm perfectly: the English Mill. This is a completely animated Building, as the watermill beside the homely structure, as it constantly pulls in water. The animations on the water are not that great, but we are just happy it is facing southeast instead of southwest, as it cannot be rotated. We love the cobblestone look crawling with ivy, too. This is a winner, even at 25 FV Cash, good for 2,500 EXP.

What say ye, FarmVille Poster? Winner or loser for this week’s Buildings tab?

New Items: Antique Shoppe and Thatched Cottage

A coupling of brand new Buildings under the English Countryside theme have arrived on the Market – one land-locked to the English Countryside, and the other available on both farms – in tonight’s surprise Market update. Let’s take a gander at the look they provide.

Let us start out with the non-land-locked Building, which means that it can be placed on either your “home” farm or your English Countryside farm. This is a new Coin item for the week, the Antique Shoppe. This is a strange Building due to its high-rise stature compared to other Buildings in the game; it is quite tall, all in all. It almost looks like a Swedish type of architecture to the naked eye, though that could be our Middle American ignorance talking.

We are honestly not huge on this one, as it has several items strewn about around the front of the establishment and seems too lanky for its own good. It can be rotated and can be purchased for 350,000 Coins, making it a hefty purchase that will also net you 3500 EXP.

The second Building is the premium FV Cash structure that is land-locked on the English Countryside farm, looking to give you an air of brilliance when placed upon your new, fresh soil: the Thatched Cottage. Now this is a proper English Countryside addition, as the cobblestones line up across the foundation of the house, working as a planter for some pretty white flowers. The straw rooftop and bowed archways really set off an English Countryside look that we approve of; in fact, we are planning on using this one on our own English Countryside farm! It can be rotated and costs 20 FV Cash, which we think is slightly steep for a non-functional Building, but only by a couple of FV Cash. You will receive 2000 EXP for the purchase.

Which is your favorite of these two Buildings? Let us know if we’re wrong or right!

New Item: Fairy Cottage

Tonight’s Market update has brought up a much closer look at several items that first appeared during the video showcase on Friday! Let’s take a look to see if the lone new Building, which really caught our eye in the video showcase, is all it’s cracked up to be.

Yes, we truly fell in love with the Building that sprouted up in that video showcase, and it turns out that it has hit the Market in tonight’s update. It is called the Fairy Cottage, and it revels in a nice, diverse batch of colors and different types of foliage and growth, ranging from various colored trees that range from purple to green, as well as a complete assortment of mushrooms that decorate the front and sides of the Building.

This one is a fabulous design, simply because it does not take up as much room as most Buildings; as you can see, it is relatively small. The thing that we love most about this design is the gorgeous ivy that runs up and along the structure. Y’see, we here at FarmVille Post love ivy. My (Zoop) very own farm is littered with fences that are covered in the stuff, and Buildings to match, giving it a feel of rural Italy. Despite the clashing colors, as I do not appreciate the blue and white siding of the house, I am planning on utilizing this piece on my own farm as a permanent fixture, as it can be used to blend in with my other ivy-based pieces that do not belong to the Fairy Tale theme.

Back into third-person! We fully recommend buying this Building, as it does not take up a whole lot of space and can be purchased for only 15 FV Cash, good for 1,500 in EXP.

How-to: Leprechaun Cottage

Yet another new feature lies in wait for all of us with tonight’s update, and it is a familiar staple with FarmVille at this point: a new seasonal constructible Building that will begin to give you a token to use for new limited edition items in the near future!

Step 1: You will be in placement mode upon loading your farm, if you are lucky enough to be on the early portion of this slow rollout item. This one is a much smaller property, only taking up a single plot of space – thanks Zynga, as we were running out of room! Once you have placed the item snugly on your property, you will need to start in on the usual building process. The first level of completion will require 4 of each common constructible material: the Wooden Boards, the Bricks, and the Nails.

In this case, it is the St. Patrick’s Day Leprechaun’s Cottage, a new constructible Building that can be built to give you pieces of Gold to trade in for some goodies. If you have participated in the Winter Holiday and Valentine’s Day events like this, where you built the likes of Cupid’s Castle, you will know exactly what we are talking about. After a certain period, this item will begin to dispense pieces of Gold once every 24 hours.

Step 2: After completing the first portion of the enhancement, you will be asked to expand your Leprechaun Cottage even further with the addition of 16 of each material. Remember to ask your friends for help by going into the Leprechaun Cottage and clicking the Ask for More icon below each of the constructible items. This will bring up a screen where you can check off some of your neighbors, which will send them a request for their assistance. Be sure to help your neighbors, too!

Step 3: The third and final expansion will require a whopping 30 of each material. Yikes! That is quite a lot. Remember that Special Delivery boxes will give your neighbors – as well as yourself – whichever materials they need. If you need 30 Bricks, simply pop open 30 Special Delivery boxes and you will receive exactly what you need out of them. You can also scrounge up materials by searching your friends’ Facebook feeds to see what they are giving away, as you will frequently be able to post materials onto your Facebook feed – as can your neighbors. See? Giving is certainly a two-way street!

Upon completion, you will have one big treehouse known as the Leprechaun Cottage. It will not give you anything beyond Coins for collecting from it to begin with, but it will soon give you tokens to trade in for limited edition goodies. We wonder what the 500-token item will be this time? Last time, it was the Pink Swan; for the Winter Holiday, it was the Snow Stallion… We are hoping for a super limited edition Crop, personally, but we suspect it will be a new Horse, Duck, or Cow.

Stay tuned to FarmVille Post for more info!

New Item: Fairy Tale Cottage

We hope you do not have any cavities, because you might by the time you get done munching down on this week’s lone Building on the freshly restocked Market.

This is the Fairy Tale Cottage, a brand new single-story Building in the Fairy Tale Theme that is hoping to win you over with its assortment of delicious treats stuck along the outer perimeter of the structure. In layman’s terms, NOM NOM NOM! This brand new Building features zero animations, meaning that it has the option to be rotated on a whim. It can be purchased for FV Cash, but on a lower pricing scale of 15 FV Cash, which seems to be an ongoing trend of making certain Buildings more affordable.

We are torn on this one, to be honest; we just recently saw a Gingerbread House back in early December, which was several stories high and completely free, as it was constructible and required help from your neighbors in order to properly build it. Now, the Fairy Tale Cottage, which is essential the home from the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel, has made its debut. It features several key differences from the Gingerbread House, and in all actuality, we prefer it to freebie Gingerbread House due to how concise the arrangement of the sweets is.

If push comes to shove, we will give this one the thumbs up due to the decorations being tactfully placed and the price not breaking the bank. If you’re on the fence about it, allow us to give you the ol’ gangs-away for the purchase.