New Items: Humming Birds, Mom Day Gnome, and More

Finally, amidst all of the cool Mother’s Day items lies an incredibly beefy Decorations tab! Let’s take a looksee.

Now this is a cool Decoration. This is dubbed the Humming Birds, and is definitely worth taking a gamble on. This one has the coolest animations we have seen for an animal in years – possibly ever – as the hummingbirds truly look as if they are real with their jagged movements and sharp turns. Three hummingbirds hover over this Decoration, varying in color between green, red, and blue, and zip around gleefully. This is unique and absolutely gorgeous, making it one of the best Decorations in months. It’s available for 12 FV Cash, and is definitely worth the admission price.

What better way to thank Mom than with a butler to serve her breakfast in bed? Well, he might be a tiny, inanimate Gnome, but we suppose it’s the sentiment that counts, right? While you surely cannot afford the task of hiring a real butler, this Mom Day Gnome may have to suffice. As you can see, he is carrying a tray containing juice, a sandwich, and a lovely vase of flowers. This one will cost you only 10 FV Cash, down from the usual 15-18 FV Cash that Gnomes usually cost. You’ll get 1,000 EXP for the purchase.

Next up, we have a couple of Decorations that vary in price range. On the left is the Dahlia Flowerbed, a beautiful flower that’s cozy inside of a square, pink base. We love the variety in these flowers, but every time we see a brand new flower used in a Decoration, we can’t help but want it as a Crop. It costs 5,000 Coins. To the right is the Mom’s Gift Basket, which is available for 1 FV Cash this week. This is a nifty option for those of you who feel the need to cheer up a friend, buy something as a “Get Well” present, or just flirt with a neighbor, providing multiple uses for a simple Decoration.

For some less ambiguous items on the Decorations tab this week for Mother’s Day, we have the Mom Day Sign II to the left and the Mom’s Day Sign to the right. The funny thing here is that the FV Cash entry, the Mom’s Day Sign, is nowhere near as cute or cool as the Coin option, the Mom Day Sign II. As you can see, some adorable birds are cuddling above the word “Mom” on the Mom Day Sign II, which is available for 80,000 Coins this week only. The Mom’s Day Sign is available for 2 FV Cash, and features a nice variety of in-game flowers surrounding a big heart. We much prefer the Coin option to the FV Cash option!

That concludes tonight’s update. We will be working on that piece regarding FV addiction tomorrow, so stay tuned for that!

New Items: Misty Lake, Black Knight Gnome, and More

To conclude the new Market items tonight, let’s take a look at the new Decorations before wrapping up our coverage with the Best Of Mystery Game!

Let us begin with the most expensive option exclusively under the Decorations tab tonight in the Misty Lake. This is one of the better Decorations to surface throughout FarmVille in recent memory. We’re fans of beds of water for our personal farm, so we’re slightly bias in calling this one original; sure, it is a relatively plain lake, what with the usual fare surrounding the water itself in trees, rocks, shrubs, etcetera, but the cool thing that pictures cannot convey is how sleek the fog looks as it lingers over the water, shuffling back and forth. This is a great Decoration for 18 FV Cash, but features no rotation due to the cool animation. It’ll give you 1,800 EXP upon purchase.

Elsewhere on the FV Cash front is a new addition to the Gnome collection, albeit one that is of the painted-over variety. Everybody knows and loves the Knight Gnome, but this one is his dark brethren in the Black Knight Gnome, a legendary warrior who is both feared and revered amongst his peers. Lots of rhymes aside, we do enjoy this paint job of a Gnome. It costs 15 FV Cash, and is definitely worth it if you’re a Gnome collector. After all, who doesn’t love the black knight?

This is the premium Coin item of this Sunday’s update on the Decorations, the Court Yard Fountain. It may seem like a trivial complaint, but we feel as if the animation of the rolling water from the fountain looks a little off; we like the actual design of the water, which looks cloudy due to the concrete fountain’s interior, but it seems a little fake when it’s in motion. Still, the design looks vintage English with the stone lions overlooking the flowing waters. It costs 120,000 Coins and gives the user 1,200 EXP for the purchase.

To conclude the Decorations tab, we will take a look at both a new awesome Coin item and a great new fence. To start, the Castle Wall is the perfect gating to house in anything Castle-related, or even your Home farm’s normal look, if you’re adamantly against the inclusion of ivy or any type of moss growing on the fencing. It’s clean, it’s gorgeous, and it’s 10,000 Coins per slice. As for the Lion Stature, it is the perfect complement to the many free Quest statues that you receive during your English Countryside questing adventures. Might we recommend placing it alongside a museum-type of Building? It costs 50,000 Coins, so the option to place multiples on your farm is certainly there.

The Mystery Game review is coming up!

New Items: Cricket Garden, Cricket Gnome, and More

The Decorations tab for tonight has but one FV Cash item, giving our wallets a break for until Sunday, or so we presume. There are also a few additional Coin items that are pretty snazzy, so let’s take a look!

We will get to the goods that most of us can afford first with the premium Coin item of the week, the Cricket Garden. If you were hoping for a garden full of insects, you will be sorely mistaken, as we are speaking strictly of the sport known as cricket. The Cricket Garden contains a few goodies to keep you entertained, what with all of the… uh… cricket instruments… and such… Okay, we’re not fooling anybody, we know nothing about cricket. We might pass for British with our knowledge of British television and music, but when it comes to sports, we’ve got nothin’. This item cannot be rotated, and costs 150,000 Coins, worthy of 1,500 EXP.

As for the premium item of the week in terms of FV Cash, you’ve got a little something for those of you who collect Gnomes in FarmVille. This is the Cricket Gnome, one of our garden variety friends dressed to impress on the cricket field. We guess it’s a field, right…? Apologies, our knowledge of cricket truly is terrible. And this Cricket Gnome could teach us a thing or two if he wasn’t so stiff! Tight-lipped Gnome, he is. He’ll set you back 15 FV Cash, the usually asking price for Gnomes, and will give you 1,500 EXP.

Here is the Red Phone Booth, another new Coin item that will look lovely next to our TARDIS… pardon, the “Police Box.” But c’mon, all of us Doctor Who nerds expect David Tennant to pop out of it and take us away in a mystical time machine, they’re not foolin’ us! Sorry to befuddle the majority of the non-nerdy U.S.-born players out there, British TV reference. See? We know our British media, but sports… not so much. The Red Phone Booth is a very interesting design, and takes up little space, making it a candidate to stay on our farm. Try it for yourself for only 50,000 Coins, which will give you 500 EXP.

The final item of the update tonight is the Jumping Fence, an ingenious little addition to the game’s collection of Fencing options. As you can clearly see by our picture above, the fences interlace with one another to provide you with a brand new actual Fence for your farm, or simply a nice little decorative touch around your Horse Stable to give it the look as if you are training your Horses. Ours are way too lazy to partake in such nonsense, of course; they’re fat and comfortable, kinda like us.

Stay tuned to FarmVille Post, as we will bring you more news and reviews very soon!

New Items: Knight Gnome, Green Willow Tree, and More

Let’s rattle off these Decorations while we still have electricity, shall we!?

First teased in the video showcase from Friday, which gave us a sneak peek at what to expect in this Sunday evening update, the Knight Gnome is one of the better specimen of themed Gnomes in recent memory. It is surely going to be a hit among Gnome collectors and non-collectors alike, appealing to just about anyone with a sense of adventure. It works well as a non-Gnome Decoration, too, simply because it is geared up for battle. It could almost work as a Scarecrow, too, couldn’t it? It costs 15 FV Cash, gives 1,500 EXP and cannot be rotated.

One of our most cherished favorites from the video showcase sneak peek was the Green Willow Tree, a non-Masterable, purely-Decoration tree that features a soothing animation, where gusts of wind blow along the branches, creating a relaxing sequence to stare at. This one costs 6 FV Cash, and we once again give a thumbs up to it; it is just as nice on our farm as it was in the video showcase, and stands out wonderfully if you collect a lot of various trees, since it is one of the few with animation.

For those of you without extra FV Cash to burn, there is one premium Decoration in the Market update tonight for Coins instead of Cash: the Mermaid Fountain. This is your typical Fountain Decoration with two key differences: A) it features a large, shooting effect with its water, as it sprays upward, and B) it features a Pig dressed as a Mermaid on the top of it… or shall we say, Merpig? This one is 240,000 Coins and is hard to resist, seeing as how cute that Merpig is. You will gain 2,400 EXP for the purchase, to boot.

Lastly, there is one small Decoration available for Coins that should not be overlooked amidst the other goodies: the Gumdrop Sprinkle. These are tiny items that can be places around your farm, sort of creating a fencing effect or even just placed at random to spruce up the place. We love using them to randomly decorate the surroundings, and at 8,000 Coins each, they are affordable. Go crazy with them!

The Mystery Game is full of repeated items, but we will deliver the images of them shortly!

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!