Neighbors | Social aspects FarmVille Guide

Neighbors

Like other social networking games also FarmVille put great emphasis on relations with other players. Of course you can play alone but having neighbors who are your friends, gameplay will become more lively and we will get some really useful improvements.

Game invitation

Let's start with invitations. To suggest someone starting a farmer's life, you can use Invite Friends option. You can find it above main game screen. There is a list of your friends plus a possibility of sending an invitation to join the game. You can also send an email about the game to the person who has no Facebook account. You just have to write down an email address.

Another method is to use My Neighbors tab (also at the top of the screen). You can check there the current status of your neighbors and you can find there your friends who also play FarmVille but are not your game neighbors. To change it and send an invitation, just click Invite as friend. You can also go to the gift screen (Free Gifts) and use this method to show the game to someone.

Note: Although your invitation is accepted, that person not always appears in your neighbors list at once. Sometimes the whole process takes up to few days so you have to be patient.

Having friendly farmers, apart from purely social network aspects (Look how cool my farm is!), can also unlock a lot of valuable items or functions. Some items in the shop can be purchased only if you have certain number of neighbors. One such example is a barn or an option to extend our farm.

Friendly farmers' avatars

Thanks to friends in FarmVille we can unlock also many other interesting game features. After gaining the appropriate experience level for example you will be able to exchange crops, trade on marketplace or play in cooperative mode. That kind of information will be presented later in this guide.

Normal, neighborly help has a great importance during the gameplay. You can see your neighbors at the bottom of game window. After clicking the image of any of them, you will get a menu with an option to visit his/her farm. When you are there you are able to perform some minor actions which increase you experience and help your friend of course. You can do it once a day.

Someone had no time to care for the poor kittens. Fortunately, you can always do this for him.

Among the actions that can be done on a neighbor farm you can find harvesting fruits, plowing plots, fertilizing and even milking cows. When the farm owner is back he/she can decide whether to accept such assistance by clicking your avatar. Money for the work will go to you both. You can also visit a neighbor's hen house (if he has one) and feed chicken - there is a chance of finding some mysterious egg (see the chapter on breeding chicken).