Note: This is a complex feature that touches many elements of the game. We are slowing rolling this out to all players over the upcoming months, so please be aware that you may not have this feature right away. We are very excited to get this out to all of our players as soon as possible, and we appreciate your patience.
Are you interested in earning twice the amount of Coins and XP for crafted goods? If so, then Heirloom Trees are for you! Prune your Trees to make them Heirloom, and then harvest them for Heirloom Fruit, which you can use in high Coin and XP crafting Recipes!
Heirloom Trees have the added benefit of needing less Water and once your Heirloom Tree becomes Elder, it can also be stored in your Inventory!
If you are level 14 or higher, you will see the following pop-up. Click on the “Place Garden Shed” button to get started.
Garden Shed:
Before you can start to Prune your Trees, you’ll need a Garden Shed to store your Shears. Click on your Garden Shed to open the main menu.
This menu shows how many Pruning Shears you have collected.
A – The total amount of Pruning Shears you have. As you Prune
Trees, this number decreases.
B – The button to use when you want to collect Pruning Shears from Friends.
C – The button to use when you want to use Pruning Shears on
Trees.
D – The number of Farm Bucks required to purchase Pruning Shears.
Using the Pruning Shears:
You can Prune Trees individually (inside or outside of a Grove), or an entire Grove. To use the Pruning Shears, click the “Use” button from the Garden Shed menu (see C. above) or hover over a watered Tree and/or Grove, and then click the Pruning Shears icon (see image below).
Note: To Prune an individual Tree inside of a Grove, highlight the Tree that you would like to Prune.
Note: You can use Pruning Shears on any Tree that has not already been Pruned.
If you do not have enough Shears to Prune an entire Grove, you will only Prune as many Trees as possible with the number of Shears you have in you Shed. If you want to Prune a particular Tree inside of a Grove, simply remove it from the Grove.
Harvesting Pruned Trees:
Before you can craft Heirloom Recipes, you will need Heirloom Fruit. Heirloom Trees will take the same amount of time as before they were Pruned to mature.
Once you harvest your first Pruned Tree, you’ll receive the following message:
Click on the “Post for more Shears” button to ask your Friends for more Shears and also share some Pruning Shears with Friends!
Crafting with Heirloom Fruit:
As you harvest Pruned Trees, you will receive Heirloom Fruit, which you can then use in high Coin and XP Recipes! To craft Heirloom Recipes, click on your Crafting Kitchen, and then click on the “Heirloom” tab.
Note: Heirloom Trees and Heirloom Fruit will count towards any quest that requires you to harvest a Tree or craft a Recipe with Fruit Ingredients. Harvesting Trees: For example, harvesting an Heirloom Apple Tree will count towards a quest that asks you to harvest an Apple Tree. Crafting Recipes: For example, crafting Heirloom Apple Pie will count towards a quest that asks you to craft an Apple Pie Recipe.
Earning Coins!
Once you’re finished Crafting, it’s time to earn some money! Your Finished Products can be sold in your Market Stand for Coins. The more difficult the Recipe, the higher the Coin yield will be.
Elder Trees:
As you Prune your Trees, they’ll mature and eventually become “Elder.” Once a Tree becomes Elder, it will resume production of its original resource (e.g. an Heirloom Lemon Tree that reaches Elder status will produce regular Lemons once again).
The best thing about Elder Trees is that they can be stored in your Inventory or sold for free Pruning Shears! You can store as many Elder Trees as you wish, at any given time.
If you want to see how many harvests you have left until an Heirloom Tree becomes Elder, hover over your cursor over it (see image below).
Once your Tree becomes an Elder, you will receive the following messaging. Click on the “Store Elder Tree” button to store it in your Inventory or click on the “Sell for Shear” button to get a Pruning Shear for free. If you wish to keep the Tree on your farm, click the little "x" in the top right corner of the pop-up.
Additional Information:
- You are limited to one Garden Shed at any given time.
- If you want to see how many harvests you have left until an Heirloom Tree becomes Elder, hover over your cursor over it.
- You can only craft Heirloom Recipes using Heirloom Fruit.
- Heirloom Trees and Heirloom Fruit will count towards any quest that requires you to harvest a Tree or craft a Recipe with Fruit Ingredients. Harvesting Trees: For example, harvesting an Heirloom Apple Tree will count towards a quest that asks you to harvest an Apple Tree. Crafting Recipes: For example, crafting Heirloom Apple Pie will count towards a quest that asks you to craft an Apple Pie Recipe.
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