News

New and improved

• Neighbors: a new Favorites sort puts your starred Neighbors on top. The Neighbors Bar follows the same order.
• Neighbors: the name sort now ignores upper and lower case, so “jan” and “Jan” sit together. When two Neighbors have the same Level, they sort by name.
• Neighbors: sleeping Favorites stay in your list.
• Seedlings and Mentors: Enrolling now is started when you choose a Gift for a Seedling.
• Foraging: hover over a flower or mushroom to see its name.
• Kitchen: the “Make” link on an ingredient now correctly selects the right Recipe (if it is starred or not).
• Potted Plants: “Place” in the Shop now takes you to the nearest empty flower pot, every time.
• Farm Chat: your Neighbors are highlighted.
• Accounts: a deleted account now shows “Account Unavailable” instead of a loading screen that never ends.

Farm fixes

• Tablets: a Samsung S Pen can harvest and plant again, click lock included.
• Fixed the case where the Hedgehog doesn’t walk around when it is hungry.
• The Evaporator boil no longer stops at 2/3.
• Lemonade Stand: Pina Colada is back for players who own Halloween Mocktails.
• The Horse animations no longer slide on the way to the water.
• White Oaks on open land drop Acorns again.
• Blue Dot: new Shrub, Grapevine and Tree Beds now light the dot. A Shrub or Grapevine harvest clears it.
• Emerald Beach: the shovel on a Flooded Field now tells you when you hit the Crops limit, and opens Max Capacity.
• Certifying a farm right after you move Farmer Skill Points now sticks after a reload.
• Kitchen, Craft Shack and Log Cabin stove: the Automation ring no longer gets stuck, and the collect ring shows again.
• The Conveyor Belt Quest now counts only the right production.
• A Farm Kitchen Quest no longer gets stuck on “Clear Land”.
• Returning players now get the Starting an Orchard Quest, so the Broken Truck unlocks again.
• Coconut Ice Cream and Mango Sorbet now count for the Inside Scoop Achievement. Your old ones are counted too.
• Horse course results now arrive, even when a player in your group left the game.
• Botanical plates you studied no longer show “New”, and the Skills badge clears.
• Competitions: your Neighbors are marked on the board again, and the tally is correct.
• Gift requests: friends are no longer grayed out after the daily reset.
• The friends ribbon surprise Gift now counts Neighbors you added during the session.

Fewer “out of sync” reloads

We fixed many cases where the game had to reload. Some examples:

• Market sales made while you were on another farm now show when you come back.
• Foraging flowers can no longer be moved by mistake.
• Cats no longer bring a Neighbor’s play date or fight home with them.
• The Dairy Expert no longer makes an empty product.
• Ducklings, Asparagus Fertilizer and the newspaper no longer trip the game on tight timings.
• Gear you store or sell now put their products back into the Barn correctly.

Screens and menus

• The Quest Book no longer stops opening after one slow load.
• The Quest Book and the new Quest card now fit a short game window.
• Maple Syrup results: the syrup name no longer covers its quality.
• The Cancel button stays in one place.
• Notifications no longer cover the World Map button after a popup closes.
• Empty event boxes no longer block clicks under the XP star.
• Letters without an action no longer show a Send button.
• “Open News” now clears the News dot at once.
• Help links that moved now open the right page. The info button on the Plots to Work panel works again.
• Names with an apostrophe now show correctly in chat.
• Objects no longer jump on top of other objects when animals and characters walk by.
• The Prize Projector screen stays open while an ad plays.
• Game sound comes back when an ad does not play.
• Trackpad zoom is smoother in Safari.

Lower memory use on the Web Portal

We’ve identified and fixed the issue that was causing unusually high memory usage for Web Portal players.

After investigating, we found that the extra memory usage was not coming from the game itself, but from the external security checks used when loading the game. In some cases, these checks could consume several hundred MB of additional memory, even after the game had finished loading.

Speed and stability

• The game uses much less memory when you visit farms and open popups. Long sessions stay smooth.
• Some Android tablets and Chromebooks now load the art faster.
• We fixed many crashes found in our reports.

The number of errors in the game each day, of all types (5111, 5122, etc.) The green bars are the last days, after the fixes.

Facebook players

• News opens inside the game, in your language, with reactions.
• Settings: the white cursor now works, and a language change is kept after the restart.
• A slow download is retried before an error screen shows.
• Fixed an Instant Games zoom issue where zooming the game zoomed the Facebook page too.

Happy farming!