How to Get More Kids in FrontierVille

When FrontierVille began, players started with their own avatar, a wife and one child. With the addition of more kids, gamers can have a much larger family.

FrontierVille kids are tiny avatars that you will see on almost every homestead. Like the adults, they appear in specific locations until it is time for them to get to work.

Making babies is a simple process. Open the market, click on the kid goal to buy it. The new mission will appear on the left side of the screen. After the mission is complete, players will be able to place a cradle on their homestead. Grow the baby by clicking once on the cradle. There are a total of three kid missions. When one mission is complete, players can go back to the market to buy the second and third missions.

FaceBook gamers can create unique children. When a child first appears, they will be given the option to name them. Another menu will allow them to customize their children. Each child can have a different look or they can be designed to look like miniature versions of their parents.

When someone first logs into FrontierVille, their avatar is ready to complete any tasks they point it to. If they click on other family members, they will go to work. The children work the same way as the adults. Click on a child to gain control of them. Click on a section of land to make them walk in that direction. Select an animal and the child will feed or groom the livestock. Kids can complete all the same tasks and missions as the adults.

Children can be used as decoration, to show that someone has a large family. They are also functional. If the husband and wife are busy doing something on the farm, select the child and they will be able to do other jobs. With five family members working instead of two, players will be able to plant, harvest, and clear land faster than ever. Making babies is also a great way to take care of animals if you have a large animal farm.

FrontierVille How to Avoid Addiction

One of the most popular games on FaceBook is known as FrontierVille. Players may find that they spend hours of time with addiction to this game. There is literally so much to do. Zynga is constantly adding new missions, decorations and activities.

The key to avoiding a serious addiction is to remember it is a game. It is important to take care of your work and family responsibilities before anything else. Don't spend money on this game if you can't budget it in and truly afford it. There are lots of cool things to buy with real money with FrontierVille Zynga money. The key is not to let the addiction get hold of you. Balance out your life and your game playing.

It can get exciting to grow your land, have kids and all of that in FrontierVille. These are social games because you interact with others to succeed in the game. The key is to balance your time. Set a timer if you need to do so. You don't want all your time and money spent on something that is just a bunch of pixels on a computer screen.

Come Stake Your Claim On Zynga's FrontierVille

Although I'm a die-hard Facebook member, I'm not much into social games. So, when a Facebook friend of mine asked me to become his neighbor on FrontierVille, I was a bit hesitant. I didn't want to get wrangled into another game where I'd have to maintain, tend, feed, or sort through anything.

I accepted his neighbor request, and then checked out the game for myself. What fun it is! Even though there are a lot of similarities to other Facebook social games, there are plenty of unique differences that make this game interesting.

The missions (projects that you can choose to participate in where, once complete, will give you a special gift item) are original, as are the encounters with the wild animals, the chance to decorate your homestead, covered wagon, General Store, and other stakes to your claim.

Zynga is planning on adding four new territories for all FrontierVille players to explore. Rattlesnake Canyon is a place where hidden riches can be claimed. Along the way, your player will encounter some pretty unsavory bandits who might need to be taught a thing or two. Gold Rush will give your player a chance to strike their own claim and find their riches within the mountains. Players must be wary of other claim jumpers, who'll do what they can to take over your fair share. Buffalo Range is a place where you can trade stock with Native Americans, and collect the native animals, including the special Iron Horse. The Oregon Trail promises to be another exciting adventure, so your player would need to stock up on ammunition, medicine, and food to take on this long and sometimes trecherous journey.

The addition of these new territories will make FrontierVille an even more exciting new addition to the Zynga family of social games.

Keep FrontierVille Moving With Timed Missions

There are many different things to do in FrontierVille including missions. These are a list of tasks that Zynga provides to keep players interested in the game. Months after FrontierVille first premiered, thousands of fans had run out of missions to complete on their homesteads.

Time Missions

In October 2010, fans logged on to see a new timed mission called “It's Canning Time” on their game screens. These missions are different because you have to play them in a certain amount of time. When someone clicks on the icon, they are told about the new timed mission and the time they have to complete it.

The missions will not start until you choose to click the start button and once you do, you will have a specific amount of time, such as a few days or a full week or more, to complete the mission. However, if you do not start the mission, it will disappear on a specific date. These special missions do not hang around forever, like regular missions.

Plan Timed Missions

Each timed mission is because you will be asked to multiple tasks for each one. Since you only have a limited time to complete these timed goals, you may not have time to waste if you need to sell ten of a specific adult animal, and you don't have any on your homestead. You will have to go through hours and days of regular feeding to grow these animals, and higher paid ones such as an ox, can take close to a week to grow.

Completing a timed mission is easy if you learn how to plan ahead. Before you click start on the newest goal, check a popular FrontierVille forum, such as Zynga's to see what other players have posted. Gamers love to be the first to say that they saw something new in the game, so hours or even days before the mission shows up on your homestead, someone else may have created a forum post about it and what you have to do to complete it.

Once you know what is needed in the timed goal, log into your game to prepare for the mission. For instance, if the forum poster says the game wants you to see 10 adult sheep, buy 10 sheep if you don't have any. Start feeding them, to get them closer to adulthood.

If you need to harvest 20 sunflowers, plant 20 sunflower seeds. However, unlike the animals, do not have the sunflowers before you get the mission because it will not count towards the goal. Also if a neighbor waters your plants during a mission, it counts as a harvest.

So if you need animals or crops to complete a mission, place these items in a good location, to draw attention to them. You will have an easier time with the mission if neighbors water your plants and groom your livestock so that you can shave off some feeding times. If time is growing short for an animal mission, use an “Animal Ready Boost” from the bear collection. Once this boost is used, it will be time to feed your animals again, and you will be able to grow them much faster.

Singular boosts are also available in the upgraded general store from Hank. The prices differ depending on the crop or animal you would like to grow, but these boosts are good for a timed mission. However, most of the new boosts only shaves off a couple hours, they do not work instantly like boosts received from collections.

Timed Mission Rewards

There have been a total of 12 timed goals in Frontier, but very few of them have given experience points as a reward. For the goal “Mutton Bustin”, players received 1000 experience points along with a hitching post and one dinner. The missions always give players a decorative item that they can place on their homestead such as a rabbit rotisserie, a sundial or stuffed groundhog.

These timed missions give players something to do when they have no other missions available. Plus if a player does not like the reward or want to complete the mission, they know that it will disappear in a few days or weeks.

Play FrontierVille on Facebook Via Your Computer or Mobile Phone

Join your friends while making new friends playing FrontierVille on Facebook! Click on debris, feed animals, harvest crops and water and harvest trees to earn coins, XP and wood which can be turned into more crops, animals, trees, extra items and buildings. Maintain your land regularly to avoid wild flowers, tree saplings, rocks, skulls and thorns from overtaking your land. Maintaining land regularly will allow you to receive an animal or tree that will be sent to your inventory. Check inventory daily on this and all social games on the site for added items to place on your plot of land.

By adding more neighbors to this and all game you will have the opportunity to help more people with their plot of land while earning XP, reputation and coins to purchase more animals, trees, crops and buildings for yourself. Feed yours and their animals and water tree saplings regularly to watch them grow into adults. Sell the adult animals and trees for coins, wood and XP or you can choose to keep the adult animals and trees on your plot of land.

Missions for Frontierville on Facebook:
Both timed and not time missions exist for added XP and buildings. As the missions are easy, grab as many as you can to ensure your property is built and expanded to maximum capacity.

Land Grab:

This fairly new part of the game allows you to clear an extra piece of property while earning points and reputation. After clearing the extra land you can claim the land for a friend by buying the title of someone on your friend list who is not currently playing FrontierVille.

Toy Factory:

New to the game (as well as all social games for Christmas time) is the toy factory which is located just outside of your property line. Receive toys by maintaining land, then turn them in for a tree, animals or other items to place on your property or in storage for future use.