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Fairy Collection

There’s a brand-new collection of items available for a limited time in the Market. It’s the Fairy Collection and it contains a mix of clothing, buildings, decor and nature items, all with a fairy theme.

CastleVille Fairy Items

The clothing choices include a Shimmer Fairy Dress, Shimmer Fairy Wings, Sprite Knight Pants, and Sprite Knight Wings. All of these items must be purchased with Crowns.

There are two fairy-themed buildings available: the Fairy Hideaway and the Pixie Den. Both are housing buildings that produce 220 gold coins in taxes. They each cost 35 Crowns to purchase from the Market.

There are several decorations available, and they include the following:

  • Dragon’s Wart: 250 coins
  • Fairy Pool: 30 crowns
  • Faun’s Harp: 10,000 coins
  • Pixie Spring: 12,000 coins
  • Shroom Shrub: 500 coins
  • Swirlygig Truffles: 8 reputation hearts
  • Titania’s Well: 16 crowns
Last but not least, there are two Animals that you can purchase. Both are ponies! The first is the Emerald Pony, which costs 50 crowns. The Rose Pony is also available for 50 crowns.
1 December 2011 at 06:11 - Comments

Yvette the Fair Maiden

Yvette is one of the very first two characters that you meet in CastleVille. She’s described as a lovely maiden with an equally lovely singing voice. She’s a tall and beautiful woman wearing a green dress and with flowing reddish-brown hair decorated with pink flowers. Yvette is front and center in most of the promotional images for the game.

Yvette in CastleVille

Yvette is a lovely maiden with a beautiful singing voice and a love of nature.

At the beginning of the game, you’ll see her alongside the Duke, fighting off two Gloom Rats that are attacking. Once you help her and the Duke dispatch these nasty beasties, your first set of tasks will be to build Yvette a home so that she can become the first citizen in your Kingdom.

Yvette features prominently in the game and will give you some of your first quests, most notably in the Talk to the Animals and the Nature Lover quest chains. She’ll be responsible for teaching you a lot about raising and tending to your animals and your farms. Yvette is a kind and gentle spirit who even has a soft spot for Beasties. As part of the Nature Lover quests, she’ll even suggest that you care and protect for them.

Quests from Yvette

There are two quest chains provided by Yvette early in the game. They are the Talk to the Animals quests and the Nature Lover quests. Both focus on taking care of animals that you encounter in the game.

Talk to the Animals

  • Get Plucky
  • No Bull

Nature Lover

  • From Gloom to Bloom
  • 14 Carrots
  • Chicken Lover
  • Bird Feeder
  • A Bit Bullish
  • Fence Me In
  • For the Birds
  • Peace is the Answer
  • Beastie Collection
  • Beastie Confection
  • Beastie Banishment

Yvette and the Button

Yvette Wants a Button

After you complete her first quest chain, Yvette wants you to give her a button.

After you complete the Nature Lover quest chain, you’ll get one of your first challenging tasks. Yvette will appear with a button icon over her head, and when you click to speak to her, you’ll discover that she wants a gift of a button. There are two ways to get her a button. The first is to spend 10 crowns to buy it for her. This is definitely the fastest way to get the button. The second way is to craft one using a Studio. First, you’ll need to build a Studio, which costs 16,000 coins and requires 10 Wood Planks and 5 Gold Bricks. It is not a cheap building by any stretch. But once you have it, you’ll be able to craft several different types of decorations and costumes, including a button for Yvette. Crafting a button from the studio requires 6 animal bones and you probably already have a nice stockpile of them from killing off all the Beasties.

To create the Studio, first gather the necessary supplies (you’ll need to assemble the Wood Planks and Gold Bricks in your Workshops). Then go to the Market. Click on Buildings, then the Crafting Tab and finally the Studio.

CastleVille - Build Studio

There’s a short (and funny) introductory video for Yvette on YouTube that showcases her beautiful singing voice.

20 November 2011 at 22:00 - Comments

Royal Buildings in CastleVille

Building your kingdom is hard work and requires many different kinds of buildings to keep it humming along at maximum efficiency. You’ll need houses to generate tax revenue, workshops, kitchens and other crafting buildings to provide essential supplies, as well as logging camps and mining camps to provide a steady stream of resources. But perhaps the most important kind of structures in your kingdom are the Royal Buildings.

About Royal Buildings

Royal Buildings are special structures that provide both regular payouts in coins and castle points. These castle points are what you need to build up your capacity to explore all the different areas that are covered by gloom. Castle points are also the method used to rank you amongst your friends in the game. Royal buildings are also special in that in addition to requiring large amounts of resources to build, you’ll need to recruit your friends to staff and maintain them.

Maiden's Tower

The first Royal Building that you’ll construct is the Maiden’s Tower, which you will build as part of one of your quests early on. It’s the View from Above quest given by Alastair. It costs 1,500 coins to build and requires a staff of 3 friends. After that, you’ll also build your Barracks and then your Vault.

Tending to Your Buildings

It’s not enough to merely staff your Royal Buildings once and forget about them. Each of your Royal Buildings has a “level” that grows as its staff tends to it via visits. As your Royal Building gains levels, it provides additional Castle points. If your friends aren’t tending to the building enough, you can send them reminders. You can view all the stats for a royal building by clicking on it.

Royal Buildings List

Here is a short list of all the Royal Buildings available in the game.

  • Maiden’s Tower
  • Barracks
  • Vault
  • Throne Room
  • Library
  • Castle Dungeon
  • Wizard’s Keep
  • Opera House
  • The Cathedral
  • Observatory
20 November 2011 at 20:10 - Comments

CastleVille Crowns

CastleVille Crown Icon

Crowns in CastleVille are the paid currency in the game, similar to Farm Cash in FarmVille and City Cash in CityVille. Although you do earn a few crowns for free as you level up, the primary way to accumulate crowns are through buying them using Facebook credits or by earning them when you purchase special offers. Often, people look for CastleVille crowns cheats, hoping to find a way to get crowns for free. Unfortunately, Zynga keeps their crowns very well protected and its simply not possible to get them through cheats or hacks.

Buying Crowns

The simplest way to get more crowns is to click on the Add Coins and Crowns link in the ribbon buttons above the game window. This takes you to a screen where you can purchase the crowns using Facebook Credits, a credit card, your mobile device, or even PayPal. The crowns are sold in packs, beginning with 15 crowns for $2 USD and going up to 1,000 crowns for $100 USD. The larger a package you purchase, the better the deal.

Buying Crowns in CastleVille

The main crowns purchase screen in CastleVille.

Earning Crowns

If you don’t want to purchase crowns directly, you can earn them indirectly through special offers. These range from free offers where you install apps, complete surveys and other actions to special bonuses where you can get crowns for free after buying something else, such as a NetFlix subscription or game rentals from GameFly. Note that most of the time, you have to buy something, so the CastleVille crowns aren’t really free. But if there’s an offer for something you would have purchased anyway, the crowns are a nice bonus.

Game Cards

It’s also possible to redeem Zynga game cards for crowns and coins. The game cards cost money and can be purchased at participating retail stores. To redeem the card, you need to click on the Game Cards link in the ribbon bar and then enter the PIN code that appears on the back of the card.

18 November 2011 at 22:33 - Comments

Exploring in CastleVille

Your Kingdom is a very big place in CastleVille and most of it is covered in Gloom — a strange and mysterious fog caused by the evil powers of the  Dark One. Your job is to free the kingdom of Gloom and bring happiness to all of its corners. You’ll be able to expand your kingdom through exploration and slowly push back the forces of the Gloom as well as discover new surprises and characters along the way.

CastleVille Gloom

Areas of the Kingdom covered by Gloom are darker on the map.

You’re not able to interact with anything covered with the Gloom. First, you’ll need to explore each area. To do that, click on the icon that appears when you move your mouse cursor over the zone. It will reveal the resources you need to unlock and explore this particular spot. Generally, you’ll need to have a certain Castle Level, a particular amount of Exploration Crystals, and a number of coins. The Exploration Crystals and coins are spent when you explore the area. The amount needed varies considerably from zone to zone. For example, some zones only require a Castle Level of 20, but others require 2,100 or more. In addition, you can only explore areas that are adjacent to zones that are already part of your Kingdom.

You can explore any of the areas that you’d like to (as long as they’re nearby), but a common strategy is to create pathways to the silhouetted characters, such as Raphael and Alastair. Reaching these characters unlocks new quests and ultimately provides more value to your exploration than simply exploring areas that have resources. This is especially important in the early stages of the game.

Most exploration will require Exploration Crystals. To get these, you’ll need to manufacture them in your Workshop. You assemble them from Crystal Shards, which you obtain from helping your neighbors.

Exploration Strategy

As noted above, you are free to explore the areas around your Kingdom in whichever order you prefer, and there’s no established pattern that you must follow. However, the early quest chains point you in the direction of discovering Raphael first, and then Alastair the Wizard shortly thereafter. Following those two, it generally makes sense to then strike out towards the Lost Countess (lower left) and the Mysterious Stranger (upper right).

The Mysterious Stranger in CastleVille

The Mysterious Stranger is located to the upper-right of your starting Kingdom area.

Lost Countess in CastleVille

The Lost Countess is located to the lower-left of the starting area of your Kingdom.

18 November 2011 at 22:01 - Comments

CastleVille Energy Cheats

Energy is imperative in Castleville, just like any other facebook games, energy is needed for mining, fishing, collecting taxes, feeding animals, chopping trees, fighting gloom beasties and any activities that you will be doing in Facebook. This also implies that you should use your energy well and wise or else you may lose energy at the middle of a quest or a fight with beasties. Energy also limits you in playing CastleVille, this post will give you an idea on how to use it well so you can enjoy playing CastleVille.

CastleVille Energy BarWhen you begin playing CastleVille, you have 10 energies that you can use to get started at your quests. You can find your energy level at the top right side of your game screen. It has a thunder-icon, you may be familiar with the icon since it’s generally used for most facebook games. And you may notice the timer below it that says, “More in: 05:00” that means, you will increase your energy after 5 minutes.

So we got 1 tip in getting energy – waiting. Every 5 minutes, your energy level is increasing by 1, but you can’t just wait right? And note that it won’t increase forever, like if you wait for 100 hours to get 1,200 energy – NO! Because you have energy limit for each level, let say you’re level 1, your energy bar limit is 10, even if you wait for 10 days, you will only get 10 energy, because your energy limit is full. There are times that even if your energy limit is full, you can still get higher energy. This is what we want to know, you will notice that the energy bar color is changing from white to yellow when the energy is higher than your energy limit.

You can get more energy by completing quests. Each quest has rewards and most often the rewards that are energy, experience points, coins and other stuffs. Anyway, completing quests are not boring and hard in CastleVille as much other facebook games. And you should spend your energy to complete quest and level up your kingdom. So, start completing your quests and surely you’ll enjoy it.

But most of the cases, while completing your quests you lose energy and cannot continue to complete your quests. That cannot stop you – you still have more other ways to get energy.

The next step in getting energy in CastleVille is to have more neighbors. Invite as many friends as can to be your neighbor on CastleVille and visit their kingdom. This will allow you see how they design in their kingdom, especially to those that higher level than you have so you might have a clue of what looks better and not. This will also gain you some Reputation Hearts, which is required for some higher quests in CastleVille. And lastly, by helping your neighboring kingdom it will give you energy as thank you gift for helping them out.

CastleVille Visit Rewards

You can earn extra energy from visiting and helping out friends in CastleVille.

But there is also a limit in getting energy rewards when visiting friends, you can only visit 20 friends per day to get free energy. That only means, you only have 20 energy that you can get per day by visiting your friend’s kingdom. But there’s more energy resource in CastleVille.

The next is through Level Up, when you level up you got 10 free energies in an instant. And while you level up, your energy limit will also increase and that means you can wait for more energy. But when you are in higher level, leveling will take some time. Usually, it will take 2 to 3 days, when you reach level 30, that is for a regular play in a day and of course it will also be depending on how you play and we need to sleep, work, study and do our real life activities. But you can get energy while you don’t play. Here’s how, by gifts.

Give and receive, CastleVille has a very good interface with their gamers. When you send a gift, there is a high chance that your friend will also give gifts to you in return with same gift that you gave to them. And there is no limit in sending gifts, as of now, some of the Ville series like CityVille have limit in sending gifts. But while there is no limit, you can send Energy Gifts to all your friends, and when they check their CastleVille they will receive your gifts and they will probably be sending energy gift to you. So the more neighbors you have, the more chances of receiving energy! So before you log out and do your real life stuffs, don’t forget to send energy gifts to your friends.

So once again, don’t forget to visit this page regularly for the latest Castleville Energy Cheats and CastleVille updates to help you dominate the game. See you soon!

17 November 2011 at 12:45 - Comments

CastleVille Farming Cheats

CastleVille FarmingCastleVille has its own farming system (similar to FarmVille) built-in with the game but with a twist. Just like a real-life farm there is more than just plots, plants and harvesting. Irrigation is a new concept for the ‘Ville games, introduced with CastleVille.

If you are not familiar with agriculture, irrigation is very important in farms. This is water supply to your farm that makes plants to grow faster and healthier so you can sell it in much higher price and there is a lower chance in getting wasted plants. CastleVille uses this concept in an important way. Farm plots placed near water sources grow 5% faster.

In using the irrigation, you should place your plots near to your pond, you will notice that the full brown plot will have stripe blue which means that there is a flow of supply of water coming from the pond. So you need to clear out the rocks, wild plants and trees that surround the pond to take the space for the plots.

CastleVille Farm Plots

Farm plots next to a pond take advantage of irrigation.

There are series of quests in CastleVille that focused on farming for Beginner’s guide. You may notice the note in quest that has Farming 101 that is given by the Duke.

There is also a Local Legend about the pond in your Kingdom, who knows what’s lying at the bottom of your pond? It may have gold or just the item that you’ve been looking for. So try to fish once it a while, it allows you to fish every 5 minutes. Enough time to go around and do something else in your Kingdom.

Now, let’s have a review of what are the available crops that you can plant to your farm. Also which ones should you plant the most?

 

Grape

Payout: 50 coinst

Ready In: 5 Minutes

Reward: 1 Exp

Cost: 5 coins

Delicious fruit used in Cooking recipes.

 

Flax

Payout: 100 coint

Ready In: 30 Minutes

Reward: 1 Exp

Cost: 25 coins

Fiber used in Cooking recipes.

 

Carrot

Payout: 150 coins

Ready In: 1 hour

Reward: 1 Exp

Cost: 50 coins

 

Wheat

Payout: 550 coins

Ready In: 24 hour

Reward: 1 exp

Cost: 100 coins

Grain used in Cooking recipes

 

Tomato

Payout: 400 coins

Ready In: 8 hours

Reward:  1 exp

Vegetable used in Cooking recipes.

 

Cabbage

Payout: 500 coins

Ready In: 12 hours

Reward: 1

Leafy vegetable used in Cooking recipes.

 

Cotton

Payout: 600 coins

Ready In: 14 hours

Reward: 1 exp

Fibers used in Artistry crafts

 

Cocoa

Payout: 700 coins

Ready In: 16 hours

Reward: 1 exp

Beans used in Cooking recipes.

 

Oat

Payout: 225

Ready In: 3 hours

Reward: 1 exp

Cereal grain used in Cooking recipes.

 

Chili Pepper

Payout: 800 coins

Ready In: 18 hours

Reward: 1 exp

Spice used in Cooking recipes.

 

Potato

Payout: 600 coins

Ready In: 4 hours

Reward: 1 exp

Edible tuber used in Cooking recipes.

 

Strawberry

Payout: 1000 coins

Ready In: 36 hours

Reward: 1 exp

Fruit used in Cooking recipes.

 

As of now, we only have 12 crops available to plant and as you level up, you can also increase the crops growing. For beginners you may notice that some plants cost crown money, this happens when you’re level is low for the crops. You may buy these crops in coins when you unlock them by leveling up.

17 November 2011 at 12:39 - Comments

Performing Quests in CastleVille

Ready to play CastleVille, the newest game on Facebook? Well, then get ready to go questing! CastleVille Quests are the fastest way to earn coins, level up and advance in the game. As a beginner, your quests will be very linear, meaning that you will usually do one at a time in a specific order. Later in the game, you’ll have lots of choices of which quests to do and which order to do them in.

CastleVille Quest Icons

Quests appear as icons on the left side of the screen.

Your first quest comes from Yvette, who needs a house built. New quests will be assigned as you complete older ones. Whenever you see a character in the game with a question mark over his or her head, that means a new quest is available. Click on that character to receive and start the new quest. Once you’ve accepted a quest, you’ll see an icon for that quest appear in a column on the left side of the game window. Click on the icons to see the quest details again.

Let’s take a quick look at some of the quests you’ll start the game with. All of these are reasonably easy to complete in a short amount of time, and will help you level up very quickly.

  • Raise the Roof
  • Sticks and Stones
  • Penny Pinching
  • Get Plucky
  • Helping Duke
  • No Bull
  • From Gloom to Bloom
  • Cropping Up
15 November 2011 at 20:18 - Comments