In this game, you are left the ownership of a farm from your uncle, and must restore it and run it.
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- Acceptable Breaks from Reality: To get bacon, you use a liposuction machine on your pigs to squeeze out their extra fat, instead of killing them. It's not realistic, but having to buy new pigs every time you want bacon would be really annoying.
- The Alleged Car: In the valley, your truck can randomly break down as you drive from one place to another. Waiting for it to be fixed takes two hours, although a nearby player can instantly repair it.
- Ambidextrous Sprite: One of the Strongman's idle animations is lifting a 100-pound dumbbell. When he faces left, the "100" on the dumbbell is reversed.
- An Interior Designer Is You: You can buy decorations to spruce up your farm.
- Anti-Frustration Features:
- You can only have a single one of most types of buildings, but since a smelter takes several hours to produce an item, you can buy up to 5 smelters.
- Also, regardless of when you buy your smelters, any mastery star benefitsnote you build up from using the first one are automatically applied to all the smelters you buy after that.
- In the valley, you spin a wheel with numbers from 6 to 9 to determine how much fuel you get for free every day. Even getting the lowest number ensures that you still have enough fuel to visit a few houses.
- The notice board is where NPCs can post orders for you to fill. These orders don't have a time limit, and if you can't fill an order for some reason, you can ignore it or delete it with no penalty besides having to wait 20-30 minutes for a replacement order. Similarly, NPCs asking for individual items will not leave until you either give them the item or tell them that you don't have it. So if you don't have the item, you have all the time you need to harvest or produce it.
- When buying something with diamonds (a premium currency that is difficult to get in-game), the game interface gives you a "tap again to confirm" so you don't accidentally hit a button and waste diamonds when you didn't mean to. If you like buying things with diamonds, you can adjust the settings so that you only have to press a button once to buy something with diamonds.
- When fruit trees and bushes die, they can be revived once by another player after their owner puts a "!" signpost next to them. Some players have very big farms that make it hard to find signposts, so trees with signposts will also visibly shake and rustle to alert a visiting player that they need to be revived.
- If an item in your shop isn't bought after a certain amount of time, Greg or Tom will automatically buy it. (Items can't be returned to your inventory after you put them up for sale.)
- Boats will never ask for items from the Candy Machine or Jeweler because of how long it takes to produce them.
- Anti Poop-Socking: Some crops and items can take hours and even days to produce, and certain tasks also take a long time, so one would be hard-pressed to find ways to play the game endlessly.
- Artistic License – Animal Care:
- You can obtain bacon in this game without killing your pigs; instead they enter a metal machine and are given what appears to be liposuction.
- Cats shouldn't actually drink cow's milk; it's not good for their stomachs because they lack the enzyme to digest lactose. They can get vomiting and diarrhea from it.
- After your lobsters hang out in a hot tub for six hours and you collect their tails, instead of dying they go down a spiral slide back into the lake to regenerate new ones.
- Big Eater: Donkeys eat every hour instead of every six hours like the other pets.
- Black and Nerdy: The Teacher that can appear in your town is Black.
- Blue Is Heroic: Alfred the mailman, Ernest and Rose, the Local, and the Mechanic wear primarily blue, and are kind helpers to your farm/generous visitors of your town.
- Boring, but Practical: Farming and selling wheat for 36 coins a pop is a decent, if not terribly exciting, way to make some coins and randomly find tools. You'd think there wouldn't be a market for wheat since it only takes 2 minutes to grow, but a lot of players prefer buying wheat instead of growing their own, since it's so common in the Daily Dirt.
- Bragging Rights Reward: Getting all three mastery stars on a machine reduces the time needed to make each item by 15%, changes the color scheme of the machine to its fully upgraded version, and puts a gold star on it. Some machines like the Coffee Kiosk and Fondue Pot already have very short production times for every item to begin with, so this is the only real reason to max them out, aside from wanting gold stars on all your machines because they look cool.
- Cap Raiser: Building supplies like nails, planks, and duct tape can be used to increase the storage capacity of your barn (which stores items) and silo (which stores crops).
- Cartoon Cheese: Cheese in this game is a classic slice of orange, hole-filled Swiss cheese with a red wax coating.
- Constantly Lactating Cow: Cows always take an hour to regenerate their milk after being fed, no pregnancy needed. In a similar vein, chickens take 20 minutes to lay eggs, pigs take 4 hours to produce bacon, sheep take 6 hours to regrow their wool, and goats take 8 hours to produce goat milk.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: When milk (be it cow's or goat's) is ready to collect, your cow/goat will be waiting in your farm with a full udder, looking uncomfortable. When you collect the milk, they look relieved.
- Easter Egg: If a piece of Restaurant Table Fence is put in just the right spot next to the many of the machines, a product will appear on the table when it is finished being made.
- Every Proper Lady Should Curtsy:
- The Actress curtsies in her idle animation and as the animation when collecting her reward for your services.
- Similarly, Joan will also curtsey when you fulfill her request.
- Exact Words: As an Anti-Frustration Feature, Boats will never ask for items from certain machines that take ridiculously long times to produce. This includes the Candy Machine, which makes Chocolate (20 hours in a standard machine, 17 hours in a starred one). However, they can ask for items from the Fondue Pot...which produces an item that's made using Chocolate.
- Extreme Omnivore: All varieties of birds will eat ten different kinds of food (sesame, strawberries, fish, soybeans, carrots, broccoli, bell peppers, sunflowers, cabbages, and rice), compared to the rest of the pet animals who only eat one.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: When a resource is harvested from an animal, tapping on it will make it say it's hungry. Most of the animals do look like they're hungry when that happens, except the goats, who instead look sleepy.
- Gluttonous Pig: When pigs are ready to produce bacon, they get so fat they can't move. Using a machine to harvest the bacon from them makes them skinny, and they have to be fed again to regain their normal weight.
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: The Dancer, and to a lesser extent, Joan, wear purple and are feminine women.
- Grows on Trees: Clay is used to make products in the Pottery Studio, and can be planted in the ground and harvested just like any other crop.
- Guilt-Based Gaming: If you continually ignore the game's notifications, it'll send you one that says, "Your farm animals miss you!"
- Happy Dance:
- The Local does a jig when you fulfill all his item requests.
- Mike, one of the farm visitors, does a little dance when you sell him an item.
- Holiday Mode: During Halloween, chickens wear jack-o-lantern costumes, cows wear witch costumes, pigs wear mummy costumes, sheep wear Jacob Marley costumes, goats wear vampire costumes, glowing yellow eyes appear in the doorway to the mine, and pumpkins planted in the field turn into jack-o-lanterns.
- Loophole Abuse: When a new boat comes, you get 4 hours to start making the items it's going to ask for. If you log off of the game before the boat arrives, it still arrives at the end of the 4 hours, but the "boat timer" (which gives you 14-17 hours to fill all the boat crates) doesn't start until you log back in. So if the boat needs items that take a long time to produce, you can fire up the machines, walk away from the game, and come back hours later to a load of freshly produced items and a timer with the full amount still on the clock.
- Needlework Is for Old People: When Rose isn't working for you, her idle animation shows her knitting a long pink scarf.
- No OSHA Compliance: In the sanctuary, the initial versions of the animal houses are poorly built and maintained, including a hippo shower dripping mud and an elephant house with a stained canvas roof. As you gather more animals, the shelters get cleaned up and look better.
- Not the Intended Use:
- Nectar bushes' flowers turn white when drained of all their nectar. They're meant to be chopped down afterwards, but some players keep them as decorations or makeshift fences.
- When you advertise an item for sale in the newspaper, an "!" appears next to your name if you need help with filling a crate, reviving a plant, etc. Rustic Bouquets are one of the most commonly sold items in the newspaper, so some people buy them from other players to use them as "!" advertisements (and/or so they don't have to sell other, more valuable things just to get other players' attention). Other items commonly used for this purpose include Berry Smoothies, Cloche Hats, Tofu Dogs, and Chili Popcorn.
- Power-Strain Blackout: Tom can instantly find any item you ask for, excluding building items. However, after doing this, he will have to nap for 2 hours before he's ready to run an errand for you again.Tom: Zzz...I really need to rest a bit...zzz...
- Puppy-Dog Eyes: In one of the Calico Kitten's idle animations, it stands up on its hind legs and bats its big round eyes.
- Red Live Lobster: Lobsters are bright red even when they've just been hauled out of the fishing pond.
- Rhymes on a Dime: One of the production buildings is the Preservation Station, unlocked at level 91 and used to make pickles, kimchi, canned fish, and dried fruit.
- Shout-Out:
- The Grand Master is based on Mr. Miyagi from The Karate Kid.
- During Halloween season, the sheep wear a ghost costume said to resemble Jacob Marley.
- One of the visitors who sometimes comes to your farm is an umbrella-carrying woman in a flowered top hat and red coat who resembles Mary Poppins. She's even named Mary.
- Southern Belle: The Actress resembles a classic southern belle, complete with long full skirt, sun hat and a Parasol of Prettiness in her idle animation.
- Stock Animal Diet: Cats and kittens drink milk, dogs and puppies eat bacon (the only meat in the game aside from fish), and horses, donkeys, bunnies, and guinea pigs eat carrots. Chickens, cows, pigs, sheep, and goats eat processed feed made from various mixtures of wheat, corn, carrots, and soybeans. Squirrels gather peanuts and bees gather flower nectar to make into honey, both of which can be harvested by the player. Sanctuary herbivores eat entire wheat bundles, while the carnivores eat a combination of fish and carrots.
- Stock Food Depictions: Two types of cheese are produced, a generic yellow cheese with holes, and goat cheese depicted as a white wheel with a small wedge cut out. Apples and cherries are solid red, oranges are solid orange, bananas are bright yellow, carrots are solid orange with green leaves, grapes are purple bunches with green leaves, wheat is a single yellow stalk. Pumpkins are solid orange, except around Halloween when they turn into Jack-O-Lanterns as they're harvested. Butter is produced in traditional yellow sticks. There are a few types of donuts, all O-shaped with different toppings. The list goes on.
- Super Wool Growth: After being sheared and fed, sheep instantly get their wool back, but take a further 6 hours for it to grow long enough to be sheared.
- Swiss-Cheese Security: In the Valley, hordes of zoo animals regularly escape the sanctuaries and it's up to the players to track them down, load them into trucks and bring them back for rewards. This happens every other month.
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: While not confirmed to be female, the Andalusian Donkey is suggested to be so by having a red bow on her tail and a heart-shaped marking on her flank.
- Timed Mission: When a boat appears on the dock, you have 14-17 hours to fill all of the crates on it with the requested items.
- Video Game Cruelty Potential: When pets and zoo animals get hungry, they can't go to sleep until you feed them. So if there's no food in their bowl when they're hungry, they'll just wander around the farm or the sanctuary looking sad, unable to sleep.
