FrontierVille 'Hoedown' Timed Mission: Everything you need to know

Hoedown
A big dance is just a few days away in FrontierVille, and you'll need to prepare for it in Zynga's new timed mission, "Hoedown." This task will be available for sometime, but after accepting it you will only have four days to complete it. In order to be fully prepared for the soiree, you'll need these three things:

    25 Cotton
    5 Fancy Clothing
    10 Tootin' Jugs



Harvesting the 25 Cotton should be simple enough, but in the meantime you should make and visit as many friends as possible. You're going to need quite a lot of Cloth to craft those five Fancy Clothing--30 pieces to be exact. All the while, be sure to berate your friends for those 10 Tootin' Jugs. Players who complete the Goal within four days will receive one Lunch, 100 coins and the Fiddle, a brand new musical instrument (hint: it's interactive). An interactive item just for harvesting some Cotton and making some swanky outfits? You can count us in.

FrontierVille 'Heating Your Homestead' Christmas Goal: Everything you need to know

With winter's icy bite creeping in on us, Zynga has been leaking tons of details about FrontierVille's upcoming Winter missions and Goals. However, "Heating Your Homestead" is especially interesting in that, if the rumors are true, we'll be able to complete this mission repeatedly until Christmas arrives. And after you see the requirements and the reward you'll see why this detail is vitally important:

    Chop down five Trees
    Have 10 Fire
    Collect 15 Bits of Tinder


Chopping down trees should be a normal routine for you by now while crafting Fire is done in the covered Wagon using Wood and Cloth. So, visiting friends just became a much more important part of this Goal. But you'll also need a little help from your friends on this one. Just ask your friends for the Bits of Tinder and be sure to give them out via News Feed posts too as you'll be rewarded one for doing so.

Finally, here's why you'll be doing this incessantly for the next month: turning in this rumored-to-be repeatable quest will net you a Small Gift. These Small Gifts will always contain one random item from the Christmas Collection. So, doing this quest repeatedly will reward you with both lots of XP and inch you closer to yet another completed Collection. Be on the lookout for when this Goal goes live as I'm sure you'll be first in line to take it on.

FrontierVille 'PlayTime' Timed Mission: Everything you need to know

Yet another Timed Mission will soon arrive promptly (we hope) in FrontierVille. Titled "PlayTime," this Goal requires quite a lot of begging. And, again, it should be here for a long while. Though, you'll only have two days to complete it once accepted, which makes for an intense challenge. Here's what you need to do:

    Have 20 Planks
    Get 10 Bags of Playground Sand
    Get 10 Scrap Metal Pieces


While that sounds easy enough, it's a challenge to complete in 48 hours--especially when more than half of it relies on the attentiveness of your friends. Both the Playground Sand and Scrap Metal Pieces are gifts from friends like in other Goals. Though, make sure you have enough Wood to cover crafting 20 Planks before accepting the Mission. (For you math whizzes, that's 140 pieces of Wood.) However, you should be rewarded one for gifting to friends via their News Feeds, which could help compensate for the lack of friends that even notice the News Feed.

Completing this mission within the time limit will reward you with one Dinner, 500 XP and Monkey Bars. Those should come in handy for the six kids you should have by now. Oh, the things we do for them in Facebook games.

FrontierVille Cheats & Tips: How to get ahead without neighbors

Look, we know social games are all about making friends and fostering relationships, but sometimes you simply don't have the time to wait around for your friends to answer that help request. Thankfully, FrontierVille Info reader Anna has come up with a solution to the problem. (And we're bummed we didn't think of it sooner.) Just make a few mock Facebook accounts.

OK, we know it sounds a bit ... off-putting. But so long as you don't abuse the power of Facebook, it's all good--especially considering how militant Facebook has become on shutting down suspicious accounts. But follow our simple two-step process and you should be just fine (and much better off for it).

1. Fraud is Fun's Best Friend

FrontierVille helpNow don't get your undies in a bunch--this is just Facebook, folks. You're not committing a felony here. Many of you likely have two accounts as is (one for standard use and the other for gaming). So, just sign up for an extra Gmail account or whatever mail service you prefer, and create a new account in your name.

Then, input some basic information and a relevant image. This can be a piece of art or whatever your heart desires, but it helps if you use your own face and ... human-sounding name. Then, install FrontierVille (this works with any Facebook game, really) and befriend your "true" account with both of the "fakes."

2. Reaping the Rewards

Now, every time you send a request in FrontierVille for a Goal or a new building, just use your brand new accounts to immediately send those items on over. Of course, this requires you to log in and out of your accounts somewhat rapidly, but anything beats waiting around for the one or two friends that actually respond to your requests. Anna also points out that these requests can be responded to almost every 20 minutes:

    When I request an item, I go to my fake account and click the accept button. Then I copied the link of the request page then after few minutes (give it 15-20 minutes), copy paste the link again in your browser and you can send the item again.

And there you have it. A way to be self-sufficient in FrontierVille--and nearly any social game--for those pivotal moments when you just can't rely on your stable of gamer friends to come through. As an added tip, it comes especially in handy for Timed Goals and to avoid wasting Energy on crop harvests required for Goals.