Castleville: Crops Full Guide

A Complete Guide about Crops and Farming                          For a Quick Guide click here

Farm Plots are placed on land. You plant seeds in them and plants are ready over time.

You start the game with 3 farm plots and you can buy extra plots from the market. Farming is the activities of placing the crop, seeding and harvesting. Farming is a way to earn additional coins. The harvesting of the crops will also give experience points and harvests can be used as crafting items. Depending on your level, there is a limit of farm plots you can have:

CastleVille Tips: 50% Bonus Crop Speed

How can you get a 50% bonus crop speed?

This is especially useful for those who need more coins, want to level up or you just need crops to be harvest quicker (for example for completing a quest).


There are two main methods: 1) using rivers, 2) using pumps:

Method 1: with rivers

To get 50% crop bonus speed, set up as shown in the picture Method 1. Make sure the river is a "solid" river. If you place two river sections a square apart, they will LOOK like a connected river, but there's really a space in between that doesn't COUNT as a river tile for irrigation purposes.


You can experiment with it yourself. The growth time goes down by 10%, 15%, 20%, 25% and so on all the way up to 50%, depending on how much water you have around your crops.


For a limited time, you can gift river sections. Gift them to your buddies, and if they autogift you back, you get lots!


Source: Forums.zynga.com

Method 2: with pumps, more crops in less space

Another method is the picture 2, after unlocking the pump. When you move your crops you can see which speed will apply to that crop in that place. This method demands less space use and the results are easier to reach. Below it is shown the message that pops up when you move a crop, this is still in a construction for this method and it is tried a combination rivers and pumps.

Castleville Crops Tips Guide

Planting and harvesting is good way to generate additional coin revenue and experience points during game play. Use the following helpful tips to optimize game play and use planting and harvesting to gain an advantage.

1. Buy Extra Farm Plots at the market under the Nature tab.

2. Speeding Growing Time (Use a Water Source)

Place farm plots next to ANY water source to speed up harvesting (water source examples: moats, wells, ponds) - See our tip How to Speed Crops until 50% (Click here) 

3. Crops Wither Time: 3.5 Times Grow Time

Crops wilt if cycle times have expired (wilt time is 3.5x grow time, example: Grapes are ready to harvest 5 minutes after being planted.  Grapes will wilt after an additional 17 minutes has passed.) Plant crops with high cycle times so they do not wilt, when you know you won't be playing.

4. Inventory limit: 50 for each crop


5. Higher Coin Reward Per Cost Ratio is given by the Crops with shorter time cycle

This means that if you want to earn more coins by each coin spent, the best would be the shortest time cycle crop - Grapes. Though this crop makes you spending too much energy and energy is vital in this game. Best choice is Flax crop that takes 30 minutes, good for coins and for energy.

FLAX
Best crop for earning coins and XP
Ingredient for craft Flax Oil in the Kitchen,
which is so needed in many other recipes