Castleville: Treasure Chests Items from Jacques' Island

Treasure Chests Items from Jacques' Island

Locations and Rewards
First we only get 5 treasure chest. Later we will get more 3 near each statue head. Some players already found lots of items inside of 14 treasure chests in Jacques Island. For your luck (and mine) they register all locations and which items we can get by each treasure chest. 


See below this Treasure Chest locations and Reward Items list:

Castleville Tip: Color Level 10 Royal Buildings

Tip: 
Use a Different Color for:
- Royal Buildings with Level 10
Some friends of mine had this great idea - coloring the Royal Buildings with a different color. Using the Design Mode, chose the paint (same place as the Move and Storage button) and start coloring your Royal Buildings with Level 10. Then, inform your friends about it - posting in a group or a page or simply changing the name of your kingdom for "Red Royal Lv 10", for example. Or "Not Red Royal lv10". Or say which color you want or do NOT want to be tended. Check the images below:

Castleville: Click Crown to Tend Neighbors Royal Buildings

New Feature of the Crown in the Neighbors' Bar

For Crew Members

Castleville: Spirit Spring Bar Rewards (Martha quest Line)

Rewards from the Spirit Spring Bar:
* All of these items are found in the DECOR TAB in the Inventory.

Greenhouse Unlocked at 50 Spirit Points	Rabbit Hutch Unlocked at 20 Spirit Points	Pergola Unlocked at 10 Spirit Points
(Spring FEAST Party)	(Spring BRUNCH Party)	(Spring PICNIC Party)
Rewards: 1 Crop each 24hrs	Rewards: 1 Fertilizer each 24hrs	Rewards:  Simple Decor.

Castleville: Eggstraordinary Quest TIP- The Egg Evolution

Eggstraordinary - Egg Evolution
Scientific Research

Did you notice how we are getting to Ember the Dragon on the Castleville "Eggstraordinary Evidence" Quest Guide?

The Duke is a scientist now, with is team and they start by the Egg-Stand to the Dragon-Nest. Check below:

Castleville: All Spring Spirit Recipes for the Spring Bar

Spring Spirit Recipes for Spring Bar: Points and Rewards

Depending of which recipe you get different points to fill in your Spring bar and to upgrade its levels: 
Picnic (5 points), Brunch (20 points) and Feast (50 points).
For Martha's Quest Guide CLICK HERE
For Spring Parties Guide CLICK HERE

Castleville: Tips for Stonehenge

Tips for Stonehenge

Earn XP Rewards when building the Stonehenge

Don't hurry up doing this quest. This one is to play it smart and not quick. The objective here is to upgrade the Stonehenge but also to collect max XP in the shortest time and getting rewards, as the stone henge is active. Rewards are higher as you upgrade your Stonehenge. 


When complete, you’re rewarded with a Double XP bonus for 1 Hour!  Collect each bonus by clicking on Stonehenge and watch the XP fall magically from Stonehenge and be added to your XP bar! Once you’ve finished and collected your first 1 Hour Bonus.  The maximum Double XP reward is 250 XP.  Stonehenge can be reactivated every 8 hours by gathering all the Altar building requirements.    (For the Stonehenge Quest Click Here)

Castleville: Quests Lines Need Tomatoes in MAX Inventory

Plant Tomatoes 

New quests requires lots of tomatoes 

MAKE SURE you have LOTS OF TOMATOES in your inventory. These new quests are very demanding on them. DUKE: 3 Tomato Soup - each 20 tomatoes, Baz: 5 Pizzas - each 5 tomatoes Sonja: 2 Spaghettis - each 7 tomatoes TOMATOES TOTAL (only in these 3 quests): 99 Tomatoes needed. Also the Rainbow quest (Sullivan) requires harvesting 10 tomatoes.

Castleville Valentine Spirit Tips

Castleville Valentine Spirit Tips

After u've completed Yvette's spirit bar and you got the reward, you will get a question mark inside of a heart. This is because YOU HAVE TO click on the bar again and choose your next character (on the table below in your game), otherwise everything you are crafting in the Valentine Shop won't count for the next reward! You can choose who u want (be sure to craft character's favorite item to fill up the bar quickly!

Castleville: Laboratory Glitch - Have More Than 1

Glitch: Build more than 1 Laboratory

You would think that this glitch would be applied to other crafting buildings, but I tried with the workshop and it doesn't work. So, let's build more than 1 laboratory: 

NEWS: Crafting Glitch

There is a glitch going on for some:

Crafting in the lab iron bar for example. You open the kitchen and you can craft crystals, and so on.

Tip: 
This might be useful, you can build more than 1 laboratory, by keeping the existing 1 in your storage. After u build the next, then take out the first. However, after the goals, we don't really need that many labs, except for producing Alchemist Powders.

Castleville: Ice Picks Guide-Save George Quest Line

"Save George" quest line brought as new unlocked gloom areas, a new building, new tools and new recipes. Here will understand the new items that can be craft in the Workshop.

Castleville: How can I earn some quick coins?

 How can I earn some quick coins?

Castleville: Did You Get Golden Tree? When and How to

Have you seen this Golden Tree and wonder how to get it?

Golden Oak Tree is a reward from Rafael's quest Adventure Club (available for level 26).

This tree gives you 20 wood logs,
every 21 hours.

Each Lumber (Logging) Camps gives 5 logs, each.  Need space? Store one (or more) of them in your cellar. I only stored one because the BENCH to be crafted obliges that you have one of these buildings. Also, it is my way for checking how many wood planks do I own, in a very quick way, through the Workshop.

CLICK HERE to see the complete Rafael's quest Adventure Club

Castleville: How Can I Get Alchemist Powder?

Alchemist Powder


OPS!!! I am out of alchemist powder and now it is needed for quests.
Is this happening with you? 
Then you visit neighbors, but this wanted item is not dropping.


Well, it looks like each time alchemist powder is dropping less and less during the visits to neighbors. Try the following:


After a long break (night sleep, for example) you'll receive 8 or 9 Alchemist Powder on the first 10 consecutive visits. Also, there is at least 1 energy drop (1 to 3 energy). This will repeat every eight (8) hours. Then, both alchemist powder and energy will drop greatly and sometimes you visit more than 10 neighbors and not even 1 alchemist powder and maybe no energy also.


Suggestion: Visit at the maximum 10 neighbors each time, every 8 hours. 

Castleville: Recover Your Chopped Tree or Stump

Did you get a chopped tree or only have the stump from that nice tree that decorates your kingdom?

Now you can use Flaming Grog!!! That restores your chopped trees and stumps.

This is sounding like a commercial add!!!!  ... LOL

Well, Zynga decided and very well to give the change to have our nice trees back and replaced the function for the Grog Flaming from "unwither crops" to "magically" save our trees (that wasn't working very well, or not really necessary).

CastleVille Tips: Tend or Not in Neighbors Kingdoms

What to TEND when visiting Neighbors?

Tend, ...                            or...         Not Tend

That is the question!!!!

When visiting neighbors the most important is helping them. So, keep an eye out for the signs that say "tend here" and "Don't tend here".  If you do pay attention, they will notice you more and hopefully do the same for you. 

When familiar with the items that takes more time, you can tend those buildings and speeding the crafting process by HOURS.

Apply to be a staff member in the Royal building, when needed. Royal buildings are the highest reward in a neighbor kingdom. As more often tended these buildings get  higher levels and higher rewards for everyone. 

Sometimes you are visiting neighbors as a requirement from quests. Then, you need to look for what you need to tend (an animal, specific crops, etc..)

When you have doubts what to tend, your neighbor will be always happy if you tend their animals, and you should give priority for the animals that take longer time to grow, as baby peacocks and baby geese. Also, cow and chicken is always nice, for energy crafting.


DON'T
Please don't mine rocks, You can get a Mining Camp early on that lets you produce stones, plus you can ask neighbors for stone blocks, which should take care of all your stone needs. Once you destroy a rock, that rock costs 1000 coins to replace. So please do your mining on your own (or on neighbors not playing).

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.

Tips: Keeping Castleville Beasties Away

"OH NO! Looks like a beastie has your kingdom locked down!"

What is this here? Beasties as pets?

No!!! This is a TRICK to have beasties AWAY!

Lock your beasties up, before they lock you!

Beasties pop up all time (thief beasties when collecting houses, wolves when feeding animals, rats when you harvest your crops, or just because the quest wants to) and lock your kingdom.

How can I lock my beasties away?

You should summon the maximum beasties, and depending of your level there is a different  max beastie limit. When you reach the maximum beastie limit, there will be a notification like this:

• 3 Gloom Potions - choose a more convenient for you and you can buy in the market with heart points or crafting in your Workshop
• Have a spot in your kingdom with no important items around and any kind of fences around
• Move your avatar into position in the chosen spot
• Go to your inventory and use the 3 Gloom Potions

You should summon the maximum beasties, and depending of your level there is a different  max beastie limit. When you reach the maximum beastie limit, you won't be able to summon more beasties.

Now that you reached the maximum beastie limit, it won't show up more beasties, except if you are exploring a new area - there it will always contain beastie, as it happens in the Alistair's area, or Sonja treasure chest's area. Gladly those beasties only blocked items in the new areas, so it is not a big assole. Another exception is some quests will pop up more beasties above this limit.

If you need a beastie for a quest though, then you need to banish one of the beasties locked up. 

Suggestions:

• The suggestion is to use the Gloom rat potion first, since it only costs 5 hearts, and you can banish gloom rats easily with 3 clicks / 1 wood club. Also rats take up less space.
• Use Keep Off signs to keep your beasties safe.

Quick guide to get the most out of your game time

1. Add as many neighbors as you can - Neighbors can be a great source of materials (when you harvest materials in a neighbors both of you get the rewards) this is a great way to save energy and build a stockpile of wood or stones
2. Have as many crafting building as possible. I run all my crafting buildings with exploration crystals while im away and use my play time to make the shorter times crafts.
3. [SPACE] you can never have enough of it. What i do is move all my trees to as little area as is possible as well as my rocks. Don't forget to move your harvesting buildings close by for the bonus
4. Let your friends do it! Explains itself but i almost never feed my animals. my friends do it for me. the same goes for buildings and materials.
5. Get your NEWBIES bonuses! 
6. Bonus! Irrigation,Courtyard, Trees and rocks. 

• Make sure to place your items in the bonus area .
• Buildings on courtyard get 15 more coins when harvested.
• You can get up to 20% faster crop yield if your plots are between two sets of water (I've seen 25% but i have not been able to duplicate it)
• Harvesters (tree and rock) can get a 50% bonus

Don't be afraid to ask someone to help you out.