FarmVille Ribbons: A Guide to What You Need to Do to Get Them and How You Get the Different Colors of Each Ribbon

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FarmVille Ribbons: A Guide to What You Need to Do to Get Them and How You Get the Different Colors of Each Ribbon
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FarmVille has ways of marking your progress in the game other than XP and leveling up. They also award ribbons. If you are on Facebook and don’t play FarmVille, here is a little information.

FarmVille

Farmville Intro Screen

FarmVille, said the currently be the most popular game on Facebook, with some 70 million players, is an unusual game to be so popular. It is not a competitive game, except in the sense of competing with yourself to do as well as you can, and it is a game that encourages cooperation with others - your neighbors. It is slow paced in many ways, as well as literally loading new screens very slowly - so slow that I play it with the fastest browsers I have to make it load faster (Opera and Chrome.)

FarmVille is a game that rewards you for investing time and planning, and the schemes advocated for people to level up amazing quickly or automate parts of the game through cheating detract from the pleasure you can find playing.

You customize your avatar. All of your friends who also play Farmville can become your neighbors

Your start in Farmville - customize options like music playing

FarmVille starts you in the game planting a few individual plots of land with a limited choice of seeds. You get XP for plowing plots, pay farm coins to buy seeds, and get additional XP and coins for successfully growing crops and harvesting within a certain time period. Even in the very early stages of the game, you can start earning ribbons. The yellow level of ribbons, the lowest, is specifically meant for beginning farmers.

FarmVille ribbons are a reward for achieving some goal in the game. Sometimes it is hard to understand why received one, or why you have not. This guide will explain how the ribbon system works. We will also let you know what needs to be done to get each type of ribbon and what goal number you need to reach each of the series of four colors for every ribbon.

FarmVille ribbons

Ribbons come in four levels, starting with yellow, white, red, and then blue, the highest level. Each color means you have done more of the activity which is the goal for the ribbon. You get some yellow ribbons very early in the game, for plowing a certain number of plots, or planting a certain quantity of crops. These are particularly nice early in the game because you do not need to achieve a high goal to get the ribbon, and the XP and

Cream of the Crop yellow ribbon- from harvesting a certain number of crops. You will get more of this series as you harvest more. - Copy

coins are very useful early in the game, comparatively.

Ribbons are not only a nice record of your achievements; they give you XP and coins, more each time you get a higher ribbon in a series. Some ribbons also give you rewards when you get them, usually related to the ribbon. Because FarmVille is still in a Beta version, these can change and even not arrive every time.

There are six pages of different possible ribbons, each with five different ribbons except for the last page, which shows the last two and newest FarmVille ribbons.

FarmVille ribbons

Ribbons Page 1- A beginning player

Ribbons Page 2 - Early in the game

Ribbon Page 3 - Making some progress on one ribbon

Ribbons Page 4 - No progress on these ribbons yet.

The ribbons

In order, the ribbons are

  • Local Celebrity - based on the number of neighbors you have - 4, 8, 25, 50

  • Good Samaritan – helping out your friends on their farms - 20, 150, 500, 2,500

  • High Roller – coins from harvesting - 500, 50,000, 500,000, 1,000,000

  • A yellow ribbon- Pretty Penny - for buying so many seeds at the market

    A Pretty Penny coins spent in the market - 2,500, 50,000, 500,000, 1,500,000

  • Cream of the Crop – crops harvested - 30, 1000, 5000, 50,000

  • Knock on Wood - harvest from trees - 20, 250, 1,500, 5,000

  • Zoologist – get animals - 15, 500, 1000, 5,000

  • Architect – buying buildings - 2, 6, 15, 30

    As well as going up to level 6, your harvest won you the Green Thumb yellow ribbon

  • Pack Rat – collecting decorations - 5, 50, 100, 250

  • Animal Shelter – adopting lost animals - 2, 3, 4, 15

  • Green Thumb – harvesting different crops - 5, 10, 14, 17

  • Tree Hugger – harvest from different kinds of trees - 3, 8, 12, 15

  • Noah’s Ark – owning different types of animals - 2, 4, 6, 8

  • Not Spoiled, Gifted – gifts in your gift box - 3, 9, 15, 21

  • Crop Whisperer -fertilizing neighbor’s crops - 75, 500, 1000, 5,000

  • Flower Power – harvesting flowers - 15,500, 2,500, 10,000

  • I just earned my first Cat Lady ribbon, by petting my cats 5 times

    Pretty Flower – collecting flower bunches - 5, 10, 25, 50

  • King of Compost – harvesting fertilized crops - 75, 150, 300, 600

  • They of Mystery – opening Mystery boxes - 2, 6, 15, 30

  • Fenced In – fences owned - 5, 50, 100, 250

  • Lord of the Plow – plots plowed with your tractor - 200, 1,000, 2,500, 10,000

  • Need for Seed – planting with the seeder machinery - 200, 1,000, 2,500, 10,000

  • Cat Lady – brushing cats - 5, 50, 100, 250

  • Vegetable Virtuoso – harvesting vegetable crops - 15, 500, 2,500, 10,000

    Vegetable Virtuoso yellow ribbon- for a variety of crops. Note reward of XP and coins

  • Foremost Fruit Farmer – harvest different fruit crops - 15, 500, 2,500, 10,000

  • Egg-cellent Discovery – discovering mystery eggs - 5, 25, 50, 100

  • Cunning Collector – completing collections - 2, 25, 50, 100

Neighbors who get ribbons can give bonuses to their neighbors when they publish their good news

If you publish your ribbons to your facebook home page, other people can click on the notice, and get a reward, based on what color ribbon you received. It says ‘Share the wealth’ They will get 50 coins for yellow, 100 white, 250 red, and 500 blue.

My FarmVille ribbons - I am at a lot higher level than the player shown earlier

Ribbons Page 1

Ribbons Page 2

Ribbons Page 3 - I have completed these ribbons

RIbbons Page 4 - quite a way to go

Ribbons Page 5

Ribbons Page 6 - the newest ones

FarmVille spirit

FarmVille players also, according to a message from Zygna, creators or FarmVille and a number of other facebook games, by purchasing a special variety of seeds, donated over $1 million dollars to Haiti earthquake relief. When the seed was purchased with FarmVille Cash, which you purchase through FarmVille for real money for cash or reward points to use in the game, Farmville donated the value of your seed purchase to earthquake relief. Normally I like to see how well I can do in games like Farmville by my own efforts and game earnings, but this was a very creative method of raising money for a good cause.

Resources

Information about the activity goals for each ribbon came from my own experience, information from the FarmVille official forums, spreadsheets compiled by other FarmVille players and published on the Internet, and the FarmViller Wiki, a work in progress. When information I found on the Internet did not agree with my experience, I put down what I had learned. If you know any information about later ribbon levels that contradicts what is here, please leave a comment and I will correct the article.

FarmViller Wiki

FarmVille Data sheet created by a FarmVille Player

Zygna FarmVille Forum

Helpful spreadsheets and information in the forum that was particularly useful came from posts by Fred i Dalen, Daisygirl, CelestialMyst

If you have information you’d like to learn about the FarmVille game, ask in a comment.