Gift

A gift is an item that is sent by a farmer to their neighbors. Sending a gift costs nothing to either player, but a farmer may only send one gift to each of his neighbors every four hours. Some gifts are available to buy at the market; however, most gifts are unique, as they cannot be obtained any other way. By reaching higher levels, a farmer can send a wider variety of gifts.When a farmer earns a ribbon, they are sometimes given an item as a reward. When they receive a reward, they will receive it in the same way a gift from a neighbor is received and they must take it from the gift box. When FarmVille releases new items to all farmers, they sometimes place it as a gift in the Gift Box as well.

Sending a gift in general
When a player initially opens FarmVille for the first time in a day, they are taken to the gifts page. Here, they may choose a gift to send to any of their neighbors. If they wish to, a player may return to this page later. To send a gift, the player must select the desired gift from the list. Next, the player must click the send button, which will take them to a list of their Facebook friends and FarmVille neighbors. The player may then select any friends that he wishes to send the gift to. A farmer can send a gift every four hours to any Facebook Friend. Alternatively, select a neighbor and send a gift specifically them.

Sending a specific gift
Since all gifts do not always show up on the list all the time, there may be times when you can not send what you would like unless you know the name of the gift as used in the gift link and how to form the URL for the gift.

The URL for a specific gift is http://apps.facebook.com/onthefarm/gifts_send.php?gift=gift_name

Usually the gift name is obvious. For example, the Bottle for building the Nursery Barn is bottle. However, sometimes the name isn't so obvious as the following table shows:

Thank you gift
When farmers accept a gift, they have the possibility to send a Thank you gift to the donor. A Thank you gift is identical to the gift you just recived.This is a good opportunity to get gifts that the farmer himself can send, but which cannot be sent by neighbors. This is important if a farmer needs collectables or building material for the horse stable and has only few neighbors.

Not Spoiled, Gifted! Ribbon
To earn the ribbon for Not Spoiled, Gifted!, farmers must have a number of unique gifts in their gift box at one time. Gifts can be received from neighbors or as a reward from earning ribbons or gaining levels. On February 24th, 2010, FarmVille expanded the Gift Box from holding only 30 gifts to 50 gifts.

You can have hold more than 200 gifts, but you can't open any Mystery Egg.

FarmVille.com Exclusive Gifts
FarmVille.com Exclusive Gifts are gifts which neighbors can send to each other, but not through Facebook. FarmVille.com Exclusive Gifts can only be sent from Farmville.com website. They are not purchasable from the market.