A neighbor is a farmer's friend in FarmVille. A farmer may send gifts to their neighbors as well as view and help out on their farms and fertilize their crops.
Adding Neighbors
Once a farmer starts playing FarmVille, it is important to add neighbors. This means inviting Facebook friends to the game, or inviting friends who already play FarmVille to become a neighbor. Once they accept the application and accept a farmer as a neighbor the farmer may then visit their farm.
Benefits of Neighbors
There are several benefits to having neighbors.
- Earn experience and coins - Sometimes, while at a friends farm or at your own, a message will appear, asking for help. If you help the friend, you can earn coins and experience.
- Expand your farm - By obtaining a certain amount of neighbors, farmers may pay for farm expansions with coins instead of farm bucks.
- Gain achievements - By adding more neighbors, farmers may earn the Local Celebrity Farmers may take ideas from a neighbors farm and use it in their own.
- Get crops fertilized* - Neighbors have the chance to fertilize their neighbors crops, which makes the crop give extra XP when harvested.
- Feed the chickens - You can feed up to
2050 (As of May 2010) of your Neighbors chickens that are in your friend's coops and you may find Mystery Eggs and it increases their chance of getting Mystery Eggs. - Plow Plots* - You can plow your neighbor's fallow plots to gain your own experience.
- Harvest Trees and Animals* - You can harvest your neighbor's trees and animals to gain your own coins.
*When helping a neighbor, you can choose 5 of these.
Helping neighbors
- Main article: Pests
A farmer may help all of their neighbors once every 24 hours. For the first 20 neighbors helped, 20 coins and 5 experience are earned. For the rest, only 5 coins and 1 experience is given.