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Updates to FarmVille have added additional minigames, including "co-op" quests to farm large quantities of crops in a limited time with help from your neighbors, and the Farmer's Market, which allows trading of "bushels" that can be used for a variety of temporary buffs or combined to manufacture consumable goods. New functional buildings are constantly being introduced, including the chicken coop, dairy farm, horse stable, nursery barn, beehive, garage, pigpen, orchard, duck pond, and sheep pen, which generally let you save space and simplify harvesting while also conferring a special bonus<ref>Chicken coops allow for the collection of mystery eggs, dairy farms provide calves, horse stables provide foals and mass-harvesting consumables, nursery barns let your baby animals grow up, beehives sometimes provide you with self-fertilization consumables and pollinated seeds, garages let you upgrade vehicles from 2x2 to 4x4, pigpens let you gather special truffles that can be traded for unique items, orchards give you watering cans or mystery seedlings, duck ponds give you ducklings, and sheep pens let you breed rams and ewes together to produce lambs that resemble a mixture of the parents</ref>.
 
Farmville is basically the [[Trope Codifier]] and [[Genre Launch]] for games in a social-networking environment: action points that regenerate over time, insane customization and [[Gotta Catch Em All|collectability]], and progress requiring [[A Little Help From My Friends]]. ([[Stop Poking Me|Just a little]].) The formula works: Farmville has become so insanely popular that [[Blizzard Entertainment]] has [https://web.archive.org/web/20101109010902/http://www.massively.com/2010/03/04/activision-farmers-could-kill-wow/ begun to consider it a competitor] to ''[[World of Warcraft]]''. And [[Follow the Leader|various other competitors]], such as an announced [[The Sims]] Facebook game.
 
It is a sister game to ''[[Pet VillePetVille]]'', ''[[Fish Ville]]'', ''[[FrontierThe VillePioneer Trail]]'', and ''[[City Ville]]''. It's not a well known fact, but Farmville is actually inspired by [[Happy Farm]], developed in China (which itself was inspired by [[Harvest Moon]]). You would think it's usually the other way around.
 
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