FrontierVille really seems to be getting around this week. First, the Wild West game launches a cross promotion with FarmVille, then Mafia Wars and now with Cafe World. So, if you think spice is nice (especially Instant Spice that eliminates cooking time for dishes), then you'll want to take on FrontierVille's Cafe World Mission.
cafe world instant spices
To get started, open Cafe World and you will see a pop-up that will take you to FrontierVille.
frontiervillle cafe world quest
You'll see the Cafe World icon on the left-hand side of your screen (or go to the new Missions menu), click on it and it will open the Quest. There is only one part to this quest that actually requires you to do anything, and it's pretty simple to get done. Here's what you need to do:
frontierville cafe world tomatoes1. Clear Five Grass
If you already cleared your grass today, just wait until tomorrow.
2. Plant Ten Tomatoes
Buy tomatoes in the Market. They cost 25 coins each, and will be ready to harvest in 15 minutes.
3. Harvest Ten Tomatoes
After the 15 minutes are up, harvest the tomatoes. You'll get 2 XP, and 30 coins for harvesting each plant.Don't do what I did and walk away from your computer and forget about these tomatoes -- they wither quickly.
After this is complete, you'll be presented with the Cafe World Quest II, which is simply, to claim your reward. To do that --
cafe world frontierville quest
After you click the button, you'll be taken back to Cafe World where you will see the following notification. When you're ready to use your Instant Spice, open your Spice Rack and they should be there waiting for you.
cafe world frontierville spice reward
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Cafe World Movie Wrap Party Catering Order: Have fun cooking for virtual celebrities
Zynga has always loved bringing real world events into the Cafe World Catering Business, but with this newest order - the Movie Wrap Party - we're taken from simply catering birthday or graduation parties (bo-ring) and are sent to the glitz and glam of Hollywood.
The Movie Wrap Party sees you celebrating the end of production on a film by cooking three dishes and collecting two themed items. You'll need to serve Smoked Salmon Latkes (a two-hour dish) 110 times, Escargot (how chic) 150 times (that's a ten-hour dish) and Chicken Adobo (a 14-hour dish) 250 times. Unfortunately, the largest requirement does come with the longest cooking time, but remember to pull servings out of your Gift Box, or simply use spices to speed up the process of reaching that high 250 number.
Of course, no great chef ever truly works alone, so you're allowed to bring up to 13 of your friends in on this order to help out. While their work carries over into your cooking tasks, the other two requirements are for your game only. You'll need to ask tons of friends to send you 19 Film Reels and 15 Camera Lenses. At least this isn't a case where the same friend can't send you more than one over the course of multiple days.
Speaking of days, you'll have five full days upon starting this order to finish it for the three-star rating. Doing so will reward you with 12 Catering Points, 6,300 Cafe Points, 175,000 coins and the California Sushi Roll recipe (ya know, sushi that ...isn't). If you can't finish the order within the first five days, but still complete it within a week, you'll miss out on the exclusive new recipe, but you will receive two stars, 8 Catering Points, 4,500 Cafe Points, and 125,000 coins. Finally, if you can pull through and simply finish the goal at any point after the first week of starting, you'll receive a single star, 4 Catering Points, 2,700 Cafe Points, and 75,000 coins. That's actually a fairly high coin reward for a one-star rating, so keep that in mind before deciding to "cancel" should you fail to finish in time for the three-star rating.
Ok, so this order may not actually make you famous, and you may not even be able to schmooze with any real celebrities, but the cooking requirements aren't terrible, and the rewards are actually quite good. Add it all up and you have an order that should at least be attempted once, even if only to say that you tried.
What do you think of this newest catering order? Do you think the requirements are doable given the five-day time frame?
The Movie Wrap Party sees you celebrating the end of production on a film by cooking three dishes and collecting two themed items. You'll need to serve Smoked Salmon Latkes (a two-hour dish) 110 times, Escargot (how chic) 150 times (that's a ten-hour dish) and Chicken Adobo (a 14-hour dish) 250 times. Unfortunately, the largest requirement does come with the longest cooking time, but remember to pull servings out of your Gift Box, or simply use spices to speed up the process of reaching that high 250 number.
Of course, no great chef ever truly works alone, so you're allowed to bring up to 13 of your friends in on this order to help out. While their work carries over into your cooking tasks, the other two requirements are for your game only. You'll need to ask tons of friends to send you 19 Film Reels and 15 Camera Lenses. At least this isn't a case where the same friend can't send you more than one over the course of multiple days.
Speaking of days, you'll have five full days upon starting this order to finish it for the three-star rating. Doing so will reward you with 12 Catering Points, 6,300 Cafe Points, 175,000 coins and the California Sushi Roll recipe (ya know, sushi that ...isn't). If you can't finish the order within the first five days, but still complete it within a week, you'll miss out on the exclusive new recipe, but you will receive two stars, 8 Catering Points, 4,500 Cafe Points, and 125,000 coins. Finally, if you can pull through and simply finish the goal at any point after the first week of starting, you'll receive a single star, 4 Catering Points, 2,700 Cafe Points, and 75,000 coins. That's actually a fairly high coin reward for a one-star rating, so keep that in mind before deciding to "cancel" should you fail to finish in time for the three-star rating.
Ok, so this order may not actually make you famous, and you may not even be able to schmooze with any real celebrities, but the cooking requirements aren't terrible, and the rewards are actually quite good. Add it all up and you have an order that should at least be attempted once, even if only to say that you tried.
What do you think of this newest catering order? Do you think the requirements are doable given the five-day time frame?
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Cafe World Opening Night Catering Order: Everything you need to know
A new play has come to the virtual theater in Cafe World, and it's up to you to cater the opening night festivities. It's fitting then that the game's newest catering order is called simply "Opening Night." In this order, you'll need to cook different dishes in bulk, along with collecting two different items related to the theater. You'll have five days to finish this order for the best prizes, but don't think that it'll be easy.
For the cooking tasks, you'll need to serve Smoked Salmon Latkes (a two-hour dish) 400 times, Lavish Lamb Curry (an eight-hour dish) 90 times, Veggie Lasagna (a 22-hour dish) 30 times and Delicious Chocolate Cake (a 14-hour dish) 24 times. To help you finish these tasks, you'll be able to bring up to 13 of your friends in on the order with you, and while the largest task (the Smoked Salmon Latkes) may be the quickest cooking dish of the order, remember that you can speed up your cooking and overall progress even more by using spices and extra servings that are sitting in your Gift Box.
In addition to these cooking tasks, you'll also need to collect 15 Comedy Masks and 15 Tragedy Masks by asking your friends to send them to you. Just remember to ask for them quickly, as you won't want to have all of your cooking tasks done but still need a few more masks to finish.
If you can complete all of these tasks within five days, you'll receive the three-star rating, 15 Catering Points, 7,500 Cafe Points, 200,000 coins and the Big ol' Cookie Cake recipe, which essentially looks like a pile of pancakes that just so happen to be cookies instead. If you can't finish in five days, but can before a full week has passed, you'll earn two stars, 10 Catering Points, 5,000 Cafe Points and 125,000 coins. Finally, for finishing at any point after the first week, you'll receive just a single star, 5 Catering Points, 3,000 Cafe Points and 75,000 coins. Whether or not you'll want to settle for a single star, after all of the work you've put in, will be up to you.
What do you think of the Opening Night Catering Order? Do you complete catering orders for the free recipes, or just for the ability to help your friends in a co-op setting?
For the cooking tasks, you'll need to serve Smoked Salmon Latkes (a two-hour dish) 400 times, Lavish Lamb Curry (an eight-hour dish) 90 times, Veggie Lasagna (a 22-hour dish) 30 times and Delicious Chocolate Cake (a 14-hour dish) 24 times. To help you finish these tasks, you'll be able to bring up to 13 of your friends in on the order with you, and while the largest task (the Smoked Salmon Latkes) may be the quickest cooking dish of the order, remember that you can speed up your cooking and overall progress even more by using spices and extra servings that are sitting in your Gift Box.
In addition to these cooking tasks, you'll also need to collect 15 Comedy Masks and 15 Tragedy Masks by asking your friends to send them to you. Just remember to ask for them quickly, as you won't want to have all of your cooking tasks done but still need a few more masks to finish.
If you can complete all of these tasks within five days, you'll receive the three-star rating, 15 Catering Points, 7,500 Cafe Points, 200,000 coins and the Big ol' Cookie Cake recipe, which essentially looks like a pile of pancakes that just so happen to be cookies instead. If you can't finish in five days, but can before a full week has passed, you'll earn two stars, 10 Catering Points, 5,000 Cafe Points and 125,000 coins. Finally, for finishing at any point after the first week, you'll receive just a single star, 5 Catering Points, 3,000 Cafe Points and 75,000 coins. Whether or not you'll want to settle for a single star, after all of the work you've put in, will be up to you.
What do you think of the Opening Night Catering Order? Do you complete catering orders for the free recipes, or just for the ability to help your friends in a co-op setting?
Cafe World Chef Circle: Play the game with non-Facebook friends soon
Over the last few weeks, we've brought you the news that Zynga has been toying with the ability to play some of their games with non-Facebook friends, in order to always have people around and ready to help you out in your games. In Cafe World, it looks like things are really ramping up to a final release, as the company has released a guide to the new Chef Circle, that will let you play Cafe World with complete strangers, all while retaining your privacy.
First and foremost, this feature is, as of this writing, only available to a handful of players. As Zynga works to eliminate bugs and other issues, it will be rolled out to more chefs. Once it's available to you, you'll be able to join a Chef Circle populated by strangers, but only your first name and your profile picture will be available to them. None of your profile information will be readily available (of course, this doesn't stop players from searching for you manually and finding you based on your profile picture - but that's why you can make your overall Facebook profile private - and should).
While in the same Chef Circle as other players, you'll constantly have the ability to add those users as Facebook friends, opening both of you up to further gameplay opportunities, like sending each other individual gift requests or accepting gifts from their news feed posts as you do currently with your real Facebook friends. Again, both of those tasks are not available between non-Facebook friends who just so happen to be in a Circle together, so your interaction is limited to visiting their cafes, spicing their dishes and helping them complete all new co-op Chef Circle goals and challenges.
To access your Chef Circle, you'll have a new button in the menu that's specifically called "Chefs Circle," which allows you to view a new in-depth dashboard, where the pictures of your crew appear, and where you can track each user's progress with a particular Chef Circle challenge or goal. You will be able to send these users items that go back to a goal, but these items are random, removing your ability to choose what you send. As for the goals themselves, you'll see a summary of the current goal along the right side of the screen, and can track your own progress as related to the team's overall progress in two meters.
If you see any players in your Chef Circle with "Zzz" under their profile picture, it means that they haven't played the game in order five days and you'll have the ability to send them a reminder to come back and help the team. The first person to finish any team goal will receive a "crown," or a set of stars around their profile picture. After the entire team finishes a goal, everyone will then receive the prize listed (5 Cafe Cash, in our above example), and you can all then move onto the next goal.
Let's say you run into a group of players that aren't very active, or are sporadic at best. You can leave your current Chef Circle for any reason, at any time, and join another to try your luck with other players. You can't handpick your Chef Circles, but you won't be placed back into the Circle your just left either.
As the overall goal here seems to be to allow players to meet other chefs in a safe environment, and then eventually add them as Facebook friends to open up further interaction, you can even chat with users in a chat panel on the left side of the screen. A profanity filter is in place, of course, but you can also report any user for doing or saying something naughty if it slips through the filter (which honestly wouldn't surprise me).
All told, these co-op goals and challenges seem like they could be fun, but then again, so did Co-Op Farming when it first launched in FarmVille, and that feature has been all but entirely abandoned now. Still, Catering Orders are fairly popular in Cafe World, and are updated all of the time, so maybe this will turn into something fun after all. Either way, we'll make sure to let you know when the Chef Circle feature opens up to more players, so keep checking back.
[Guide Image Credit: Zynga]
In the meantime, let us know what you think of this future Chef Circle feature in the comments. Are you looking forward to being able to play the game with non-Facebook friends, even if it doesn't look like we'll be able to help each other with currently released goals and catering orders?
First and foremost, this feature is, as of this writing, only available to a handful of players. As Zynga works to eliminate bugs and other issues, it will be rolled out to more chefs. Once it's available to you, you'll be able to join a Chef Circle populated by strangers, but only your first name and your profile picture will be available to them. None of your profile information will be readily available (of course, this doesn't stop players from searching for you manually and finding you based on your profile picture - but that's why you can make your overall Facebook profile private - and should).
While in the same Chef Circle as other players, you'll constantly have the ability to add those users as Facebook friends, opening both of you up to further gameplay opportunities, like sending each other individual gift requests or accepting gifts from their news feed posts as you do currently with your real Facebook friends. Again, both of those tasks are not available between non-Facebook friends who just so happen to be in a Circle together, so your interaction is limited to visiting their cafes, spicing their dishes and helping them complete all new co-op Chef Circle goals and challenges.
To access your Chef Circle, you'll have a new button in the menu that's specifically called "Chefs Circle," which allows you to view a new in-depth dashboard, where the pictures of your crew appear, and where you can track each user's progress with a particular Chef Circle challenge or goal. You will be able to send these users items that go back to a goal, but these items are random, removing your ability to choose what you send. As for the goals themselves, you'll see a summary of the current goal along the right side of the screen, and can track your own progress as related to the team's overall progress in two meters.
If you see any players in your Chef Circle with "Zzz" under their profile picture, it means that they haven't played the game in order five days and you'll have the ability to send them a reminder to come back and help the team. The first person to finish any team goal will receive a "crown," or a set of stars around their profile picture. After the entire team finishes a goal, everyone will then receive the prize listed (5 Cafe Cash, in our above example), and you can all then move onto the next goal.
Let's say you run into a group of players that aren't very active, or are sporadic at best. You can leave your current Chef Circle for any reason, at any time, and join another to try your luck with other players. You can't handpick your Chef Circles, but you won't be placed back into the Circle your just left either.
As the overall goal here seems to be to allow players to meet other chefs in a safe environment, and then eventually add them as Facebook friends to open up further interaction, you can even chat with users in a chat panel on the left side of the screen. A profanity filter is in place, of course, but you can also report any user for doing or saying something naughty if it slips through the filter (which honestly wouldn't surprise me).
All told, these co-op goals and challenges seem like they could be fun, but then again, so did Co-Op Farming when it first launched in FarmVille, and that feature has been all but entirely abandoned now. Still, Catering Orders are fairly popular in Cafe World, and are updated all of the time, so maybe this will turn into something fun after all. Either way, we'll make sure to let you know when the Chef Circle feature opens up to more players, so keep checking back.
[Guide Image Credit: Zynga]
In the meantime, let us know what you think of this future Chef Circle feature in the comments. Are you looking forward to being able to play the game with non-Facebook friends, even if it doesn't look like we'll be able to help each other with currently released goals and catering orders?
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Cafe World Red Phone Booth Goals: Everything you need to know
While we all have plenty of goals on our plate in Cafe World right now, what with the release of not one, but two five-part goal series dealing with the game's two-year anniversary, there's another goal series to complete concerning a Red Phone Booth. To be fair, this trio of goals deals with the two-year anniversary event itself, in that it will give you a bonus on all of the Travel Passes you earn. Remember, collecting more Travel Passes gives you a better opportunity of earning prizes both in-game (stoves and the like) and in the real world (trips to exotic locales). Here's a complete look at the Red Phone Booth goals.
Also, this is another case where the dishes you're asked to serve will likely vary from those listed here. It is impossible for us to predict which dishes each individual user will be required to cook, but for that we apologize.
Phone a Friend 1
* Place Red Phone Booth
* Serve 12 Biscuits of Tomorrow
* Call 3 Friends from your Phone Booth
Luckily, even though the Red Phone Booth is an item we'll place in our cafes, it doesn't need to be built like other items. Instead, you'll be able to look inside it and post messages ("phone calls") to your friends' walls. If they agree to be your Travel Buddy (it looks like you can collect 30 Travel Buddies in all), you'll earn points. As you earn Travel Buddies, you'll unlock items, as seen below:
3 Travel Buddies: Crispy Egg Rolls
6 Travel Buddies: Ivory Lightning Stove
10 Travel Buddies: Pineapple Cake
15 Travel Buddies: Double Travel Passes
Phone a Friend 2
* Call 6 Friends from your Phone Booth
* Spice 10 Neighbors' Stoves
* Serve 10 Napoleon's Napoleon
Remember, if you want to rush your way through this goal series to get back to the main two-year anniversary goals, you can use spices on your own dishes to make them cook faster. You can also check out your Gift Box to make sure you don't have extra servings lying around that you can use to instantly skip any cooking time here.
Phone a Friend 3
* Call 10 Friends from your Phone Booth
* Spice 10 Neighbors' Stoves
* Serve 15 Basil Finger Sandwiches
Again, this goal is fairly self-explanatory; just head inside your Red Phone Booth to post messages to your friends' walls, thus fulfilling the "call" task, and you'll be able to finish this one off basically in the time it takes to cook the dish you're required to. After that's done, you'll be able to celebrate by (hopefully) unlocking the double Travel Passes boost in your cafe, and can go back to completing tasks in the two-year anniversary event. Happy Cooking!
What do you think of these Red Phone Booth goals? Do you think they have a real purpose, or should the Phone Booth have been released without them? Sound off in the comments.
Also, this is another case where the dishes you're asked to serve will likely vary from those listed here. It is impossible for us to predict which dishes each individual user will be required to cook, but for that we apologize.
Phone a Friend 1
* Place Red Phone Booth
* Serve 12 Biscuits of Tomorrow
* Call 3 Friends from your Phone Booth
Luckily, even though the Red Phone Booth is an item we'll place in our cafes, it doesn't need to be built like other items. Instead, you'll be able to look inside it and post messages ("phone calls") to your friends' walls. If they agree to be your Travel Buddy (it looks like you can collect 30 Travel Buddies in all), you'll earn points. As you earn Travel Buddies, you'll unlock items, as seen below:
3 Travel Buddies: Crispy Egg Rolls
6 Travel Buddies: Ivory Lightning Stove
10 Travel Buddies: Pineapple Cake
15 Travel Buddies: Double Travel Passes
Phone a Friend 2
* Call 6 Friends from your Phone Booth
* Spice 10 Neighbors' Stoves
* Serve 10 Napoleon's Napoleon
Remember, if you want to rush your way through this goal series to get back to the main two-year anniversary goals, you can use spices on your own dishes to make them cook faster. You can also check out your Gift Box to make sure you don't have extra servings lying around that you can use to instantly skip any cooking time here.
Phone a Friend 3
* Call 10 Friends from your Phone Booth
* Spice 10 Neighbors' Stoves
* Serve 15 Basil Finger Sandwiches
Again, this goal is fairly self-explanatory; just head inside your Red Phone Booth to post messages to your friends' walls, thus fulfilling the "call" task, and you'll be able to finish this one off basically in the time it takes to cook the dish you're required to. After that's done, you'll be able to celebrate by (hopefully) unlocking the double Travel Passes boost in your cafe, and can go back to completing tasks in the two-year anniversary event. Happy Cooking!
What do you think of these Red Phone Booth goals? Do you think they have a real purpose, or should the Phone Booth have been released without them? Sound off in the comments.
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