FarmVille Lighthouse Cove Ghost Bonus Challenges: Everything you need to know

Phew, what a mouthful! After completing the three Ghost Goals in FarmVille's Lighthouse Cove (which have yet to be released), you'll then be able to move onto a series of three more Bonus Challenges. These seem to be some of the hardest one's we've seen released in the game to date, if info spotted by FarmVille Freak ends up being the final product. As usual, these unreleased goals are subject to change at any time, and we'll change this guide to reflect any discrepancies that may exist in the final product. Still, feel free to use this as a sort of template for how to prepare when the goals finally go live.

Bonus Challenge 1

    Master Cheddar Cheese to 1-star
    Harvest 110 Cove Cranberries
    Harvest Lighthouse Cove


With this one, you'll either have a really easy time of things, or will already be reaching to pull your hair out, all depending on how much (or how little) you use your Restaurant in your Lighthouse Cove farm. Each batch of Cheddar Cheese takes two Red Clover, one Hay and two Rhubarb Bushels, so start crafting as much of that as you can, even before these goals launch, to catch up if you haven't already received the mastery sign (at level 20). As for the Cove Cranberries, that's no easy task either, as they take a full day to grow. Still, for finishing this first goal, you'll receive 500 XP a Trick or Treat Monkey and 2,500 coins.

Bonus Challenge 2

    Harvest 110 Daylilies
    Improve Lighthouse Cove to Level 6
    Make Cranberry-Pineapple Relish 3 Times


Cranberry-Pineapple Relish is crafted inside the Restaurant using two Cove Cranberry, one Pineapple and three Peppermint bushels each. Meanwhile, Daylilies take 16 hours to harvest. Remember, unless you've paid Farm Cash to upgrade your farm to where it can hold 110 plots or more, you'll likely need to spend more than one day on this goal, which wastes time that you simply don't have to spare. This isn't a suggestion to go out and spend Farm Cash on expansions (I haven't done so, as an example) - it's simply a warning of what to expect. For finishing this second Bonus Challenge, you'll receive 1,000 XP a Giant Conch and 2,500 coins.

Bonus Challenge 3

    Make Jonny Cakes 3 Times
    Harvest 130 Butter & Sugar Corn
    Harvest 1 Orchard

Each Jonny Cake requires two Butter & Sugar Corn, two Rye and two Daylily bushels, while Butter & Sugar Corn itself requires 12 hours to grow. Hopefully, with such high crop requirements across these three Bonus Challenge goals, that means that further coin options for expansions will be released alongside, but as of right now, I wouldn't hold my breath on that just yet. If you can manage to finish this third goal before the goals expire, you'll end up walking away with 500 XP, a Gnarled Tree decoration and 2,500 coins.

I highly expect further Halloween-specific goals to launch in FarmVille before the holiday comes and goes, so keep checking back with us as we'll bring you a complete guide to those goals as well, if and when they do launch.

Check out the rest of our Halloween coverage right here.

What do you think of these challenge goals? Did you already expand your land to be able to plant many more crops at once?

FarmVille Lighthouse Cove land expansion sale happening now!

As we've all come to know (and perhaps hate) about FarmVille's third farm, Lighthouse Cove, you're limited on the amount of individual farm plots you can place on your farm dependent on how far you've expanded the farm itself. While we've seen coin versions of expansions up to the 22x22 mark be released (slowly by surely), if you're still not at the level you'd like to be, and are fine shelling out some Farm Cash to get there, you can now expand through the 26x26, 28x28 and 30x30 land expansions for around 50% off each one.

Oddly enough, there isn't a sale option for the Beachfront Property, 24x24 land expansion, so in order to unlock these three options that are on sale, you'll still have to pay 100 Farm Cash to reach that point. If you've already done so, however, you can purchase each new expansion for around half of what they originally cost, which is a pretty good deal, all things considered. Here's the specific rundown:

Shoreline Acres (26x26) - 50 Farm Cash (originally 120)
Seashore Villa (28x28) - 75 Farm Cash (originally 145)
Bayside Estate (30x30) - 100 Farm Cash (originally 170)

Unfortunately, that still doesn't round out the full selection of expansions in Lighthouse Cove, as the 32x32 expansion sits at its normal price, a whopping 195 Farm Cash. Still, if you take advantage of these sales while they happen, you can expand quicker, and for far less real-world many than you would have been forced to pay originally. Either way, could this sale mean that Zynga is trying to claim any remaining Farm Cash that they can before releasing these land expansions for coins as well? It's an interesting theory, and we'll make sure to let you know if it holds weight in the future.

Will you purchase any of these Lighthouse Cove land expansions while they're on sale?

FarmVille Lighthouse Cove Chapter 3 Bonus Goals: Everything you need to know

After celebrating Heritage Days in FarmVille's Lighthouse Cove, you'll be ready (but perhaps not willing) to tackle the next series of Bonus Challenges on your new farm. Past Bonus Challenge goal sets have been incredibly expensive to say the least, but depending on which sets of data with these newest goals is correct, you just might be in for a break here. We'll get to the discrepancy in a minute, but for now, let's take a look at the first goal out of three.

Bonus Challenge 1!

    * Get 3 Hobby Horse Rakes
    * Harvest 70 Cove Cranberries
    * Improve the Cove to Level 4


To earn the Hobby Horse Rakes, you'll simply need to post a general request to your news feed asking all friends for help at once. For finishing this first, fairly simple goal (admittedly), you'll receive 500 XP, a Fall Gnome and 2,500 coins.

Bonus Challenge 2!

    * Harvest 90 Chandler Blueberries
    * Harvest 1 Orchard??
    * Make Wild Blueberry Pie Twice


Here's where things get a bit hairy. According to in-game images that Zynga has provided, this second task is technically "Harvest 1 {item}," with a picture of an Orchard. This leads us to believe that you'll simply need to harvest a ready Orchard, which is incredibly simple. However, when speaking of the goals on the game's official forums, we're told that this task is really supposed to be "Expand to a Harbor Homestead," which would cost at least 50 Farm Cash, depending on if you had already expanded twice before to the 16x16 level. We'll let you know when we discover which one is correct. Either way, if you finish this goal entirely, you'll receive 1,000 XP, a Red Cedar Tree and 5,000 coins.

Bonus Challenge 3!

    * Harvest Lighthouse Cove
    * Make Black Raspberry Wine Twice
    * Harvest the Zoo


Raspberry Wine can be crafted inside your Restaurant using three Raspberry, two White Grape and three Chandler Blueberry bushels. As for the Zoo, you'll need to build one of these on your own (check out our guide for more), as you weren't given one when landing in the Cove proper. Only after it's been completed, and it's had a chance to become "ready" after 24 hours will you be able to finish this goal, and the overall Bonus Challenge series, off for good. Finishing this final goal in the trio gives you 500 XP, a Gorilla, 2,500 coins and 10 Animal Feeds.

This entire goal series will need to be completed in under a week, or else they'll expire and take your chance at these rewards with them. Since you still have quite a bit of time before these goals even activate on your land, however, why not plan ahead by building your Zoo, or even making these crafting recipes and then letting them sit completed inside your Restaurant? You'll need to save all of the time you can to finish these three goals in time, so every little bit of planning helps! Good luck!

What do you think of these Chapter 3 Bonus Challenge goals? Sound off in the comments.

FarmVille: Lighthouse Cove land expansions on sale for "select users"

Just what makes someone a "select user?" We're not exactly sure, but if you're even remotely interested in expanding the size of your land in FarmVille's Lighthouse Cove farm, and aren't afraid to spend some Farm Cash to do so, you'll be happy to know that "some" users are being offered the ability to do so at a discount. So far, these are the sale expansions, with their prices:

Harbor Homestead (18x18) - 40 Farm Cash (down from 50)
Oceanside Farm (20x20) - 50 Farm Cash (down from 60)
Seaside Farmland (22x22) - 60 Farm Cash (down from 80)

Unfortunately, that seems to be where the discounts stop for now. It could be that different users have different selections of expansions on sale in their own games, but as the Lighthouse Cove currently supports up to the 32x32 size (the Waterfront Land expansion), this 22x22 cutoff is pretty low. Still, by the time you reach that point, you'll have already shelled out 150 Farm Cash, so maybe that's enough (for now).

Again, the game's loading screen [pictured] says that these sale prices are only available for "select users," but I haven't personally come across anyone that doesn't have the option to expand with sale prices. That's not to say this is a lie, but I'd simply make an educated guess that more people have the ability than not. After all - Zynga wants your money, so why not release the sale to more users to entice them to actually spend some? Either way, this sale isn't going to be around forever, so make sure to browse through the Farm Aides section of the store soon to see if the sale prices are available to you.

Do you have the sale prices on Expansions in your store? Will you take advantage of any of the sale prices? Sound off in the comments.