[THE NEW] Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know Thread

Thanks for bringing this thread back. This is very useful for many reasons. I have one example to share now. And will probably have more at a later date.

Did you know that after completing a farm pass task, you can speed the chick walking to the end of the current tasks points? Simply back out of screen by touching the " X" on the upper right. Immediately go back in the path, and viola! She's at the end of the path. Works well when completing the weekly tasks.

Note: end of current task path is not necessarily the whole road. Just the amount of points you've earned. So if you've earned 75 points, she moves 75 points ahead! Better than waiting for her to walk past everything.

If you're solo Derby

And it's a blossom Derby

Normal 320 tasks can become rarer but

The NEXT task to appear is ALWAYS a 320 blossom task when there is NOT a blossom task currently on the board

So if you stagger the trashing of Derby tasks by a few seconds each

Then BE THERE when its time for them to respawn

You have a few seconds to decide whether to keep or to trash the first task that appears

Which WILL be a 320 blossom task

If you choose to trash then the NEXT task will ALSO be a 320 blossom task

And so on and so forth till an easy one pops up

-It can take a few goes round so do it when you have the time to come back within next half hour!

-Trash in a pattern to make it easier on yourself when they reappear!

for instance, top to bottom and left to right

If there is a global event on

And you have passed the global requirement threshold

You can farm hop to a near unlimited amount of new farms.

And potentially find useful items sans the need to compete with the usual newspaper induced rush
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CLICK the EVENT BILLBOARD on your farm

CLICK the BLUE GLOBE tab to the left hand side

(That shows you the global progress and brings up the 'top neighbourhoods' info as default)

CLICK on the SWITCH INFO button, AKA the CIRCLING ARROWS button, to bottom right

(that changes what you see from 'top neighbourhoods' to 'recent contributors')

The odd numberd farms in that list are most likely people you are already in game friends with

So positions 1, 3, 5, etc

The even numberd farms in that list are new to you and potentially interesting

So positions 2, 4, 6, etc

Those even numbered farms in the list are ever changing.

You have time to visit position 2 and maybe position 4 before they change to yet more new farms.

You can find shop items, helps, interesting farm designs and all without the competition of the newspaper.

But only during a global event and only if you yourself have passed the global threshold!

NB: you also have to return to your farm to re-click your own billboard to go again!

Dear farmer,

I don't know whether you know that but for me this was new information:

If you are in the fishing area you can access the farmpass without switching back to the farm. Tap on the biddy with the green fishing hat underneath the fishing book.

In town the same procedure, tapping on the biddy beneath the train station suffices.

🐣🐤🐥

Maggie the Builder and her Collection Book: I didn't know for the longest time, but it is easy to get your favorite design back via the Collection Book. Anything in your Collection Book Maggie will build again for you at any time.

Psssst… (What’s a biddy?) 

To place an item in the queue of a production building:
1. tap the production building
2. drag the item to the first slot of the queue.
For over five years I have been doing it this way.

After reading this post from Frog On I realized I can also drag the item onto the production building.

As far as I know, how to add an item to the queue of a production building is not explained in the ingame help or in the Hay Day wiki.

A biddy is a young chicken. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biddy

Same for UK 😅

If you rapidly click on a birdbath or house (or indeed a bat house) several critters will fly in to say hello



At Halloween time that means bats in your birdbath....😅

Here it is an old lady, usually used ina disparaging way.  For example ‘ …an interfering old biddy..’

I’ve heard “old biddy” for an older woman, too. But it didn’t make sense in the original context. Unless maybe someone finds Rose or Maggie really annoying for some reason, lol.

I hadn't realized that either until Cowslips recently posted a pic of it in reference to something else. This "new" knowledge has saved me from spending those gift cards only to get another small tree! Thank you both!

That’s the reason why I asked VJ where she got the waterput deco from. If you click on the dices you can see if the new deco (or decos that you want) or actually in there with their % possibility. If they are not show you won’t get them. I don’t have the waterput offered. So I keep my vouchers and wait until there is a new offer.