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How to Use Bushels in Farmville to Create Crafted Goods

Jul 27th, 2010 by tenthz
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If you are over level 25 on FarmVille, you now have access to a Crafting Cottage (or you will soon!). Whatever cottage you choose - be it the bakery, the winery, or the spa - you will need to obtain bushels to complete your recipes. Read this article to find out all the ways to find the bushels you need!

Crafting Cottages were released by Zynga on FarmVille on July 21, 2010 after a period of beta testing in March. Have you received your crafting cottage yet?  They are only available to users over the level of 25 and the feature is being rolled out slowly, but everyone over level 25 should have access to them by the end of July 2010.

When you become eligible for your crafting cottage, you will get to pick from a Bakery, a Winery, or a Spa.  It does not really matter which crafting cottage you pick, as there are no advantages of one over the other.  Which ever cottage you pick, you will need to collect bushels to complete the recipes available to you.  Completing recipes will allow you to make good which can be sold to your neighbors.  Goods can also be turned in for fuel.  There are a few different ways to collect bushels to create goods.

Your Friend's Farmer's Markets

You can buy bushels from your friends!  It does not cost any money to buy bushels from your friends, but you are limited to 3 bushels per friend per 24 hour period.  If you have a lot of friends that are all growing crops toward the same recipe, you will not have any trouble gathering all your bushels from your friends!  But what if you have used up your limit of 3 bushels per friend and you still do not have enough for the recipe?  Read on!

Your Friends Feed

When your friends post about bushels they have collected or they are sharing bushels from their inventory, these posts will show up on your news feed.  Monitor your news feed daily and try to grab samples of the bushels that you need.  These samples do not go towards the limit of bushels per friend per day, but you can only grab one sample per feed post.  Stock up!

Plant and Harvest

I bet you are thinking that none of your friends have the bushels you need.  It is still possible to get those bushels, but it might take a little work.  When you plant and harvest your own crops, you will find bushels as you harvest.  The chance of finding bushels when you harvest your crops increases based on how many of that crop you have harvested so far and if you have mastered the crop.  If you have the crop mastered, you will find a lot of bushels, so you probably don't need to plant as many of the crop.

However you manage to get your bushels, you can use your bushels in FarmVille to create crafted goods.  The more goods you craft, the higher level your crafting cottage will be!

Check out my other FarmVille articles:

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How to Use Bushels in FarmVille to achieve masteries

How to Get Fuel in FarmVille

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tenthz, over a year ago
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Erin - All of your bushels go into the same place regardless of whether you got them from friends or if you harvested them yourself.  The crafting cottage that you have determines the types of bushels you need to create goods, so if you plant aloe and you have a bakery, you will have no use for it to make goods.  There are many types of bushels that are not used in creating goods and you can use them to make pig slop or post them to your friends to use if they have a different cottage than you.  If you have more questions, let me know! If you have a Bukisa account, you can PM me.

Erin, over a year ago
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I have tried everything I can think of but I can’t use the bushels that I have found to make goods.  I cam only use the ones I get from friends.  I have about 80 of my own bushels just sitting there waiting to be created into something other than pig slop but can not do it.  Any tips????

tenthz, over a year ago
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Judy - if you “use” a good (ie, pumpkin bread, sachets, sake, etc) you are basically turning them in for fuel!  I know that I am always in need of more fuel, so I always buy goods from all my friends every day.  The higher the level of the good, the more fuel you get!

Judy, over a year ago
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What is the advantage for me to go out and buy a goods?

tenthz, over a year ago
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Jenny - the “use bushel” button doesn’t help you make a good.  You have to go to your cottage and through the recipe page to click “make a good”.  The “use bushel” feature just turns them on to let you use the bushel bonus for planting/harvesting.

jenny, over a year ago
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yeah, well when i saw i had my own bushels to amek a good i clicked on use bushels and all of them just dissapeared. What about that?

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