FarmVille Spooky Mausoleum, Spooky Skeleton, Grave Open, Grave Closed & Coffin haunting us this Halloween

Thank you FarmVille player Linkaholic for finding these unreleased FarmVille Spooky Mausoleum, Spooky Skeleton, Grave Open, Grave Closed, Grave v2, & Coffin items!

Along with the rest of the exciting FarmVille Halloween items we've stumbled upon, it should definitely be an eventful holiday.
This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

Pioneer Trail Halloween Hutch: Everything you need to know

For the past couple of days now, we've been told that Fanny Wildcat in Pioneer Trail had a deep, dark secret. This secret was apparently so foul that she couldn't even share it with her new husband Hank. However, with Halloween approaching, Fanny's been unnerved enough to finally come clean. The secret, while a bit far-fetched, will see the game's Halloween theme really taking a turn back to a focus on the Homestead.

If you're not too busy dealing with the evil Mayor in Ghost Town, you'll be happy to learn the following: Fanny Wildcat is a Vampire! While that's crazy enough (after all, why has she not burned to a crisp standing in the sun all of these months?), it looks like Hank might have a secret of his own, and it revolves around him howling at the moon. To unravel all of these mysteries, we're asked to build the Halloween Hutch, a building that looks a bit like a coffin when first placed on your land (fitting), but then turns into a spooky cupboard of such as it's built. It looks like you might need to collect different amounts of ingredients depending on your level, as I'm a fairly high level and have to collect more items than my friends (as an example). For your reference, I'm level 93, and must collect the folllowing:

    12 Grimoires
    12 Apothecary Shelves
    12 Preserved Lizards
    16 Mortar and Pestles
    16 Bunsen Burners
    16 Glass Beakers



Regardless of the quantity, the Grimoires, Apothecary Shelves and Preserved Lizards are earned through general news posts placed on your wall, while the other three items are earned through individual gift requests sent to friends.

Once the Halloween Hutch is complete, you'll be able to use it to craft Vampire and Werewolf potions, that will allow you to "try out Hank and Fanny's powers for yourself." In other words, you'll be able to craft potions that will then let you look like either a Vampire or Werewolf, depending on which one you choose. If you choose one side of the argument (since Vampires vs. Werewolves is a heated argument in pop-culture), and then change your mind, you'll need to wait four hours for your potion to expire, or, you can craft another potion (including a hybrid potion) to change your look to something else before the timer has expired.

To go along with the release of the Halloween Hutch is a series of goals. We'll make sure to give you a complete look at these goals just as soon as we can, so keep checking back!

Check out the rest of our Halloween 2011 coverage right here.

Are you excited to see yet another project to complete as part of Halloween in Pioneer Trail, or do you have enough to work on with simply completing Ghost Town?

Pioneer Trail Family Secret Goals: Everything you need to know

With the launch of the Halloween Hutch in Pioneer Trail, we see both Fanny Wildcat and Hank revealing dark secrets about their pasts. For one, Fanny is a vampire! Hank, on the otherhand, is a Werewolf, but how both could actually keep these things secret from each other (they are married, after all) is anyone's guess. Still, with this Halloween-themed event, we see two sets of goals being released, on top of the Halloween Hutch itself to tie things back together.

The first set of goals is a one-time-only deal, going along with the construction of the Halloween Hutch itself (if these goals don't appear in your list at the left side of the screen, open your Mission Select screen and scroll to the very end). Here are the details.

Fanny Has a Secret

    Harvest 20 Pumpkins
    Clear 10 Skulls on your Homestead or a Neighbor's
    Collect 10 Confession Letters


Even if you have Skulls on your own land, I'd highly suggest using your friends' Homesteads for this particular task, as you never know when you might need those extra skulls, specifically on your Homestead, sometime later on. Meanwhile, the Confession Letters are earned by posting a general request on your wall for all of your friends to see. Your friends will receive a Letter for helping you, so this should be one that's finished fairly quickly. Finishing this first goal gives you 100 XP, 500 coins and a Bloodberry Juice. This is one of the ingredients that goes into crafting a Vampire Potion.

Vampires Love Werewolves

    Clear 10 Grass with your Bat Following
    Collect 10 Hank Loves Fanny Cards
    Craft a Hybrid Potion with your Bat Following


Here's where things get a little complicated. Even though this Vampires Love Werewolves goal comes directly after Fanny Has a Secret, you won't actually be able to complete it without doing some repeatable goals first. There are two repeatable goals to tackle, and similar to the School House Upgrade feature, the more you complete these repeatable goals, the more prizes you will unlock.

Specifically, you'll unlock three prizes along the way. The first is earned after completing each goal just one time each. You'll unlock the Hybrid Potion, which allows you to turn yourself into a combination of Vampire / Werewolf. After completing each goal one more time (for four goals total), you'll unlock a "Family Moon Tree," representing Hank's end of the event. Finally, for completing each goal one more time (for a complete total of six goals completed - three of each), you'll unlock the Pet Bat. This one waits for your in your inventory, so just pull it out and you'll be able to go back to "Vampires Love Werewolves" to complete it.

Here are a look at the repeatable goals themselves.

Chronicle of a Vampire

    Craft 2 Vampire Potions
    Drink a Vampire Potion
    Tend 5 Tomatoes on a Neighbors' Homestead


Just ask a friend to plant Tomatoes and come by afterwards (even if the crops have already had time to wither), and this one should work out just fine. As for the Vampire Potions, they're crafted using twelve Bloodberry Juice and eight Glitter Powders each. When harvesting new Bloodberry Trees, you'll have a chance of earning Bloodberry Juice, while Glitter Powder can be gathered from friends. Finishing this first repeatable goal gives you 200 XP, a Family Secret Mystery Box and a Wolfnut Butter.

Hank's Hankerin to Howl

    Craft 2 Werewolf Potions
    Drink a Werewolf Potion
    Tend 10 Pumpkins on Neighbors' Homesteads


Werewolf Potions are created using 12 Wolfnut Butter and eight Hairy Beakers each, with the Wolfnut Butter coming from Wolfnut Trees and the Hairy Beakers being gathered from friends. Finishing this second repeatable goal gives you a single Bloodberry Juice, 300 XP and another Family Secret Mystery Box. These boxes contain themed decorations like spooky bell towers, stone ground tiles and even an antique angel statue. Both Wolfnut and Bloodberry Trees can also be earned by opening these crates.

All told, these Family Secret goals may look pretty complicated, but once you get started are fairly self-explanatory in practice. Hopefully, by using our guide you'll be able to tackle all four with stride, and will be able to complete these repeatable goals enough times to finish this entire event off. You'll walk away with some pretty cool prizes in the process, so good luck!

Check out the rest of our Halloween 2011 coverage right here.

What do you think of these Family Secret goals? Do you like these goals more than those found in the game's Ghost Town event?

Pioneer Trail Halloween Store: Stock up on scary supplies in one place

To make our Halloween shopping easy this year in the Pioneer Trail, the team behind the game has decided to completely separate the game's many themed items (including some returning from last year) into their own store. This is, appropriately enough, called the Halloween store, and you can find it on the right side of the gameplay screen marked by a huge Pumpkin logo. Inside this store, you'll find five different categories for your shopping pleasure: Mounts, Animals, Costumes, Crops and Decorations. We're here to give you a rundown of each of the items available, and their prices (with the School House discount in effect) so you know what to expect going in.

Mounts:

Rideable Wolf - 150 Horseshoes

Sure, this one is expensive (ok, really, really expensive), but if Horses are so last week to you, then this Rideable Wolf will be the perfect replacement. Now you can feel free to travel to your friends' Homesteads, terrorizing their children and animals with this menacing wild animal. We're sure he doesn't bite... hard.

Animals:

Spooky Crate - 35 Horseshoes
Halloween Mystery Animal Crate - 30 Horseshoes
Ballerina Cow - 10 Horseshoes
Dragon Goose - 950 coins

This Halloween Mystery Animal Crate is none other than the bat / rat filled version that has been given out quite frequently (say, through land expansion prizes) since Halloween of last year, so you may want to skip it in favor of the Spooky Crate, which comes with Pirate Pigs and what look to be some kind of Western / Cowboy Goats and Chickens. As for the Dragon Goose, well, it's just a Goose dressed as a bright green dragon. Nothing else really needs to be said.

Costumes:

    Chicken Outfit - 50 Horseshoes
    Ninja Outfit - 30 Horseshoes
    Superhero Outfit - 9,500 coins
    Sunflower Outfit (Female) - 5 Horseshoes


Along with these costumes are the returning offerings of the Reaper, Horseman, Ghost and Skeleton. If you already earned them last year, they won't be available to purchase again, but will be freely available for your characters to wear (including your children).

Crops:

Ghost Pumpkins - 1 Horseshoe
Black Rose - 285 coins

Don't panic about the price of the Ghost Pumpkins - they're also available to send on the game's free gifts page (you may have to scroll down some to spot them). They take just one hour to grow and reward you with 235 coins per square. As for the Black Roses, they take 14 hours to grow and reward you with 850 coins each.

Decorations:

Haunted Hayride - 30 Horseshoes
Mummy Chamber - 15 Horseshoes
The Game - 75 Horseshoes
Pumpkin Carriage - 50 Horseshoes
Kitty - 25 Horseshoes
Cheeky Pumpkin - 5 Horseshoes
Mausoleum - 30 Horseshoes
Zombie Swamp - 100 Horseshoes

Witches' Brew - 2 Horseshoes
Leaf Rake - 3,325 coins and 5 Wood
Bobbing Apples - 1,900 coins
Axe Topiary - 1,140 coins
Colorful Balloons - 950 coins
Crashed Witch - 9,500 coins
Frankenscarecrow - 47,500 coins
Monster Topiary - 1,140 coins

Prize Pumpkin - 475 coins
Ghost Outhouse - 2,375 coins
Grey Headstone - 1,805 coins and 5 Wood
Small Pumpkin I - 950 coins
Small Pumpkin II - 950 coins

Of course, with the launch of new items also comes some re-releases in the form of the Leaf Rake, Colorful Balloons, Small Pumpkins, etc. but if you've got plenty of Horseshoes burning a hole in your proverbial pocket, there are plenty of new items as well. Just remember to continue to upgrade your storage capacity in order to store all of these new goodies when the Halloween holiday has come and gone!

Since this is such a large supply of items, I'd actually be surprised if we saw additional items released in the Halloween Store. However, we'll definitely keep an eye on things, and will let you know if more items are released in the future.

Check out the rest of our Halloween 2011 coverage right here.

Which of these Halloween themed items is your favorite? Which ones are you planning on purchasing - just the coin items, or will you spend some Horseshoes as well?

FarmVille: Halloween Black Belgian horse available for coins

If you're a Horse collector in FarmVille, you'll likely be happy with the following news: a new Horse called the Black Belgian is now available in the game's store for coins. However, unless you've been saving up, you may not be able to afford its high price tag. How high? How does the million coin mark sound to your wallet? Good? Then you're just fine, as that's its exact price.

Interestingly, this Black Belgian horse is marked in the Halloween limited edition item theme, but it doesn't do anything to scream "Halloween" other than being black. Still, I suppose this gives Zynga a way to bring more attention to it in the store, as its part of the theme that will only last for a limited time. The Black Belgian will only be available for the next two weeks, but you'll receive one heck of a bonus for purchasing it: 10,000 XP.

At that point, you can either place the Horse into your Horse Paddock to be able to collect from it once daily, or you can keep it outside on display and collect from it once every three days. Remember, if you store it, you have a chance to breed a Black Belgian Foal, which would of course be even more limited. Whatever the case, make sure to head into the store sooner, rather than later, if you have any interest whatsoever in purchasing one of these expensive Horses for your farm(s).

Will you purchase the Black Belgian Horse for the whopping price tag of 1 million coins? Sound off in the comments.