FarmVille Morph Machine

Starts Monday, February 20th, 2017 With the Musical Dash feature soon to come to an end, the FarmVille Studio has already begun work on the next all-farm feature, this time it will be the MORPH MACHINE! In the vein of Mystrees, Movie Mania and the dreaded Maharaja's Stable, the Morph Machine feature will have us choosing a stage and crafting Solar Cells to help Albert Brainstein transform beautiful Atlantean animals in his Morph Machine. Check out the details below and please do share...

MAKE SURE TO READ THE FULL POST, AND CHECK OUT THE TABLES BELOW SO THAT YOU WILL KNOW HOW MANY DUPLICATES TO EXPECT BASED ON THE COLLECTION THAT YOU CHOOSE. 

The FarmVille Morph Machine feature is currently scheduled to be available on our farms from February 20th, 2017 to March 22nd, 2017.

AS OF THE ENHANCE ON FEBRUARY 21ST THE FOLLOWING CHANGES WERE MADE TO THIS FEATURE. 

A look at the loading screen.

A look at the Albert's Science Lab, the building associated with this feature.

A look at our mad scientist character Guide, Albert Brainstein.

  

The stations in this  feature will be called Morph Machines.

A look at the popup that we will get when the feature goes live on our farms.

Once the Morph Machine feature goes live, you will be able to access it through the Albert's Science Lab building, or via this icon on the right side of your farm screen.

A look at the tutorials for this feature.

We will be crafting and collecting Solar Cells to transform the Atlantean Animals in the Morph Machines. It appears that the limit of solar cells that you can collect from the feed is 15 per day, but with similar past features many players were stopped at a lower number.

A look at the crafting recipes for solar cells. You will be able to craft them in the craft shop in increments of 1,3, and 5. The recipes will not be available in the craft shop until the normal market update time prior to the scheduled beginning of the feature. The new crops will release to the market with the same update.

Recipe Name	Bushel 1	Bushel 2	Bushel 3	Cook Time
One Solar Cell	2 Demeters Breadfruit Bushels	3 Red Star Squash Bushel	2 Magic Beans Bushels	1 Hour
Three Solar Cells	3 Persephones Pomegranate Bushels	3 Parsnip Bushels	3 Swiss Chard Bushels	3 Hours
Five Solar Cells	3 Lentil Bushels	3 Cherry Pearl Bushels	3 Sunburst Orchid Bushels	5 Hours

As always, if you do not wish to craft or collect the solar cells, you can opt to purchase them for Farm Cash.

Your Dirt Farmer team has found some unreleased crops that  will be included in the recipes. Check out a preview of them in the below table. Remember that these are new crops with no mastery, and as such, bushel yields will be significantly lower with them until mastery - plant accordingly.

Cherry Pearl	Demeter's Breadfruit	Persephone's Pomegranate

When the feature goes live, we will be invited to choose between mini, medium and mega morpher  collections. There will be some different rewards in each collection.

You will be able to change your collection prior to completion ONCE only. After that you will need to complete one stage to begin another. If you do opt to switch prior to completing your collection, be aware that you will lose any morph  machines that are in progress at the time.

If you complete a collection with time remaining on the feature, you can play for another collection. If you opt to replay a collection that you have already completed, Albert Brainstein will ask if you are sure.

Now for a look at the collections

 Friendly reminder from your Dirt Farmer team. When you place a completed Transmorpher on you farm, do not click on anything until the transformation is complete. Otherwise you risk the Transmorpher freezing and it will then never transform.

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Remember that this type of feature is RANDOM and you can get several duplicate animals prior to completing your collection.

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Now for a look at the tend amounts and wait times associated with this feature. You will need 22 solar cells and 28 hours to raise one Morph Machine to an exotic Atlantean animal. YOUR DIRT FARMER TEAM HAS LEARNED FROM THE FARMVILLE STUDIO THAT THE ENHANCE ON FEBRUARY 22 WAS NOT AN ERROR. YOU WILL HAVE TO WAIT 8 HOURS AFTER THE FINAL SOLAR CELL CHARGE TO PLACE AND TRANSFORM YOUR MORPH MACHINES INTO ANIMALS. WITH THIS CHANGE, THE TOTAL SOLAR CELL REQUIREMENT HAS BEEN REDUCED FROM 22 TO 20 AND THE TOTAL COMPLETION TIME HAS BEEN REDUCED FROM 28 HOURS TO 25 HOURS. WE REMAIN IN CONTACT WITH THE FARMVILLE STUDIO AND ARE ADVOCATING FOR THEM TO LOWER THE INDIVIDUAL WAIT TIMES TO MAKE THE FEATURE A BETTER EXPERIENCE FOR THE MANY PLAYERS WHO HAVE EXPRESSED DISSATISFACTION WITH THE CURRENT CODING IN OUR ASK THE DIRT FARMER GROUP.

Stage Number	Solar Cells Required To Tend	Wait time to tend next Stage
1	2	4 Hours
2	4	6 Hours
3	6	7 Hours
4	8	8 Hours
5	Transform

The Mini Morpher Collection contains 5 animals, with one designated as rare.

This collection offers 3 unlocked machines (you can purchase extra for Farm Cash, but the Farm Cash ones just give the same animals. Also be aware before deciding that purchased machines may not be available on other collections if you opt to play for more than one. They have not been in some past similar features.

It will take a maximum of 13 attempts to complete the set (which means you could very well depending on luck get 8 duplicate animals prior to getting the last one) Per current coding, you will get up to 3 of each common and uncommon animal before completing the set - remember that the Sea Queen Poodle and Water Warrior Wolf are in all collections, so if you try to win all prizes you could end up with many more of those.

Water Warrior Wolf	Sea Queen Poodle	Oceanic Meerkat
Common	Common	Rare
Royal Atlantean Chicken	Coral Grace Peacock
Uncommon	Uncommon

The Medium Morpher Collection contains 9 animals, with two designated as rare.

This collection offers 4 unlocked machines (you can purchase extra for Farm Cash, but the Farm Cash ones just give the same animals. Also be aware before deciding that purchased machines may not be available on other collections if you opt to play for more than one. They have not been in some past similar features.

It will take a maximum of 25 attempts to complete the set (which means you could very well depending on luck get 16 duplicate animals prior to getting the last one) Per current coding, you will get up to 2-4 of each common and uncommon animal before completing the set - remember that the Sea Queen Poodle and Water Warrior Wolf are in all collections, so if you try to win all prizes you could end up with many more of those. Exact maximums per animal before completing set is in parenthesis after probability. There are some items with the same maximum but different probability, due to change in odds of that animal. If you're getting less common ones first, you may be lucky and not have to do the maximum attempts.

Poseidon's Shield Turtle	Water Warrior Wolf	Sea Queen Poodle
Common (4)	Common (3)	Common (3)
Poseidon's Pride Horse	Trident Head Lion	Atlantean Gatekeeper Fox
Rare (2)	Uncommon (2)	Common (4)
Sea King Penguin	Nereid Pegasus	Sea Bred Manatee
Common (3)	Rare (1)	Uncommon (3)

The Mega Morpher Collections contains 11 animals, with 4 designated as rare.

This collection offers 5 unlocked machines (you can purchase extra for Farm Cash, but the Farm Cash ones just give the same animals. Also be aware before deciding that purchased machines may not be available on other collections if you opt to play for more than one. They have not been in some past similar features.

It will take a maximum of 40 attempts to complete the set (which means you could very well depending on luck get 29 duplicate animals prior to getting the last one) Per current coding, you will get  up to 3-5 of each common and uncommon animal before completing the set - remember that the Sea Queen Poodle and Water Warrior Wolf are in all collections, so if you try to win all prizes you could end up with many more of those. Exact maximums per animal before completing set is in parenthesis after probability. There are some items with the same maximum but different probability, due to change in odds of that animal. If you're getting less common ones first, you may be lucky and not have to do the maximum attempts.

Raging Sea Bull	Water Warrior Wolf	Sea Queen Poodle
Common (5)	Uncommon (3)	Uncommon (3)
Sea King Penguin	Deep Sea Pig	Glimmer Skin Leopard
Uncommon (3)	Common (5)	Common (5)
Sea God Dragon	Undersea Legend Pegacorn	Coraline Pegasus
Common (5)	Rare (1)	Rare (3)
Atlantys Unicorn	Pristine Water Magic Deer
Rare (3)	Rare (4)

Now for a look at some of the math involved.

If you wanted to make sure you got every prize you would need to raise at most 78 morph machines. (13+25+40).

At 20 solar cells per machine, you would need 1,560 solar cells maximum.

At 25 hours per machine  lets break that down (remember depending on luck, you may finish a collection with less than the max attempts)

The Mini Morpher Collection has 3 open machines and a maximum of 13 attempts. You would need to tend all machines 4 times and one machine a 5th time for a total of 125 hours or 5.2 days.

The Medium Morpher Collection has 4 open machines and a maximum of 25  attempts. You would need to tend all machines 6 times and one machine a 7th time for a total of 175 hours or 7.3 days.

The Mega  Morpher Collection has 5 open machines and a maximum of 40  attempts. You would need to tend all machines 8 times and one machine a 9th time for a total of 225  hours or 9.4 days.

All prizes could be earned in 22 days if you did not miss a tend time, so there are at least 4-6 days (depending on when the fc only option begins) grace and it is very possible to win all prizes within the allotted time if you so choose.

Finally a look at the offspring from the animals in this feature.

Royal Atlantean Egg	Raging Sea Bull Calf	Nereid Pegasus Foal
Poseidon's Pride Horse Foal	Undersea Legend Pegacorn Foal	Coraline Pegasus Foal
Atlantys Unicorn Foal	Pristine Water Fawn

When the feature ends, you will be given two additional days to PURCHASE remaining animals for FARM CASH. Do not wait until the end to redeem or you will lose progress at that time.

That's all for now, stay tuned to the Dirt Farmer for all of the latest FarmVille news and information.