Starting level 1 in the online game CountryLife, you are shown onto your ranch. You see it in "isometric" view, a form of slanted aerial view, which results in a grassy area containing a cow and some fields (some of them planted), the total area being capable of holding 225 fields (15x15).
This is what you see when you launch CountryLife the very first time.
Starting[]
When you discover your farm, you can find 8 clover plots ready to harvest, 4 more clover plots growing, 11 wheat plots (fully grown), one apple tree ready to harvest, an Holstein Cow eating 3 clovers and making milk from it, a Dutch Mill producing 3 sacks of flour from wheat and a Cheese Master.
You can produce your first last tier product : cheese.
Harvesting crops ready, the apple tree, milk and flour already gives you 26 experience points (XP). With 4 more points, you already access to level 2! You can wait for the 4 last clover plots to be fully grown, or feed your cow, or fill a gear: you'll earn XP when you collect the product after processing.
What you can buy[]
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The only item you can buy (with coins) is clover. You buy it for 15 coins and you can sell it 20 coins when you harvest it 4 hours later. But with the cow and the Cheese Master already on your farm, you can make cheese and sell it 32 coins and get higher profit! |
Clover and milk[]
You can go to the store (an icon in the bottom row of the toolbox at bottom right) to buy clover seeds, to plant in any empty field then to harvest (four or more hours later, at your leisure) to feed to your cow: one experience point ("XP") for each planting or feeding action - you'll be on level 2 before you've really seen the ranch!
If you want to move ahead fast, harvest all of your clover as soon as it is ready, and replant clover on all cleared fields. But if you have many weeks to fill in, with no desire to spend much time each day on your ranch, you will notice that you get a few coins (up to 190) every day in the "lottery". If you wait long enough and harvest and convert and sell only some clover, you will be able to buy a beehive at level 4 and get more value from all remaining clover and future plantings before harvesting. Click on each clover field that is ready to harvest. The clover vanishes into your barn and the hovering cursor now shows a "Click to plant" message above the newly-plowed field. When you've harvested three or more fields, click on your cow's manger (the feeding trough) and see how easy it is to give her three bundles of clover, representing the produce of three fields, whisked magically from your barn.
When the cow has processed a bundle of clover, a milk can appears beside her waiting to be clicked and sent to the barn. If there are three cans there, she stops eating and producing, resuming (if any clover remains) when you remove a can or cans.
Milk can be sold, but will be worth more if converted to cheese, as mentioned in the "Cheese Master" section below.
Gifts[]
You can send any Facebook friend (whether or not they are playing) one gift per day. At level 1 you can gift any of: clover, tomatoes, wheat and black wool. All gifts are free, so it does not matter whether you possess any.
- Since this section was written, more gifts have become available. If you are on level 1, please help improve the wiki by listing (on your user page or a forum or somewhere less obvious) all of what can be gifted at level 1.
Wheat has the greatest monetary value of those three crops and will therefore probably be the most welcome gift at this level and at levels 2 and 3.
If you have friends playing at higher levels, you can ask them to gift you more useful things:
Sheep[]
A sheep will eat your wheat and increase its value by turning it into wool. Harvest the wheat and leave it in your barn while you ask around for some CL-playing friend to gift you a sheep.
Cheese Master[]
This bit of gear will turn milk into cheese, greatly increasing its sale value. Cheese is the most profitable of the processed goods you can sell until you reach level 22 and can buy a baker.