In CountryLife you get more things to do (planting, buying, and gifting) as you move up to higher levels. Most of them make more profit, sometimes with no additional work.
Just 1 experience points ("XP") will put you up to level 2; reach 2 for level 3, 3 for level 4, but after that it rises more steeply: 4 for level 5, 5 for level 6, 6 for level 7, 7 for level 8 (at which time you can call up a rainstorm if you have been saving your ranch cash), 8 for level 9, 9 for level 10, and so on.
Level 1
- You can buy clover, to plant then to feed to your cows: one XP for each action - you'll be on level 2 before you've really seen the ranch!
- You can gift: tomatoes, clover and wheat. All gifts are free, so it does not matter whether you possess any. Wheat has the greatest monetary value and will therefore probably be the most welcome gift at this level and at levels 2 and 3.
Level 2
- Reached with 30 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy an Banana Tree, but that would be folly when you can almost certainly persuade a neighbor to gift you one or more (or more valuable trees)
- You can gift: Holstein Cow; but check that the recipient would like one, because they may prefer Sheep or something else.
Level 3
- Reached with 2 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy Wheat, which takes 12 hours to grow and is therefore very good for planting at bedtime; save it to feed to a Sheep (to get Wool) unless desperate for Ranch Cash; a friend who is at or above level 9 can gift you a sheep.
- You can gift: .
Level 4
- Reached with 3 experience points
- You get: 15000000 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy:
- a Cool Packer, which sends bees to pollinate blooming clover and return to produce Clover Packer, so you should buy one soon because nobody can gift you one; just remember not to harvest clover until it's pollinated
- a Starline Beehive, which produces honey 500% faster if you can keep up - but does it affect lighting time??
- You can gift: corn (clearly the most saleable crop gift at level 4 - but the recipient may prefer something else), and honey (very poor value).
Level 5
- Reached with 4 experience points
- You get: 15000000 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy:
- Corn (in anticipation of using it to produce eggs at Level 6)
- and (purely for decoration) wooden barrels
- You can gift: chickens, preferably only to someone who has a Chicken Coop with a vacancy).
Level 6
- Reached with 5 experience points
- You get: 500 coins and 2 ranch cash
- You can buy a Chicken Coop, which uses corn to produce eggs, vital in breadmaking, so you should buy one soon because nobody can gift you one
- You can gift: flour and carrots.
Level 7
- Reached with 6 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy: seeds for Green Lettuce (sell @ 200 or ask a friend for a Ketchup Wiz, the most advanced bit of gear that can be gifted) and Choco Brown Fence
- You can gift: Eggs.
Level 8
- Reached with 1050 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy carrots @ 75 (sell @ 84 but maybe better fed to an Angora Rabbit because Angora Hair sells for 94)
- You can gift: Cheese Master, grapes.
Level 9
- Reached with 1450 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy:
- another Holstein Cow @ 2500 - probably very good value if you visit the game several times a day so as to grow lots of clover efficiently and have no neighbors who can gift you one; ask them first!
- Cherry Tree @ 625 but ask a friend to gift you one
- You can gift: cheese, sheep, Cherry Tree.
Level 10
- Reached with 1950 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy: Greenhouse and grapes @ 105 (sell @ 116 or save up to use in wine at level 18 or jam at level 20)
- You can gift wool and 25 OP (automatic operations)
Level 11
- Reached with 2500 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy: chicken @ 250 - but almost any friend can gift you one, so why pay?
- You can gift Angora Hair, Glass Pane and Pipe Stack.
Level 12
- Reached with 3100 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy: sheep @ 3,000
- You can gift: Angora Rabbit.
Level 13
"Just reached Level 13 in Country Life! ... unlocked Cheese Master, Amazon Green Fence and can now gift Ketchup Wiz. "
- Reached with 3800 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy:
- Cheese Master @ 4,500 coins - but surely you have a friend who can gift you one for zilch?
- Amazon Green Fence.
- You can gift: Ketchup Wiz.
Level 14
- Reached with 4600 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy: Angora Rabbit @ 3,500
- You can gift: wine.
Level 15
- Reached with 5500 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy: Dutch Mill @ 7,500
Level 16
- Reached with 6550 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy: Ketchup Wiz @ 3,000 but someone can gift you one (and you can still sell tomatoes @ 37; but cheese making is much more profitable if you can spend a few minutes several times a day harvesting clover)
Level 17
- Reached with 7600 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy: Orange Tree @ 850 but try to get gifted one
- You can gift: Orange Tree.
Level 18
- Reached with 8,800 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy: Winemaker @ 5,500 (sell wine at 130 - but the jam'r you get at level 20 gives you as much profit if you can spend time collecting honey and it has other uses)
Level 19
- Reached with 10,300 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy: blueberry plants @ 85 (sell fruit for 91 after just 3 hours' growth, or save it for the jam'r that you can buy at Level 20)
Level 20
- Reached with 11,900 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy your first Jam'r for 7,000 coins and combine honey with over seven different fruits for jam
- You can gift: blueberries.
Level 21
- Reached with 13,750 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy a Banana Tree for 975; but each friend at a higher level can gift you one every day
Level 22
- Reached with 15,600 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy a Baker for 8,500 coins and start making bread, the most profitable activity in the game (except for jam made from tree fruit) until you buy a weaver at level 24
- You can gift: a Banana Tree: very good value if planted economically even though you cannot make jam from them (as of March 2010).
Level 23
- Reached with 18,100 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy Blackberries @ 125 (good value for filling in 6 hours; but raspberries taking 5 hours may be better use of land, depending on what you plant next)
Consider saving wool and Angora Hair instead of selling them, because your next level allows you to buy a weaver to add great value to those fibres.
Level 24
- Reached with 20,600 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy a Weaver for 10,500 coins. Once you do, you can start making wool and Angora sweaters, two very profitable activities. Angora Sweaters are the game's best value per hour of raw material growth time (as at 18 Jan 2010) - although trees can return more per unit of land area if they occupy only a quarter of the space a plot occupies. Planting carrots is now always better value than planting grapes, so you may want to sell your winemaker(s) to make room for more productive fields or another weaver
- You can gift: blackberries.
Level 25
- Reached with 23,400 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy a Lamp Post for 7,500 coins (just for decoration)
Level 26
- Reached with 26,600 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy Bird Feeder for 4,200 coins (just for decoration)
Level 27
- Reached with 30,500 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy Raspberries for 95 and harvest to sell for 104 (the most profitable berry fruit for jam, per hour, as of 17 Jan 2010). They take 5 hours to grow.
Level 28
- Reached with 35,000 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
Level 29
- Reached with 40,000 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
Level 30
- Reached with 45,500 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy a birdbath for 15,000 coins, purely for aesthetics.
Level 31
- Reached with 51,500 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy a Pie Oh, My! for 15,000 coins and combine honey and flour with apples, strawberries, blueberries, or pumpkins for pies
- You can gift: strawberries. (? Apple Pie)
Level 32
- Reached with 58,000 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
Level 33
- Reached with 65,000 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy Seed Potatoes for 115 coins and sell, after harvesting, for 135. They take 18 hours to grow.
Level 34
- Reached with 72,500 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
Level 35
- Reached with 80,500 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy/plant Green Lettuce for 160 coins.
Level 36
- Reached with 89,000 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 188 ranch cash
Level 37
- Reached with 98,000 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy a Log Cabin for decoration
Level 38
- Reached with 107,500 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
Level 39
- Reached with 117,500 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can plant Red Peppers
Level 40
- Reached with 128,000 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
Level 41
- Reached with 139,000 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
Level 42
- Reached with 150,500 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
Level 43
- Reached with 162,500 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy a Manor for decoration and prestige.
Level 44
- Reached with 175,000 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
Level 45
- Reached with 188,000 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
- You can buy pumpkins.
Level 46
- Reached with 201,500 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
Level 47
- Reached with 215,500 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
Level 48
- Reached with 230,000 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
Level 49
- Reached with 245,000 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
Level 50
- Reached with 260,500 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
Level 51
- Reached with 276,500 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
Level 52
- Reached with 293,000 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
Level 53
- Reached with 310,000 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
Level 54
- Reached with 327,500 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
Level 55
- Reached with 345,500 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
Level 56
- Reached with ... experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
Level 57
- Reached with ...383000 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
Level 80
- Reached with ... experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
Level 91
- Reached with 1326500 experience points
- You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash
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Level 92
- Reached with 1363000 experience points
- 'You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash'
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Level 93
- Reached with 1400000 experience points
- 'You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash'
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Level 94
- Reached with 1437500 experience points
- 'You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash'
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Level 95
- Reached with 1475500 experience points
- 'You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash'
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Level 96
- Reached with 95 experience points
- 'You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash'
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Level 97
- Reached with 1553000 experience points
- 'You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash'
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Level 98
- Reached with 1592500 experience points
- 'You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash'
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Level 99
- Reached with 1632500 experience points
- 'You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash'
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Level 100
- Reached with 1673000 experience points
- 'You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash'
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Level 101
- Reached with 99,999,999 experience points
- 'You get: 150 coins and 1 ranch cash'
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