Cafe World Aloha Joe and Lisa Goals: Everything you need to know

The romantic saga of Espresso Joe and Lisa Latte, two characters in Cafe World, continues now as Zynga has released a new eight part mission series in the game that sees you preparing your cafe for an Hawaiian Party. Why? Well, it appears as though Joe and Lisa just returned from a great vacation to Hawaii, and they've brought you a gift. However, you won't receive said gift(s) until your cafe is ready to hold a properly themed party.

These goals are called "Aloha, Joe and Lisa," and they start with an incredibly simple set of three tasks [pictured]:

Own a Large Tiki Mask
Own a Surfboard Collection
Have 2 Leis

Both the Tiki Mask and the Surfboard Collection are decorative items, which are available to purchase from the store for 9,250 coins each. Meanwhile, you'll be able to send out individual gift requests for the two Leis. Note that these Leis work as a sort of "RSVP" for the "return from Hawaii" event, so you'll only be able to ask the same friend to send you additional Leis every 46 hours (weird number, I know, but unfortunately that's the way it is). Finishing this first goal gives you 100 Cafe Points and 100 coins as a reward.


Part II of VIII continues to leave your stoves free of food, as you'll be serving drinks instead.

Serve Orange Juice 30 Times
Spice 2 of your Neighbors' Dishes
Have 1 Flowerprint Surfboard

The Flowerprint Surfboard is a fairly large item costing 40,000 coins. Meanwhile, Orange Juice is part of your Drink Bar, and can be served to at least nine guests each time you prepare it (depending on your mastery), with a single preparation costing 43 Energy. For finishing this quest, you'll receive the same bonus as before - 100 coins and 100 Cafe Points.

Part III of VIII is where things become a bit more time consuming, as you'll actually have to ask your friends to send you items in bulk.

Serve Loco Moco 10 Times
Ask for 5 Taro Leaves
Ask for 7 Ti Leaves

Loco Moco can either be served from your Gift Box, or you can cook it and wait 20 hours to serve it. Meanwhile, you'll need to ask your friends to send you the 12 food ingredients necessary to finish this quest. Doing so will reward you with the Lau Lau dish, which is a traditional Hawaiian dish made of pork.

Part IV of VIII marks the halfway point, and it sees you putting your new Lau Lau recipe to good use (as if we could have expected anything less).

Serve Lau Lau 15 Times
Ask for 5 Salmon Filets
Ask for 7 Tomatoes

Yet another recipe is up for grabs at the end of this quest, with this second new recipe being Lomi Lomi Salmon. Of course, this is another traditionally themed dish, and you'll need to cook it for our next step in this quest line.

Part V of VIII rewards you with the third and final recipe of this quest set, although you're still a long way from the finish.

Serve Lomi Lomi 15 Times
Ask for 10 Corn Starch
Ask for 5 Coconut Milks

Yet another set of collection tasks - you know how these work by now. Simply ask your friends for these items via individual gift requests, and hope that it doesn't take too long for them to respond. Finishing this quest gives you the Haupia recipe, which is a Hawaiian dessert, often found at luaus (which makes sense, since we are preparing for a party here).

Part VI of VIII, as you might have guessed, asks you to serve your new dessert dish, and also asks you to restock your Salad Bar, just in case you don't normally do that already.

Serve Haupia 15 Times
Restock your Salad Bar 5 Times
Ask for 5 Projector Bulbs

While you'll likely need to spend some time waiting for the Haupia to cook either way, if you'd still like to knock out the Salad Bar requirement as quickly as possible, just remember to choose the "10 servings" option when restocking it. That way, it will run out of food as quick as possible, allowing you to restock four more times that much faster.

In Part VII of VIII, we're getting closer to the finale, but we're also back to the point where Leis and individual neighbor requests might become a real concern.

Master Lau Lau Recipe to Level 1
Master Lomi Lomi Recipe to Level 1
Have 7 Leis

Remember, you'll only be able to ask the same friend for a Lei once every (almost) two days. For the two mastery tasks, their difficulty really depends on how many stoves you have available to cook dishes at once, and on how diligent you are to always have food cooking.

Finally, Part VIII of VIII has you mastering the third and final dish of this event, along with asking for even more Leis, which could prove (together) to be a very lengthy process, depending on your persistence.

Master Haupia to Level 1
Spice 6 of your Neighbors' Dishes
Have 15 Leis

Remember, your best bet is to prioritize who you're going to ask for Leis each time you do so, as you won't be able to ask them again for almost two days. That is, you'd want to ask those that you know are dependable for your first two leis, so that you can spend the days in between letting them reset. You wouldn't want to ask people that may or may not help you for the first quest, as you'll have wasted those two days waiting for them to respond, to no avail.

When everything is said and done, you will have leaned all about Joe and Lisa's Hawaiian Vacation, and will apparently come out better for it. Even if you only complete these goals for the new recipes, and not for the new decorations, you'll still be able to show off your new prizes with pride to all of your friends, so make sure to start completing these goals while they're still available (no exact time limit was specified).

What do you think of this new goal series in Cafe World? Do you like the love-story that has played out between Joe and Lisa, or would you rather your cooking be left without a story?

FarmVille Sneak Peek: Pig Breeding Coming Soon

Here's something that should make animal-lovers in FarmVille very, very happy. Remember when Community Manager Lexilicious told us that an exciting change would be coming to the Pig Pen feature in the game? Well, it looks like that feature will be Pig Breeding, and it looks to work the same way as Sheep Breeding, in that you'll need bottles to grow the Piglets that are born.

While yes, some of the text on the above window does say "Lamb," this is likely a place-holder issue, as Zynga has been known to use the same formatting for different features after simply changing the text, which clearly hasn't been finished here yet.

Any other details about Pig Breeding are still up in the air, but for now you can always prepare by saving your bottles, so that you can have a bunch of cute little piggies running around your land (ok, maybe not running, but looking just adorable while standing still).

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FarmVille Rio farm promises two exclusive prizes

If you logged into FarmVille tonight, you were most likely greeted by this new loading screen promising a new Rio farm. Rio is a new Blue Sky Studios/Fox movie from the same folks who made the Ice Age animated films. The movie follows a macaw named Blu as the main character as he journeys to his homeland in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and learns about his ancestry. It's an interesting match-up for FarmVille, a game that doesn't really conjure up images of a tropical location. It seems like Treasure Isle would be a better fit for a Rio promotion.

Nonetheless, this new Rio farm does not seem to be rolling out to players just yet. However, we're promised two exclusive prizes for visiting it, so we're looking forward to it launching.

FrontierVille Ponderosa Lodge Goals: Everything you need to know

That old, warped cabin of yours is in desperate need of a makeover, no? Well, Zynga is going all Extreme Makeover: Home Edition on FrontierVille's default building with the new Ponderosa Lodge Goals. These missions either have yet to be released or are slowly rolling out to players, so details like specific rewards are scarce and this information is subject to change. With that disclaimer behind us, let's move into our southwestern lodge, shall we?
Ponderosa Lodge Goals


Ponderosa Lodge1. Wishes Come True

    Purchase the Ponderosa Lodge
    Tend 20 Oxen
    Craft 4 Sawhorses


It's unknown how much the Lodge will cost exactly in the Market, but we're guessing in the range of 10 thousand plus coins--don't quote us on that one. Tending 20 Oxen will take quite some time if you only own one or two, but considering they cost 990 coins a piece you might be better off exercising some patience. The four Sawhorses are crafted in the Barn and will require 20 Planks and 8 Tools. Complete this Goal for 200 XP and a collectible item.

2. Gussy Up the Place

    Harvest 15 White Roses
    Collect 15 Elegant Paintings
    Tend 12 Peach Trees


Elegant PaintingsHarvesting 15 White Roses will take 10 hours if all of them are planted at once, which shouldn't be difficult, for a total of 3 thousand coins. The 15 Elegant Paintings will likely be requested from the Goal's menu window for your friends to respond to. The 12 Peach Trees would take just three hours to ripen and harvest, but owning 12 Peach Trees would cost a hefty 12,720 coins to manage. Again, the waiting game continues. Finish this quest for an Oak Tree and 500 XP.

3. Packin' Up

    Visit 15 Neighbors
    Harvest 20 Cotton
    Send 5 Neighbor wishlist items


The first requirement to this Goal is something you all should be familiar with, but it can be done while you wait for your Cotton to grow. That second requirement will cost you 12 thousand coins and take at least three days, so hang tight. But don't forget to send your friends some Wish List items. You can do this by clicking on a player portrait on your friends bar and clicking on one of the items that pops up. For completing this Goal, 750 XP and one Rivet are yours.

Box of Kittens4. A Man's Home is His Castle

    Collect 10 Throne Plungers
    Have 500 wood
    Plant 20 Sunflowers


In this fourth and final Goal, the Throne Plungers will be requested from friends through the quest's menu window, while just having 500 Wood at the time shouldn't be difficult--go chop down some trees. Planting 20 Sunflowers will cost you 6,200 coins total and take at least 18 hours to harvest. Finally, this Goal will reward you with the Adobe Bricks needed to complete the Ponderosa Lodge, plus you'll get a Box of Kittens and 1,000 XP. As to why Zynga threw in a Box of Kittens as if they were a magazine subscription we have no idea, but at least they're are cute. Yay, I guess.

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Have you seen these Goals in your game yet? What tips might you have for completing this series faser?

Building the FrontierVille Ponderosa Lodge: Everything you need to know

With the dreams of a big new house on the horizon in FrontierVille, it would help to know how to put this thing together. First of all, you need to start the new Ponderosa Lodge Goals that have yet to be released as of this writing. Luckily for you, we have all the details on how to throw together this new castle after the break.

After you take on the first Goal of the series, you will have to purchase the Ponderosa Lodge from the Market, which will cost just 950 coins and 20 Wood in the Buildings section. However, this new building cannot be finished until the Ponderosa Lodge Goals are complete, a first for FrontierVille.

Place the building anyway, just to get it out of the way. Then, give it seven good whacks at 1 Energy and 10 Wood per whack. Once that's through, the familiar building menu will appear with six item requirements:

    20 Elbow Grease
    10 Gas Lamp
    10 Insulation
    15 Rivets
    15 Banister
    15 Adobe Bricks


The first three items can be found by posting request on your Facebook wall through the building menu. The next two, the Rivets and Banisters, can be requested from friends directly. Finally, the Adobe Bricks are part of your reward for completing the final Ponderosa Lodge Goal. It's a strange approach to introducing content in Zynga games, which may turn some heads for gating new features through Goals. We'll see in, oh, about a few hours.

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Have you found and bought the Ponderosa Lodge yet? What's your method of finding these items the fastest?

FrontierVille Kennel Goals: Everything you need to know

Remember how, at the launch of the Pet Store in FrontierVille, we were told that "soon" our new furry little canine friends would be able to help us out around the Homestead? Apparently, that ability will be coming sooner, rather than later, as FrontierVille has received a new set of goals associated with the newly released Kennel and Dog Training.

The first of these four new goals seems to work as more of a status check, to get all users up to the same level before moving on.

Have a Doghouse
Have a Pet Store
Place the Kennel

See? A really simple quest that gives you 250 Food and 4 Crooked Fences for completing it.
From there, you'll move onto Part II of IV, which requires you to actually complete a fair bit of work before moving on.

Chop Trees 30 times
Feed one of your Dogs 7 times
Collect 10 Rolled Up Newspapers


These Rolled Up Newspapers look to be collected via individual gift requests to friends, rather than a general News Feed post, but remember, that's subject to change. When you complete this mission, you'll receive two Apricot Trees and 250 XP.

This brings us to Part III of IV, which includes a completely different set of tasks, all of which are still fairly simple.

Visit 20 Neighbors
Tend 30 Adult Sheep on Your or your Neighbors' Homesteads
Send 1 Wishlist Item to a friend

For finishing this mission, you'll receive the Sudsy Tub decoration and 300 Food.

Finally, Part IV of IV has arrived, asking you to sell many of those Sheep you were just tending.

Harvest 50 Wheat
Sell 25 Adult Sheep
Collect 15 Pet Brushes

For the Pet Brushes, you'll need to post a general News Feed item asking all of your friends to send you the brushes, which gives you some time to go ahead and plant and harvest your Wheat (as News Feed items are notoriously harder to collect than individual gift requested items). For finishing this final mission, you'll receive the Poop Scoop item, which is part of the new Kennel Collection, and you'll also be rewarded with 400 Food.

While these missions don't technically deal with Dog Training, they must be completed all the same. We'll make sure to bring you a detailed guide over building the actual Kennel just as soon as we can, so keep checking back. Check out the details on how to build a Kennel in our new guide.

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What do you think of the requirements for these Kennel / Dog Training missions?

FrontierVille Building a Kennel: Everything you need to know

The new Dog Kennel has finally started rolling out (slowly rolling out, mind you) to some lucky FrontierVille players, with this Kennel allowing you to "train" your dogs to complete tasks, like hunting varmints, tending to animals, and even digging up "cool stuff." If you don't have the Kennel missions in your game yet, and even if you don't already have the Kennel building available to purchase from the store (yet), you can get a jump start on this feature by taking a look at your already purchased dog(s).

The Dog now has a new command when you click on it, allowing you to "Feed" it. You'll need to Feed the dog 10 Chunky Chows in order for him/her to grow up completely, but at any time, you can also click on "Activate the Dog" to take control over the dog, similar to how you click on your family members to control them while working on the Homestead. If at any time you'd like to stop controlling the dog, and go back to "normal," you can do so by clicking on your furry friend and clicking "Stay."

As for the Kennel itself, you can find all of the details about building the Kennel behind the break.
To build the Kennel, you'll need to go about the same basic tasks as usual - place the frame on your land and then whack it ten times in order to complete the frame. From there, you'll need to collect a whopping 75 building materials in order to finish it off. These are new items, so you've we've all got our work cut out for us.

The Kennel requires 15 each of Scrubbin Tubs, Bandanas and Puppy Kisses, along with 10 each of Stuffed Rabbits, Wags, and Muddy Paws. Once you've collected these items, you'll be able to finally finish your Kennel and start on the process of actually training your dogs.

Since this feature is so new, all of the specific details about dog training aren't yet available, but For a complete look at how to train your dog, check out our guide. We [also] know that a set of new collections is available to complete once you start the training process. Make sure to check out our full look at the Dog Training (and Kennel) collections in our guide.

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What do you think of the Kennel in FrontierVille? Do you like the idea of training or controlling your Dog on your Homestead, or would you rather stick to your human family?