Pot Farm shut down Dec 11, 2019 at 4pm PST.

Due partly to the upcoming change away from flash and the fact that the game was no longer profitable, the developers sadly decided to end the game. Cash purchases were turned off November 13 and the game was shut down on December 11, 2019. See also their video announcement of shutdown and announcement on their Facebook page. See also: A word from East Side Games | Pot Farm Commemoration Stream | Some terrible jingles: Thank You Pot Farm, Pot Farm Influencer Jingle, Big Pig Fat Bat Jingle.

Thank you to those who have been kind enough to support my work over the years.

4x4 PLANTING, HARVESTING, FERTILIZING: /info.php#4x4

4x Fertilizing added May 31, 2011. Simply click the multi-tool to try it out. See Puff Puff Passes for more details on how 4x tools and the passes work.

The COOLEST part of this feature is that it shows you WHAT you're about to fertilize and how much time it has left. The display shows whatever you have planted on the plot the cursor is over.

AGE RESTRICTION: /info.php#age

Pot Farm is limited to players that are 19 years of age or over. Pot Farm Terms of Service.

AUCTIONS: (Obsolete) /info.php#auction

They did a couple of these in April 2012, but then we didn't see any more.

Dirty Dick's Seized Property Auctions. If you see Ranger Dick's face in the lower left corner of the game, click it and check it out. (You may have to wait a half minute for the auction to load.) Bid pot bucks on assorted items. Be the HIGH bidder and get the item for the price of your bid. They're just testing this out, so it may not be there.

Note from the devs on April 6: "This is our first larger scale test, so it may be flaky!"

Give the devs your feedback.

AUTO CLICKER: /info.php#auto

Are your hands getting sore clicking potheads for your quests? Check out the Free Mouse Auto Clicker. Put your mouse where you want it to click and it will click for you at the frequency you set. I set it to 1/10 of a second and I've got a machine gun mouse, clicking ten times a second wherever I point my mouse. Ctrl+F2 turns it on then Ctrl+F3 turns it off. Great for using pot heads, planting seeds from your gift box, whatever!

NOTE: The developers of Pot Farm don't mind us using programs like this, but they don't support it either. If it causes you to sell or lose or buy something by mistake they can't fix it for you. So use it carefully and at your own risk.

AVATARS:

You can pick what you want your character to look like. Simply click on the store, then Appearance. There are free skins and ones you can buy.

Here's a tip. Buy FREE stuff for opposite sex avatars. Use this trick to help earn your PURCHASE HEADS award!

BATS: /info.php#bats

Fat Bats first released with the 2012 Halloween Theme on October 12, 2012. They've been back for short periods of time since then. On June 7, 2013, several FAT BAT QUESTS were added. They are untimed quests, and fat bats are now a regular item to purchase. Find them in the store under BUILDINGS!

You used to buy "mystery bundles" to get fat bats, but they changed the name of the bundles to simply FAT BATS. They're in the store under Buildings. (If buying one is a requirement, you can simply click on GO THERE in the quest info and click BUY from the info page.)

After buying a FAT BAT, you upgrade it with 10 EACH Chocolates, Fancy Snacks, Pufflers, Second Breakfasts. (Get the stuff you need from GIFTS!) That turns the bundle into a Baby Bat. Finish upgrading with 10 helpers and you get one of the 5 Fat Bat contraptions shown. (Click pictures for more details.)

June 2013: NEW BAT ADDED! The Cheesy Fat Bat is a jackpot/mystery seed contraption. There are now a total of 6 Fat Bats available from buying the Fat Bat in the store!

July 2013 Note: Pot Farm's contest on their wall to name a "royal baby bat" was just a joke. It's not in the game. (They never said it was.) It could be added some day, but it was simply meant as a fun community thing on the wall to lampoon the Royal baby buzz.

THEME FAT BATS are not shown above because they are not available from buying fat bats in the store!

Dec 2013: The XMAS FAT BAT is NOT available from buying fat bats! The only way to get him was through Xmas 2013 theme quests.

Mar 2014: The LEPRECHAUN FAT BAT is NOT available from buying fat bats! The only way to get him was from St Patrick's Day 2014 theme quests.

Apr 2014: The FAT UNCLE FLOYD BAT is NOT available from buying fat bats! The only way to get him was from 420 2014 theme quests.

July 2014: The SUMMER FAT BAT is NOT available from buying fat bats! The only way to get him was from Summer Camp theme quests (and Pirate theme quests in 2015).

October 2014: The MASTER TOKA FAT BAT is NOT available from buying fat bats! The only way to get him was from the Chronic Quest Pack, "Dank Wars".

November 2014: The BLACK FAT CAT FAT BAT is NOT available from buying fat bats! The only way to get him is from a Thanksgiving 2014 theme quest.

BAT GUANO: /info.php#guano

This is an awesome fertilizer which can be used to make your plants grow INSTANTLY. You can purchase guano for Pot Bucks. The more you buy, the better deal you get.

There are a few guano repeaters in the game.

Jitters is the most popular. He was originally a gift from Pot Farm for signing up for their mailing list. After over 3 years of not being available, as of June 2016, he's now a top prize in a quest pack available for purchase. He generates 1 guano every half hour. Get more info on the "Jitters Page".

To use Guano, click the Guano icon, then click a plant and it will be ready to harvest immediately. This is especially awesome for the multi-day crops! You can also click the multi-tool and select 4x fertilize.

NOTE: When you USE guano from your gift box, it gets added to your total guano on the lower left of the game.

As of JULY 26, 2013, you can USE GUANO ON CONTRAPTIONS! See more info on the Contraption Page.

You can get guano from newsfeed posts when your neighbors collect and share. Players can collect up to 50/day (from any source). The following images show the different newsfeed posts from which you can collect free guano. (Hover over an image for it's name. Click on an image for more info.)

BLAZE RUNNER, ELECTRIC SHEEP, & MORE!   /info.php#blaze

Blaze Runner seeds and Quest for ELECTRIC SHEEP added Dec 5, 2011. (Electric Sheep offers 60 protection on 1 space.) You DID NOT need to play Blazerunner to do this quest. Players collected newsfeed posts from neighbors who did play. The following info is from when Dec 2011. The blaze runner game NO LONGER shares blaze runner seeds.)

This is a shot of the type of posts we're looking for to score a Blaze Runner seed.

It appears that lot of people can collect from them. However you need to be friends with the person who posts it. Here's the link to see ONLY posts from the Blaze Runner app: https://www.facebook.com/?sk=app_222727414408240 (If it says "no posts to show", that's because none of your friends have posted from the Blaze Runner app.)

This Blaze Runner phone app HIGH SCORE POST is what gets you a blaze runner seed for the quest. (Note the title: "That is a BLAZING high score!" and that it is published "via Blaze Runner".) There is another, more common, Blaze Runner post that does NOT have the Collect Blaze Runner Seed link on it. There is nothing wrong with those. They just don't get you the seed you need!

When you then plant and harvest a blaze runner seed, you get progress in the quest shown below. You can also post about it, and your neighbors will get a mystery seed. These are two completely different posts. Again, sharing when you harvest a blaze runner seed ONLY gets neighbors mystery seeds, NOT more blaze runner and NO quest progress.

To the get the Blaze Runner app for your iPhone or Android (and to be a big hit with all your neighbors), players went to the Blaze Runner Facebook page.

If you played the game and got a high score (or NEW high score), you'd hit "Give up" it would then let you post to Facebook (big blue F) or Twitter (big lite blue T) then a window would pop up for you to post the seed. If you only saw the sheep, then it would NOT post a seed, just your score.

CANNOT CONNECT: /info.php#connect

If you're having trouble playing Pot Farm on Facebook, it could be Facebook that's having a problem. Check downrightnow.com to see if it's Facebook or just you.

If Facebook is okay, but you still can't connect, contact support.

NEWS: Pot Farm in the News 4/26/12! /info.php#news

Pot Farm was briefly discussed on WHNT 19 News (Huntsville, Alabama) on April 26, 2012. It was nothing but a fluff piece, but you can see a transcript and WATCH IT HERE!

My favorite quote on the news report came at the very end from "reasonable cop": "I don't think it teaches you how to be a pot farmer or a pot grower, no more than a dungouns and dragons game would teach you how to be a dragon slayer," said Chief Ray.

PF POST

NEWS FEED POSTS: /info.php#newsfeed

SEED SHARE LIMITS /info.php#seedsharelimits

OLD HIPPY GOLD: /info.php#oldgold

This old feature allowed you to send Acapulco Gold to your neighbors by sharing a link on their wall. This feature replaced 'Sending Valentines' on February 21, 2011, when the old heart icon was replaced with "Zeke, an old hippy that loves to share the jane". This feature was removed on March 23, 2011 when the icon was replaced by quests.

You could only send Acapulco Gold to people who allowed friends to post to their wall. Likewise, you could only receive AG if you allowed people to post on yours.

Zeke showed up again in July 2013 as a quest prize, Spirit Journey.

PENGUINS: /info.php#penguin

PENGUINS were first released with the 2014 Winter Theme. Penguins are all repeaters that occupy 2 spaces each. They unlocked at level 15. Players bought eggs and hatched them with 25 snow, 25 ice cubes, 10 grow lights, and 3 helpers. Players could buy them individually, or in a pack of 8 which guaranteed one of the 4 "hemperor" penguins. (Click pictures for more details.)

PHOTOS OF YOUR FARM: /info.php#photos

Want to take a screenshot of your farm? Click the camera icon in the lower left corner of the game.

Your icons will be removed and you'll get a camera and a big red X on your farm. Click the camera to snap a photo. Click the red X to cancel.

When you first click the camera, you'll be asked to allow their fb app to post on your wall.

Each time you take a photo, it will be uploaded into an album named Pot Farm on your Facebook profile. It will also be posted to your wall.

A word of caution: Allowing the camera access can start allowing at least some of your game share posts to go through automatically without showing the Facebook pop-up allowing you to comment or define who sees them. Some people prefer not having the extra step. For hose who don't, go to your Facebook account Application Page. Find Pot Farm and click Edit Settings. Find the option for "Post to my wall" and click remove. That will put things back to normal.

To take screenshots manually, CLICK HERE for step by step instructions. For more options, check out How to Take a Screenshot in Microsoft Windows.

POT BUCKS (PBs) - shown as "$" in charts on this site: /info.php#bucks

You can get Pot Bucks several different ways. Certain 3 minute mystery seeds can be sold for PBs. Many awards pay PBs. And you also get PBs for leveling.

You can also purchase pot bucks. When you purchase 750 pot bucks for $49.99, 275 pot bucks for $19.99, or 125 pot bucks for $9.99, you can get a bonus gift. See monthly bonuses here.

If you completed a survey or other offer in the game to earn pot bucks but never got them, go here and click the "Earn FREE Pot Bucks" button, then "HELP", then "STATUS".

POT FARM FAN PAGE (aka 'The Wall'):

The Devs reguarly post helpful information on the Facebook application page for Pot Farm. Find it HERE.

PRIVACY ON FACEBOOK (and Friend Lists):

How to Use Facebook Privacy Settings and Avoid Disaster: A great article that explains how to divide your friends into lists (and then decide which list sees what!)

Prizes in crates are determined the instant you make the purchase, not when you pick a box. Here's a cool trick to demonstrate this. As soon as you hit buy (or rebuy) for the crates, very quickly click the X in the upper right corner to close the store. Pick a crate, then share (or decline.) Then click buy another. Again, very quickly click the gift box button. (Both of these quick steps may take a few tries. You do them right after clicking the rebuy button.) Now, you've got the gift box showing behind the 9 crate choices. Notice what's showing in the gift box in the upper left corner. Now click any of the 9 boxes. Surprise! You just got what was showing in your gift box. Click share (or decline). and click the rebuy button again. The item in your gift box will change showing the new item you just got from the purchase. Click one of the 9 boxes. Boom! There it is. If you're not quick enough, here's a video that shows how this works.

PROTECTION: /info.php#pro

If you check out the SEEDS and ITEMS pages, you'll see that everything has a protection rating. Most weed has a negative protection rating, meaning that it requires that much protection to grow safely. Most items have a positive protection rating, meaning they provide protection for your weed.

You only get protection from plants that are FULLY grown or items that remain IN your field. You do NOT get protection from partially grown plants or items while they are stored in a shed or barn.

If you have fully grown weed plants, and negative protection, you stand a chance of being busted by Ranger Dick who can take some or all of your unprotected weed!

Nothing wilts or dies in this game, so you don't have to worry about your herb going bad, man.

The higher you level up, the better protection items you'll unlock. However, you'll also unlock better weed which requires more protection. Again, for more info, check out the SEEDS and ITEMS pages.

Many players don't bother with protection!

PUFF PUFF PASS: /info.php#puff

Cool feature allows faster, easier planting, fertilizing, and harvesting. And it runs on pot scotch, pot corn, and most other contraption products! As of August 2011, these are also used with hydroponics. In 2012, they started requiring puff puff for some contraptions.

You can trade in contraption products for refills. That's limited to one trade for each different product every 24 hours.

Clicking on the bottle, will bring up a brief explanation. Click on COOL to go to the buy refill page. If you have any PPP points left at all, your refill will simply be shown as a number over the bottle. The next time you use the points, when you get it down to zero, your refill will automatically fill the bottle.

Once you trade some wine for a refill, it starts the wine refill clock making you wait 24 hours until you can use wine for another refill. During that time, you can trade for refills using other contraption products, each similarly starting their own 24 hour countdown clock until you can repeat the trade.

Even if you've got some multi-day crops growing and you're not going to be using your Puff Puff Points soon, I recommend trading for refills whenever you can, building up a nice reserve.

Here's the feature announcement by the developers:

Hi Farmers,

The devs of Pot Farm have been trying to think up ways to help farmers plant and harvest faster. This has resulted in our latest feature, the 4x Plant and 4x Harvest tool which runs on Puff Puff Points! (As of 5/31/11, a 4x Fertilize tool has also been added.)

Your quick and awesome 4x Harvesting and Planting tool runs on Puff Puff Points which are contained in this..."bottle" here:

If you hover over this bottle you'll see the # of Puff Puff Points you have left. Pretty easy peasy huh! All you need to know is that each plot = 1 Puff Puff Point, and that your Puff Puff meter refills every day on it's own. If you don't want to wait around you can always refill it with the products from contraptions and gifts! :) Keep spare bottles on hand. There's no limit to how many bottle you can keep to charge your tool!

FAQ:

Where can I find Puff Puff Passes?

Under Tending in the Shop!

How can I buy more Puff Puff Points with products?

How can I buy more Puff Puff Points with Pot Bucks?

We hope you love this new feature! ~ The Pot Farm Devs

Puzzle Pieces to earn Ranger Dick Sign: /info.php#puzzle

Released June 10, 2011. Was only available for about a month. From the developers: "If you see a protection puzzle post, click it to find pieces of the puzzle! But watch out, you need to have the right protection rating to unlock each piece! The puzzle will reveal a picture of Ranger Dick in a compromising situation! Unlock all of the pieces to win an exclusive prize!" Man, I hope I'm not too blazed to figure this out! DISCUSS HERE.

You get an Anti-Ranger Sign for completing the puzzle. It offers +50 protection and takes zero spaces. It won't be available in the game elsewhere.

You also get an xp bonus each time you get a puzzle piece. You can get 6 puzzle pieces every 24 hours.

RANGER DICK: /info.php#dick

Ranger Dick is the dude who will bust you and take your crops if your protection falls below zero. See more about protection. You can find his twitter page HERE.

Red Dragon: /info.php#reddragon

Red Dragon is a seed that unlocks at level 76. Medical Dragon is the same thing but costs pot bucks and unlocks much earlier.

Also, see "DRAGONS (Puffers)" above.

REINDEER: /info.php#reindeer

Reindeer were first released with the 2012 Christmas Theme. They returned for the 2013 Christmas Theme. When available, you find them in the lower left corner of the game. Click the Reindeer icon to buy them.

Players bought "reindeer traps" to get reindeer. Upgrade a reindeer trap with one each Candy Canes, Christmas Cookies and Christmas Lights. Finish upgrading with 3 helpers and you get one of the 9 reindeer shown. (Click pictures for more details.)

REWARDS PAGE: /info.php#reddrrewardsagon

The "rewards page" is the special offer page where you can earn free pot bucks (as shown here).

SCAM ALERT: /info.php#scam

Posts in discussion boards offering thousands of Free Facebook Credits are SCAMS! If you click on them, some can even spam your friends or discussion boards without you knowing. Spamming groups can get you banned from them.

If you already clicked on one of these, go to your list of allowed apps and remove anything you don't recognize. Otherwise, the app could spam in your name!

There have been a few valid sites out there that offer Facebook credits in return for completing offers or doing internet searches. However, you WILL NOT get anything for spamming discussion boards. Any site that says you will is a scam. PERIOD!

Sharing Info from this Guide /info.php#share

This guide has lots of great info, so I understand people wanting to share it. That's why you see so many URLs (links) and share buttons in this guide (such as "/info.php#share" above.) Simply click the link in the header for the info you want to share. Then, copy the url in the address bar of your browser and paste that in your post. PLEASE DO NOT post screenshots of this guide. Information changes all the time. Directing people to my guide is a good way to thank me for all the hard work I put into this guide. Thanks!

Sorted and Tabbed Gift Box /info.php#sort

Awesome new feature. The gift box is now sorted and has tabs to filter it. "Plants" actually refers to seeds. "Buildings" includes all items that take up space. "Decorations" are items that don't take up space. "Products" are items that cannot be placed on the farm. "Tending" is just guano and puff passes.

NOTE: This sort does NOT recognize numbers as values. It is strictly alphabetical. You'll see the following order: 10x, 20x, 2X, 3X, 4X, 9X, followed by regular 1X seeds (since they don't use a 1X designation.) Check it out. You'll understand when you see it. Though it would be nice to see all versions of a particular seed type together, ANY type of sort is an improvement.

STOP SIGN ICON: /info.php#stop

This shows up while your farm is busy planting or harvesting. It allows you to stop the action immediately without it completing the actions you told it to do.

Pot Farm Store CLOSED /info.php#store

Shortly after the game released, they opened the "Pot Farm Store" at thepotfarmstore.com. Sadly, they closed it sometime between October and November 2011. Click to see the archived site. According to one of the developers, "It was costing a lot to run. And not many people were buying." I'll treasure my PF shirt even more now!

SUGAR CANE - limited time versions: /info.php#sugarcane

These seeds were introduced on December 10, 2010 and were only available through early January 2011.

"Super" Cane (4X): This was purchased for $1 pot buck and gave you 4 sugar cane plants on a single plot. It unlocked at level 19, offered 28 protection, 4 planting xp, 16 harvesting xp, grew in 7 hours. The 4 plants grown on a single spot sold for a total of 500 coins.

"Xmas" Sugarcane (1X): This was available as a gift only. It was available to any level, offered 7 protection, 4 harvesting xp, grew in 7 hours, sold for 125 coins.

SUPERCROPPING (2x, 3x, etc. seeds) /info.php#super

Pay double for a seed, get double xp and 2 plants. The individual plants in your stash sell for the same price as before, but now you get twice as many. In some cases, the planting xp isn't exactly double, but in those cases, the harvesting xp makes up for it so the TOTAL of the two is indeed double.

Planting supercrops simply let you accomplish awards more quickly.

2x crops start opening up at level 40. At level 58, we start seeing 3x seeds that get you triple xp and 3 plants.

Supercrop unlock levels and planting/harvesting data are listed in the SEED CHART.

SWEET LOVE: /info.php#sweetlove

This is the product of two contraptions, the Love Machine and the Love In. Visit the contraptions page for details and the awards page to see the awards available. (The top award for Sweet Love is the highest XP ever offered for a contraption!)

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Unfortunately, the ingredients were available as gifts only for a limited time. The 4 ingredients occasionally still show up when visiting neighbors. You can also find them on your news feed when your friends share them.

EXCITING NEWS: Starting Mar 16, 2011, the Love Pigs now give items for the Sweet Love contraptions every 12 hours: Choco Love Pig=Chocolates, Love Pig=Love Oil, Rosy Love Pig=Roses, Bubbly Love Pig=Champagne.

TATTOO: Dozy Tat: /info.php#zombie

A dude just finished getting an awesome Dozy Zombie tattoo! Freakin' SWEET!

This was started in early May 2011 and progress shots were given along the way. This is on the dude's shin so must have hurt like a bugger.

Tattoo artist: Josh Harnowski, Green Bay, WI

Want one of your own? Dozy Zombie flash | Dozy Death flash | Dozy Bunny flash

TOOLBAR: (Obsolete)

The "GURU BAR" TOOLBAR put some handy Pot Farm and Pot Farm Info links at your fingertips. It allowed players to send gifts to anyone (not just neighbors).

In January 2015, I removed the link to the toolbar. The content I included on the toolbar was fine, but I cannot trust the business that I published it through, so I could no longer recommend it.

Here's an article I read that caused me to make this decision.

Gifting with the toolbar had not been possible for a few years, so it shouldn't be too big a loss. I recommend setting up brookmarks in your browser instead.

TWITTER: /info.php#twitter

Visit LDRLY Games, the company who runs Pot Farm at twitter.com/LDRLY. Also visit Farmer Floyd and Ranger P Dick. Pot Farm Info even has a Twitter page where you can follow Pot Farm updates, tips and news at twitter.com/PotFarmInfo. Follow us all!

NEW: UPGRADE CHANGE:

There is a new upgrade symbol on the lower left of upgradable items. You need to click that to do upgrades now. If you can't highlight the small button, try zooming in.

UPGRADING: /info.php#upgrade

Upgrading in Pot Farm is a little confusing as they call two completely different things "upgrades".

Many items in game, require upgrading before you can use them. (I refer to this as "building".) Look for the tiny uprade icon (yellow arrow in a blue circle) to the lower left of the item. You want to hover directly over the upgrade icon (circle with arrow in it) such that the upgrade icon's colors reverse (blue arrow in yellow circle, rather than yellow arrow in blue circle). When you have it highlighted, click. I suggest zooming in through the game and by right clicking and selecting zoom to be able to get that tiny bugger. (Note that if you hover over the item itself, the item gets highlighted (an outline). The upgrade icon needs to be clicked to do the upgrade.

Most items that require upgrading are done in two parts. The first part of the upgrade shows you what products you need in your stash. Once you complete that part of the upgrade, most items require inviting or hiring helpers. You can pay $1 pot buck for each helper needed, or you can invite your neighbors to help for free. To invite helpers, click on any of the invite buttons from the upgrade page. This will give you a list of your neighbors. Click the ones you want to send to (just like sending gifts from the gift page). They will receive the help request in their game message center and can click it to help you. Helper progress will not be shown until you reload the game. NOTE: You do not need to click each individual invite button and send invites for each position you need to fill. Any of the invite buttons will get you helpers for that item upgrade. If you're inviting helpers for multiple items, you will need to hire each separately. Once all the helpers have been hired or have accepted your invitation, you click DO IT! from the upgrade page and the upgrade is complete.

Storage structures can be UPGRADED to hold more items. This is a different kind of upgrade. You simply use a certain amount of LUMBER (which is giftable) and your storage structure is upgraded. See the STORAGE PAGE for more details.