Building the FrontierVille Livestock Pen: Everything you need to know

Today marks a special day for animal lovers in FrontierVille, who may be questioning selling off some of their adult animals simply because they take up so much room. Now, a Livestock Pen is available to build on your Homestead, that will allow you to store adult Sheep, Goats and Pigs inside. Of course, you won't simply receive a completed Livestock Pen - you'll have to build one from scratch.

The frame of the Livestock Pen is available for free, and you'll receive it once this update rolls around to your game. You'll need to whack the frame (each whack costs 15 Wood), and you'll then need to collect six all new ingredients to finish the building off. The six new items are the Wooden Post, Woven Wire, Feeding Trough, Grain Bin, Water Bucket, and Breeder's Digest. The latter three items can be asked for via individual gift requests sent to your friends, while the Wooden Post, Woven Wire, and Feeding Trough are earned through general news feed items.

Once you complete the Livestock Pen, you'll be able to use the building to store up to 100 animals inside, and can feed them all at once, similar to how you can feed large quantities of adult chickens inside the Chicken Coop. When you collect the bonus from your Livestock Pen, you'll also have a chance to received one of three new animals: a Black Pig, White Goat and Gray Sheep, as seen below.

Ultimately, there are missions that go along with building the Livestock Pen, and we'll make sure to bring you a complete guide over those missions as soon as we can and you can check out our complete guide to completing those missions right here! For now, start asking your friends to send you these items so you can store those animals and clear room on your Homestead!

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Have you started building the Livestock Pen on your land yet? What do you think of this new animal storage building?

FrontierVille Livestock Pen Goals: Everything you need to know

Earlier this evening, we brought you the step-by-step guide for building your new Livestock Pen on your Homestead in FrontierVille. Along with working on this time-consuming building, you can also work on an accompanying set of four Livestock Pen goals, which we'll talk about here.

The first goal is called "This Little Piggie," and it asks you to complete three very simple tasks:

Tend 15 Pigs Anywhere
Hire Bess
Have or Place a Livestock Pen

The Livestock Pen's base is all that needs to be built on your Homestead for this task to complete. Meanwhile, you can tend either 15 of your own pigs, or pigs on your neighbors' Homesteads until you reach 15. As we said - it shouldn't be too hard to find 15 pigs in total, so you'll pass this one quickly. For completing this first mission, you'll receive 50 Food and 500 XP. Part II of this four-part series is called Baa Baa Black Sheep, and yes, it deals with both Sheep and Wool.

Tend 20 Sheep Anywhere
Collect 15 Bags of Wool
Harvest 20 Corn

The Sheep, just as with the Pigs, can be tended on your own Homestead, or on your neighbors'. Meanwhile, you'll need to use your neighbors' help to acquire the Bags of Wool, by sending individual gift requests to friends. Finishing this second quest gives you 750 XP and 100 Food.

For Part III of IV, you'll move onto the last of the three animals associated with the Livestock Pen - the Goat.

Tend 30 Goats Anywhere
Collect 15 Goat Hats
Store One Animal in your Livestock Pen

This is the first goal that will actually require you to complete your Livestock Pen's construction. For a complete look at how to do just that, click right here to check out our guide. Just remember to save some gift requests, so that you can ask your friends for the Goat Hats. This third mission has some pretty nice rewards, at least in terms of the XP gained: 1,000 XP and 150 Food.

Finally, we move onto Part IV of IV, which will likely be the most time consuming of the bunch.

Clear 25 Debris on your Neighbors' Homesteads
Collect Two Daily Bonuses from the Livestock Pen
Store 100 Animals in the Livestock Pen

You'll can only store adult animals in the Livestock Pen, so start stocking up on adult Pigs, Goats, and Sheep now to not have to grow all new animals just to complete this task (and then wait even longer to do so). If you're lucky, you'll just have to wait the full 24 hours for your Daily Bonus to recharge and can then call these missions complete. Your prizes for finishing off this mission series are great - 1,500 XP, 2,000 coins, and a Black Sheep.

Hopefully, with the release of the Livestock Pen, this doesn't mean that any sort of nasty new Varmint will be added to the game that will eat our Goats, Pigs, or Sheep that are outside of the building. Luckily, that doesn't seem to be the case right now, but we'll make sure to keep an eye on things either way.

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What do you think of the Livestock Pen Goals? Are you getting backed up with all of these recent goals released in the game, or do you appreciate the challenge of having multiple goal sets at once?

FrontierVille Livestock Pen Collection offers XP and energy for tending animals

With the release of the Livestock Pen in FrontierVille comes the launch of a new collection to go along with this new building. The Livestock Pen Collection contains five all-new items to the game, and can be completed in the same manner as you'd expect - either by earning them at random when whacking the frame of the Livestock Pen as you're building it, or by receiving these items at random when collecting the building's Daily Bonus.

Here's what to keep an eye out for:

Feed Bags
Loose Straw
Ear Tags
Clippers
Dewormer

When you finish finding all five of these items, you can turn in the collection for 50 XP and a +5 energy boost. To be clear, that's five free points of energy as a refill, not a change in your overall maximum energy. Personally, I'm a bit disappointed in these prizes. Sure, the extra energy can come in handy when tending animals or crops, but I would much prefer to see exclusive decorations, after putting in the time it takes to complete most building collections. Maybe that's just me...

What do you think? Do you like collection awards to be exclusive decorations or items you can't find anywhere else, or do you like the experience point or coin rewards?

FarmVille Livestock Pen Animals re-released to fill your habitats

If you're looking for a slew of new (ok, re-released) animals to fill your new Livestock Pen in FarmVille, you'll want to check out the game's store within the next five days, as you can choose from a selection of re-released pigs, sheep and goats for a limited time. Here's the full lineup of re-released animals, along with their prices for your reference.

Black Pied Pig - 18 Farm Cash
Alpine Goat - 14 Farm Cash
Latxa Sheep - 20 Farm Cash
Biker Goat - 14 Farm Cash
Fame Sheep - 20 Farm Cash
Chamois Goat - 14 Farm Cash
Island Pig - 16 Farm Cash
Devon Pig - 16 Farm Cash

Again, these animals have been released previously; for instance, the Black Pied Pig was released previously in the German event in 2010 and then again in the Birthday Classics even earlier this year. You'll want to make sure you don't already have these animals on your farm before shelling out the Farm Cash, so you don't run into unnecessary duplicates. Just make sure you shop fast - these little fellas (and ladies) won't be around forever.

Are you going to purchase any of these animals during their brief re-release in the store, or do you already have the best ones on your farm?