Hay Day FAQ's

1. Where do I find land, barn and silo expansions, and tools?

 Depending on which level you are on, by harvesting crops, making food, collecting goods from machines,  feeding animals,  mystery boxes, buying them in the newspaper ( if you are quick enough!) or from your neighbor's roadside shops. You can also trade for them.

2. I am a level 31 player and I have no money! What is the best way of earning cash?

Friends: First of all try to get more friends through Game Center or Facebook.This will give you a larger market for your goods and give you more spaces in the store to sell your goods.

Truck & Boat Orders: Ignore truck and boat orders as you really don't need the experience points at the moment - and they don't give you as much money as selling in your store. Especially don't sell to the little people (visitors/locals) I've found they are only useful if you have a alot  of cheaper things you need to shift quickly to empty your barn and, at lower levels this isn't financially feasible as they pay very little. A rule of thumb for high selling goods is, the longer they take to make and the more raw ingredients they use to produce, the more they will be worth. (Cakes are a good example of that and they will fly out of the door for high prices) At the same time produce popcorn and bread as the prices aren't so high but the time they take to make is less and they sell well.

Sell land expansion items: I know when I was at the lower  levels  I was fanatical about increasing my land, which meant I was always broke! You won't need that land yet - and I assure you that later in the game you will have plenty of time and money (a LOT of money!) to do this. Barn and silo expansion, they sell quickly for a high price, but the bigger your barn and silo means bigger storage which is always a plus point.

Fruit: will sell well, but can leave you with a lot of dead wood.

Using Tom: is also an option as he will fetch top quality goods and will charge you far less than you will get from selling them. It is a matter of choice though as you may prefer using your diamonds to open extra slots in the machines first, especially dairy and sugar, as this gives you a greater capability to produce goods. If you do use Tom, here are a couple of pointers. Try to buy him as early as possible on a day you know you've got a lot of free time . When you send him out for items make sure they are the highest priced things you can acquire at your level - (probably cheesecake at yours?) If he comes back with less than 9 items and asks if you want them say no. He will then take a two minute comfort break and then will ask again. Keep doing this until he brings back 9 and then accept. It does use his time, but added up it results in more goods. Then sell them all in your shop. Don't forget to advertise if you haven't enough neighbours to buy your goods yet. In fact, in the beginning, it is better to always advertise as this helps you to complete your patronage achievement.

  

3. How do I stop my farm from being overrun by dead trees and bushes or having to find lots of saws and axes?

If you want a farm without dead trees without having to purchase zillions of axes and saws, yet still have plenty of fruit, you may like to try this.

Never buy more than 10 of each tree or bush. As soon as the crop is ready, harvest it immediately. Don't forget to put the ! on it when it wilts. When it dies replace it immediately. Don't sell your fruit to the little people. They want far too many and pay way too little. Doing it this way I have loads of fruit. When I get above 50 of each I put the excess on sale in my stand. By the time my trees and bushes die I usually have found enough saws and axes to cut them down and if I haven't enough, usually axes, I will use Tom to get them, but it is possible to do it without him, just needs a bit more patience! This method also means you have more space for decorations, if you like them, as later in the game you do tend to run out of land space!

 As I said, this method won't appeal to everyone, as many people love having lots of trees on their farms and manage them perfectly by using their trees as storage to save space in their silos and only harvesting when needed. It's up to you to choose which style suits you best.

4. What should I get first - the cake oven, the mine or the dock?

My advice would be cake oven, dock, mine. You can make a lot of things in your cake oven that will give you cash for the latter two, and if you get the boat first it will ask for items you can only produce in your cake oven. Opening the mine would definitely be my last option, as it is pretty useless unless you have the smelters, which are expensive! The only reason for doing the mine before the others is it does give the chance of a diamond or two if you find the TNT, dynamite and shovels needed to excavate it.

5. Why is the newspaper filled with bacon and eggs?

First, two of the accomplishments are producing a lot of bacon and eggs from your animals. So what do you do when you you've got all these and your barn is exploding? You put them in the newspaper, or, if you have it, make your machine produce bacon and eggs. They require no other products, such as sugar and dairy, and can be sold for a high price. Also, if these goods are not sold Greg will buy them at full price.

 They are also a cheap way of mastering your machine also a reason we tend to see a lot of roasted tomatoes.

 Another reason is that they are an advertisement saver. They will stay in the paper for 3 hours, if nobody buys them. A stall is constantly being advertised making it easier to sell other goods.

Also a reason for there being even less good food items in the paper recently is those who were selling their surplus goods are now using them to help other people's boats.

  

6. Why is my husband getting movie tickets to watch trailers and earn diamonds and I'm not?

This is a trial for some users only, as, when this feature was introduced to all a couple of months back, it crashed some devices. Hopefully it may be available to all again in the future.

 7. What's this balloon I've heard about? I've never seen it.

When you have hired Tom he will sometimes give you an offer to hire him again at a discount. He will have a balloon in his hand. You don't have to accept the offer, but keep an eye on that balloon! After a while (when the offer has ended - probably about 10 minutes) Tom will release it and if you pop it in time something will drop. The balloon contains the same items you can find in the Mystery boxes, or sometimes experience points.

8. I've just started playing the game and am a bit confused about the friends and followers bar.

 Friends, followers, and people you follow.

When you start the game you will see at least one friend in your menu, that is Greg (everyone has him as a friend). You can visit his farm and will find things in his stall that are refreshed once a day, he will also buy stuff in your stall that has been there too long, thus freeing up slots.

You may also see other friends, these are your friends on FaceBook and GC who already play the game. The pig gives you the option to add other friends from FaceBook you think might like to play the game, and if they accept they are added. For every so many  friends added you will receive extra slots in the roadside shop stalls in which to sell your goods. You can also add friends via Game Center if you know their Game Center Name.

Followers are people who see your farm and like it in some way ( maybe they like the layout, or what you sell in your stall, or even, maybe the name of your farm! it's pretty random) they tap on the ribbon at the top of your farm, and, hey presto! they are in your list of followers.

People you follow are the farms you like. When you press their ribbon you will become one of their followers. You can follow a maximum of 5 farms and will see these in your friends list in a blue box.

Having lots of friends and followers means you can buy directly from their stalls without going through the newspaper and they can also help you with your boat orders, and vice versa. The friends bar also has the useful feature that you can see via the exclamation point (!) against their names if they need help. (Although there is a bug at the moment that people are flagged who do not need help. A tip here to quickly check if they really do need help is to see if they have a exclamation point (!) against their farm name at the top of the page. If they have they really do need help

9. I've got a lot of dead followers is there any way to get rid of them?

If you have a follower who constantly raids your goods, including trades, and does nothing to help you the best way to get rid of them is to not stock your stall for a few days or fill it with something non-desirable, and never help them.

 10. I can see a trash can on my truck notice board. I don't quite understand how it works?

 This is for if you receive an order and cannot or do not want to fill it. If you tap on the order and then on the trash can it will remove it at no cost and a new order will appear in a few minutes. For example, at higher levels you can also fill special orders that appear in blue, asking for metal bars and jewelery. if you have already completed the truck achievements, and are not concerned with money or experience points, these orders give vouchers as well, so I, for one, trash all other orders and just keep the blue ones!

11. I put something up for sale in my stall and then get an order for it, do I get it back if I edit it?

No you don't. You can try to get a friend to buy it fofromyou and then buy it back from them.

 12. How does the advertising system in your Roadside Shop work? I really want to sell only to my neighbors, but people from the newspaper keep buying it.

 Every 30 minutes you receive a free ad to sell your goods in the paper. When it is ready a green check mark will appear. If you don't want your goods in the paper, click on the tick and it will disappear. Remember to do this each time you put a new item up for sale if you only want to sell it to friends or followers. When you decide you do want to sell in the paper just leave the green tick and that item will be on sale to all players. Even if it does not sell you will still get a new ad in 30 minutes and can use that to advertise another item and both will be in the paper.

13. I can only seem to sell silo items from my Roadside Shop stall, why can't I sell my barn items?

If you look on the left you will see two icons, one with a barn, one with a silo. Click on the barn icon and your barn items will appear.

14. What is the maximum storage capacity for the barn and silo?

Max capacity is 10,000 but at the moment it is not advisable to go above 999 of one particular crop in your silo according to Steve - community manager, as this may cause your game to crash!

15. Do I have to collect my diamond rewards for achievements from the house straight away?

No, you can leave them there until you want to use them. Each reward will still be there. This is handy if you want to avoid using these diamonds accidentally.

16. What's the best way to use my diamonds?

 Well, it does depend on how you like to play the game, and what level you are. Looking to the future and being able to fulfil as many orders as possible it's a good idea to use them on your machines to increase the slots you have to produce your goods. This is also a good idea, as the more slots you have the more goods you can produce when you are not playing the game.

You can hire Tom to get goods for you, and this can also earn you money by selling these goods, but remember, he won't get you silo/barn expansion items. He is also an option if you have the mine and need explosives and shovels, or axes and saws if you have a lot of dead trees.

 Purchase more slots on the dairy and sugar mill as you will need an awful lot of both! Also things like goat cheese and syrup take a while to make and if you fill up slots with these products ( if you have the barn space) a lot can me done when you're away.

 I would not use them on the Mystery Chests as you can find most of the things they contain in the game.

 I do occasionally use the odd one or two on the wheel of fortune if there is a decoration or the coveted gold voucher on it - but you do take the chance of ending up with a grain of wheat!

17. Sometimes there is a flashing photo on my dock leader board. What does this mean?

 This means that someone from your friends list has passed you on the leader board.

18. Can’t fill Sugar boats

It is possible to send away those nasty sugar boats. Don't open, fill or ask for help on any of the crates, unless you are doing the captain III accomplishment, just click on the boat icon and it will give you the option to cast off the boat straight away without any cost. The new one will arrive in 4 hours. If you don't send it away there is very little chance of others filling sugar crates, unless you have very generous neighbours as everybody needs the stuff! (Same goes for cream)