FarmVille: Falling Gold Coin or a Potato?

As a busy and hard working FarmVille farmer you may not notice a bouncing object as you are happily plowing land. Farmville's awards you for hard work by giving you a free coin that falls from the sky. Or is it a bouncing potato? Perhaps it's a bouncing gold egg? What could it be? Believe it or not, but FarmVille players ask me these questions constantly. The mystery of FarmVille's falling gold will now be solved.

The golden coin you see bouncing around when plowing your farm comes from the Gold Fountain. It is a free gold coin awarded to you by FarmVille's Gold Fountain and it only appears as you plow, not as you harvest. Plowing can be done manually or using a harvester that you purchase. Manual plowing or with a harvester (it plows four plots at once) will get you a free coin that falls from the sky.

Do I have to jump up and catch the coin? No, you do not have to jump or catch your gold coin award. The coin is automatically credited to your FarmVille account and it actually rewards 50 coins. Originally falling coin from the sky was supposed to credit accounts for 100 FarmVille coins. However, I and other FarmVille users have only calculated 50 free coins being rewarded automatically to the account. It is still free playing money and we are not complaining about it.

Why does it look like a potato or an egg? I will admit that at first the object is confusing. It comes out of nowhere, although if you look closely it appears from the ground rather than falls from the FarmVille sky. The gold coin flips in the air and I think that makes it appear as an oval, giving it a potato or an egg-shaped look. Rest assured though, it is a gold coin and there are no potatoes flying at your farmer.

How do I get more free falling coins? The Gold Fountain has to decide that you are worthy of free gold coins, therefore you have to keep plowing. It is said that the gold coin appears only 1% of the time, but I have seen it many times a day. That is because I plow over 100 plots of land, several times a day and my farmer gets a reward. To get more plots to plow, either push your animals into a corner so they do not take up free space or sell them. Organize your farm to have as many usable plots as possible, plow and seed each one for maximum coin earning potential. Happy farming and hopefully you see a lot of bouncing coins!

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