To level up quickly, there are some tasks that work better than others. Clearing grass and farming are all things you should do - and will need to do - but there are some little tricks and tips to get moving up the ladder quicker. Follow some helpful hints and you can get way ahead of your friends in a hurry. It is important to follow the correct order so that you burn off as few of your resources as possible and get the best return on those which you do use.
Start out by taking care of clearing some grass. It is an easy task but will grab a few quick experience points. Next move on to your garden, Clear a couple ripe plots - but don’t re-plant them just yet. You need Food and energy - along with a few easy experience points built up - to go snake clobbering. Snake clobbering is going to get you some serious goodies, the only problem is you need to clobber a snake 3 or 4 times to get the job done early on before it dies. To find snakes, clear skulls on your land - they hide in skulls. That means you need an energy refill which is why you need some food stockpiled. Don’t worry too much, once you kill the snake you will level up and get a full energy refill.
Once you get a full energy refill, go back and re-plant your crops. You will build up just enough experience points to level up again. Since you already harvested tomato’s to get ready for snake clobbering, go feed the baby chicks. Once you feed all three chicks you will finish a challenge (Feed 3 chicks and harvest three tomato plants) and have enough points to level up again along with some extra gold.
Nest you want to complete the “clear your land mission.” This is super simple, but they will make you re-accomplish a few things you did already. You have to clear one rock pile, 3 patches of grass, and chop down two trees. When you finish this, if you have done it right and chosen tress which only require 2 energy to chop down, you should be out of energy, but only about 5 experience points from leveling up. This is a good time to go to the bathroom or take care of things which require no energy while your energy meter replenishes. Why waste food when you are so close? Once you level up, complete the lost sheep mission, and then get into building your cabin.
Just continue rotating a mission with snake clobbering and before you know it you will pile up experience points and rewards so fast that levels are coming one on top of the other. The key is finding a quick balance between what the game tells you to do - which is designed to get you to feel like you need to buy energy refills - and what will let you build up levels fast so you don’t need to buy energy refills to keep playing.
Chopping wood will require more energy but give you greater rewards, and clearing grass and the such the least but they are an easy point or two to pick up. Just keep in mind that anytime you see a skull on your land it is a gift - just make sure you have plenty of energy before clearing it so you can actually clobber the snake to death. Keep just enough land for farming to have a steady food supply to refill energy, and above all else, like it or not, get your friends to become neighbors so you can grab the loads of free experience points being given away while Frontierville is in beta mode. They may not do that for long. Even without friends joining, in one day of average playing this plan can get you to level 13 without batting an eye - that is tested and true.
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