L.O.S Farms
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System · Tue, Sep 29, 2026 11:47 PM · “Update log, FarmVille history, and credits”

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Added: Everything we've added to L.O.S Farms, newest first. Changes marked **(from Jade)** come from our friend Jade's work on the game server. See [[Credits]] for everyone whose work L.O.S Farms is built on.
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Added: ## September 29, 2026
Added:
Added: ### Holiday events
Added: - **Holiday items come back on their holiday.** FarmVille's limited-time holiday items return to the in-game market each year and leave again afterwards, like they did in the original game. That covers 13 holidays: New Year's, Lunar New Year, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, FarmVille's Birthday, the Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
Added: - About 2,250 items were matched to their holiday using the theme tags in the game's own files.
Added: - Staff can set each holiday to follow the calendar, stay on all year, or stay off, and can change its dates.
Added: - The Discord bot announces when a holiday event starts or ends, and `/events` shows what's on now and the next holiday event.
Added: - Anything you already bought stays on your farm when a holiday ends.
Added:
Added: ### In-game shop
Added: - Staff can put almost any FarmVille item on sale, including retired and never-released items, at their own price, level, and end date, or hide items from the market.
Added: - Shop changes are built as a test version that staff check in the game before making it live.
Added:
Added: ### Discord bot upgrade
Added: - New commands: `/help`, `/link`, `/profile`, `/item` (with autocomplete), `/crops` (best crops for your level), `/events`, `/suggest`, `/bug`, `/poll`, `/giveaway`, and `/remind`.
Added: - Suggestions and bug reports sent from Discord become forum threads.
Added: - Giveaways pay out as care packages.
Added: - Discord roles now follow your farm: a linked-farmer role, roles for site ranks, and opt-in ping roles for care packages, community goals, and events.
Added: - New members get a welcome message with how to link their farm.
Added:
Added: ### Forums
Added: - Upload GIFs (they stay animated) and short videos (MP4 or WebM, up to 50 MB) to posts, as well as pictures. Upload limits are shown in the post box.
Added: - Fixed the emoji box getting stuck open.
Added:
Added: ### Look and feel
Added: - The sign-in, password, and older staff pages now follow your chosen site theme.
Added:
Added: ## September 28, 2026
Added:
Added: ### Launcher and playing
Added: - Fixed signing in from the new launcher, which sent you to the website instead of the game.
Added: - The game now runs in the **L.O.S Farms launcher**. The Play buttons on the website open a page that explains how to get the launcher.
Added: - New maintenance and "page not found" pages.
Added:
Added: ### Earn Farm Cash
Added: - **Care packages** worth 5 to 100 Farm Cash drop in Discord. The first farmer to click gets them.
Added: - **Daily, weekly, and monthly rewards:** `/daily`, `/weekly`, and `/monthly` in Discord.
Added: - More Discord games that pay Farm Cash.
Added: - **Community goals:** server-wide goals that start on a timer. Everyone who helps shares the reward.
Added:
Added: ### Accounts and profiles
Added: - Sign in with **email and password** as well as Discord.
Added: - Upload your own **profile picture** and **forum signature image**.
Added: - FarmVille-themed **rank tags** for staff and community groups.
Added:
Added: ### Community
Added: - Page **discussions** on the wiki: every page can have its own discussion thread.
Added: - A contact form for questions and requests.
Added: - More "unofficial fan project" notices around the site, so it's always clear L.O.S Farms isn't Zynga.
Added: - The Discord invite and links were updated.
Added: - The Discord bot now shows as online, with farm-themed statuses like "farming strawberries".
Added:
Added: ### Rules and privacy
Added: - The Terms of Service, User Agreement, and Privacy Policy were reviewed and updated for email sign-in, rewards and care packages, cookies, and your data rights, and a Copyright Policy was added.
Added:
Added: ### Behind the scenes
Added: - Separate Admin and Developer dashboards. The developer dashboard shows server health, system usage, and status checks for the game server and APIs.
Added: - Staff can choose which Discord channel gets each kind of post.
Added: - Server status is posted to more than one Discord server.
Added: - Backups were fixed.
Added: - Fixed a crash when viewing some staff profiles.
Added: - Fixed a game crash caused by an item with a broken price (the Double Coin Statue).
Added: - In-game photos are saved properly.
Added: - Better protection against spam sign-ups and bots.
Added:
Added: ## September 27, 2026
Added:
Added: ### The L.O.S Farms community site
Added: - **Forums** with categories, pinned and locked threads, reactions, and staff announcements that also show on the home page.
Added: - **Wiki** with pages any member can edit, full page history, and a searchable **Game Catalog** of the game's animals, seeds, trees, buildings, and decorations.
Added: - Game data pages: the [Crop Profit Guide](/wiki/crops), [Levels & XP](/wiki/levels), [Badges & Ranks](/wiki/badges), [Collections](/wiki/collections), and the [Quest Archive](/wiki/quests).
Added: - **Leaderboard** and public farmer profiles.
Added: - **Chat** on every page: public chat, staff chat, and direct messages.
Added: - **Auction House** for retired items, and community **events**.
Added: - Four site themes: Classic Farm, Autumn Harvest, Moonlit Farm, and Dark Mode.
Added: - Opt-in Discord messages for notifications, and a save-file download.
Added:
Added: ## Before L.O.S Farms: the game server (from Jade)
Added:
Added: L.O.S Farms runs on Jade's improved FarmVille server, **fv-replowed-jade**. Jade's fixes are the reason the game plays properly: farms save correctly, quests finish, crafting works, and travel to other farms works. Highlights, newest first:
Added:
Added: - **September 2026 (from Jade):** travel between farms by level, and the Mistletoe Lane, Jade Falls, and Hawaiian Paradise terrain; each farm keeps its own currency and unlocks; garage equipment, vehicle plowing, and storage expansions save correctly; Hawaii prices fixed; stronger security for game requests; crash reporting; Discord ban enforcement; chat history kept.
Added: - **August 2026 (from Jade):** crops, harvest rewards, quests (including recipe, harvest, and mastery tasks), crafting cottages and silos, breeding pens, orchards, chicken coops, and the Greenhouse all save and load correctly; duplicate objects on farms fixed; farm expansions fixed; offline friend requests; the return-home button; player save export and admin save restore; Discord sign-in and account linking; a performance dashboard.
Added: - **Summer 2026 (from Jade):** the Docker setup that downloads the game's files from the Internet Archive automatically.
Added:
Added: The full list is on [[Credits]].
How this version looked

Everything we've added to L.O.S Farms, newest first. Changes marked (from Jade) come from our friend Jade's work on the game server. See Credits for everyone whose work L.O.S Farms is built on.

September 29, 2026

Holiday events

  • Holiday items come back on their holiday. FarmVille's limited-time holiday items return to the in-game market each year and leave again afterwards, like they did in the original game. That covers 13 holidays: New Year's, Lunar New Year, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, FarmVille's Birthday, the Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
  • About 2,250 items were matched to their holiday using the theme tags in the game's own files.
  • Staff can set each holiday to follow the calendar, stay on all year, or stay off, and can change its dates.
  • The Discord bot announces when a holiday event starts or ends, and /events shows what's on now and the next holiday event.
  • Anything you already bought stays on your farm when a holiday ends.

In-game shop

  • Staff can put almost any FarmVille item on sale, including retired and never-released items, at their own price, level, and end date, or hide items from the market.
  • Shop changes are built as a test version that staff check in the game before making it live.

Discord bot upgrade

  • New commands: /help, /link, /profile, /item (with autocomplete), /crops (best crops for your level), /events, /suggest, /bug, /poll, /giveaway, and /remind.
  • Suggestions and bug reports sent from Discord become forum threads.
  • Giveaways pay out as care packages.
  • Discord roles now follow your farm: a linked-farmer role, roles for site ranks, and opt-in ping roles for care packages, community goals, and events.
  • New members get a welcome message with how to link their farm.

Forums

  • Upload GIFs (they stay animated) and short videos (MP4 or WebM, up to 50 MB) to posts, as well as pictures. Upload limits are shown in the post box.
  • Fixed the emoji box getting stuck open.

Look and feel

  • The sign-in, password, and older staff pages now follow your chosen site theme.

September 28, 2026

Launcher and playing

  • Fixed signing in from the new launcher, which sent you to the website instead of the game.
  • The game now runs in the L.O.S Farms launcher. The Play buttons on the website open a page that explains how to get the launcher.
  • New maintenance and "page not found" pages.

Earn Farm Cash

  • Care packages worth 5 to 100 Farm Cash drop in Discord. The first farmer to click gets them.
  • Daily, weekly, and monthly rewards: /daily, /weekly, and /monthly in Discord.
  • More Discord games that pay Farm Cash.
  • Community goals: server-wide goals that start on a timer. Everyone who helps shares the reward.

Accounts and profiles

  • Sign in with email and password as well as Discord.
  • Upload your own profile picture and forum signature image.
  • FarmVille-themed rank tags for staff and community groups.

Community

  • Page discussions on the wiki: every page can have its own discussion thread.
  • A contact form for questions and requests.
  • More "unofficial fan project" notices around the site, so it's always clear L.O.S Farms isn't Zynga.
  • The Discord invite and links were updated.
  • The Discord bot now shows as online, with farm-themed statuses like "farming strawberries".

Rules and privacy

  • The Terms of Service, User Agreement, and Privacy Policy were reviewed and updated for email sign-in, rewards and care packages, cookies, and your data rights, and a Copyright Policy was added.

Behind the scenes

  • Separate Admin and Developer dashboards. The developer dashboard shows server health, system usage, and status checks for the game server and APIs.
  • Staff can choose which Discord channel gets each kind of post.
  • Server status is posted to more than one Discord server.
  • Backups were fixed.
  • Fixed a crash when viewing some staff profiles.
  • Fixed a game crash caused by an item with a broken price (the Double Coin Statue).
  • In-game photos are saved properly.
  • Better protection against spam sign-ups and bots.

September 27, 2026

The L.O.S Farms community site

  • Forums with categories, pinned and locked threads, reactions, and staff announcements that also show on the home page.
  • Wiki with pages any member can edit, full page history, and a searchable Game Catalog of the game's animals, seeds, trees, buildings, and decorations.
  • Game data pages: the Crop Profit Guide, Levels & XP, Badges & Ranks, Collections, and the Quest Archive.
  • Leaderboard and public farmer profiles.
  • Chat on every page: public chat, staff chat, and direct messages.
  • Auction House for retired items, and community events.
  • Four site themes: Classic Farm, Autumn Harvest, Moonlit Farm, and Dark Mode.
  • Opt-in Discord messages for notifications, and a save-file download.

Before L.O.S Farms: the game server (from Jade)

L.O.S Farms runs on Jade's improved FarmVille server, fv-replowed-jade. Jade's fixes are the reason the game plays properly: farms save correctly, quests finish, crafting works, and travel to other farms works. Highlights, newest first:

  • September 2026 (from Jade): travel between farms by level, and the Mistletoe Lane, Jade Falls, and Hawaiian Paradise terrain; each farm keeps its own currency and unlocks; garage equipment, vehicle plowing, and storage expansions save correctly; Hawaii prices fixed; stronger security for game requests; crash reporting; Discord ban enforcement; chat history kept.
  • August 2026 (from Jade): crops, harvest rewards, quests (including recipe, harvest, and mastery tasks), crafting cottages and silos, breeding pens, orchards, chicken coops, and the Greenhouse all save and load correctly; duplicate objects on farms fixed; farm expansions fixed; offline friend requests; the return-home button; player save export and admin save restore; Discord sign-in and account linking; a performance dashboard.
  • Summer 2026 (from Jade): the Docker setup that downloads the game's files from the Internet Archive automatically.

The full list is on Credits.