Finishing your Storage Cellar Quickly

On August 19th 2010 Zynga started rolling out the new Storage Cellar to players. Unlike the old barns and sheds the new storage solution requires very little room on top of the farm (meaning more room for plots!) and packs a massive amount of space inside, up to 500! With this players will be able to remove the older barns and sheds giving them more room for decorations, crops, trees or animals.

The way the cellar works is very similar to the Tuscan Wedding Tent, or the Spring Basket. Players send each other Shovels, where each shovel represents on more point of storage space, up to the maximum of 500. Just like with the other two as you add shovels to your Storage Cellar it will change its apperance based on how many you have added.

Hole in the Ground	Narrow Crawl Space
0-99 Shovels	100-199 Shovels

Secure Storm Cellar	Huge Storm Cellar	Underground Wonderland
200-399 Shovels	400-499 Shovels	500+ Shovels

And just like the Tuscan Wedding Tent as you add shovels to your cellar you are eligible to claim rewards. With each reward costing progressively more shovels, not to worry though once you add shovels to your cellar claiming a reward will not mean you lose storage space. The rewards are as follows;

Mole	Crystal Rock
Requires 20 Shovels	Requires 40 Shovels

Miner Sheep	Cave Gnome	Antique Tractor
Requires 60 Shovels	Requires 120 Shovels	Requires 200 Shovels

As the title of this post implies though there is a way to earn shovels much faster than normal. During this event when you fulfill a request for shovels you are given a reward screen allowing you to choose between the usual things, gold, experience, mystery gifts OR 2 shovels for yourself. 

Using this to your advantage, goto the Make a Wish Tool at the top of this page. Next find some friends who maybe have stopped playing Farmville and send them some shovels using the tool. This will reward YOU with 2 shovels! It takes a little bit of extra work because you have to find everyone's Facebook ID, but the reward will be finishing your storage cellar in record time.

Remember, as long as a friend has played Farmville in the past this will work, simply paste their Facebook ID into the box and pick shovel from the drop down. Then copy and paste the web address into your browser. The Make a Wish Tool was originally designed to allow YOU to request things, however instead of putting your ID in, put your friends!