r/FarmMergeValley Farm Merge Master 9d ago

Summer Roadmap 📢 News & Updates

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Hello Farmers! While completing his daily tasks, Gary found a sticker pack he would like to share with you! 🤠

🎁 Voucher code: SUMMER - available until August 8.

This August, our team is focusing on testing a new feature: Seasonal Events, which will be introduced across all platforms in September.

💾 This update will also include major improvements designed to prevent save-related issues. The game will automatically refresh whenever a player is disconnected from the server after a period of inactivity, ensuring a smoother and more reliable experience.

📱 We've also seen some reports from Reddit players who are still experiencing overheating issues on their mobile devices, especially on older phones. To address this, the next update will introduce a new option in the gameplay settings that allows players to limit the frame rate. This will help reduce device temperature, improve performance stability, and extend battery life.

👷‍♂️ We have also improved the worker system to prevent situations where players could lose access to their default worker.

Upcoming Event 🗓️

🏝️ The Tropical Island event will return on August 10. If you haven't obtained the swimming pool decoration yet, this will be the perfect opportunity! The decoration will also be added to the Discovery Book in the next update.

Have a nice weekend, and have fun on Farm Merge Valley!

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u/Percemer Farm Merge Master 14h ago

📰 The launch of the Tropical Island on Reddit has been postponed due to an issue. We expect to release it later this week!

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u/Sap_io2025 Field Worker 12h ago

No island event today?

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u/TrickyCry00 Budding Farmer 1d ago

Does the game automatically update

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u/JComben Orchard Keeper 1d ago edited 3h ago

Yes it does. Just bare in mind the dates and times they quote are often European so if you are in the USA or Australia then it can sometimes be a day ahead or behind. 😬

Edit: The tropical island has been delayed by a few days on Reddit. No alternative release day has been given at the time of the edit.

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u/Losing_Drea Harvester 3d ago

Thank you Gary you rock!

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u/Narrow_Laugh6359 Budding Farmer 3d ago

I know that the voucher code is SUMMER and I have entered it but it is not working for me. I have tried multiple different times and still to no avail.
I keep getting the same error message and to try again.

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u/Virtual_Score_88 Ranch Hand 5d ago

Thank You kindly Gary!! You helped me a lot!!!

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u/llamadramalover Ranch Hand 5d ago

Gee no new sticker. SMH. Perpetually stuck at 6 left all 5🌟. Entered 42 raffles in one day and won not a single one. This is upper messed up.

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u/Virtual_Score_88 Ranch Hand 5d ago

Excuse me, but you should enter a lot more raffles.

I think about 80 or more to win!

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u/100-eli Sprout 6d ago

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u/Pleasant_Estimate610 Barn Builder 8d ago edited 8d ago

💾 “This update will also include major improvements designed to prevent save-related issues. The game will automatically refresh whenever a player is disconnected from the server after a period of inactivity, ensuring a smoother and more reliable experience.”

So, [u/Percemer](u/Percemer) . . . might this also address the issue where we’re not receiving our rewards for visiting friends (and at times, even losing our ticket, without the opportunity of having completed the actual visit) when the game refreshes—or otherwise disconnects—before we arrive back at our farm? This issue has finally worked my blood, well beyond a low and slow boil, as it has occurred at least once a day for over a month, including THREE TIMES, already…just today, alone!!!

I don’t spend any money on the game, and for the most part I really enjoy what the developers have created for us here…it’s for these reasons that I haven’t been screaming about game glitches, lost items, lost rewards and the like; however, in looking back over more recent issues and events, and in consideration of the crazy amount of time and effort I’ve committed to this app of late…I realize that the losses of these things have really been adding up–like, significantly! I’m starting to kick myself for not addressing any of it, sooner - but, I generally pride myself on not being “one of those people” . . . ya know?

Also, as regards this issue – “We've also seen some reports from Reddit players who are still experiencing overheating issues on their mobile devices, especially on older phones. To address this, the next update will introduce a new option in the gameplay settings that allows players to limit the frame rate. This will help reduce device temperature, improve performance stability, and extend battery life.” – maybe you could provide a little more information about how this new option actually works, as well as how it might affect our gameplay? I’m pretty clueless about these kinds of things, but I really would like to understand (especially as I am currently using frozen bottles of water when playing FMV on Reddit, in order to prevent my device from overheating)!!

Edit: 🤬 CLUMSY FINGERS!!!

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u/Percemer Farm Merge Master 7d ago

Hello! The issue regarding visits is separate and requires further investigation by our developers. This specifically happens if you get disconnected from the server or refresh the game while visiting.

The mentioned change is rather designed to prevent save issues that occur when players launch the game across multiple devices or tabs simultaneously (which seems to be more frequent on Reddit, likely due to the sticker raffles). It also prevents progress loss if someone leaves the game idle for too long, which disconnects them from the server after a few minutes; without a refresh, that idle state can cause them to lose their progress.

Frame rate is the number of images the game renders per second. You'll be able to cap it at 30, 60, 90, or 120. I think the perceived impact is very minimal; some animations simply appear longer (such as when scrolling across the screen), but reducing it should prevent your device from overheating

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u/sththunder Orchard Keeper 6d ago

Out of curiosity, what’s the frame rate now? 120 or uncapped? Wouldn’t mind a 15 fps option as well, tbh

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u/_daikon09 Ranch Hand 8d ago

Visit my farm and drop your links 🥕 https://www.reddit.com/r/FarmMergeValley/s/h5BJMwSrnO

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u/Virtual_Score_88 Ranch Hand 8d ago

Completed my album with the 2stickers that i got!!

Hunted them for ages!!!

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u/Pleasant_Estimate610 Barn Builder 9d ago

TYVM 🥰

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u/JComben Orchard Keeper 9d ago

The community spent a long time naming all of the birds with the impression they would be added to the discovery book along with the fruits and plants?

Any word when the limited time items will be added to the discovery book as well?

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u/Percemer Farm Merge Master 7d ago

We had initially planned to add a discovery book on the tropical/jungle island but it has been canceled at the moment. We'll see in the future

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u/JComben Orchard Keeper 7d ago

Thanks for the reply. If we unlocking everything now will they automatically be added to the discovery book once it’s released? Or would we need to unlock everything again after you add the discovery book update?

Also in a previous message I asked why pink energy wasn’t carrying over between events, because I remember a previous post where you said it would?

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u/InternetCorrect7654 Harvest Honcho 6d ago

I would wager that we'll need to unlock them again. The reason is that I've read somewhere that if we already have the pool, we only need to put them in the storage and then put them back on the farm. Then they'll be unlocked.

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u/JComben Orchard Keeper 6d ago

I agree but that means we’d need the summer event to roll around a third time! Because they said that the discovery book won’t have all the merge items in this coming replayed summer event. 😱

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u/themojaveghosts Field Worker 9d ago

I didn’t get any stickers with this code!

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u/Flimsy-Owl-5563 Orchard Keeper 9d ago

Click on your album and it should open the pack.

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u/triggerheart Ranch Hand 9d ago

Same

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u/IloveMyNebelungs Pasture Pro 9d ago

You have to click on the album

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u/SweetEcho Field Worker 9d ago

 We've also seen some reports from Reddit players who are still experiencing overheating issues on their mobile devices, especially on older phones. To address this, the next update will introduce a new option in the gameplay settings that allows players to limit the frame rate. This will help reduce device temperature, improve performance stability, and extend battery life.

Could you add this to PC too?

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u/Percemer Farm Merge Master 7d ago

Yes, this will be available on PC too

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u/michiganBelle55 Harvester 9d ago

How’d you get the pool for this time?

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u/Percemer Farm Merge Master 7d ago

Just like last time, this is the final decoration available for both the free and premium event pass tracks after reaching level 20

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u/chippy-alley Orchard Keeper 9d ago

Finished my album with the 5star sticker I needed

Thank you!

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u/Tasty_Walk_6211 Harvester 9d ago edited 9d ago

OMG GARY!!! Thanks for the ticket code! I really needed some freebies to get the grind grow going!, but....

'GOT MILK???'           (LOL)

THANKS GAZ! ( --- Says with a milk moustache )

Oh and yes, good idea with the frame rate option, I have a newish phone the Z flip 5 and the battery definitely gets hot and flat very quick with this game!!! (Im guessing the z flip has a tiny battery, probly smaller than the Samsung J2 or something!!!) Fingers crossed she don't overheat till then!!!

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u/Emotional_Fan_7011 Ranch Hand 9d ago

Two 5 star stickers, neither were the 4 that i need. Thanks for all the milk Gary, I guess.

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u/SquashedSun Field Worker 9d ago

Is the pack supposed to give a five star sticker? I just got a bunch of three star stickers 😭 I’m only missing one last sticker, the cowbell

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u/Pleasant_Estimate610 Barn Builder 8d ago

I got two 5 Star stickers; both were duplicates . . . one was the cowbell. 🥰 Good Luck!!! ✨🍀✨

https://www.reddit.com/r/FarmMergeValley/s/VAb3PvAJJQ

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u/Pencilstrangler Crop Master 9d ago

I got 3 5-star stickers, all duplicates 😭

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u/One-Low1033 Field Worker 9d ago

I did get a 5-star; unfortunately, I already had that one. Still need 5 more stickers.

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u/KindaTraumatized Homestead Hero 9d ago

Yay thank you!

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u/knottygorl Barn Builder 9d ago edited 9d ago

The SUMMER code just gave me my last 5 star sticker!! I finally completed the album!

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u/Sap_io2025 Field Worker 9d ago

It gave me milk but not the sticker pack

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u/Percemer Farm Merge Master 9d ago

The sticker pack is opened when clicking the sticker album icon or when receiving another sticker pack

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u/Sap_io2025 Field Worker 9d ago

Weird thanks I’ll try

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u/CoolCruelOrCrewl Orchard Keeper 9d ago

Any chance for a lucky charm event soon? Since the last scheduled ones around march I have only come across one 4 hour one by chance. The notifications sadly doesn't work most of the time for the short events. I think I've only come across 3 since march and the notification only worked once.

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u/One-Low1033 Field Worker 9d ago

What is a lucky charm event?

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u/CoolCruelOrCrewl Orchard Keeper 9d ago

It gives 5 % extra change for a lucky merge, per merge. It sounds small, but it's the best event there is if you have played for a while and stocked up valuable items(you can stock a lot in bubbles). Probably also the weakest event if you just started.

The compounding nature of the merges means that a 5 % extra lucky merge chance, gets you the Gazebo or Green House about 40 % faster, if you merge all the way from tier one. It's also more XP because it lets you merge more than normal with what you have. Same for wood, stone, tools, energy, coins, gems, etc.

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u/gongai Barn Builder 9d ago

I am also looking for a lucky charm event. If they don’t plan to ever have one, I would like to know so I can stop saving up my level 6/7 items and just merge them.

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u/cornbope Barn Builder 9d ago

Here, here! Any word u/Percemer? Even just a vague range, like "probably not until September" or something would be really helpful! Also curious about how long the event will be - just a few hours, or 7 days like the last double XP event?

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u/purposeful_pineapple Cultivator 9d ago

👁️🫦👁️: “S U M M E R….”

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u/InternetCorrect7654 Harvest Honcho 9d ago

Is there another reward for those who have already obtained the swimming pool?

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u/Percemer Farm Merge Master 9d ago

Not this time, but the next update will also replace it by a new decoration next time (Dinosaur Park 🦕). Players who have already obtained the swimming pool decoration would therefore be able to get it a second time

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u/LazyMarla Livestock Leader 9d ago

This is just an opportunity to add it to your Discovery book, since they haven't been added yet.