Over the last couple of weeks, keen FarmVille farmers have been giving and receiving presents to sit under their special Holiday Tree. Those presents couldn’t be opened until today, and the tree only had a capacity for 100 presents. Now that it’s Christmas Eve there will be a frenzy of farmers opening their presents – items seen so far include various animals (alien cow, baby turkey, lamb, brown chicken, black chicken, golden chicken, clumsy reindeer, etc), fuel refills and decorations (including a special lighted sign worth 2000 coins) and mystery boxes. So those presents are well worth having.

The news from FV is that presents can continue to be gifted and opened until January 7th, so there can now be renewed gifting (many people stopped gifting the presents because their neighbor’s Holiday Trees were full).

But if you’re good friends with one or more of your Neighbors then you can turn your Holiday Tree into a Perpetual Present Machine – here’s how:

  1. Holiday Trees give out extra presents when you reach certain thresholds – I think it’s every 10 presents. Certainly mine has been triggered to do so at 80, 90 and 100 presents.
  2. If you reach one of those thresholds and open one more present then you only need to add one more present back to your tree to trigger the extra present, which you can share with your neighbors.
  3. If your neighbour is at the right threshold and adds that extra present to their holiday tree then it triggers an extra gift that they can share with their neighbors – including you!
  4. So your special present generates other special presents that you can use to generate more special presents and your Holiday Tree becomes a Perpetual Present Machine right through until January 7th, with the number of presents you can open only really limited by your patience (and that of your neighbors) of adding and opening your holiday presents in ones and watching your Facebook Wall for notifications of available special presents.

Happy Holidays!