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  • I have 9 freinds but 1or2 that have friended me still don't show up. Thanks to in his namefor helping us get together. I have new freinds because of him.
  • How do you get a second berry bush?
  • I was able to visit my friends + my friendly neighbor and receive gifts a second time in the same calendar day (about 13 hours apart)

    Second round was not as good as first, but still got
    5 crystals, 5 bones, 5 stones, 10 carrots, 60 berries, 360 coins and 40XP.

    My list has 12+1 friends, 5 are new from this afternoon and i visited them at that time, so no goodies this time around from them.
  • i have 15 FB friends playing Croods, but see only 12, interesting thing some can see my world, but i cannot see theirs :-(
  • I found in the Croods settings at bottom is "log off facebook".
    I did that. Then on neighbor page, log into facebook. I did that.
    Some said that would wake up those pesky ones that don't show on visit page.
    Well, it did not do that. Harrumph!
    So I logged off FB in The Croods. Shut down Croods & FB.
    Then powered down the device. Waited a bit.
    Powered back up. First thing I started was The Croods. Opened FB on the neighbor page. Two of the 4 Came up and so, now I have two more.

    Only two more to fix.

    @thebean28 Complete the cavemans chores. "Build an elevator" to hop over the chasm. 3 pages of 3 tasks. 9 in all. Once done the new area opens up and more animals and challenges are available. When you get up to level 9-12 range you might be able to complete all the tasks. There is a 2nd berry bush in the new land. Of course you need MORE crystals to upgrade that one too. 350 for the 1st bush and same for the 2nd bush. DON'T waste them, there RARE and hard to get. Unless you want to waste some hard earned cash to BUY some.

    I visited all neighbors at 10:30am and 8:11pm last night (eastern time) And again today at 12:30-1:30pm added 2 in afternoon and one at 825pm. I tried to re-visit at 8:30pm but no dice, yet. Might have to wait until 12:01am.... Be interesting to see if the one I added at 8:30 and visited can visit again at 12:01 ?
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    The neighborhood association is growing. We are in the teens, now. If you want to join our neighborhood visitation for The Croods, send message to my inbox. I'll give instructions how to link up. It might take up to half hour to visit 12 or so neighbors. Looks like prizes are set available twice a day.
  • I was on at 5:00 am met and then again tonight and both times was able to get rewards both times. I really haven't gotten a lot 5 crystals some carrots and some berry's and mostly points.
  • Getting between 5-20 crystals per day, is way better than getting none, but i get way more berries than crystals, makes me happy as berries are the bottleneck in this game.

    Looking forward to my next day to see if i can beat my crystals of today.
  • I have not done any of the restarting business, but my number of friends that show up for visiting has automatically increased. maybe the limit has slowly increased. maybe it depends on whether you visit your current ones and then get rewarded with new ones. maybe it's just me. maybe it's maybelline! ok I'm getting side-tracked...
  • Visit 10 friends and no crystals, twice 5 berries and once 5 leaves, for the rest only coins. :(
  • @InHisName, are we already connected? I've no clue who you're on FB?
  • @mohsie - I have found that many just start up just so easy. Others after lots of tries, I resort to shutting down FB and Croods and even power cycling too. THEN finally one of three aggravating ones pops up. And two still left.

    I found some world start when disconnecting FB inside Crooods. Its on the settting tab. When you go back to neighbors, only friendly shows. The FB icon at bottom shows connect to FB. AFter connecting and back to that page the icon shows 'invite friends to play from FB'. After disconnecting and reconnecting FB inside Crooods several have been enabled.

    @misterGIF - 5-20 crystals, Uggh! one of my games has gone 3 visit cycles (half days??) and NO crystals That's about 150 treasure chests clicked, nada ! The account that doesn't desperately need crystals has gotten 25 since the begining. The bum luck account has gotten only 5 so far.

    I've seen +20 coins several times on both games. Those pesky crystals are RARE buggers.
  • I've got:
    9 Molar bears
    5 Bunny Beast
    6 Girelaphants
    5 Crocopups
    5 Sharkodiles
    4 Alberteroces
    3 Fish Cats
    3 Zeavers
    3 Ramus
    1 Bear Owl
    1 Land Whale

    which all have the extra 15% boost.
    I still have room for 2 other LandWhales which also would have 15% boost.
    Can't add anything else with my current setup.

    I'll have a look at angryzeaver' and hunterman' setup, we should be able to identify the "perfect" setup together!
  • New visit (seems to be 12h apart)
    I went to visit at 6:30AM and no gists no gists at 7:00, but my friendly neighbor had some for me at 7:15AM, then i went to my 1st real friend, no gifts, waited 2 minutes and there they were.

    Really looks like it is 12h after the last visit of a specific friend.

    Currently 13+1 visits, but 1 friend on Level 1 no homes, so no gifts

    I was not lucky this time no crystals this time :-(

    Next visits are already scheduled for 7:15PM, might just start before to test the 12h theory, unless some one confirms by then
  • I think it is every 12 hours from the last visit to that friend. I haven't had much luck with crystals either. Apart from my beginner's luck of 10 in two days, I have only got another 5 so far. I now have 102. There is nothing I can do with that apart from getting a second bear owl. But that is pointless, as my first bear owl is idle most of the time anyways. So I need lots and lots more luck to reach up to 20 so I can upgrade one of my berry trees to 50!
  • My heart feels for you @mohsie I have one bush to max and other at 38. Ever so slightly better than 2x38. My 2nd game, I was MUCH more carful not wasting crystals and got both to 50. That is better. If I go away to do other things and come back >10min, I have 100 berries to process.

    The only better way than occasional harvests is to harvest ALL the berries for 2-4 hours and not loose ANY. 4 hours = 2400 berries = 2400 carrots = 800 leaves = 266 bones = 133 fish = 44.3 sticks. Wow ! that's it for the WHOLE 4 hours of berry harvest ?

    I'm up to 22 playing friends. Now to get the last 7-9 to show in visit menu. Shutdown, reboot, etc. and hope for the best. Bumpted up to 18, six remaining to fix.

    I think I will wait until 12:30 to visit any new ones, just so cycles match friendly neighbor.
  • Thanks for your concern @InHisName. I lost quite afew crystals right at the start of the game to speed silly things up. Most of them just for experimenting before I realised their real worth. I did consider restarting a fresh game a few weeks into it, but didn't bother, and just carried along. I got one little saviour, which was the GREATDAY code, but then again I used it before I found out that you get more crystals with it in later levels. I only got around 260 or something like that. I used them to upgrade the two berry trees from 24 to 38, and to get a bear owl.
  • I now have 17+1 people I can visit now. they all just came up on their own. didn't have to restart or log off log on.
  • I have 17+1 people to visit. FB has 20 friends. So that's 3 friends need fixing. And I'm out of ideas. If I wait maybe they will fix themselves.

    Finally after 4 rounds of visiting, my critical game in need of more crystals, finally got 10 more this afternoon. Yea !

    The other game got crystals from 2 prize boxes in the same visit. (10?) BUT I increased only from 170 to 173. This one I'm saving for level 21+ needs and not wasting on BearOwl or WhaleThing. Bushes for that game is maxed.

    On to other discussion items.
    Shall we speculate on what level 21 should bring ?
  • I am wondering what tasks the kid under the rock will do. at the very very least, I'd like him to at least pick berries and collect them in the cave till it is maxed out. that way, every time we go in the game, we have 150 + (Bush 1 max) + ( Bush 2 max), rather than just the two bushes.
  • @moshie, confirmed, we can collect every 12h, actually exactly 12h after last visit.

    Daily totals 15 crystals,5 eggs, 15 bones, 5 feathers, 10 leaves, 15 stones, 70 carros, 175 berries, 1445 coins and 161 XP.

    Make sure you have room in your cave before starting visits ;-)

    This morning i did 14 visits, this evening i just made 20 visits in about 20 minutes (gathering stats along the way, who i visited, when and what i received from each)

    So doing the vists should take less time. Now off to distributing all theses goodies to those that are hungry.

    Out of my 27 FB friends, only 19 show up in Croods...
  • I need some friends to visit, I have all the creatures and am awaiting the latest update, all but 3 of the main creatures are fully levelled and both areas where the creatures are are full.
  • Is There A Way To Get Friends Other Than Through Facebook. IDon't Have Facebook.
  • @amyjol unfortunately not at the present time.

    Some of us created a FB account just for visiting neighbors. Pick name like "Just Croods Player". Join our 'neighborhood' of croods players, about 20 so far. You could even pick a Croods character for your icon.

    Others use their normal FB account and restrict friend privacy to "only me", then all friends can only see mutual friends. They cannot see any friends NOT shared.

    @misterGIF - I also verify the 12 hours. I was in one for 15 minutes (honey-do interupt) and noticed that it is 12 hours AFTER exiting the last time.

    @flexnation message sent for details to link up to my croods neighborhood.
  • @MisterGiF, you're really lucky, or I'm really unlucky!!
    I visited 16 friends and I only got: 20 berries, 10 carrots, 5 leaves, a lot of coins and YES: 5 crystals!!!
  • Btw, I found another bug I think.

    I've reach more then 1000000 coins, but the Achievement hasn't been given/rewarded?
  • @namoh I have noticed that too. It may not be Rovio since Game Center is a separate service provided by Apple.
  • @Namoh & @oskray, 1,000,000 coins!, respect.
    I'm at 230,000 coins, but now that all homes are evolves and that i need only to finish souping my Ramu, Sharkodiles, Catfish and Zeaver, i guess my pile will also ramp up quickly
  • You CAN get friends without connecting to Facebook. Use Game Center and connect there.
  • Hello everybody,

    First excuse my poor english, I'm french. I read your forum since a few week and you've been very helpful. Thank you for all that tips and all your comment about this game.
    I created recently a facebook account to get croods friends. How could we be connected ?
    Thank you !
  • @Fugato - message sent with instructions.

    Has anyone maxed # animals and fully leveled them all ?
    Does soup become useless after cave full ? (60)
    In another week I may be there. Far cry from 1 million though. Maybe because I rarely sold mud, fish, bones, or sticks for soup. Now building up nice stock pile of sticks. Got plenty of muds so selling some now. Having 1000+ sticks might be REAL handy for levels 21+ when they come. If I could only have 1000+ soups somewhere.

    As for IPAD, I checked the game center. I have 2 friends there. 10 games. There is a friend reccomendation page. Lists how many of my 10 games they have in common. __ for zero, 1 for one game. I tried to find out WHICH game an individual had in common but could not find that out. Clues anyone ?
  • Namoh I've got also over 1 million and the same situation
  • Thank you @InHisName !

    Almost all my house are maxed, but to fully level all animals... it takes hours ! Do you have a special trick to make soup quickly ? Ugga seem to demand often stuff that I need or that I haven't...
  • I am not a big fan of the soup either. It takes forever and ever to get any decent amount of soup. and it all goes in one go just to level up an animal from something like level 2 to level 3!! Levelling up molar bears was easy, but I have JUST managed to level up all my giralephants to level 5. Next target is the crocopups. Only one is level 5. Another four are on level 2!! GASP! At such low levels, the 15% boost is not very helpful.
  • Actually, the bonus is the same at all levels, on of us explain that on a previous message. But yeah, it's an infinite task. Especially since we need MORE soup for the crocopups after the last update !
  • Yes, I've got all animals fully boosted and homes fully evolved.

    9 Molar bears
    5 Bunny Beast
    6 Girelaphants
    5 Crocopups
    5 Sharkodiles
    4 Alberteroces
    3 Fish Cats
    3 Zeavers
    3 Ramus
    1 Bear Owl
    1 Land Whale

    which all have the extra 15% boost.
    I still have room for 2 other LandWhales which also would have 15% boost.

    Yes, soup doesn't add up above 60.
    It's even worse!!
    When you're stuck at 58 or 59...............don't get another 3 soups!
    They'll disappear and your soup amount will stay at 58/59 and will not even go to 60!

    I'm hoping in the new release Eep, Thunk and Sandy will have a roll in some kind.

    I also hope that you can buy crystals for coins.
    I wouldn't mind to pay 50.000 for 100 crystals.
    It would take a lot of time and soup, but it would be worth it!

    Still got 2 Berry Bushes at 38.......... :(
  • I hadn't played for a few days and noticed this morning when I logged in that all of my sticks were gone. Anybody else have something like this happen to them?
  • I finally hooked up FB to my game of Croods. Anybody who wants to friend me feel free - Jamie McChesney (I have a yellow headed parrot for my profile picture).
  • 48 visits today, 3 X 5 crystals, so that turns out a handful of crystals every 16 visits
    34 visits yesterday and also 3 X 5 crystals, that was crystals every 11.3 visits.

    Now hoping that we are not limited to 15 crystals per day regardless of number of daily visits.

    Today i got all my crystals in my second round of visits, so if you can do double visits it might be worth it
  • I think a couple of you sent me a message, I play a lot but am not very up to speed on how to add friends or read messages, I sent a friend request. Is it important for the capital letters to be letters when typing a nickname? I am not on facebook
  • @MisterGiF, I'm so jealous at you!!
    Visited 18 people, no crystals!
  • @namoh - You have used the code GREATDAY when at level 21 haven't you? A once present that each can use one time. from 100 to about 430 Crystals.

    I visited 4x at about 14 - 19 each and got 0 crystals. 5th time, I got 5. little whoop ... 2 more x and now 5 more. S.L.O.W going.
  • Yeah, I just the GREATDAY code on level 17. :(
    Didn't know that you got more crystals if you waited until level 21.
    Spend those crystals on evolving my 2nd Berry Bush to 38 and to get a LandWhale!
  • I'm still rearranging (or at least trying).

    I have:
    9 Molar bears
    5 Bunny Beast
    6 Girelaphants
    5 Crocopups
    5 Sharkodiles
    4 Alberteroces
    3 Fish Cats
    3 Zeavers
    3 Ramus
    1 Bear Owl
    1 Land Whale

    all with the 15% extra boost, I had already space for 2 other LandWhales which also would get the 15% bonus, but now I also have room for another BearOwl (why you would want it I don't know, but it's possible) which would get 10% extra boost.

    Which means I would be able to fit 48 animals currently (of which 47 with 15% boost).
    9 Molar bears
    5 Bunny Beast
    6 Girelaphants
    5 Crocopups
    5 Sharkodiles
    4 Alberteroces
    3 Fish Cats
    3 Zeavers
    3 Ramus
    2 Bear Owl
    3 Land Whale

    Let see if I can improve more.
  • @Namoh & @InHisName, i feel your pain for crystals, not sure what i'm doing more than you.

    This morning 30 visits (under 30 minutes), 15 crystals, 5 were from @InHisName.
    @Namoh, i still don't see you in my friends list, i would really like to see how you wvolve your world.

    Out of my 30 visits, 2 were at level 1 no homes (at least one confirmed that she was on level 21) so this is strange.

    I also got 1 friend at level 2 with 1 home, as i write i realize i can visit 5 times to get all gifts.
  • @MisterGiF, I'll see if I can post my setup, I've got no secrets! ;)

    What do you mean by "I realize I can visit 5 times to get all gifts"?
  • @Namoh, one of my friends has only 1 home, so when i visit i get only one gift, then i need to exit with the red X in the top right corner, revisit, pick the gift from the only home, exit with the red X, revisit, ...

    I guess this is only true for friends that have less than 5 homes.
  • Good tip!
    I've got 1 friend also who has 1 home, didn't know that would work!
  • I've noticed that Grug is missing when its been over 15 minutes since visiting a neighbor and you visit less than 12 hours and 1 second.
    I tried once waiting to see if he pops on by. Maybe did not wait long enough or really need to exit and try again.
  • @InHisName, Grug and the family are indeed missing, but only from the Friendly Neighbor, i visits 'real friends' and Grug and the family were there.

    I go to Friendly Neighbor,Grug is not there.
    I go to @InHisName, Grug and family are there.
    I go back to Friendly Neighbor, Grug not there.

    So guessing Grug will show up at Friendly Neighbor when i have something (12h expired since last visit)
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