Tessa's Dream Farm is a 1 week event where you get to build a new farm from scratch for players level 18 and higher. Dream Farm runs every other week. This event is the main source of mascot coins for your Main Farm. As your Dream XP grows, you will reach milestones and be rewarded mascot coins. There are 6 quest lines quests in the Dream Farm Quest Book. The quest line for upgrading the farmhouse is the main source of Mascot coins. There is also an event ranking that rewards more mascot coins based on your finish.

Speedrunners

If you are playing Big Farm for a reward wall or cash for app purpose, if you are doing a short run like 10 days or less, skip this event. It will not earn you any Main Farm XP and the rewards will not offset the effort. If you are doing a longer run, like 30 days, focus on the first few days of this event to get a few mascot coins and buy some mascots. Further details in the strategy guide.

Resets

The Dream Farm resets after it completes, so this is a speedrun to build a farm and get mascot coins. All progress is reset and you start the next time with a fresh level 1 farm and can reach all the milestones again. The only thing not reset is dream gold, which is converted to regular gold (1:1). The rewards are easiest at lower levels and not resetting the event would make it harder and harder with each run.

Separate Economy

To keep things separate, the Dream Farm has its own set of cash, gold, XP, building materials, and products that work exactly the same as the Main Farm. Milk produced on your Dream Farm can only be sold on the Dream Farm or used to fill Dream Farm contracts. You will notice some resources surrounded by clouds or colored in dreamy purple and turquoise. Others, and many of the buildings will appear exactly the same. On the site, I have added the word Dream to many of the buildings to minimize confusion if tables are shared.

The main focus is producing items to fill dream market contracts for dream resources. Dream resources are needed to upgrade and expand your farm. There will be special packages available to buy dream gold (and maybe other packages.)

The Dream Farm will only include regular and premium/some fancy buildings, always available from the build menu. Buildings will unlock at much lower player levels and require dream resources to construct and upgrade. Construction times have been reduced to 10 seconds. Production times stay the same.

I find it refreshing to have a simple farm again. You can see all your feeds in one screen! There is no premium, no super, no seaweed. (I wish there was some seaweed.) Around the outside of the farm, you will see the market, external barn and a tournament tent. The tournament tent is just stage rewards for reaching player XP. When you pass the amount required, it will be given out on your main farms notifications, just like daily quests or tournament rewards. No library, no meadow, no cafe, no jam kitchen, bakery or dairy. Building cost less cash, but need materials to upgrade. Contracts award higher cash and materials, but you can't buy products in the barn to help fill contracts.

Farmhouse

The reskinned farmhouse goes up to level 100, giving 2 happiness with each level. There are quests to upgrade each level that give mascot coins, maxing out at 350 coins per upgrade at level 50 plus.

Be Prepared

Be prepared mentally. You will get a nice new farm with a field, chicken, farmhouse and barn. Everything is cheap (cash) to buy and it's easy to expand. The first number of quests are going to get you to level 3, 4, 5 without any effort. Buildings build super fast, and you then hit a brick wall. Market wants pigs, milk, apples, etc. and you don't even have cabbage! Building the first orchard will give you enough fertilizer to run it the first time. Stables give feed for the first 3 runs. This takes a lot of the stress out of setting up supply chains. If you can grow feed ahead of time, it helps. Save wheat for overnight. It can be rough at the beginning because your farm doesn't produce that much. It takes 70 mins to grow enough pigs for a contract and you can dump contracts every 2 mins. This can generate a lot of frustration. I found that it was better to walk away until your farm has something to sell, and then role contracts. You need to manage your limited stock very well to get up and going. I built a calculator to help with this.

After doing this a few times, I can not stress enough, the importance of walking away. You will drive yourself nuts if pigs take an hour, but you churn contracts every 2 mins looking for wildflowers you can send.

Should I Play Dream Farm?

The short answer is yes. Mascots are an awesome boost to your farm. Many players struggle with the fact it resets when done and you lose all your hard work. Is this really any different than any other event in the game? We play, do tasks, and get rewards. Tree of Life resets, Tournaments reset, Weekly Theme Event, Bees, and Collecting Events reset. Dream Farm is the same. Do it, get rewards, and start over next cycle.

Now that doesn't mean you need to dump every ounce of energy you have into Dream Farm. You need to pick your level of effort going in, just like tournaments and theme events. If you are not chomping at the bit, you may find it easier to set something and walk away, making dream farm less stressful. I will try and reflect this in the strategy guide.

It is OK to skip this event as well. In this game, you will always play with similar players. So you may play against the same size farms without Mascots, or smaller farms with mascots, or larger farms that play less.

Burnout

Dream farm can be very intense. If you put effort into it, you want maximum returns. That is just human nature and wisdom. If you passively do Dream Farm, then run it ever time. If you run it hard, do it a few times at the beginning to get Mascots for the majority of your stables and then skip a few. Once you have a mascot per stable, the value of this event goes down, so it is not worth burning yourself out.

General Strategy

• Know that the game is balanced to encourage spending and the start of dream farm (lack of product, feed and fertilizer) is frustrating. It just takes some patience to get through.
• Focus on efficiency and keeping your farm running. While you can’t control how fast pigs will grow, you can control how long they sit in the stable before harvesting them and restarting.
• The mills are the bottleneck of the dream farm. If you want to get the most out of this event, focus on your mills.  
• You can’t buy from the barn to fill contracts, so you either need to produce it, or trash it. This makes farm balance so much more important. You can, and will need to, run your market without certain products. Managing and turning contracts, especially at the beginning, is vital to success. I built a calculator to help.
• Most quests to introduce a building give you resources to run it and produce. Manage this well.
• The frustration is very real. Contracts are slow to fill (1 pig will fill 2.5 contracts per 1:10) and a trashed contract takes 2 mins to refresh. Sometimes, you just need to take a break and let your farm ripen.
• Build times are very short (10 seconds). This opens the door to long production run times at night, and shorter through the day. Almonds at night, apples by day. Milk at night, pigs by day. Be mindful that the barn is small, so there isn’t a large buffer to hold produce from overnight to sell though the day.
• I don't know if it's better to expand and have lots of level 1 buildings, or if you should upgrade fewer buildings. It is a topic I will tackle in the future.
• Keep your happiness above 40 and under 100. It makes a difference when you have lots of buildings.