Farmtown is a Flash-based game available through social networking websites Facebook and MySpace. Players of Farmtown can build and maintain their own farm.

As with many other video games, so-called "cheats" or shortcuts to earn more farmtown coins, speed up the harvesting process, send multiple Farmtown gifts to their friends and otherwise make progressing in the game quicker and easier, have been discovered by players. However, some of the cheats may only work for a limited amount of time, since the game developers may fix the "bugs" that allow the cheats to work.http://www.yeepet.com/blogs/FarmTown-on-Facebook-and-MySpace:-Tricks,-Tips,-Tools-and-Cheats-1239

Some potential sources for farmtown cheats and hints include the WonderHowTo archive of Facebook farm town cheats, which includes and archive of videos demonstrating the techniques described, a Blogspot blog entitled "Facebook Farm Town Farmer" and www.farmtownguide.com.http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-facebook-farm-town-cheats/ http://farmtownfarmer.blogspot.com/ http://www.farmtownguide.com/

Although cheats for the game have sprung up, they rarely last long, as it appears as though the game developers adjust the game accordingly. For example, at one point, users of Internet Explorer could "stack" their crops on top of one another, and players could gain experience points quickly by plowing the same area near a river over and over.http://www.farm-town.com/cheats

According to a YouTube video posted at Farm Town Guide, players can make harvesting faster and easier by using the mouse auto-click program Mouse Tractor.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWhGi_UDDw8

Near the end of Novemeber, 2009, an update to the game allowed Farmtown fans to purchase an additional 12x12 farm for 3,000,000 Farmtown coins.http://farmtownfarmer.blogspot.com/2009/11/want-additional-farm-farm-town-now.html

In spring of 2010, updates to the game allowed players to produce new items, such as pizza and sugar, by growing a specific set of ingredient crops, and then placing these ingredients in storage.http://farmtownfarmer.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-reasons-to-play-farmtown-on.html