FrontierVille: New Shovel Hunt goal offers 10 free digs in Treasure Isle

While it's not better than getting 10 free energy, the newFrontier Shovel from FrontierVille is an exclusive item that lets you make  10 free digs in Treasure Isle.

But what it technically does, is make each of your next 10 digs require 5 less energy. And since each dig takes 5 Energy, well, you get the idea. And they're really heavy with the emphasis on the digs, because that's all you can do with it.
You can't cut trees or ferns or search a lodge with it.

When the offer window pops up in Treasure Isle, click on it to go to FrontierVille. There, you'll be presented with a new goal, Shovel Hunt, which requires the following:

• Plant Four Fruit Trees (can also be unlocked for 16 Horseshoes)
• Clear Two Rocks (8 Horseshoes)
• Clear One Cactus (12 Horseshoes)

You can spend 36 Horseshoes to unlock this, but it's not worth it. They're also such simple tasks that you'll be better off just completing the goal the way it asks you to. After completing the goal, you get 50 XP, 250 Coins, and a Horseshoe-Handled Frontier Shovel.

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In Game Bonuses & Facebook Credits

Watch the Treasure Isle fan page for things you can do to make extra island cash.   There was a promotion recently that if you signed up for the Treasure Isle newsletter you got a free garden plot. I did. I don't know if it's still running, probably not. There is also a promotion where if you install the Zynga game bar, found here:

you can receive up to a total of 25 island cash in the first five clicks of the bonuses, every eight hours, in addition to a starfruit.  After that you receive 1 starfruit (15 energy) every eight hours.

Keep an eye out in stores for Facebook promotions.  In 7-11s they have items you can purchase where you receive Facebook credits free. The same goes for the company Coinstar which has coin cashing in machines at supermarkets. Last week I got twenty free credits for cashing in my coins by following the directions on the bottom of my cash voucher which I ripped off.  Facebook credits
buy energy packs!

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Neighbor's List

Go through your friend's wishlists constantly and give away what you have extra of. In the long run it pays to be generous, people will remember this.

Also make sure you are visiting your friends islands to click on their treasure chest for free coins and harvesting their trees. If Treasure Isle goes the way of Farmville and Frontierville, there will most likely be a feature in addition to this that lets you help out on their island five times every eight or so hours.

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Trolling Your Feeds

Create a separate filter in your friends list (Account > Edit Friends > Create List) for Treasure Isle and bring that up in a separate window so you can quickly check everyone's wall at once by holding down SHIFT on your keyboard and clicking on their name.

This brings up their wall in a separate window. Scroll down and look for fruit and XP rewards quickly, then X out and repeat with the next friend until you're done.

Click "Like" on anything you send or receive from your friend from their wall so they know you've collected it and especially if it's a limited reward so others don't waste time clicking it themselves only to receive nothing.

There's a feature in the game that if you receive more than one item of something and it's on someone else's wish list, the game will issue a popup asking if you want to send that item to t

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Trading in Treasure & Leveling Up

Watch your energy bar and XP. If you're close to leveling, you want to see how much you need to level so you're not wasting any. Do not use your energy packs until you have no fruit left and are nowhere near leveling up! You can always go use dynamite, spray bugs, open gem and phoenix gates on various islands to gain 5 xp each time to help you level than trading in your treasure. If you have no islands left that have these things you can use, replay an island that does using map fragments.

Don't trade in treasures until you have to. Go for the ones that will enable you to level up while using as much as your current energy as possible. You don't want to have 150 energy, trade in the "It's the Peoples" get 250 xp and level up while wasting the 150you had. So you can trade in a lower amount xp collection to do that.

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