CityVille Winter Clothing Quest: Everything you need to know

Brrrrr. It's cold out there in CityVille! After the release of winter snow on the landscape, your virtual little citizens have got to be freezing, walking around without coats, gloves or hats! That being the case, Zynga has released a new mission called Winter Clothing that will see you collecting such items for your city's inhabitants, of course via the help of friends.

The Winter Clothing mission requires the following:

7 Mittens
7 Winter Coats
7 Winter Hats

You'll be able to unlock any of these tasks for 45 City Cash, if you'd like to not bug your friends to help you, but for everyone else, you can click on the "Ask your friends!" button to post a news item to your wall asking your friends to help you. While you'll likely be able to receive 7 items fairly quickly through these wall posts (if you're like us and have a lot of your friends playing), you can also earn these items in the old-fashioned way - head over to the Free Gifts page and send one of these winter clothing items to your friends in the hopes that they'll send one back.

One other aspect that makes the wall posts the preferred method here is the fact that this is a "Give one, get one" situation - if you answer your friends' calls for help, you'll receive the same item in return. Two birds with one stone - gotta love it.

Make sure to take part in this new quest before your townspeople freeze in the cold! Note: If you don't see the mission appear the next time you start the game (the mission icon is a red hat and pair of mittens), refreshing the game should do the trick of forcing it to appear.

CityVille Neighborhood Goals: Everything you need to know

To go along with the launch of the new Neighborhoods feature in CityVille, there's also a goal set to complete as well. If you remember, these Neighborhoods allow you to store homes for easier bulk access, and also just to generally save space (a huge factor in the game to this day). This goal series starts with one called Neighborhood Watch! (or, "On the House," if you prefer), which sees you simply placing a Neighborhood into your town to get used to the feature.

Neighborhood Watch!

    * Build a Neighborhood
    * Place 2 Residences into a Neighborhood


As we told you in our guide to Neighborhoods, they come in three varieties (currently) and range in price from 10,000 to 20,000 coins, depending on the kind of home you are trying to store (basic residences, apartments or vacation homes). Once you complete the construction of the Neighborhood, you'll be given these two storage spaces for free, so just fill them up and complete the goal! You'll receive a cute Garden Gnome decoration as a prize.

Block Party

    * Ask for 6 Neighborhood Event Posters
    * Place one more Residence into your Neighborhood
    * Place a Garden Gnome Decoration


Luckily, there's a "Place" button right next to this final task, so you don't have to search through your inventory to find the Garden Gnome manually. In the meantime, you'll need to ask a single friend to help you open up that new slot in your Neighborhood so that you can store your third residence. Finally, the Event Posters can be earned by posting a general news item to your wall. For finishing this second goal, you'll receive a Family Home residence, which gives you 90-170 population.

Movin' On Up

    * Unlock Block 2
    * Fill Block 2


As we told you in our guide, to unlock the next block of your Neighborhood, you'll need to collect building materials with the help of friends. Once you've unlocked the second block, you'll also need to gather more staff to unlock the final slots on that block, and then fill it completely with homes. Finishing this goal gives you the Neighborhood Watch item, a watch-tower that takes up a 2x2 area on your land and provides a 5% bonus to surrounding buildings.

Welcome Wagon

    * Ask for 8 Neighborhood Bake Sale Goodies
    * Build a second Neighborhood
    * Fill one Neighborhood


This goal will likely take you the longest to complete, as it requires collecting even more building ingredients than before, and even more staff to completely fill one neighborhood to its max of 15 houses. Finishing off this final goal of the series gives you the Deluxe Tree House.

All in all, these goals don't really require rushing, but as I'm sure most of you will likely want to build Neighborhoods for your own space-saving plans, you'll eventually finish them off with time.

Check out the rest of our CityVille Cheats & Tips right here.

What do you think of the Neighborhood feature in CityVille? Do you like the rewards for these goals? Sound off in the comments.