Friends

## How Do You Get Friends?

You can begin to add friends at Level 4. Using the live chat found on the lower left of the game, the list of clan members (if you're in a clan), your competition during a garden mastery event or clan event or any of the league lists, you can find other players also play Magoia. Click on a player's name in the league classifications or use the search field found by the Friends button (the NPC with the + sign on the far right of your Friends bar) at the bottom of the game window. Clicking their name will bring up their profile and show you if they have available friend slots. You can send a request for friendship by clicking "request" if you both have an empty friend slot.

You'll know if a player does not want any new friend requests because the "request" button will not appear on the player profile. Technically, you can still look up this player in the friends menu, but your request will likely be ignored or deleted. You can turn off friend requests for your own profile in settings.

Players gain one friend slot per level, so you'll have 51 slots for free once you reach level 50. After this, you'll have to purchase slots one at a time. The first 20 slots (52-70) cost 10  each, the next 30 slots (71-100) cost 20  each, the next 100 (101-200) for 40  each, for a total of 200 friends possible (at a cost of 4800 water lilies). You can also earn one free friend slot in addition to the 200 if you invite a friend via a link and that friend plants a big tree.

At level 4, you can get friends! The game will ask if you want to advertise for friendsIf you agree to let the game advertise for you, this message will appear in the chat with you as the authorUsually others seeking friends will see your post and send you a requestJust click the blue button to open this menu and click accept!You can also search for friends by typing their name into the search barClick the request button wherever you find it to start a freind requestYou may send a message along with your request. You can also delete all the text and send a request with no explanation. You must click "send" to complete the requestYou get one new friend slot per level up to level 50, and then you must purchase more with liliesOnce you've sent a request, you can withdraw the request or delete a formed friendship. You can only visit players who are your friendsThe green buttons show if a player is currently online (bright green) or offline (dark green). If the button is red, the player has not been online in 5 days or more. Yellow buttons indicate a friend is on vacation mode    Clicking on the Friends button will bring up the screen where you can send requests, accept requests and manage your friends list. This is also where you can remove players for whatever reason. The most common one being they haven't been playing the game and their picture on the Friend bar shows a red dot.

* Bright green dots = online now
* Dark green dots = not online
* Red dots = hasn't logged in for 5+ days
* Yellow dot = holiday mode

You can only remove a player if you have been friends for 5 days or more.

### Managing/Removing Friends

The process for getting rid of unwanted friends is a bit simpler: in your friends menu, click "manage" at the bottom left. This will open a list of all the players you are currently friends with. You can click their names to open their profiles, and you can easily see when that friend logged in last. If it has been 5 days or more, a red dot will appear by the friend's name in your list.

To remove a friend, click the red X and "delete" button that is in line with the player you want to remove. Confirm in the popup that you are sure, and that friend will be removed from the list. The player's icon may still appear in your friend menu until you refresh your webpage, but you will not be able to visit them.

## Inviting Friends Via a Link

Perhaps you have friends on the internet or in real life who you think would love Magoia too. At level 5 you can share a link with friends to get bonus gift packs.  Let your friend know they have to establish the account with an e-mail and password in order to get the bonus. Inviting friends via a link is one of the few ways to obtain friendship hearts.

Every so often, you'll get a popup suggesting you invite friends to the game. Your account has one unique link you will always use if you invite friends to the gameYou get bonuses once your invited friend interacts with the game enoughMagoia keeps track of which friends you've invitedThe friend slot you gain by inviting a friend is in addition to the 200 you could earn/purchase, and you keep it even if you stop being friends in the gameClick this button to open the invite friends menuThe first time you click "invite friends," this brief tutorial will pop up

You can also find the link to invite friends in your settings. Click the gears in the top right of your game window to open the settings menu. Then, click the mask at the top left. Your unique invite link will be listed as Players-recruit-players and includes your unique player ID. Click here for more information on managing settings.

## Visiting Friends?

Once you have friends, you can visit their garden and help with 4 possible things.

* Tend plants to increase their yield - Different numbers of clicks on the plants are required depending on their type.
* Speed Trees to shorten their harvest time - Hovering over a tree will show you the remaining time on the tree. You can then decide if speeding the tree would be helpful. One click reduces the total time by 5%. Fruit trees and grafted plants can only be clicked once by friends.
* Speed up grafted plants - Clicking on these plants will reduce the time by 5% of its total.
* Attack monsters that infest your neighbors garden - The gardens occasionally get monsters that only friends can remove. They will block planting spots and prevent harvesting until they are defeated. Once they are defeated, your neighbor receives a bonus Pear Horn for their dragons. You no longer have the option to completely defeat a monster in a friend's garden. Once the monster has been hit with 9 clovers, the owner of the garden must defeat it by clicking continue. This update occurred in March to prevent friends from defeating monsters, which resulted in the friend not being able to receive XP from defeating it.

You are given 3 free clicks per neighbor. You can get extra clicks in exchange for water lilies. Extra clicks spent on defeating monsters give you double the friendship bracelets for the hit. To purchase additional clicks for specific neighbors, click the + symbol located next to the tend point counter at the top of the page.

You can check to see if you have clovers to spend at a friend's garden by looking at their icon in your friends bar. If there is a shamrock to the right of their name, you still have clovers to spend there. Clovers are automatically refreshed at midnight US Central Time.

**Important!** Players only receive increased yield if the whole clover is filled. If any gray leaves remain, your friend will not receive +1 yield.

Once you have used all three clovers at a friend's garden, you can either click on the next friend's icon in your friends bar, click one of the blue arrows at the edge of the garden window in a friend's garden, or click on any plant: you will be redirected to the next garden (or told that you don't have any more friend actions).

## How Do I Get Friends To Click Certain Plants?

All plants start with clovers hovering over them (centered on the garden plot): these clovers are only visible to friends, not the owner of the garden. Some clovers are all grey, and some are partially green. Clicking grey clovers turns one leaf green. Once all leaves turn green, the plant is fully tended and it will sparkle. If you click a tree or ennobled plant, each click will speed the tree timer by 5%.

You can tell if a friend wants a type of plant clicked because that plant will have a number over it when you arrive in their garden. Of course, monsters also have numbers over them, so if your whole garden is marked, it can be hard to locate monsters. If a player does not want you to click on a certain plant, they can lock it.

You cannot care for these plants with your cloversThese plants are unmarked. You can click on them, but they aren't a priorityThese plants are marked: your friend wants you to click themPlants that shine have recieved maximum clovers and now give +1 yieldMarking all of your plants can make it hard for friends to see monsters in your garden. Monsters can have any number from nothing to 9, but plants always have a set amountIf you would like your friends to click certain plants, you can mark them. To do this, click on any plant that is not yet fully grown. A menu will pop up with several options.

All plants start unmarked. If a friend clicks on a plant but does not completely care for it (As when the plant needs to be tended four times but has only been clicked three times), it will automatically be marked with a number.

You can mark an individual plant or all pants of one type. This will place numbers over your plants when friends visit so they'll know you want these plants clicked.

You can also block a plant or plant type using this menu.

You will be able to see your own marked/blocked plants immediately, but you may have to reload your garden to see blocked or marked types. Once you harvest marked or blocked plants or types, the mark or lock should disappear. Occasionally, the mark or lock will remain tethered to a plot, however, which can be problematic if you don't realize you're doing it.

Note that friends cannot click on dragon plants.

## Why Should I Help Friends?

Friendship Bracelets! You receive bracelets for each action you take in a friend's garden. These can be spent in the Hut to purchase clothing and accessories for your avatar and decorations for your garden. They also get tallied for the weekly competition for number of friendship bracelets collected in your assigned league. The competition ends every Sunday at 8 PM Central time. You can see your standings in the competition by clicking the Level Assistant located in the sun at the top of the game window and then clicking the Friends button on the lower left of the pop up.

### How To Be a Good Friend

Want to avoid annoying your friends and consequently getting booted off their friend list? Try this

* If you won't be logging in for a while, let your friends know with a quick circular mail message. Click the envelope in the top right to open your messages menu. You can also activate holiday mode from the settings menu, which will mark your avatar with a yellow button.
* While you are away, make sure to sow plants that take 4 clovers so that your friends will have something to click when they visit even if you can't check your gardens every day.
* Avoid locking all the plants in your fields or even most of the plants in your field unless you can actively watch to make sure there are still clickable plants available.
* Similarly, avoid marking all plants; this is unnecessary and makes it hard to know what to prioritize.
* Always leave some plants in your garden when you're offline so that friends can click them. There's no penalty for harvesting plants later, so you can only benefit from leaving plants in the ground, even if you are away.
* Only click on grafted plants and trees when your friend is online or if there are no other plants in your friend's garden: since tending these plants reduces the timer by 5%, it doesn't do much good to tend the plants when the friend is not online.
* When you visit friends' gardens, focus on plants that have numbers on them, the marked plants. Plants are automatically marked if they have been clicked at least once but have not been finished. You'll know they're complete because they will sparkle/have stars around them.
* It is good etiquette to focus your clovers on plants to the top left corner of the aqua garden. These plots will be marked with glowing squares from the garden championship if your friend has participated. However, any plant that is in an easily visible location will do.
* Avoid being sneaky by clicking plants off to the right, plants behind the avatar, or plants at the top of the screen which are hard to see.
* Avoid clicking three random plants without finishing any of them.

### How To Manage Inconsiderate Friends

Are you sometimes annoyed that friends don't seem to be considerate when they're visiting your garden? There are a few things you can do about this, but first, don't forget that there are many reasons why friends might not be super careful each time they visit. Some friends are unaware of the rules and how clovers work; feel free to link them to this page or send a quick message to remind them. Friends might also be in a hurry, and don't forget that it's hard to be precise when using a touchscreen, so friends who primarily use phones or tablets to play will be more likely to accidentally mis-click.

If you've done everything you can and the friend is still obviously being malicious, you can ask another friend to help you discover the identity of the scoundrel. Ask the friend to check your field a few times each day, and if they spot a sudden rash of incomplete plants, they should let you know to immediately check your ticker to see who has visited most recently. Once you're sure you know the culprit's identity, just unfriend that player. If unfriending seems like a bold move, you can also always sow plants that grow for under 2 hours in your aqua garden. These plants always only require one clover, so it's impossible for nefarious friends to only clover them halfway.

## How Many Clovers Does Each Plant Require?

Ah, the big question: for maximum yield, you might want to calculate how many friends can click on your plants while you are away. Note that these numbers can change if the owner of the plant has a reduced plant growth time bonus such as those you can earn by using element points or those you can be awarded from Seasonal Events. The clover value scales with the amount of time it takes to grow the plant, so if you have bonuses, the number of clovers you need will be reduced, and when your bonuses expire, you'll need more clovers again. If the plant has already been completed (surrounded by stars) when the bonus expires, it will still be complete and will not need additional clovers.

In general,

* plants which grow for under two hours need only one clover to be fully tended
* plants between two and three hours need two clovers
* plants between three and four hours need three clovers
* plants which grow longer than four hours need four clovers.

This plant takes less than two hours to grow, so it requires one care pointThis plant needs more than two hours but less than three to grow. It requires two care pointsThis plant takes between three and four hours to grow, so it needs 3 care pointsThis plant takes more than four hours to grow, so it needs 4 care points
Fruit trees and grafted plants can only be tended once by friends.

You can tell how many friends have visited your garden since you were last there via a little ticker on the top right of your screen.

    When you click on this ticker, a friends menu will pop up telling you which friends have clicked on your garden and which plants or monsters they clicked on. This record is saved for 7 days.

## Frequently Asked Questions

**Q. How do I remove a friend?**

A. Go to the friends menu (click the NPC on the bottom right of the screen), go to "manage" at the bottom left of the friend's menu, and click "delete" in the row where the unfortunate unfriended one is listed. Click "confirm" and the friend will no longer be on your list nor you on theirs. You can re-add the friend at a later date if desired.

**Q. Are there do's and don't to visiting friends that us newbies should know?**

A. Generally, you should focus on defeating monsters before caring for plants since your friend will not be able to get rid of the monster without your help. Check closely for these sneaky snakes, as sometimes they appear in obscure corners, behind your friend's avatar, or on sparkling plants. If there are no monsters, focus on finishing care for plants. A partially cared-for plant will have a number over it, reinforcing that it doesn't yet produce +1 yield. If there are only clovers with four grey leaves, it's better to click one plant three times than three plants once. A plant will glitter (have stars around it) when it has been fully tended.

Note that some players (typically high-level players) prefer you do not click their monsters first: they prefer to keep the monster around in the garden because that prevents the next friends monster from appearing in their garden (which is an instant advantage that friends can then keep spending their clover on plants instead of fighting off a new monster) but also, they like to keep them along with the 'wave monsters' that randomly appear every eight days. The reason for that is that they are very easy to drive off. So as soon as they get a task in the season pass that requires them to drive off a certain number of monsters from their gardens, they can then solve that with very little effort instead of having to fight off the hard ones while probably not having the sufficient potions to do that. (Complements of Allison via the Magoia Forum)

    **Q. Why do I pop up in my friend's rock garden instead of their aqua garden?**

A. It looks like your friend hasn't harvested their plants in a while. If all of the plants in their aqua garden are fully tended, you'll be redirected to a different garden. If the friend does not have any other gardens or if all their gardens are fully tended, you will be unable to give them clovers and consequently unable to earn friendship bracelets.

    **Q. Why are some of my friend's garden plots glowing? Some plots have a colored square around them.**

A. This friend has won an extra yield for that plot at the garden mastery event. The higher they rank in this event, the more extra yield plots they receive. More on this in Garden Mastery Event.

    **Q. What do I do if there's a a monster in my garden and none of my friends are clicking it?**

A. Generally, you just have to wait. Only three friends need to click through to defeat the monster, but sometimes monsters are hard to see or your friend isn't paying attention. You can encourage your friends to click on the monster by clearing all the plants in your field or by locking all the plants that are not infested by a monster, but if you're not around to watch what happens, the monster might be defeated without your noticing, leaving nothing in your garden to do. Friends have been known to unfriend because other players consistently leave their gardens empty or locked. After all, if your friend cannot tend your garden, they do not get any friendship bracelets from visiting, and they miss out on other rewards as well. Check also that it isn't a regular wave monster. Wave monsters look similar, but they do not have clovers or numbers over them. Once you reach a certain level, wave monsters appear in your garden once every eight days. See Monsters for more information.

**Q. What happens if I visit a friend who is currently harvesting plants in their garden?**

A. You may occasionally see plants mature fully while you're visiting a friend's garden. Even if that friend harvests the plants, however, you'll still see them as unharvested. This ensures that you can always click on a plant if it was available when you started your visit to the friend. The game will retroactively give your friend a +1 yield on any plants that have been fully tended, even if they've technically been harvested already.

If you arrive in an empty garden, there's a chance your friend is between harvesting and planting, so you should come back in a minute or two. Check to see if the friend is online though (if the green dot by their name in your friends menu is light green, the friend is online), as some players inexplicably leave their gardens empty while they're offline, preventing you from earning friendship bracelets upon visiting. Note that there is no good reason not to leave plants in your garden while you're away; there's no late penalty for harvesting, and you may find you lose friends who are frustrated at having to visit you only when you both are online at the same time.

**Q. How often do snakes show up? Can they show up anywhere?**

A. You can expect your garden to be infested with friend monsters every third day and wave monsters every eight days. Friend monsters only show up in the aqua garden. You cannot have two at the same time, as the counter restarts only once one is defeated. They usually prefer untended plants, but they sometimes show up on tended plants and even obstacles like rocks.

**Q. What if I want to take someone into my friends list, but that player has a unique character in their name, so I can't search them?**

A. If your keyboard cannot create unique characters, you can still be friends with this player! All active players are listed in the league rankings. There are quite a few leagues, but if you know which player you are looking for, you can start at one end and go through until you see his or her name; just click the player's name to open their profile and click "request" to send a friend request. If you know the player's clan name, you can also search clan leagues. Click on the clan name, then "Show All" in the top right to see all the players who are in that clan.

    **Q. I arrived at a friend's garden, but I couldn't click certain plants even though they weren't locked. What happened?**

A. If a plant is not locked, the likely reason you can't click a plant is because another player has clicked it between when you arrived in the garden and when you tried to click. To solve this, click to a different garden and come back. If the plants you clicked are now glowing even though you still have all three clovers, another friend was faster to care for these plants than you!