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Restaurant City developer Playfish’s weekly decoration set is definitely one of the more unique and original we’ve seen lately – a collection of wedding themed gifts have been added to RC’s indoor and outdoor decoration stores. Players should now have everything they need to host virtual wedding receptions inside their own Facebook restaurant.

New items include: Wedding chair and table, floral garland wall hanging, Wedding Harpist, Wedding Gazebo, Podium, Wedding Flowers and Wedding Trellis. The two functional additions are an Ice Swan Sculpture that causes rose pedals to appear beneath customers’ feet, and a 130,000 coin Bubbly Drink Tower, only available to players level 50 and higher.

The outdoor decoration store sometimes seems a little neglected in Restaruant City’s weekly updates, but this week it got a lot of love. The Bride and Groom themselves can be purchased, as well as a Wedding Roof, a Floral Archway, a Wedding Car, Wedding Chairs, and several more.

Another week means another Farmville mystery box, stuffed full of exclusive, never-before-seen goodies. This week’s mystery box comes in a new color (orange and mustard), but has the usual price tag (16 FV$). So what’s inside? We have the full scoop:

- Big Horn Sheep
- Cactus Inn
- Adobe Shop
- Rock Hot Tub
- Oasis
- Woodchuck

One of the stronger mystery boxes in recent memory, in our opinion. Throwing in a couple of leftover Southwest items is a little disappointing, but the other four items are all very nice! We have pictures of all the new additions below.

Cheers to the official Farmville forum goers for these pics.

Tiki Farm developer Playdom released the game’s first building with purpose, earlier today: a fishing dock! It seems that more and more social farming games are transitioning from their buildings being just for show, to their buildings being used to make more money and provide more benefit for the farm.

Like the new livestock animals, this fishing dock allows players to turn one good into new, more valuable good. In this instance, players can turn in the grubs found on their neighbor’s islands into Opakapaka fish, after a five minute wait. Players that are a high enough level can upgrade their fishing dock, giving it a fancier look, and also shortening the wait time & increasing the profit.

The Fishing Dock is currently the only item in the Workshops section of the Tiki Farm shop, which seems to be a pretty strong hint that more buildings with similar functions are on the way.

Just as we predicted, the first set of archipelago decorations have been added to Happy Island. Players can now begin to decorate and customize their entire string of islands in the same way each individual landmass can currently be customized.

The archipelago decorations are: Channel Marker, Lost Column, Rocky Outcropping, Lost Arch, and Rocky Column. These decorations aren’t cheap, however. All but one cost north of 100,000 coins!

To access the archipelago shop, players must be on their archipelago view, by clicking the island icon in the upper righthand corner. When in the archipelago view, the normal island shop icon will change into an anchor – the symbol for the new shop. It is also here that players can buy new islands and islets for their archipelago.

Social game developer Playdom launched a brand new game this week: Treetopia! The game is an interesting mixture of the familiar and the new, borrowing concepts from many other hit games (including Playdom’s other titles), and stirring them all up into a single pot.

The basic goal of Treetopia is to grow your village’s central tree (you can see it in the screenshots below) by leveling up, and increasing the number of villagers you control.

Players have three major resources to gather: Beads, Wood, and Stone. Beads can be collected from most buildings, and exist mainly as currency – to buy more buildings and decorations. Players collect beads from campfires, rug mills, chapels, and most other structures. Wood and Stone are produced at a quarry and a wood works over a period of several hours.

Players spend their wood and stone resources by sending their villagers on quests. It is these quests that award the player XP and allow them to level up, thereby gaining access to more buildings and more villagers. Later on, more specialized villagers can be recruited, including warriors, shielders, and healers, which will allow for the completion of more advanced quests.

It might sound a little complex, but in truth Treetopia is grasped after just a few minute of play: Beads buy things, Wood and Stone are used in quests, quests earn experience points and lead to level-ups.

Players have all the standard customization options for the their village, and can spruce it up with a variety of decorations, rotate buildings, etc. One nice touch is that the villagers themselves can be customized. The males and females can be given separate skin colors, hear styles, and outfits. We made our villagers purple.

Treetopia has a lot of promise. The game has high production values and looks and sounds great. It is a shame the quests are automatic – we think it would have been a great way to introduce players to minigames. But with decorating, resource gathering, and an XP system, most Facebook gamers should feel right at home with this idyllic village sim.