CityVille Odd Day Goals: Everything you need to know

Apparently, CityVille's Captain Rusty is an odd fellow, as his quirks have rubbed off into a new "Odd Day" goal series in the game. This four-part series brings in some superstition and even sea monsters, but overall is fairly straightforward (if a bit time consuming). You'll need to complete all manner of tasks in these goals, from collecting from your own businesses to sending off trains and cargo ships. Without further ado, let's jump right into completing these goals so you can do so as quickly as possible.

Odd Day with Rusty

Collect from Aquarium 2 Times
Collect from 30 Businesses
Get 5 Ice Cream Cones

The Ice Cream Cones can be earned by asking your friends to send them to you, while any 30 businesses can be collected from to complete this task. If you've yet to build an Aquarium in your town, you can check out how to do so in our guide. Finish this first goal, and you'll be rewarded with 300 Goods. We can all use more Goods, right?

Max and the Sea Monster

Collect 10 Shanghai Shipments
Sent 12 Trains
Collect Shipments from 10 Neighbors' Ships

Shanghai shipments take just an hour to arrive, so feel free to send off 12 five-minute trains to quickly complete both tasks in the same amount of time. For finishing this second goal, you'll earn the Bessie in a Pool decorative item, that places, you guessed it, a cartoon-version of the LockNess Monster in a pool as a decoration. It's a 2x2 item that provides a 5% bonus in payout to nearby structures.

Ruth's New Friend

Have 1 Bessie in a Pool
Collect from 40 Residences
Harvest 35 Cranberries

Cranberries take 12 hours to grow. This gives you plenty of time to collect from 40 Homes, if you don't have that many currently in your town and need to wait for some to recharge. Finish off this third goal and you'll receive just 18 XP.

Gone Missing

Collect from Police Station 2 Times
Capture 5 Bandits
Get 12 Handcuffs

What better way to end an "odd day" than by catching some criminals? We all do that in our everyday life, right? Ok, so maybe not, but we sure are now (virtually, anyway). You can find Bandits by simply collecting from your Businesses, but will only be able to actually catch them if you have police officers working (that is, not asleep). Collect donuts to recharge your sleeping cops faster. You'll be rewarded with 800 Goods for completing this final Odd Day goal, which I have to admit is a fairly good prize.

So, was this day really that "odd?" That much will be up to you, but for 1100 free Goods and a new, clever decoration, they could definitely be worse. There doesn't appear to be a time limit on these goals, so feel free to start them (and complete them) at your leisure.

[Goals 2-4 Via CityVille Wiki]

What do you think of these Odd Day goals? Should the tasks required have been more crazy to fit with the theme, or did Zynga do just fine in their design?

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.