Unlock your Hay Day potential

Welcome to our Help & Resources page, a dedicated space for all Little Leaflets HayDay members. Whether you're a seasoned farmer or just starting, you'll find valuable insights, community wisdom, and solutions to common Hay Day challenges right here. Let's grow together!

Levels 10-50 and Strategies

Our community thrives on helping each other. We've gathered some of the most common questions and valuable tips from our members to provide you with quick and clear solutions. Dive in to find answers and elevate your Hay Day game!

What common problems or questions do Hay Day players have that your neighborhood can help with?
Our neighborhood can assist with a wide range of Hay Day queries. From optimizing farm layouts and understanding production chains to mastering derby strategies and efficient trading, we're here to share our collective knowledge. Ask away, and we'll help you find the best path forward!

Are we doing derby this week?
We're trying a new strategy! We're opting out everyone for two weeks to get to the Novice league, then we'll work our way up to gold. This helps us reset and build momentum together.

What are the ranks in derby?
The derby ranks are: Rookie, Novice, Professional, Expert, and Champion. Each rank offers different challenges and rewards, and we're always striving to climb higher as a team!

What are the best strategies for levels 10-20?
Focus on building your raw gold reserves. Buy the pie oven at level 14 and the loom at level 17. Produce as much butter, cheese, and sugar as possible. Do not sell raw milk or sugarcane, as processing them triples their value.

What are the best strategies for levels 21-30?
Prioritize mines, smelters, and the juice press. Do not buy all five smelters right away. Focus on making juices and ice cream (level 29) to sell at maximum prices at your roadside shop.

What are the best strategies for levels 31-40?
Focus on your town (level 34) and the jam maker (level 35), which costs 59,000 coins. Try to avoid leveling up too quickly. Ignore truck and boat orders for now. Instead, sell your highest value items like berry cheesecake and jams.

What are the best strategies for levels 41-50?
Unlock the lobster pool (level 44), soup kitchen (level 46), and duck salon (level 50). Use Tom to fetch diamond rings (available at level 38) and sell them at maximum prices at your roadside shop.

How can I contribute my own tips and ideas?
We welcome contributions from all members! Feel free to comment on posts or reach out to us directly with your farm strategies, tips, and ideas. Your insights help our entire community grow stronger.

More Tips to make Hay Day better!

To maximize your farming efficiency and profits, you need focus on smart time management, strategic resource hoarding, and meticulous diamond spending.

Strategy "Nightshift"

RIGHT BEFORE BED: Plant all your slow growing crops like pumpkins, tomatoes, and/or strawberries and load up all production machines with long-duration items like jams, bars, or chocolate cakes.

Prioritize Production Slots

Save your hard earned (or bought) diamonds for permanent upgrades, especially unlocking extra production slots on Dairy, Sugar Mill, and bakery. AVOID: wasting diamonds to speed up timers.

Manage You Leveling (Avoid the XP Trap)

Leveling up too fast by chasing pure XP can unlock expensive new machines before you have the coins to buy them. Focus production and coin generation to keep your farm balanced.

Stack For Storage

If your barn is completely full, you can leave the finished items sitting on top of your production machines. They won't take up any inventory space until you choose to collect them. (We know how it feels when you accidently collect because of ADHD!) 

HAY DAY TOWN!

In Hay Day, you have a town. It is a special area you unlock once you reach level 34. It's your little community where visitors arrive by train, each with unique orders for goods and services. When you serve them, you earn coins, XP, and reputation points which help your town and farm grow. 

WHY TOWN MATTERS:

The town isn't just a side feature, it's a steady source of income, XP and Fun. (It got addicting when we first unlocked it) Managing it well means faster progress, more rewards, and a thriving in-game economy.

 

In this section you can find how to:
  • Serve visitors efficiently
  • Maximize your rewards
  • Keep your town running smoothly without wasting resources

1. UPGRADES!

*SKIP coin upgrades* Use your building materials on what actually matters.

  • Max out slots to hold 6 visitors per building.
  • Upgrade the timers so visitors pack up and leave early. (Please ask us if you need materials!)

More slots+ faster orders= a massive boost in XP and reputation.

2. Hunt the Final Reward

Visitors who want 2 or 3 buildings are your VIPs. Because once they finish their grand tour, they drop a special bonus prize (like rare expansion tools, axes or vouchers) Serve them first!

3. Abuse the Personal Train

The Personal Train (Abbreviated PT) is your ultimate shortcut. When you pick up visitors from your friends towns, they only want to visit one building before giving a reward. Upgrade the PT capacity to scoop up the easy wins constantly.

4. Kick out the high maintenance guests

If a visitor is demanding a rare, high level item that will clog your production for days, fire them. Save your precious stock for easy orders.

5. Last but not least... Don't let the Town Hall Bottleneck

Keep your town upgraded so your total capacity stays high. If it's full, the daily train will just pass you by, costing you a whole bunch of fresh easy to please visitors.

All aboard the Town Train!

Ever wonder which hay Day Town Guests are worth serving right away... and which ones will hog your machines for hours? Below is a color-coded visitors guide so you can spot the easy, moderate and high maintenance guests at a glance.

Easy Town Guests

Some visitors are quick to serve for perfect fast rewards. The Local and The Teacher are considered easy guests because of their simple requests and short production items like sandwiches, coffee, soup and bread. They don't need rare ingredients or long machine times. These make your town running smoothly and your xp climbing.

HIGH MAINTENECE GUESTS

Actress, Grandmaster, The Lady, and Salesman often request spa, seafood, and gourmet items that use rare ingredients and long machine times. Serve only when stocked.

NO Room At The Inn: The Art of the Machine Buffer

Managing your inventory space is a secret to a successful farm. Keeping track of your storage limits shouldn't be guesswork. This section is all about Silo and Barn capacities, upgrade requirements, and material milestones.

NEVER COLLECT on a FULL BARN

If your Barn is completely maxed out, you lose the precious bonus drops when harvesting, crops, clearing bushes, feeding animals, or waking up pets. ALWAYS keep a buffer of 5-10 spaces open. Same with Silo.

Balance your upgrade materials.

If you have 30 planks but 5 bolts, sell or trade the excess planks to match your lowest item. (Ex. 30/25, sell the planks to match 25) Hoarding lopsided amounts  will only choke your barn space. 

Machines Holding Excess

ALL your production buildings are FREE storage units. DO NOT collect finished items (Like Pies, cakes fabrics etc) UNTIL YOU NEED THEM. 

Prioritize Raw Ingredients over Common Goods

Keep a healthy stock of items like MILK, SUGAR, CREAM, BUTTER. Don't waste space hoarding items that are flooded in newspaper. Like eggsm boquets, etc. 

Ernest and Rose

Farm Helpers... I can't believe im going to say this. If you have FREE boosters for farm helpers, UTILIZE the opportunity. They have A) Their own storage unit and number B) it doesn't count against your main barn limit.

TOWN AND PETS

Feeding your pets and fully serving townies are the fastest way to farm free expansion materials. 

 

*BUY DOGS FIRST* they give the best friend, LITERALLY. If you feed regularly, and wake them often, they give consistent rewards. Manage their sleep timing, feeding rhythm and placement. (Should be clustered together) Pro Tip: Wake Dogs->Feed Dogs->Do any farm action (harvest, collect, produce)->Repeat when they wake again. This keeps them in a tight loop and maximizes drop chances. DO NOT LET THEM SLEEO WHILE YOUR OFFLINE, YOU LOSE CYCLES. Try to sync their sleep with your play sessions.

Efficient Silo Strategy

20-30 Crops: Keep this BASELINE for your foundational, fast growing crops (Wheat, corn, soybeans etc) for quick animal production. Longer growing crops can be kept at lower quantities (10-15)

**LEAVE FRUIT ON TREES* Dont harvest apples berries or cherries etc because theyre ready. Leaving them keeps them safe and completely out of your Silo until a boat or truck order or townie asks for them.

Dedicate an 5min to an HOUR of wheating, tedious I know, to trigger random material drops.

TREES

Magic number: For Cacao, Lemons and Olives: Plant 20-30. They take forever to grow and are used in a ton of machines. NEVER SOLD IN PAPER. Apples, Blackberries and raspberries they are low demand plant only 5-10. Buy apples in newspaper, to save saws. Keep at least 10 Nectar bushes and 10 Peanut bushes for squirrels. 

Leave breathing room between trees so people can see the Help Sign. Never pick fruit from an entire block at the same time. Harvest one row at a time so the trees can dead stage in waves rather all at once. 

Golden Rule: Never plant more trees than your current supply of axes and saws. Every tree can be picked 3 times before they are dead. When revived, they can be picked the 4th time. *If you are desperate for saws and axes: SERVING TOWN visitors and wheating are the best way to trigger random tools. 

TRUCK Info and Management

Getting to know how to manage trucks at a later stage, will make Trucks less annoying. To fill every order on the board is tempting, but it shouldn't be a focus. 

WHAT TO TRASH:

If a request demands high value item, or long production item jams, cakes, etc and you don't have them, ask your team if they have it, otherwise TRASH IT. Board takes 30 minutes to refresh. Trash orders that ask for the same rare item across the multiple tickets, so you don't drain your barn. (Unless you need space) Clear the board RIGHT BEFORE YOU LOG OFF so you return to a completely new set.

PRIORITIES:

Save your truck grinding ONLY for global events.

  • Double XP, excellent for rapid leveling. Prep your barn ahead of time so you can cycle through orders instantly. 
  • Double Coin Events: This is the only time truck orders reliably beat roadside shop.
  • Voucher Events: Special events that add color vouchers to regular orders, which is great for unlocking pets.
  • JEWELER OR SMELTER ITEMS are the huge exception to the "Low coin" rule. They always reward a random voucher. Jewely orders, rings, necklaces, bracelets, frequently pay out more coins in the maximum price allowed in the roadside shop. 

Don't send ANY TRUCKS until all 9 orders on your board have green checkmarks. Why? Barn Space Management. Filling all orders at the same time lets you plan exactly what items are leaving your barn. This can help to prevent accidently getting rid of an item you might need for boat or townies. 

Keep an inventory of at least 5-7 OF EVERY ITEM so you can instantly fill the incoming refreshed orders.

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