As I was saying already, Christmas content has been released in CastleVille by Zynga and as it usually happens, a batch of content never comes alone. Fortunately for us, this means that we just got a new series of missions to complete in CastleVille, the Kris Kringle missions. Even better might be the fact that I have all the details about the series ready to be shared in this article, so if you’re curious to know it all, read on!
Snow Fall mission in CastleVille
- Place Landing Target
- Click on the Target
- Help Kris Kringle Out of the Snow
This is an incredible mission that will probably take you 10 seconds to complete, but offer you a reward of 500 coins and 10 XP, as well as your own personal Santa in the kingdom!
Ode to Joy mission in CastleVille
- Place Gift Shoppe Foundation
- Build the Gift Shoppe
This one’s a little more difficult because you need to complete the Gift Shoppe in order to finish it. In order to finish the Gift Shoppe, you will need to collect 10 each of Wood Log, Stone and Holiday Wreath. The Holiday Wreath is the new item here and you can only get it by sending direct requests to your neighbors. The reward for completing the Ode to Joy mission is 500 coins, 10 XP and a Candy Cane Pole decoration
Slipping Up mission in CastleVille
- Craft 1 Holiday Slipper in the Gift Shoppe
- Collect the Holiday Slipper
- Decorate your Kingdom with 3 Holiday Trio Candles
Finally, a more difficult mission which is not necessary a good thing: first of all, in order to craft the Holiday Slipper, you will need to have five Wool, two Wool Thread and 1 Bell; next, you’ll have to wait an hour for the Holiday Slipper to be ready but it doesn’t spoil so you can actually come back whenever you feel like. And while you wait for it to be ready, you can place the candles in your Kingdom: each costs 2,000 coins.
And this is the Kris Kringle mission series in CastleVille, hope you enjoy it!

Guides for the CastleVille Gift-A-Pult and Christmas Tree / Yulefest Tree

As you found out already in my article about the Christmas Tree missions in CastleVille, Zynga has introduced a bit more holiday content to the game and we’re talking about CHRISTMAS! We’ll have to build a Gift-A-Pult (a great idea, in the end: a catapult for gifts!) and, of course, a Christmas Tree (aka Yulefest Tree) in CastleVille and start sending and receiving gifts and prepare for the holidays! I am here to share with you all the details about the Gift-a-Pult and Christmas Tree, so read on this guide if you want to know it all!
First of all, you’ll begin by placing the Yulefest Tree (Christmas Tree) in CastleVille and get the option to start building the Gift-A-Pult. After doing this, you’ll be able to start sending and receiving gifts, which act as fertilizer for your Christmas Tree.
There are five types of gifts that you can receive and send, but in order to do it, you must unlock them first. You unlock these gifts in CastleVille by receiving them. Once you receive enough of one gift, you’ll unlock the next one and be able to send that one to your neighbors and so on. It’s pretty simple, actually!
As you can see in the image at the beginning of the article (click to enlarge), every set of gifts that you complete will also upgrade your Christmas Tree, so in order to have the best looking one, you’ll need a total of 100 gifts.

Have in mind, though, that in order to send gifts to your neighbors, you need a completed Gift-A-Pult, so make sure you have it ready and click it in order to send the gifts:

Curious to find out what’s inside the Christmas Tree gifts? Simply hover your mouse over them and you’ll be told in-game. Also, you’ll get the chance to open all of your gifts on the 25th of December, so make sure that you get them all by then!

As it happens with most Facebook games released by Zynga, in CastleVille the animals that we can have around the kingdom have different growth stages (three of them) and it doesn’t hurt to know exactly what are the growth times or how many times you need to feed them in order to have a baby animal turn into an adult one.
Below you can check out the list with details about the animal growth time in CastleVille:
CastleVille Chicken
Baby to Youth: 6 feeds (10 min wait time between feeds)
Youth to Adult: 6 feeds (10 min wait time between feeds)
Total: feed 12 times to become Adult
CastleVille Cow
Baby to Youth: 8 feeds (30 min wait time between feeds)
Youth to Adult: 8 feeds (30 min wait time between feeds)
Total: feed 16 times to become Adult
CastleVille Sheep
Baby to Youth: 8 feeds (60 min wait time between feeds)
Youth to Adult: 8 feeds (60 min wait time between feeds)
Total: feed 16 times to become Adult
CastleVille Pig
Baby to Youth: 14 feeds (3 hour wait time between feeds)
Youth to Adult: 14 feeds (3 hour wait time between feeds)
Total: feed 28 times to become Adult
CastleVille Peacock
Baby to Youth: 8 feeds (2 hour wait time between feeds)
Youth to Adult: 8 feeds (2 hour wait time between feeds)
Total: feed 16 times to become Adult
CastleVille Goose
Baby to Youth: 8 feeds (6 hour wait time between feeds)
Youth to Adult: 8 feeds (6 hour wait time between feeds)
Total: feed 16 times to become Adult
CastleVille Mink
Baby to Youth: 8 feeds (9 hour wait time between feeds)
Youth to Adult: 8 feeds (9 hour wait time between feeds)
Total: feed 16 times to become Adult
And these are the growth times for the CastleVille animals!