You'll see that there are 4 chat 'categories':

1. Neighborhood
2. Event
3. First Aid
4. 'other chatting'

all these "chat rooms" are GLOBAL/PUBLIC

Also, there is an option to create your own private chat-room with one, or several of your neighbours/friends.

* How can I access the chat?

You can access the chat by clicking on either of these two icons:

* What does the chatroom look like?

• On the left: Your list of neighbours / Friends
  • You can see which neighbours are "online on the chat" (notice the green button = online; gray button = offline)
  • You can also see which neighbours are available to chat in a particular chatroom if they have the icon next to their name (see below)
• On the top-right: The different chat-rooms
  • You can enter whichever public chat room that is most appropriate to the type of question you have, or that you feel confortable to help your fellow farmers.
  • You can also create your own private chat room with just one (or more) of your own neighbours/friends by clicking the at the top-right
• On the far right side: A list of all the farmers actually present in this chatroom
  You can scroll up/down this list to see who is present.
• In the middle of the screen: The chatting...
  • You can scroll up/down through the chatting.
  • To write something yourself, enter your text in the bottom white line, then send it by clicking the Enter/Return key on your keyboard, or click the icon with an envelope.
  • You  can also include smileys by either typing the corresponding text, or clicking the smiley sheep icon, and selecting which one you want to include in your message.
  • If your text is intended as an answer to one particular farmer/neighbour/friend, you can start your text with @ followed by the farmer's name (for example: @Farmerboy12345 To feed your Egg Farm, you need 3 chickens from your barn + 1 chicken feed!)

* How can I know which of my neighbours are connected to the chat?

Each neighbour connected to the chat has a small additional icon next to their avatar. like this: This will show when they are online and can be invited to chat.

* How can I create a private chatroom?

Click on the button at the top-right.
This will allow you to choose a name for your private chatroom:

Your new private chatroom will then look like this, with only yourself as present (on the right-side list)

* How can I invite a particular farmer to the chat room I'm on (private or global)?

Clicking on the button next to their name (on the left-side list of neighbours/friends), will "invite" them to the chat room.

They will receive this type of pop-up on their farm:

If they accept, their name will automatically appear on the list on the right.
Then you can start chatting.

• You can also invite more farmers to the chatroom
• You can even kick anyone out of the room by clicking the yellow "x" next to their name on the right-list
  • The person kicked out of the room will receive a pop-up informing them that they have been kicked out of the room.

The following updates have been (or will be soon) implemented to the Chat feature:

- The Whisper feature (via the list on the right side):
- When you send a friend request you´ll get a confirmation layer:
- You´ll be able to post links (to the Forum ONLY) via chat tool without smileys in them:
- Also updated: the System-kick-out and System-ban messages:
Source: Official Farmerama Forums.