Sending and receiving gifts in Island Experiment

In order to send and receive gifts, you must be either a Facebook friend or an in-game neighbor. Both friends and neighbors can send and receive gifts in the game, but only FB friends can contact each other to arrange trades.

Once you are friends with someone, if they have a wish list made (http://islandexperimentwalkthrough.blogspot.com/2017/01/how-to-add-and-remove-items-from-your.html) all you have to do is hover over their picture in the friend bar at the bottom of your screen. The wish list will pop up, and you simply click on the item you want to send.

Once you click on the item you want to send, another window pops up. This window tells you the name of the person you're sending to, how many of that item you have, plus-and-minus buttons, and a send button. Select how many of the item you want to send either with the plus and minus buttons, or by clicking inside the number box and then typing in the number. Hit send, and the items will go to your friend. REMEMBER THAT ANYTHING YOU SEND THIS WAY COMES OUT OF YOUR OWN STOCK IN YOUR WAREHOUSE.

When you bring up a wish list, if an item is showing but it is faded out, that means that you do not have any of that item in your own warehouse.

When a player adds an item to their wish list after you have already loaded your game, it will not show on your end when you look at their list. You (the sender) will need to refresh your game in order to see their new list.




When you receive a gift, all gifts go to the giftbox in the lower left corner of your game screen. A number will pop up telling you how many packages you have received. You can have up to 25 of the daily friendship coins (hearts) and up to 100 packages of regular gifts. Each package can contain an unlimited number, but only 100 packages can be in the box at a time. Regular gifts can sit in the giftbox for up to 7 days, but there is no timer on them, so if you need to let things sit in the box due to warehouse space issues, make a note of how long those items have been in there so that you don't lose them due to leaving them too long.



You can collect gifts two ways: one at a time by hitting the "collect" button under each individual gift, or by hitting the "collect all" button. Collecting one at a time helps you to see the picture of each person who sent that gift, and it prevents your warehouse from filling too quickly when you are picking up gifts of resources. "Collect all" is useful for when you only have daily heart coins in the box, or when you know you only have a few items. If you want to know who sent gifts of regular resources, don't use "collect all" because the summary of gifts will not show their pictures. You can only see profile pictures when you are collecting one at a time.

If you have game notices turned on in Facebook, sometimes you will get game notices that you have gotten a gift but nothing ever shows up. This is because you still get notifications for all daily heart coins, but once you have reached your max for the day, they will not show up in the gift box. This is one reason I recommend turning off notifications for the game. (You can still see your list of gifts by hovering over the Island Experiment icon in the games area.)

Sometimes you will also see a game notification that you have received a "chemical solution". This is nothing more than a daily heart coin gift. "Chemical solution" is old wording and old coding for the gifts that mobile players were once able to send to friends, and even though now they too can only send daily heart coins, the old wording is still there.

As of the day of this writing (1/31/17) many players are having to refresh their game in order to receive their gifts (or wait a very long time), but hopefully they will fix that soon.