There are a number of ways to regain energy:

Waiting - One unit of energy is regained every five minutes (originally three, but it the time was extended). Therefore, the most viable way to regain a full meter is by simply taking a break from the game. Luckily, in the early levels, an hour or two will be more than enough to revitalize your settler.

Food - Food is gained by harvesting animals and crops, and can be used to buy meals at the FrontierVille marketplace. Meals will partially refill your energy meter, allowing you to continue working. Some of the various meals are:

• Light Snack: Costs 36 Food and refills 3 energy Points
• Breakfast: Costs 80 Food and refills 7 energy Points
• Lunch: Costs 165 Food and refills 15 energy Points
• Dinner: Costs 320 Food and refills 30 energy Points
• 7 Course Feast: Costs 600 Food and refills 62 energy Points
• All You Can Eat: Costs 10 Horseshoes and refills entire energy meter.
• Beef Jerky: Costs 30 Horseshoes and refills entire energy meter. Also permanently adds three points to your energy meter

Visit Friends - Just for visiting friends you'll receive energy points among other items. So make sure you visit all your neighbors everyday.

Free Gifts - You can send your friends meals for free from the Free Gifts page. Either send or ask your friends for meals and accept the requests when they arrive to regain energy points. The free gift meals have the same energy value as they do at the marketplace so don't ignore this valuable resource.

Working - Very often, working the land will yield extra energy. Whether it's chopping wood, clobbering a snake or whacking your house, a blue lighting bolt will sometimes pop out. This bolt represents one point of energy. Although that's not much, we're looking to get our hands on all the energy we can.

FrontierVille Energy Cheats and Tips

Unfortunately, there are no real secret FrontierVille energy cheats allowing people to gain an unfair advantage. Otherwise, the people who pay good money for their goods would feel exploited. However, there are a number of ways to get ahead of the competition. Our FrontierVille Energy Cheats and Tips segment has discovered a few:

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Be smart - Our final advice for adventurers out braving the frontier, is to be smart about using energy. What we mean by this is simple, don't do anything that would cause a waste of energy points. For example, knowing that you are just two experience points away from an energy refilling level up, don't eat Beef Jerky or visit a neighbor. Simply do a task or two on your own farm so that those two more significant energy sources aren't expended.