Rare Gamer’s Piñatapedia

Introduction

Viva Piñata is really very good despite what you might have heard. Don’t let the cutesy graphics fool you; the game is very deep and involving and will suck away at your time like you wouldn’t believe! Give it a chance and you will find a very engaging and entertaining game hidden within. A lot of people will dismiss it as nothing more than a kids game but they couldn’t be more wrong and I have no shame in announcing that I love this game.

Viva Piñata is very open-ended; you can do things in any order you choose, providing you’ve met certain requirements and reached the appropriate level, so this guide is intended as more of a reference tool to help you on your way if you find yourself lost rather than leading you step for step right from the start all the way to the end because, as you will find, there is no end in the traditional sense of the word!

This guide will take you through all of the piñata and their requirements, along with what you need to do to get all the variants and evolutions. If you have any problems or questions about the game that are not covered in this guide then please e-mail me; paul@raregamer.co.uk and I’ll do my best to help you.

If a particular question keeps cropping up I’ll add it to this guide. If you’re going to e-mail me, please be sure to put “Rare Gamer – Viva Piñata help” in your subject line otherwise you risk having your e-mail banished into the cold, dark spam pit. The same applies for Private Messages in the forums if that’s your communication route of choice, but just so I can find it more easily amongst the sea of ‘RE: no subject’ messages littered throughout my inbox. Alternatively you can head on over to our forums and ask in there. Be sure to have a scan through the existing topics to see if your question has already been asked. If it has then you’ll more than likely find the answer a few posts later in there too.

Before we continue I have to give a big shout out to the absolutely wonderful Piñata Island website; quite possibly the biggest, best and most comprehensive Viva Piñata site out there. These guys were a huge help when it came to writing this guide and you really should go and visit them.

So what’s the point of the game then? There’s no evil tyrant to overthrow or princess to save; just a garden that is lying desolate and full of junk. You arrive, get given a rusty shovel and told to give it a tidy up. Is that it? Well, the ultimate aim is to spruce up your garden so that it is nice enough to attract all the various piñata species to it and that they then decide to become residents. Get them to do that and then you are tasked with romancing them all so that you can produce variants for each piñata species. Achieving all this is where the challenge lies; each piñata species has their own likes and dislikes, other piñata that they get on with and others that they hate. Your job is to keep up this fine balancing act of ensuring that all your residents are happy enough to stay and to breed, as well as doing enough to your garden to attract new ones. There’s sixty different piñata species so as you can see, there’s a lot of work to do.

Below you will see a list of links that will whisk you off to the various sections of the Piñatapedia.

Shops
Piñata species
Tower of sour
Variants
Evolution
Wildcards
Romancing
Personality clashes
The food chain
Make your own produce
Legal information

Shops

Paper pets

Lots of accessories are on sale in paper pets but I’m only going to list the ones that are needed to help meet a romance requirement or if you want to make your own produce. The rest of them are just cosmetic and as a result will not be listed here. Still, feel free to blow your cash on whatever bits and pieces you want to help jazz up your piñata as it all helps to boost their value if you sell them. The items are shown with their cost in chocolate coins (cc) and the level when they become available in brackets, along with what their use is;

– Ballet shoes (600cc / 37): needed to help romance elephanillas
– Bell (360cc / 24): lets moozipans produce milk if you have a milking shed in your garden
– Blackeye patch (600cc / 34): needed to help romance parrybos
– Bonnet (180cc / 19): lets goobaas produce wool if you have a shearing shed in your garden
– Bottles’ glasses (180cc / 19): needed to help romance profitamoles
– Buzzlegum keeper hat (61cc / 8): lets buzzlegums produce honey if you have a hive. in your garden
– Crown (600cc / 37): needed to help romance roarios
– Diamond choker (360cc / 29): needed to help romance swananas
– Fake winner’s rosette (180cc / 19): needed to help romance horstachios
– Fez (180cc / 19): needed to help romance cinnamonkeys
– Reporter’s camera: (180cc / 19): needed to help romance pudgeons
– Spiked collar (180cc / 14): needed to help romance barkbarks
– Tail bow (180cc / 19): needed to help romance ponockys
– Tap shoes (360cc / 29): needed to help romance pigxies

There are also some piñata that are only available in this store. You cannot get hold of them in the normal way; you have to buy them and as a result they will not have any appear or visit requirements. Here’s a list with what they cost and the level they become available shown in brackets;

Barkbark (2310cc / 14)
Cluckles (1100cc / 8)
Goobaa (2310cc / 16)
Kittyfloss (1650cc / 10)
Moozipan (3080cc / 25)
Ponocky (2310cc / 20)
Pudgeon (2310cc / 18)
Rashberry (1650cc / 12)

Ivor Bargain

Once you’ve reached level 10 or thereabouts a beggar will wander in to your garden. You can donate money to him and once you’ve donated 1000cc he’ll stop coming into your garden and will go and open up his own store in the village. He sells some good bits and pieces that make your gardening a lot easier. Here’s what he’s got for sale, the cost, when it becomes available and its use;

– Captain’s cutlass (11000cc / 30): will stop the ruffians and Professor Pester from ever coming into your garden again
– Chocolate sniffer (540cc / 14): works like a metal detector except it’s hunting chocolate. Your shovel will beep when you are near buried chocolate coins
– Dastardos head (2520cc / 20): a shovel head that will stun Dastardos temporarily
– Dastardos scarer (2310cc / 25): will make Dastardos take longer to appear when your piñata falls ill
– Everpour 5000 watering can (2700cc / 18): has a limitless supply of water and it will never over-pour
– Gem (360cc / 34): a nice and shiny gem
– Gem seed (248cc / 34): will grow into a gem tree
– Glass watering can (1575cc / 12): holds more water
– Joy sweet (83cc / 12): feed this to your piñata and it will max out their happiness meter
– Lantern o’ loot (220cc / 14): put this near the entrance of your mine and it will increase the odds of you getting something good dug out by the diggerlings
– Oak gate (154cc / 18): strongest gate in the game
– One pour wonder (4125cc / 24): one pour of this onto your plant and you will never need to water it again
– Platinum shovel handle (1125cc / 30): strongest shovel handle in the game
– Red eye rainbow (616cc / 14): reduces the amount of fights your piñata will have
– Special mix fertiliser (9cc / 20): fertilises any plant
– Stone wall (116cc / 18): strongest fence in the game.
– Water waiver (792cc / 14): reduces the amount of water all plants need

Bart’s exchange

Lots of the items available in the store can be tinkered with in order to create something new. Some piñata will need an item that’s been tinkered with in order to meet a requirement. Bart is the guy who does this for you. He offers three levels of service; gold, silver and bronze. My advice is to always go for gold as it guarantees the transformation will take place. Silver and bronze services have less chance of succeeding and that makes them just a waste of your money. Here’s what can be tinkered with;

– Apple becomes a toffee apple
– Banana becomes a banana split
– Blackberry becomes blackberry jam
– Bread becomes a sandwich
– Carrot becomes carrot cake
– Corn becomes bread
– Gem becomes a rainbow gem
– Gooseberry becomes a gooseberry fool
– Honey becomes a bottle of medicine
– Monkey nut becomes peanut butter
– Pumpkin becomes a jack o’ lantern
– Milk becomes cheese
– Toadstool becomes a mushroom

Willy Builder

Apart from all the piñata houses Willy will make for you, he also provides some special buildings later in the game. Here’s the list, what they cost and when they become available;

– Helper house (220cc / 10)
– Honey hive (66cc / have a buzzlegum resident)
– Mine (16500cc / 26)
– Milking shed (616cc / buy a moozipan)
– Shearing shed (462cc / buy a goobaa)

Piñata species

Piñata come in two forms; wild and tame. Wild ones are hiding in the surrounding woods around the edge of your garden. Meet specific criteria and they will visit, but with a set of requirements. Meet those requirements and they’ll become residents, then you can see what they need in order to romance. Tame ones can be bought from paper pets and have no appear, visit or resident requirements.

The first time you are introduced to any particular species of wild piñata it’ll be black and white. These piñata are just looking at your garden; you’ve done just enough to spark their interest but they are not yet ready to become residents. There are three stages that the piñata go through before this happens;

1. Appear:
When a piñata species appears for the first time a quick cut-scene will play that shows them coming out of the surrounding wild habitat towards your garden. They won’t actually come into the garden, they’ll just loiter around beyond your boundary.

2. Visit:
Fulfil the visit requirements to make the piñata come into your garden and they are re-classed as visitors. Once they are in they can interact with anything in your garden but you cannot control them in any way, although your shovel can destroy them. Visitors will do their best to fulfil their resident requirements with no input from you so be mindful of what their requirements are. For example, if it involves eating one of your existing residents you need to be ready with your shovel to smack the visitor if you do not want your existing resident to be eaten.

3. Resident:
When you have met all of the requirements for a piñata to become a resident they will change their colour. The first time this happens you’ll know because the camera will zoom over to the piñata as it regenerates Doctor Who-style into a full colour piñata. You can only have two piñata become residents in this way. To get any more than two at one time you’ll have to romance them or get Gretchen to fetch them for you.

Here’s a run-through of all the piñata in the game, whether they be wild or available in paper pets. Sours and how to tame them are in here too. I’ve listed each piñata’s specific details for resident and romance requirements and what you have to do to create a variant or an evolution (if there is one).

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A

Arocknid

Appear requirements:
You must be at least a level 6 gardener

Visit requirements:
You must have four tafflys or raisants living in your garden

Resident requirements:
Feed it two tafflys or two raisants

Romance requirements:
You must have an arocknid house in your garden
Feed it two buzzlegums

Variants:
Feed it a water lily flower to get a pink variant
Feed it a jack o’ lantern to get an orange variant
Feed it a bluebell flower to get a blue variant

B

Badgesicle

Appear requirements:
You must have two nocturnal piñatas living in your garden

Visit requirements:
You must have four nocturnal piñatas living in your garden

Resident requirements:
Feed it one newtgat and two pumpkins

Romance requirements:
You must have a badgesicle house in your garden
Feed it one squazzil and two tulip seeds

Variants:
Feed it a bluebell flower to get a blue variant
Feed it some honey and a water lily flower to get a purple variant
Feed it an apple to get a red variant

Barkbark

Appear requirements:
None

Visit requirements:
None

Resident requirements:
Bought in paper pets for 2310cc. It’s not available until you are a level 14 gardener

Romance requirements:
You must have a barkbark house in your garden
Needs to be wearing a spiked collar
Feed it a bone

Variants:
Feed it a banana split to get a yellow variant
Feed it a poison ivy flower to get a green variant
Feed it a bottle of medicine to get a pink variant

Bonboon

Appear requirements:
You have tamed a sour bonboon in the past

Visit requirements:
Have a banana tree and a monkey nut tree in your garden

Resident requirements:
Feed it seven bananas and seven monkey nuts
Have one monkey nut tree and one banana tree in your garden

Romance requirements:
You must have a bonboon house in your garden
Feed it three jameleons

Variants:
Feed it an orchid for a white variant
Feed it a watercress seed and a bird of paradise seed for a yellow and green variant
Feed it a bluebell flower for a blue variant

Bunnycomb

Appear requirements:
Have a carrot in your garden

Visit requirements:
Have a carrot in your garden

Resident requirements:
4% of your garden must be grass
Feed it three carrots

Romance requirements:
You must have a bunnycomb house in your garden
6% of your garden must be grass
Feed it a daisy or a buttercup

Variants:
Feed it a gooseberry seed for a green variant
Feed it a pumpkin seed for a yellow variant
Feed it a water lily flower for a pink variant

Buzzenge

Appear requirements:
You have a candary living in your garden

Visit requirements:
You have five candarys living in your garden

Resident requirements:
You must have one fir tree in your garden
Feed it three candarys

Romance requirements:
You must have a buzzenge house in your garden
Feed it two pudgeons and two sparrowmints

Variants:
Feed it a buttercup for a yellow variant
Feed it a bottle of medicine for a pink variant
Feed it a bluebell seed for a blue variant

Buzzlegum

Appear requirements:
Have two buttercups in your garden

Visit requirements:
Have four buttercups in your garden

Resident requirements:
Have a buzzlegum house in your garden
Have six buttercups in your garden

Romance requirements:
You must have a buzzlegum house in your garden
Feed it two pieces of any fruit

Variants:
Feed it a bottle of medicine for a pink variant
Feed it a gem tree seed for a white variant
Feed it a venus piñata trap flower for an orange variant

C

Candary

Appear requirements:
None

Visit requirements:
None

Resident requirements:
Feed a buttercup to a sparrowmint. It will evolve into a candary

Romance requirements:
You must have a candary house in your garden
Feed it a yellow flutterscotch

Variants:
Feed it a bluebell flower for a blue variant
Feed it a water lily seed for a pink variant
Feed it a gooseberry fool for a green variant

Chewnicorn

Appear requirements:
You must have been awarded the master romancer award for the horstachio

Visit requirements:
You must have a gem tree in your garden

Resident requirements:
You must have one gem tree in your garden
Feed it fifteen gems

Romance requirements:
You must have a chewnicorn house in your garden
Feed it three rainbow gems

Variants:
Feed it some corn for a yellow variant
Feed it a water lily seed for a pink variant
Feed it a water lily flower and a bluebell flower for a blue variant

Chippopatamus

Appear requirements:
40% of your garden must be water

Visit requirements:
50% of your garden must be water
Have fourteen watercress, water lilies or bullrushes in your garden

Resident requirements:
60% of your garden must be water
Feed it ten water lilies, ten bullrushes and ten watercress

Romance requirements:
You must have a chippopatamus house in your garden
70% of your garden must be water
You must have been awarded the master romancer award for the candary
You must have one candary resident in your garden
Feed it four bird of paradise flowers

Variants:
Feed it a watercress flower and a mushroom for a yellow variant
Feed it a water lily seed and a bird of paradise flower for a purple variant
Feed it a bottle of medicine and some jam for a pink variant

Cinnamonkey

Appear requirements:
Have a monkey nut tree in your garden

Visit requirements:
Have a monkey nut tree in your garden

Resident requirements:
Have three trees of any kind in your garden
Feed it eight monkey nuts

Romance requirements:
You must have a cinnamonkey house in your garden
Needs to be wearing a fez
Feed it four bananas

Variants:
Feed it a chilli for a red variant
Feed it a blackberry seed for a purple variant
Feed it a water lily flower for a pink variant

Cluckles

Appear requirements:
None

Visit requirements:
None

Resident requirements:
Bought in paper pets for 1100cc. It’s not available until you are a level 8 gardener

Romance requirements:
You must have a cluckles house in your garden
Feed it one pumpkin seed and one corn

Variants:
Feed it a bluebell seed for a blue variant
Feed it an oak seed for a green variant
Feed it a bottle of medicine for a purple variant

Cocoadile

Appear requirements:
You have tamed a sour cocoadile in the past

Visit requirements:
16% of your garden must be water
You have five quackberry residents in your garden

Resident requirements:
19% of your garden must be water
Feed it three quackberrys

Romance requirements
You must have a cocoadile house in your garden
22% of your garden must be water
Feed it two juicygooses
Needs to be wearing gold teeth

Variants:
Feed it a water lily seed for a pink variant
Feed it a bluebell flower for a blue variant
Feed it a buttercup seed for a yellow variant

Crowla

Appear requirements:
You have tamed a sour crowla in the past

Visit requirements:
You have four lickatoad residents

Resident requirements:
Feed it two lickatoads

Romance requirements:
You must have a crowla house in your garden
Feed it two shellybeans

Variants:
Feed it a water lily flower for a pink variant
Feed it a bird of paradise flower for an orange variant
Feed it a bluebell seed for a blue variant

D

Doenut

Appear requirements:
40% of your garden must be short grass or 6% must be long grass

Visit requirements:
6% of your garden must be long grass
You have ten gooseberries or blackberries in your garden

Resident requirements:
8% of your garden must be long grass
Feed it six blackberries or gooseberries

Romance requirements:
You must have a doenut house in your garden
10% of your garden must be long grass
Feed it one sunflower and one tulip flower

Variants:
Feed it a jack o’ lantern and some corn for an orange variant
Feed it an oak seed for a green variant
Feed it a thistle flower and a gooseberry fool for a purple variant

Dragonache

Appear requirements:
None

Visit requirements:
None

Resident requirements:
Buy a mine from Willy Builder and place it in your garden. They cost 16500cc and are available once you are at level 26. Then hire a diggerling (you can hire more than one if you like to help speed up the process) who will then go digging in the mine. Give it some time and eventually the diggerling will unearth an egg that you cannot break with your shovel. Direct a cluckles to the egg and it will sit on the egg and hatch it. Out will come a baby dragonache. Unlike all the other piñata the dragonache will not mature on its own; you have to induce it. To do this you have to feed it a bottle of milk, a redhott, a salamango, a dragumfly and a snapdragon flower. The baby dragonache will now change into a cocoon and then hatch as an adult.

Romance requirements:
None

Variants:
Rather than feeding an adult piñata something to create a variant, the dragonache variants are determined by what surface the egg is hatched on;
– Hatch the egg on soil for a brown variant
– Hatch the egg in water for a blue variant
– Hatch the egg on grass for a green variant
– Hatch the egg on cracked soil for a gold variant (the only way to achieve this is to start a new garden and leave some of the original hard, cracked soil intact. Don’t flatten it out with your shovel to make it soft earth. Hatch the egg on this cracked soil.)

Comments:
There is only one dragonache egg in each garden so you’ll need to create new gardens and have mines in each of them in order to get all the variants. The egg cannot be broken or sent via crate. The dragonache cannot be sold. If the dragonache is getting in the way you can make it leave your garden by holding your cursor over it, bringing up the menu by pressing X and then choosing the option to ‘dismiss’. If you want to get it back this can be done in Gretchen Fetchem’s but only in the garden in which it hatched. Gretchen cannot fetch wild dragonaches.

Dragumfly

Appear requirements:
You must be at least a level 26 gardener

Visit requirements:
15% of your garden must be water

Resident requirements:
20% of your garden must be water
You must have twelve bullrushes in your garden
Needs to beat a reddhott in a fight

Romance requirements:
You must have a dragumfly house in your garden
25% of your garden must be water
Feed it a raisant, a buzzlegum and a snapdragon

Variants:
Feed it a pumpkin for an orange variant
Feed it a poison ivy flower for a green variant
Feed it a bluebell seed for a blue variant

E

Eaglair

Appear requirements:
You must be at least a level 33 gardener

Visit requirements:
You have five different piñata species as residents

Resident requirements:
You have one oak tree in your garden
You have fifteen different piñata species as residents
Feed it four buzzenges

Romance requirements:
You must have an eaglair house in your garden
Feed it three sweetooths
You have two fully grown oak trees in your garden

Variants:
Feed it a bluebell seed for a blue variant
Feed it a bottle of milk for a white variant
Feed it a buttercup seed for a yellow variant

Elephanilla

Appear requirements:
You must be at least a level 36 gardener

Visit requirements:
You must have sixteen corn, gooseberries, blackberries or monkey nuts in your garden

Resident requirements:
Feed it four corn, four gooseberries, four blackberries and four monkey nuts

Romance requirements:
You must have an elephanilla house in your garden
Feed it two bananas, two chillis, two pumpkins and two acorns
Needs to be wearing ballet shoes

Variants:
Feed it a bluebell flower for a blue variant
Feed it a poppy seed for a red variant
Feed it a buttercup for an orange variant

F

Fizzlybear

Appear requirements:
You must be at least a level 30 gardener

Visit requirements:
You must have twelve fir cones or three jars of honey in your garden

Resident requirements:
Feed it eight fir cones and two jars of honey

Romance requirements:
You must have a fizzlybear house in your garden
Feed it two raisants and one bottle of medicine

Variants:
Feed it a watercress seed for a green variant
Feed it a carrot for an orange variant
Feed it a sunflower seed for a yellow variant

Flutterscotch

Appear requirements:
You must have one daisy in your garden

Visit requirements:
You must have two daisies in your garden

Resident requirements:
You must have four daisies in garden

Romance requirements:
You must have a flutterscotch house in your garden
Feed it one piece of any fruit

Different species:
Feed it a water lily flower for a pink flutterscotch
Feed it a watercress flower for a green flutterscotch
Feed it a bluebell flower for a blue flutterscotch
Feed it a poppy flower for a red flutterscotch
Feed it a bird of paradise flower for an orange flutterscotch
Feed it a buttercup flower for a yellow flutterscotch
Feed it a bullrush flower for a brown flutterscotch
Feed it a tulip flower for a black flutterscotch
Feed it a thistle flower for a purple flutterscotch

Comments:
The default flutterscotch is white and it does not have variants. Instead you will need to fulfill the different species requirement in order to get a different colour flutterscotch. The romance requirements are the same for all the different flutterscotch species, although whatever colour the flutterscotches might be when you romance them you will always have a white one hatch from the egg. To get more of your desired colour you will have to meet the different species requirement again.

Fourheads

Appear requirements:
None

Visit requirements:
None

Resident requirements:
Romance two twingersnaps and then keep a close eye on the egg that is about to hatch. It will sit there bouncing and after a long wait it will jump into the air really high three times. On the third jump hit it with your shovel

Romance requirements:
You must have a fourheads house in your garden
Feed it a toadstool, a lackatoad and two nightshade berries

Variants:
Feed it a bluebell flower for a blue variant
Feed it a bottle of medicine for a pink variant
Feed it a jar of honey for a yellow variant

Fudgehog

Appear requirements:
The fudgehog will appear on the fourth night of a new garden

Visit requirements:
You must have four whirlms living in your garden or you have two thistles

Resident requirements:
Feed it two whirlms and a thistle flower

Romance requirements:
You must have a fudgehog house in your garden
Feed it a bottle of milk

Variants:
Feed it a bluebell seed for a blue variant
Feed it a poison ivy flower for a green variant
Feed it a chiili for a red variant

G

Galagoogoo

Appear requirements:
You have all eight tower of sour pieces

Visit requirements:
You have a moon-on-a-stick in your garden
You have eight mothdrops living in your garden or you have sixteen tulips in your garden

Resident requirements:
Feed it four tulip flowers and two mothdrops
Hire a watchling from Arfur’s inn

Romance requirements:
You must have a galagoogoo house in your garden
Feed it four orchids
You have a chewnicorn living in your garden

Variants:
Feed it a sunflower for a yellow variant
Feed it a poison ivy flower for a green variant
Feed it some bread for a purple variant

Goobaa

Appear requirements:
None

Visit requirements:
None

Resident requirements:
Bought in paper pets for 2310cc. It’s not available until you are a level 16 gardener

Romance requirements:
You must have a goobaa house in you garden
Feed it one water lily flower and two poison ivy flowers
12% of your garden must be long grass

Variants:
Feed it a bluebell flower for a blue variant
Feed it a tulip seed for a black variant
Feed it a water lily flower for a pink variant

H

Horstachio

Appear requirements:
You have one ponocky living in your garden

Visit requirements:
50% of your garden must be grass

Resident requirements:
50% of your garden must be grass
Feed it eight apples

Romance requirements:
You must have a horstachio house in your garden
50% of your garden must be grass
Needs to be wearing a rosette
Feed it one toffee apple and three carrots

Variants:
Feed it a watercress flower for a green variant
Feed it a bluebell flower for a blue variant
Feed it a chilli seed for a red variant

J

Jameleon

Appear requirements:
You have three different coloured flutterscotches living in your garden

Visit requirements:
You have four different coloured flutterscotches living in your garden

Resident requirements:
You have five different coloured flutterscotches living in your garden

Romance requirements:
You must have a jameleon house in your garden
Feed it a green flutterscotch

Variants:
Feed it a bluebell seed for a blue variant
Feed it an orchid flower and a bottle of medicine for a white variant
Feed it some carrot cake for a red variant

Juicygoose

Appear requirements:
None

Visit requirements:
None

Resident requirements:
Feed a gooseberry to a quackberry. It will evolve into a juicygoose

Romance requirements:
You must have a juicygoose house in your garden
10% of your garden must be water
Feed it two newtgats
You have a fish fountain in your garden

Variants:
Feed it a banana to get a yellow variant
Feed it a water lily seed, a bird of paradise seed and a poppy flower for a pink variant
Feed it an oak seed for a green variant

K

Kittyfloss

Appear requirements:
None

Visit requirements:
None

Resident requirements:
Bought in paper pets for 1650cc. It’s not available until you are a level 10 gardener

Romance requirements:
You must have a kittyfloss house in your garden
Feed it one mousemallow
Feed it a bottle of milk and one wool

Variants:
Feed it a bottle of medicine for a purple variant
Feed it a water lily flower for a pink variant
Feed it a bluebell flower for a blue variant

L

Lackatoad

Appear requirements:
None

Visit requirements:
None

Resident requirements:
Feed a nightshade berry to a lickatoad then tap it with your shovel before it falls ill

Romance requirements:
You must have a lackatoad house in your garden
You must have four arocknids living in your garden
6% of your garden must be water
Feed it two toadstools

Variants:
Feed it a bluebell flower for a blue variant
Feed it a banana seed for a yellow variant
Feed it a water lily seed for a purple variant

Lickatoad

Appear requirements:
You need to be able to dig ponds with your shovel

Visit requirements:
1% of your garden must be water

Resident requirements:
2% of your garden must be water
Feed it a taffly

Romance requirements:
You must have a lickatoad house in your garden
Feed it a green flutterscotch

Variants:
Feed it a gooseberry and a bluebell flower for a green variant
Feed it an apple and a carrot for a red variant
Feed it a bluebell seed for a blue variant

M

Macaracoon

Appear requirements:
You have tamed a sour macaraccoon in the past

Visit requirements:
You have five syrupents living in your garden

Resident requirements:
Feed it three syrupents

Romance requirements:
You must have a macaracoon house in your garden
Feed it an arocknid
Feed it two blackberries

Variants:
Feed it a water lily seed for a pink variant
Feed it a bluebell seed for a blue variant
Feed it a mushroom for a yellow variant

Mallowolf

Appear requirements:
You have tamed a sour mallowolf in the past

Visit requirements:
You have six rashberrys living in your garden

Resident requirements:
Feed it three rashberrys

Romance requirements:
You must have a mallowolf house in your garden
Feed it a goobaa and a bunnycomb

Variants:
Feed it a blackberry for a purple variant
Feed it a water lily seed for a pink variant
Feed it a bluebell seed for a blue variant

Moozipan

Appear requirements:
None

Visit requirements:
None

Resident requirements:
Bought in paper pets for 3080cc. It’s not available until you are a level 25 gardener

Romance requirements:
You must have a moozipan house in your garden
18% of your garden must be long grass
You have twelve daisies or buttercups in your garden
Feed it a banana split

Variants:
Feed it a sandwich for a white variant
Feed it a banana seed for a yellow variant
Feed it a water lily seed and a snapdragon seed for a pink variant

Mothdrop

Appear requirements:
The mothdrop appears on the first night after starting a new garden

Visit requirements:
The mothdrop will visit on the first night after starting a new garden

Resident requirements:
Have a light in your garden

Romance requirements:
You must have a mothdrop house in your garden
Feed it a thistle flower

Variants:
Feed it a bluebell seed, a carrot and a turnip for a blue variant
Feed it a daisy for a white variant
Feed it a pumpkin and a watercress flower for a green variant

Mousemallow

Appear requirements:
Have a turnip in your garden

Visit requirements:
Have a turnip in your garden

Resident requirements:
Feed it a turnip

Romance requirements:
You must have a mousemallow house in your garden
Feed it a daisy seed or a buttercup seed

Variants:
Feed it some cheese for a yellow variant
Feed it a daisy flower and a gooseberry seed for a green variant
Feed it a daisy flower and a bluebell flower for a blue variant

N

Newtgat

Appear requirements:
2% of your garden must be water

Visit requirements:
3% of your garden must be water
You must have a watercress in garden

Resident requirements:
3% of your garden must be water
Feed it three watercress flowers

Romance requirements:
3% of your garden must be water
Feed it a raisant

Variants:
Feed it a bird of paradise flower for an orange variant
Feed it a bluebell flower for a blue variant
Feed it a water lily seed for a pink variant

P

Parrybo

Appear requirements:
You must be a level 32 gardener

Visit requirements:
You must have one bird of paradise in your garden

Resident requirements:
You must have a banana tree in your garden
Feed it ten bananas

Romance requirements:
You must have a parrybo house in your garden
Feed it an orchid seed and three bird of paradise seeds
You must have a pirate statue in your garden
Your parrybo must be wearing an eye patch

Variants:
Feed it a venus piñata trap flower for an orange variant
Feed it some cheese and an oak seed for a yellow variant
Feed it a bluebell flower and a nightshade berry for a blue variant

Pigxie

Appear requirements:
None

Visit requirements:
None

Resident requirements:
You must have a mystery house in your garden
Romance a swanana and a rashberry

Romance requirements:
You must have a pigxie house in your garden
Feed it two bullrush flowers
Feed it two acorns
Needs to be wearing the tap shoes
Your garden value must be at least 10,000cc

Variants:
Feed it a bluebell seed for a blue variant
Feed it a gem tree seed, a poppy flower and a water lily flower for a pink variant
Feed it a gooseberry fool for a green variant

Ponocky

Appear requirements:
None

Visit requirements:
None

Resident requirements:
Bought in the Paper Pets shop

Romance requirements:
You must have a ponocky house in your garden
30% of your garden is grass
Wears a bow
Feed it a carrot cake
You have ten flowers in your garden

Variants:
Feed it a water lily flower for a pink vaiant
Feed it some bread for a yellow variant
Feed it a bluebell seed for a blue variant

Pretztail

Appear requirements:
The pretztail will appear on the first night when starting a new garden

Visit requirements:
You must have a cluckle or a bunnycomb resident in your garden

Resident requirements:
Feed it a cluckle or a bunnycomb

Romance requirements:
You must have a pretztail house in your garden
Feed it a quackberry

Variants:
Feed it a water lily flower for a purple variant
Feed it a bluebell flower for a blue variant
Feed it a gooseberry fool for a green variant

Profitamole

Appear requirements:
You must have a profitamole as a resident (this is done by taming a sour profitamole

Visit requirements:
You must have four arocknid residents

Resident requirements:
Feed it two arocknids

Romance requirements:
You must have a profitamole house in your garden
Your profitamole must be wearing Bottles’ glasses
Feed it three carrots

Variants:
Feed it a water lily flower for a pink variant
Feed it a watercress flower for a green variant
Feed it a nightshade seed and a bluebell seed for a blue variant

Pudgeon

Appear requirements:
None

Visit requirements:
None

Resident requirements:
Bought in the paper pets shop. It’s not available until you are a level 18 gardener

Romance requirements:
You must have a pudgeon house in your garden
Must be wearing a reporter’s camera
You need to have a pirate statue in your garden
Feed it two corn
Feed it one snapdragon seed

Variants:
Feed it a gooseberry seed for a green variant
Feed it some jam for a purple variant
Feed it a bluebell flower for a blue variant

Q

Quackberry

Appear requirements:
3% of your garden must be water

Visit requirements:
4% of your garden must be water
Have some corn in your garden

Resident requirements:
4% of your garden must be water
Feed it some bread

Romance requirements:
You must have a quackberry house in your garden
Feed it two bluebell flowers

Variants:
Feed it a bluebell seed for a blue variant
Feed it a bird of paradise seed for an orange variant
Feed it a water lily flower for a pink variant

R

Raisant

Appear requirements:
You must be a level 4 gardener

Visit requirements:
Have a fruit tree in your garden

Resident requirements:
Feed it three fruits of your choice

Romance requirements:
You must have a raisant house in your garden
Feed it some honey

Variants:
Feed it a blueberry seed and a blackberry for a purple variant
Feed it a sun flower for a yellow variant
Feed it a water lily flower for a pink variant

Rashberry

Appear requirements:
None

Visit requirements:
None

Resident requirements:
Bought in the paper pets shop. It is not available until you are a level 12 gardener

Romance requirements:
You must have a rashberry house in your garden
Feed it a rotten hazelnut, a rotten gooseberry and a rotten chilli. To make something rot, hit it with your shovel by pressing the X button

Variants:
Feed it a poppy seed for a red variant
Feed it a watercress seed for a green variant
Feed it a nightshade berry for a purple variant

Reddhott

Appear requirements:
None

Visit requirements:
None

Resident requirements:
Make a taffly fly through a fire in your garden so that it catches fire. Put out the fire using your watering can and it will evolve into a reddhott.

Romance requirements:
You must have a reddhott house in your garden
Feed it three chillis
Have three lights of any kind in your garden

Variants:
Feed it a bluebell seed for a blue variant
Feed it a water lily flower for a pink variant
Feed it a carrot cake for a red variant

Roario

Appear requirements:
You must be a level 38 gardener

Visit requirements:
You must have five doenut residents in your garden
You must have five zumbug residents in your garden
Your garden value must be at least 40,000 chocolate coins

Resident requirements:
Feed it two doenuts
Feed it two zumbugs
Your garden value must be at least 50,000 chocolate coins

Romance requirements:
You must have a roario house in your garden
Your garden value must be at least 50,000 chocolate coins
One of your other piñata residents must be worth at least 4,500 chocolate coins
Must be wearing a crown

Variants:
Feed it a bottle of medicine for a pink variant
Feed it a sunflower seed for a yellow variant
Feed it a bluebell seed for a blue variant

S

Salamango

Appear requirements:
None

Visit requirements:
None

Resident requirements:
Feed a chilli to a newtgat. It will evolve into a salamango

Romance requirements:
You must have a salamango house in your garden
Feed it a reddhott
Feed it two chilli seeds

Variants:
Feed it a banana for a yellow variant
Feed it a gooseberry for a green variant
Feed it some milk and a nightshade seed for a white variant

Shellybean

Appear requirements:
Have a shellybean as a resident

Visit requirements:
Have one thistle in your garden

Resident requirements:
Feed it a thistle flower

Romance requirements:
You must have a shellybean house in your garden
Feed it a bluebell seed

Variants:
Feed it some corn for a yellow variant
Feed it a bluebell flower for a blue variant
Feed it a gooseberry for a green variant

Sherbat

Appear requirements:
Have a sherbet as a resident in your garden

Visit requirements:
Have three mothdrops as residents in your garden

Resident requirements:
Feed it two mothdrops

Romance requirements:
You must have a sherbat house in your garden
Feed it a tulip flower

Variants:
Feed it a bluebell flower for a blue variant
Feed it a sunflower seed for a yellow variant
Feed it a chilli seed for a red variant

Sour Bonboon

Appear requirements:
You must be a level 34 gardener

Visit requirements:
You must be a level 35 gardener

Resident requirements:
The sour bonboon must have a fight with any member of the syrupent species and lose!

Sour Cocoadile

Appear requirements:
You must be a level 27 gardener

Visit requirements:
You must be a level 28 gardener

Resident requirements:
16% of your garden must be water
Must eat a sweetooth
Must eat two swananas

Sour Crowla

Appear requirements:
You must be a level 14 gardener

Visit requirements:
You must be a level 15 gardener

Resident requirements:
You must have a birdbath in your garden
Must drink a bottle of medicine

Sour Macaraccoon

Appear requirements:
You must be a level 23 gardener

Visit requirements:
You must be a level 24 gardener

Resident requirements:
You must have Master Romancer status for five different piñata species
Must eat a cluckle

Sour Mallowolf

Appear requirements:
You must be a level 31 gardener

Visit requirements:
You must be a level 32 gardener

Resident requirement:
Must eat a pigxie

Sour Profitamole

Appear requirements:
You must be a level 19 gardener

Visit requirements:
You must be a level 20 gardener

Resident requirements:
You must have two mushrooms in your garden
Must eat a red flutterscotch

Sour Shellybean

Appear requirement:
You must be a level 4 gardener

Visit requirement:
You must be a level 5 gardener

Resident requirement:
Must eat an apple seed

Sour Sherbat

Appear requirements:
You must be a level 9 gardener

Visit requirements:
You must be a level 10 gardener

Resident requirements:
Must eat a jack o’ lantern

Sparrowmint

Appear requirements:
You must have a whirlm resident in your garden

Visit requirements:
You must have two whirlms residents in your garden

Resident requirements:
You must have a sparrowmint house in your garden
Romance two whirlms

Romance requirements:
Feed it a whirlm

Variants:
Feed it a thistle flower for a purple variant
Feed it a water lily flower for a pink variant
Feed it a watercress flower for a green variant

Squazzil

Appear requirements:
You must be a level 3 gardener

Visit requirements:
You must have a hazelnut tree in your garden

Resident requirements:
Feed it three hazelnuts

Romance requirements:
Have a squazzil house in your garden
Feed it two blackberries

Variants
Feed it a water lily seed for a pink variant
Feed it a watercress seed for a green variant
Feed it a snapdragon flower for a purple variant

Swanana

Appear requirements:
You must be a level 27 gardener

Visit requirements:
20% of your garden is water
Your garden is worth 20,000 cc

Resident requirements:
25% of your garden is water
Feed it two sandwiches

Romance requirements:
You must have a swanana house in you garden
30% of your garden is water
Must be wearing a diamond choker
You must have a swan fountain in your garden
Feed it three water lily flowers

Variants:
Feed it a snapdragon flower for a purple variant
Feed it a gooseberry seed for a green variant
Feed it a bottle of medicine for a pink variant

Sweetooth

Appear requirements:
You must be a level 21 gardener

Visit requirements:
12% of your garden is water
You must have a fir tree or a water lily in your garden

Resident requirements:
14% of your garden is water
Feed it three fir cones
Feed it two water lily flowers

Romance requirements:
You must have a sweetooth house in your garden
14% of your garden is water
Feed it three bullrush seeds

Variants
Feed it a bottle of medicine for a pink variant
Feed it a bluebell flower for a blue variant
Feed it a sunflower flower for a yellow variant

Syrupent

Appear requirements:
1% of your garden is grass

Visit requirements:
1% of your garden is grass

Resident requirements:
2% of your garden is grass
Feed it a mousemallow

Romance requirements:
You must have a syrupent house in your garden
3% of your garden is grass
Feed it a lickatoad

Variants:
Feed it a bluebell seed for a blue variant
Feed it a buttercup flower for a yellow
Feed it a bottle of medicine for a pink variant

T

Taffly

Appear requirements:
You must have one flower in your garden

Visit requirements:
You must have two flowers in your garden

Resident requirements:
Feed it one flower of any kind

Romance requirements:
You must have a taffly house in your garden
Feed it a poppy flower

Variants:
Feed it a blackberry seed for a purple variant
Feed it a buttercup seed for an orange variant
Feed it a poison ivy flower for a green variant

Twingersnap

Appear requirements:
None

Visit requirements:
None

Resident requirements:
Romance two syrupents and then keep a close eye on the egg that is about to hatch. It will bounce for a while and then jump into the air really high three times. On the third jump hit it with your shovel and a twingersnap will be born.

Romance requirements:
You must have a twingersnap house in your garden
Feed it a squazzil
Feed it two poppy seeds

Variants:
Feed it a snapdragon seed for a purple variant
Feed it a venus piñata trap for a yellow variant
Feed it a bottle of medicine for a pink variant

W

Whirlm

Appear requirements:
1% of your garden must be grass or soil

Visit requirements:
1% of your garden must be grass or soil

Resident requirements:
1% of your garden must be grass or soil

Romance requirements:
You must have a whirlm house in your garden
1% of your garden must be grass or soil

Variants:
Feed it a turnip for a purple variant
Feed it a watercress seed for a green variant
Feed it a water lily seed for a red variant

Z

Zumbug

Appear requirements:
None

Visit requirements:
None

Resident requirements:
Feed a horstachio one blackberry and one daisy. It will evolve into a zumbug

Romance requirements:
You must have a zumbug house in your garden
30% of your garden must be long grass
Feed it three orchids
Feed it a jar of jam

Variants:
Feed it a bluebell seed for a blue variant
Feed it a banana split and a carrot cake for an orange variant
Feed it a water lily seed for a pink variant

Tower of sour

Sours can be a right pain but never fear as they can be tamed so that they become normal piñata. All you have to do is meet the requirements. If you do this you’ll be given a tower of sour piece. This is a totem pole of sorts that, when activated, will keep those sours out of your garden. You can turn the pieces on or off by going into the menu where you’ll find the option on the top left of the menu.

Variants

Each piñata can change into one of three colours. Once you’ve created this variant you cannot change them back and you cannot make them change to another variant. In order to make your piñata change into a variant you’ll need to make it eat something (or a couple of things sometimes). For example, a pretztail needs to eat a bluebell to turn blue, a gooseberry fool to turn green and a water lily flower to turn pink. I’ve listed all of the different requirements for each piñata in their relevant sections.

However, this does not apply to the flutterscotches. They don’t have variants; instead, by feeding a white flutterscotch different things you will create a new species of flutterscotch. This is the only way to get more of these different species. If you have two green flutterscotches and they romance they’ll produce a white flutterscotch and you will need to feed it the appropriate item if you want it to change from a white to another colour.

Evolution

Some piñata can be evolved into a completely new species. Here’s a run down of what the requirements are for each evolution;

Candary: feed a buttercup to a sparrowmint
Fourheads: romance two twingersnaps and then keep a close eye on the egg that is about to hatch. It will sit there bouncing and after a long wait it will jump into the air really high three times. On the third jump hit it with your shovel
Juicygoose: feed a gooseberry to a quackberry
Lackatoad: feed a nightshade berry to a lickatoad then tap it with your shovel before it falls ill
Pigxie: romance a swanana and a rashberry
Redhott: have a taffly catch on fire (make it fly through a torch in your garden) and then use your watering can to put out the fire
Salamango: feed a chilli to a newtgat
Twingersnap: romance two syrupents and then keep a close eye on the egg that is about to hatch. It will bounce for a while and then jump into the air really high three times. On the third jump hit it with your shovel
Zumbug: feed a blackberry and a daisy to a horstachio

Wildcards

These piñata are extremely rare and occur completely randomly. Rare have confirmed that the odds are 1 in 10,000 of getting one so technically speaking if you bred 9,999 of the same species without getting a wild card, the 10,000th piñata to be hatched would be your wild card. There’s no tricks or methods I can pass on to you; you just have to keep breeding until you eventually get one; it could be on the fifth go, it could be on the five hundred and fiftieth … it’s completely random! Wild cards will have a slight deviation from a normal piñata; for example, it could have horns. The only other difference is that its starting value is about ten times greater than normal.

Romance

All piñatas have different requirements that you will have to meet if they are to romance and produce more piñatas. You’ll know if you have met the requirements because a pink heart will appear over its head. You will need two piñatas in this state; direct one of the loved-up piñatas to the other, they’ll do a little dance and then you’ll be taken to the romancing mini-game. In here you have to move your piñata around a maze to find the other one who’s waiting at the end. There’s a time limit and the maze walls are made up of red bomb-like critters called loathers. These will explode if you touch them and doing so will cost you a life. The number of lives you have when you begin the maze is determined by how many piñatas of that particular species are already living in your garden; the more piñatas you have in your garden when you romance two of them, the fewer lives you’ll have in the maze. There are chocolate coins spread around the maze but I wouldn’t make the effort to get them. For the amount of cash that’s in there you’re better off selling a whirlm or two once you’re back in your garden.

If you should fail the maze, you’ll be taken back to the garden. Your piñata will have had their hearts broken but don’t worry as they soon mend and you can try again.

Once you reach the other piñata waiting at the end of the maze, the piñatas will go into their house and do their romance dance. You are shown this dance the first time you have that species romance, but from then on it is optional (move your cursor to the house and press X to look inside while they are romancing). Once they have done the deed the piñata’s romance requirements will reset so you’ll have to meet them all again, or feed them a romance sweet, if you want that particular piñata to be able to romance again.

In order to get the master romancer awards, you need to have seven piñata of the same species living in your garden at the same time, although you don’t need to keep on romancing to achieve the award. You can, if you have the cash, get Gretchen Fetchem to keep on getting the piñata for you until you hit the necessary seven piñatas you need in order to be classed as a master romancer of that species.

Personality clashes

No matter what you do to keep every piñata happy, some will just not get on with others and they’ll fight every chance they get. If you must have both species in your garden at the same time, I’d advise you to fence an area off to keep them separate.

Arocknids hate reddhotts
Barkbarks hate kittyfloss
Buzzlegums hate newtgats and raisants
Chewnicorns hate pretztails
Dragumflies hate reddhotts
Flutterscotches hate fudgehogs
Horstachios hate ponockies and zumbugs
Lickatoads hate newtgats
Newtgats hate buzzlegums and lickatoads
Pigxies hate rashberrys and swananas
– Swananas hate juicygeese, pigxies and quackberrys
– Zumbugs hate chewnicorns and horstachios

The food chain

Some wild piñata will have to eat your residents if they are to become residents themselves. Here’s a handy list of who will be feeling peckish when they come a-visiting;

Arocknid wants to eat a taffly or a raisant
Badgesicle wants to eat a newtgat
Buzzenge wants to eat a candary
Cocoadile wants to eat a quackberry
Crowla wants to eat a lickatoad
Eaglair wants to eat a buzzenge
Fudgehog wants to eat a whirlm
Galagoogoo wants to eat a mothdrop
Lickatoad wants to eat a taffly
Macaracoon wants to eat a syrupent
Mallowolf wants to eat a rashberry
Pretztail wants to eat a bunnycomb or a cluckle
Profitamole wants to eat an arocknid
Roario wants to eat a doenut or a zumbug
Sherbat wants to eat a mothdrop
Sour cocoadile wants to eat a sweetooth or a swanana
Sour macaracoon wants to eat a cluckle
Sour mallowolf wants to eat a pigxie
Sour profitamole wants to eat a red flutterscotch
Syrupent wants to eat a mousemallow

If you’re looking to avoid having your residents gobbled up by some greedy wild piñata, make sure you fence off your residents so that wild piñata cannot reach them. If it is a sour piñata causing the problem, just tame it to add that block to your tower of sour. That will keep all future sours away for good while it is activated.

Make your own produce

If you don’t want to buy produce, you can make your own if you’d prefer. It’s a good way to make cash as you can sell off the produce you make. Here’s how you do it;

– Have a buzzlegum in your garden and buy it a beekeeper hat from paper pets. Then buy a honey hive from Willy Builder. The buzzlegum will then produce honey automatically
– Have a goobaa in your garden and buy it a bonnet from paper pets. Then buy a shearing shed from Willy Builder. The goobaa will then produce wool
– Have a moozipan in your garden and buy it a bell from paper pets. Then buy a milking shed from Willy Builder. The moozipan will now produce milk

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