Known Glitches

[jimmcq]

There are lists of known Viva Piñata glitches at:
http://pinataisland.info/index.php?title=Glitches
http://forums.xbox.com/9657915/ShowPost.aspx

Please add to this list any other bugs that you know of. Be as specific as possible and include exact steps to reproduce the problem if you can.

[BIGsheep]

I just want people to know that we here at Rare are listening to threads like this and will be looking into solving as many issues as possible. This is of course not guaranteed but the better repro steps we have then the more likely we are at having a chance of fixing it.

Thanks for your time,

[teker0]

I've got another one that I haven't full researched. It looks like pinata/helpers don't show correct happiness on their meters when unpacked from crates. If you put an overjoyed helper in a crate, ship it, and then unpack it, the meter still shows overjoyed. The helper won't have the sun over their head, and if you give them chocolate coins, their happiness meter drops. The same thing happens with pinata if you give them happiness candy (not joy candy). It looks to me like the happiness is being dropped to about 50% when the helper/pinata is unpacked, but that the meter doesn't show it. Not sure if it's always 50% of maximum or 50% of what they had when they were packed.

EDIT: spelling

[Zap657]

Not sure if it's been said in those links but I had alot of troubles with my lickatoad house when I first got them, it seems that they don't take turns coming in and out, talk about traffic jams :lol:

[mcnugget13]

Wild pinatas exploding out of my garden with me not even touching them and it is only big pinatas that explode :| :mrgreen: :P

[DragonacheKing99]

Talking about faulty houses, the galagoogoo house is like UGH. Its all glitchy and confusing, and it takes 2 minutes for the scanner thing!

[Houndawg]

Thought I'd bump this thread back up since some new/not so new glitches are being discovered.

As I mentioned in the thread I started, I had an eternally jumping gooseberry berry bopping around inside the bush.

I also encountered a " help my butt is stuck in the garden gate and I can't get loose" glitch. I know Jameleons are wide loads but this was very funny.
resolved by simply opening the gate

Another glitch I've just encountered, a bird of paradise planted near the corner of the garden can't be watered, fertilized, tapped or harvested. It just sat there half grown for days. Fnally after about 5 game days ( not sure of the excact time frame ) I was able to chop it down.

[teker0]

Thought I'd bump this thread back up since some new/not so new glitches are being discovered.

As I mentioned in the thread I started, I had an eternally jumping gooseberry berry bopping around inside the bush.


I've seen something similar with pumpkins. I planted 8 close together and surrounded with fences. Then I fertilized half of them. When the pumpkins became fully grown, they'd fall of their vine and bounce around like a pinball. They weren't infinite like yours, but I had one that kept bouncing for two game days.

[DragonacheKing99]

Shouldn't this thread be stickied a lot of people aren't seeing it and are posting threads on already discovered glitches.

[FeralKitty]

I think it's a lot easier simply merging duplicate threads into an "official" one. After all, stickying a thread doesn't stop duplicate threads... just look at the Graphics forum for an example.

The other problem with stickying too many threads, is that other more important stickies no longer stand out, and get overlooked.

[piñataboy1001]

Post glitches that you found here. Please, no spamming and stay on topic!

I'll start: I found two.

1) There is a flower that you can't plant. It is in the South-West corner of the garden. It is blue.

2) I saw a Sweetooth walking on the edge of my garden... when it didn't even appear yet! I checked in my journal, and it wasn't even there!

If anyone knows the answer to these questions or any others, please help. Thanks!

(P.S.: BIGsheep, can you help with number one please? I would really appreciate it!)

[FeralKitty]

Like Jim mentions in post #1, there's a known list of Glitches at the wiki.

#1 is probably something that didn't manage to make it in to the final game. Not really a glitch, just something that didn't make the cut.

#2 isn't a glitch. It's normal behavior. Any wild pinata can appear as a teaser.

[-Avocado-]

I have 2:

#1 I had just finished maturing an oak tree, then left and went to another garden. When I came back a few minutes later, it had turned back into a seed. I saved when I left. I know it didn't die, as it was only about 2 minutes old (real time).

#2 One of my houses (barkbark) turned itself around and moved a bit. It wasn't while I was playing, I had started playing then next day and saw that it did. I just crated it up and moved it back to where it was supposed to be.

[Fourhead]

I have 1
My bonboon got sick for no reason then it healed itself. It was really odd.

[mcnugget13]

The over the limit glitch-
you can have only 30 pinatas in a garden right I have 34 in my garden

[FeralKitty]

The over the limit glitch-
you can have only 30 pinatas in a garden right I have 34 in my gardenThe limit (http://pinataisland.info/index.php?title=Frequently_Asked_Questions#FAQ-UI-GardenFull) is 36 (wild and resident) pinatas.

[Fourhead]

The limit (http://pinataisland.info/index.php?title=Frequently_Asked_Questions#FAQ-UI-GardenFull) is 36 (wild and resident) pinatas.
what does that have to do with anything?

[Kawigi]

Something tells me the post he was responding to (about having over 30 pinatas in someone's garden) was deleted?

[piñataboy1001]

Another one. My Gatherling got stuck between a monkeynut tree and something unexpected... PAVING! Can you help me?

[BIGsheep]

Remove the tree...

[cactaurus]

I have quite a few glitches I've found with the game.
1.The raisants that come into my garden eat only one fruit,then become resident.
2.THIS IS COOL!!!Take a non aquatic pinata and build a lake around it.When the pinata breaks open to reform on land,hit it with your shovel.Its pieces will fly around in a circle FOREVER!!!
3.In some places,pavement will not go on,even though the ground is clear.
Has anyone else experienced this?

[FeralKitty]

There's a complete Glitches article at the wiki. #3 is a known pavement glitch. #1 isn't a glitch. It most likely ate fruit on an earlier visit.

[BIGsheep]

...and #2 is by design because they can't swim.

[megamasher3]

For some reason, when ever I send my Dragonache away it still counts it as a resident of my gardern. Gretchen won't go fetch it. I did fix this once. There was an invisible oak tree in my garden. I whacked it to pieces and my Dragonache returned! I sent him away again and the same thing happened , without the oak tree. I quit before it saved, but it seems like I can only raise my Dragonache in one garden because if I send it away I can't get it back. Any suggestions?

[Kawigi]

Did you try to get it back in a different garden? That won't work, you can only get the dragonache back in the same garden it was originally in. But you can have another dragonache in a different garden.

[megamasher3]

I did try it in a different garden... it didn't work. I thought you could only have one Dragonache.

[DragonacheKing99]

You can only have one dragonache per garden and you can only fetch your dragonache in the garden you sent it away.

[megamasher3]

Gretchen still won't fetch it even in the garden I sent it away in.

[PINATAcast]

i noticed if a ruffian comes into my garden and creates a walkway in my pod, if i dig a pod as he coughs up more dirt, sometimes he gets stuck in my garden. Just stand there spitting dirt.

I also somehow get other ruffians stuck in my garden if i sell a pinta or item the ruffian is attacking WHILE he attacks it.

then he just sits there spitting charcoal.


Also to respond about the dragonache, My dragonaches always just disappear without sending them off. then if i go to retrieve it, she says its already there.

[megamasher3]

Do you know how to fix it?

[BIGsheep]

As ever, take this opportunity to mock the Ruffian: build a garden feature around him, preferably including some very pretty flowers.

If you are sick of the Ruffian regurgitating soil then your best course of action is probably to start a new garden.

EDIT: I have just been told by our tester that one known solution is to water things that have become stuck. This doesn't always work but it has been known to work.

[Kawigi]

I've watered pinatas that were stuck trying to get in or out of their house for romancing before, or even used it to get them to "recover" from romancing earlier than normal (before the egg comes) on occasion.

[yetizai]

Yep watering works much better than poking with the shovel ;).

[wraisin pie]

Wild pinatas exploding out of my garden with me not even touching them and it is only big pinatas that explode :| :mrgreen: :P


i had that same glitch only with wild elephanillas one i had a lickatoad who hoped into a hedge and became ill

[mcnugget13]

i had that same glitch only with wild elephanillas one i had a lickatoad who hoped into a hedge and became ill

That's normal when a pinata gets stuck between an object theu usaul get sick

[wraisin pie]

what i ment waz it bashed into the hedge no get stuck

[wraisin pie]

sorry i found out that lickatoad glitch i had waz fake

[RoxxRegime]

I have a "funny happening" that may or may not be a glitch - I created a hedged-off area for my whirlms, inadvertently right where Leafos goes out of the garden to get to her house! She will not walk around it, she just remains there all night long, whamming into the hedge, then she will walk one or two pin. to the right or left, and wham again...it is kinda funny to watch :p

[ccfc iced angel]

when Variant the Galagoogoo`s they are only worth 100 cc each were as before u change the colour of them there worth 4500 cc each when feeding them the required item such as a piece of bread 2 change it a light purple colour click on the sell button just before he eats it then u can sell it 4 4500 cc insteed of 100 cc earning you 4400 cc (and u still get the Variant reward) good uhh...?

[Zap657]

^ Not a glitch :rolleyes:

[PixelPants]

When one of my pinatas came back from a party a piece of the candy that showers down landed on top of a fence post. It has been spinning on top of the post like a propeller ever since. It may be possible to remove by smashing the fence, but I have kept it as a garden feature.

[whirlm lover]

i once had a mousemallow and when i told it to move it would turn the other direction.

[wilakin]

i once had a mousemallow and when i told it to move it would turn the other direction.

I had a mousemallow problem as soon as i master breed it it disapeard out of my garden and i was unable to select it no matter what i tried! i still have it. when i get xbox live i will be happy to show you guys..... :mrgreen:

[kilemall007]

one time i crated off a roario home and put it in my other garden, it was on the edge so whenever a egg hatched it became a wild pinata (I lost like 50k worth of roario until i realised the problem

[wilakin]

I have just encounted the weirdest glitch of the game!?!?! i was just potroling the white line and for no reason what so ever my cursor feel out the screen so i was over the white line.

at first i didnt notice.. but then as i turned to over veiw i noticed i was over the white line, as soon as this happend i checked to see if i had new land.

but i didnt so then i tought it was a benifit so i tryed to get my shovel out and flatter my land but i couldnt do that all i could do was go round and round until i just saved the game and then i reloaded it. my cursor started in the middle again but the glitch still cares on.

[Ryanishere]

I have just encounted the weirdest glitch of the game!?!?! i was just potroling the white line and for no reason what so ever my cursor feel out the screen so i was over the white line.

at first i didnt notice.. but then as i turned to over veiw i noticed i was over the white line, as soon as this happend i checked to see if i had new land.

but i didnt so then i tought it was a benifit so i tryed to get my shovel out and flatter my land but i couldnt do that all i could do was go round and round until i just saved the game and then i reloaded it. my cursor started in the middle again but the glitch still cares on.


when you don't have the first or second garden upgrade you can go out of your garden boundary but you cannot change anything outside of it also you can only go in the area that will be yours

[pand0x]

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before,
or if anyone has has this problem.
In one of my gardens, the Tinker guy wont show up.
He keeps poofing in and out of his hole.
It constantly shows him as Out.
So I can't use him in that particular garden.
I'm not sure what triggered it other than I called him in to tinker a bunch of gems.

[Pretztail4eva]

I have a baby macaracoon that's just spinning in circles outside it's house! i can't select it or whack it or anything!

[pinatalover500]

I've seen Twingersnaps outside my garden!

[CacatuaPiñataSeller]

Salamangos cant overjoy......