Glitches

Typographic and Grammatical

Incorrect Resident Requirement spelling for Sour Macaracoon

Description

In the Resident Requirements section for Sour Macaracoon in the Encyclopedia, Cluckles is spelled as "Cluckle".

Mismatched Visit Requirements text and icons for Chippopotamus

Description

In the Visit Requirements section for Chippopotamus in the Encyclopedia, the text and icons for the three listed plants are mismatched.

Incorrect Variant descriptions for Whirlm

Description

In the Variant section for the Whirlm in the Encyclopedia, the text indicates that the Whirlm must eat a Water Lily flower for Variant 2 and a Watercress flower for Variant 3. However, both variants are achieved by eating those respective seeds.

Incorrect Resident Requirements description for Bunnycomb

Description

In the Resident Requirements section for the Bunnycomb in the Encyclopedia, the text reads "Has eaten 3 carrots" but it only needs to eat 2.

Incorrect Orange Variant description for Bunnycomb

Description

In the Journal, the Orange Variant of the Bunnycomb is listed as requiring a pumpkin seed when in fact it requires a grown pumpkin.

Incorrect White Variant description for Eaglair

Description

In the Journal, the White Variant for the Eaglair is listed as requiring drink 4 bottles of milk when it need only drink one.

Incorrect Romance Requirements description for Buzzenge

Description

In the Romance Requirements section for Buzzenge in the Encyclopedia, the text indicates that the Buzzenge must eat 2 Pudgeons and 2 Sparrowmints but it only needs to eat 1 of each.

Incorrect Resident Requirements description for Sour Cocoadile

Description

In the Resident Requirements section for Sour Cocoadile in the Encyclopedia, it reads "Has eaten 2 Swananas", but it only needs to eat 1.

Incorrect Visit Requirements description for Cocoadile

Description

In the Visit Requirements section for Cocoadile in the Encyclopedia, the text indicates that 5 Quackberries are needed, but it is 6.

Cosmetic

Black Roarios

Description

Roarios that are a variant appear black in their profile pages and houses.

Blue Plants

Description

Plants retain blue 'overwatered' color for the rest of their lives, even though they are perfectly healthy and not overwatered. The perfect plants for a blue-variant garden.

How to

You need both the One-Pour Wonder Watering Can and a Sprinkling in your garden. Wait near an underwatered plant. Allow the sprinkling to water it. Water it immediately with the One-Pour Wonder. There is a chance that the plant will now be blue for the rest of its life. This seems more likely to work if the Sprinkling slightly overwaters the plant before you water it with the One-Pour Wonder. There are reports that this works with trees as well as with flowers and produce.

Chippopotamus Face Glitch

Description

If a Chippopotamus is wearing 'cool shades', or any of the larger hats (i.e. the Cowboy Hat) they will be visible inside its mouth whenever it opens wide.

How to

Buy 'Cool Shades', 'Cowboy Hat', or a 'Dellmonty' from Paper Pets for a resident Chippopotamus.

Awesome View of Pinata Island

Description

Get a very good overview of the garden and outside of the game area.

How to

You need to tap your Dragonache with a shovel several times. It will begin fighting something. Right as you get the message saying it has started a fight, send it away (press to bring up the menu, and select dismiss). Afterwards, view the fight. You will get an amazing view of the island.

Piñata turned green but did not get sick

Description

When a fight ends, the losing piñata is still standing but has turned green (as if ill) and will not do anything (though it will sometimes walk away.

How to

Select the piñata right before it gets hit by the finishing blow.

Does not work on sours.

How to avoid

Wait until the fight ends then heal the sick piñata.

Can be stopped if you hit it with the shovel or can fix itself, but will get sick in the end.

Wildcard Eaglair has no visible differences from a normal Eaglair

Description

If you are lucky enough to breed a Wild-Card Eaglair, there will be no visual difference between it and a normal Eaglair. Rare has suggested that the Wild-Card may be suffering from Situs Inversus.

Beneficial

Gatherlings can sell unbought seeds

Description

A Gatherling will collect seeds that have been placed but not yet purchased in buy mode.

Sell sours

Description

You are able to sell a sour piñata just before it is tamed.

How to

Finish requirements and then wait for sell option to pop up.

Sold for same price as the tame version.

Piñata Central always issues request in new Garden

Description

Within minutes of starting a new garden, Piñata Central will always ask for a single most valuable Piñata.

How to

Make a new garden, and send your most valuable Piñata to yourself via the Post Office. Keep doing this in new gardens to increase the value of your chosen piñatas.

Watchling healing sick non-residents

Description

A Watching scaring a sick non-resident or sour will cure it.

Annoying

Forever Sick and Stuck

Description

When you have a sick pinata with a halo of hardness let Destardos hit it it will not be destroyed but it will be stuck there in place forever.

How to fix it

The only way to fix it is to move everything into another garden and delet the garden that had the Pinata.

Resident piñatas and other items on the garden border lose the ability to be interacted with

Description

Fruit that falls on the garden border cannot be selected.

Piñatas that get ill on the border cannot be selected or healed.

How to avoid

Plant fruit producing plants far enough away from the border that their goods can't fall on the border.

The chances of an ill piñata ending up on the border and broken are low and usually not a huge deal. However if you want to make sure a prized piñata isn't lost this way, take steps to ensure its safety. Build a fence to keep important piñatas corralled, keep aggressive piñatas away or make sure the piñata is wearing the Halo of Hardness.

Resident piñatas inside the garden cannot be selected or healed.

Description

Piñatas that get ill inside the garden that cannot be selected or healed, romanced, or sent to a party. They remain resident, preventing you from attracting more than 1 other resident piñata of the same species.

How to reproduce

Create a 1-square square fenced area. Plant a sour plant or seed inside. A piñata may eat it and become sick. The tight space may cause your piñata to become unselectable. The piñata will stay ill and unselectable in your garden forever.

How to avoid

Avoid creating a 1-square fenced area.

Game becomes unpaused while in the Pause Menu

How to reproduce

Using a cordless controller, pause the game and wait for the controller to turn itself off. When you see the Controller Disconnected message on the screen, turn the controller back on. The message will go away, leaving you back in the Pause Menu, however the game is no longer paused in the background.

How to avoid

Save and exit the game instead of pausing when not playing for an extended period.

Use a corded controller.

How to fix

Re-pause the game.

Pinata temporarily unable to be sold

Description

Sometimes a piñata will become temporarily unsellable when it is forced outside a home that is then sold.

How to reproduce

Selling a home after tapping it to get the piñatas out will sometimes cause this to happen.

How to avoid

Sell the home without tapping it first or after all the piñatas have exited on their own.

How to fix

Reloading the game should cause the affected piñata to be sellable again.

Piñata Sick Loop

Description

Larger pinatas get sick over and over again in a loop even if they have a Halo of Hardness or the doctor is called. Once the doctor is called out and heals piñata, it immediately get sick again.

How to reproduce

Have water to close to a fence or a fence to close to a house.

How to avoid

For larger piñata, make sure there is walking room.

How to fix

If you want to save your piñata, fill in the water around the area he is getting stuck or break a fence.

Piñata variant award not given when variant quickly romances

Description

If a piñata eats the required seed/plant to become a variant and is quickly romanced, the piñata will change color, but the variant award is not given to the player.

How to reproduce

Fulfill the romance requirements for two piñata of the same species. Select one of the piñata and direct it to the plant/seed required to make it a variant. Quickly select the other piñata and direct it to the first one. The first piñata will change color but you will not be given the variant award.

How to avoid

Wait until you receive the variant award before romancing the piñata.

How to fix

Fulfill the variant requirements with another piñata.

Piñata attacks get stuck in place

Description

If you destroy a visiting Piñata that tries to eat something (such as a plant) their attack is sometimes frozen in place forever, it cannot be interacted with and will remain there even after logging back in.

How to reproduce

When a visiting Piñata tries to eat something whack it with your shovel rapidly to break it open (before it gets to eat) and the attack that Piñata used may possibly get stuck in place (this does not happen everytime).

How to avoid

As the wild Piñata has already destroyed your plant or Piñata, allow it to finish eating before whacking it with your shovel. Replace your lost plant or Piñata.

How to fix

There is no known fix at this time.

Bonboon music carries on when Piñata sold

Description

If you sell a resident Bonboon while it is stopping a fight, the music it dances to will carry on, and the two Piñatas that were fighting will remain stuck, staring at the place where it was forever.

How to reproduce

Sell the resident Bonboon while it is dancing.

How to avoid

Do not sell your Bonboon while it is dancing. Wait until it has finished.

How to fix

Re-start the game before it has a chance to save. If it saves them you will have to start a new garden and ship all of your Piñata there.

You can only ever get Whilrm twins

Description

It is curently impossible to obtain twins of any species other than Whirlms.

Piñatas get stuck permanently when about to be eaten

Description

When you make Piñata eat its prey, it will be stuck there. You can whack it but it wont go away. When you load your garden up again the glitched pinata flickers.

How to

When a pinata's about to eat another pinata whack the prey when the attack is being shot, the prey will look as if its been hurt badly. It may take some time to figure out the exact moment to hit it.

The music in the stores dissapears

Description

The background music in any store won't play.

How to

Press the connection button (middle button) in one of the stores and wait for about a minute then exit out of the profile menu, the store should have no background music.

How to fix

Exit then re-enter the store.

Restarted Romance

Description

Syrupents having to romance a second time

How to

Place the Syrupent egg in a tight spot around around the house. If you did it correctly, when a Twingersnap (or Syrupent) baby emerges, it will get stuck. To fix this you have to sell the house & the baby will go into a cocoon. But if you look at the Syrupents, the "Has Eaten 1 Lickatoad" & "Have Syrupent House" is crossed off.

How to avoid

Place the egg where it will not get stuck.

Salamango cannot overjoy

Description

The Salamangos cannot overjoy, even with the joy candy.

Game Blocking

Invisible piñatas and other objects

Description

Piñatas or other objects, such as homes, become invisible. The objects still exist and can be interacted with, however the game becomes a hassle to play. This problem can occur after a piñata is sent to a party.

How to fix (courtesy of the official forums) -- Warning! The following steps will erase all of your progress in the game!

#Delete all of your saved Viva Piñata gardens and options from memory.

#From the dashboard, navigate to System | Memory, select the HDD and press .

#Press .

#Select yes when asked about disk maintenance.

#Restart the game.

Unfortunately, the game will not allow you to transfer your saved games to another storage device prior to performing the above steps. Please be sure you're willing to lose your progress!

Bart gets stuck outside the garden

Description

After requesting Bart to tinker one or more items, he becomes stuck outside the garden. From the garden, you can watch Bart as he jumps into his hat, gets ejected from his hat, and starts the process over again.

How to fix

There is no known fix at this time. Bart does work in other gardens, so you can create a new garden and ship your pinata and other items out of the garden where the problem occurs.

Game Crashing

Random Game Freezes

Description

The game freezes at seemingly random (but infrequent) times. Note that game freezes can also be caused by other factors, such as a defective console or a console with insufficient air circulation.

How to avoid

Keep your Xbox 360 gaming system and power supply well ventilated. DO NOT keep your Xbox 360 gaming system on a carpeted floor. Try using a Nyko Intercooler EX if you are still having overheating issues.

Specific Garden Always Freezes After Loading

Description

A Specific Garden freezes each time you load it. Other Gardens run fine.

How To avoid

Once this continues to happen, it seems that there is no hope for the specific garden, it will continue to freeze each time it is loaded. The only thing you can do is delete the specific Garden that is freezing. Be sure not to delete the main file or the other gardens you want to keep.

Specific Xbox Player Profile Always Freezes after Start Screen

Description

At the main game screen player presses start and xbox freezes during profile load.

How To avoid

Either delete your main Viva Piñata folder and create a new one or copy the gamer profile onto a memory card and run it from there. Please note that you cannot transfer your actual Viva Piñata folder.

Packing a non-empty Milking Shed Freezes Game

Description

The game freezes if you attempt to pack a Milking Shed into a crate while a Moozipan is inside the shed.

How To avoid

Wait until the shed is empty before trying to pack it into a crate.