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=== Incorrect Resident Requirement spelling for Sour Macaracoon === | === Incorrect Resident Requirement spelling for Sour Macaracoon === | ||
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: 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. | : 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 == | == Annoying == | ||
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These glitches interfere with gameplay. | These glitches interfere with gameplay. | ||
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| + | === 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. | ||
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=Trouble in Paradise= | =Trouble in Paradise= | ||
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: For [[Elephanilla]] Visit Requirements, it says have 2 challis instead of [[chili|chilies]]. | : For [[Elephanilla]] Visit Requirements, it says have 2 challis instead of [[chili|chilies]]. | ||
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| + | === Bullrush Full Bonus Growth Award=== | ||
| + | ; Description | ||
| + | : When you get the bonus growth award for the [[Bullrush]] the award message will say "Award for bulrush bonus growth!". | ||
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| + | === Pigxie Hybrid Requirements=== | ||
| + | ; Description | ||
| + | : For [[Pigxie]] Hybrid Requirements (seen in [[Swanana]] and [[Rashberry]]) it says has eaten a joyous candy instead of a [[candy|Romance Candy]] | ||
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: Wait until the fight ends then heal the sick piñata. | : Wait until the fight ends then heal the sick piñata. | ||
: Can be stopped by waiting a couple moments | : Can be stopped by waiting a couple moments | ||
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| + | ===Pinata stuck in house=== | ||
| + | ;Description | ||
| + | : When exiting a house, a pinata may be stuck behind the house walking on air for a few minutes. This stops others of the same species from entering the house. | ||
| + | ; How to | ||
| + | : (This works most frequently on [[Pretztail]]s.) Place the house as close to the border of the garden as possible, with the back of the house facing out the garden. Direct one of the species to the house they use. When they go in, they will shortly try to come out, but they will be stuck in the position. | ||
| + | ; How to avoid | ||
| + | : Place the house further away from the border. If the glitch happens, wait until it eventually comes out, but this can last for up to 20 minutes. (Selling the house should drop them to the ground.) | ||
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== Annoying == | == Annoying == | ||
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: The background music in any store won't play. | : The background music in any store won't play. | ||
; How to | ; How to | ||
| − | : | + | : When you first get in the store press the B button before he/she finishes press B again that should get the music to disappear. |
| + | ; How to fix | ||
| + | : Exit then re-enter the store. | ||
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| + | === The music during romance disappears === | ||
| + | ; Description | ||
| + | : The background music during the romantic encounter and the romancing minigame won't play. | ||
| + | ; How to | ||
| + | : Direct one romantic piñata to the other. Once romance music started, leave your garden to Dessert Desert or Piñarctic, then go back to your garden. The music should have disappeared. | ||
; How to fix | ; How to fix | ||
| − | : | + | : Finish or quit the romancing minigame. |
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| − | + | === Getting First Place Ribbion In A Challenge Event Even Though You Didn't Get The Most Candy === | |
| + | ; Desciption | ||
| + | :Sometimes after a Challenge Event you will see the First place Ribbion even though you didn't get the most candy. | ||
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Latest revision as of 16:37, 14 May 2013
Viva Piñata, like most games, has its share of glitches and bugs. Some of them can be beneficial, while others are annoying and even destructive. This collection of glitches and bugs in Viva Piñata is meant to inform players of potential problems (or benefits), how to avoid (or reproduce) them and possibly remedy them.
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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
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.
Typographic and Grammatical
Cluckles Romance Requirements
Elephanilla Visit Requirements
- Description
- For Elephanilla Visit Requirements, it says have 2 challis instead of chilies.
Bullrush Full Bonus Growth Award
- Description
- When you get the bonus growth award for the Bullrush the award message will say "Award for bulrush bonus growth!".
Pigxie Hybrid Requirements
- Description
- For Pigxie Hybrid Requirements (seen in Swanana and Rashberry) it says has eaten a joyous candy instead of a Romance Candy
Cosmetic
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
- At the last Fight Attack, the pinata that loses will accidentally get out of the garden thus making it green
- Does not work on sours.
- How to avoid
- Wait until the fight ends then heal the sick piñata.
- Can be stopped by waiting a couple moments
Pinata stuck in house
- Description
- When exiting a house, a pinata may be stuck behind the house walking on air for a few minutes. This stops others of the same species from entering the house.
- How to
- (This works most frequently on Pretztails.) Place the house as close to the border of the garden as possible, with the back of the house facing out the garden. Direct one of the species to the house they use. When they go in, they will shortly try to come out, but they will be stuck in the position.
- How to avoid
- Place the house further away from the border. If the glitch happens, wait until it eventually comes out, but this can last for up to 20 minutes. (Selling the house should drop them to the ground.)
Annoying
The music in the stores disappears
- Description
- The background music in any store won't play.
- How to
- When you first get in the store press the B button before he/she finishes press B again that should get the music to disappear.
- How to fix
- Exit then re-enter the store.
The music during romance disappears
- Description
- The background music during the romantic encounter and the romancing minigame won't play.
- How to
- Direct one romantic piñata to the other. Once romance music started, leave your garden to Dessert Desert or Piñarctic, then go back to your garden. The music should have disappeared.
- How to fix
- Finish or quit the romancing minigame.
Beneficial
Double Whirlms Glitch
- Description
- If you whack a fully grown Whirlm with a fully upgraded shovel, it will do one of two things. It will either get sick as per usual for a whacked Pinata, or it will split into two newborn Whirlms.
Getting First Place Ribbion In A Challenge Event Even Though You Didn't Get The Most Candy
- Desciption
- Sometimes after a Challenge Event you will see the First place Ribbion even though you didn't get the most candy.
