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This is a collection of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about the Viva Piñata games. Other information about Viva Piñata, such as merchandise, or the TV show, can be found elsewhere on the wiki.

Game icons indicate answers that mention specific (significant) differences between games. Lack of an icon doesn't mean that a question doesn't apply to a game. Rather, answers that generally apply to each game don't happen to mention any game-specific significant differences.

• What is Viva Piñata?
• What's a wild piñata?
• What's a variant? (updated)
• What's an evolve?
• An evolve isn't a variant?
• What's a sour piñata?
• How do I tame a sour piñata?
• Can any species become a sour piñata?
• Why did my piñata turn green and yellow? (updated)
• How do I heal a sick piñata? (updated)
• How do I get two piñatas to romance?
• Who is Professor Pester? The Ruffians? (updated)
• In what ways can I customize my piñatas? (updated)
• Are there any tips for playing this game?
• Is breaking open a piñata a bad thing to do?
• What effect does day and night have on the game?
• How do I increase the size of my garden?
• Does my garden evolve, while I'm not playing the game?
• Is it better to fence in piñatas, or let them free roam? (updated)
• When will the game be released?
• When will patches for the game be released?
• Where can I find out more information about the game?

• Where can I find a list of Achievements?
• What's the difference between an Award and an Achievement?
• What's the advantage of leveling up my gardening skill?
• What is the fastest way to level up my gardening skill? (updated)
• How do I get a Rashberry and Swanana to romance?
• How do I unlock the Master Romancer achievement?
• How do I unlock the ... Secret Achievement?

• Where do I learn more about my piñatas?
• How do I name a piñata?
• What's the purpose of labeling a piñata?
• What can I place in my garden?
• Are some fences better than others?
• How do I know when to water my garden?
• Why don't hearts appear? plants grow? My garden is full? (updated)
• How many gardens can I create? on a memory card?
• Can I delete a garden and start over?
• How do I take pictures?

• What can I buy with my chocolate coins?
• How do I get more money?
• Where do I pick up the piñata that my friend sent me?
• Where do I go to hire helpers for my garden?
• How do I upgrade my tools?
• Where do I get more seeds?
• Where do I buy a bottle of medicine? a mushroom? (updated)
• How do I get more accessories?
• What downloadables are available for the game?
• How do I know how many chocolate coins my garden is worth?

• Are there cat and dog piñatas?
• How many different piñata species are there?
• My piñatas are fighting! What can I do?
• What species don't get along with each other?
• How can I attract a different piñata species?
• What's the best way to keep sours out of my garden? (updated)
• Which piñatas are rare?
• Are there any mythical piñatas?
• Can I create new piñata species?
• Will there be any new piñatas on the Marketplace?
• Do accessories benefit my piñatas?
• Species X won't appear/visit, even though I have all Y requirements? (new)

• Is there a Co-op mode?
• Can I invite a friend to visit my garden?
• What different online modes are there?
• How do I ship a piñata to a friend?
• Do I need an Xbox Live account to trade with a friend?

• How do I reach level n? (new)
• Why won't the sour Bonboon appear? (new)
• What level can I buy a mine? A gas mask? A ...? (new)
• What do the Dragonache icons do? (new)
• How do I get a Jeli?! (new)

• How do I get Willy Builder to appear? I can't romance my piñatas if I can't build houses!
• How do I send a piñata to a party? I sent the requested piñata to the party but didn't get credit! (updated)
• Storkos keeps telling me that the "House [was] removed" and won't deliver my eggs! The house is there! What gives?
• I can't get these cards to scan! What am I doing wrong? Oh, and will they work when printed in black and white?
• I uploaded a piñata vision card to the VivaPinata.com web site but I can't find it anywhere! Where is it?
• How do I get the famous piñata achievement?
• How do I stop the constant rain? (new)
• There's a blue Chippo by the village. Is this a glitch? (new)
• Species X won't unblock? How do you get Bart to turn the railings to candy? (new)
• Do you know where the giant Goobaa resides? I'm level 196 but didn't get the pop-up? (new)

• Revision history
• Contact information
• Credits
• Legal

General questions

What is Viva Piñata?

Viva Piñata is a vibrant world of living piñata animals filled with spontaneity and fun. The colorful and unique animals live and thrive in a growing garden where they interact with each other bringing adventure to life. The piñata universe is exciting and humorous – a place where anything can happen.

The television series debuted in September 2006, and some episodes are now available on DVD.

Viva Piñata: Classic for the Xbox 360 launched in November 2006, and a Windows version followed in November 2007.

Party Animals launched in October 2007.

Trouble in Paradise, the sequel to Classic for the Xbox 360, launched in September 2008.

Pocket Paradise, an enhanced version of Classic for the Nintendo DS, also launched in September 2008.

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What's a wild piñata?

A wild piñata will be black and white, and appear at the edge of your garden. (When it becomes a resident, its monochrome colors change into their more vibrant colorful pattern.)

Wild piñatas are attracted to your garden, by meeting the right conditions for each species to appear. For example, specific flowers and trees, or piñatas that already reside in your garden, can capture the interest of a wild piñata. Once a wild piñata has appeared, you can entice it to visit (cross over your garden boundary), and then become a resident in your garden by providing it with what it needs to be happy there. Once a piñata has decided to stay, the game will alert you. After a short cutscene, the wild piñata will burst into color.

You can see which wild piñatas are visiting your garden, by opening your Journal's Encyclopedia. The Encyclopedia will show you the specific requirements that you need to meet, for your visitors to become residents.

Once two or more of a species are resident, no more wild pinatas of that species will appear.

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What's a variant?

A variant is a differently-colored version of a species. For example, if you feed a turnip to a Whirlm, it changes color to a purple Whirlm. Each species has three color variants (one color variant for Pocket Paradise) which must be discovered through various means.

Every time you discover a new variant, you are awarded more experience.

Some main garden species also have arctic or desert versions that are differently-colored than their main-garden counterparts. These arctic or desert versions can also be varianted, giving some species a total of eight possible differently-colored versions. Snapshots comparing main garden and sub-garden variants can be found in the Variant Experiments thread.

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What's an evolve?

An evolved species is one that is created from an existing species. For example, if you feed a buttercup (dandelion for Trouble In Paradise) to a Sparrowmint, it turns into a Candary (a new and different species from the Sparrowmint). Evolved species must be discovered, since they don't visit your garden from the wild like most other species.

There are eight evolved species to discover (fourteen for Trouble in Paradise), and each of them has three color variants (one color variant for Pocket Paradise), like any other species.

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An evolve isn't a variant?

Nope. A variant is differently-colored, but the same species. For example, you can change a Whirlm's colors to shades of purple (by feeding it a turnip), but it's still a Whirlm.

An evolve turns a species into completely different species, with its own romance requirements and romance dance, own unique house that needs to be built, and its own set of 3 color variants.

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What's a sour piñata?

A sour piñata is red and black, and a troublemaker! When one appears, it will start fights, smash garden objects, or scare off other residents. It also leaves sour candy around your garden, which you'll want to promptly destroy (with your shovel), since your other piñatas will rush over and eat the candy, which will make them ill. Taming a sour piñata will bring out its good habits, and it will become a helpful resident around the garden.

In Trouble in Paradise, sours can eat joy sweets to chill them out. During that time, they will have a halo above their heads and won't cause you any trouble.

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How do I tame a sour piñata?

You can tame a sour piñata by meeting its Resident requirements. See Taming sour piñatas for details.

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Can any species become a sour piñata?

No. While eating sour candy will make a piñata ill, they will not become a sour piñata, themselves. There are eight (twelve for Trouble in Paradise) different sour species. However, all piñatas can fight and compete over land without actually being a sour.

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Why did my piñata turn green and yellow?

A sick Sour Macaraccoon

A green and yellow piñata is sick. Piñatas can become ill for several reasons:

• Eating sour candy,
• losing a fight with another resident piñata,
• eating or being close to weeds, like the Toadstool,
• getting whacked with the shovel,
• not having enough room to roam, or
• being trapped or stuck by garden items or terrain.

Even sour piñatas can become ill, as the Macaraccoon image shows.

Pinatas that repeatedly fall sick, immediately after being healed, are stuck. Try selling off nearby houses or garden items, or filling in ponds, to free them.

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How do I heal a sick piñata?

Hire Dr. Patchingo, who will heal your sick piñata for you, or direct a Chewnicorn resident to heal it. There is also a Witch Doctor named Dastardos who probably isn't very helpful. If you ignore your sick piñata, he'll eventually show up and try to break open your sick piñata to put it out of its misery (because he's such a good guy.) Of course, this is not a good thing for several reasons, as you'll have to wait for that piñata species to return as a wild piñata and become a resident again.

In Trouble in Paradise, Couch Social players can use magic to heal a pinata, tinker items, or raise a pinata's candiosity.

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How do I get two piñatas to romance?

First, you'll need to have met all the Romance requirements for two piñatas of a species, which includes having built their house, so they'll have a place to be romantic. A pink heart will appear over each piñata, when its Romance requirements are met. Next, introduce the two to each other, by directing one of them to the other one.

Highlight one romantic piñata and press to select it. Your cursor will split into two. Highlight a second romantic piñata of the same species and press to direct them together to be romantic.

You'll have to play a romance minigame for the romance to be successful. If you fail the minigame, the two will be broken-hearted for a short time, but will be ready for romance again in a minute or so. Once you successfully romance them, they'll disappear into their house, and you'll get to watch their romance dance. (Each species has their own unique dance.)

Once you've romanced a species for the first time, you can use a 'romance sweet' (available from Costolot's General Store in Classic and Trouble in Paradise) to get that species' piñatas 'in the mood' without having to meet all of their romance requirements again.

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Who is Professor Pester? The Ruffians?

Professor Pester is the leader of a gang of Ruffians. As you level up, Ruffians (and eventually Professor Pester himself) will come into the garden and cause trouble, such as by smashing garden items.

Interesting details about how Professor Pester came to be, can be discovered by reading the Story chapters in the Journal.

If you're quick, you can run over to them as they enter, and bribe them with chocolate coins to leave your garden. If you wait too long, however, there's not much you can do to get them to leave. Ruffians can be bribed with 100 coins (200 coins for Trouble in Paradise), and Pester can be bribed for 500 coins.

Select a Ruffian and press

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to bribe it. Enter the amount of coins to give as a bribe and press to complete the bribe.

At level 30 (level 6 for Pocket Paradise), you can purchase a Captain's Cutlass garden decoration from Ivor Bargain which will keep Professor Pester and his Ruffians away for good.

A decoy piñata.

• bribing Pester with 500 coins
• having a Dragonache in your garden
• having a Limeoceros in your garden
• having a decoy pinata in your garden
• using the protective fence glitch
• playing Just for Fun mode, where Pester and the Ruffians doesn't appear

In Pocket Paradise, a Barkbark (with a collar) can chase Ruffians (and sours) out of your garden. Selecting the Barkbark will display a menu icon that allows you to control if your Barkbark is on guard duty.

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In what ways can I customize my piñatas?

You can:

• Name each piñata resident,
• use the Label Designer to give a unique tag to pinatas hatched in your garden,
• outfit them with accessories that you can get from the shops, and
• variant them to one of their colors.

In Trouble in Paradise, you can also teach your piñatas tricks, help them gain fame and become superstars, and upload them onto Piñata Vision cards to share them with others.

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Are there any tips for playing this game?

You can find some tips and advice at the Gameplay Tips article.

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Is breaking open a piñata a bad thing to do?

Yes, yes, and yes. When your back is turned, piñatas will actually talk about you. Seriously.

Besides, how would you feel about being whacked with a shovel?

If you break open too many, there may be consequences. Other wild piñatas of that species will have heard that your garden isn't a friendly place for them, and might be less likely to visit or become residents.

On the other hand, breaking pinatas open can be a quick way to meet tedious Resident requirements, such as helping a visiting Roario to eat its share of life essence candy.

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What effect does day and night have on the game?

Some piñatas are nocturnal (they like to sleep during the day). So, you might see different species roaming about the garden, depending on what time of day it is. Daytime (or nighttime) also affects when a wild pinata might appear. Other species only appear after a certain amount of days have passed.

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How do I increase the size of my garden?

Your garden size will automatically increase once you reach level 11 (level ? for Pocket Paradise), and again when you reach level 21 (level 5 for Pocket Paradise).

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Does my garden evolve, while I'm not playing the game?

No. Your garden will be in the same state you left it in (e.g., flowers won't have died from lack of water, sour piñatas won't have scared other piñatas away).

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Is it better to fence in piñatas, or let them free roam?

Like any good issue, moderation is the key. You want to strike a balance between protecting your piñatas from other (wild) species, sours, or rivals, and giving them plenty of room to roam. (If they don't have enough room to roam, they will become ill.) In addition to protecting your piñatas, fences also help protect your garden objects. There's nothing worse than a free-roaming Elephanilla eating your flowers, and trampling your garden or smaller pinatas! Also, some species don't get along with other species, and they'll start fighting each other. Fences are one way to help isolate species and prevent fights.

See Designing your garden for some layout suggestions.

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When will the game be released?

Viva Piñata: Classic for the Xbox 360 launched in November 2006, and a Windows version followed in November 2007. Party Animals launched in October 2007. Trouble in Paradise and Pocket Paradise both launched in September 2008.

Demos for all three Xbox 360 games are available on the Xbox Live Marketplace.

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When will patches for the game be released?

No official announcements have been made about any patches for the Viva Pinata games.

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Where can I find out more information about the game?

The Community Portal has several links to official Viva Piñata websites. There's also a lot of information at this wiki, which the Site Map will help you to find. Another good source of information is the forum (where wiki contributors are members).

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Achievement questions

Where can I find a list of Achievements?

See the Achievements article for a complete list of achievements (certificates for Pocket Paradise).

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What's the difference between an Award and an Achievement?

Good question! While Achievements are like any other game, Viva Piñata has added lots of awards for completing various tasks. Every award you receive will earn you experience, which helps level up your gardening skill. You can see all the Awards you have obtained, by opening your Journal.

Xbox Live gamers can compare their accomplishments with other players via the Leaderboards.

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What's the advantage of leveling up my gardening skill?

As you level up (by earning awards), this unlocks new benefits and challenges:

• New shops open in the village.
• New species can be attracted to your garden.
• New upgrades for your tools, making them stronger and better.
• New helpers available for hire.
• Factory requests destination challenges in Trouble in Paradise to fulfill from Piñata Central.
• Garden space upgrades.
• New sour pinatas to be dealt with and tamed.
• New trouble in the form of Professor Pester and the Ruffians.

See List of benefits gained at each gardener level for more details as to when each is unlocked.

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What is the fastest way to level up my gardening skill?

Fast ways to earn experience include:

• Fully fertilize each type of plant. You can earn up to three bonus growth awards for each type of plant.
• Purchase and romance domestic piñata from Miss Petula's Paper Pets (Gretchen in Pocket Paradise) in the village. You can earn the usual awards for each.
• Create variant piñata for the species you already have. You can earn up to three variant awards for each piñata species.
• In Trouble in Paradise, send each species to a party to restore its Computer Record. Higher-level pinatas will earn you more experience.

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How do I get a Rashberry and Swanana to romance?

Unlocking the Pigxie achievement is probably the most interesting one in the game, since it's the only cross-species romance possible. To romance a Rashberry and Swanana, first meet each species' separate Romance requirements. Next, build a Mystery House in the garden.

If both are overjoyed, you probably can romance them directly at this point. Direct one to the other, to introduce them. (If they aren't interested, try switching which species you're directing.)

If that's not working out, mate two Rashberries to get a baby Rashberry, and two Swananas to get a baby Swanana. Now that you've romanced each species separately, feed them a piece of Romance Candy to get a Rashberry and Swanana in the mood again, and try directing them to each other, again.

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How do I unlock the Master Romancer achievement?

Each species has a Master Romancer award. The first time you receive the award for any species, you will unlock the achievement. As for receiving a species' Master Romancer award, there are several ways to accomplish it.

The condition for receiving a Master Romancer award is having seven piñatas of a species resident in the garden at the same time. Don't sell any until you have unlocked the award! You can reach 7 in several ways:

• Romance 2 piñatas (this is the only way to get the romance award for the species),
• Receive piñatas of that species from a friend,
• Hire Gretchen Fetchem to hunt some for you,
• Evolve the pinatas, if you're dealing with one of the evolved species,
• Purchase the pinatas, if available at Paper Pets in the village, or
• Any combination of the options above

In Pocket Paradise, the condition for receiving a Master Romancer award is romancing a species three times.

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How do I unlock the ... Secret Achievement?

While most of the secret Achievements are straight-forward -- outside of being secret in the first place! -- here are some tips for unlocking most of them:

• Helper achievements - Hire each of the 5 helpers.
• Fertilizer achievement - Direct a Taffly to any piece of fruit to produce fertilizer.
• Shovel achievements - Hit level 30; purchase the shovel upgrades from Ivor Bargain.
• Watering can achievement - Hit level 27; purchase the "One Pour Wonder" watering can upgrade from Ivor Bargain.
• Harvester achievement - Get a Buzzlegum to produce honey, a Moozipan to produce milk, or a Goobaa to produce wool.
• Generosity achievement - Give Ivor Beggar 1,000 chocolate coins.
• Cluckles hatches egg achievement - When an egg is delivered, direct a Cluckles to sit on it.
• Macaracoon gift achievement - Select a tame Macaraccoon and press for the menu, then choose the "Find Romance Sweet" option to send it off to find a sweet.
• Distract Dastardos achievements - Direct a Crowla and a Sherbat to delay Dastardos, to unlock 2 achievements.
• Cocoadile tears achievement - Direct a tame Cocoadile to a plant that needs fertilizing.
• Mallowolf howl achievement - Direct a Mallowolf to scare off a Ruffian or Professor Pester from the garden.
• Chewnicorn healing achievement - Direct a Chewnicorn to heal a sick piñata.
• Pigxie achievement - See How do I get a Rashberry and Swanana to romance? for details.

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User Interface questions

Where do I learn more about my piñatas?

Your Journal's Encyclopedia is the best in-game source of information about your piñatas. You can also read up on each species right here at the wiki.

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How do I name a piñata?

Select a piñata to rename, then use its Encyclopedia page to rename it.

Select a piñata with the cursor, then press to open its Information page. Use the left stick to scroll down to "Basic Info" and press to bring up a dialog, where you can enter a new name for that piñata.

Select a piñata with the stylus, then switch to its Information page. Tap its name with the stylus to bring up a dialog, where you can enter a new name for that piñata.

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What's the purpose of labeling a piñata?

Each piñata has a tag, like what you'd find on a plush animal. You can use the Label Designer to customize a tag for your pinatas. Wild (or fetched) pinatas have a blank tag, but pinatas you hatch in your garden will have your custom tag.

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What can I place in my garden?

There are all sorts of garden objects that you can add to your garden. They range from flowers and vegetables, to bushes and trees, fences and paths, houses for each species, and even statues and other decorations. Most items can be bought from shops in the village with chocolate coins, or downloaded from the Xbox Live Marketplace. Several items have upgrades that you can buy, such as sturdier fences.

Trouble in Paradise adds interactive toys and trains that your pinatas can play with or respond to.

See Designing your garden for some helpful tips about placing garden objects.

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Are some fences better than others?

Yes. There are sturdier fences that you can obtain from Costolot's General Store or Ivor Bargain in the village. For example, a stone fence is more likely to be sturdier than a wood fence. This is important, when you have larger piñatas that can trample your flowers, or sour Macaraccoons, who like to destroy things.

In Trouble in Paradise, there is a bird-proof fence that is very handy for growing weeds or keeping a separate aviary.

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How do I know when to water my garden?

Your flowers will turn yellowish brown.

You can use the water meter to help determine how much water is needed, while watering your garden. If you buy the One Pour Wonder from Ivor Bargain once you reach level 27, you'll only need to water a plant once, and it will be set for life. (It also waters a plant just the ideal amount, so you no longer have to deal with over-watering.)

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Why don't hearts appear? plants grow? My garden is full?

If you run into the following situations, these are indications that your garden is full:

• Hearts don't appear (hearts turn blue in Trouble in Paradise) over a piñata even though the Romance requirements are met.
• Seeds refuse to be planted in the ground, or plants stop growing before maturity.
• No new wild piñatas visit your garden.
• A shopkeeper complains that your garden is full, when you try to buy/place an item.
• An alert appears or Leafos warns you that your garden is full.

When you do receive a garden full message when placing an item, you probably have a lot of that type of item already. So, for example, if you're trying to buy seeds, try selling off some of the unplanted ones around the garden, to make room for more of that type of item. Selling off other types of things such as pinatas or trees might not be as helpful.

Produce is another overlooked type of item that often leads to garden full situations. Fully-fertilized bushes and trees produce a lot of fruit or nuts, and leaving a lot of it laying around the garden can lead to problems. Again, it's helpful to focus on specifics, to carefully look around at everything, to determine what item type limit you might be reaching.

If you don't appear to be bumping into a specific (pinata or item) limit, you could sell off unneeded piñatas, produce, flowers, seeds, or other items on the ground, to generally free up more room in your garden. Removing trees and pinatas are your best bet to resolve this as they take up the most system resources.

Other helpful tips to manage/free up garden space:

• Hire a Gatherling to help collect and sell off produce for you.
• Use the bouncer board to keep wilds of master-romanced species from visiting, to make more room for other visitors or residents.
• Meet the unblock requirements for the species that Pester has trapped outside your garden, to make the pesky Ruffians and sleeping Chippo wander off.

As several developers from Rare have commented in public forums, as powerful as the Xbox 360 console is, it still only has a finite amount of memory to maintain information on every little detail of your garden. When you think about every little active detail that the game has to manage and render, such as fruit growing on a bush, and finally falling to the ground, or the appearance of a piñata's fur as it ripples, there's only so much memory to go around.

Here are a few rough guidelines that might guide you as you manage your garden. These numbers may vary from garden to garden, depending on what's in (and outside) your garden already. Also, these numbers are an absolute maximum, if you have many things from many categories you may find the limits reduced in order to spread the load.

Viva Piñata: Classic

• 36 piñatas (combined total of residents and visitors, it's not possible to get 36 resident piñata)
• about a dozen houses
• about a dozen trees
• about a few dozen plants
• about 2-3 dozen fence pieces
• about 20 transmuted items

Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise

• 40 piñatas (combined total of residents and visitors, it's not possible to get 36 resident piñata)
• 8 helpers
• 32 accessories
• 64 plants
• 16 trees
• 12 eggs
• 81 fences
• 64 flowerheads
• 48 fruit
• 17 homes
• 130 paving slabs
• 64 props
• 16 seeds
• 32 sweets
• 32 vegetables

Outside of the piñata limit which is fixed, you may be able to fit a little more (or less) of a particular item, depending on how many other things you already have in your garden, before you bump into a limit. To repeat, these numbers may vary from garden to garden. Depending on what's in (and outside) your garden already, you may find the limits reduced in order to spread the load.

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How many gardens can I create? on a memory card?

For a console with attached hard drive, the only limit is the amount of hard drive space, so you could create hundreds if you had several GB free. (Once you created more than 8 gardens, the Load Garden screen would allow you to scroll through the gardens shown on the 8 petals.)

On a memory card, it's obviously limited by the remaining amount of free space on the memory card. There is a 4 MB profile (5 MB for Trouble in Paradise) which keeps track of common information for all gardens, such as total cash, or which totems are on your Tower of Sour. Each garden you create has its own 8 MB save file (16 MB for Trouble in Paradise). So, you could generally fit 4 or more gardens on a memory card.

As briefly mentioned, each new garden shares a common amount of money, so the coins you earned in one garden can be used to help start a new garden. Your gardener level and Tower of Sour are also shared between gardens, so you can start a new garden, yet attract (or have Gretchen Fetchem hunt) any advanced species you've previously dealt with in other gardens. You also don't have to worry about retaming sour piñatas. Of course, you could deactivate totem segments, if you did want to retame a sour.

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Can I delete a garden and start over?

You're not limited by any total number of gardens, on your hard disk, but if you desire to delete a garden so it no longer shows up on the Load Garden petal menu, you can do so via the Dashboard System blade (Select Memory, then Games, then the desired garden save.)

Note: In addition to each separate garden save file, there is a common profile which tracks your cash, Tower of Sour, and other shared information. Do NOT delete this file, or it will invalidate all your gardens, and you'll be forced to start from scratch, with no money, at the very beginning of the tutorial.

Games for Windows users can find their garden save file in the following location:

• Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Saved Games\Microsoft Games\Viva Pinata\Saves

• Windows 7 or Vista: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Saved Games\Microsoft Games\Viva Pinata\Saves

(Note that some directories may be hidden by default and won't be visible within Explorer until you enable "Show hidden files.")

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How do I take pictures?

Classic for the Xbox 360 does not provide any way to save images while playing the game. One frequently-used method to capture an image is simply to photograph your television screen using a digital camera, then download the photo to your PC.

In Classic for Windows, you can use the Print Screen key (or third-party software) to capture screenshots.

In Trouble in Paradise, you can use the camera tool. Photos can be uploaded to VivaPinata.com, where they will initially only be viewable by you. You can go to the My Page section of VivaPinata.com and submit specific photos to the public gallery, where others will be able to view them.

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Shops and currency questions

What can I buy with my chocolate coins?

The list is probably too long to mention everything, but here are a few items and services available at the village shops:

• Hiring helpers for your garden,
• upgrading your tools,
• more seeds, vegetables, and trees,
• tinkering (transforming one item into another),
• accessories for your piñatas,
• new (or upgraded) objects for your garden,
• domestic pets, such as cats or dogs.

Ivor Bargain is a begger/trader in the village who will also help you part with your coins.

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How do I get more money?

You can get more money by:

• Smashing garden junk,
• (romancing/evolving and then) selling piñatas,
• selling items (e.g., milk, wool, honey), and
• growing plants like poison ivy (at level 8), chilies (at level 11) or orchids (at level 35) then selling them.

Additional strategies for making money can be found at Gameplay Tips: Making Money.

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