Category:Gameplay Tips

Suggestions

• Try not to overwater your plants and vegetables. You want a balance of half-blue (wet), half-white (dry), on the Water Meter. If you overwater a plant, leaving it alone for a while will allow the excess water will drain off over time.

• Hitting or breaking a piñata with your shovel might be fun, but it will have consequences. A piñata of that same species may be afraid to come to your garden.

• You can increase pinata's happiness by giving it an accessory to wear. (Some accessories also prompt a pinata to perform routine tasks on its own, such as a Goobaa getting shorn.)

• If you have an ill pinata, call the doctor as soon as possible. If you wait and the doctor cannot make it in time, Dastardos will come and smash the ill pinata.

Advice

• It's better to tame a sour piñata, rather than breaking it open. If you tame a Sour, it will become helpful, such as by stopping fights, or scaring off Sours. You may break open sours to get rid of them, though they don't drop candy when broken open. They will, however, drop sour candies as they roam your garden if not tamed or disposed of. Any candies dropped can be destroyed with a single swat of the shovel. If sour candies are not disposed of; your pinata will eat them and become ill.

• When creating a new species from an existing resident, it's helpful not to change your only resident species into a different species. Wait for a second one to become a resident, then romance them first, so you will have some of both species.

• Just because it's nighttime in your garden, it doesn't mean that you can sleep. Some predators, like the Pretztail, like to hunt and eat other species at night. Some species, like Mothdrop, will only romance at night.

• If you have a Sprinkling helper, a good time to plant things is right before dawn. If you finish your planting around 6-7:00am game time, the sprinkling will show up first thing in the morning, and help you water the new plants all day. By the end of the day they should sprout without you having to worry too much about how much water they are getting. If you plant right after dark and expect your helper to do the watering, they will be dried out in the 12 or so hours it will take for her to show up.

• Simply renaming a pinata can make it happier.

Strategies

• A little forethought in how you want your garden to look will help avoid problems like cramped habitats, or traffic jams as Piñatas and Helpers travel around from spot to spot.

• A good plan for the player who likes to sell and trade their pinatas is to box their houses with a fence. That way you keep all your species organized. Just make sure while fencing them in that you give them adequate space so they don't get sick.

• Pinatas values increase as they return from parties, eat candies and/or are wearing accessories.

• A Tower of Sour will help keep unwanted sours out of your garden. As you tame each species of sour pinata, you will receive another section to add to the tower. Each section may be turned on or off, and when on they will prevent that sour species from ever returning. You can also buy Tower of Sour segments from Costolots General Store in the garden items section.

• One strategy for making money is to grow produce. One of the best is the Chili pepper because its seeds only cost 22 coins and each sells for 100 coins. For even more profit, put the plants in tight bunches and use red fertilizer on each group up to three times to raise the value of the pepper to 400 coins.

• Another early strategy to make some quick money is to create a new garden solely for the purpose of growing poison ivy. Plant as many poison ivy seeds as you can in this garden. Then let the poison ivy "green" flower heads bloom and fall to the ground. You can then sell these poison ivy flower heads for 100 coins each. Re-plant the seeds that each poison ivy plant spits out. More than likely you won't need to buy any more seeds to re-plant anything. Eventually they spread like wildfire. The best part about poison ivy is that is doesn't need watering. Don't plan on having many animals stay healthy in a poison ivy money garden.

• To get even more money quick grow bird of paradise flower and use the special or orange fertilizer 3 times. Then wait until the flower has "burst-out" and then you will get 1440. Other great "cash crops" include the: Orchid(use special mix fertilizer), bullrush (Brown fertilizer), and tulip (purple fertilizer.)

• A great way to raise money and gain a growth reward is: plant a pumpkin seed and use the orange fertilizer three times on the new seed. This will yield a huge pumpkin. Sell it for 240 coins.

• When selling a tree, check to see if it has fruit ready. If so, make them drop first and sell them too to make a little bit more money.

• After you tap a flower to separate the seed and flower head, you can sell the bare stalk before it dies.

• If your piñata is in it’s home you can tap the house and it will come out. This is especially useful when you need a Chewnicorn to heal a sick piñata before Dastardos gets them.

What to avoid

• Try to avoid piñata fights before they happen by making sure that each piñata has enough of whatever it needs. If a piñata has broken open in a fight, it will be reluctant to return.
• Avoid boxing in pinatas with fences, without giving them adequate room to roam a bit. It will make them unhappy and also sick