Whether managing a garden in real life or a game, while flowers and trees are beautiful, they often lack a more vibrant, outward life. Introducing small animals to your garden can effectively solve this problem!
For example, in the farm-themed idle game Grow A Garden, while the main gameplay involves planting new crops and selling them to earn Sheckles, which can then be exchanged for more and rarer seeds, raising pets is equally important.
These uniquely designed creatures not only provide companionship in a game lacking social features, but more importantly, each one possesses unique buffs that can improve your planting efficiency.
Below, we will explain the specific mechanics of Grow A Garden pet system in detail and list the pets at different levels that are worth prioritizing.
The Specific Role Of Pets
When you're planting in Grow A Garden, the main steps generally include acquiring seeds, using gear to complete or speed up planting, harvesting plants, and selling them. Pets can benefit you at each of these stages:
- Generate seeds that can be collected for free
- Provide usable gear or directly increase plant maturity speed/yield
- Generate Sheckles for you to collect
All pets in the game are divided into 7 rarity levels. The rarer the pet, the better the bonus, but the harder it is to obtain. Furthermore, not all pets have additional uses; some are simply part of the garden's "atmosphere."
It's worth noting that pet bonuses are stackable. Therefore, we recommend placing pets with better synergistic effects within your limited pet slots to maximize the value of each slot.
How To Obtain Pets?
First, please note that the initial limit on the number of pets you can place in your garden is 60. If you want to place more, you need to earn more currency by completing tasks to unlock the limit of expansion.
Currently, the primary way to acquire pets in the game is by farming and hatching pet eggs, and there are relatively many ways to obtain eggs (otherwise, it would be difficult to collect more pets!).
Eggs are sold at Pet Eggs Shop and Traveling Merchants. You can sell your gained Grow A Garden items to earn currency, then exchange more eggs you need. However, only three random types of eggs are available for exchange each time.
Additionally, during special game events, you can obtain limited-edition pet eggs by completing event quests or trading in the event-specific shop. For example, Ghoul Garden event, currently celebrating Halloween, is in full swing.
There is also a special Anti-Bee Egg that can be obtained through crafting. To do this, you need to collect the relevant materials beforehand, then talk to Bizzy Bear to activate the crafting system and complete the crafting process.
Crafting one Anti-Bee Egg requires 1 Bee Egg and 25 honey. In addition, Anti Bee Eggs can only randomly hatch the following 5 pets:
- Wasp - 55%
- Tarantula Hawk - 30%
- Moth - 13.75%
- Butterfly - 1%
- Disco Bee - 0.25%
How To Improve Your Pets' Abilities?
After hatching, pets will gradually grow on their own; this is essentially their built-in leveling-up mechanism. However, to ensure they grow on time, you must feed them regularly - that is, provide them with XP.
Generally, feeding pets once every 12 hours is sufficient. Available foods include treats like Lollipops or Maple Syrups. Furthermore, using toys to interact with pets, or placing pets with XP boosts in the garden, can accelerate the leveling of other pets.
Pet Mutations
Originally, Mutations mechanism only applied to plants, but after Pet Mutations Update added to the game this July, pets can also gain more or stronger boosts through Mutations.
To mutate your pet, you first need to ensure it's 50 years old. Then, take it to Pet Mutations station near Pet Eggs stall and consume Sheckles to complete the mutation.
Raising a pet to 50 years old requires a significant investment of upgrade materials, and mutations also require a large number of Sheckles. Therefore, you should carefully consider your options before attempting mutations to avoid waste.
Currently, the following mutations can be triggered (probabilities vary):
- Shiny Inverted
- Windy
- Frozen
- Golden
- Tiny
- Mega
- Tranquil
- Corrupted
- IronSkin
- Radiant
- Shocked
- Rainbow
- Ascended
Which Pets Are Worth Prioritizing?
As of now, Grow a Garden has over 100 pets. To maximize your plant cultivation efficiency at different levels, we've listed the following pets as priority acquisitions, ranked by rarity from lowest to highest, based on their value.
Common Pets:
- Crow
- Pumpkin Rat
- Robin
- Chipmunk
- Bunny
- Dog
- Golden Lab
- Starfish
Uncommon Pets:
- Bat
- Goat
- Farmer Chipmunk
- Hyrax
- Blue Jay
- Salmon
- Elk
- Black Bunny
Rare Pets:
- Goblin
- Bone Dog
- Ghost Bear
- Chubby Chipmunk
- Hummingbird
- Tree Frog
- Woodpecker
- Badger
Legendary Pets:
- Spider
- Wolf
- Idol Chipmunk
- Fortune Squirrel
- Silver Dragonfly
- Iguana
- Mallard
- Grizzly Bear
Mythical Pets:
- Black Cat
- Dark Spriggan
- Firefly
- Chimpanzee
- Sugar Glider
- Barn Owl
- Drake
- Luminous Sprite
- Glimmering Sprite
Divine Pets:
- Hex Serpent
- Reaper
- Chinchilla
- Mizuchi
- Tiger
- Red Panda
- Swan
- Space Squirrel
- Phoenix
- Cockatrice
Prismatic Pets (All):
- Headless Horseman
- Kitsune
- Corrupted Kitsune
In short, whether you want to acquire rare pets or raise them to their full potential, it's a long process in GAG that requires a significant investment of time and effort. Fortunately, the help and joy they provide are immeasurable!
