dr3upmushroom
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It's only logical to go from one system's best game to another.
Wait, how do you use it, tried it, but I didn't see anything happen.
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Viva Piñata - The Official Thread
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It's only logical to go from one system's best game to another.
Has anybody in this thread claimed that the game has a huge show stopping bug? I have just encountered it and this makes me sad.
I am not sure what triggered it but visitors have stopped coming by. I am on level 22 and the garden is at its fullest size. My visitors have just stopped coming by. The only thing I see in the distance sometimes is sweet tooth who I believe is the last animal that has shown up. I tried everything to get any strays including harvesting tons of carrots to draw in rabbits to turning off my tower of sour. Nothing works, there are no animals to be seen anywhere. I have put 30+ hours into this game and there is no way I am starting over again. I also can not make anything mate or get a heart above their head (this is what first tipped me off). Feed them cookies or whatever the requirements are or feeding them romance candies does not work, even if they are 100% happy.
Besides these two major bugs, everything in the game works perfectly (however this profile is totally useless now).
I am not sure what triggered it but visitors have stopped coming by. I am on level 22 and the garden is at its fullest size. My visitors have just stopped coming by. The only thing I see in the distance sometimes is sweet tooth who I believe is the last animal that has shown up. I tried everything to get any strays including harvesting tons of carrots to draw in rabbits to turning off my tower of sour. Nothing works, there are no animals to be seen anywhere. I have put 30+ hours into this game and there is no way I am starting over again. I also can not make anything mate or get a heart above their head (this is what first tipped me off). Feed them cookies or whatever the requirements are or feeding them romance candies does not work, even if they are 100% happy.
Besides these two major bugs, everything in the game works perfectly (however this profile is totally useless now).
dirtmonkey37
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dr3upmushroom said:It's only logical to go from one system's best game to another.
Wait, how do you use it, tried it, but I didn't see anything happen.
When first plant your seed (trees are another story), quickly go to the store and buy fertilizer which is of the color of the fruit/vegetable the seed produces (in many cases it's the color of the seed, but for carrots, for example, the seed is brown but the carrots are orange so you need orange fertilzer.
etc.
goldenpp72
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the game warns you when the garden goes full. also how to get a pigxie?
Has anyone else seen a bug where Pinatas & helpers turn invisible? It's happened loads of times to me (with both) the only way to 'fix' it seems to be to sell the offending Pinata (its a bitch to find them, have to wait till they fall asleep then look for the zzz's) and hope the next one is visible.
That doesnt work with the helpers though so ive had a gatherling for 20 odd days who ive never seen.
That doesnt work with the helpers though so ive had a gatherling for 20 odd days who ive never seen.
Your favorite pinata - hard to say but would choose sherbats
Your least favorite pinata - lickatoads and at the moment dont like the fizzlybear ( is too big )
Your favorite pinata house - sherbats again, although quackberries, crowlas,... are great too
Your least favorite pinata house - tafflies
Your favorite romance dance - would say Pretztails - those guys are hilarious
Your least favorite romance dance - lickatoads
Your least favorite pinata - lickatoads and at the moment dont like the fizzlybear ( is too big )
Your favorite pinata house - sherbats again, although quackberries, crowlas,... are great too
Your least favorite pinata house - tafflies
Your favorite romance dance - would say Pretztails - those guys are hilarious
Your least favorite romance dance - lickatoads
Oh i have a question, i need to make two mushrooms for one of the sour conversions, but every time i put a toadstool down the Pinatas go ape shit and swarm it like it was hot rox (and subsiquently get sick, stupid Squizzels) before the tinker guy can do his buisness.
I tried putting them behind fences but the ****ING SQUIZZELS JUMP IN THE SECOND I OPEN THE BLOODY GATE FOR THE TINKER GUY!
So can i either, hide the toadstools somewhere the pinatas wont notice OR break squizzels legs?
I tried putting them behind fences but the ****ING SQUIZZELS JUMP IN THE SECOND I OPEN THE BLOODY GATE FOR THE TINKER GUY!
So can i either, hide the toadstools somewhere the pinatas wont notice OR break squizzels legs?
Something so simple and I didn't even think of it. Funny how so little is considered full in a big garden.Brashnir said:
And this is really starting to bug me. What the hell do you feed the flutterfly to make the damn thing green. I swear I have spent probably five hours alone just feeding it different things. Hell, I just spent an hour on this right now. This is an absession from hell apparently. And if it is a fir tree, I am going to kill someone because I can't even get those seeds into the ground.
Ghost said:
This is pretty annoying but funny lol. Happens with the snap dragon too.
What I did was close the toadstools off with a pond, that way only flying ones seem to go for them. Also, as soon as I planted them, I get tinker on the job, he comes pretty quick and gets it sorted.
Not sure if this has been mentioned yet or not, but I got a crazy theory, bare with me on this one.
So I'm out hanging in the garden, and I'm noticing that just about any pinata that wonders through my Thistle patch ends up wanting to beat another pinata's ass. Since I killed off all my snails, this Thistle patch has been going unchecked and pretty much grew it's way up to taking up 1/4 of my garden area. After killing off the Thistle, I noticed allot less fights occured. I wonder if there is a connection between the little electricity bolts I see shooting from the Thistle and the happiness of the pinatas?
-Chris
So I'm out hanging in the garden, and I'm noticing that just about any pinata that wonders through my Thistle patch ends up wanting to beat another pinata's ass. Since I killed off all my snails, this Thistle patch has been going unchecked and pretty much grew it's way up to taking up 1/4 of my garden area. After killing off the Thistle, I noticed allot less fights occured. I wonder if there is a connection between the little electricity bolts I see shooting from the Thistle and the happiness of the pinatas?
-Chris
Teleporter
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Man im addicted... aGAIN!!!! NOOOOO!!!
I should stop playing so much good games...
Well just got an achievement for playing 10hrs straight (REAL TIME) hhehhe made me proud
and worried... AH!
Hey guys please help here, how can i make my Buzzlegun produce honey???
I should stop playing so much good games...
Well just got an achievement for playing 10hrs straight (REAL TIME) hhehhe made me proud
and worried... AH!
Hey guys please help here, how can i make my Buzzlegun produce honey???
Teleporter said:Man im addicted... aGAIN!!!! NOOOOO!!!
I should stop playing so much good games...
Well just got an achievement for playing 10hrs straight (REAL TIME) hhehhe made me proud
and worried... AH!
Hey guys please help here, how can i make my Buzzlegun produce honey???
Feed it a buttercup flower or (easier) give it a Buzzlegum keeper hat and it'll do it by itself.
Teleporter
Junior Member
Ghost said:
Thank you Ghost! Ill try thia right away! Oh God, another endeless hours in the Piñata Vortex zone!!!
Ghost said:
hahaa, sorry for the problems but i find squizzles amusing. They run like crazy and steal everything in their path. Anyway, all can be forgotten when you watch their sleep animation.
Sometimes the games really turns into Dead Rising terrain, they all come from the corners of the garden to get their teeth on the candy.
McCrank said:
Yes, it makes them sick or angry.
Btw, Do the clukcless work like buzzlegums or goobas in that you can get eggs production and sell them? can you ge tmilk from the moozipans?
I have two specific issues...
My Crowley cannot be sold. Selecting it gives no option to sell and I can't make a sale via the store, either. I don't want to beat the thing to death, but don't particularly need it or want it in my garden. I guess this is a bug.
I can't, for the life of me, get the second Galagoogoo to stay in my garden. Its requirements for residence are eating two moths and four tulips. In one sweep of the garden, the thing might eat two moths or four tulips, but not both. Do I need to trap the thing to get it to stay long enough to eat everything? And how did it happen that the first one stayed so easily?
(I love the Galagoogoo house, by the by.)
My Crowley cannot be sold. Selecting it gives no option to sell and I can't make a sale via the store, either. I don't want to beat the thing to death, but don't particularly need it or want it in my garden. I guess this is a bug.
I can't, for the life of me, get the second Galagoogoo to stay in my garden. Its requirements for residence are eating two moths and four tulips. In one sweep of the garden, the thing might eat two moths or four tulips, but not both. Do I need to trap the thing to get it to stay long enough to eat everything? And how did it happen that the first one stayed so easily?
(I love the Galagoogoo house, by the by.)
MC Safety said:
Same thing happens to me.. the damn thing comes so late and is so nonchalant about eating the mothdrops, that before you know it, it's day and he's left. Took awhile for my first one to eat the mothdrops too, but at least he eventually did.
I finally bred a pigxie (thanks for nothing, bastards!
) and was shocked and dismayed to see them fight with the swananas and pigs (forget their name) -- wtf! Fortunately I took away my tower of sour wolf piece and he showed up real quick and now I have a tamed mallowolf (who I had to sell right away since I'm trying to raise gooba's).Hitler Stole My Potato
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MC Safety said:
Box the Crowley up and send it to yourself that way you can get it out of your garden but still keep it for later.
From my experience, it seems that there is some memory alloted to visiting animals so that even if they only ate part of the resident requirements in one or two sweeps, they can come back and finish the rest later. In other words, if a Roario only ate 1 Zumbug (he needs two) and left, he can come back another day and only have to eat one more to fill that requirement.
If all else fails, you can always rely on the hunter.
BenjaminBirdie
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Hitler Stole My Potato said:
That's definitely how it works. I remember my Cinnamonkey taking his sweet as time like it was yesterday.
And by far, the best house in the game is the Pigeon's.
BEST. HOUSE. IN THE GAME.
Hitler Stole My Potato said:
Hm. I've seen what you mention as far as requirements (sometimes the thing will enter the garden with the two moths eaten box checked), yet it doesn't seem to be either consistent or permanent.
I had the same problem with the cinnamonkeys. I guess with those guys it was either just dumb luck or persistence.
Ah, well. Thanks for the help.
How many species do you all sustain in your garden at any given time?
I'm level 13 or so, and until I became overcrowded I was doing my best to keep as many species as residents as possible. I've since eradicated my whirlm and sparrowmint population (though some of each species ventured back - I turned the sparrowmints into Candaries).
How should I determine which species to keep? I'm trying to get master romancer with all that become residents before I sell them off, but after that I'm not sure which species to keep. Should I only keep species which will attract/are the romance requirements of other species I want as I advance?
I'm level 13 or so, and until I became overcrowded I was doing my best to keep as many species as residents as possible. I've since eradicated my whirlm and sparrowmint population (though some of each species ventured back - I turned the sparrowmints into Candaries).
How should I determine which species to keep? I'm trying to get master romancer with all that become residents before I sell them off, but after that I'm not sure which species to keep. Should I only keep species which will attract/are the romance requirements of other species I want as I advance?
Hitler Stole My Potato
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NME said:
If in doubt, box up 2 of every animal and send them to yourself. You'll have a breeding pair ready to go anytime you want.
As for what you should keep around, just pick a goal and start working backwards to get it. You'll figure what you need to do and who you need to keep pretty quickly.
Crab Milk Mickey
Member
Well, I'm level 18 now and totally enjoying the game. I'm still surprised how addictive Viva Pinata can be and how polished it really is, much more expanded than Animal Crossing in some regards. The only aspect I found "inferior" in comparison was the number of available accessoires when I last looked, but it's something that doesn't really matter in all honesty.
Finally managed to arrange my garden so that I have very little trouble with anything (including my finances), so I'm going to focus on breeding next in order to get that Master Romancer achievement and earn some more money while I'm at it. Here's a picture of it (I'll admit, it's not much):
And here are some random pictures for anyone that doesn't have it yet (not the best quality, but they'll do):
Might post more if people are interested.
Finally managed to arrange my garden so that I have very little trouble with anything (including my finances), so I'm going to focus on breeding next in order to get that Master Romancer achievement and earn some more money while I'm at it. Here's a picture of it (I'll admit, it's not much):
And here are some random pictures for anyone that doesn't have it yet (not the best quality, but they'll do):
Might post more if people are interested.
Found another one, but without the B:Tieno said:
I found out by accident myself, but you don't need to open the gates yourself when the helpers come by. I noticed that, when the gates are closed and they have business to attend to, they can open it themselves and immediately close it when they set foot on the fenced territory. One less thing I had to worry about and it's nice that Rare thought of this.Ghost said:
Hitler Stole My Potato
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Deacan said:
Click the right thumbstick.
Vangellis
Member
Meier said:Same thing happens to me.. the damn thing comes so late and is so nonchalant about eating the mothdrops, that before you know it, it's day and he's left. Took awhile for my first one to eat the mothdrops too, but at least he eventually did.
I finally bred a pigxie (thanks for nothing, bastards!
Im having the same problem. Hes such a pain in the ass. Shows up late, takes a slow stroll around eat maybe one thing and leaves. I have the same problem with the Lion pinata. He comes in eats one pinata and he bails. Dont even get me started on how long it took to get the elephant to eat all the damn fruits and veggies he needed. lol
Crab Milk Mickey
Member
One of 'em is a lotus flower yeah, the other three are those plants that attract newgats. Not really planning on attracting macaracoons, 'cause I'm just playing the game at the moment without advising any FAQ or browsing a website dedicated to the game. I might do it later though, so thanks for the tip.Orodreth said:
Tieno
Member
:lol Sherminator! Nice! Love those pics. I really like the Sherbats. They're cute and odd without loosing their cool.MicVlaD said:Found another one, but without the B:
I found out by accident myself, but you don't need to open the gates yourself when the helpers come by. I noticed that, when the gates are closed and they have business to attend to, they can open it themselves and immediately close it when they set foot on the fenced territory. One less thing I had to worry about and it's nice that Rare thought of this.
I'm around level 25 I think, but still on my first garden, it's quit a mess, not very thought out and badly designed. Probably need to restart sooner or later.
MicVlaD said:
Well, don´t know if that beahviour is standard but at least it happened to me and was a pain because the macaracoon ( sent by a friend and later slaughtered by Pester ) got ill becuase of the plant (some kind of allergy) and fell on the ground OVER the lotus plant so everytime i called the doctor and cure it, it inmediately felt sick again, so i had to patch it like 3 times in a row and try to get the pointer over the plant to sell it and stop the sickness.
Tieno said:
I kept my first garden on hold and started a new one, farm oriented. It has been really nice to start again and prepare the ground, making space for the goobas, cluckes and all. I plan on develop that second garden and focus on getting lots of money to invest on the first garden.
anyone know the advantages/disadvantages or the various gates and fences around?
I hate how seedos opens gates allowing pinatas to break out, and sometimes they just magically escape it seems. Now I just let them all roam free and keep incompatible species seperate.
I hate how seedos opens gates allowing pinatas to break out, and sometimes they just magically escape it seems. Now I just let them all roam free and keep incompatible species seperate.
Crab Milk Mickey
Member
Seedos didn't open any gates unless there were flowers nearby around here. Hence why I made a section in my garden specificially for flowers et al, so that he doesn't come near my rabbit farm (top left corner of the overhead view). Also noticed piñata's sometimes go through gates if you buy fences, seeds, whatever from the store though, must be some minor bug.kaizoku said:
