A little more detailed wiki for Viva Piñata, oriented more towards Trouble In Paradise on Xbox 360. Still under construction, but feel free to ask questions!
This is my personal progress on Viva Piñata since I restarted; feel free to download and use as a list for your own! Also you can keep track of my progress/request a certain one to get done or get updated on here!
Fourheads Houses - Heads up to all gardeners! Fourhead homes are game breaking. You will have to restart your console and you may lose your garden. The only way to receive Fourheads and their wildcards safely are scanning them in and breeding Twingersnaps. You can breed Twingersnap wildcards and smack their bouncing eggs to get Fourhead wildcards instead. If anyone knows why this problem is happening, or gets the same problem, contact me.
Saving Gardens on a USB - I've noticed that gardens have a pretty high chance of breaking on a USB, especially if you're trying to back up your gardens. You only have an option to MOVE your gardens, not COPY, so you are only able to move your gardens to an external drive to back them up to your computer, copy the garden, move the garden back to the hard drive, and either move your copied save onto the external hard drive or keep it on your computer. Basically, it's basically impossible to back up your gardens and you're recommended to keep them only on the hard drive.
Polollybear Tags - Polollybears don't seem to have any visible tag on them; the only way to look at their tag is in their information.
Beat these piñatas' maze with more than # seconds remaining
Wildcard Requirements
Have 6 of these piñatas in your garden
Beat these piñatas' maze with all hearts filled, including grey hearts.
Secondary Wildcard Requirements
Have 6 of these piñatas in your garden
Have two of this piñata's first wildcard and romance them
Beat these piñatas' maze with all hearts filled, including grey hearts.
Final Wildcard Requirements
You must trade with another player or use a Piñata Vision card to scan it into your garden. Which wildcards you start with and the final wildcard to get will vary for every player.
Color Variants
Feeding this piñata a item will turn it this color.
Feeding this piñata a item will turn it this color.
Feeding this piñata a item will turn it this color.
Wildcards
Possible unique traits or mutations include:
Make sure everything is filled in! If it is not complete, include "(Incomplete)" next to the title.
Only record if a piñata likes or dislikes food or other piñatas. If they do not react to a piñata or food, do not include it in the list.
There will also be a ranking chart for the top 10 times for each piñata's Romance Maze, including the time remaining and the player's name (or alias!). A screenshot will be required for this list so I can confirm it; BE HONEST PLEASE! This list will be in a separate post under the piñata's tag
Once finished, if I personally have made it, I can just tag it right away and post; if someone else graciously makes one for me, they need to let me know right away so I can re-blog it to the blog with the correct tag right away.
Glitches, bugs, and problems with your piñata should be reported to me and will be listed under the known bugs and glitches tag, while being tagged under the piñata so others are aware this is a potential problem for their piñata.
This template can be used for other games, like classic or the pocket edition, but must be marked "CLASSIC" or "POCKET PARADISE" at the end of the title, and on a different post from Trouble In Paradise.
All Trouble In Paradise posts should be tagged with "vptip", Classic with "vpclassic", and Pocket Paradise with "vp3"
Note: To ensure maximum protection, you must be at least level 35 to access the Captain's Cutlass and at least level 6 to access a fence from Costolot's Store. You can only do this by level 21 anyways, due to needing the maximum garden space to be successful,
This tip ensures that Professor Pester and Ruffians never get in from the very start of the garden, along with giving a new garden the best start possible.
You can skip the italicized part if you want to protect an existing garden, but I recommend you do the italicized section for every new garden you makein the future:
As soon as you start your new garden, sell EVERYTHING. Start with your fenced in piñata, your fence, any "bridges", tile, and get your poppies very last. Your garden may have between no bridges and two bridges, almost always has two tiled in areas with poppies in them, and always has a fenced in piñata. Lottie will prevent you from selling a whole lot; if you have a stone bridge or two, she will stop you and you can't sell fencing or tiles individually. Thus, you have to start selling something else first (like the poppies or piñatas) before you are able to keep selling (unless you want to go all the way into Costolot's and select sell), so that's why I recommend selling the bridges towards the beginning.
But why sell the piñata first? You want to sell your piñata (and any whirlm that becomes a resident right off the bat) because Professor Pester is almost guaranteed to come at the very beginning of your newly started garden, and as most know, he will kill one piñata and consume all the candy before leaving. Selling them first ensures you can minimize the loss of chocolate coins from beginning your garden; beginning gardens with one fenced in piñata, one tiled in poppy, and another poppy yield about 1500 chocolate coins, and ones with two bridges, two fenced in poppies, and a fenced in piñata yield about 3200 chocolate coins.
Now that your garden has been officially "started" you want to check up the wooden ramp up to the volcano to see if Professor Pester is running down. If not, HURRY and do the next part if you're just starting. If this is in an existing garden, you may or may not have time, just keep watching for the professor.
You need a fence, any fence. I prefer using the stone fence accessible from Costolot's at level 22. At the side of your garden closest to the volcano and the Tower of Sour, place one fence on the left side of the tower as if you were going to fence from the volcano side of your garden to the cannon side of your garden; make sure the fence is placed enough left of the tower that it doesn't line up, but no further left than that. Rotate your fence and connect 13 fences to the right (if you're facing the volcano) and connect it back to the edge of your garden with one more fence. It will look roughly like this: |__________| This should take 15 fences, which is roughly 1800 chocolate coins for stone fencing, and makes a 1x13 space (using a border as one side of 13) in your garden unusable, while taking up one space in your garden overall in the "Garden Space" section of your Journal. The only other downside besides almost non-existent space problems is that the professor will still come down, but he stops every time just before he gets to the fence, and will just sit there grunting and being confused until he decides to go back up to the volcano later.
(I WILL be getting a picture example of this up when possible for those that like seeing the visual stuff.)
Your last step to ensure Professor Pester doesn't get in (or any of the ruffians for that matter) requires being level 35. You buy the Captain's Cutlass at Costolot's for 11,000 chocolate coins and place it in your garden; I usually place the sword to the right of the fence as soon as the fence is up to balance the look a little and not be in the way. YOU CANNOT DO THIS WITH THE MK2 SWORD. Overall, I lose about 10,000 chocolate coins for each new garden I make. It protects valuable animals and despite having 50+ current gardens, I still have about 2,850,000 chocolate coins and that number is still rising. If you're having trouble getting the coins to do this, I will have more tips to improve your money-making posted on the blog later, but you can message/ask me about help at any time!
Hey if you play Viva Pinata on the Xbox 360 you should add me and stuff; I'm going to make a cool wiki-ish thing on tumblr for all the pinatas and if you would like to help with this as well, I'd appreciate this!
Looking to re-vamp a sort of fandom for this glorious game, haha. I'm playing Trouble in Paradise, specifically, so if you're looking to trade stuff and help out more efficiently, I'd recommend using TIP.
Hey, Korundur here. I’m am avid player of Viva Piñata and wanted to be able to deliver everyone more in depth information about all of the Piñatas while giving more tips and tricks! I’m doing this to fill in empty information, as well make a wiki-ish thing more accessible by mobile! Hope this helps the probably no longer existent Piñata community!
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