Top Ten Prima Tips for Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise
Published September 9, 2008
Prima Games publishes great strategy and game guides and they've been kind enough to pull out ten of their top tips to help you in Viva Piñata®: Trouble in Paradise.
Two Tricks
Each piñata can perform two tricks. To get them to perform each trick, you need to find the food item that triggers the trick, and then feed it to them. Tap the piñata with the Trick Stick when it's doing the trick, and you'll be able to use that Trick Stick to make any piñata of the same species perform on demand!
Tap 'em with the Trick Stick.
Bispottis
Not only are Bispottis some of the easiest piñatas to raise, they're also a delicious treat for several other piñata types, including Newtgat, Jameleon, Parmadillo, Hoghurt, Galagoogoo, Sparrowmint, Robean, Sour Profitamole, and Arocknid.
Yummy Bispottis.
Buzzlegums
Raise Buzzlegums to produce Honey on the cheap! You can feed the Honey to other piñatas that love it, including Badgesickle, Fizzlybear, Mousemallow, and Raisant. You can also sell the Honey for a few extra chocolate coins!
Buzzlegums make great Honey.
Fighting Piñatas
Some piñatas are rivals and will fight each other on sight, like Lickatoad and Newtgat. This can injure the piñatas and reduce their happiness and value. To discourage piñata fights, separate rival piñatas with a sturdy fence.
Sometimes fences make the best neighbors.
Sour or Sweet
Sour piñatas begin to invade your garden as you become a more experienced gardener. But like any visiting piñata, they have residence requirements, and if you complete them, the sour piñata will change into a tame and helpful version of itself, instead of a pest!
Be nice to him.
Evolution
If a Lickatoad eats a Nightshade Berry, it evolves into the poisonous Lackatoad, an entirely new species of piñata!
Lickatoad/Lackatoad.
Variant Piñatas
Every piñata has at least three variant versions that it transforms into when it eats certain foods. These variant piñatas are identical to the normal versions, except for the fact that they're worth more when you sell them!
Piñata variants are worth more than regular versions.
Mallowolf
If you tame a Sour Mallowolf, the resident Mallowolf that it becomes will scare Ruffians away from your garden and let you raise your piñatas in peace!
Mallowolves don't like Ruffians.
No Death
To keep Death out of your garden and away from your piñatas, tame a Sour Crowla and a Sour Sherbat. Crowlas hassle Death during the daytime, and Sherbats take over for them when the sun goes down!
Stay away, Death!
Dragonache Egg
To find the extremely elusive Dragonache egg, you need to at least have one Mine and one Diggerling to search for it. But you can improve your odds of finding it by hiring four Diggerlings, giving them 300 coins at a time to keep them happy, putting a Helper House near the Mine entrance, placing a Lantern of Loot in the garden, and sending a Candary wearing a Gas Mask over to the Mine.
Getting the Dragonache Egg.
