Viva Pinata Guide
It takes a special kind of creature to be one whose life goal is to go to a stranger’s house and be beaten with baseball bats until it completely shatters, then to recover and do it all again.

Thank goodness we’ve got the pinatas of Pinata Island, where pinatas grow from being colorless and candy-less to bright, happy creatures that are just primed to get the bejeezus beaten out of them by little kids. And while it might be fun to go all Grand Theft Auto on the things, your job here in Viva Pinata is to attract the creatures, care for them, and prepare them for their merry deaths at children’s parties.

It’s hard work taking care of all those pinatas... believe us, we know. We, especially this guide writer, have put WAY too much time into our pinata gardens, and we now share the knowledge with you.

In this Viva Pinata strategy guide, you'll find:

Gardening Basics
Advanced Strategies
Pinata Encyclopedia
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Unlockable: 5 Extra Accessories
You must create a new garden titled "chewnicorn."

Hint - Easy Money
When you have two Tafflies, buy a torch, then direct them to the torch they will start on fire, when you can, put them out with the watering can. They will become Reddhotts. Romance the Reddhotts and sell the kid for an easy $2,100. Keep repeating however many times you want.

Hint - Easy Money
At the General Store, purchase the Chili Seed. You can plant a maximum of ten. Place four in a cluster, twice. Then just plant the other two close to one another.

Next, buy the Red Fertilizer. If the chili seeds are close enough, you can douse four at the same time. So get each group of Chili Seeds three times.

Just let the plants grow out. Each Chili Seed will be worth $400 Chocolate Coins. $4,000 in total.

Hint - Rags To Riches
I have something that may help everyone out a lot at becoming a money god. If you see the beggar don't hurt him, just give him about 1000 coins everytime you see him until he opens up a shop.

Once that happens make sure the lady at the general store is selling orchid seeds in the seed catagory. Buy a bunch of orchid seeds and plant them in the ground. Then go to the beggar's shop and use his secret fertilizer (it's the best in the game) and use it 3 times on each orchid.

In the end it should turn out to be a huge plant which sells for 1800 each (and it grows very fast). I have 300,000 coins and got it all in about 20 to 30min. Make sure that as soon as you plant them you water them then use the fertilizer as the plants are growing.

Hint - Crematorium Profit
First talk to Seedos multiple times to get tons of seeds. Plant and sell them for about 200 choco-coins. This triggers a visit from Taffly. Buy a torch light and ignite the Taffly; immediately use a watering can to douse the fire and the Taffly will turn into a RedHott. RedHotts sell for 2100 choco-coins.

Once you get the Hunter, buy express Taffliess for 600 each and turn them into RedHotts through the immolation method.