Piñata

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Piñatas are the primary inhabitants of Piñata Island, and are the central focus of the game. Every species is different, but all share a paper-mâché exterior and a sweet-filled interior. Happy piñatas get sent to parties around the world, but will come back home perfectly intact.

Characteristics

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There are many different species of piñatas, but all share certain characteristics. All piñatas are made from paper, and are covered in paper strips similar to fur. Each one is filled up with candy, the happier the piñata the more candy inside. They all have stub like legs, with no feet. They're brightly colored and possess a wide variety of patterns, each unique to that species.

Piñatas are named after the real-world animal they are based on, combined with a type of sweet. For example, a Bunnycomb is named after a bunny and a honeycomb. Some piñatas are even based on fantastical creatures that have no real world counterpart.

Attracting Piñatas

Wild Piñatas

The core gameplay of the series revolves around attracting piñatas from the wild and convincing them to live in your garden. Every species has unique requirements, and just finding them in the first place can be obtuse. Wild piñatas are black and white versions of their resident counterparts.

There are three stages to residing a piñata. First, a piñata must be attracted to your garden. This discovers the piñata, and shows a cutscene of that piñata appearing for the first time. Attracting a piñata often isn't too complicated, growing new plants, having another piñata resident, or even unlocking a new upgrade can attract a new species, hoping you will make your garden the perfect environment for them. At this stage, that species will wonder around the outside of your garden, waiting for you to make it feel comfortable enough to visit.

The next stage is visiting. Once you have fulfilled everything needed for them to visit, the piñata will enter your garden and begin exploring. Convincing a piñata to visit can be trickier, piñatas often like a garden with plenty of food and the right atmosphere before they come in.

Once a piñata is visiting, it will begin working to fill out it's requirements in order to reside. Sometimes, a piñata won't want anything more than what it already wanted to visit. More often than not however, a piñata will want more than that, often wanting to actually eat the food you left out. This sometimes includes other piñatas.

Wild piñatas will sometimes hunt your residents. When this happens, the predator will begin stalking their target. They will attempt to sneak up on the piñata, who will occasionally turn around to look. If the prey spots the predator, they will run away and the hunt will fail. If this does not happen however, the predator will attack the piñata once they are close enough. It will then attack it's prey, throwing it's projectile at it. The piñata will soon explode into a shower of candy, and reform outside your garden. The predator will quickly eat the piñata candy before any other piñatas get the chance. Once it has eaten the candy, the requirement to eat that piñata will be fulfilled.

When all of a piñatas requirements are fulfilled, it will decide to become a resident in your garden. Music will play, the piñata will jump up in celebration, and begin to gain their colors. Once a piñata has their colors, it is now a permanent resident in your garden and will live there as long as nothing bad happens to it.

Sour Piñatas

Not all wild piñatas look so friendly. Some piñatas are known as sours, piñata that have been created by Professor Pester to cause mischief and mayhem. All of them are dark red in color, with black patterns reminiscent of tribal tattoos. Where normal piñatas are soft and round, sours are sharp and pointy. Watch out, or they’ll ruin your day!

Unlike normal piñatas, sour piñatas need little convincing to visit your garden, only waiting for you to be the appropriate level. Once they do start visiting, you might wish they didn’t, as they will cause all sorts of trouble for you. This can be as minor as eating loose seeds to as major as destroying objects or starting fights.

While they may seem to be nothing more than pests, sour piñatas can actually become residents of your garden just like any other species. They also have requirements to fulfill, and doing so should be a priority. Once a sour has fulfilled all its requirements, it will cocoon. Once it emerges, it will be in its normal, unsoured form, and look more like the other piñatas. If it’s your first time taming that sour, Jardiniero will appear to gift you a piece of the Tower of Sour, preventing that sour species from returning to the garden.

Tamed sours all possess unique abilities that can help you in your garden, often the opposite of what they did as sours, or redirecting their mischief towards better targets. Otherwise they will live in the garden like normal piñatas, and their unsoured version will begin appearing in the wild as well.

Other Types of Piñatas

Some species of piñata cannot be attracted from the wild like normal. Instead, they are only found through special methods.

Evolution

Some piñatas are capable of evolving into a completely new type of piñata. These piñatas cannot be found in the wild, and can only exist if you know how to make them. Most commonly, evolution requires a piñata be fed a certain thing. For example, if a Newtgat eats a chili, it will evolve into a Salamango. Other piñatas however, have more complicated methods, often unique to that species. These methods are often quite strange, and require things you normally wouldn't do. Even hitting piñatas with your shovel can lead to unique outcomes, the only way to know is to give it a try.

Domestic Piñatas

Certain species of piñata can only be found for sale at Paper Pets (or Gretchen Fetchem's in Pocket Paradise). All that is needed to get these piñatas in your garden, is to reach the right level to unlock them and too have enough chocolate coins to get them.

In Trouble in Paradise, Paper Pets no longer sells piñatas and all domestic species must be attracted from the wild like normal.

Trapping

Exclusive to Trouble in Paradise, you are able to leave your garden and visit two brand new locations, the Dessert Desert and the Piñarctic. There are certain species that only live in these locations, and won't come to your garden themselves. To get them, you'll need to trap them. You can purchase traps and bait from Langston's TrapEase. Place down a trap, bait it, and wait. If a piñata steps on the trap, it will trigger, catching the piñata and sending it straight to the Post Office. You can then deliver the crate to your garden, and fulfill that piñatas requirements as normal. Be quick though, as the piñata may decide to head dome and force you to trap it again.

Special Piñatas

There are two species of piñata that are unlike any other, the Dragonache and the Choclodocus. These elusive creatures have unique, complex processes to obtain them, and only one can exist in a garden. They cannot be destroyed, nor can they romance or even wear accessories. They are the ultimate prize, and hunting them down has led some to disaster.

In Pocket Paradise, the Jeli is treated similarly to a special piñata. Only one may or may not exist per save file, and obtaining one can be very tricky and unlike any other species. The Jeli however, can still romance and can be traded between players, and otherwise still acts like a normal piñata. In Trouble in Paradise, it is a normal piñata, and can be found in the Piñarctic.

Care

Species Lists

Piñata Species

Classic Species

Trouble in Paradise Species

Pocket Paradise Species

Sour Piñatas

Evolved Piñatas

Domestic Piñatas

Arctic Species

Desert Species

Aquatic Species

Flying Piñatas

Nocturnal Species

Mythical Species

Special Piñatas

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