The Grow a Garden Animal Update just dropped, and it’s packed with new features that completely change how you play. From passive-boosting animals to powerful seeds and a free limited-time pet, here’s everything you need to know to get ahead in the latest update.
Grow a Garden Animal Update
How to Get Animals in Grow a Garden
To get animals, you need to purchase Pet Eggs. Each egg gives you a random animal when hatched, and every animal comes with its own passive ability to help boost your farm.
Egg Hatching Tip:
Pets like the Rooster reduce egg hatch time, meaning you can hatch more pets faster!
All Animal Passives Explained
Every animal provides a unique passive that supports your farming in different ways. Here’s a breakdown:
Animal Passive Effect
🐓 Rooster Reduces hatch time of all eggs.
🐶 Dog Digs the ground and occasionally finds seeds for you.
🐄 Cow Speeds up crop growth in surrounding areas.
🐱 Cat Lays down next to crops and boosts their growth, making them grow bigger.
🦌 Deer Helps with berry-type quest crops and can auto-replace itself.
🐰 Bunny Automatically eats carrots and sells them at 2.5x multiplier.
🐉 Dragonfly Turns fruits golden, boosting their value (strongest pet but slightly pay-to-win).
🐼 Panda Free reward for players — gifted after reaching 1 million concurrent players.
Feeding Your Pets
You can feed your pets to increase the strength of their passive abilities. The more you feed them:
- The stronger the passive becomes
- The larger the pet grows
- This gives you a way to scale your farm’s productivity simply by investing in your pets over time.
New Crop: Pepper Seed
There’s a new high-value crop in the game – the Pepper. This seed:
Grows into one of the most profitable fruits currently in the game.
Pairs perfectly with pets like the Dragonfly, which can turn your harvest golden.
If you’re farming for money, peppers are now top-tier seeds you should prioritize.
Exotic Bug Egg (Speculative Note)
Although the video title mentions the “Exotic Bug Egg,” it wasn’t shown in the actual video transcript. However, based on naming trends and typical update behavior in Grow a Garden:
It could be a special egg with a chance to unlock rare bug-type pets.
Likely includes premium pets like the Dragonfly.
If it’s a new addition, we’ll keep an eye on official sources or developer announcements.
Free Reward: Panda Pet
As a thank-you for reaching 1 million concurrent players, the developers are giving out a free Panda pet. This is a limited-time celebration reward, so make sure you log in to claim it while it’s available!
New Items:
Exotic Bug Egg, Instant hatching Bug Egg
Bug Egg, 5 possible different bugs inside!
Legendary Egg, 5 possible pets inside!
Rare Egg, 5 possible pets inside!
Uncommon Egg, 4 possible pets inside!
Common Egg, 3 possible pets inside!
Fixes, Changes, & QOL:
Sprinkler’s now stack in backpack
Increased default walk speed
Moved daily quests to the gear shop npc
Made some changes to help improve performance
Made some changes to improve auto collecting
Added countdown to Jim the angry plant
& lots more!