Grow A Garden Items

While Grow a Garden Mega Safari wasn't as groundbreaking as last week's update, it's still a pretty good update overall, especially after you figure out how to farm efficiently.

Mega Harvest introduces a variety of new items, each serving a different purpose within the event's progression. To make the most out of this update, you need to identify which items offer the highest value and develop an efficient farming strategy to consistently secure them.

Mega Harvest

Mega Harvest occurs hourly and lasts approximately 10 minutes. During this time, submitting plants to Joyce earns double points, and Safari Joe will appear.

Whenever a new pet appears, Safari Joe will sell its corresponding pet shards. Each shard not only provides the corresponding pet's abilities but also an additional passive buff. The best shard is Lion Shard, which provides lion abilities and a significant passive buff, but has a 0.5% or 1% drop rate. So how do you effectively farm Lion Shards?

How To Farm Lion Shards?

Safari Shop

Safari Shop refreshes its inventory every 15 minutes. Tradeable Grow A Garden items include Safari Eggs and Jumbo Pet Shards.

You can use one account, along with an auto-clicker or macros, to trade all items in the shop or specific items you want. When Safari Eggs and Jumbo Pet Shards are listed, trade them on your main account, then use as many of your alt accounts as possible to trade them. Your best target is Lion Shard, although this is largely based on luck, but this method relies heavily on the number of alt accounts you have.

Safari Harvest

Due to the enhanced individual rewards from Mega Safari, farming is now more rewarding. This makes obtaining rewards like Safari Eggs, Lollipops, and Paradise Eggs relatively easier.

Cover-All Garden

You need to create a multi-harvest garden containing all the plant types Safari Joyce might require.

You should use fast-growing, multi-harvest, high-rarity plants such as blueberries, spear grass, watermelons, candies, cauliflower, tomatoes, etc. You can find corresponding plants by characteristics using the filter function in the gardening guide.

You can also increase your harvest by using a full swarm of Giant Ants, Stegosauruses, or other cloned pets. This method is the easiest for most players to implement, but it's not the most efficient.

Coconuts And Mangoes

Coconuts and Mangoes basically cover half of the categories Joyce might request, including the new Safari type. They not only produce a high number of fruits per plant and regenerate quickly, but they are also very rare, which allows you to get more Safari Global Points after submitting crops to Joyce.

It is recommended to establish a garden with about 100 mango and coconut seeds. Too many will cause game lag. In the early stages, you can use snails to collect coconuts to quickly accumulate coconut seeds.

When Safari Joyce requests Safari, Woody, or Tropical plants, you can equip Giant Ants for gathering. This will be even more powerful once Cape Buffalo becomes available. If the types of coconuts and mangoes Joyce requests don't match, it's recommended to rest and not submit anything.

Once the crops are mature, fill your inventory and then submit all items. Submitting an inventory of plants outside of double Safari Global Points periods will grant two rewards, while during double points periods, you'll receive four rewards.

Safari Joe

Safari Joe appears during Mega Harvest event for 10 minutes every hour. You submit pets to Joe to earn rewards, including pet shards. Each pet's reward is based on its rarity and age, and pet weight does not affect pet value

Pet Points

Points for each pet rarity:

• Common: 16.5
• UnCommon: 26.5
• Rare: 36.5
• Legendary: 46.5
• Mythical: 56.5
• Divine: 66.6
• Prismatic: 76.5

To calculate the pet value for a pet, subtract 1 from its age and multiply the result by 1.5, then add the base rarity.

The following pets each provide 120 pet value. You need to submit an average of 180 of these pets to get 1 Lion Shard:

• Legendary: Age 50
• Mythical: Age 44
• Divine: Age 37

The following pets each provide 140 pet value. You need to submit an average of 100 of these pets to get 1 Lion Shard:

• Legendary: Age 64
• Mythical: Age 57
• Divine: Age 50

How To Hatch Pets?

You can use low-level, low-weight Ostriches to hatch pets, but avoid using Brontosauruses since their effect does not increase the pet's age.

Regarding pet eggs, avoid using limited-time or event eggs. Mythical eggs are best, while legendary eggs are also acceptable, and the rare eggs cannot reach the high age required to obtain Lion Shards.

You can use at least 4-5 Rhinos and 4-5 Bald Eagles to reduce hatching cooldown time, allowing you to hatch approximately every 1-1.5 hours. If you can use Hydras and pair them with pets like Peacocks that reduce cooldown, hatching will be even faster.

How To Sell?

Use Ostriches, Toys, and Grandmaster Sprinklers to hatch high-age, high-rarity pets. Only submit pets that reach the 120 or 140 pet value to Joe.

For Legendary and Divine pets that are too young, you can sell them for eggs to try again, avoiding wasting egg resources. Submitting high-point pets also has gives you a good chance to obtain, such as multiple Safari Eggs and other pet shards.

This is a general guide to farming Lion Shards in Mega Safari event. Hopefully, this will help you reap the rewards during the event.

In Grow A Garden, while your gameplay involves repetitive planting and harvesting, the abundance of seeds, gear, pets, unpredictable weather, and various limited-time events, make this seemingly monotonous process uniquely appealing.

The foundation of everything is undoubtedly the seed; without it, all other mechanics are useless. And to make seeds grow better and faster, or to perform special operations, gear is indispensable.

To ensure you can obtain any seeds or gear you want, you should master the relevant basics, especially how to earn them. We'll introduce that to you below.

What Are GAG Seeds?

The core concept of a farm simulation game means that everything in Grow A Garden revolves around planting, growing, harvesting, and selling seeds (corresponding crops).

You can buy Grow A Garden items or play the game itself to acquire seeds. During this time, you can utilize gear or pet bonuses to accelerate crop growth or increase their yield at maturity, allowing you to sell for more Sheckles.

Currently, there are too many seed types available in the game. Here are just a few for your reference:

• Orange Tulip
• Daffodil
• Dragon Fruit
• Bamboo
• Mango
• Beanstalk
• Burning Bud
• Giant Pinecone
• Candy Sunflower

How To Obtain Seeds?

Generally speaking, seeds can be obtained through two methods: quest rewards and exchanging them with currency. We will explain each method in more detail below.

Shopping At Different Merchants

After entering the game, besides your garden, you will find a floating continent. On either side of the continent are different shops, including Sam's seed shop, which is clearly marked by a blue and white awning.

Besides this shop, you can also exchange seeds at traveling merchants who refresh periodically. Their seed offerings refresh every 5 minutes, and they only accept Sheckles as currency. The rarer the seed, the more Sheckles it requires.

If you don't see the seed you want at the merchant, don't waste your Sheckles. Instead, refresh the shop a few more times until you find a worthwhile seed before exchanging it.

It's worth noting that after unlocking Sam's shop, you can teleport directly there by clicking the blue Seeds button at the top of the screen, saving you the hassle of running around.

Obtaining Different Seed Packs

The merchant sells individual seeds, and while the selection refreshes, the variety is limited. Some seeds can only be obtained through specific seed packs. Seed packs are primarily obtained through:

• Rewards for participating in limited-time events
• Season Pass level rewards
• Redeemable at the in-game shop (distinguish between this and the merchant)

It's worth mentioning separately that to level up your Season Pass, you need to complete daily quests on time. Initially, these quests were obtained from specific NPCs (and NPCs have changed several times). Now you can view them in Season Pass menu.

Daily quests are usually released three a day, and completing them all will reward you with a cat pack. These quests are generally quite simple, for example:

• Planting specific seeds or harvesting specific crops
• Staying enough time in the game
• Earning a specific amount of currency

Participating In Limited-Time Events

Grow A Garden hosts limited-time events during real-world holidays or other special periods, rewarding you not only with seed packs but also with individual rare seeds. For example, Ghoul Garden event held recently to celebrate Halloween added some.

What Is GAG Gear?

Gear in Grow A Garden is actually a variety of gardening tools that provide different benefits during your plant's growth, such as increasing growth speed or yield, and potentially increasing mutation rates.

What Gear Is Available In The Game?

All GAG gear can be broadly divided into regular and limited-time gear, similar to seeds. Regular gear has seven rarities, while limited-time event gear depends on the reward list. Therefore, we will only list regular gear.

Common:

• Watering Can - 50,000 Sheckles

Uncommon:

• Trowel - 100,000 Sheckles
• Recall Wrench - 150,000 Sheckles
• Trading Ticket - 100,000 Sheckles

Rare:

• Basic Sprinkler - 25,000 Sheckles

Legendary:

• Advanced Sprinkler - 50,000 Sheckles
• Mutation Spray Burnt - 3 Summer Coins
• Mutation Spray Cloudtouched - 50,000,000 Sheckles
• Medium Toy - 4,000,000 Sheckles
• Medium Treat - 4,000,000 Sheckles
• Mutation Spray Wet - 50,000,000 Sheckles
• Mutation Spray Windstruck - 50,000,000 Sheckles
• Mutation Spray Verdant - 50,000,000 Sheckles
• Mutation Spray Disco - 50,000,000 Sheckles

Mythical:

• Godly Sprinkler - 120,000 Sheckles
• Tanning Mirror (Now available through crafting) - 1,000,000 Sheckles
• Lightning Rod (Now available through crafting) - 1,000,000 Sheckles
• Magnifying Glass - 10,000,000 Sheckles

Divine:

• Master Sprinkler - 10,000,000 Sheckles
• Favorite Tool - 20,000,000 Sheckles
• Harvest Tool - 30,000,000 Sheckles
• Friendship Pot - 15,000,000 Sheckles
• Cleaning Spray - 15,000,000 Sheckles
• Cleansing Pet Shard - 30,000,000 Sheckles

Prismatic:

• Levelup Lollipop - 10,000,000,000 Sheckles
• Grandmaster Sprinkler - 1,000,000,000 Sheckles

It's worth noting that while limited-time reward gear can only be obtained within the specified time, it will remain in your garden and can be used indefinitely afterward.

How To Obtain Gear?

Unlike seeds, gear in Grow A Garden can only be obtained by consuming Sheckles at the gear stand. Therefore, you can only obtain the desired gear by continuously planting and selling crops to earn more Sheckles.

Based on our list of regular gear, starting from legendary level, most gear requires a significant amount of Sheckles. Therefore, in the early stages of the game, utilizing pet bonuses to promote plant growth is more feasible than using gear.

The knowledge we've introduced should be enough for you to build your garden in the early stages of the game. If you want to delve deeper into the game, you'll need to learn more about advanced mechanics. There's no end to the effort and progress!