Grow A Garden Mega Safari Guide | Best Farming Methods To Get Lion Shards Fast
Posted: Nov 14, 2025 Views: 25
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.
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