The latest Chubby Chipmunk update for Grow a Garden has introduced a suite of six fantastic new pets, each with unique abilities to boost your farming efficiency and event rewards. This guide provides a complete breakdown of every new pet, how to get them, and how their special traits can benefit your garden.
Overview of All New Pets
This update focuses on a collection of pets that work in synergy, offering bonuses from faster crop growth to triggering powerful mutations. Here is the full list of new companions:
Chubby Chipmunk (Free Event Pet)
Hyrax (Reward Track)
Fortune Squirrel (Reward Track)
Farmer Chipmunk (Nutty Chest)
Idol Chipmunk (Nutty Chest)
Chinchilla (Nutty Chest)
1. Chubby Chipmunk: The Main Event Pet
The Chubby Chipmunk is the central pet of the entire event and is available for free from the banner next to the Nuts NPC in the lobby.
Ability: Automatically eats fruit from your garden every 1.38 minutes, gaining 0.023 kg of weight each time.
Benefit: Every time it eats, it spawns an Acorn that contains random rewards. Its increasing weight is directly tied to progressing through the event’s reward tier track.
How to Get: Claim for free from the “Free Chipmunk” banner.
2. Hyrax: The Seed Producer
The Hyrax is a valuable pet for players looking to cultivate specific new plants.
Ability: Every 4.56 minutes, it has a chance to turn a fruit in your garden into a Fissure Berry seed.
Benefit: Provides a steady, passive source of Fissure Berry seeds, which are likely used in other event recipes or fusions.
How to Get: Unlocked as a reward from the event’s Tier Track.
3. Fortune Squirrel: The Mutation Master
The Fortune Squirrel adds an element of chance and high reward to your garden.
Ability: Has a chance to apply the Jackpot mutation to plants and other pets.
Benefit: The Jackpot mutation can significantly increase the value or output of affected plants and pets, leading to greater resource gains.
How to Get: Unlocked as a reward from the event’s Tier Track.
Pets from the Nutty Chest
The Nutty Chest contains three powerful pets that offer more specialized support abilities.
Farmer Chipmunk: The Growth Booster
This chipmunk variant is all about agricultural efficiency.
Ability: Increases the growth speed of all bean-type plants by 1.56x.
Benefit: Drastically reduces the waiting time for harvesting beans, allowing for faster crop cycles and more efficient farming.
How to Get: Obtain from the Nutty Chest.
Idol Chipmunk: The Energy Restorer
The Idol Chipmunk is a fantastic support pet for maintaining your other animals.
Ability: Sings a song every 11.52 minutes, restoring 1.81% hunger per second to other pets for nearly nine seconds.
Benefit: Essential for keeping high-maintenance pets with fast hunger drain active and productive for longer periods.
How to Get: Obtain from the Nutty Chest.
Chinchilla: The Ability Amplifier
The Chinchilla is arguably one of the most powerful synergy pets in the update.
Ability: Every 39.32 minutes, it activates the abilities of other pets at triple the effectiveness.
Benefit: Can supercharge the output of all your other pets, such as making the Hyrax produce more seeds or the Fortune Squirrel have a higher mutation chance during its activation.
How to Get: Obtain from the Nutty Chest.
Most Useful Pets and Synergies
While all pets have their uses, three stand out for their impact on progression and synergy:
Chubby Chipmunk: Non-negotiable for event progression and earning Acorns.
Chinchilla: Its ability to triple other pet effects makes any team composition significantly more powerful.
Idol Chipmunk: Its hunger restoration ensures your other pets, especially the Chinchilla and Hyrax, can operate at peak efficiency without constant manual feeding.
Combining these pets allows for accelerated harvesting, sustained pet energy, and expanded opportunities for mutations and high-value yields throughout the event.
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
Q: Is the Chubby Chipmunk the only free pet?
A: Yes, the Chubby Chipmunk is the only one claimable for free. The Hyrax and Fortune Squirrel are earned through the reward track, while the Farmer Chipmunk, Idol Chipmunk, and Chinchilla are found in the Nutty Chest.
Q: What is the best way to use the Chinchilla?
A: Place the Chinchilla in your garden alongside pets with powerful active abilities, like the Hyrax or Fortune Squirrel. When the Chinchilla activates, it will massively boost their output.
Q: Does the Idol Chipmunk restore its own hunger?
A: The description states it restores hunger for “other pets,” meaning it likely does not affect itself.
Q: Are these pets permanent?
A: Typically, event pets are permanently added to your collection once unlocked.
Conclusion
The Chubby Chipmunk update brings a diverse and synergistic set of new pets to Grow a Garden. From the event-centric Chubby Chipmunk to the game-changing support of the Chinchilla and Idol Chipmunk, these pets offer new layers of strategy. By understanding their abilities and how they work together, you can create a powerful team to maximize your efficiency, dominate the event, and reap greater rewards from your garden than ever before.