Pet Mutations abilities & effects in Grow a Garden
Transform your pets with powerful mutations! Discover all abilities, effects, and strategies to enhance your companions in Grow a Garden.
Understanding Pet Mutations
💡What Are Pet Mutations?
Pet Mutations are permanent transformations that enhance your pets with special abilities, visual effects, and gameplay advantages. These mutations can be obtained through the Mutation Machine near the Egg Shop for 500,000,000 Sheckles or using special pet shards.
Mutations provide unique passive abilities, XP boosts, and special effects that make your pets more powerful!
Each mutation has unique visual effects, particles, and appearance changes that make pets stand out!
How to Get Pet Mutations
🏭Mutation Machine
Use the Mutation Machine near the Egg Shop for 500,000,000 Sheckles. Your pet must be level 50+ (age 50+) to be eligible for mutation. The process takes 1 hour and resets the pet's age to 1.
Use Corrupted Pet Mutation Shard or Pet Shard Tranquil to apply specific mutations to your pets.
Mutation process takes 1 hour. You can skip the waiting time for 49 Sheckles. Once started, the process cannot be cancelled.
Important Notes
- • Mutations don't stack - putting a mutated pet back in the machine will overwrite the existing mutation
- • Natural Rainbow Mutation from Rainbow Egg can stack with machine mutations
- • Pet must be level 50+ (age 50+) to be eligible for mutation
- • The mutation process cannot be cancelled once started
Pet Mutations
Discover all the unique mutations that can transform your pets in Grow a Garden. Each mutation provides special abilities and visual changes to your beloved companions.
📈XP Boost Mutations
Mutations that enhance your pet's experience gain rate
Type:
Pet XP Boost
Amount:
+30%
Passive Ability:
Provides an additional 15% boost to the pet's XP per second!
Appearance:
Pet has a shiny, glittering appearance with sparkles
Type:
Pet XP Boost
Amount:
+50%
Passive Ability:
Provides an additional 30% boost to the pet's XP per second!
Appearance:
Pet has inverted colors and a unique visual effect
🔮Mutation Appliers
Pets that can apply mutations to nearby fruits
Type:
Applies Mutations
Passive Ability:
Every ~5 minutes, ~20 - 30% chance a nearby fruit becomes Frozen!
Appearance:
Pet has a frosty, icy appearance with snow particles
Type:
Applies Mutations
Passive Ability:
Every ~30 - 300 seconds, ~20 - 30% chance a nearby fruit becomes Windstruck!
Appearance:
Pet has swirling wind effects and air particles
Type:
Applies Mutation
Passive Ability:
Every ~25 minutes, there is a chance that a nearby fruit finds inner peace, applying the Tranquil mutation!
Appearance:
Pet has a peaceful, zen-like aura with calming effects
Type:
Applies Mutation
Passive Ability:
Every ~25 minutes, a nearby fruit embraces the corruption, applying the Corrupted Mutation!
Appearance:
Pet has dark, corrupted effects with shadow particles
Type:
Applies Mutations
Passive Ability:
During a Thunderstorm: Every ~45 - 60 seconds, has a ~25 - 30% chance to attract lightning, shocking nearby fruits!
Appearance:
Pet has electric effects with lightning bolts and sparks
Type:
Applies Mutations
Passive Ability:
Every ~300 - 360 minutes, gives a random fruit the Dawnbound mutation!
Appearance:
Pet has divine, heavenly effects with angelic particles
⚡Passive Boost Mutations
Mutations that enhance your pet's passive abilities
Type:
Passive Boost
Amount:
+10%
Passive Ability:
Provides a big increase to the pet's passive! (also decreases cooldown)
Appearance:
Pet has a golden glow with enhanced visual effects
Type:
Passive Boost
Amount:
+20%
Passive Ability:
Provides a bigger increase to the pet's passive! (Also decreases its cooldown)
Appearance:
Pet has rainbow effects with colorful particles
📏Size Modification Mutations
Mutations that change your pet's size and related stats
Type:
Size Modification
Amount:
+200%
Passive Ability:
Pet is gigantic! Has 20% faster hunger rate. Gains ~10 - 40 XP per second.
Appearance:
Pet is much larger than normal with enhanced proportions
Type:
Size Modification
Amount:
-90%
Passive Ability:
Pet is very tiny! Has 20% slower hunger rate. Gains ~5 - 30 XP per second.
Appearance:
Pet is much smaller than normal with cute proportions
🎯Special Ability Mutations
Unique mutations with special gameplay effects
Type:
Stealing Preventer
Passive Ability:
~35 - 45% chance to recover stolen fruit!
Appearance:
Pet has metallic, armored appearance with protective effects
Type:
Plant Growth Boost
Passive Ability:
Every ~20 - 30 minutes, emits sunshine at a random nearby plant and advances their growth by 24 hours!
Appearance:
Pet has radiant, sun-like effects with bright particles
Mutation Types
4 mutations available
Examples: Frozen, Windy, Shocked
...and 1 more
2 mutations available
Examples: Shiny, Inverted
2 mutations available
Examples: Tranquil, Corrupted
2 mutations available
Examples: Golden, Rainbow
2 mutations available
Examples: Mega, Tiny
1 mutation available
Examples: IronSkin
1 mutation available
Examples: Radiant
Mutation Chance Ranges
1 mutation available
Examples: Ascended
6 mutations available
Examples: Tranquil, Corrupted, Shocked
...and 3 more
5 mutations available
Examples: Frozen, Windy, Golden
...and 2 more
1 mutation available
Examples: Inverted
1 mutation available
Examples: Shiny
Tips & Strategies
Getting Started
- • Start with common mutations like Shiny (30.21% chance)
- • Focus on pets you use frequently for maximum benefit
- • Save up 500,000,000 Sheckles for the Mutation Machine
- • Ensure your pet is level 50+ before attempting mutation
Advanced Strategies
- • Use specific pet shards for desired mutations
- • Combine Rainbow Egg mutations with machine mutations
- • Build a collection of mutation-applying pets
- • Consider the pet's base abilities when choosing mutations
Pro Tips
Mutation Synergy: Some mutations work better with certain pet types - research combinations!
Rare Mutations: Ascended mutation (0.3% chance) is extremely rare but very powerful.
Visual Effects: Color-changing mutations may not fully display in your garden view.
Special Combinations: Shocked Nihonzaru with Hot Spring creates an infinite Lightning Rod!
Pet Mutations Trivia
Interesting Facts
- • Certain pets with color-changing mutations often don't fully display the changes in the player's garden
- • If the player gets a Shocked Nihonzaru with the Hot Spring, the player gets an infinite Lightning Rod!
- • If the player gets a natural Rainbow Pet Mutation from Rainbow Egg, the player can stack another mutation to that pet
- • If a corrupted Kitsune get inverted, it will look like a normal Kitsune