Viva Pinata - Awards and ranks - game guide, walkthrough, secrets, game tips & strategies

Anytime you make a progress in game, leaves seen around the sunflower-clock in the upper-right corner of the screen will be changing their color to blue. It happens when you get some of these awards:

Pinata related awards for:

• having a particular species visit your garden
• having a particular species become resident of your garden
• successfully completing the romancing minigame for a particular species
• having seven of a particular species in your garden at once
• discovering each of the three color variants for a particular species

Plants related awards for:

• having grown a particular plant
• fertilizing a plant to full bonus growth

We’re getting a notification like this anytime something happens in our garden.

Each time all the leaves turn their color to blue, you’re gaining a new level which allows you to have another pinata species, improving your tools etc. Here is a list of benefits gained at each gardener level:

• 1 – New Gardener title.
• 2 – Seedos will visit your garden. Costalot’s General Store opens in the village.
• 4 – Post Office opens in the village. Wild Raisants attracted by your garden. Sour Shellybeans attracted by your garden.
• 5 – Jardiniero gives you the Seed Shovel Head upgrade. Sour Shellybeans visit, and are able to be tamed. Gretchen Fetchem opens in the village.
• 6 – Experienced Gardener title. Iron Shovel Handle upgrade. Wild Arocknids attracted by your garden.
• 7 – Pond Shovel Head upgrade.
• 8 – Miss Petula’s Paper Pets opens.
• 9 – Bart’s Exchange opens. Sour Sherbats attracted by your garden.
• 10 – Arfur’s Inn opens with Sprinkling available for hire. Sour Sherbats visit your garden, and are able to be tamed. "Talent" Achievement unlocked
• 11 – Skilled Gardener title. Garden Space Upgrade.
• 12 – Ivor visits the garden. Gatherling available for hire.
• 13 – Bronze Shovel Handle upgrade.
• 14 – Pinata Central begins issuing factory requests. Weedling available for hire. Sour Crowlas attracted to your garden.
• 15 – Ruffians visit your garden. Treecutter Shovel Head upgrade. Sour Crowlas visit your garden, and are able to be tamed.
• 16 – Professional Gardener title. Watchling available for hire.
• 19 – Sour Profitamoles attracted by your garden.
• 20 – Sour Profitamoles visit your garden, and are able to be tamed.
• 21 – Expert Gardener title. Maximum Garden Space Upgrade. Sweetoothes attracted by your garden.
• 23 – Silver Shovel Handle upgrade. Sour Macaraccoons attracted by your garden.
• 24 – Sour Macaraccoons visit your garden, and are able to be tamed.
• 26 – Great Gardener title. Diggerling available for hire. Dragumflies attracted by your garden.
• 27 – Sour Cocoadiles attracted by your garden. Swananas attracted by your garden.
• 28 – Gold Shovel Handle upgrade. Sour Cocoadiles visit your garden, and are able to be tamed.
• 30 – Fizzlybears attracted by your garden.
• 31 – Master Gardener title. Credits unlocked. Sour Mallowolfs attracted by your garden.
• 32 – Sour Mallowolfs visit your garden, and are able to be tamed. Parrybos attracted by your garden.
• 33 – Eaglairs attracted by your garden.
• 34 – Sour Bonboons attracted by your garden.
• 35 – Sour Bonboons visit your garden, and are able to be tamed.
• 36 – Legendary Gardener title. Professor Pester visits the garden. Elephanillas attracted by your garden.
• 38 – Roarios attracted by your garden.
• 41 – Ultimate Gardener title.
• 50 – "Master Talent" Achievement unlocked.