Have you tried to gift another player a pet, only to get a pop-up message that says “pet gifting is disabled right now! Please check back later.”? For the first time in Grow A Garden history, the ability to gift pets to another player has been removed, while the devs try and fix a “bug”. Keep on reading to find out more…
Nine hours ago, Jandel posted the following announcement in the official Grow A Garden Discord:
“Hey everyone, we are going to be disabling Pet Gifting temporarily while we fix an exploit/dupe bug 🙂 Sorry for the inconvenience“
If you try and gift a pet to another player, you get a pop-up message in white, to let you know that pet gifting is disabled, and to come back later.
Usually, when there’s a bug or exploit, the devs reset the servers, and everyone gets kicked, and it’s fixed.
But, this time, it’s been nine hours since pet gifting was disabled, and there’s no mention of when the pet gifting will be reactivated.
There has been a lot of pet gifting and trades in the last 24 hours, due to the toucan honeysuckle glitch, which is giving people 500kg honeysuckles, and I don’t know if it’s because of that, or because of the new seal pet.
With the seal pet, you get a very small chance that, when you’re selling pets, you can get a free egg for the pet you’re selling, and the seals stack, which increases your chance to get free eggs.
When Will Grow A Garden Pet Gifting Come Back?
It has been 15 hours since the pet gifting/trading was disabled, which is a surprisingly long time.
We haven’t had an announcement on when it will return, but Jandel and his developers are based in New Zealand, so it’s likely that the issue will be resolved very soon, as it’s now early morning in New Zealand (it’s nearly 8am there at the time of writing this), so hopefully we won’t have too long to wait!
I hope the pet gifting returns ASAP, as many people are waiting for doing trades with pets, and I’ll update this post as soon as pet gifting returns.