One of the best things about Grow A Garden updates is the admin abuse that happens in the time leading up to an update.
Sometimes, Jandel will come online and use the global chat feature, to send messages that every single player can read at the top of the screen, and will run ad hoc admin abuse events, but they tend to be singular admin weather events. Whenever there’s a new update, we get a tonne of crazy admin abuse weather events…
What Even Is The Grow A Garden Admin Abuse?
When we’re playing Grow A Garden, we have standard weather events within the game, which can happen naturally, with weather events like:
- wind
- thunder
- rain
- sandstorm
- night
- blood moon
- heatwave
- tropical rain
- tornado
- Aurora Borealis
- meteor showers
These all happen randomly, and you can click the little square icon in the corner of the screen, and it’ll tell you what the weather event is, plus it’ll mention the mutation your crops could possibly get from this weather event.
These are all “natural” weather events which happen during the game, but there are a list of special admin-only weather events, which can only be triggered by an admin, aka Jandel (the owner of Grow A Garden), and these tend to be more interactive, more fun to experience, and give better and rarer mutation chances for our crops.
As the admin weather events can happen randomly (like Disco), you just need to be online to experience them, but there is something called admin abuse, which only happens on Grow A Garden update days.
During Grow A Garden Admin Abuse, you can experience any of the following special admin weather events;
- Fried Chicken – higher FRIED fruit chance
- Jandel Storm – higher SHOCKED fruit chance
- Obby – an interactive obby where you can win a jump pad cosmetic item to place in your farm
- Sun God – chance to get DAWNBOUND mutation on sunflowers (click here to find out more)
- Disco – higher DISCO fruit chance
- Space Travel – higher GALACTIC fruit chance
- Chocolate Rain – higher CHOC fruit chance
- Under The Sea – higher WET fruit chance
- Pool Party – everyone gets a free Duckfloat cosmetic item gift
- DJ Jhai – higher DISCO fruit chance
- DJ Sam – higher DISCO fruit chance
- Solar Flare – higher SUNDRIED fruit chance & higher VERDANT fruit chance
- Brains – Zombie Invasion: Increased INFECTED fruit chance
- Black Hole – higher VOIDTOUCHED fruit chance
- Volcano – higher MOLTEN fruit chance
- Alien Invasion – higher ALIENLIKE fruit chance
When Does The Grow A Garden Jandel Admin Abuse Event Start?
Usually, Jandel starts the admin abuse weather events one hour before the update launches.
However, last week, Jandel started the admin abuse 90 minutes before the update launched, so you really need to be online, and logged into the game at least 90 minutes before the launch time, to make sure you’re going to benefit from every single admin event.
Last week, players got a free pool floatie cosmetic item, and the new obby, where you could win a launch pad cosmetic item (you win a launch pad every time you complete the obby), so if you weren’t online 90 minutes before the update, you would’ve missed out.
Not only would you miss out on the free items, but you’ll miss the admin abuse weather events, and miss out on possible high-value mutations.
If you want to check the launch time for this week’s Grow A Garden update, click here, to check the launch time in your individual time zone.
When you know what time the update is going to launch, make sure you’re online at least 90 minutes before that time, in your time zone, and you’ll be guaranteed you won’t miss out on this week’s events, freebies, news Jandel shares and of course, the admin abuse weather events.