The Grow A Garden Christmas Part 1 Update dropped over the weekend, and we didn’t get a new egg this time. Instead, we got the Santa’s Surprise Present, which works like a chest, combining both seeds and pets all-in-one.
As part of the update, we got a brand new limited edition seed within the Seed Shop, and this brand new seed offers something we’ve never seen before with a seed; it can mutate pets. Keep on reading to find out more…
When it comes to pet mutations, there are a few different ways in which our pets can get mutations:
- The Mutation Machine, which can give you one of twelve mutations at random, providing your pet is age 50 or above
- Pet Shards, which give your pet an instant mutation
- Headless Horseman, which can give your pets one of four mutations; Spectral, Dreadbound, Soulflame or Nightmare
The Peppermint Vine is the newest seed to join the Seed Shop, and it has a Transcendent rarity. It costs 1627 Robux or Trade Tokens, or 100,000,000,000 sheckles.
Just like the Trinity Fruit and Great Pumpkin, the Peppermint Vine is limited edition, and will only be available whilst the three-week Christmas update is here. Once the Christmas event is done, the seed will be gone.
The Peppermint Vine seed is amazing, and unlike any other seed in the game, because this seed can impart a brand new exclusive mutation on your pets. The Trinity Fruit seed and Great Pumpkin seeds both imparted mutations on plants, but the Peppermint Vine gives a mutation to pets.
When it comes to seed design, it has a red and white candy strap pattern, with a green ribbon with a bow wrapped around it.
When planted, the Peppermint Vine grows a candycane shaped “stick” plant, with the red and white candy strips all over – and this is the plant.
Once the plant is fully grown, the fruits are smaller candy canes which grow out of the candy cane “stick”, and there are cute little green ribbons on the stems of the candy cane fruits.
On the stem of the plant, depending on the size of your plant (you can always use a Reclaimer to replant if you end up with a tiny one), there are a couple of little holly leaves and holly berries, which again, is really cute.
Usually, it doesn’t matter where you plant your seeds, but with the Grow A Garden Peppermint Vine, it absolutely matters, because of its ability, which is:
“Nearby eggs hatched have a 10% chance to be hatched with the Peppermint Pet Mutation.“
When you click the stem of the Peppermint Vine plant, you’ll see the green circle appear surrounding the vine, to show you the ability zone.
Any eggs you place within this “zone” will give you a 10% chance for the pet to hatch with a mutation, straight from the egg, so you need to make sure you eggs are placed within this zone.
If you own more than one Peppermint Vine seed, plant them near eachother, so the circles overlap, giving you a greater area for your eggs to be placed. I can place 13 eggs, as I unlocked all of the extra egg slots via the Ascension Shop, so having more than one of these seeds is definitely better, as you have a bigger area to place your eggs.
Getting the Peppermint Vine seed isn’t easy. It has a ridiculous 0.12% chance of restocking, which is where the Arctic Fox pet from the Season Pass is super useful, and is how I have now got three of these seeds.
You can still use your Kois and Brontos when hatching, to get bigger pets, and free eggs, but when you hatch any egg next to a Peppermint Vine plant, providing it is placed within the green “circle”, your pet has a 10% chance to be hatched with the exclusive Peppermint mutation.
The Peppermint mutation isn’t available in any other way, so if you end up missing out on the Peppermint Vine seed, you’ll never be able to hatch Peppermint mutated pets yourself – you’ll have to trade for them.
10% chance is a low chance, but when I hatch my 13 eggs, I usually end up with 1 or 2 Peppermint mutated pets.
Pets that hatch with a Peppermint mutation have an adorable red and white color design, which overrides their natural colors.
You don’t see the Peppermint mutated pet straight away. If it is a Peppermint mutated pet, it will appear “normal” on the floor after it immediately hatches, but you’ll only see the red and white Peppermint design when it’s in your hand, so it’s a fun surprise to see which pets got the mutation.
What does the Peppermint mutation actually do, though?
Here, you can see that my Black Cat, from a Spooky Egg, was hatched with the Peppermint mutation.
It doesn’t affect any pet’s natural ability, like say Nightmare would. Instead, it gives a new extra ability.
For my 1.79kg Black Cat, the Peppermint ability is:
“Every 15:55m, sacrifices 12 random Christmas-type fruit in your garden to instantly activate this pet’s ability.“
So, every 15.55 minutes, the Black Cat will “sacrifice” aka remove 12 Christmas fruits from your garden, and after doing this, it will immediately do its original ability, without a cooldown.
This means, you want pets with active abilities to get the Peppermint mutation, and not pets with passive abilities.
If you got a Peppermint mutated Silver Monkey for example, it would literally be pointless, as it won’t do anything at all extra, because it doesn’t have an ability which is activated over time.
If you have a Peppermint mutated Black Cat, like me, it will do its ability an extra time, every 15:55 minutes.
I haven’t managed to hatch one myself yet, but I am buying up cheap Gourmet Egg pets in the Trader’s Plaza whenever I can, but a Peppermint mutated French Fry Ferret could potentially give you an extra level every time the Peppermint ability triggers, which could be super OP.