The Grow A Garden Fairy World update launched today, as a part two to their initial fairy-themed update that launched last weekend.
Last week, we got a brand new egg (the Enchanted Egg), and for this week’s update we got the Enchanted Chest, with three brand new pets to collect. Keep on reading to find out all about the rarest pet within the new chest; the Phoenix.
The new Grow A Garden Phoenix pet is one of the three pets you can get from the Enchanted Chest.
In addition to the Phoenix, there’s the Cardinal bird pet, and the Shroomie mushroom pet, with three brand new seeds too – as chests always combine three pets with three seeds.
With the Enchanted Chest, these are the six items you can get:
- Emerald Bud Seed – 34% chance
- Cardinal Pet – 34% chance
- Pyracantha Seed – 14.5% chance
- Shroomie Pet – 14.5% chance
- Aetherfruit Seed – 1% chance
- Phoenix Pet – 1% chance
To get the Enchanted Chest, you’re going to need to collect fairies across the map with the new craftable Fairy Net, and hand them into the Wisp NPC within Fairy World, which is an underground location we can visit once an hour, and spend our Fairy points on them.
There are four NPCs in total, one that sells seeds, one that sells pets, one that sells cosmetics, and the wisp that sells the chests.
The Grow A Garden Phoenix has such an epic design, with animated flames around its legs, wings, body and head. There are also glowing orange and yellow accents all over, like the feathers on the head, the claws and wings too.
I feel like we haven’t seen an amazing design like this since the original red Kitsune, which also has animated flame details too.
When you compare the attention to detail and design of the Phoenix, with the Cockartrice from the Enchanted Egg, it’s kinda crazy, as they are both 1% pets, but the Phoenix has such a better design – it looks incredible.
What Does The Grow A Garden Phoenix Pet Do?
The Phoenix is the first pet to have three different benefits/abilities:
- Pets taken from the pet mutation machine will get a bonus age of 1 to 4.89.
- Every 6:40 minutes, it travels between 4.09 random fruit in your garden which gets the Flaming mutation.
- Fruits passed have a 20.18% chance to mutate as well.
So, whenever you mutate a pet via the mutation machine, when you claim the pet from the mutation machine, the pet will emerge age 1 (after being age 50+ before going into the machine). Meaning you have to start from scratch aging the pet up.
With the Phoenix, for each Phoenix pet you have equipped within your garden, your mutated pet will come out of the machine aged between 1 to 4.89.
The age goes up as the Phoenix ages too, so the older your Phoenix, the higher the age boost your mutated pet will get. Plus, if you use toys on your Phoenix army, it’ll boost the age boost too, as well as the Grandmaster Sprinkler, which again, will increase the age boost.
Why is this cool? Well, we’ve all had the repeated heartbreak of getting shiny, shiny and shiny over and over. With the Phoenix, your’re one step closer to being able to chuck it back into the mutation machine, without waiting for it to age to 50 naturally.
It’s kinda like a V2 of the Ostrich, which gives an age boost to hatched pets. However, the Phoenix also gives you the chance to get a brand new mutation; the Flaming mutation, and it performs its ability at only 6.40 minutes at age 1 – as it ages, it’ll do it even quicker, which is amazing.
I genuinely think the Phoenix is one of the best Divine pets we’ve had in a long time, and I can’t wait to get 8 of them, and make them one of my pet loadout options when using the mutation machine, to be able to potentially get a mutated pet at age 39 straight from the machine – plus it looks insane!