Viva Piñata: TIP 100% guide

Connect a second controller and press Start on it in the garden so a second cursor appears. You don't need to play with it, but the game is reported to drop an idle second player, so nudge its stick every few minutes and check that its cursor is still on screen. Keep playing normally with your main controller. The achievement goes to the main profile once an hour of One Box co-op time has built up.

Progress is reported to carry over between sessions, but that is not firmly confirmed, so the safest approach is to keep the second controller active through longer sittings. If it hasn't unlocked after an hour in one sitting, keep going. Rejoin the second controller every time you load the game. If it times out or turns off, the clock stops.

This is the same timer, running to 3 hours in total. Keep the second controller joined during your normal play and it will unlock early in the route with no extra effort.

Only possible on a real Xbox 360 with an Xbox Live Vision camera.

Once the tutorial is finished, leave your cursor idle in the garden so the camera light turns green, then hold a Piñata Vision card (printed, or shown on a bright screen) in front of the camera. Hold it in landscape, about 15 to 25 cm from the lens, with all four corners visible and the room lights on. If the edges are detected but it won't read, turn the camera's focus ring fully anticlockwise and ease it back a little. Once the card is accepted, use what it gives you; for an item card, place the item in your garden. It is not confirmed whether the achievement fires on the scan itself or on using the result, so do both.

Scan and use 10 different cards. Each card has its own cooldown, so a card that won't work straight after use isn't broken. Simple item cards such as gems, gold, mushrooms, and the dinosaur bone cards are reported to scan most reliably.

If you plan to play the rest of the game on an Xbox One or Series console, do the scanning in a throwaway garden on the 360. The cards themselves only matter for these two achievements.

Open the camera from the menu and take 10 ordinary photographs. Any subject counts.

A special photograph is one of the game's concept-art unlocks. You earn one by photographing the same subject repeatedly. Pick one resident piñata species and keep taking photos of it. Special photos come by chance, so it can take dozens of shots; switching to another species or character now and then is fine.

Dig a seed hole with the shovel, drop a sweet from the store next to it, then hover the shovel over the sweet and use the putt action (X) to knock it like a golf ball. Get 5 sweets into seed holes. Cheap Romance Sweets work fine, and a hole dug next to the sweet makes it easy.

Knock a sweet into a seed hole from a long way off. Switching on the advanced camera in the options and zooming fully out is recommended so you can see the whole line. Dig a single hole, place the sweet roughly three-quarters of the garden's length away across open ground, and keep retrying until one drops in. Clear the line of plants and piñatas first so nothing blocks the roll.

Races are started from a piñata's Games option. Select a resident, open its menu, and choose Games. A Whirlm in the top lane is the community-recommended racer. Win one race.

Piñata shows are also started from the Games option. Pick the judge whose preferences best suit your piñata. A piñata at full candiosity that wears accessories and knows tricks does better. A second controller can help you pick a better judge. Win one show.

With seven of the species in the garden, finish the romance maze with plenty of time left. Twin eggs count as one set.

With seven of the species in the garden, collect every heart in the romance maze. The egg hatches into a wildcard.

Make twins in 10 different species. Repeats of one species are reported not to count, so build several cheap species up to seven residents in turn and get one set of twins from each. Sell or ship off the babies as you go so you never hit the garden's piñata limit.

Make wildcards in 10 different species. Repeats of one species are reported not to count. Aim for the hearts and the time margin on every romance so that each species you build up covers both a twin set and a wildcard.

Make any three Desert species resident in your main garden. Use species that don't involve evolution:

• Sweetle: bait with a yam (Home trap). Resident: 1% sand.
• Geckie: bait with a snowdrop flower (grow snowdrops in your garden; seeds from about level 5; Home trap). Resident: 2% sand, and it must eat a Flutterscotch.
• Sour S'morepion (appears from about level 12): any bait works (Home trap). Tame it by meeting its sour resident requirements: 5% sand and eating 2 Buzzlegums. Make sure the S'morepion block on your Tower of Sour is switched off while you tame it.

Make sure each one is resident, not just visiting. Camello, Vulchurro and the evolved Desert species are all much later.

Make any three Piñarctic species resident in your main garden:

• Robean: bait with a holly berry (Home trap). Resident: 1% snow.
• Pengum (appears from about level 2): bait with a chilli, ideally in a Business trap. Resident: 5 square pinometers of snow and 5 of water, and it must eat a Newtgat (Newtgats appear once you have a small pond of water).
• Flapyak (appears from about level 15) or the Sour Lemmoning (see Filling the Wild Gardens) for the third.

To tame a sour, switch off its Tower of Sour block, let the sour into your garden, let it cause its trouble, then meet the sour resident requirements shown in its encyclopedia entry.

Teach one piñata both of its tricks with the Trick Stick. The achievement unlocks when the second trick is learned.

Teach 10 different piñatas both of their tricks. Only three of Langston's orders need both tricks (the India Orange Flutterscotch, the Kenya Green Chippopotamus and the South Pole Purple Walrusk), so you need at least seven more piñatas trained separately. Don't use the piñatas you're preparing for "knowing one trick" orders for this; give those exactly one trick.

Buy the Long Grass packet from Costolot's for 1,125 coins, stocked at about level 9 to 13. Once you have unpacked one trapped Desert piñata (Sand) and one trapped Piñarctic piñata (Snow) in your main garden, your surface packet holds short grass, long grass, sand and snow, which are the only four surface types. The achievement unlocks as soon as the packet contains all four.

Buy the Woo Woo Train from Costolot's for 275 coins, available from about level 11, and place it in the garden.

Feed a Doenut a fir tree seed (Costolot's, about level 16). The Moojoo also counts toward Master Arctic Collector.

Feed a Pretztail a bone, sold at Costolot's from about level 13 for 500 coins.

Feed a Rashberry a cheesecake. Making one takes two trips to Bart's Exchange (open from about level 7 to 9): tinker a bottle of milk (Costolot's, about level 11) into cheese, then tinker the cheese into cheesecake. Use gold tickets so each tinker is guaranteed.

Dress any piñata in a full costume. The cheapest, earliest set is Conga's Top Hat, Toff Monocle and Secret Agent Bowtie, which is affordable from around level 12, and it is also part of the Pengum's romance requirements. Other valid sets are Conkerific Helmet, Gas Mask and Combat Boots; Yee-haw Hat, Yee-haw Boots and Sheriff's Badge; and Tussle Tricorn, Blackeye Patch and Bling Earrings. The achievement unlocks the moment the third piece goes on.

Restore 10 of Piñata Central's computer records. This happens naturally within your first couple of countries.

The Flapyak starts appearing in the Piñarctic from about level 15 and takes an orange as bait (orange trees are stocked at Costolot's from about level 21; Seedos may give a seed earlier). To make it resident it needs snow in your garden (at least 10 square pinometers; meet whatever its encyclopedia entry shows), 4 fir cones and a figgy pudding (have Bart tinker a holly berry).

Willy Builder only sells the Milking Shed (616 coins) once a Moozipan lives in your garden, and the Moozipan appears after you place a Milk Churn (Costolot's, about level 24). Once the shed is built, feed the Flapyak a Joy Sweet so its candiosity is full, then direct it into the shed to collect its milk.

Grow each Desert plant to maturity in your main garden: yam (seeds from about level 3), orange tree (about level 21), prickly pear (about level 25) and cactus (about level 31). Seedos may hand out seeds earlier. Use orange fertiliser on the yam and orange tree and green fertiliser on the cactus. The prickly pear is a weed and takes no fertiliser. Check Journal, Player Awards for each plant's award, and don't wait around afterwards: a mature cactus wilts and dies about six days after maturing.

Grow each Arctic plant to maturity in your main garden: holly bush (seeds from about level 4), radish and snowdrop (about level 5), and fireweed (about level 13, or from the seeds sours drop). Radish only grows in snow. Use red fertiliser on the holly and radish and blue fertiliser on the snowdrop. Fireweed is a weed, takes no fertiliser, and shoots fireballs that can make nearby piñatas ill, so keep it away from valuable residents. Check Journal, Player Awards for each plant.

Region 1 covers four countries. The achievement unlocks after the last of their 20 orders is delivered, which realistically lands around level 24 because of the Spain Moozipan.

France:

• Sparrowmint, Pretztail, Lickatoad, Shellybean and Cluckles, all plain. These are early species you'll already have.

Netherlands:

• Blue Bispotti: feed a bluebell seed.
• Robean: trap one in the Piñarctic (holly berry bait) and make it resident in your main garden.
• Newtgat: plain; appears once you have a small pond.
• Lackatoad: feed a Lickatoad a nightshade berry, then tap it with the shovel before it gets ill.
• Crowla: plain. Tame the sour Crowla first (see Taming the Sours).

United Kingdom:

• Orange Bunnycomb: feed it a grown pumpkin.
• Squazzil wearing a Red Nose.
• Blue Fudgehog: feed a bluebell seed.
• Badgesicle: it visits once you have three Geckies, and becomes resident after eating a Geckie and 2 blackberries.
• Green Barkbark: feed a poison ivy flower head. The Barkbark appears once a Kittyfloss is resident (Kittyfloss come at night when two Mousemallows live in the garden), is unblocked by 5 Buzzlegums, and becomes resident after eating jelly and 2 bones.

Spain:

• Blue Candary: evolve a Sparrowmint by feeding it a dandelion flower, then feed the Candary a bluebell flower.
• Green Flutterscotch: feed a White Flutterscotch watercress.
• Buzzenge wearing Flamenco Shoes. The Buzzenge appears once a Candary lives in the garden and becomes resident after eating 2 Candaries and a Sparrowmint.
• Ponocky wearing a Bonnet (about level 13).
• Yellow Moozipan: feed a banana tree seed. The Moozipan needs a Milk Churn (about level 24) and becomes resident after eating 5 buttercups and 2 gooseberry fools.

Restore 30 computer records. This unlocks partway through your second or third region if you keep delivering orders.

Region 2 has five countries and realistically finishes around level 34, gated by Russia's accessories.

Transylvania:

• Mousemallow: appears with a turnip in the garden.
• Syrupent: a plain, uncoloured main-garden Syrupent. A Syrupent trapped in the Desert is rejected.
• Mothdrop: comes at night to a light.
• Sherbat: plain.
• Arocknid: pay Willy Builder 1,000 coins to knock down the wall blocking it; resident after eating 2 Raisants or Tafflies.

Germany:

• Tartridge, plain.
• Buzzlegum: appears with a sunflower.
• Blue Raisant: feed a blackberry.
• Badgesicle (as in the United Kingdom).
• Rashberry: appears with a gooseberry bush and a growing chilli.

Italy (around level 27):

• Red Lickatoad wearing a Harlequin Mask: feed an apple.
• White Ponocky: feed a piece of bread.
• Green Pudgeon: feed a gooseberry seed. The Pudgeon is unblocked by 5 Profitamoles.
• Pink Swanana: feed a bottle of medicine (tinkered honey). The Swanana appears from about level 27; pay a Weedling to clear the poison plants blocking it. It visits once you have a swan fountain and a garden worth 20,000, and becomes resident with 25% water after eating 2 sandwiches.
• Red Horstachio: feed a chilli seed.

Turkey (around level 32):

• Purple Flutterscotch: feed a White Flutterscotch a thistle.
• Purple Custacean: feed blackberry jam (tinkered blackberry).
• S'morepion wearing a Howdy Pardner Hat (about level 22). Use your tamed S'morepion.
• Blue Reddhott: set a Taffly alight (a firebrand, or next to fireweed), douse it with the watering can to make a Reddhott, then feed a bluebell seed.
• Mallowolf: plain, after taming the sour Mallowolf.

Russia (around level 34):

• Green Lemmoning wearing a Weather-Girl Wig and Bling Teeth (about level 32), knowing one trick: feed a pea pod; Trick 1 is a thistle seed.
• Blue Crowla: feed a bluebell seed.
• Yellow Moojoo wearing a Squazzil Hat: feed a buttercup after evolving it.
• Pink Mallowolf wearing a Pendant Necklace (about level 34): feed a water lily seed.
• Orange Fizzlybear wearing a Conkerific Helmet and Combat Boots (both about level 29): feed a carrot. The Fizzlybear appears once you have a honey hive, a Buzzlegum house and 3 Buzzlegums, is unblocked by 5 Sweetooths gnawing through a fallen tree, visits with 4 prickly pears and 3 jars of honey in the garden, and becomes resident after eating 2 Raisants, 2 honey and 2 prickly pears.

Win 10 races in total. Keep using a Whirlm in the top lane, and keep it at full candiosity.

Win 10 shows in total. Enter your best-dressed, trick-trained piñatas and choose judges whose preferences they match. Losses don't reset anything, so just keep entering.

Feed a Cluckles two cactus seeds (Costolot's, about level 31). If two isn't enough, keep feeding cactus seeds until it evolves.

Feed a Fudgehog a coconut (Costolot's, about level 37, 450 coins).

Feed a Fizzlybear a blue gem. Blue gems come from Costolot's (about level 37, 360 coins) or a gem tree, and possibly from the mine. Set up the Fizzlybear as described under Russia: honey hive, Buzzlegum house and 3 Buzzlegums to make it appear, 5 Sweetooths to unblock it. Make it resident before you feed it the gem, to be safe.

Make every Desert species resident: Camello, Chocstrich, Geckie, Pieena, S'morepion (the tamed sour), Sweetle and Vulchurro. They don't have to be resident at the same time. This realistically completes around level 37.

• Camello (appears from about level 15): yam bait, Ultimate trap. Resident: 20% sand, 2 cups of coffee (have Bart tinker acorns; acorns are sold at Costolot's from about level 37) and 3 cactus flowers.
• Chocstrich (wild): yam bait. Resident: 2% sand and 3 cactus seeds eaten.
• Pieena (wild): orange bait. Resident: has eaten a bone; keep at least 2 square pinometers of sand.
• Vulchurro (appears from about level 12): chilli bait. Resident: 15% sand, 2 bones, and it must eat a Crowla. Your first Crowla comes from taming the sour Crowla, and the Vulchurro eats it, so have a spare.
• Geckie, Sweetle and the S'morepion as in Desert Collector.

If the achievement still doesn't unlock, tame a second sour S'morepion that wanders into your main garden as well as the one trapped in the Desert.

Make every Piñarctic species resident: Flapyak, Jeli, Lemmoning (the tamed sour), Moojoo, Pengum, Polollybear and Robean. This realistically completes around level 41.

• Jeli (appears from about level 31): holly berry bait, Ultimate trap. Resident: 40% snow, plus 3 banana splits (tinkered bananas) and 2 orchid seeds. Orchid seeds are stocked at Costolot's from about level 41 unless Seedos gives you some earlier.
• Moojoo (wild): holly berry bait, Business trap. Resident: 20 square pinometers of snow and 2 fir cones (check the encyclopedia entry).
• Polollybear (wild): snowdrop bait. Resident: 20% snow and 3 blue gems eaten.
• Flapyak, Pengum, Robean and the Lemmoning as covered earlier.

A resident Polollybear scares Pengums away, but you only need each species resident once.

The achievement unlocks once you own a Choclodocus. Which stage triggers it is not confirmed, so check after it hatches and, if it hasn't unlocked, raise it all the way to an adult. Dinokeeper is CURRENTLY COMMUNITY-FLAGGED / BUGGY (October 2026); if it still hasn't unlocked with an adult Choclodocus in your garden, give it a few minutes and reload the garden. No guaranteed fix is known.

The Choclodocus also scares away Pester and sours, and you need to send the adult to a party later for Expert Records Keeper.

Earn a Gold Combat Medal by winning fights. Medals come at 2 wins (bronze), 7 (silver) and 17 (gold). The community method uses a normal Roario and a normal Barkbark fenced together. Putting a Halo of Hardness on both (Paper Pets, about level 40) helps the loser recover. Anger one of them by poking it with the shovel to start a fight. Don't direct the Roario at the Barkbark, because it may eat it. Top them up with Joy Sweets between bouts. Wildcards will not fight, so use normal piñatas.

The Roario appears from about level 38. It visits once you have 5 Doenuts and 5 Zumbugs in the garden and a garden worth 40,000, and becomes resident after eating 2 Doenuts and 2 Zumbugs with a garden worth 50,000. Kenya asks for a Blue Roario wearing a Gold Combat Medal, so turn this Roario blue with a bluebell seed and use it for both. Colour changes don't remove the medal.

Region 5 has three countries and finishes around level 38, or 40 if you buy halos for the medal.

Egypt (finish it before India):

• Orange Sweetle wearing a School Cap, knowing one trick: feed marmalade (tinkered orange); Trick 1 is an apple seed.
• Purple Pieena wearing a Firefighter's Hat: feed a blackberry.
• Buzzenge wearing Flying Goggles and a Von Ghoul Helmet.
• Red Cinnamonkey wearing a Mr Pants Hat: feed a chilli. The Cinnamonkey appears with a monkeynut tree.
• Camello wearing Conga's Top Hat and Toff Monocle. The Camello's coffee needs acorns from about level 37 (see Master Desert Collector).

Congo (around level 37):

• Pink Geckie wearing a Retro Disco Wig and Disco Shades, knowing one trick: feed a cactus; Trick 1 is eating a Raisant.
• Yellow Raisant wearing a Sweaty Wrist Band and Thunder Cut, knowing one trick: feed a sunflower; Trick 1 is a buttercup flower.
• Orange Jameleon wearing a Beanie Cap and Diamond Choker: feed carrot cake. The Jameleon appears once three differently coloured Flutterscotches live in the garden.
• Parrybo wearing a Pillager's Helmet and Bushy Mustache. The Parrybo appears with a bird of paradise plant and is unblocked by two Mallowolves.
• White Sarsgorilla: feed a bone. It appears once a Bonboon is resident, and visits with 20% long grass, 3 monkeynut trees and a baby Bonboon in the garden.

Kenya (around level 38):

• Blue Chocstrich, knowing one trick: feed a blueberry muffin; Trick 1 is a cactus seed.
• Pink Zumbug wearing a Mermaid Necklace and Mermaid's Earrings, knowing one trick: feed a water lily seed; Trick 1 is a daisy.
• Green Chippopotamus wearing a Grunty Hat, knowing both tricks: feed a mushroom; the tricks are a watercress seed and a bullrush seed. It appears at 40% water.
• Yellow Limeoceros: feed a wedge of cheese. Tame the sour Limeoceros first.
• Blue Roario wearing a Gold Combat Medal (see Come And Have A Go).

Completing Kenya unlocks the Spectral Locomotive at Costolot's for 1,100 coins. Buy it and place it in the garden.

Region 3 can't finish until Turkey, Hawaii and Egypt are done, because India needs their reward accessories. It lands around level 37. Turkey's orders are under Region 2 Challenger and Hawaii's under Region 4 Challenger.

China:

• Whirlm, Taffly, Geckie, Tartridge and Newtgat, all plain. Use a main-garden resident Geckie.

Japan (around level 28):

• Mousemallow, plain.
• White Sweetle: feed a snowdrop flower.
• Fudgehog, plain.
• Kittyfloss: comes at night when two Mousemallows live in the garden.
• Macaraccoon: plain, after taming the sour Macaraccoon.

Korea (around level 37):

• Blue Cluckles wearing a Non-Resident Scarf: feed a bluebell seed.
• Yellow Barkbark: feed a banana split.
• Black Hoghurt wearing a Tiara (Tiara of Tranquility, about level 33): feed a tulip.
• Pink Hootyfruity wearing Kazooie Talons: feed a water lily seed. It appears once you have a Mousemallow house and a Sherbat house.
• White Bonboon: feed an orchid flower. It appears once the sour Bonboon is tamed.

India:

• Orange Flutterscotch wearing a Breegull Carrier and Daisy Hair Flower, knowing both tricks: feed a White Flutterscotch a bird of paradise flower head first, then teach the tricks with a snowdrop seed and a bluebell seed. Use seeds, not flowers, and teach the tricks after the colour change, because a White Flutterscotch forgets its tricks when it changes colour.
• Orange Quackberry wearing a Hula Necklace and Beaded Wig, knowing one trick: feed a bird of paradise seed; Trick 1 is a sandwich. Don't let it eat a gooseberry, which turns it into a Juicygoose.
• White Peckanmix wearing Turkish Slippers and a Diamond Necklace (about level 36), knowing one trick: feed wool; Trick 1 is a blueberry. The Peckanmix appears once a Swanana is resident.
• Red Elephanilla wearing a Comedian's Nose (about level 37) and a Fez: feed a poppy seed. It appears with a banana tree, growing chilli and palm tree, and is unblocked by 5 Salamangos.
• Yellow Tigermisu wearing King Tut's Hat and Cleopatra's Necklace: feed a banana split. It appears with 8 tiger lilies.

Australia (around level 38 or later):

• Orange Arocknid wearing Extreme Sports Goggles, knowing one trick: feed a Jack-o'-lantern; Trick 1 is eating a Bispotti.
• White S'morepion wearing Comedian's Choice and a Red Nose, knowing one trick: feed a bottle of milk; Trick 1 is hemlock.
• Black Goobaa wearing a Mr Pants Hat and Funky Tie: feed a tulip seed. The Goobaa is unblocked by 3 Candaries waking the sleeping Chippopotamus in its way.
• Pink Cocoadile wearing Headphones and Cool Shades: feed a water lily seed.
• Galagoogoo wearing a Sweaty Wrist Band: the Galagoogoo only appears once your Tower of Sour has all 12 blocks, meaning every sour has been tamed. It becomes resident after eating 4 tulips and 2 Mothdrops with a Watchling in the garden. Don't feed it sunflowers, bread or poison ivy.

Region 4 finishes around level 41, gated by the USA order's Yee-haw Hat.

Canada:

• Blue Pretztail: feed a bluebell.
• Green Squazzil: feed a watercress seed.
• Profitamole wearing a Beaded Wig, after taming the sour Profitamole.
• Yellow Sweetooth: feed a sunflower. It appears with 10% water and a fir tree.
• Yellow Moojoo wearing a Stethoscope: feed a buttercup after evolving it.

Hawaii (around level 29; finish it before India):

• Purple Custacean: feed blackberry jam.
• Yellow Cherrapin: feed a jar of honey.
• Green Salamango: evolve a Newtgat with a chilli, then feed the Salamango a gooseberry.
• Cocoadile: plain, after taming the sour Cocoadile.
• Pink Fourheads: romance two Twingersnaps and hit the egg with the shovel on its third big bounce, then feed a bottle of medicine.

Peru (around level 35 to 37):

• Orange Twingersnap wearing a Knight Helmet: feed a Venus piñata trap. Get the Twingersnap by romancing two Syrupents and hitting the egg with the shovel on its third big bounce.
• White Parmadillo wearing a Dellmonty, knowing one trick: feed hemlock; Trick 1 is a palm seed.
• Dragumfly wearing a Daisy Hair Flower and Robber's Mask. It appears from about level 26, is unblocked by 5 Reddhotts, and becomes resident with 20% water and 12 bullrushes after winning a fight against a Reddhott.
• Purple Cinnamonkey wearing a Diggerling Helmet Mk1: feed a blackberry seed.
• Parrybo wearing a Bling Nose-Ring and Bling Earrings (about level 35).

USA (around level 41):

• Green Doenut wearing a Football Helmet and Sweaty Wrist Band, knowing one trick: feed an oak tree seed; Trick 1 is a blackberry.
• Blue Vulchurro wearing Reading Glasses and a Cook Hat, knowing one trick: feed a bluebell seed; Trick 1 is a cactus flower. The order text says chef hat; use the Cook Hat, and if the order is rejected, try the Soupswill Chef Hat instead.
• Blue Smelba wearing a Blackeye Patch (about level 37): feed a fireweed flower head. Tame the sour Smelba first.
• Pigxie wearing a Retro Disco Wig, Cool Shades and Handlebar Mustache. Cross-romance a Rashberry and a Swanana in a Mystery House from Willy Builder.
• Eaglair wearing a Yee-haw Hat (about level 41), Yee-Haw Spurs and Sheriff Badge. The Spurs come from the credits; the Sheriff Badge is sold at Paper Pets, though its level isn't documented, so check after level 41. Don't add Yee-haw Boots. The Eaglair appears with a fully grown oak tree, is unblocked by 5 Elephanillas, and becomes resident after eating 2 Parrybos and 2 Cinnamonkeys with 10 different species resident.

South Pole (around level 43):

• Purple Pengum wearing Ortho's Spare Hat and Geek Glasses, knowing one trick: feed a turnip; Trick 1 is a snowdrop flower.
• Green Juicygoose wearing a Doenut Stalker and Dastardos Scarf, knowing one trick: feed an oak tree seed; Trick 1 is a gooseberry. Make the Juicygoose in your main garden by feeding a Quackberry a gooseberry; a Juicygoose trapped in the Piñarctic is a different variety.
• Purple Walrusk wearing a Tussle Tricorn and Jiggy Earrings, knowing both tricks: feed a snapdragon flower; the tricks are a bullrush seed and a watercress seed. It appears with 10% snow and 10% water.
• Yellow Polollybear wearing Star Earrings (about level 42) and a Thunder Cut: feed a dandelion after evolving it.
• Jeli wearing a Fake Winner's Rosette and a Crown (about level 43).

This unlocks when the last challenge in all seven regions is delivered, normally together with your final regional achievement. If a region achievement doesn't unlock when you expect, check Langston's map for any country not shown as finished, open each country to confirm no order is left, and give the achievement a few minutes to appear.

Every non-sour species has a computer record, and each Flutterscotch colour counts as its own species, which comes to around 97 records. Tamed sours are covered by their normal species. Langston's 110 orders restore most of them. The rest are these 11 species, which no challenge asks for. Send each one to a party with no challenge selected, at full candiosity, by packing it into the party crate:

• Choclodocus (the adult): see Building the Choclodocus.
• Flapyak: see Yakity Yak.
• Chewnicorn: it appears once you have the Horstachio Master Romancer award, visits once a Gem Tree is planted in your garden (Gem Tree seeds are stocked at Costolot's from about level 37), and becomes resident after eating 9 gems with a fully grown Gem Tree in the garden. It can take a while to show up even with the requirements met.
• Dragonache: once your Mine is running, a Diggerling can dig up a Dragonache egg. Have a Cluckles hatch it, then feed the baby a bottle of milk, a snapdragon flower, a Dragumfly, a Reddhott and a Salamango to grow it into an adult. Reports conflict on whether the game lets you pack a Dragonache for a party; try it, and use the Journal to confirm whether its record has been restored.
• White Flutterscotch: it appears with a daisy in your garden, visits with 2 daisies, and becomes resident with 4.
• Red, Blue, Pink, Black, Brown and Yellow Flutterscotch: feed a White Flutterscotch a poppy (Red), bluebell (Blue), water lily (Pink), tulip (Black), bullrush (Brown) or buttercup (Yellow). Each feeding changes that one Flutterscotch for good, so keep a White one back to send and to make the other colours. Romancing two coloured Flutterscotches always gives a White baby. Green (watercress), Purple (thistle) and Orange (bird of paradise) are already covered by Langston's orders.

The Journal only lists records for species you've come across, so a Flutterscotch colour you've never made won't stand out as missing. Tick off all 11 species above yourself, then check the Journal's computer records for any other species without a record and send those too.

The achievement unlocks when the last record is restored, usually alongside your last regional achievement. Expert Records Keeper is CURRENTLY COMMUNITY-FLAGGED / BUGGY (October 2026). Before assuming it is bugged, confirm that every Langston country is finished and all 11 species above have been sent. No guaranteed fix is known.

Play in an online co-op session with four players in the same garden for an hour in total. A local second controller doesn't count here; that's One Box co-op, which is a separate achievement. Keep every controller awake. The host can leave their cursor sitting in a menu so nothing happens in the garden. Use friend invites rather than the in-game game browser, which is reported to show sessions that no longer exist.

Find a player who owns a famous piñata. Join them online and have them unpack the famous piñata from a crate while you are both in the same garden. Community groups for this game still arrange this in 2026.