Grow a Garden – Red Squirrel and Sugar Glider Pets

The Grow A Garden Fall Market Event has just begun, and while players are busy contributing to the Fall Bloom Tree and collecting the first wave of new companions, the excitement is already building for what’s still to come. Datamined information and early wiki entries have revealed at least two more incredible pets that are set to arrive during the event: the supportive Red Squirrel and the game-changing Mythical Sugar Glider.

While information is still limited and subject to change, we can already see the massive potential these two creatures will bring to the game. This guide will break down everything we know so far about these unreleased pets. We’ll analyze their powerful abilities, speculate on their immense strategic impact, and theory-craft how they could create entirely new gameplay metas for dedicated garden-tenders.

The Red Squirrel: The Cornerstone of a New “Squirrel Meta” 🐿️

The first unreleased pet on our radar is the Red Squirrel. While its rarity and obtainment method are still unknown, its unique ability suggests that it will be an essential component for a brand-new type of team composition.

What We Know So Far

• Status: Unreleased, coming in the Fall Market Event.
• Ability Name: Squirrel Support
• Ability Effect: “When Squirrel type pets finish their abilities, they will start next cooldown with less.”

Analysis: The Rise of the “Squirrel Meta”

The most important takeaway from the Red Squirrel’s ability is the introduction of a new “pet tribe” synergy: Squirrel type pets. This single line of text implies that a whole new category of pets is being established, and the Red Squirrel will be the key to unlocking their full potential. We can already identify several other pets from this event that would likely fall under this category, including the Chipmunk and the Divine-tier Space Squirrel.

The strategic implication here is massive. The Red Squirrel’s “Squirrel Support” passive works by reducing the cooldown of its squirrel brethren after they use their own abilities. This creates the potential for a powerful symbiotic team. Imagine a full team of high-level Red Squirrels working in tandem with a single, powerful “carry” pet like the Space Squirrel.

The Space Squirrel has the incredible ability to apply the rare and valuable Void Touched mutation, but it is limited by its cooldown. With a team of Red Squirrels supporting it, its cooldown could be drastically reduced, allowing it to apply Void Touched to your crops at a dramatically accelerated rate. This could lead to a new dominant strategy, the “Squirrel Meta,” where teams are built specifically around this cooldown-reducing synergy.

Strategic Potential and Speculation

The true power of the Red Squirrel will depend on the specifics that are yet to be revealed. The key question is how the cooldown reduction scales. If the effect from multiple Red Squirrels can stack, the results could be game-breaking. Does the reduction scale with the pet’s weight or age? If so, a team of Huge or the new Giant Red Squirrels could potentially reduce another squirrel’s cooldown to almost zero, leading to a near-permanent uptime on some of the event’s most powerful abilities.

Even as a pet of unknown rarity, the Red Squirrel’s supportive potential makes it one of the most anticipated additions of this event. It is a must-have for any player looking to maximize the efficiency of their other new Fall Event companions.

The Sugar Glider: A Mutation-Spreading Master

The second unreleased pet is the Sugar Glider, a confirmed Mythical-tier pet that will be available from the Fall Pet Shop. Its ability, “Sugar Gliding,” appears to be a massive evolution of the mutation-spreading mechanics we’ve seen in the past, and it has the potential to become one of the most valuable pets in the entire game for dedicated fruit breeders.

What We Know So Far

• Status: Unreleased, coming in the Fall Market Event.
• Rarity: Mythical.
• Obtainment Method: Will be sold in the Fall Pet Shop.
• Ability Name: Sugar Gliding
• Ability Effect: “Occasionally glides from random different fruits. Takes 1 mutation from each fruit and applies it to the next.”

Analysis: Revolutionizing Mutation Farming

The Sugar Glider’s ability represents a potential paradigm shift for mutation farming. While other pets, like the T-Rex, can copy a mutation from one fruit to another, the Sugar Glider’s ability implies a chain reaction. It “takes 1 mutation from each fruit and applies it to the next.”

This suggests a multi-stage process where it could, for example, take a mutation from Fruit A and apply it to Fruit B, then take a different mutation from Fruit B and apply it to Fruit C, all in a single activation.

This would be an incredibly powerful and efficient way to combine and spread valuable mutations across your entire garden. Imagine you have a fruit with the ultra-rare Glimmering mutation and another with the event-exclusive Void Touched mutation.

The Sugar Glider could potentially take Glimmering from the first fruit, apply it to the second, and then take Void Touched from that same fruit and apply it to a third, creating perfect multi-mutation fruits with unparalleled speed. This would save players countless hours of breeding and relying on luck from other mutation-applying pets.

Unanswered Questions and Strategic Impact

The ultimate power of the Sugar Glider hinges on a few key details that are still unknown.

• How many fruits does it hit? The ability could hit two, three, or even more fruits in its chain. The longer the chain, the more powerful the pet.
• Does it “take” or “copy”? The current wording says it “takes” a mutation, which is ambiguous. If it moves the mutation (removing it from the source fruit), its utility would be very different than if it simply copies it (leaving the source fruit unchanged). The latter is far more powerful and likely the intended mechanic.
• What is its cooldown? As a Mythical pet, it will likely have a significant cooldown, but if that cooldown can be reduced by toys or other pets, the Sugar Glider could become the centerpiece of every high-level player’s farm.

Regardless of these unknowns, the Sugar Glider is poised to become an essential tool for any player serious about creating perfect, multi-mutation fruits. Keep an eye out for its official release in the Fall Pet Shop—it’s sure to be a game-changer.

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