Award

Awards are the main collectible in the Viva Piñata series. Awards are given to the player for completing specific milestones, most often related to raising piñatas and growing plants. Every award gives the player experience, which contributes toward raising the gardener level.

In Pocket Paradise, awards also contribute toward the completion percentage, a mechanic unique to this game. When in the default garden view, a score from 0-100% will be shown on the top screen, indicating how many of the game's total awards have been received.

Piñata Awards

Visit Award

This award is given after a new species of piñata visits the garden for the first time. Most evolved piñata do not have this award available.

Resident Award

This award is given once a species of piñata has become a resident of the garden for the first time. Obtaining this award allows Willy Builder to construct the species' home, along with Gretchen Fetchem being able to hunt the species.

Romancer Award

This award is given after a species of piñata has been romanced for the first time, and its romance dance cutscene has been viewed. Obtaining this award allows for that species to be romanced again with the use of a romance sweet. Sour piñatas, Dragonache, and Choclodocus cannot obtain this award or any of the following awards.

Master Romancer Award

Console games

This award is granted for having 7 members of a species in the garden simultaneously. This award has several uses, such as fulfilling the Sour Macaraccoon's resident requirements, attracting certain species to the garden by Master Romancing another species, or allowing players to block that species from spawning with the use of the Bouncer Board.

Despite the name, romancing is not required to obtain the Master Romancer award. The only requirement is that 7 of the same species are present in the garden simultaneously, and they can be obtained in any way-- caught in the Dessert Desert or Piñartic, hunted by Gretchen, bought from Petula, evolved or even transferred in from other gardens. In the case of VP1's domestic piñatas (those purchasable from Paper Pets) it is recommended to buy 7 all at once to immediately fulfill the Master Romancer award. For piñatas that evolve, it is likewise recommended to get 7 of the initial form, then evolve them all at once, so that the Master Romancer award for both species can be achieved quickly.

Unhatched eggs will not count towards the total, but baby piñatas will. If a house is destroyed (either by being sold or smashed) with an egg still on it, the egg will break without hatching. Piñatas at parties will not be counted toward the total until they return. Because of this, players must be careful to not lose any piñatas before the alert confirms the award has been obtained.

Pocket Paradise

Pocket Paradise's Master Romancer award works completely differently from the console versions. The only requirement for this award is that the species be romanced 3 times total, regardless of however many are in the garden simultaneously. If the award has not been obtained yet, the number of times the species has been romanced can be seen on the species' Journal page.

In this game, the Master Romancer award allows the player to request that Gretchen hunt up to 4 of the corresponding species at once.

Variant Awards

There are a total of 3 different variant awards to collect, corresponding to the 3 total variants the majority of species have. Finding a variant will give you the corresponding award, so finding all 3 variants is needed to obtain all the awards. All varieties of Flutterscotch cannot obtain variant awards.

In Pocket Paradise, each species has only one variant, and there is therefore only one corresponding variant award per species.

Party Awards

Appearing only in Trouble in Paradise, this award is not listed under the "Piñata Awards" section of the Journal and instead appears in its own "Computer Records" section. This type of award can be obtained for a given species by sending it to a party, and restores the species' record to Piñata Central's computer system.

Plant Awards

Growth Award

This award is obtained after successfully growing a plant to maturity for the first time.

Catalyst Award

There are 3 catalyst awards to collect for each species, each obtained after successfully fertilizing a plant. Fully fertilizing a plant will grant all 3 awards. Weeds cannot receive these awards.