The Skunk arrived in Grow a Garden with the Fall Market update on September 26, 2026, as part of the second half of the Fall Market event. It is a pet you earn through seasonal play rather than buy, and it comes with a passive that briefly boosts either a player or a plant. To add one to your garden, you need the Autumn Egg and a bit of patience.
Quick answer: Obtain an Autumn Egg during the Fall Market Part 2 event, set it down in your garden, then let it incubate for four hours. The hatch produces a Skunk 35% of the time.
Skunk pet stats in Grow a Garden
The Skunk is a Mythical-tier pet with a black body and two parallel white stripes down its back. It only comes from the Autumn Egg, and its single passive activates on its own once the pet is equipped.
| Attribute | Detail |
|---|---|
| Rarity | Mythical |
| Source | Autumn Egg |
| Hatch chance | 35% |
| Hunger | 15,000 |
| Date added | September 26, 2026 |
How to get an Autumn Egg
The Autumn Egg is tied to Fall Market Part 2, so it is only available while that event is running. Make sure you are chasing the Autumn Egg and not the older Fall Egg, since the two eggs draw from separate pet pools.
Your primary option is Fall Activities. At the Fall Harvest stall, across from the Fall Tree, talk to the vendor and select See Activities to check your active tasks. Finish tasks to earn Fall Energy; reaching certain energy tiers on the reward track may grant Autumn Eggs.
- 250 Fall Energy — Mythical reward tier
- 350 Fall Energy — Divine reward tier
- 500 Fall Energy — Prismatic reward tier
Each of these tiers can include an Autumn Egg as a possible reward. Treat them as a chance rather than a guaranteed egg at every milestone, and use the live rewards panel to confirm what a tier gives before you claim it.
Fall Activities pull from a wide mix of everyday tasks and event actions. Typical entries include harvesting or planting specific crops, watering plants, feeding pets, submitting fruit to the Harvest Spirit, and placing sprinklers or a Bonfire.
- Harvest 20 Corn, 25 Apples, or a Pumpkin
- Plant Turnips, Parsley, or a Meyer Lemon
- Grow a Salmon or Chipmunk to age 10
- Trigger a Fall Bloom or hatch a Fall Egg
- Open an Autumn Seed Pack or Autumn Crate
- Use a Maple Leaf Charm or Maple Syrup
- Feed a pet three times, or feed a pet a Soup
Acorn Chaos route
Acorn Chaos gives you a second way to find Autumn Eggs without leaning entirely on the activity track. The event begins every 30 minutes and lasts five minutes, dropping five acorns around the map.
Equip a shovel, find a landed acorn, and hit it until it breaks open. Rewards come from a random pool, and Silver and Gold Acorns can hand out multiple Autumn Eggs. Because the drop is random, crack open every acorn you can reach inside the five-minute window.
Hatch the Autumn Egg for the Skunk
The Autumn Egg has four possible pets, and the Skunk is one 35% outcome among them. That chance applies to every egg independently, so a second egg is a fresh Skunk attempt rather than a change to one already hatching.
| Autumn Egg outcome | Chance |
|---|---|
| Skunk | 35% |
| Scarf Dog | Shared remainder |
| Llama | Shared remainder |
| Enfield | Shared remainder |
Stink Spray passive and how to use it
Stink Spray is the Skunk’s automatic passive ability. Once every 8 minutes and 20 seconds, it heads to a randomly chosen player or plant and sprays them. Affected players gain 35% movement speed for 20 seconds; sprayed plants receive an additional second of growth per second for 20 seconds.
You do not aim the ability or press a button. To make it trigger, equip the Skunk in an active garden pet slot. A Skunk sitting in your inventory does nothing.
Because the target is random, Stink Spray works best as an occasional bonus during normal farming rather than a way to speed up one specific crop on demand.
You will know everything worked when the four-hour timer finishes and a Skunk appears in your pet inventory, and once it is equipped, you will periodically see the spray effect land on a nearby player or plant. Keep it in an active slot while you work, and it will keep applying that short movement or growth boost on its own.
