The Mimic Octopus is a Mythical pet in Grow a Garden, and one of the hardest pets in the game to hatch: it is 1% of the Paradise Egg, and the Paradise Egg costs 50,000,000 Sheckles from a merchant who is only around seasonally.
Quick answer: buy a Paradise Egg and hatch it. The egg costs 50,000,000 Sheckles from the Summer Traveling Merchant, takes 6 hours 40 minutes to hatch, and gives the Mimic Octopus on 1 hatch in 100. It is a Mythical pet that sells for 10,000,000 Sheckles and its ability, Mimicry, copies an ability from another pet and performs it.
How to get the Mimic Octopus
There is one egg that hatches it and one merchant who sells that egg.
Paradise Egg odds: what hatches from it
The Paradise Egg holds five pets, and the Mimic Octopus is the rarest of them by a distance: every other pet in the egg is Legendary, and it is the only Mythical. These are the hatched odds for one egg:
| Pet | Chance per hatch | Rarity | Sells for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ostrich | 40% | Legendary | 4,400,000 Sheckles |
| Peacock | 30% | Legendary | 3,300,000 Sheckles |
| Capybara | 21% | Legendary | 3,300,000 Sheckles |
| Scarlet Macaw | 8% | Legendary | 3,300,000 Sheckles |
| Mimic Octopus | 1% | Mythical | 10,000,000 Sheckles |
At 1% you are looking at 100 eggs on average for one Mimic Octopus, and at 50,000,000 Sheckles an egg that is 5,000,000,000 Sheckles of eggs for the average player. Spare a thought for the alternative: the same pet also sits in the Fake Egg pool of 520 pets at 0.198% each, which is not a farming route for anything.
Other places the Paradise Egg turns up
The merchant is not the only way to hold a Paradise Egg, and both of the others are outside your control as a buyer:
- The Infinite Pack. The Paradise Egg is one of the eggs on the pack’s paid reward track. It is a low-weight roll: the Gem Egg and the Bug Egg both carry three times its weight, and the Night Egg and Zen Egg carry a tenth of it.
- Event reward lists. Paradise Eggs have been handed out inside event reward tracks before, so a returning summer or seasonal event is worth watching for one.
What Mimicry does
The pet’s card carries its own description, and it is short:
Mimicry: Mimics and copies an ability from another pet and performs its ability
Grow a Garden, Mimic Octopus pet card
The passive’s full line adds the timer: “Every 20:12, mimics and copies an ability from another pet and performs its ability!” A freshly hatched Mimic Octopus therefore borrows another pet’s ability roughly every twenty minutes, and the wait shrinks as the pet levels up: 12 seconds come off the cooldown per level, down to a floor of 15 seconds. A maxed Mimic Octopus is firing a copied ability several times a minute, which is what makes it a chase pet rather than a novelty.
What the card does not say is which pet it copies from, or whether it picks the strongest ability on your team. What it does promise is that the ability is performed, not just displayed, so the Mimic Octopus is worth pairing with whatever pet has the ability you would most like to have twice.
Mimic Octopus: the numbers
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Rarity | Mythical |
| Hatch source | Paradise Egg, 1% |
| Egg price | 50,000,000 Sheckles (Summer Traveling Merchant) |
| Hatch time | 6 hours 40 minutes |
| Ability | Mimicry, copies another pet’s ability |
| Ability cooldown | 20:12 at 1, minus 12 seconds per level, floor 0:15 |
| Sell price | 10,000,000 Sheckles |
| Movement | Grounded |
| Hunger | 25,000 |
Is the Mimic Octopus worth it?
It sells for 10,000,000 Sheckles on its own, which is a fifth of the egg that hatched it, so a lucky hatch is not a loss even if you never equip it. The reason to keep it instead of selling it is the ability: a second copy of another pet’s ability, on a cooldown that shortens with every level, compounds whatever your best pet already does. The reason not to chase it is the price of the eggs: at 1% and 50,000,000 Sheckles a go, the Mimic Octopus is a trading-market pet for most players, not a hatching project.
Mimic Octopus FAQ
Can you get a Mimic Octopus without the Summer Traveling Merchant? Yes, two other ways: the Paradise Egg can be a reward from the Infinite Pack, and the Mimic Octopus sits in the Fake Egg pool at 0.198%. Neither one is something you can farm on demand.
How many Paradise Eggs for a Mimic Octopus? 100 on average at 1%. There is no pity system on the egg, so a run of 200 Ostrich and Peacock hatches is a normal outcome rather than bad luck.
Does the Mimic Octopus keep the ability after the other pet leaves your team? The card does not say, and the copied ability is performed as part of the Mimicry tick rather than learned permanently, so treat it as an ability the Mimic Octopus uses, not an ability it gives away.
Is the Mimic Octopus a Huge pet? No. The egg’s pets all carry the standard huge chance of 0.1%, so a Huge Mimic Octopus is a separate one-in-a-thousand roll on top of the 1% hatch. For another pet that comes out of a single egg, see how to get the Skunk from the Autumn Egg, and for a seed that costs more than most pets, the Ember Lily.