Grow a Garden’s New Year update adds a small but very focused set of pets built around fireworks, cosmetics, and late‑game mutations. All six of them come from the limited‑time New Year’s Egg, and several are powerful enough to reshape how you build high‑value gardens.
New Year’s Egg pets and passives
The New Year’s Egg always hatches into one of six pets, covering the full rarity spectrum from Uncommon to Prismatic. Their passives line up with three broad use cases: celebration toys, passive item/cosmetic generation, and serious mutation engines.
| Pet | Rarity | Egg chance | Passive overview |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Year’s Bird | Uncommon | 31% | Periodically flies through your garden and fires off visual fireworks. Functionally a toy pet with no direct progression impact. |
| Firework Sprite | Rare | 25% | Regularly grants Firework items to the player instead of just displaying them, turning passive time into a steady stream of event consumables. |
| Celebration Puppy | Legendary | 20% | Occasionally digs up a random New Year’s themed cosmetic with a small chance each trigger, adding long‑term value for players who care about collection and garden aesthetics. |
| New Year’s Chimp | Mythical | 15% | Every few minutes grabs a fruit from your garden and delivers it to one of several possible “targets” for a random bonus effect, automating small bursts of utility without manual micro‑management. |
| Star Wolf | Divine | 8.75% | Occasionally consumes Moonlit‑mutated crops, then calls down shooting stars that apply the Celestial mutation to fruits. Acts as a passive upgrade path from Moonlit to Celestial. |
| New Year’s Dragon | Prismatic | 0.25% | Breathes fireworks onto a wide set of fruits to apply the Firework mutation, and later consumes Firework‑mutated fruit to create the Dragon’s Firework gear. |
There is also a Premium New Year’s Egg variant sold for Robux that uses the same pet table and adds a Rainbow Premium New Year’s Egg outcome. That Rainbow variant spawns a rainbow‑styled copy of the premium egg itself, effectively letting you chain into another roll.
How the stronger New Year pets change your garden
While the cosmetic and toy‑style pets are easy to understand, the higher‑rarity pets interact directly with Grow a Garden’s mutation systems and progression pacing.
Star Wolf is a mutation converter. It periodically targets fruits that already carry the Moonlit mutation, consumes those specific mutations, and then drops shooting stars onto your garden. Each star applies the Celestial mutation to different fruits. In practice, that turns any setup that can reliably generate Moonlit fruits into a slow, hands‑off Celestial factory. For players chasing long‑term mutation value or feeding Diamond Panthers, it becomes a background engine that upgrades your orchard while you focus elsewhere.
New Year’s Dragon plays a more active role and operates in two phases. First, every so often it breathes fireworks onto a large batch of fruits (20–26 in standard eggs, 24 in more detailed timing descriptions), giving them the Firework mutation in one sweep. Second, on a shorter timer, it eats through Firework‑mutated fruits in bulk to produce the Dragon’s Firework gear. That gear targets a pet or plant and applies a beneficial effect that depends on the target, making the Dragon one of the few pets that directly manufactures high‑impact gear from your harvest.
New Year’s Chimp is less explosive but adds flexible automation. It periodically takes a fruit from your garden and delivers it to one of several possible “destinations”, each producing a different random bonus. Because it ignores favored mechanics when selecting fruit, it can smooth out small rewards without interfering heavily with your main optimization, but the impact is more incremental than transformational.
Firework Sprite and Celebration Puppy are best seen as support. Firework Sprite turns idle time into a predictable supply of Fireworks, which pairs naturally with any event tasks that consume that item. Celebration Puppy works like an evergreen cosmetic hunt, regularly giving you chances at New Year ’s-themed cosmetics over the life of the event. For players who log in briefly but consistently, these two slowly fill out cosmetic collections with almost no attention required.
How to get New Year’s Eggs in Grow a Garden
The New Year’s Egg is strictly limited to the New Year event window. During that period there are several ways to acquire it, with very different costs.
Method 1: New Year’s Streak (free eggs)
The login streak is the only direct zero‑cost path to the egg, aside from trading with other players.
Step 1: Log in to Grow a Garden on consecutive days during the New Year event to build your daily streak. Missing a day breaks the streak and resets the reward track.
Step 2: From the main world, go to the New Year event hub and find the Paul NPC.
Step 3: Interact with Paul and choose the streak or login‑reward option to open the reward interface.
Step 4: On streak days that include a New Year’s Egg, select the reward and press the “Claim” button to move the egg into your inventory.
Maintaining the streak through the early milestones yields multiple eggs: one egg for a short streak, then progressively larger bundles on later days, up to a five‑egg reward on the longer milestone. All of these can roll any of the six pets, including Star Wolf and New Year’s Dragon.
Method 2: New Year’s Shop (Sheckles and restocks)
The event shop gives you another way to spend in‑game currency on more eggs, but it is gated by a rotating stock and a very high price.
Step 1: Visit the event hub again and talk to Paul, then choose the shop option to open the New Year’s Shop inventory.
Step 2: Check whether the New Year’s Egg is currently listed. It appears only occasionally in the rotation.
Step 3: If the egg is missing, spend Trade Tokens or Robux to restock the shop. A restock costs 79 Trade Tokens or the equivalent Robux and rerolls the shop inventory.
Step 4: Once the egg shows up, purchase it for 1 trillion Sheckles. Each purchase yields one New Year’s Egg.
This route is aimed at players sitting on late‑game currency reserves. The bottleneck tends to be restock resources and the sheer Sheckles cost, not the presence of the shop itself.
Method 3: Premium New Year’s Egg (Robux)
For players willing to spend Robux, the Premium New Year’s Egg offers a direct cash‑based path. Pricing varies slightly between in‑game listings and wiki documentation, but the structure is consistent: larger bundles are cheaper per egg.
From the in‑game shop on the left side of the screen, you can buy premium New Year’s Eggs in packs. Documented options include:
- Small bundles such as 1 Egg for 149–199 Robux.
- Medium bundles such as 3 Eggs for 429–575 Robux.
- Large bundles such as 10 Eggs for 1,249–1,699 Robux.
- Very large bundles such as 50 Eggs for 4,999 Robux.
The Premium New Year’s Egg uses the same core pet table as the regular New Year’s Egg, but is flagged as a Divine‑rarity egg and includes the 1% Rainbow Premium New Year’s Egg outcome. That extra result effectively gives you an additional roll in rainbow form.
Premium and regular New Year’s Eggs share the same headline pet chances: 31% for New Year’s Bird, 25% for Firework Sprite, 20% for Celebration Puppy, 15% for New Year’s Chimp, 8.75% for Star Wolf, and 0.25% for New Year’s Dragon.
Method 4: Trading with other players
New Year’s Eggs are tradeable, and trading can be a more efficient route than chasing the egg directly, especially if you specialize in other high‑value items.
Step 1: Enter the Trading World from the main game, which centralizes most high‑value trades.
Step 2: Advertise or search for offers specifically mentioning New Year’s Eggs or the pets themselves, such as Star Wolf or New Year’s Dragon.
Step 3: Negotiate trades using pets, seeds, or currency that fit current community values.
Because the New Year’s Dragon is especially rare, many players will trade for it directly rather than gamble eggs, but egg trading remains useful early in the event before the market fully settles.
Which New Year’s pets are worth chasing
Not every New Year’s pet has the same impact on progression, and knowing where to focus your limited eggs matters.
New Year’s Dragon sits at the top of the power curve. Its ability to mass‑apply Firework mutations and then burn those into Dragon’s Firework gear makes it both a mutation accelerator and a gear generator. The extremely low 0.25% hatch rate means that most players will see it only through a large number of eggs or via trading, but it justifies the effort in late‑game gardens built around high‑value fruit and mutation stacking.
Star Wolf is the more accessible powerhouse. With almost 35 times the hatch chance of New Year’s Dragon, it appears frequently enough to be realistic for free‑to‑play players while still offering a unique function: automated conversion from Moonlit to Celestial. Any farm that already uses Moonlit as a stepping stone mutation benefits from leaving Star Wolf equipped long‑term.
New Year’s Chimp and Firework Sprite fill strong support niches. The chimp’s random bonuses are difficult to plan around, but add steady micro‑rewards without any intervention, and Firework Sprite covers ongoing Firework item needs. Celebration Puppy and New Year’s Bird land closer to the cosmetic side of the spectrum, prioritizing aesthetics and event flavor over raw output.
Most players with a limited stash of New Year’s Eggs will aim first for Star Wolf as a realistic long‑term asset, then treat any New Year’s Dragon hatch as an exceptional bonus. The other pets can be slotted in as secondary goals depending on whether you value cosmetics, event items, or background automation more.
The New Year’s Egg collection is tightly scoped but carefully tuned. Even if you only secure a few eggs from the login streak, there is a real chance of landing a pet that permanently improves your garden’s mutation pipeline or adds a new source of gear. Once the event window closes, these pets will continue to shape high‑end gardens long after the fireworks stop.
