The Trader Event in Grow a Garden is a one-week rotation built around a single idea: hand over the right plants on time and the NPC Trader will drip-feed some of the strongest limited rewards in the game. Miss too many trades and that pipeline slows down or stops.
The event runs from November 22 to November 29, 2025, and arrives with Update 1.33.0 as the “Trader Event.” It sits alongside Grow a Garden’s broader trading systems, but it is its own, streak-based loop with its own loot pools and cosmetics.
Trader Event basics (dates, location, structure)
| Element | Details |
|---|---|
| Event name | Trader Event (also framed in-game as a Trading event) |
| Update | Introduced in Update 1.33.0 |
| Start | November 22, 2025 |
| End | November 29, 2025 |
| Event areas | Trader Island, Trading Plaza (accessed by a portal in the event area) |
| Main NPC | The Trader (event NPC in the regular event area / Trader Island) |
| Loop type | Turn in specific plants to fill “streaks” and roll in structured reward pools |
Once the event is live, you reach it through the usual Grow a Garden event space. The Trader stands at an event stand; interacting with him does two things: it exposes the current trade requirement (what plant and how many) and shows the reward menu linked to your current streak.
The structure is simple but strict. Each successful submission of the requested plants pushes your streak forward. The event’s rewards, from basic tools to pets and cosmetics, are all tied to that streak number.
How trading with the Trader NPC works
The Trader’s post refreshes every 30 minutes. Each refresh has three key parts:
- A required plant (for example strawberries, blueberries, carrots, or rarer plants).
- A required quantity of that plant.
- An associated reward roll, which is determined by your current streak tier.
In practical terms, the loop looks like this:
- Talk to the Trader and open the trading menu.
- Check the current requirement (plant and amount).
- If you have it in your inventory, submit the plants to complete the trade.
- Your streak value increases, and you receive one item from the streak’s reward pool.
- Wait for the 30-minute refresh, then repeat.
The Trader’s requirements favor common, fast-growing crops early on. Strawberries, blueberries, and carrots are explicitly called out because they are easy to grow quickly and keep you on pace for streak progression. Later rotations can demand plants that take significantly longer to mature.
When the requirement is a slow-growing plant, you have three realistic options:
- Grow it yourself and use growth boosts.
- Trade with other players using the game’s broader trading tools (separate from the event NPC).
- Use the “Skip Requirements” option on the trade, which consumes Robux to bypass the plant cost.
There is also an option to restore a broken streak with Robux if you miss a trade. The event does not require Robux to participate, but all of the pressure is built around not missing rounds, so those skip and restore buttons are always visible.
Streaks and probability-based rewards
Under the hood, the Trader Event is a streak-based probability table. Each “streak tier” has its own drop rates for a curated set of items. As the streak goes up, the reward pool and the odds shift in favor of rarer, more valuable items.
The format is consistent across tiers: one completed turn-in equals one roll from that tier’s table. A simplified view of the early streak tiers looks like this:
| Streak tier | Reward examples | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Streak 1 | 50x Harvest Tool, 8x Reclaimer, 3x Medium Toy, 1x Pomegranate, 3x Medium Treat, 1x Large Toy, 1x Outdoors Crate, 1x Geode Turtle | Intro tier; higher chance of basic tools and mid-tier pet items. |
| Streak 2 | 8x Reclaimer, 1x Pomegranate, 3x Medium Toy, 3x Medium Treat, 1x Large Toy, 1x Outdoors Crate, 1x Geode Turtle | Shift toward fewer basic tools, relatively better odds on cosmetics and pets. |
Percentages inside each tier are fixed: for example, in Streak 1, 50x Harvest Tool sits at roughly 17–18 percent, while Geode Turtle is under 10 percent. Higher streak tiers (not fully listed in the visible table) follow the same pattern but introduce stronger event-limited items, more meaningful pet rewards, and rarer cosmetics.
On top of this streak table, there is a separate menu tied to the NPC that lists headline event rewards that players instantly recognize from other parts of the game economy: Gem eggs, Gem Chest, Wild Pineapple, and Pack Mule are all present. These sit behind better streaks and function effectively as chase rewards for players who keep up with the schedule.
What you can get from the Trader Event
The event covers nearly every major reward type Grow a Garden uses: seeds, plants, gear, pets, cosmetics, and even trade booth skins. The loot table is broad enough that it is easier to think in categories than to track individual drops.
Seeds and plants
The Trader Event introduces new seeds and one-off plant rewards, and it also uses rare plants as both requirements and rewards. Examples explicitly present in the tables include:
- Pomegranate (plant reward and a requirement in some cases).
- Wild Pineapple (called out as a higher-streak reward from the NPC list).
These plants are not always available through everyday gameplay, and the event is framed as a direct route to items that would otherwise be gated behind low spawn rates or other events.
Gears and functional items
The streak tables include several gear and utility items used to push your garden and pets forward:
- Harvest Tool (50x bundles in lower streaks) – a bulk supply of harvest tools to keep your basic farming loop moving.
- Reclaimer – a mid-tier utility item available in 8x stacks, present across multiple streak tiers with strong odds.
- Medium Treat and Medium Toy – pet-focused items that slot into pet progression and bonding.
- Gem Chest – a higher-tier reward from the Trader’s menu, useful for gem-focused progression.
The impact is straightforward: the event offers a dense bundle of progress accelerators if you can keep your submissions on schedule.
Pets and eggs
Pets sit at the top end of the event’s value curve. At least one specific pet, Geode Turtle, appears frequently in the streak tables with sub-10 percent odds per roll at low streaks. Higher streaks unlock more reliable access to rare pets and pet eggs.
- Geode Turtle – an event-featured pet in multiple streak tiers.
- Gem eggs – featured in the Trader’s reward menu as higher-streak rewards, allowing direct access to gem-aligned pets.
- Pack Mule – listed among the NPC’s high-end rewards, useful for players focused on carry capacity and farming sessions.
Because pets in Grow a Garden come with passive abilities that affect growth speed, value, and other systems, the Trader Event functions as a concentrated pet progression window, especially for players who missed earlier update events.
Cosmetics and trade booth skins
Not every reward is about raw power. The Trader Event also adds a long list of cosmetics that lean heavily into the “smithing” and “trading hub” aesthetic and a full set of skins for trade booths.
| Category | Items |
|---|---|
| Smithing-themed cosmetics | Forge Blower, Cooling Barrel, Bellows, Blacksmith Forge, Silver Ingot, Gold Ingot |
| Trade booth skins | Green Trade Booth Skin, Purple Trade Booth Skin, Torrigate Trade Booth Skin, Cyber Trade Booth Skin, Greek Trade Booth Skin, Fairy Trade Booth Skin, DJ Trade Booth Skin, Blue Trade Booth Skin, Yellow Trade Booth Skin |
| Crates and themed bundles | Outdoors Crate and others within the streak tables |
These items do not change your crops’ numbers, but they are limited-time unlocks tied to this event window and its reward tables. For players who treat Grow a Garden as a social space, the trade booth skins in particular matter: they change how your trading presence looks inside the wider Trading Plaza.
Event quests, progression, and QOL changes
The Trader Event is not only about the rolling 30-minute trades. The Trader NPC also runs on a task-based progression system. As you complete his quests and objectives, you advance through a separate progression track that:
- Grants additional exclusive items (including rare seeds and event-only rewards).
- Surfaces some of the new quality-of-life changes introduced with the update, such as streamlined trading interfaces and history views.
The in-game interface tied to the Trader includes several dedicated views:
- Trade HUD – a quick overlay for current requirements and streak status.
- Trading Menu – the main panel showing current trades, streak, and rewards.
- Trading Settings – a configuration view for trading options.
- Trading History – lets you review completed trades.
- Trading Inventory – isolates event-relevant items and capacity.
Those menus make the event easier to track than some earlier Grow a Garden events, which leaned more on in-world prompts and less on dedicated HUD elements.
Managing your schedule and streak
The core tension of the Trader Event is simple: missing a turn breaks your streak and drags down your access to stronger reward tables. Keeping a steady cadence of submissions matters more than chasing every rare rotation.
The practical play pattern for most players looks like this:
- Focus early hours of the event on building a stockpile of fast crops (strawberries, blueberries, carrots) to survive sudden demands.
- Log in around the edges of the 30-minute cycle to submit quickly rather than idle for long sessions.
- Use growth boosts and garden upgrades to shorten the turnaround on slower plants so they can meet event requirements.
- Reserve Robux spending for streak restoration or requirement skips only if you are deep into a streak and chasing a specific top-end reward.
For players who do not intend to spend Robux, the realistic ceiling is set by how consistently they can meet the 30-minute rhythm during the week. The event window is finite, and once November 29 rolls over and the next event arrives, the Trader’s current reward set disappears.
As part of Grow a Garden’s 2025 run of stacked events—Safari Harvest, Smithing, and now Trader—the Trader Event acts as the trading-focused pillar. It pulls plants out of your fields and into structured reward pools, then pushes back pets, cosmetics, and progression items at a pace that feels closer to a live-service battle pass than a one-off holiday event. If you care about rare pets, distinct trade booth skins, or catching up on utility items like Reclaimer stacks, the week from November 22 to 29 is the time to be in the garden.
