Viva Piñata

Viva Piñata

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40-50h

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Longevity Master

Longevity Master

Played the game for 50 hours (real time)

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How to unlock the Longevity Master achievement in Viva Piñata - Definitive Guide

As said before this game requires 50 of play time.
This is equal to 250 days in game time.
To do this simply attach a USB charging cable so that the controller doesn't power down. Then you can either:
1 Go to Costolot and buy something but don't place it.
Or
2 Hit X and go to the Tower of Sour
This keeps you from being interrupted by things like a pinata request. Now you can walk away and let the garden handle itself.

If your worried about your garden being ruined or loosing pinatas you can start a new garden because play time is counted from all gardens together.

To find you play time go to your journal and find the Player Status tab.
Every day is 12 minutes
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13 Jan 2010 23:13

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Best solution, tells how to get the cheevo, how to check progress and controller aspects
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By Subliminal Cuts on 08 Nov 2011 22:09
I started a new game. How long until you can get the tower of sour? When I hit X is a menu if you have nothing in your hand. Thanks.
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By troyoy on 17 Jan 2014 20:03
I'm doing this on the One as part of the Rare Replay collection and unfortunately my 360-in-the-One keeps freezing. It really sucks, because I finished the other 49 achievements in 19.2 hours and I've got over a day of waiting that won't save in increments due to the freezing going on. I will post some kind of fix if I ever find one. Hopefully I'm the only one with this problem.
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By IronInvoker47 on 08 Jun 2016 04:51
@Bathtup47

I've been using the Tower of Sour method for 18 odd hours straight playing the rare replay Xbox One BC version.

Might just be an isolated issue hopefully for others.
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By BoatManJuzz07 on 22 Aug 2016 05:12
OK, hi, I'm super duper late to this. But back in the day, I was at 48 hours and then my hard drive crashed and I lost my progress... I assumed that meant I had to play all 50 hours over. Am I right? This was well before cloud saves.
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By CaptainSlayer on 28 Mar 2019 14:19
OK, hi, I'm super duper late to this. But back in the day, I was at 48 hours and then my hard drive crashed and I lost my progress... I assumed that meant I had to play all 50 hours over. Am I right? This was well before cloud saves.
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By CaptainSlayer on 28 Mar 2019 14:20
im gonna get this acheivement no one can stop me except for my mom :(
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By GloryBoyDuff on 23 May 2020 21:40
Same garden?
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By ALAN RAVENOR on 02 Nov 2020 02:23
Alan, as stated in the solution by Diddle, it's cumulative from all gardens.
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By DEDLY CUKE on 09 Jan 2021 20:23
Disgraceful energy wasting achievement, hopefully get it tonight, doing the costolot method on X1 BC no crashes so far saved a few times in between cuz Im a bit paranoid of it crashing 30hrs in
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By on 13 Jan 2021 00:43
Does it count if you go idle or not ?
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By Souldant on 11 May 2021 20:33
So important to remember this is different on Xbox One and you will have to tape your controller or wrap a usb wire around it to keep the joysticks moving so your whole console doesn't go idle. I wasted ages because I didn't realize this! Good luck everyone.
EDIT: also, for those on xbox one, please check it's still all working when you can. exit costolots to see if it has frozen or not. i left it running till the achievement should have dinged, only to exit costolot, and it froze, and none of the progress saved. if you can, leave every couple of hours and save, and set it up again. better safe than sorry.
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By ijiekmotors on 15 May 2021 14:56
I received every award in this game and reached the maximum player level of 108. I used online help for the variants and evolutions, but tried the rest on my own and managed to get everything in a single garden. I really enjoyed the game and it took me 43 hours in-game time (215 days). I expect hardly anybody to receive this achievement in normal play. Now I have to keep me Xbox on for seven hours. That's stupid (but the solution is great).
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By Greedy136 on 27 Nov 2021 09:14
ffs, I'm 99 days in and already done with all the other achievements.
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By Zorc freeks on 28 Aug 2022 06:52
Well, 80 days and got the other ones all done. Really enjoyed the game but not sure if I want to idle my console for 35 hours....
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By ryan lees on 01 Jun 2023 20:42
I started a new garden. Will I have to do 250 hours from the beginning?
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By ALAN RAVENOR on 28 Oct 2023 12:18
Damn I somehow got all the other achievemens in only 48 days, this is gonna take awhile...
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By ToastBubbles on 26 May 2024 01:08
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This achievements is for playing 50 hours, real time.

How to get: Go to costolot, buy anything, then place it but don't buy it (Y). Then, just leave the screen like that, go to work/sleep. :D
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You can check your progress in your journal. You will reach 50 hours on the 250th day.
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By on 23 Aug 2008 15:23
Good idea.
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By Randomnutta on 08 Jan 2009 02:27
Haha, nice work :)
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By StoodBridge on 09 Jan 2009 15:48
retarded achievement when you get the others in 25-30h. thankfully you can get it by this method..
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By Planekonomi on 03 Feb 2009 19:45
I love achievements like these! It's like getting gamerscore while I sleep. What a feeling.
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By White Shadows on 20 Feb 2009 00:25
ive already had red ring of death, not brave enuff to leave it on too long at once, good idea tho
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By motley gunner on 31 Mar 2009 21:14
I am going to download the game to my hard drive to do this ach. I think letting it sit this way is less stressing on your system.
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By Elem3ntal80 on 21 May 2009 04:36
i had my xbox for around 2 years and it didn't overheat once and i play like 10hrs. a day, i guess i'm lucky than. 8^P
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By Fat Kids Fail on 14 Aug 2009 12:36
The 50 hours in real time roughly translates to 250 days in game time. Good luck everyone!
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By Jessica0630 on 16 Nov 2009 23:42
There's nothing to stop you just opening the menu with X and then leaving it sat there, time still passes and you can't be interrupted until you close it.
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By SunburnedCactus on 01 Dec 2009 11:51
Just go to the Tower of Sour and leave it there, no pop ups for factory requests or anything.
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By Leo Ascendent on 05 Feb 2010 01:25
Yeah the Tower of Sour works just fine, I finished all the other achievements in 22 hours, then just left it at the Tower of Sour while i slept and got it 5 mins after i woke up. Remember to exit out of the tower to let the game save before you turn your Xbox off, otherwise you will lose all your hours you spent leaving it at the tower if you don't back out and let it save. Mistake i made several times....
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By XxSpazemxX on 17 Aug 2010 15:38
@XxSpazmxX You slept for 28 hours? Lol,
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By Flopadopasaurus on 16 Nov 2010 21:51
What about the whole auto power off now?
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By diz2108 on 03 Aug 2011 22:23
How to turn auto power off.
Go to dashboard, under the 'My Xbox' tab, Scroll all the way to 'System Settings', Click and go to 'Startup and Shutdown', Turn Auto-Off off.
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By TooBallsy on 13 Aug 2011 00:16
Does time from other gardens count towards this achievement? Can't seem to find the answer to that anywhere.
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By Octobot Super on 30 Jan 2012 13:41
Nope, it doesn't... might be a good thing to mention in the solution.
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By Octobot Super on 15 Feb 2012 18:28
God this cheeve is so annoying. I had every other achievement done with like 13 hours. So this is what I do while I wait
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/807/vivaia.jpg
Dastardos had a field day
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By redjarman on 01 Jun 2012 09:11
tower of sour method doesnt work for me. i was at day 166. 1st day i left it on for 8 hours, 2nd day i left for work i left it on for 6 hours...still at day 166.
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By Holymegaflare on 20 Jun 2014 20:05
now i feel dumb lol. It keeps count of the days but it only updates when you do something lol.
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By Holymegaflare on 20 Jun 2014 22:58
Working 12 hour shifts I unlocked this in like 4 days...
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By Friggin Grease on 23 Oct 2015 21:06
I started a new garden. Will I have to do 250 hours from the beginning?
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By ALAN RAVENOR on 28 Oct 2023 12:19
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Another way to do this is to go to your tower of sour, then let the game run.
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Yupp as the others said, 50 hours is 250 in game days so quite a lot, I was only at 125 days when I had my 980G on this game so I had more than half of the time left! Quite a bit of time, so I just plugged my play and charge kit it and sat on the tower of sour menu, here there are no interruptions or effect to your garden,

I personally left my game on to do this around 3-4 hours every night for a week until I got my achievement because I would be awake all night doing random crap on my laptop but of course you can try this method any time you have for this lengthy achievement.

Good luck!
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13 Sep 2010 18:58

If you are playing on xbox one like me and the play time in the journal isn't going up as ironinfidel47 said....

Here's what worked for me:
I did the same as the xbox 360 owners. (costalots shop method, picking a seed and not planting or in my case it worked with placing a fruit some where.)

What I do to prevent the clock from freezing:

Tie with a rubberband or hair tie on both of your analog sticks so they are both moving.... Also I plugged in my controller the the top (front single port) usb port closest to the disc drive... Don't know why but i was having problems plugging it in to the rear of the console (2 ports).

Let it sit and check up on it so it is constantly moving and the clock in the top right is moving. Also the screen is still bright and not graying out (another frozen/paused game/clock indicator).

This is what worked for me. Hope it works for you as well.
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13 Jun 2018 22:59

This solution pertains to anyone having problems with their game freezing on the One. Hopefully there are few people with this issue.



So obviously you need to play for 50 hours.

The problem is, once you finish the other 49 achievements, you definitely shouldn't be at 50 hours. I finished at 19.2 hours. Leaving the game on the garden with a wired controller leaves you subject to Langston asking for a challenge, pausing the time. And for me, playing on the XBox One, the game froze every time I kept it idle on the Tower of Sour. I think the solution for this is to (unfortunately) delete your saves off the cloud and start a new garden to the point where Costalot's store opens. Do not plant any grass or fix up any hard soil you don't have to. Whirlims and Sparrowmints will become residents, and Whirlims will have an egg as part of the tutorial, but after that, there will be no more interruptions, such as Langston's challenges, because you're too low of a level.

The reason for using this method is that the Tower of Sour method does not autosave. I left my console on for an entire day just to find out it froze sometime between and no time was saved. The only problem is to find a different place to store your saves so you don't deal with Langston's challenges, as you retain your level when making a new garden.
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08 Jun 2016 14:15