Viva Piñata

Viva Piñata

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Master Collector

Master Collector

Made 50 species resident

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

If you're like me and like to have something physical to reference/ check off, I made an excel file with all the species and hyperlinks to their requirements from the http://pinataisland.info site. I find going into the menu>journal>player awards>pinata awards guide too repetitive and time consuming, where you can just have a file up on your laptop or a piece of paper in front of you to mark things off.

There's colour coding also to know which pinatas are domestic, evolved and tamed sour species. * With thanks to Gregor Lenko I've added the updated workbook to the skydrive so it now includes a counter to aid in keeping track of your progress.

http://cid-e98dd928536aca23.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/.P...

This will also help you keep track along the road to:
"Variants Master"
Viva PiñataSecret AchievementThe Secret Achievement achievement in Viva Piñata worth 51 pointsContinue playing to unlock this secret achievement

"Master Evolver"
Viva PiñataSecret AchievementThe Secret Achievement achievement in Viva Piñata worth 53 pointsContinue playing to unlock this secret achievement

and
" Master Romancer"
Viva PiñataMaster RomancerThe Master Romancer achievement in Viva Piñata worth 56 pointsBecome Master Romancer for 20 species
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20 Apr 2010 21:01

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Excellent, thank you. This is exactly what I've been looking for.
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By Gregor Lenko on 29 Apr 2012 11:34
Further to my previous post, hope you don't mind but I have added a count to your sheet so you can keep easily a tab on how many of each requirements you have remaining.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/v0he0t005yr9tni/pinata%20list....xls
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By Gregor Lenko on 29 Apr 2012 12:16
Does piñatas that people have sent you count towards this?
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By SlightlyErotic on 28 Sep 2018 12:31
Great solution and excel file, one thing I've noticed is that in the file with counters, it counts the several Flutterscotch colours as variants when they actually count towards number of species instead.
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By Amorachius on 28 Apr 2019 17:56
Are either of these spreadsheets still available? The links seem to have broken
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By A1exRD on 26 Feb 2021 10:54
I haven't looked at OneDrive in years, but I checked and I'm not seeing the file. I'll see if I have the old hard drive kicking around for you. Not sure why either of these files shouldn't still be hosted..but I guess that's the risk with cloud storage :s
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By Prattalmighty on 08 Mar 2021 00:56
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There are 60 species in the game, you must make 50 of them resident to get this achievement.

This will take a while, but as long as you go through your encyclopedia one species at a time and make them residents, you'll get this rather quickly. This also helps out with the Master Talent and Longevity Master achievements.
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21 Sep 2008 19:37

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Thanks
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By on 16 Sep 2011 16:55
I want to add something to the solution above as it's a frequently asked question: You don't need to have 50 different species at the same time in your garden, that would be crazy.

A good tactic for the Collector and Romancing achievements (and gaining experience points) is selling all of your piñatas and obtaining and master romancing each single one, one at the time. Use the website pinataisland.info for all requirements and more. Check your Journal > Awards > Pinata awards to track each one down.
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20 Aug 2009 20:05

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Thanks for the clarification, that's exactly what I needed to know!
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By Jessica0630 on 29 Aug 2009 02:47
Lol thanks so much for this, will vote this up when I start the game. Your exact words kept popping into my head the whole time I was looking for this answer: "that would be crazy."
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By ScreenSingerX on 04 Jul 2012 03:33
This doesn't have to be "guide", but an addition to everyone else's guides.

The easiest way to add an extra 10+ resident pinatas is to:

A) Buy all 8 Pinata Pets
B) Get all flutterscotch color variants. Each color is considered another "resident", and it's how I'll be finishing my 50 residents.
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13 Nov 2009 19:14

For this achievement you need to make 50 different piñata species become a resident to your garden.

A piñata which is not currently a resident of your garden will appear in black and white, the first species you encounter in the game don't require much to make them take up residence in your garden, for example Whirlms only require you to have a certain amount of soil or grass in you garden, once you've attracted a few Whirlms into your garden then Sparrowmints will start to take notice, the entire game is based around this mentality, you always need something to attract a piñata to your garden, you'll always need to go a step further to make them join your garden.

When a piñata visits your garden you can move your cursor over it and press "Y", doing this will bring up the information about that species of piñata, use this to work out what you need to do to make them join your garden.

Rather than list out every single piñata and how to make them want to join your garden I've provided a link below which is the Viva Piñata wiki site, it has all the information you'll need regarding what the different species need to make them want to visit and take up residence in your garden!

For the wiki page please see here; http://http://pinataisland.info/viva/Species, that's a complete database with information on every piñata from both games, use the search feature to find a specific species and you'll be presented with all the information you need to make them want to visit your garden and join it!

Lastly, you can keep track of which piñatas have taken up residence in your garden by opening up the menu, going into your journal and then selecting player awards, then selecting piñata awards, here you'll see a breakdown of all the piñata species, which ones have visited your garden, which have decided to reside in your garden at some point.
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