How to Level up Your Pets Fast in Grow a Garden
2025-09-10
Useful tips for new and returning players to overcome the grind and reach pet level 50 faster in Grow a Garden.
Leveling up in Grow a Garden primarily involves focusing on your pets, as their age and level determine key gameplay features such as pet mutations and unlocking slots. The process requires feeding pets regularly, using XP-boosting pets, upgrading pet slots, and utilizing pet toys to maximize experience gain.
Tip 1: Feed Pets Regularly
A crucial aspect of leveling up pets is keeping them well-fed. Pets have a hunger bar that, when full, allows them to passively gain experience and roam your garden effectively. Feeding pets with large fruits like Burning Bud or Sugar Apple quickly fills their hunger bar, which depletes over about 12 hours. Feeding them consistently ensures they gain maximum XP both online and offline because pets gain less or no experience when the hunger bar hits zero.
To feed pets, hold a fruit and click the Feed button or press the F key near the pet. Monitoring hunger via the Pet HUD helps keep pets in top condition for faster leveling.
Tip 2: Use XP-Boosting Pets
Certain pets grant passive XP bonuses to themselves and others nearby, significantly speeding up leveling. Top XP-boosting pets include:
- Night Owl
- Blood Owl
- Cooked Owl
- Capybara (prevents hunger loss and grants XP)
- Sea Turtle (grants occasional XP bonus)
- Ostrich (pets hatch with increased age)
- Iguanodon (active dinosaur pets gain additional XP)
Having multiple of these pets active in your garden creates an XP synergy that accelerates leveling. Filling your active pet slots with these helpers maximizes progress.
Tip 3: Upgrade Pet Slots
Players start with three pet slots and can expand up to eight to have more pets contributing to XP gain. Upgrading slots requires trading aged pets to an NPC named Raphael or using Robux. More slots mean more XP-boosting pets active at once, helping level all pets faster.
Slot upgrades become available as pets reach certain age milestones (e.g., age 20, 30, 45, 60, 75), with corresponding in-game currency or Robux costs.
Tip 4: Use Pet Toys
Pet toys are items that boost XP gain, happiness, or passive abilities when used on pets. They can be crafted or purchased and are effective tools for leveling pets quickly. Examples include:
- Small Toy: Boosts passive ability slightly
- Small Treat: Boosts XP over time slightly
- Medium Toy/Treat: Medium boosts respectively
- Levelup Lollipop: Increases pet’s age by 1 instantly
Regular use of these toys complements feeding and XP-boosting pets for efficient growth.
Additional Tips
- Keep the game running while you are AFK to passively accumulate XP from pets.
- Prioritize feeding and playing actively at feeding intervals to avoid XP loss.
- Trade with other players to obtain the best eggs for powerful pets.
- Use pets like Starfish to unlock additional pet slots quickly.
By combining consistent feeding, strategic XP-boosting pets, upgrading slots, and using pet toys, players can level up their Grow a Garden pets efficiently and enjoy advanced features such as pet mutations and expanded garden capabilities.