Like most digital programs, games in the Viva Piñata series are subject to glitches. Usually, these glitches negatively affect the game experience, but some may be beneficial to the player.
Viva Piñata[]
Cosmetic[]
Trailer Shows Footage of Player Building Outside of Garden Boundaries[]
A screenshot of the trailer that shows footage of constructions on both sides of the garden border.
The trailer that appears when a player creates a new garden for the first time on a save file shows footage of a player building on both sides of the white marked border that marks where a player can build in the garden. This is impossible to do in the final game.
Annoying[]
Mousemallow and Syrupent Glitch[]
If a Mousemallow and a Syrupent are fighting, hitting the Mousemallow with the shovel at the right time will result in the Mousemallow being frozen in time.
Newtgat Breakout Glitch[]
When there are thirty Newtgats in one area surrounded by walls, they will get stuck in the walls and escape.
Chippopotamus Requirement Glitch[]
In the classic version of Viva Pinata, the water flower requirements for the Chippopotamus visit requirements and Resident requirements won't pop up as you get the right number of deep water in the garden for the Visit Requirements and the Resident Requirements, unless you got the right number amounts of the 3 water flowers (Watercresses, Water lillies or Bullrushes) 14 of each in the garden for the Visit Requirements and 10 for the Resident Requirements, this is a glitch. Also, the three pictures of the water flowers for the visit requirements are all mismatched, this is also a glitch.
Audio Options Off By One[]
An error occurs when modifying the Audio Options in game. When setting a value to a certain value, the value will be saved as one less, noticible when reentering the menu.
Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise[]
Typographic and Grammatical[]
Moojoo Home Description has Unnecessary Apostrophe[]
The Moojoo Home has a grammar error in its journal entry.
The Moojoo Home has a grammar error in its journal entry. In the sentence "Moojoo's are allergic to gingerbread, so the property is surprisingly hard wearing," it seems to refer to all Moojoos, not a specific possession of one Moojoo, so it should not have an apostrophe symbol.
Cosmetic[]
Character Displacement[]
A Sprinkling hovering above a pond near the edge of the garden.
When a character walks to the edge of a fully-sized garden that has a pond at the edge of the garden, the character can be displaced and appear to float in mid-air, usually rotated the opposite way to the pond slope, as if there was a mirrored pond in existence on the other side.
Sour Piñatas in Mini-Games[]
There exists a glitch in which the player may use Sour Piñatas in the mini-games P-Factor and Great Piñata Paperchase. To do this, one must first tame a Sour Piñata. Then, when the Sour Piñata is in its cocoon, the player can hover over it and access the menu. From here, trying to access the mini-games will result in the player being able to use the current Sour in either mini-game.
Unused Appearance Movies[]
The player is able to use Piñata Vision in order to unlock many things in the game, including the short animations that play when a Piñata is unlocked for the first time. Scanning the code for the Parmadillo, Chocstrich, and Jeli appearance movies will result in unused and unseen animations that can't be accessed through normal gameplay. In speculation, Parmadillo could have been planned to be a Piñata that has to be attracted (just like in Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise), but was changed to an evolution-only Piñata. There are even snippets of the unused Parmadillo animation in Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise. Jeli also had a very different set of requirements in the DS games, which may be why this animation is unused. The Jeli animation is also unfinished, as the Jeli glitches through buildings and terrain. Chocstrich could have an attraction video, but was changed to an evolution-only Piñata and found in the Dessert Desert only.
Buzzenge Drinking Water From Far Away[]
A Buzzenge can swallow foods from far away magically. But it can also drink pond water from far away which just does not make sense.
Object Selector Does Not Scroll Correctly[]
The object selector that appears when pressing the left and right bumper buttons will not scroll the icons correctly if the right button is pressed repeatedly and rapidly to scroll through the items on the list rapidly, as it scrolls from the object that was first selected when the player started scrolling through the list. When it stops scrolling the correct icons will appear on the list.
Sign on Smelba Home has a Stretched Pink Line[]
When viewed from far away or in the Journal, the Smelba Home's sign has a pink line protruding across the back.
When viewed from far away or in the Journal, the Smelba Home has a graphical rendering error which causes a pink line protruding across the back of the green sign on the top of the house to appear, presumably due to a mip-mapping error.
Foggy Garden When Garden Loads[]
A screenshot of the glitched garden.
When a garden is loaded such as the main menu garden or when a player garden is loaded on early versions of the Xbox 360 emulated version on Xbox One, the screen would flicker a fogged version of the garden twice after the loading screen transition finished. This flicker is normally hidden by the game freezing temporarily after the transition, but an emulation glitch caused the game to not freeze and thus show a blank glitched screen. The emulation glitch was fixed in an update to the Xbox 360 emulator.
Gap in Snow Terrain[]
The gap in the terrain.
When certain parts of the garden terrain are covered in the snow surface type, a gap in the terrain can appear. The gap is L shaped and appears in four corners of the garden close to where the borders of a garden with no Land Upgrades would be.
Moozipan Udder Paper Pets Size Error[]
The Moozipan's udders inflate in size when it is ready to be milked and start flashing white. A glitch that occurs in Paper Pets causes the Moozipan udder to only flash white, but still have its regular size, when entered in the menu in this state.
Annoying[]
Store Music Stops While Still in the Store[]
The background music in any store will fade out when the player exit out of the store but cancels out of the action and stays in the store. The music stops playing as long as the player stays in the store, and when the store is reentered the store music starts playing again. This may be due to a change in the game where the ability to cancel out of this action was introduced, which was not possible in the first game, and thus the developers may have not remembered that the background music shuts off when returning to the garden this way in the first game.
Mashing RB in Piñata Finder Doesn't Scroll The Icons Correctly[]
When using the Piñata Finder, rapidly tapping the RB button to scroll through the options causes the icons to repeat the scrolling from when the RB button was first pressed. As a result, it is impossible to see the icons of items later in the list by spamming the RB button. To avoid this, the RB button must be pressed slowly enough, or merely held, so that the scroll animation finishes, or the LB button used instead, which doesn't glitch the menu like the RB button does. The menu will correct itself after the scroll ends and will show the correct icons eventually if the RB button is not pressed or immediately if the LB button is pressed.
Beneficial[]
Disappearing Ruffian[]
Occasionally, hitting a Ruffian twice will result in it disappearing. However, it will respawn and isn't removed from the game completely.
Stuck Professor Pester[]
Making a strong fence wall around the area in which Professor Pester enters the garden will permanently stop Professor Pester from ever entering the garden again. Even selling or destroying the fence will result in Professor Pester stuck in an idle stance.
Duplication[]
Firstly, pack your crate with piñatas/items/coins. Secondly, go to send crate. As soon as you send it to yourself, spam 
until the crate menu comes up. Go to name crate. You don't have to name it. Now, press enter. You should now not be able to interact with the crate. Rejoin the garden. Unpack your crate. Next, go to the Post Office. You should find a replica of your crate.
100% Effective Trapping[]
By exiting the Piñarctic or Dessert Desert right before a startled piñata runs away from your trap, it is possible to trick the game into thinking that the piñata had been captured successfully. To perform this, set up your trap and wait at the exit sign while watching your trap. If the piñata takes the bait but becomes startled, quickly return to your main garden. From there, you should receive the notification that a trap has triggered, containing the piñata that was startled by your trap.
Viva Pinata tip cloning glitch
Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise[]
Beneficial[]
Hitting Whirlm with Shovel Causes it To Split into Two Baby Whirlms[]
When hitting an adult Whirlm with the Shovel tool and damaging it, it may split into two baby resident Whirlms instead of becoming sick. This may be based off the rumor if you cut a worm in half it will live on as 2 smaller worms.