We’ve made some temporary changes to the way gardening items work with the NEW Webkinz!
In an effort to make gardening available to everyone at the launch of the NEW Webkinz, you may have noticed that your plants aren’t behaving in exactly the same way. We wanted to make sure that all gardening items could still be harvested, although there is still some outstanding functionality that we are working on.
Here are the current temporary changes to gardening items:
- Gardening items do not require any maintenance (no watering or raking)
- Plants ready for harvest will not die (they will remain ready to harvest)
- All gardening plants will only yield 1 food item per harvest
All gardening items will still grow at the same rate and you will be able to check on their progress each day.
Stay tuned to Webkinz Newz when we will announce the return of full gardening functionality!
How coincidental that I was just getting ready to write about this. Nothing shows in my garden at all. I am hoping the shut down on the 14th will resolve this issue. I have cleared the cache and rebooted with no results. Keeping my fingers crossed.
I have the exact same problem. Gah, so annoying. XD
I have two golden paths in my room. Everything else is grey boxes all my plants even the other pet in the room is not there. I started clicking around and atleast found the general area where my bed is so I can put my cat to bed. He has been crying for two days because he is tired. no response from webkinz as to why my other accounts are not like this.
Pets can’t seem to sleep in the ‘invisible’ beds, try another bed from your dock. Most can go in the yard now. On the other hand, who am I kidding? On nearly all my accounts, sleeping pets will beg to take a nap…*click pet awake* *put pet back to bed* *get to another screen* *Pet dramatically cannot go on another second without a nap* Ugh. Driving me crazy.
Mine can! Sleep in the invisible beds! It’s rather disturbing…..
Mine too! It is disturbing and hilarious! My favorite is when they will sleep in a bed that is only half present. :) However, if they are happy, I am happy.
Some of my plants block certain entrances. My pets used to be able to still access the garden and yard via other entrances. Now they are blocked and can’t get in the yard. Will this be fixed? Will we still be tending the plants?
Just re-read the details and I think my question about watering and raking are answered – these functions will return. I still have my question about access. Will my pets be able to access the yard via other entrances like they used to? Will I have to rearrange the plants to open all entrances? I have a question about the living area of one pet. The walls and floor of Wings’ room don’t match. There is a big gap between the walls and floor. Will this be fixed?
We just need to be patient. My house looks a bit strange in spots, too. I know they intend to fix everything, & once they announce all is completed, I’ll take inventory & email customer service with any remaining issues, if there are any. I’m liking a lot about Webkinz X so far, & seeing my rooms & pets in such high definition is an unexpected pleasure. I’m getting used to the pet requests, & fill them when I can because the prizes are so cool. They’re working on the hunger & sleep meter issues, & all our disappeared stuff. I know for a fact that my items are still where I left them because today when I clicked where the invisible Beach House indoor pool is, my pet started swimming in the invisible pool! It was actually pretty funny. The gardening plants will be restored to the way they used to be, it’s just taking time, as these things always do. I’m just glad I didn’t lose the crop I had going as I haven’t tried to garden since before the launch. We need those farm fresh foods now more than ever!
Hi, 1Emerald1. Thanks so much for your detailed and thoughtful response. I must admit that patience might not be one of my strongest qualities! That being said, I was very disappointed after the 7/14 “fix”. I thought the hunger meter would be addressed. Maybe the meters of other players are working better (and I really hope yours is); mine isn’t. I must have fed one pet 100kc of food within a minute, and the meter got up to about 76 and then drained to zero before my eyes. I have some stockpile of garden produce but at this rate, it is plunging as fast as the hunger meter. You’re a great Webkinz friend; I wish you every best!!
Nicely said 1EmeraldI!
What a terrible “fix”. The pets are already wanting to be fed constantly. Taking away our ability to harvest several items off a single plant is helping us feed our pets healthy food that doesn’t cost all our kinz cash. Another take away! Grrr. I don’t care for Webkinz X at all. It’s also really slow. If they can’t speed this up I’ll probably quit, which is a shame because I’ve spent sooo much money on pets, estore and deluxe membership. I hope you put back gardening the way it was when it really is “fixed”.
It’s temporary! Remember to read the whole post so you don’t forget important things. Pictures don’t always tell all the facts. :{p
I’m pretty sure all the flashy “new” stuff, like the constant pet talk and pop up moons and smily faces every time you do something is slowing everything down. All this un-needed glitter is tiresome already.
Only able to harvest one strawberry/carrot/corn/Banana Blast Ice Cream at a time!? I went into this gardening thing years ago with good faith, and I’ve sold ff food, fed ff food, used ff food in recipes, etc. And after feeding farm fresh food many times in a row, your pet doesn’t tell you to switch to something else, because ff food is so tasty and healthy. This is definitely stealing enjoyment AWAY from WebKinz World that’s announced by slipping in there after describing a positive development, a lot like our current mayor announced at the end of her campaign speech that Spree was going from two turns a day down to only one, “so we can spend more time with our families.” Nobody wanted that. It was a “confixcation” of our turns because they began selling extra Spree turns for eStore points (meaning spending more money). Now our gardening is easier, but we reap lower yield, meaning spending more money. Figures. Nearly every “change” I’ve seen in the “rules” has had something to do with spending more money, plain and simple. I’m upset about it, though I don’t expect this post to make it on the board. Most of mine don’t, and they’re really honestly not as negative as this one. Well, at least someone from Ganz will see it before they delete it and maybe listen.
Wow finally a pro and not a con from Webkinz X!! This is so much easier that watering all 47 plants!! (I really did count!)
I have 12 yards full of gardening plants. I never watered before only raked. I miss the fresh farm food for my pets and for selling. Having the strawberry plants give 5 strawberries at $.06 each, I can feed pets and buy them lots of things. I have over $1,000,000 from gardening. I hope they fix them.
I never water. It rains in Webkinz World :p I rake weeds, plants will die otherwise, but seriously (at least for years now) you can skip the watering. I have 15 full gardens on one account, pulles in good KC, but if I had to water all those plants, I’d be so out of the ‘strawberry business’ on that account, and gardening altogether.
Thanks for letting us know! :)
Yeah, thanks , very useful an practical!!!
Webkinz X requires we feed our pets a LOT more now. Why do gardening plants only give out one per plant now? It does not make any sense!
It’s only temporary at least
Gardening like Webkinz Friends! Wonderful! I hope it stays like this.
Im sad it’s only one per plant now, sometimes I would get 5 out of one!
well at least its temporary! But I may miss the not caring for the plants part…
They will bring the full garden function back it says and it will be better than before right?
I know I have a ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ Room that gave me lots of them and lots of KC but I guess not anymore. Also I have a question when it says “All gardening items will still grow at the same rate” does that mean all plants will be growing in 7 days? I hope so cause it will be much easier to handle and maybe make up of the lost profit.
That’s good to know, I figured it would be fixed w/Maint Mon. Thank You!!
Thanks for the clarifications! ☺§
Oh that is why when i click on a plant it says not ready to be harvested!
These are actually pretty good changes! I love how I don’t have to water and rake every, Single, TINY………well, you get what I mean.
I know! I had already reduced the size of my garden. I have been so busy that I haven’t kept up with it and the last few times I was too afraid to go see the mess it was in. Maybe I will swing by and check it out this afternoon.
I like this, except that it only yields one produce item per harvest! It will make it easier, but I wish that, for example, the strawberries and items that used to have more than one produce would still! Hope that made sense. :?
YAY! Now I can have a bunch of plants!
That is THE ONLY change I like with WebKinz X. I spent hours a day watering and raking.
My thoughts exactly!
I agree (mostly). But I like the House map also. That’s about it. :(
I totally agree :)
No way, I loved having to water and rake the plants. It makes it feel more real. But I do like the idea of the plants never dying.
I agree. When webkinz started everything was to teach children something. How to garden, work with the jobs ect. Now not so much. Plus I had an awesome corn maze the is now just corn. I wanted the plants dead so I lost out on that. Another room I’ve lost with this change. :(
I agree. Watering each plant took so long. I may grow more gardens if they keep it this way. ty
You only have to rake, you don’t have to water, that tip (someone gave me long ago) saves me SO much time in my garden
Yeah, I would agree, except what’s not fair is that one plant can only grow one fruit item to be harvested! Used to be strawberries were good for up to 5, corn was 3, Carrots were 2 or 3 maybe, and so on. So those of us who did gardening for sell-backs to get KinzCash are out of luck.
Those are my thoughts exactly! I’m glad that this saves time, but I wish that they still grew multiple fruit items!! :/
Look its a gingy bunny cute cutie
The 3rd one is just wrong now I am really saying thumbs down :(
Yeah why did they do that?!
imake a lot of kinz cash from my gardens–oh well what to do now????? going to go broke feeding these pets. they demand food a lot and the hunger meter actually goes down sometimes when u feed them. Go figure !!
I agree gen6789, the pets now call me by name, and require food more often than before also, with the hunger meter going down too soon.
Mine goes down every time. My pets were never hungry before. I think this whole thing is one big mess
Well, too all that have the Magical Forest figures thing, you get tons of gardening plants from that. I am happy with this, because sometimes I want to use the gardening plants a as decoration. Now I can.. They are making it easier. I’m happy with this, I think it’s nice!
Wow that’s really easy! I might actually garden now lol
my garden is just a bunch of grey boxes cannot find anything in my garden room including the pets
There is currently a known issue with the Banana Blast Ice Cream Seeds causing problems with other plants in the room. If you are seeing all of your plants as gray boxes, try removing the Banana Blast plant to your Dock and then re-loading the room. This should fix the issue with your other plants. We will also fix the Banana Blast Seeds soon.
Oh, thank you so much!! I was at my wits’ end with all the grey boxes in my garden, this fixed it for me!!
Thank you so much for the post. It finally fixed my gardening issue!
Any suggestions if I’ve updated Adobe Flash, cleared my cache a couple of times, removed the Banana Blast Seeds, reloaded the room and I’m still getting only gray boxes on anything that I place in the room (plants, seeds, furniture)? Thank you so much for any help you can offer!! I know things have been busy and appreciate the help! :)
yeah my garden is back. I need to redo it now I removed everything hoping it would help before I saw about the banana blast post.
Thanks, Webkinz! I like these changes!
I am still not able to kinzchat plus chat!
well, Gennelle, here’s what I’m thinking . . . . it’s not our fault the gardening doesn’t work. so, i think we should get the maximum harvest out of each plant until it’s working again. anybody else agree?
yes, i love gardening and i really miss it because these pets eat to much
yeah, ganz SHOULD be nice and let it be max because my pets want 20,000,000 pieces of food DAILY
bbjbmom: I do not get a message, Do you want to garden? too. Go figure that one? Guess the kinks have not been worked out prior to the new Webkinz X changes.
Yes, I bought Jumbleberry seeds from the estore. I thought I would get more than one berry from each harvest considering how much they cost. Maybe the price of those seeds should come “way” down.
It’s only temporary
Yay! This makes gardening so much easier! Thanks §! :)
Oh good, I thought this change was permanent! :P
This is great information! Thanks! However, I have some questions: Why can’t I go into any rooms in the Clubhouse? And also: I can’t play Alyssa’s Star Challenge. Why and what can I do to fix that? Thank you! *~Warriors2002~*
I like not having to water or weed the garden so busy with other things, I like having a garden and feeding my pet fresh food, keep the garden this way its great. there is a lot of problems right now can’t put things in my room, can’t play my star search, or bingo, and various other things, will be glad when things are worked out, the only thing I don’t like is it takes more food to keep my pet at 100%, spending a lot of money in food, I like the old way, 1 or 2 foods and good to go, please change that my pet is eating all the time. other than that the changes are good but lots of bugs to fix of course, good luck with that
I totally agree about the amount of food. FYI I am having exactly the same issues.
I agree with you 110%
Certain foods give you a bigger boost on your hunger meter. Farm pumpkins give you 30 points! Eggs and burgers are also big boosters and low cost. I have noticed playing the daily wishing well can take you down about 10-20 points for each spin! Please fix that! We should not suffer from doing our Dailies. I love the new way to farm. Now we can decorate with the plants. Strawberries are a pretty border plant.