Since the release of Gardening in Webkinz Next, it has consistently been one of the best ways to earn KinzCash for players. Plant your crops, wait a few days, collect your crops, sell them for fun and profit. We love gardening so much that we added the Farmer’s Market to give you the ability to earn even more KinzCash selling your crops.
Over the years, some players have taken gardening to an extreme, filling multiple properties with nothing but crops and earning so much KinzCash that our own internal alert systems meant to prevent cheating have thought that there was a problem when there wasn’t. Simply put, the economy of Webkinz was not designed for this much KinzCash to be earned this easily.
We have therefore made some changes to how gardening works:
1) If you have 500 or more crops (growing plants), either planted or in your dock, you will no longer be able to purchase additional seeds from the W-Shop. This is a “soft cap” on gardening. If you have more than 500 crops planted right now, it won’t affect them in any way. Also, you can continue to purchase your three seeds per day from the Farmer’s Market, even if you have more than 500. This cap does not apply to harvested food/crops.
2) Plants can now dry out. You may now see a Watering Can over your crop. If you leave the plant without watering it, it will not continue to grow. When you do water the crop, it will return to its bright color and be ready to move to the next stage the next day. To be 100% clear, your crops can never “die”. All being dried out does is delay the growth cycle. Also, crops planted in the Farmer’s Plot will never become dried out. So, we’ve added a little work to gardening that rewards players who tend to their crops daily.
3) We’ve removed the notice for when your crops are expired, as long as you have at least one soil in your dock. This a much-requested feature from dedicated farmers, and we are happy to add it, while ensuring that players who are new to gardening know why their crop disappeared.
We have more plans to continue to improve gardening, such as adding weeding, bountiful harvests and rewarding players for dedicated gardening by giving their plants additional harvests beyond the standard 10. Finally, we are considering ways of allowing players to earn additional Farmer’s Plots.
Gardening has long been a popular feature in Webkinz World and we will continue to aim to make it fun and profitable, while ensuring that it is a balanced part of Webkinz’ gameplay.
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This is a horrible update the only thing that helps earn kc is gardening. Huge step backwards. I also miss the baby filling my pets heart. This will be so frustrating I will be spending lots less on this game as it gets less fun.
Yes the baby filling 1 pet heart was nice but i think they did speed up the pet asking tasks.
You think so? In my experience, they don’t even count any longer in many cases. They wanted me to play a game at the arcade, I did, didn’t count, and the request was gone, they wanted me to change their clothes, I did, it didn’t count…. so often enough recently, I had to wait for even more requests than usually.
Yes!! Totally agree…. You said it better then I did lol
Why are we going backwards on this. It was great just the way it was. I would love to buy more crops at the market. We are only limited to 3. Why can’t we buy more. We work hard to make money n purchase what we want for us. We decorate how we want it to be. Now you’re telling us, this is how u want it to be. Absolutely ridiculous. By the way. Was said last month you were going to fix the issue with the baby and family score at next update. This is our second update and this issue isn’t fixed. Anytime soon you’ll be correcting this issue. Ty
I do not think the baby will go back to how it was. They had to change it so the family score to earn the ticket would be fixed. Since it was not working before.
Why not… it’s false advertising what it’s posted on the board in how to get your family score numbers. What’s the use in having a baby when none of the gadgets work anymore. When it was said they will fix it at next update. How to earn family score points. None what it says on there board u get 5 points for this n that when it’s only the bottle. I used to do all of them daily to earn points. Now it’s going to take longer to get prizes with only 10 points a day. Sally, can you pls explain how this works now. Ty These updates, most hasn’t fixed anything. Like are lake view at cabin. Water looks disgusting algae in it. Doesn’t look beautiful anymore. We have allot of items we can’t sell to w-shop. I’m positive no one wants them to trade. I’m sure they have it also. Updates also pets are more hungry. The hearts used to take longer for it were out. Now it just Disappears quickly. Pet tasked Takes longer. You know, I really thought that we are the ones that make Webkinz continue going. And we that come in every day to have fun to do. Our challenges are allowed to put out request that something’s not working trying to understand what’s going on. We get feedback what you say With issues or how it’s working with the updates some things are being fixed. Is asking or reporting an issue is not important?
The Family Score list was updated. Some of the baby tasks were removed, and new ones were added in replacement. Most items are sellable. If you haven’t tried selling them recently, try again. Outside of a few exceptions, they should be sellable, so if you find one that you can’t, let us know. We have not made any changes to hunger, nor how long requests stay up.
Hi Sally. What has been added to the Family Score list as replacement for the Baby tasks? Does this also Count to fill the pets’ hearts?
Filling a growth request and regular request for babies did not previously award Family Score and they do now. It does not currently award Pet Care
And will something be added to fill the pet’s hearts?
Potentially. The current things that fills a pet’s heart outside of requests is to feed your pet when it’s very hungry, exercise your pet, play a game, crafting something on a crafting table, and get a picture taken at the photo booth. These can be repeated once an hour.
I asked a lot about exactly this (what I thought was a) glitch, and I never read that they did want to fix the issue. Apparently they said this a long time ago.
Watering and weeding plants was removed from Classic years ago and now you’re going backwards on Next? I only have 2 normal-sized gardens on Next, so it’s not going to cost me a lot of extra time, but it’s annoying nonetheless! Earning money on Next is already a lot harder on Next and although some of the features are better (like the mines), I still prefer Classic over Next and that’s where I spend both my time and money on.
Yeah next is a lot harder to earn kinz cash. I think they added the gardening so it would be more realistic. Though i do not think it will take a ton of time to do you would just click over the plant and it would get watered. It would be a big bother for those who spread there crops in many homes. And you would have to check daily. But they do reward those who do it daily. It would be cool to earn more harvest plots.
Wait does the sprinkler work? Or that just decor. THANK YOU FOR REMOVING that notice when you first removed it i was so glad but people where wondering where there dirt went it WAS really annoying when i have 100 or so crops and have that pop up each time. So with the watering how long does it take for your plant to dry out. And i do remember that being on classic though i do not harvest my food there anymore for kinz cash. For next that is the only main way to get a lot of kinz cash. Also next is really hard on new players they have some kinz cash but when a holiday theme is out it is just so hard to get it. I have been playing next for about a year and still have problems with running out of kinz cash when it comes to the seasonal themes. Thank for adding the search dock in the wshop. And Thank You for letting us keep out family score points for the free ticket. What is the limit of kinz you can have in next since now i am wondering. Thank you for this update. Sorry my comment ended up being so long.
Sorry my chat was so long i did not see that i said out instead of our.
Tap on your sprinkler again. It should appear more water flowing.
The sprinkler is just decoration, but who knows, maybe something like that could be added in future. It’s random whether your plant gets dry each day. There isn’t currently a limit for the number of pets you can have.
Oh i am sorry i meant kinz CASH i forgot to put kinz cash really sorry for that and it would be cool to have a sprinkler you could buy in the wshop in the future.
That was just for watering plants.
So is there a limit of how much kinz cash you can have?
There is not.
Thank you.
Having to weed is a terrible step backwards.
Also you don’t have to weed in classic. Please don’t regress on Next and add it.
Classic did have that. You would have to water and weed it. This is not just now being suggested. They had the water and weed it for a long time then decided to remove it i am glad they did for classic wonder what it will be for next.
I was so happy when they removed that from classic. The only small downside was that I had let some die to use for decoration.
I am surprised to read that changes to gardening were considered more important than changes to filling the pets’ hearts. Is it more important to care for your plants than for the pets? I was really excited to check if playing with the baby, at least, counts again for filling one of my pet’s heart, but it doesn’t. I wonder why. It takes so long to wait for requests of each of my pets, and I can’t even play games while waiting, I just have to sit around and wait for requests in order to fill their hearts. And then the next day, if I don’t log on EXACTLY at the same time as the day before, they are even down to 50% instead of 75% and I can wait twice as long. This is not only boring, but also frustrating. I would love to log onto Next, have happy pets, do the things I like to do, play some games and then log out again, thinking I had a good time. That way, however, I either have to spend a lot of time just waiting around, or (which is, apparently, what some people chose to do now, and I am starting to understand why), I don’t care for my pets and have to put up with unhappy faces. I thought caring for the pets and filling their hearts was one essential thing on Classic as well as Next. I thought players (children) were supposed to learn how to care (for either children or pets) and that they can be unhappy if neglected. It is easy to do my round on Classic and keep them all happy every day. But not on Next. So now I have started to think if I also choose to NOT fill their hearts and be a bad pet mum, if this is what the makers of Next apparently want. Then, however, I don’t understand the “heart filling” at all, then they can as well leave it, even they even take away the ONLY way to fill at least ONE heart per day easily (playing with the baby).
They kinda had to remove some of the points for the baby. Yes i am not glad the points are gone but i know why they did that. For those who remember when vacations came out they where glitching with the free ticket when you get family score. When you make a pet happy with the baby you would get 5 points but anytime your pet gets happy 5 points should be added to the free ticket. But it did not register in order to fix it they had it they had to remove the ones that made your pet happy. But they still have the one that did not make your pet happy the one where you give the baby a bottle.
I am not sure if I fully understand this explanation, but I just want to add that I am not after the family score, but after filling my pet’s heart, I want them to be happy.
Sorry what do you mean by after filling pets heart you want them to be happy?
I meant that the thing that I am after are not the family score points but I am after my pet’s happiness.
So, if I get it right, now, you neither get free tickets nor family score nor it makes your pet happy when you care for the baby. :-(
You will get 10 family score points when you give the baby a bottle. This will not count to the free ticket or make your pet happy. The sing the baby a lullaby. Give teddy. Baby talk. Shake rattle. and tickle will not give family score or ticket score or make your pet happy.
Oh okay i think they did make your pet ask tasks faster so it should be easyer to make your pet happy and i am sure your Webkinz enjoy playing around in Webkinz.
I totally agree with you. I have only four pets on Next because it takes so long to make them happy. I have 46 pets on Classic and I need less time to fill their hearts. This really becomes more and more annoying.
Yea, basically agree with this. I understand that things might have needed to be changed for the vacations, but what about just filling pet hearts? There is so little that we can actively do to make them happy. Why not let us do things, like caring for baby, that fill a heart, but don’t give family score points, therefore don’t add to that free vacation tally?
Exactly, this is what I keep saying. At the beginning of Next, I thought at some point, it would be like on Classic: that we can fill their hearts by putting them to bed, feeding, bathing etc., but this is not the case and apparently it is not planned for the future, and I don’t understand why. And about playing with the baby: Until yesterday, when somebody mentioned it was taken away because of the vacations, I didn’t even know WHY it was gone, I thought it was a simple glitch that would be fixed soon and I honestly wondered why I had to ask about this 56 times and never get a reply. I was not bothered about the family score (and as I said had no clue that it had to do with vacation), but bothered that the ONLY thing that would fill ONE pet’s heart was taken away, without adding another thing that would help to fill the hearts. The thing I don’t understand is why it is not considered important to fill their hearts. We are being encouraged to spark baby after baby, to grow our families, to have more and more pets, but at the same time, it is impossible to fill their hearts and care for them all. Having a large family and then neglecting them is not educational. If filling their hearts is not considered as important, then it should not be an essential feature at all, they could switch the “heart filling” process off, at least for the grown up pets who don’t need growth moments.
Hasving to water plants is a terrible idea and a step backwards. You no longer have to do it on classic so why do you need to on next. Please reconsider this,
I agree, Marnabear. At least the ones on the farmer’s plot don’t need to be watered.
An extra farmer’s plot sounds great. Otherwise gardening is going to be less fun. I am not on Next every day unless I am doing the season. Even then. I often forget about my garden until farmers’ market days. If it’s going to mean more work, I may have to rethink the size of my farm.
I understand why and yes it would be harder for those who are not on daily. I guess they tried making up for that is that you get extra things for doing it daily.
I would love to have 2 Farmers plots. I like the organized look of the plot in my garden.