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Grimm's Hatchery: General Information

When To Hatch, When to Sell

Each pet and egg is different. Some pets are worth a lot, some are worth very little. Some eggs are worth a lot, some are worth very little. Some pets lay eggs quickly, some pets require lots of time to lay eggs. The following chart will help you determine whether or not you should try to hatch an egg or sell it.

Tip: Each egg has a 1 in 6 chance of hatching.
Note: Your difficulty level determines what your pets are worth. In Easy mode, pets are worth 70% of their purchase price, in Medium mode, 60%, and in Insane mode, 50%.
Note: Pets that lay eggs you should sell usually lay eggs at the fastest rate. However, these fast egg layers require more maintenance, so you will need to feed them often and keep them safe from monsters.

Egg Name	Egg Price	Pet Price (Easy Mode)	Best Deal (Eggs)
Green Dragonfly	2 gold	7 gold	Sell
Goose	3 gold	14 gold	Sell
Gryphonette	4 gold	28 gold	Hatch or Sell
Rascal	12 gold	105 gold	Hatch
Golden Goose	10 gold	56 gold	Sell
Blue Dragonfly	30 gold	210 gold	Hatch or Sell
Gryphon	40 gold	350 gold	Hatch
Green Dragon	80 gold	490 gold	Sell
Red Dragonfly	150 gold	1050 gold	Hatch or Sell
Icebird	210 gold	2170 gold	Hatch
Purple Dragon	440 gold	2940 gold	Sell
Magic Goose	100 gold	630 gold	Sell
Ruby Gryphon	490 gold	3500 gold	Hatch or Sell
Golden Dragonfly	1200 gold	8400 gold	Hatch or Sell
Ice Gryphon	2500 gold	14000 gold	Sell
Black Dragon	3000 gold	28700 gold	Hatch
Firebird	5300 gold	43400 gold	Hatch

High and Low Maintenance Pets

Each pet you own requires a different amount of maintenance to survive on your farm. Some pets are often hungry and some pets are weak against monsters. Although it may seem silly to purchase high maintenance pets, they usually reward you with oodles of eggs. The following chart shows you which pets require lots of attention.

Pet	Life	Hunger	Egg Time	Maintenance Rating
Green Dragonfly	10	40 marks	10 marks	High Maintenance
Goose	15	50 marks	15 marks	Average
Gryphonette	20	60 marks	20 marks	Low Maintenance
Rascal	25	60 marks	20 marks	High Maintenance
Golden Goose	45	60 marks		Average
Blue Dragonfly	25	50 marks	15 marks	High Maintenance
Gryphon	35	70 marks	30 marks	Average
Green Dragon	50	70 marks	30 marks	Average
Red Dragonfly	60	40 marks	20 marks	High Maintenance
Icebird	70	70 marks	30 marks	Average
Purple Dragon	80	90 marks	40 marks	Low Maintenance
Magic Goose	90	60 marks	35 marks	Average
Ruby Gryphon	100	80 marks	50 marks	Low Maintenance
Golden Dragonfly	65	50 marks	30 marks	High Maintenance
Ice Gryphon	120	70 marks	40 marks	Average
Black Dragon	130	90 marks	45 marks	Low Maintenance
Firebird	140	80 marks	55 marks	Low Maintenance

Save Your Dragonflies & Create New Eggs

In Greenwich Square, there is an apothecary who has an egg lab. You can use this egg lab to create new types of eggs. One important thing to note is that dragonfly eggs are magical. Therefore, when you mix and match eggs, make sure that you always include a Green, Blue, Red, or Gold Dragonfly egg. With the right egg combinations, you can create:

Green Dragon eggs
Ruby Gryphon eggs
Purple Dragon eggs
Golden Goose eggs
Firebird eggs.

Specialty Pets and the Tractor

As you get farther into the game and your herd of pets swells, it is difficult to make sure that all of your pets are fed, every eggs is collected, and that the monsters don't take over. To help you manage the load, there are several goodies in the game to keep you on track.

The Tractor--Make sure to collect all of the tractor parts. You can get them in Grimm's Farm, Hobbs Cottage, and Rosewood Manor. Once you have all of the tractor parts, take them to Wimbeldy, who lives in the Backlands. He will make a tractor for you. Once the tractor is built, you can use it in each farm to help you collect eggs.
Petriwood--Petriwood is a special pet that will help you fight monsters. Like the tractor, Petriwood appears in each farm. Petriwood is very strong and cannot be killed by anything, including bombs from Bomber Bird!
Bomber Bird--Bomber Bird only appears in the last farm, Pemberly Keep. Technically, Bomber Bird is not on your side, and if a bomb hits a pet, the pet is killed immediately. However, if Bomber Bird's bomb hits a monster, the monster also dies immediately! So if Bomber Bird drops a bomb in your farm and it looks like the bomb is going to hit a monster, don't blow up the bomb!

Magical Easter Eggs (Medium and Insane Mode Only!)

If you play the game in medium or insane mode, your pets will lay magical easter eggs once in a while. Unlike regular eggs, magical eggs glitter. Some magic eggs will help you, and some will hurt you. Be very careful when you see a magical egg on the ground. If it's a bad magical egg, don't pick it up! The following magical eggs are available for you:

Blue/White Egg--Feeds all pets, cures all poisoned pets.
Red/White Egg--Feeds all pets.
Yellow/White Egg--Makes all pets lay an egg.
Purple/White Egg--Kills all monsters.
Black/White Egg--Kills some of your pets.
Black/Green Egg--Poisons some of your pets.
Rainbow Egg (Insane Mode Only)--Feeds all pets, cures all poisoned pets, makes all pets lay an egg, kills all monsters.

Hints from Amaranthians

In this section, I have added lots of helpful hints from the citizens of Amaranthia Kingdom, the official Amaranth Games community. These hints come directly from the guides that the citizens have created for other players. If you would like to see the full hint guides, you will need to visit www.amaranthia.com. Also, if you find any of these hints helpful, you should send a PM to the people who created them. :-)

Shaz's Hints

I found it beneficial to save money and sell eggs from my one dragonfly until I had enough to buy a gryphonette straight away (at the end of day 2 or 3) and enough grain to feed both pets.
Each time you return to one of the sectors you may find things lying on the ground - if you are running very short of money and grain you can go between the hatchery and the sector as often as you like (without starting the day at the farm), to see if there is money or grain.
Don't worry if you're over half way through the game and you still have next to nothing to show for it. It doesn't mean you're going to fail so don't quit.
Once you have enough money for Hobb's Cottage, it may pay to spend another day or two working Grimm's Farm.
Once you are definitely finished with a hatchery and you know you won't be going back there again, you can sell all your pets for that hatchery.
If Petriwood starts far away from where monsters appear, "lead" him to the right area by allowing the monsters to wander for a short while, then kill them before they get too close to your pets.
When you see the bomber bird appear, follow it very closely with your mouse. If you click continually as you follow it, you'll be able to destroy most of the bombs immediately.

Tron's Hints

Don't buy more than three Green Dragonflies.
Don't buy more than 15 Gryphonettes.
Always keep at least 5 medicines.
If you only have Grimm's Farm, sell all of your Golden Geese, but keep one for the next farm.
In Greenwich Square, search for Rowan's lost money in the urns. Say you are taking it to give it back. Sure you can keep it and have 200 free gold, but by returning the money you drop the price of Hobb's Cottage from 1400 to 980, a 320 gold discount.
In Greenwich Square, purchase a Raven Sword or Silver Sword as fast as possible.
When you purchase Rosewood Manor, create Green Dragon eggs in the pet lab and hatch them. Once you've got two Green Dragons, sell the rest of your pets.
After you obtain the tractor part from Rosewood Manor, talk to Wimbeldy in the poor section, and have him make you the tractor.

DtD's Hints

Zap a Green Dragonfly Egg and Blue Dragonfly Egg to create a Green Dragon, sell the Green Dragon Egg for 10 coins more than if you sold the Green Dragonfly and Blue Dragonfly eggs.
Instead of selling Gold Goose eggs, try to hatch all your eggs, it would take 9 GG Eggs resulting as rotten to loose you money. (It is unlikely that 8 GG eggs would result as rotten) (NOTE: This works good with many other pets too.)
When working in the hatcheries, this is a good priority: Curing Sick, Feeding Very Hungry, Killing Monsters, Feeding Moderately Hungry, Collecting Eggs, Feeding Newly Hungry.

Phoenixgirl's Hint for Getting the Lightning Rod

The Lightning Rod is a secret weapon that is not available in any store. The Lighting Rod is so powerful that it will kill a monster with one click. If you perform some good deeds for a merchant's sisters, he will sell the Lightning Rod to you.
In Pemberly Keep, take the ruby ring.
Give the ruby ring to Metilda and she'll be grateful.
Buy an Ice Gryphon from Hatir in the noble sector. (Again, I'd recommend buying 2 or 3.)
Go to Pemberly Keep and collect the Ice Gryphon eggs that the Ice Gryphon(s) lay.
See Metilda's sister (Genevieve) and offer her one Ice Gryphon egg. (You only need to give her one.)
Talk to Aldab and choose the gossip option. He'll mention that you have been generous to his sisters and will now reveal his secret stash of weapons. Then choose buy items and you should now see the Lightning Rod available for purchase.

Astral_Sorecer's Pet Zapping Hints

Blue dragonfly Egg + Green dragonfly egg = Green dragon egg
Red dragonfly egg + Gryphon egg = Ruby gryphon egg
Red dragonfly egg + Green dragon egg= Purple Dragon egg
Gold dragonfly egg + Goose egg = Gold goose egg
Gold dragonfly egg + Icebird egg = Firebird

WVM2's Quickest Way To Win Hints

Just farm little dragonfly's, then get (after 4 dragonfly's) 6 gryphonettes. after you have enough for hobb's, take 5 days at grimm's, selling your 6 gryphonettes for 6 more dragonfly's. after you SAVE all those eggs, go to hobb's. after selling all your pets from grimm's, buy blue dragonfly's. farm eggs for 10 days with (5) blue dragonfly's, mix all the eggs. after you get all the eggs, talk to the alchemist. mix your blue and green eggs of dragonflies first, creating tons of green dragon eggs. hatch ALL of those eggs, then use the dragons as a quick-fix. use the eggs, to make more DRAGONS. after you have 10 green dragons (its a reasonable number to take care of) just keep hatching the eggs till you make more dragons. sell those extra ones for TONS of money. repeat till u can get rosewood, AND purple dragons, =) this should get you through the game quite easily.

[courtesy of TRON]

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Walkthrough for winning for Build F (Easy)

You may run into a point in a hatchery that you can’t pick up every egg in the hatchery by the end of the day. That’s okay, you get more time in the hatchery every day.
Pick up as may eggs as you can and you will do just fine.

Make sure that your pets do not die! Each one that dies will cost you money to replace.

From the Backlands to Greenwich Square
Backlands, Day 1.

Buy 1 goose, 2 grain. Find Stick.

Grimm’s Farm Day 1.
Pick up Wheel.

Finished day one.

Days 2-6
Note: Do not buy more than three Green Dragonflies.

In the Backlands, steps for the days.

1: Sell all eggs. (Yes even the Golden Goose eggs.)
2: Buy enough grain for each pet, plus 1. (If you have 3 pets; buy enough grin so you have 4.)
3a: If you have enough gold for a Goose, buy one.
3b: If you did not buy a Goose, and have enough gold for a Green Dragonfly, and do not already have 3, buy one.
3c: Buy enough grain so you have one grain for each pet. (Save the rest of the money)
4: Finish the day by starting Grimm’s Farm.

Day 7 till you hatch a Golden Goose.
Note: Do not buy more than 15 Gryphonette.

In the Backlands, steps for the days.

First Set

1: Sell only regular Goose Eggs.
2a: Check your eggs.
2b: If you have 9 or more Golden Goose Eggs, go to second set of instructions.
2c: If you have more than 30 Green Dragonfly Eggs, sell the eggs until you only have 30, and sell your Dragonflies.
2d: If you have more than 9 Gryphonette eggs hatch them.
3: If you have more than 15 pets, sell Gryphonette until you have 15 pets.
4: Buy enough grain for each pet, plus 1. If you don’t have enough money, sell a Gryphonette.
5a: If you have enough gold for a Gryphonette, have 6 Goose, and have fewer than 15 pets, buy one.
5b: If you have enough gold for a Goose, and do not already have 6, buy one
6a: Buy enough grain so you have one for each pet.
6b: If you do not have 5 medicines, buy one.
7c: Save rest of money. (If you need the wooden sword go ahead and buy one.)
8: Finish the day by starting Grimm’s Farm.

Second set, don’t follow till you were told too.

1: Hatch the Golden Goose eggs.
2: Did you hatch a Golden Goose?
3a: (No), go back to the first set of instructions.
3b: (Yes), chat with Amelia, the woman with the basket, and give her a golden goose.
4: Sell all of your Goose, and Golden Goose
5: Keep 40 gold, use the rest to just buy Gryphonette, max of 15.
6: Buy enough grain so you have 2 for each pet. (if you have 15 pets, buy grain until you have 30 grain)
7a: If you do not have 5 medicines, buy one.
7b: Save rest of money.
8: Finish the day by starting Grimm’s Farm.

From Greenwich Square to Hobb's Cottage

In the Greenwich Square:

First off, Search for Rowan’s lost money. Say you are taking it to give it back. Sure you can keep it and have 200 free gold, but by returning the money you drop the price of Hobb’s Cottage from 1400 to 980, a 320 gold discount.

Steps for the days:

First Set

1: If you have more than 9 Gryphonette eggs hatch them.
2: If you have more than 15 Gryphonette, sell them until you have 15.
3: Buy enough grain so you have 2 for each pet.
4: If you have enough gold for a Gryphonette, and have fewer than 15, buy one.
5: Buy enough grain so you have 2 for each pet.
6: If you do not have 5 medicines, buy one.
7a: Check your money, if you have more than 980 gold, go to second set.
7b: Save rest of money. (Don’t buy any weapon except the wooden sword.)
8: Finish the day by starting Grimm’s Farm.

Second Set

1: Talk to Annara, woman talking to the man. And give her the 980.
2: Follow the first set two more days, and then sell all of your pets.
3: Purchase one Blue Dragonfly, if you have the money buy a second one.
4: Buy up to 3 rascals.
5: Buy enough grain so you have 2 for each pet.
6: Save rest of money.
7: Finish the day by starting Hobb’s Cottage.

From Hobb’s Cottage to Rosewood Manor
In the Greenwich Square:

First Set

1a: Talk to the apothecary, and Zap your Green Dragonfly eggs and your Blue Dragonfly eggs to produce Green Dragon Eggs.
1b: If you run out of Green Dragonfly Eggs, go to the second set of instructions.
2: If you have more than 9 Green Dragon eggs, or Rascal Eggs, hatch them.
3a: If you have more than three Rascals, sell down to three.
3b: If you have more than 20 Green Dragon, sell down to 20.
4: Buy enough grain so you have 2 for each pet, if you don’t have enough money sell a rascal.
6: If you do not have 5 medicines, buy one.
7: Save rest of money. (Buy a Raven sword if you need too.)
8: Finish the day by starting Hobb’s Cottage.

Second Set
Sell all pets except for Green Dragons. (Don’t repeat this.)
Purchase a Raven Sword if you don’t already have one.

1a: If you have fewer than 5 Gryphon, and have more than 9 Gryphon eggs hatch them.
1b: If you have fewer than 5 Gryphon, and have enough money, buy one.
1c: If you have more than 5 Gryphon, sell down to 5.
1d: If you have more than 30 Gryphon eggs see the third set of instructions.
2: If you have more than 9 Green Dragon eggs, hatch them.
3: If you have more than 20 Green Dragon, sell down to 20.
4: Make sure you have enough grain so you have 2 for each pet. If you don’t have enough money, sell a green dragon.
5: Save rest of money. (Buy a Silver Sword if you need too.)
6: Finish the day by starting Hobb’s Cottage.

Third Set
Sell all Gryphons.
Purchase a Silver Sword if you don’t already have one.

1: If you have 30,000 gold, repeat this set twice more, then see the fourth set of instructions.
2: If you have more than 9 Green Dragon eggs, hatch them.
3: If you have more than 25 Green Dragon, sell down to 25.
4: Make sure you have enough grain so you have 2 for each pet. If you don’t have enough money, sell a green dragon.
6: Save rest of money.
7: Finish the day by starting Hobb’s Cottage.

Fourth Set
Sell all Green Dragon
Buy 2 Ice Birds, and 3 Red Dragonflies. If you have the money, buy 1 more ice bird.
Rosewood Manor to Pre Pemberly Keep

In the Greenwich Square:

Steps for the days:

After you obtain the tractor part from Rosewood Manor, talk to Wimbeldy in the poor section, and have him make you the tractor.

First Set

1a: Talk to the apothecary, and Zap your Red Dragonfly eggs and your Gryphon eggs to produce Ruby Gryphon Eggs.
1b: If you run out of Gryphon Eggs, go to the second set of instructions.
2: If you have more than 9 Ruby Gryphon Eggs, hatch them.
3: If you have more than 30 Ice Bird Eggs, sell all of your Ice birds, and sell down to 30 Ice Bird eggs.
4: Buy enough grain so you have 2 for each pet, if you don’t have enough money sell a Red Dragonfly.
5: If you do not have 5 medicines, buy one.
6: Save rest of money.
7: Finish the day by starting Rosewood Manor.

Second Set

1a: If you have more than 9 Ruby Gryphon Eggs, hatch them.
1b: If you have more than 30 Ice Bird Eggs, sell all of your Ice birds, and sell to 30 Ice Bird eggs.
2: If you have more than 11 Ruby Gryphon, go to the Third set of instructions
3: Buy enough grain so you have 2 for each pet, if you don’t have enough money sell a Ruby Gryphon.
4: If you do not have 5 medicines, buy one.
5: Save rest of money.
6: Finish the day by starting Rosewood Manor.

Third Set
Give a Ruby Gryphon to Rowan, the one that lost his money.
Visit the noble sector, and purchase both the Toad and the Star sword from Aldab the man to the right. Then chat with the man to the left and negotiate. He will then give you his defensive pet petrewood. If you do not have the money for both, just buy the Star Sword, and wait till you start selling Ruby gryphon’s to get the toad sword.

1: If you have more than 9 Ruby Gryphon Eggs, hatch them.
2: If you have more than 25 Ruby Gryphon, sell down to 25.
3: Buy enough grain so you have 2 for each pet, if you don’t have enough money sell a Ruby Gryphon.
4: If you do not have 5 medicines, buy one.
5a: If you have 120,000 gold repeat this set twice, then go the fourth set.
5b: Save rest of money.
6: Finish the day by starting Rosewood Manor.

Forth Set
You now have two choices. You can keep going with the third set until you have enough money to buy back your castle. Depending upon how your hatch rate is, and how many days you have left to get the required amount this can be the best option. If you have 15-20 days left, feel free to do this, just save your game in a different spot if it doesn’t work out. Or you can continue onto Pemberly Keep
Pemberly Keep
If you decided to purchase Pemberly Keep, sell all of your pets.
Purchase Pemberly Keep from Matilda, the lady on the right.
Purchase 4 Gold Dragonfly, and an Ice Gryphon.

Try to keep your pets alive at all costs.

1: Check how much money you have. If by selling all of your pets, and eggs, you have the required money, Congratulations, you now can win the game.
2: Zap your Gold Dragonfly eggs and your Ice Bird eggs to make Firebird Eggs.
3: Hatch the firebird eggs, you choose either to sell the Fire birds, or to keep the birds to get there eggs.
4: Give the Ring to the Lady on the right, and an Ice Gryphon to the lady on the left. Chat with the man on the right and he will be willing to sell you the lightning Rod. It is your choice weather to buy it or not. Me I buy it.
5: Sell the Rest of the Ice Gryphon eggs and the ice gryphon.
6: Buy enough grain so you have 2 for each pet,
7: Save the rest of the money
8: Start Day.

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