Happiness Rating

The Candiosity meter as shown below the cursor focused on the Peckanmix piñata in Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise.

Each resident piñata in a garden has a happiness rating, or Candiosity meter in Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise, that reflects the quality of the care that has been provided. Despite being retconned to Candiosity in Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise to fit in with it having to be maxed out to be sent into a party in the game, it still acts as a measurement of happiness. If it stays very sad for a while, it will walk out of the garden and return to the wild, causing it to lose its resident status, and also lose any accessories, stats, and name applied to the piñata.

A piñata's happiness is shown on the happiness meter and in the expression on the face (or the color of the Cannoñata icon in Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise) within the happiness meter. The happiness meter shows when the cursor is over the piñata. Happier piñata are worth more chocolate coins. A very sad piñata will be crying, detectable from a distance.

Some things that can make piñatas happier/increase candiosity are:

• Naming it.
• Directing it to eat a seed, flower, fruit, vegetable, or produce that it enjoys.
• Directing it to a pond.
• Watering it with the watering can (if it likes that sort of thing).
• Directing it to eat happy candy or joy candy.
• Buying it an accessory.
• Romancing it with another piñata.
• Building a house for it.

Some things that can make piñatas sad/reduce candiosity are:

• Getting squashed underfoot by other piñatas.
• Getting hit by the shovel.
• Seeing other piñatas get whacked by the shovel, broken, and injured.
• Being in close proximity to another piñata that is higher up on the food chain.
• Selling or taking away its accessory(s).
• Feeding it a Sour Candy and becoming ill.
• Being watered if it doesn't like being watered (except for Chippopotamus, Cocoadile, Custacean, Juicygoose, Lackatoad, Lickatoad, Quackberry, Swanana & Sweetooth).