Willy Builder

Willy Builder
Piñatas like to feel safe, especially at night when they need to sleep. They also like a little privacy where they can romance. Willy can fill both needs with one building, a home especially built for each and every type of Piñata. Just pay him, and show him exactly where you want it.
Type	Shop Keeper
Level	1
Value	0 coins

For answers to commonly asked Willy Builder questions, see below.

Willy Builder is a shop owner who works to build buildings. He builds houses for Piñatas as well as produce stations for piñatas that can make produce items such as milk and wool. He can also build structures such as the Mine and a house for Helpers, and in Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise, he can also build the Garden Store which stores items in the garden. In his shop you can hire him to build buildings using Chocolate Coins.

Building a Building

When Willy Builder is hired to build a building, he slowly walks to the location he was asked to build the building, enters the building cover, and then a countdown starts. When the countdown finishes, he exits the building, and then he marks the building as complete. He will then wait outside until the building is revealed by using the shovel. If left outside for too long, he may swing his wrench.

Piñata Housing

The inside of Willy Builder's store in Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise.

The inside of Willy Builder's store in Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise.

All piñatas need a place to call home. Housing provides a safe and private space for piñatas, where they can rest or romance. In fact, building a house for a species is one of its Romance requirements.

Each species of piñata has its own unique style of house, that no other species can enter. After the desired housing piece is placed Willy will wander over to construct it. Once he is finished, the shovel must be used to smash the temporary construction barrier, and reveal the piñata's new home.

Selling a house lowers the happiness for all piñatas of that species. If you sell a house that has an unhatched egg, the egg will be destroyed!

Housing for a species is available from Willy Builder once that species becomes a resident, this does not require the player to also have the resident award for the piñata. (in the case of the Mystery Home both the Rashberry and the Swanana must have been a resident).

Viva Piñata

Home	Price	Description
Arocknid	825	The Arocknid's house is a sink covered in cobwebs.
Badgesicle	825	The Badgesicle's house is a hole in the ground.
Barkbark	1155	The Barkbark's house is a 70s diner.
Bonboon	1980	The Bonboon's house is a TP'd outhouse in a tree.
Bunnycomb	330	The Bunnycomb's house is a rabbit cage with a ramp.
Buzzenge	1155	The Buzzenge's house is a tree trunk carved as a guitar.
Buzzlegum	550	The Buzzlegum's house is a beehive covered in honey.
Candary	330	The Candary's house is a standard birdhouse.
Chewnicorn	2475	The Chewnicorn's house is a castle of clouds with a rainbow.
Chippopatamus	1980	The Chippopatamus' house is a hippo head made of mud.
Cinnamonkey	1540	The Cinnamonkey's house is a barrel on a spring.
Cluckles	550	The Cluckles' house is a tall chicken coop.
Cocoadile	1155	The Cocoadile's house is a crudely made wooden crocodile head.
Crowla	825	The Crowla's house is a model of the haunted mansion from "Grabbed by the Ghoulies" in a tree.
Doenut	1155	The Doenut's house is a disco club.
Dragumfly	1540	The Dragumfly's house is a suit of armor.
Eaglair	2475	The Eaglair's house is a cliff-top saloon.
Elephanilla	2475	The Elephanilla's house is an Indian palace.
Fizzlybear	5600	The Fizzlybear's house is a beach hut.
Fourheads	1980	The Fourheads' house is a Greek temple.
Fudgehog	550	The Fudgehog's house is a pile of leaves.
Galagoogoo	2475	The Galagoogoo's house is a cardboard box in a sandbox.
Goobaa	1155	The Goobaa's house is a bed.
Horstachio	1540	The Horstachio's house is a western wagon.
Jameleon	825	The Jameleon's house is a green and purple tent.
Juicygoose	850	The Juicygoose's house is a colorfully flowered bonnet.
Kittyfloss	825	The Kittyfloss' house is an oriental hut.
Lackatoad	825	The Lackatoad's house is a bottle of poison.
Lickatoad	330	The Lickatoad's house is a windmill with an entrance ramp.
Macaracoon	1155	The Macaracoon's house is a giant trash can.
Mallowolf	1540	The Mallowolf's house is a stone wolf head resembling the wolf head from Sabre Wulf.
Moozipan	1540	The Moozipan's house is an upside-down udder.
Mothdrop	330	The Mothdrop's house is a giant lightbulb.
Mousemallow	165	The Mousemallow's house is a grandfather clock.
Newtgat	550	The Newtgat's house is a Japanese paper lantern.
Parrybo	1980	The Parrybo's house is a pirate's treasure chest featuring Mr. Ribs from Grabbed by the Ghoulies.
Pigxie (first appears as Mystery Home)	1980	The Pigxie's house is a cross between the Rashberry's house and the Swanana's house.
Ponocky	1155	The Ponocky's house is a pink stable.
Pretztail	330	The Pretztail's house is a barn.
Profitamole	825	The Profitamole's house is a small mine.
Pudgeon	1155	The Pudgeon's house is a statue of Professor Pester covered in droppings.
Quackberry	550	The Quackberry's house is a wooden pirate ship.
Raisant	550	The Raisant's house is a termite mound.
Rashberry	825	The Rashberry's house is an army bunker.
Reddhott	1155	The Reddhott's house is an arm holding a torch of lava.
Roario	3025	The Roario's house is a castle in the shape of a crown.
Salamango	1540	The Salamango's house is an active volcano surrounded by tiki heads.
Shellybean	330	The Shellybean's house is a conch shell.
Sherbat	550	The Sherbat's house is a belfry. (To go with the saying "Bats in the belfry")
Sparrowmint	165	The Sparrowmint's house is a hanging bird's nest.
Squazzil	550	The Squazzil's house is a giant acorn in an oak tree.
Swanana	1540	The Swanana's house is a beautiful temple surrounded by a moat.
Sweetooth	1155	The Sweetooth's house is a beaver dam.
Syrupent	165	The Syrupent's house is a stone snake head.
Taffly	165	The Taffly's house is a flyzapper.
Twingersnap	825	The Twingersnap's house is an Aztec temple.
Whirlm	55	The Whirlm's house is a network of pipes.
White Flutterscotch	330	The Flutterscotch's house is a butterfly garden.
Zumbug	1980	The Zumbug's house is a carnival tent.

Special Buildings

These buildings are used for specific tasks in your garden.

Special Buildings

Building	Price	Requirement	Use
Honey Hive	66	Level 5	Required for Buzzlegum to produce honey.
Shearing Shed	462	Goobaa residing	Required for Goobaa to produce wool.
Milking Shed	616	Moozipan residing	Required for Moozipan to produce milk.
Helper House	220	Level 10	A place for helpers to sleep, lets them start work sooner.
Mine	16,500	Level 26	Your diggerling can dig for treasure here. Needed to gain a Dragonache.

Errors

• In the Console version, Willy says "butty" instead of "sandwich" in "Morning, guv. I'd offer you a bacon sandwich, but I've just eaten the last one.". The text has been fixed in the PC version.

Commonly Asked Questions

Why do all piñatas [of a species] tend to flock to the same house?

This is an innate ability that all piñatas possess, illustrating the adage 'Birds of a feather flock together.' Fortunately it only applies to when they're tired and want to sleep. When romancing, they'll seek the closest house. Clever gardeners who desire to mass-romance a species can use this to their advantage, by carefully situating multiple houses in a garden.

My Helper House has disappeared. Any ideas?

The most likely culprits are the Ruffians. If they've been visiting your garden, one of them probably smashed it while your back was turned. Get yourself a Captain's Cutlass to keep them out of your garden. The other (less likely) possibilities are that it's turned invisible, or that someone else has been playing in your garden, and sold it.

What level do you have to be to get the Mystery House?

The Mystery Home should show up in the Housing list (not Special Buildings), once you've got a Rashberry. It should initially appear as Mystery Home (with a ? icon or Pigxie icon).

Gallery

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