A Numeric Look at Tiny Pasture

A Numeric Look at Tiny Pasture containing any and all information a player might be interested in knowing. Ever wondered how rare rainbow quality animals really are? How to optimize your earning potential? Or simply curious about the parts of the game you have yet to encounter?

Then this is the guide for you.

Introduction

The following is a comprehensive guide to Tiny Pasture, the game which allows you to have tiny adorable animals jumping across the bottom of your screen as you do other things.


Fun fact: I was playing Tiny Pasture whilst putting this guide together.

Facilities a.k.a. Turning the Game Into an Idle Game

Tired of actively playing the game or having to close it down whenever you leave the computer? Worried or annoyed that your animals don't get taken care of when you're not there? Then Facilities are the thing for you.

There are a total of four facilities: The Money Beehive, the Magic Broom, the Mystery Curtain, and the Cuckoo House. All of which can be upgraded up to four times.

The Money Beehive

Whenever an animal of yours has reached the maximum amount of money they can store, a tiny little bee is sent out to automatically collect the money straight into your bank account. No more petting the animals to claim the money necessary.

At level 1 you will start with a single slow bee and as you upgrade the Money Beehive the bees will grow faster and the amount will increase up to a total of 5 bees.

The Magic Broom

Sends out a broom to sweep up your animals' poops for you, has a cool-down between sweeping.

As you upgrade the broom it will move faster, the cool-down period will decrease, and the amount of poop the broom can sweep per activation increases up to a maximum of 5.

The Mystery Curtain

Unlocks the ability to breed together two animals of the same species.

As you upgrade the Mystery Curtain the cool-down period between breeding session decreases, starting at 15 minutes at level 1 and ending at 1 minute for level 5.

NOTE: Upgrades take into effect starting from the next breed. If you have recently bred two animals the current cool-down will not be affected.

The Cuckoo House

Intermittently puts out food for your animals to eat. (You still have to pay for the food - it is not free)

As you upgrade the Cuckoo House you will decrease the cool-down from 5 minutes down to 3 minutes as well as upgrading which kind of feed it puts out, starting with carrots (Provides 5 Fullness) at level 1 and ending with Acorns (Provides 28 Fullness) at level 5.

Best Tactics For Making Money

A big part of Tiny Pasture's progression is earning money. Whilst you can enjoy the game even without focusing on earning large amounts of money you should try to get to a point where you earn at least a couple thousand coins per minute in order to truly enjoy it, so here's some tips on how to effectively increase your earnings.

A fair warning: If you want to focus on making money, you should not get attached to any one animal because in order to make good money you will need to sell and switch out your animals frequently.

When I first started playing I made the mistake to fall in love with this little cutie named 'First Bud', who has since followed me throughout my entire playtime.





I'm not saying to not get attached to them, just wait until you can afford your first warehouse (6000 coins) so that you can put them away when you want to focus on earning money and don't have space for your lovelies because those cute early-game animals will never make you anywhere close to good money no matter how hard you try (even the rainbow variants are terrible in comparison to later animal types).

Early-Game Specific Tips

• Repeatedly clicking animals (petting them) to have them drop money. When you're still in the stage where you're only working with rabbits, corgis, and cats this will be a significant amount of money and will help you progress a lot faster than you otherwise would.
  
• Do not feed animals more than what they need to be fed. Early game coins are very valuable and buying more carrots than you need is a waste. As long as the animals are above 50% hunger they're doing fine, no need to waste additional money on them.

General tips : Always upgrade to the newer species

The newer species make significantly more money than the previous ones, as seen below, and as a result you should sell off your old animals to make room for new ones.

Below is a table showing the Earning Rates (coins/min) of animals purchased from the shop, but in general the Earning rates of different quality animals can be calculated as follows:

• Gray: Base Price
  
• Light Blue: 1,2 * Base Price
  
• Yellow: 1,667 * Base Price
  
• Red: 3,75 * Base Price
  
• Rainbow: 10* Base Price

	Gray	Light Blue	Yellow	Red	Rainbow
Rabbit	4	5	7	15	40
Corgi	10	12	17	38	100
Cat	24	29	40	90	240
Hamster	60	72	100	225	600
Fox	80	96	133	300	800
Chicken	100	120	167	375	1000
Parrot	133	160	222	500	1333
Capybara	200	240	333	750	2000
Alpaca	267	320	444	1000	2667
Red Panda	400	480	667	1500	4000
Ghostie	667	800	1111	2500	6667
Slime	833	1000	1389	3125	8333
Deer	1000	1200	1667	3750	10000
Zombie	1667	2000	2778	6250	16667
Panda	3333	4000	5556	12500	33333

So how do you unlock better animals? Simple, there are three different type of requirements: total amount of money earned, X amount of Y animal type raised, total amount of poop cleared.

Assuming you have the other animal unlocked the second one is the easiest of the three, followed by the total amount of money raised. I've found that cleaning poop - whilst necessary to keep your animals healthy - does not happen often enough to unlock any animals of interest. In comparison, earning enough money to unlock red pandas and pandas is far faster.

Animal	Cost per animal	Requirements
Rabbit	120	NONE
Corgi	300	3 rabbit
Cat	720	2000 money
Hamster	1800	60 poop
Fox	2400	3 Cat
Chicken	3000	5 Hamster
Parrot	4000	150 poop
Capybara	6000	5 parrot
Alpaca	8000	300 poop
Red Panda	12000	300 000 money
Ghostie	20000	3 Alpaca
Slime	25000	5 Red panda
Deer	30000	500 poop
Zombie	50000	5 Deer
Panda	100000	1 000 000 money

Other than making sure you have the most recent animal there is only one other thing you can do to make more money and that is: make space for more animals. More animals = More earning.

Way 1: If you can afford it. purchase more pasture slots.

Way 2: Unlock breeding to combine two animals together, this will leave an additional space for you to get an additional animal.

Breeding

Breeding in Tiny Pasture is fairly simple. Once you unlock the 'Mystery Curtain' you can chose two animals to breed together and you end up with a new animal whose Earnings Rate is the sum of its parents.

NOTE! The two animals you chose to breed together will disappear forever! The parents DO NOT stick around so if you have an animal you really don't want to lose, don't breed them.

When breeding you will have the option of the offspring inheriting either parent's name or color. If 'Random Color' is chosen there is a chance to get a color that is different from either of the parents.

The quality of the offspring is determined based on the new Earnings Rate. For example a bunny offspring's quality would be the following:

4 coins/min = Gray
5-6 coins/min = Light Blue
7-14 coins/min = Yellow
15-34 coins/min = Red

Note that the red quality animals's Earnings Rate is capped (Bunnies are capped at 34 coins/min). Breeding together animals whose Earnings Rates add up to more than this cap will result in an offspring whose Earnings Rate is equal to said cap. For example: Breeding two bunnies whose Earnings Rates are 30 coins/min and 15 coins/min will result in an offspring with Earnings Rate 34 coins/min.

Rainbow animals does not have such a cap and can have their Earnings Rates increased indefinitely.

You can not breed non-rainbow and obtain a rainbow quality. Rainbows can only be purchased from the shop. However once you receive a rainbow you can rest easy knowing that breeding a rainbow animal with any other animal - rainbow quality or not rainbow quality - will always result in the offspring being of rainbow quality.

In case you are curious about the cap for red animals, it's the Base Earning Rate of the rainbow equivalent - 6 coins/min, or as follows:

Animal	Cap for Red
Rabbit	34
Corgi	94
Cat	234
Hamster	594
Fox	794
Chicken	994
Parrot	1327
Capybara	1994
Alpaca	2661
Red Panda	3994
Ghostie	6661
Slime	8327
Deer	9994
Zombie	16661
Panda	33327

Keep in mind when breeding that you will end up with a juvenile - who will therefor not be producing any money until they've reached adulthood. The growing time of an animal is determined both by the species of animal as well as the quality of said animal.

Grow Time	Gray	Blue	Yellow	Red	Rainbow
Rabbit	01:00	01:30	05:00	10:00	20:00
Corgi	01:15	01:52	06:15	12:30	25:00
Cat	01:30	02:15	07:30	15:00	30:00
Hamster	01:45	02:37	08:45	17:30	35:00
Fox	02:00	03:00	10:00	20:00	40:00
Chicken	02:15	03:22	11:15	22:30	45:00
Parrot	02:30	03:45	12:30	25:00	50:00
Capybara	02:45	04:07	13:45	27:30	55:00
Alpaca	03:00	04:30	15:00	30:00	1:00:00
Red Panda	03:15	04:52	16:15	32:30	1:05:00
Ghostie	03:30	05:15	17:30	35:00	1:10:00
Slime	03:45	05:37	18:45	37:30	1:15:00
Deer	04:00	06:00	20:00	40:00	1:20:00
Zombie	04:15	06:22	21:15	42:30	1:25:00
Panda	04:30	06:45	22:30	45:00	1:30:00

Getting Rainbow Quality Animals

NOTE! You can NOT get rainbow animals by breeding two non-rainbow animals together. You have to get them through the shop.


As everyone else, I was curious about what the chances of getting the rainbow quality animals might be, so I began tracking how many pulls it would take before I got a rainbow. What I found was that it seems like there's a flat 0.2% chance of pulling a rainbow quality animal, regardless of what species you're going for. Meaning that whether you're going for a rainbow quality panda or a rainbow quality rabbit it's on average going to take you a total of 500 pulls to get one.

For anyone interested in the specific results I got, here's a table summarizing them. Though keep in mind that since I only did about 10 rainbow animals per each species the results for individual animal types will not be terribly accurate and therefor stray slightly from the expected 0,2%.

Animal Type	Amount Purchased	Number of Rainbows Gotten	Average Cost of Rainbow	Average Amount of Pulls	Percentage Chance
Rabbit	11529	21	65 880	549	0,18%
Corgi	4819	11	131 427	438	0,23%
Cat	3037	10	218 664	303	0,33%
Hamster	3731	10	671 580	373	0,27%
Fox	5435	10	1 304 400	543	0,18%
Chicken	6435	10	1 930 500	643	0,16%
Parrot	8478	10	3 391 200	847	0,12%
Capybara	5283	10	3 169 800	528	0,19%
Alpaca	4410	10	3 528 000	441	0,23%
Red Panda	4946	10	5 935 200	494	0,20%
Ghostie	4461	10	8 922 000	446	0,22%
Slime	6148	10	15 370 000	614	0,16%
Deer	7447	14	15 957 857	531	0,19%
Zombie	3682	10	18 410 000	368	0,27%
Panda	11887	21	56 604 761	566	0,18%
Total	91728	177		518	0,19%

Seeing as the chance of getting rainbow quality animals are the same for all species, I'd assume the same to be true for the other qualities as well so I began buy individual rabbits, taking note of what their qualities were. Since this had to be done manually and couldn't be left to do its thing like the rainbow animals I don't have nearly as many samples so the percentages won't be completely accurate, but it should still enough to give you a rough estimation of what the chances of getting the different qualities are like.

Rabbits	Gray	Light Blue	Yellow	Red	Rainbow	Total
Pulls	5406	3078	957	349	7	9797
Percentage	55,18%	31,42%	9,77%	3,56%	0,07%

Achievements Tips and Tricks

Quite a few of the achievements for this game will be unlocked automatically just by playing the game. Here's some tips and tricks for unlocking those that you are less likely to get without trying.

To start off I'd like to recommend you to not start hunting achievements until you have a decent source of income, i.e. at least a couple of maxed out red quality pandas. Many of the achievements rely on being able to spend money and so until you're able to do so your only focus should be on earning more money.



Organic feeding - purchase a decoration which has a description that mentions you can harvest it, wait until it matures, and then click the plant.

Unlock backgrounds - Can be found and purchased at the bottom of the decoration tag.

Encyclopedia Enthusiast (one achievement for each species) - Get animals of all colors. This can be achieved by purchasing single animals. Each species has between 1-5 different color variants. If you're curious about how many variants a specific species has you can check it in the album on the bottom middle. The album also allows you to see which color variants you have already unlocked. Note that an animal only counts as unlocked once it's grown to adulthood, so you will have to be patient wait a little while for the achievement to appear after you've purchased one of each color.

Since there aren't a lot of color variants - and there doesn't seem to be any that are rarer than others - you can simply flip through the different variants by clicking "Buy Once" and then "Buy Again" until you find one you're looking for. Note that doing this will only allow you to keep the animals you "Accept".

Brilliant New Animal! - Breed an animal of the highest quality. The only way to breed a rainbow quality offspring is for one of the parents to be of rainbow quality. You will need to start by getting a rainbow quality animal from the store.

Encyclopedia Collector (one achievement for each species) - Get animals of all colors to rainbow quality. The most optimal way of getting these achievements is to get a single rainbow quality animal per species and then methodically breed them with other non-rainbow quality animals of a color you're missing to have it switch between all the available colors. You do not need to have them all at the same time.

Super Pasture Keeper - If you haven't gotten this one by the time you've gotten all of the other achievements you should just continuously mass-purchase grey quality rabbits (which have the shortest growth time of 1 minute) and sell them as soon as they grow up until you get the achievement.

Final Statements

If you feel like there's anything missing from this guide feel free to leave additions or questions in the comments below <3

[Everdyne]

Thanks for this guide! Any chance you plan on updating for Sheep and Cows?

[Meow Clawmore]

Please add cow and sheep.

[Timla Vmun]

I literally just made a graph with all of these numbers last night, when I could have just looked here instead... great work! :')

[xxx]

big thanks for this guide, I've been looking for the cap for red animals <3