Zen Event – Grow a Garden Wiki

Event Cycles

The Tranquil Cycle

Once every hour, the Zen Aura spread across the garden, shifting the sky into a soft pastel tone and calming the overall lighting. For about 10 minutes, crops around the world slowly gained the Tranquil Mutation, one appearing roughly every 30 seconds. By the end of each cycle, 20 crops were transformed, giving players plenty of chances to gather Tranquil plants for special trades and event goals.

The Corrupted Cycle

Later, in Update 1.16.0, the Corrupted Cycle joined as a dark counterpart to the Zen Aura. It had a one-in-three chance to appear instead, turning the sky into deep red shades and spreading an eerie glow over the garden. Just like the Tranquil version, one crop became Corrupted every 30 seconds, with a total of 20 affected crops per event.

Event Features

During the event, players could interact with new figures — the Tanuki and the Zen Channeller — who guided them through the event’s core mechanics.

Getting Tranquil Mutations

Players could obtain Tranquil Crops in several ways, not just through the event’s weather system: During Zen Aura weather, one crop mutated every 30 seconds. By collecting Zen-type crops while using the Kodama. Through Tanchozuru’s passive ability, which sometimes created Tranquil variants. By applying special Mutation Sprays designed for the event.

Kitsune Quest

Between the borders of the Zen and Corrupted Islands, players could find the mysterious Kitsune NPC, offering a short spiritual challenge. To earn the Kitsune Chest, players needed to gather balance submitting 5 Tranquil Crops and 5 Corrupted Crops. Completing this quest symbolized harmony between the two opposing energies and rewarded players with items linked to the Kitsune’s dual nature.

Corrupt Zen Quests

Players could take on Corrupt Zen Quests, a rotating set of challenges that tied directly into the Zen Aura cycle. Each completed quest granted a unique reward and added one extra Corrupted Mutation during the next Zen Aura Event. Up to 10 Corrupted Mutations could occur each cycle, but players were free to complete as many quests as they wanted. With every few completions, the quests would gradually scale in difficulty moving from Easy to more demanding tiers. At the start of each new hour, the challenge list refreshed, returning to an easier level to let everyone participate again.

Zen Channeller

The Zen Channeller allows players to transform Tranquil crops into Chi, a mystical energy used to nurture and evolve the Zen Tree. Each donation of Tranquil crops adds Chi that contributes toward growing the Zen Tree through seven unique stages. Every stage grants themed rewards and unlocks new items in the Tranquil Treasures Shop.

Zen Tree Progression & Rewards

With each level of growth, the Zen Tree provides rewards that may include: 1–5 Zen Eggs, 1–5 Zen Seed Packs, 1–5 Zen Crates, 1–6 Zen Gnome Crates, Chi bonuses (20–100 Chi). Once the tree reaches its 7th and final stage, players can continue offering Chi for extra rewards, even though visual growth stops at that stage.

Tanuki

The Tanuki is the merchant responsible for collecting Tranquil crops and converting them directly into Chi. Unlike the Zen Channeller, which focuses on tree growth, Tanuki acts as the player’s main way to earn and spend Chi within the event. Players can exchange Tranquil crops with Tanuki just like with the Channeller, but here the focus is on Chi generation for shopping and upgrades instead of tree evolution.

Tranquil Treasures Shop

The Tranquil Treasures Shop is managed by the Tanuki and restocks automatically every hour. Players can also manually restock the shop by paying 500,000 Sheckles, with the cost doubling each time it’s used.

Manual Restock Price Formula: 500,000 × 2ⁿ (where n is the number of manual restocks that day). The price resets daily at 12:00 AM UTC, giving players a fresh chance to restock affordably.

Available shop items depend on the player’s Zen Tree stage, encouraging players to keep channeling Chi to unlock more exclusive rewards and items.