In Grow a Garden, master the Art of Pet Shard Forger and shave hours from crafting time as you weave shards into power.
How to Obtain Forger Pet Mutation Shard in Grow a Garden
Forger Pet Mutation Shard can be crafted at the Gear Crafting Station during the Smithing event, using a Gem Egg, Legendary Coal, Cleansing Pet Shard, and 15 million sheckles, then applied to a chosen pet to grant the Forger mutation. The mutation speeds up crafting by boosting progress at active crafting tables, making it especially valuable during long Smithing sessions. After applying, place the mutated pet on the farm to benefit from its faster crafting during events.
The Forger pet mutation shard is listed on the gear crafting recipes while the Smithing event is active. So, the only way to get this is by acquiring all the items needed to craft the shard. Here’s what you need to craft the Forger pet mutation shard in Grow a Garden:
- 1x Gem Egg: Crafted in the pet crafting station or purchased from the Pet Egg shop
- 1x Legendary Coal: Obtained by submitting legendary fruits, pets, and gear at the Smithing event
- 1x Cleansing Pet Shard: It can be purchased from the gear shop in Grow a Garden
- 15 million Sheckles: Sell higher rarity fruits and get the required money
Having collected all of them, head to the gear crafting area and press ‘E‘ to interact with it. Upon finding the Forger pet shard, click on it and select the Craft button. Now, you can press the ‘F‘ to submit all ingredients at once and then pay the required amount to start the crafting process. It will take 1 hour to craft the shard, after which you can collect it from the station.
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Grow a Garden Forger Pet Mutation Abilities
Grow a Garden Forger Pet Mutation Abilities opens up unique ways to customize your team, letting you blend traits and enhance survivability while you craft shards more efficiently.
Once you use the Pet Mutation Shard Forger on any of your pets in Grow a Garden, here is the passive ability it will gain:
| Forger Pet Mutation | Stats |
|---|---|
| Ability | – Pet can go to an active crafting table and reduce its crafting time by 44.74 seconds |
Should You Get the Forger Pet Mutation Shard?
The Forger Pet Mutation Shard is a valuable pick for players looking to tailor their pet team, offering targeted mutations that can boost specific stats and abilities. If you’re aiming to optimize crafting time reductions or diversify your lineup, this shard can be a strategic asset to invest in.
Yes, getting the Forger pet mutation shard is absolutely necessary if you’re actively participating in the Grow a Garden Smithing event. Using this shard on any of your pets will save you a lot of time in crafting pets, plants, gears, and all cosmetics. As you progress through the event, crafting rarer items might take up a lot of time, and therefore, the need for a forger mutation on a pet can help at such times.
Since the Forger pet mutation in Grow a Garden doesn’t help plants get any sort of mutation, you may think of removing it later once the event goes away.
Best pets to apply the Forger shard to
Applying the Forger shard is mostly about putting it on a pet you will always have equipped and that is not better used for something else.
General rules
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Put Forger on a permanent “utility” pet you keep out all the time (not a pet you swap in and out just for farming or hatching).
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Avoid using it on pets that could hold stronger, rarity-limited shards later (top-tier cooldown or damage pets, for example).
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Prefer a pet that does not rely on another mutation already, so you are not overwriting something more valuable.
Safest choices for most players
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A common or rare pet that you like cosmetically and plan to keep around as a “town helper” is usually the safest pick.
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Many players use a bee, dog, or similarly common pet as a dedicated Forger pet, since losing a future high-value mutation slot on them does not hurt your progression much.
Advanced / late-game considerations
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If you own a themed “smithing” or crafting-themed pet (like a smithing dog or similar variants), that is a good flavor and practical choice, since you are likely to keep it out while doing Smithing event crafts.
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In very late game, you can dedicate one low-impact extra pet slot purely to a Forger pet, keeping your best cooldown/damage pets free for stronger shards while still benefiting from constant craft time reductions.
Which pets give the biggest crafting speed boost with Forger shard
All pets gain the same flat Forger effect, so the “biggest crafting speed boost” comes from combining Forger with pets that already boost crafting, not from pet stats changing Forger itself.
How Forger scales
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Forger is a fixed passive: every 11:41 minutes the pet visits an active crafting table and advances the craft by about 47 seconds, regardless of which pet it is on.
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Because the numbers are fixed, a legendary pet does not make Forger stronger than a common pet; only how often that pet is out and what other abilities it has matter.
Pets that stack best with Forger
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Hamster already boosts crafting speed by about 30% for a short duration every few minutes, so adding Forger stacks another time-skip on top of that, making each long craft finish noticeably faster.
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Any pet you use as a permanent “crafting helper” (for example, event or shop pets that increase crafting or resource gain while you smith) will effectively give the largest practical speed boost when you add Forger, because their own ability plus the fixed 47-second skips are always active while you craft.
Practical recommendation
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For pure speed, the best choice is a pet that already has a crafting-speed or crafting-related ability (like Hamster) and that you keep equipped whenever you are crafting.
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If you do not own such a pet, put Forger on any always-equipped utility pet; you will still get the full 47-second skip per proc, just without extra stacking from another crafting buff.
