Monster Rearing

Monster Rearing is a feature of Mog Gardens in which players can raise monsters from childhood to maturity. When cared for properly, the monsters can provide the player with items, change appearances, and even confer global bonuses (called a "cheer" effect) similar to Moghancements.

Eligibility

• Complete Jingly Dangler.
• Use all gathering activities until they are eligible for, or at, Rank 4.

Once you meet the requirements you can speak to Green Thumb Moogle to begin Release the Fleece. Once you complete the quest line, ending with Cry Not, Caretaker, Monster Rearing will be fully unlocked. You will begin rearing a Sheep named "LittleSheep" by default.

• Rank 2 monsters are unlocked if you obtain "Sakura and the Magic Spoon" and complete Chacharoon's Cheer. You will also be able to activate "Cheer" bonuses (which are based on mementos you have earned).

• Rank 3 monsters are unlocked if you obtain "Sakura and the Fountain" and complete Trial of the Chacharoon. You will also be able to raise two monsters at once after visiting the Rearing Grounds. Green Thumb Moogle will begin selling Bastore Sardine in his "Rank 3 and 4 monsters" shop.

• Rank 4 monsters are unlocked if you obtain "Sakura and the Magicked Net".

• Rank 5 monsters are unlocked if you obtain "Sakura's Excellent Adventure" and complete Doctor Chacharoon. You will also be able to raise three monsters at once. Green Thumb Moogle will begin selling San d'Orian Carrot in his "Rank 5 monsters" shop.

• Rank 6 monsters are unlocked if you obtain "Sakura and the Cactus Corps".

• Rank 7 monsters are unlocked if you obtain "Sakura and the Holy Grail" and finish Rowing Together. You will also be able to raise four monsters at once.

Monster Management

• Talk to Chacharoon to start rearing a new monster. This can be done once per day (twice at rank 5), but only if you are not already rearing the maximum number of monsters (per the Eligibility list above).
• Rank 1 monsters:
  • Sheep
  • Rabbit
  • Treant
  • Lizard
• Rank 2 monsters:
  • Cockatrice
  • Raptor
  • Eft
• Rank 3 monsters:
  • Dhalmel
  • Sea Monk
  • Crab
  • Uragnite
  • Colibri
• Rank 4 monsters:
  • Coeurl
  • Buffalo
  • Slime
• Rank 5 monsters:
  • Bugard
  • Adamantoise
• Rank 6 monsters:
  • Bomb
  • Behemoth
• Rank 7 monsters:
  • Dragon
  • Sabotender

• Monsters will come with randomly generated names until you give them a new name.
  • The random names are often the same ones you see in Chocobo Racing.
  • Some names are not allowed, such as profane words, "ad", and "gm".
  • Giving your monster a name will cause a 3 red hearts animation, signifying a positive effect on its mood.
• In the Personal Growth parental style, monsters will gradually mature every day, though their mood will gradually degrade unless you check, feed and/or interact with them.
  • All new monsters received are set to this style by default.
• In the Enjoying the Moment parental style, the monster's growth level will remain constant, even if you feed it.
• Talking to Chacharoon allows you to change which one of your monsters will be shown in the Mog Garden, and it will be given "rearing priority".
  • All monsters can be seen in the Rearing Grounds, which can be reached through Chacharoon, Green Thumb Moogle, Mog Dinghy, or walking through the ravine.
• Feeding, interacting with, or collecting items from substantially-matured monsters has a high chance of obtaining a "memento" (see below) from them, from which Chacharoon gains access to new Cheers, each conferring different global bonuses when activated. To change your current Memento Cheer Effect, you must talk to Chacharoon and select talk about cheers. There will be a shining star cost equal to the memento-giving monster's rank to change to the new effect. Only one Cheer may be active at a time.
  • Green Thumb Moogle will begin selling an additional item according to each memento acquired.
• You may part with your monster permanently using two different methods. You can begin rearing a new monster immediately if you have not already that day.
  • Choosing to Send It Back Home will earn you a gil reward and up to 4 Mog Garden items, depending on maturation level and player interaction:
    • Cactus Stems, Tree Cuttings, Tree Saplings, Coalition Serum, Coalition Humus, Coalition Fertilizer, Star Sprinkles, Super Baitball
    • Obtaining a new monster and then immediately sending it away results in no reward.
  • Choosing to Put It Down will earn you 1-3 items tagged as "Put down" in the Collected Items table.

Monster Care

• The monster's mood falls on a scale between "succumbing to darkness" and "beaming with pure contentment." It is somewhat difficult to achieve these extreme states, however.
  • An interaction that is "surprisingly not worthless" yields the 3 red hearts animation, a positive mood reinforcement.
  • An interaction that "strongly resonates with <monster's name>" yields the yellow & orange notes animation, an even better positive mood reinforcement.
  • An interaction that "strongly resonates" with a monster that is "beaming with pure contentment" will reward you with Shining Stars, unless the monster does not "strongly resonate" with any interaction normally, such as the Great Adamantoise. Food will not earn you Shining Stars.
  • A monster that is "succumbing to darkness" will render all Mog Garden activities unusable, except for Flotsam. Only the following actions may be performed on a monster in this mood:
    • Use moogle magic to improve the monster's mood. Requires an expenditure of Shining Stars, with the number increasing per use, and may not work.
    • The monster may be put down.
• The monster's growth level is represented by 0-3 stars (an unfilled star denoting one-half star).
  • At Japanese Midnight, a monster on the Personal Growth parental style will grow by 0-0.5 stars. A baby monster at 3 stars will have a chance to evolve into its normal adult form, starting again at 0.5 stars.
    • Monsters with three stages of growth typically do not evolve into their third forms without evolution food.
• Once per day, you may interact with the monster. Interactions will have either a positive, neutral or negative effect on its mood, per the table below.
• Once per day, you may feed the monster. Certain foods the monster will accept (as per the Evolutions table below) and will affect its mood in a positive way.
  • A fed monster will grow faster than an unfed one, but still no more than 0-0.5 stars per day.
  • Most monsters will "squirm uncontrollably" if you feed it a specific food after reaching a certain growth level. This may randomly cause it to evolve immediately after zoning. Sometimes it may "shudder violently", seemingly after evolution variant food.
    • Some monsters have two types of foods: one will cause it to evolve into its typical adult form, the other into its adult variant form.
    • Evolution by feeding can be achieved while on the Enjoying the Moment parental style. This can be useful for forcing a variant evolution to occur.
    • Monsters can begin squirming at 1.5-2.5 stars, depending on the monster. Since not all minimum squirm levels are known, it is recommended to wait until 2.5-3 stars growth before feeding a very expensive item such as Savory Shank.
  • Adult monsters can continue growing until they reach 3 full stars again. At this point, the Personal Growth parental style will have no effect on either its mood or its growth.
• Once per day, you may collect up to 3 items from the monster. This will always "not go over well", unless the monster is "beaming with pure contentment", or a Mog Gardens Campaign is going on.
• Memento: Obtaining a memento from a monster unlocks a Chacharoon's Cheer and an item in Green Thumb Moogle's shop.
  • Interacting with, feeding, or collecting items from a baby monster may earn you its memento at around 2 stars of growth. An adult monster can give its memento at any time.
  • An adult monster will occasionally grant the memento of its baby version if you have not received it already, but a third stage monster will never grant its second stage's memento. It may be helpful to put them on Enjoying the Moment to ensure you do not miss it.

Feed

Greens	Fruits	Fungi	Seeds
Batagreens ☆ Blue Pondweed Boyahda Moss Great Boyahda Moss La Theine Cabbage ★ Moko Grass ★☆ Napa Papaka Grass Red Moko Grass Red Pondweed	Acorn ★ Chestnut Date Dragon Fruit Faerie Apple Habaneros Kazham Peppers Kitron Millioncorn ☆ Persikos Pine Nuts ★ Royal Grape Thundermelon Yagudo Cherry ★	Agaricus Coral Fungus Reishi Mushroom Sobbing Fungus	Blue Peas ★ Burdock Deluxe Carrot Moon Carrot Popoto ★ San d'Orian Carrot ★☆ Sunflower Seeds Vomp Carrot Walnut Zegham Carrot
Meats	Fish	Liquids	Gems
Beastly Shank Buffalo Meat ☆ Cerberus Meat Cockatrice Meat ☆ Dragon Meat Gabbrath Meat Giant Sheep Meat ★ Hare Meat ★☆ Hydra Meat Lesser Chigoe Rotten Meat ★☆ Savory Shank Tavnazian Liver Warthog Meat	Bastore Sardine ★☆ Bibiki Slug Bibiki Urchin Coral Butterfly Denizanasi ★☆ Noble Lady Quus Three-eyed Fish	Ahriman Tears Beastman Blood ☆ Chimera Blood Distilled Water ★☆ Elixir Fiend Blood Holy Water Honey Wine Mulsum Potion Sweet Tea Yellow Ginseng	Fire Cluster Ice Cluster Wind Cluster Earth Cluster Lightning Cluster Water Cluster Light Cluster Dark Cluster Gem of the North Gem of the East Gem of the South Gem of the West

☆ Available from the Green Thumb Moogle with the appropriate Memento acquired.
★ Represents the cheapest NPC-sold options. Clusters are not sold by NPCs, but are easily hunted in Ru'Aun Gardens or gotten from an Ephemeral Moogle, and Gems can typically be purchased with Login Points.

Available Monsters

The pages found at the links below list each monster's Evolutions, Interactions, Feed, Memento bonuses, Collected and Put Down items.