If you’re looking to level up your pets quickly in Grow A Garden! Roblox, this Dilophosaurus method might be the best trick in the game right now. It helps you get pets to age 50 fast, which is necessary for mutations. Whether you’re farming casually or going all-in, here’s a full guide on how to do it right. Also check out the new Grow a Garden Pet or Animal Guide for the game.
What Is the Dilophosaurus Method?
The Dilophosaurus is a pet that, every 12 minutes, opens its frills and spits venom. This venom affects up to 6 nearby pets in your garden. The effect either:
- Gives XP to other Dilophosauruses, or
- Speeds up cooldowns for other pets.
This passive ability stacks if you use multiple Dilophosauruses, especially ones with Rainbow and Mega mutations.
- Rainbow or Golden mutations increase the power of passive abilities.
- Mega mutation adds XP per second.
For the best results, go for Dilophosauruses with both of these mutations.
Best Setup for Your Garden
The key to this method is quantity and timing.
- Use as many Dilophosauruses as possible — 8 is a good number.
- Place them down one at a time every 2 minutes, so the venom is spread out evenly.
- Each Dilophosaurus gives about 10,500 XP per hour.
- With 8 Dilophosauruses, you can earn up to 84,000 XP per hour for a single pet.
It’s important to remember that XP is shared to nearby pets, so spacing and pet positioning matters.
Don’t Have Dilophosauruses? Try These
If you only have 2–4 Dilophosauruses, you can fill the rest of your garden with:
1. Blood Owls
- Grants +1.38 XP/sec to all pets.
- If hit by venom, their cooldown is shortened by 47 seconds.
- They level up very fast thanks to constant cooldown resets and XP boosts.
2. Capybaras
- May be even better than Blood Owls.
- All pets within 16 studs won’t lose hunger and gain XP per second.
- Very effective for AFK setups, since hunger isn’t a problem anymore.
How Much XP to Reach Age 50?
To evolve a pet to age 50, you’ll need around 400,000–450,000 XP. With the Dilophosaurus setup (especially with 8 of them), you can get there in just a few hours — even faster if you use medium treats or have strong mutations.
For example, one Blood Owl went from level 1 to age 3 in under a minute. After around 2 hours, it reached age 49, showing just how broken this method can be.
This Dilophosaurus method is easily one of the best strategies to level up pets from age 0 to 50 in Grow A Garden! If you want to evolve and mutate your pets quickly, this is the way to go. Getting the Dilophosaurus might require trading on the Grow A Garden Discord server, but even if you don’t have any, you can still use Capybaras and Blood Owls as strong alternatives. Try setting it up and leave your game running — you’ll come back to fully leveled pets in no time. Let us know in the comments if you have any extra tips or setups that worked well for you.