.hack//infection - Raising Grunties

When you reach the theta server in .hack//Infection, you will be able to raise Grunties. At the end of the town, you'll find a grunty ranch and a baby Grunty waiting for food. You'll also be able to raise Grunties in later servers.

As a side note; this guide is only intended for my personal use, since I kept losing the paper copies of my notes.

Dun Loireag

There are three kinds of Grunties you can raise here - Noble, Iron and Poison. The baby Grunty wants to become an Iron Grunty, so you just need to feed it whatever it asks for. Once it starts requesting only Golden Eggs, it's done. If you feed it an Immature Egg at this point, it will probably become a Poison Grunty, but you might want to save first, just in case.

What kind of Grunty it becomes depends on how its stats are when it finally grows up. If the stats fit a certain set of parameters, it will become an Iron Grunty. If it fits another set, it will become a Poison Grunty. If it doesn't fit either, it will be a Noble Grunty.

The easiest way to get each kind of Grunty is as follows;

• Poison: 4 Piney Apples, 4 Snakey Cactuses, Golden Eggs till grown.

• Iron: 4 Piney Apples, 4 Snakey Cactuses, 1 Immature Egg, Golden Eggs till grown.

• Nobel: Golden Eggs till grown.

You Want a What Now?

The Grunty translation guide. When it's a little older, it will ask for foods by name, but as a baby, it only knows to ask for flavours. I'm not going to include a list of places to find them - firstly, any other guide will include that, secondly, you'll find most of them just through playing the game, and thirdly, I just cba.

The locations are easier to get than the initial descriptions, because the Grunty starts using the names of the foods after a certain point.

Name of Food	First Description	Second Description
Golden Egg	Really expensive.	Just a few grow inside an important story.
Grunt Mints	Minty	By a hot, square face.
Twilight Onion	Raw and spicy.	By a really weird weapon.
Snakey Cactus	Juicy.	Near some ribs that were once an ocean.
Oh No Melon	Really sweet and round.	Near barnacles.
Cordyceps	Cold and spicy	Near a big Buddha statue.
White Cherry	Cold and really sweet.	Near a very cold pillar.
Root Vegetable	White and Spicy	Near a wall at the end of the labyrinth.
La Pumpkins	Sweet	By huge cocoons.
Mushroom	2	In the shadow of mushroom boulders.
Mandragora	Noisy	Near pointed towers.
Piney Apple	Crispy and sweet.	Deep in the green forests.
Immature Egg	Really bitter.	Deep in a very dark labyrinth.
Bearcat Egg	Sour.	Deep in a very fancy gallery.
Bloody Egg	Tastes like blood.	In the stomach of a very scary monster.
Invisible Egg	Salty.	Inside a very deep cave.

I'll be filling that table over time.