If you’ve ever hatched a new egg hoping for Mametchi and ended up with Shigemi-san for the fourth time in a row, this page is for you. The Tamagotchi Paradise evolution system is more complex than any previous device — your Tamagotchi’s final form depends on three separate decisions you make across multiple growth stages. Get any one of them wrong and you’ll end up somewhere completely different.
This guide covers all four shells (Blue Water, Pink Land, Purple Sky, and Jade Forest), every species, and every adult character in the game. Bookmark it. You’ll be back.
How Evolution Works: The Quick Version
Your Tamagotchi goes through four stages: Baby → Kid → Young → Adult. Each transition is influenced by different choices:
- Baby → Kid: Which Tama Field you’re in determines which Kid type hatches (Water Kid, Land Kid, Sky Kid, or Forest Kid).
- Kid → Young: What you feed during the Kid stage determines which Young species you get (Glide, Leap, Toddle, Chirp, etc.).
- Young → Adult: How many care mistakes you make during the Young stage (cumulative with Kid mistakes!) determines which of four adults you get.
Miss just one piece of this and you’ll get a different character than you were aiming for. The good news: for the first time in Tamagotchi history, you can actually see your care mistake count in the Tama Cell view.
Stage 1: Baby to Kid (Which Field?)
When Babymarutchi hatches, leave it in the Tama Field that matches the species you want. It needs 15 minutes per Field Cell, and 4 matching Field Cells to evolve into that field’s Kid.
| Field | Kid Type | Shell that starts here |
|---|---|---|
| Water Field | Water Kid | Blue Water |
| Land Field | Land Kid | Pink Land |
| Sky Field | Sky Kid | Purple Sky |
| Forest Field | Forest Kid | Jade Forest only |
Jade Forest note: The Forest Field replaces the Sky Field on the Jade Forest shell. Sky Kid is not available on Jade Forest, and Forest Kids can only become Forest Field adults — they won’t mix with the Sky evolution lines.
The Bbmarutchi Trick (Planet Level Speed Run)
Want to level your planet fast without waiting days for each adult? Switch fields every 12–14 minutes (never exceed 15!) for 4 hours. Babymarutchi won’t accumulate 4 matching field cells, so it evolves into Bbmarutchi instead of a normal Kid. Bbmarutchi counts as an adult for planet level purposes, letting you blaze through Levels 6–10 in a day instead of a week. The catch: Bbmarutchi can’t breed, so you’ll need a new egg to continue.
Stage 2: Kid to Young (What Food?)
During the Kid stage, feed specific food types to determine which Young species your Tamagotchi becomes. You need at least one food icon of the target type to appear in your Tama Cell, with more of that type than any other. If there’s no dominant food type, you’ll get the default Young (Float, Sprout, Rocky, or Forest Sprout).
Water Field Foods
| Food Type | Foods That Give It | → Young Species |
|---|---|---|
| Seafood | Seafood, Fried Fish, Shellfish, Grilled Shellfish | Glide Young |
| Seaweed | Green Seaweed, Red Seaweed, Seaweed Salad | Leap Young |
| Plankton | Meal Shrimp, Meal Plankton, Plankton Dumplings | Paddle Young |
| None / Mixed | Default Pellets or equal amounts of each | Float Young |
Land Field Foods
| Food Type | Foods That Give It | → Young Species |
|---|---|---|
| Meat | Big Meat, Small Meat, Steak | Roar Young |
| Carrot | Apples, Carrots, Apple Pie, Shredded Carrots | Toddle Young |
| Worm | Meal Bugs, Meal Worms, Bug Cookies | Lick Young |
| None / Mixed | Default Pellets or equal amounts of each | Sprout Young |
Sky Field Foods
| Food Type | Foods That Give It | → Young Species |
|---|---|---|
| Chicken | Whole Chicken, Piece of Chicken, Chicken Steak | Flap Young |
| Corn | Corn, Cherry, Piece of Corn, Corn Flakes | Chirp Young |
| Honey | Flower Syrup, Honey Syrup, Flower Drops | Bumble Young |
| None / Mixed | Default Pellets or equal amounts of each | Rocky Young |
⚠️ Device bug: On the original three-color shells, Chirp Young and Flap Young’s names are swapped on the device screen. The official website originally had the same error before it was corrected. The Jade Forest shell has it right. Don’t let it confuse you — the evolution paths work correctly, just the names on screen are backwards.
Forest Field Foods (Jade Forest only)
| Food Type | Foods That Give It | → Young Species |
|---|---|---|
| Peking Meat | Chashu Pork, Peking Meat, Warm Buns | Forest Roar Young |
| Bamboo Grass | Bamboo Grass, Sesame Leaves, Bamboo Leaf Rice Cake, Sesame Pancake | Forest Toddle Young |
| Pomegranate | Persimmon, Pomegranate, Che Thai | Forest Chirp Young |
| None / Mixed | Default Pellets or equal amounts of each | Forest Sprout Young |
Tip: You only need one food icon to trigger the right Young. Feed a few of the target food, get the icon in your Tama Cell, then switch to cheap default pellets to save your resources.
Stage 3: Young to Adult (Care Mistakes)
This is where most players go wrong. Care mistakes are cumulative starting from the Kid stage — so if you made 2 mistakes as a Kid and 1 as a Young, that’s 3 total. The adult you get depends on that combined count.
How to make a care mistake: Let the hunger or happiness meter hit zero, wait for the attention beep, then ignore it for 15 full minutes.
Perfect care requirement: To get the perfect care adult, you need 0 mistakes total AND must have maxed out both the Hunger meter and Happy meter at least 5 times each during the Young stage. Both conditions are required — zero mistakes alone won’t cut it.
Getting sick: After a care mistake, your Tamagotchi has a 30–35% chance of getting sick if your mistake count isn’t divisible by 2 or 3 (so mistakes 1, 5, 7 are the risky ones). Six dark poops left on screen can also trigger illness. Getting sick 5 times in one stage = death.
Complete Evolution Charts
🌊 Water Field
Glide Species (Seafood diet)
| Care Level | Mistakes | Adult |
|—|—|—|
| Perfect care | 0 + 5× hunger/happy maxed | Irukatchi 🐬 |
| Near perfect | 0–1 | Kametchi 🐢 |
| Moderate neglect | 2–5 | Kujiratchi 🐋 |
| Heavy neglect | 6+ | Uruotchi 🐸 |
Leap Species (Seaweed diet)
| Care Level | Mistakes | Adult |
|—|—|—|
| Perfect care | 0 + 5× hunger/happy maxed | Axolopatchi 🦎 |
| Near perfect | 0–1 | Imoritchi |
| Moderate neglect | 2–5 | Kawazutchi 🐸 |
| Heavy neglect | 6+ | Beavertchi 🦫 |
Paddle Species (Plankton diet)
| Care Level | Mistakes | Adult |
|—|—|—|
| Perfect care | 0 + 5× hunger/happy maxed | Tachutchi 🌊 |
| Near perfect | 0–1 | Sharktchi 🦈 |
| Moderate neglect | 2–5 | Ankotchi 🎣 |
| Heavy neglect | 6+ | Otototchi 🐟 |
Float Species (No/mixed diet)
| Care Level | Mistakes | Adult |
|—|—|—|
| Perfect care | 0 + 5× hunger/happy maxed | Kuraratchi 🪼 |
| Near perfect | 0–1 | Mendakotchi 🐙 |
| Moderate neglect | 2–5 | Amefuratchi 💃 |
| Heavy neglect | 6+ | Gusokutchi 🦠 |
🌿 Land Field
Roar Species (Meat diet)
| Care Level | Mistakes | Adult |
|—|—|—|
| Perfect care | 0 + 5× hunger/happy maxed | Meowtchi 🐱 |
| Near perfect | 0–1 | Pochitchi 🐕 |
| Moderate neglect | 2–5 | Gumax 🐻 |
| Heavy neglect | 6+ | Ratchi 🐀 |
Toddle Species (Carrot diet)
| Care Level | Mistakes | Adult |
|—|—|—|
| Perfect care | 0 + 5× hunger/happy maxed | Mametchi 🧠 |
| Near perfect | 0–1 | Mimitchi 🐰 |
| Moderate neglect | 2–5 | Molmotchi 🐹 |
| Heavy neglect | 6+ | Sheeptchi 🐑 |
Lick Species (Worm diet)
| Care Level | Mistakes | Adult |
|—|—|—|
| Perfect care | 0 + 5× hunger/happy maxed | Leopatchi 🐆 |
| Near perfect | 0–1 | Sebiretchi 🦕 |
| Moderate neglect | 2–5 | Elizardotchi 🦎 |
| Heavy neglect | 6+ | Heavytchi 🐍 |
Sprout Species (No/mixed diet)
| Care Level | Mistakes | Adult |
|—|—|—|
| Perfect care | 0 + 5× hunger/happy maxed | Furawatchi 🌸 |
| Near perfect | 0–1 | Potsunentchi 🌺 |
| Moderate neglect | 2–5 | Tusushtchi 🌵 |
| Heavy neglect | 6+ | Shigemi-san 🌿 |
☁️ Sky Field (Blue Water, Pink Land, Purple Sky only)
Flap Species (Chicken diet)
| Care Level | Mistakes | Adult |
|—|—|—|
| Perfect care | 0 + 5× hunger/happy maxed | Horhotchi 🦉 |
| Near perfect | 0–1 | Mongatchi 🐿️ |
| Moderate neglect | 2–5 | Eagletchi 🦅 |
| Heavy neglect | 6+ | Batchi 🦇 |
Chirp Species (Corn diet)
| Care Level | Mistakes | Adult |
|—|—|—|
| Perfect care | 0 + 5× hunger/happy maxed | Peacotchi 🦚 |
| Near perfect | 0–1 | Batatchi 🦜 |
| Moderate neglect | 2–5 | Kuchipatchi 🟢 |
| Heavy neglect | 6+ | Kiwitchi 🥝 |
Bumble Species (Honey diet)
| Care Level | Mistakes | Adult |
|—|—|—|
| Perfect care | 0 + 5× hunger/happy maxed | Papillotchi 🦋 |
| Near perfect | 0–1 | Kabutotchi 🪲 |
| Moderate neglect | 2–5 | Tentotchi 🐞 |
| Heavy neglect | 6+ | Hatchitchi 🐝 |
Mineral Species (No/mixed diet)
| Care Level | Mistakes | Adult |
|—|—|—|
| Perfect care | 0 + 5× hunger/happy maxed | Gemtchi 💎 |
| Near perfect | 0–1 | Oretatchi 🪨 |
| Moderate neglect | 2–5 | Ishikorotchi 🪨 |
| Heavy neglect | 6+ | Magmatchi 🌋 |
Kuchipatchi alert: Yes, that IS the franchise mascot showing up as a 2–5 mistake Sky character. Kuchipatchi is a Sky Field character in Tamagotchi Paradise, NOT Land. He also appears in the Forest Field (see below).
🌲 Forest Field (Jade Forest only)
Forest Roar Species (Peking Meat diet)
| Care Level | Mistakes | Adult |
|—|—|—|
| Perfect care | 0 + 5× hunger/happy maxed | Forest Horhotchi 🦉 |
| Near perfect | 0–1 | Konkotchi 🦊 |
| Moderate neglect | 2–5 | Tigaotchi 🐯 |
| Heavy neglect | 6+ | Tanoontchi 🦝 |
Forest Toddle Species (Bamboo Grass diet)
| Care Level | Mistakes | Adult |
|—|—|—|
| Perfect care | 0 + 5× hunger/happy maxed | Lessapantchi 🐼 |
| Near perfect | 0–1 | Kanokotchi 🦌 |
| Moderate neglect | 2–5 | Suigyutchi 🐃 |
| Heavy neglect | 6+ | Panbootchi 🐼 |
Forest Chirp Species (Pomegranate diet)
| Care Level | Mistakes | Adult |
|—|—|—|
| Perfect care | 0 + 5× hunger/happy maxed | Kachitchi 🐦 |
| Near perfect | 0–1 | Tokipatchi 🐦 |
| Moderate neglect | 2–5 | Kuchipatchi 🟢 |
| Heavy neglect | 6+ | Sparrotchi 🐦 |
Forest Sprout Species (No/mixed diet)
| Care Level | Mistakes | Adult |
|—|—|—|
| Perfect care | 0 + 5× hunger/happy maxed | Shiitaketchi 🍄 |
| Near perfect | 0–1 | Peatchi 🍑 |
| Moderate neglect | 2–5 | Nappatchi 🥬 |
| Heavy neglect | 6+ | Rushraditchi 🫚 |
Secret Characters
Each shell has one hidden character you can unlock by connecting to two different shell colors while your Tamagotchi is in the Young stage. You need to connect to two different colors — connecting twice to the same color doesn’t count.
| Shell | Young Types That Work | Secret Character |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Water 🔵 | Any water Young except Float | Mermarintchi |
| Pink Land 🩷 | Lick Young only | Chodracotchi |
| Purple Sky 💜 | Flap, Chirp, or Bumble Young (NOT Rocky) | Yayacorntchi |
| Jade Forest 🟢 | Forest Roar, Forest Toddle, or Forest Chirp Young (NOT Forest Sprout) | Tatsutchi 🐉 |
Tatsutchi is an East Asian dragon — one of the coolest-looking characters in the game and only available on the Jade Forest shell.
Quick Tips
Aiming for perfect care? The UFO mini-game is the most efficient way to keep happiness maxed. Play it whenever you have free time.
Aiming for heavy neglect? Let both meters drain to zero, wait 15 minutes for the attention call to count as a mistake, then refill and repeat. You can rack up 6 mistakes fairly quickly this way.
Can’t decide what to raise? Your food choices lock in during the Kid stage, but you can actually switch Tama Fields during the Kid stage and the old field’s food cells will clear after an hour in the new field. So if you change your mind early, you can reset your food type.
Check your Tama Cell often. It shows you your current care mistake count (spiral marks), hunger maxed count (rice ball icons), and happy maxed count (sun icons). This is a Tamagotchi first — use it.
For detailed info on individual characters including personalities, hunger/happiness rates, and fun facts, check out our full Character Database.