Hey all, I have a few suggestions that may or may not have already been made, but thought they would be helpful for new players.

Community Garden
A big piece of public land (50×50?) that new players can harvest pumpkins from. New players would be designated as "inhabiting the beginner shack". Other players can donate fertilizer and/or pumpkin seeds to the garden to be planted. Anyone can water them.

Lost & Found
Once a day (or once every 12 hours?) new players can take an item from the lost and found for free. Non newbies can donate items here, or the L&F can be stocked by items players sell back to the server. Alternatively, new players can get one item but can only choose the type of item they want (ingredient, deco, seed, etc). Again, new players would be designated as "inhabiting the beginner shack".

Fix the exp curve
The first few levels that pets gain from hoarding go by really fast. Waiting many hours after the first 2 or 3 hoards kind of sucks. Maybe make the first few levels take a little longer to get through so newbies have a reason to come back sooner?

Slow pumpkin fertilizer positive effect
I can see no advantage to this unless I'm missing something lol. Maybe slow growth can create "giant" pumpkins that (at grade 100) have double the pixpellet output of a regular pumpkin?

Other suggestions:
-Ability to upgrade shop stock space
-Increase search text length (some full item names are longer than the space allows)
-Give Sunobra a naga (multi-headed cobra) evolution
-have a lottery plays counter beside the arcade tokens
-maybe a memory matching game or something for pixcoins, math games are no fun lol
-allow a users uninhabited houses to be sold with furnishings/deco inside (no plants/pumpkins) as an alternative instead of just buying/selling to/from the server all the time

Another mechanic to help narrow/specify hoards: locations!
Certain locations would take longer or shorter to go to hoard
Certain locations may only be available certain days/time of the week
Some may be only accessible to pets of a certain type (like, pets that can fly, or pets that can swim, etc)
For example, sending a pet to a mountain may only be possible for pets good at climbing, or that can fly (or if its a snowy mountain, a pet that can handle the cold). The mountain would have a higher chance of finding rock/mineral/gem type ingredients? In addition to whatever potions the pet has.