Intentional Care Mistakes: Digimon V-Pet Ver. 20th 

Thanks! Any thoughts on other questions you see come up a lot?

Awesome, glad I could help! :)

Thanks! :) That’s a good tip, that might be even more efficient than mine! It does have a slight risk of death if you lose track of time, but the attentive taker shouldn’t have a problem with that :)

Thanks, Gouty! Do you raise Digimon? If not, then I guess that's an even better compliment since you don't even care about the content lol! But if you do then I hope it's helpful :)

I do not raise digimon

Well then I’m flattered you still enjoyed it even though it doesn’t pertain to you :)

Thanks! Yeah I figured that’s what I wished I had so why not make it for others? :)

@@FiveJayGaming Keep it up, please. I just looked up "What to do if I get more than 2 mistakes before evolving to Blitz Greymon" And I don't see your video.

Perhaps I will resume again some day. I haven’t made a video in 2.5 years at this point, though. I needed a mental break, and then there was the pandemic and that didn’t help, and then I had a kid and that took all my time... it’s been quite a ride since I stopped making videos! But Digimon specifically has continued to be a part of my life, and I had even attempted making another channel just for Digimon called The Digi Dimension. I made a few videos there and again needed to take a break and it’s been a while. But you may notice on all my Digimon v-pet videos I keep recommending a site; use it! That’s how I figured all these things out so it’s a great resource :) humulos (dot com) / Digimon

Thanks!! :)

Thanks! :)

Glad it helped! Garurumon was a tricky one for sure! Always nerve-wracking waiting to see if you did it all correctly, but using this method I’ve achieved him several times so I know it works :)

Thanks for the comment, glad you found it useful!

Aww, that’s too bad :( Next time you’ll know, though! Good luck!

Thanks! Putting it to sleep when you can’t take care of it is a great idea, do it whenever you need to! The Digimon does not progress towards evolution, though, while sleeping. So it will draw out how long it takes to evolve. Also there may be some risk with your Digimon getting pretty old and start losing hearts and pooping faster, which if left unattended can lead to death. But it hasn’t been a problem for me; I would put them to sleep during work hours and wake them up when I was done and I could hit Mega reliably. So you should be fine putting them to sleep as much as you need to as long as you pay good attention while they’re awake! Keep that sound on during awake hours to tell when something’s wrong

They go to sleep after the 10 minutes, but the mistake is still made. Good question!

Resets with each evolution! Sadly there is nothing in the device that shows you care mistakes :(

The DMX versions 1-3 have all the same care mistakes and they did not add new ones. These newer devices actually have fewer things to worry about than the old 90s ones so they’re more focused on battles than they used to be! I hope you enjoy it, the DMX devices are great!

Yes, the number of times you train them. And how can you tell if you don’t remember? The “Effort” hearts each represent 4 completed trainings, so if you have 2 Effort hearts then you have trained your Digimon at LEAST 8 times. It may be more, though; it does not show partial hearts. Usually the training requirement is a range, though, so you don’t have to be exact. If it says “Training: 8-15” then as long as you see 2 OR 3 Effort hearts then you’ve met the requirement. If you see 4 hearts (or 1 or 0) then you over-trained and missed the requirement

I suppose if you see 1 or 0 hearts in that example you’ve UNDER-trained, not Over. Just to clarify ha ha

@@FiveJayGaming okey, thank you so much!

Nope, the time is tracked separately! They want designed this time changing feature to help trainers out, but not let them cheat the evolution timing. Would be kind cool though if it did; like, hey I got a Mega from an egg in just 10 minutes! Lol

Yeah that should work too! I know I’d be too nervous that one day I’d forget to load my game next time and wipe it all out XD But if that doesn’t concern you, go for it!

It doesn’t really affect the real age of your Digimon. As for the literal “Age” counter, that will only change when the clock switches from 23:59 to 00:00 naturally. So you could either artificially bloat this number by forcing the clock repeatedly back to 23:59 and allowing one minute to go by, or you could artificially shrink this number by always changing the time before midnight strikes in the device. But again, this isn’t really a number that matters anyway; it won’t change how long it takes to evolve at all

It’s like optional. Like maybe you need a minimum of 1 care mistake so that’s a full skull, but you can get 2 care mistakes without getting a different evolution so the second skull is a half skull

The mistake counter resets after the evolution!

FiveJay Gaming ah ok thank you! :)

No it does not; it wakes them up for another 15 minutes but it is not a care mistake. There used to be a separate metric in the 1997 original for waking up a Digimon that’s asleep, but that is not part of these 20th devices

Actually I made them myself! I just used a pixel editor, re-created the sprite from the v-pet, and approximated colors that I thought looked nice!

@@FiveJayGaming thanks for the reply, it looks really good, love the details

Thank you! :)

Translucent Green eh? Does it have pink or orange buttons & frame? The pink one has the Meicoomon egg, the orange one has the Coronamon egg. I would recommend humulos .com / Digimon instead! Unfortunately there is no visible tracking of care mistakes :’( So you need to keep good track yourself! I would recommend doing a bit of time manipulation so that they sleep all night; if you put them to bed and they’re not tired, they only take a 3-hour nap and wake up. But if they BECOME tired within those 3 hours, then you get until 7 AM Digivice time until it wakes up. So the easy rule of thumb is to just set the device to 9 PM because no Digimon stays awake past midnight and you’ll get a guaranteed 10 hours of sleep that way. And during sleep, no care mistakes can happen! So that’s 10 carefree hours you can sleep for yourself :)

@@FiveJayGaming Pink frame and buttons, yeah. And thanks for the quick response! I'll keep that in mind!

@@FiveJayGaming Actually, I do have another question, regarding the ways a Digimon can die. Does the resource you recommended list *all* the potential ways a Digimon can die, or just 4 out of more?

Humulos does have the death conditions! It shows 4 as well, but I wonder if there might be more. The ones I’m thinking of would be what if you NEVER feed your Digimon, or what if you NEVER give it protein or train it so that it recovers strength? Perhaps those only count towards care mistakes, though. It would be an interesting experiment!

Too many care mistakes can also be an issue that leads to the wrong evolution; maybe you’re getting too many?

Yep! They just need to be made before the time requirement for the next evolution!

Ahh, thanks so much pal!

No problem! :)

@@FiveJayGaming so if my digimon is at perfect (metal tryanmon) and I only just done the care mistakes at this stage... will it change to machinedramon? or is it too late?

Sorry I missed this! Yes, that is how the hunger method would work. I think the sleep method is much faster, but use whichever method you like!

@@FiveJayGaming Thanks . I understand everything about Digimon vpets now. I just got my Jesmon X on DMX 3 yesterday. :D

That’s awesome! Congrats on the Jesmon X :) Love the X devices!!

Yep, just the things I mentioned in the video! Waking up a sleepy Digimon is fine, as is waking up a Digimon that’s already sleeping :) The 1997-released devices that these are based off actually did track if you woke up a Digimon that was already sleeping, and some evolutions required this type of activity as well. But not these 20th anniversary ones!

@@FiveJayGaming awesome thank u!

This is actually a great help! I've been trying to look for answers for this because my shift ends at night and I wanna play with my Digimon afterwards. Keep up the beginner-friendly videos!

@@FiveJayGaming suuuuper helpful thanks

Not quite: every time that icon is showing you are GOING to get a care mistake IF you don’t fix the issue within 10 minutes

Yeah, that’s one of the best new features of these 20th anniversary devices! And when you do battles you can battle with both at once in a tag team battle! Really cool :)

It doesn’t matter, once the light goes out the mistake has been done and it won’t happen again by continuing to ignore the Digimon in its current state

Nope, but if you have a second Digimon that you put to sleep while the other one gets a care mistake then it will delay that sleeping Digimon’s evolution time by however long they were sleeping. If that’s 10 minutes, then it’s 10 minutes longer. If that’s 30 minutes because you did it 3 times, then it’s 30 minutes longer. So not much if at all!

Yes, that’s 2 care mistakes! If you don’t increase their strength or feed them after the care mistake has registered, it will not give you another one later. Instead, your Digimon will die! So definitely don’t just let them sit in their weakness for too long afterwards ha ha

@@FiveJayGaming alright sir, thanks for your info!😁

@jackykong4542 no problem!

Bottom left icon, click sleep. Blanket will be on after that

What Jake said! My video shows it happening, but my commentary doesn’t say it specifically so if you’re still confused just give the video another watch and you should see me put my Digimon to sleep

These Ver. 20th devices are considerably faster than the originals; it takes only 36 hours to go from Champion to Ultimate :)

@@FiveJayGaming why my pet keep dying, after 4 days still not evolve? I got 4 champion stage, all is dying during 4-5 days and not evolve, any tricks can share wth me bro? Thanks

You may not be meeting the requirements to reach the Perfect / Ultimate level by the time the evolution time is up. If that’s the case, your Digimon dies instead of evolving :( Better double-check the evolution requirements; check out humulos.com/Digimon for evolution guides!

Unfortunately no :(

@@FiveJayGaming 😔

Yeah, unfortunately too many care mistakes can kill any Digimon :( Also BlitzGreymon doesn’t need any care mistakes; the only way he can evolve any further is by Jogressing with a CresGarurumon! A Mega Digimon can live a very long time, though, so as long as you don’t make a lot of mistakes you should be able to keep BlitzGreymon alive while you raise a CresGarurumon. Next time!

@@FiveJayGaming thank you for your reply. But according to humulos website, there is a point which i dont understand: 5 care mistakes upon or after reaching evolution window for ultimate. my blitzgreymon has been alive for 25 days, does its death fall under this category?

Yes, you had 5 care mistakes after reaching Ultimate (including Mega), so unfortunately that was the cause of death :’(

@@FiveJayGaming thank you for clearing it up, have a good day ahead

Well you’re not wrong! Actually the original ones from ‘97 were even worse because they also required things like purposefully waking up a Digimon while they’re sleeping in the middle of the night 😱 Cruelty! The X devices are actually MUCH better because it’s not about care mistakes at all, it’s about the level of your Digimon, how much effort they put in, and how many levels of the campaign mode you beat. So they DID fix it, but these 20th anniversary devices are based on the abusive original ones 😆

@@FiveJayGaming it looks like there are still some in the evolution chains that do require mistakes, although it also looks like there are more pathways to get to the same evolution whether you make any mistakes or not. meaning some just require a different evolution path to avoid mistakes

You know what, you’re totally right. I guess I haven’t used an X device for a while! Seems like care mistakes continue to be a core mechanic even in X devices. I guess the only alternative are the Digivices? Those usually aren’t v-pets though and the evolutions are temporary like in the show, so not exactly an equivalent experience

@@FiveJayGaming at this point i am thinking they could add some sort of "tough love" mechanic as i feel the care mistakes are meant to kind of represent that. they could add an additional training mode that's supposed to be tougher than normal training that will add what is effectively a "care mistake" but maybe with a new name for the mechanic. they could even keep in the old methods while just adding other various ways to increase the counter without forcing the owner/tamer into deliberate neglect

Great idea! I like it :)

Oh no!!! I’m not sure what happened :( Did you make 5 care mistakes? Was he injured a 20th time? Did he go too long with zero hunger or zero strength?

@@FiveJayGaming I don't know bro but when I'm sitting on my couch and then i heard death song which omegamon died

The age is unaffected, it has its own tracker that never stops and you can’t interfere with it

@@FiveJayGaming thank you

There’s unfortunately nothing to visibly track how many care mistakes you’ve made :( So you just have to take good care and keep track yourself!

@@FiveJayGaming crap XD well either way I got garurumon so keeping track worked! And what about battles? Because I think I've done 15, but I keep pressing start instead of next, is that restarting that digimon's record each time or does each start battle count to 15?

There you go, nice job! Nope, each time you do “Start” it still counts towards the 15! Makes it easy to get those guaranteed victories :)

@@FiveJayGaming yeah that's what I thought since I don't know how hard the next would be especially up to 15, but thank goodness then! ^o^ then my garurumon is guaranteed to be the best he can be!

Yes indeed :) Best of luck on what I assume is your quest for Omnimon Alter S!

I believe the age only changes if it naturally rolls over past midnight. So if you were to set it to 11:59 PM and then it rolls over into midnight then I believe your Digimon does indeed age. But manually changing the time past midnight does not age the Digimon

Yeah and you come back and it’s sick or injured? That was a childhood feelsbadman moment for sure :/

I think in theory it can live forever, it just becomes harder to take care of over time and therefore easier to accidentally let die. It starts to lose strength and get hungry very quickly and poop more often. If you get too many injuries from reaching maximum poop (4) or if it has zero hunger or strength hearts for too long, it dies. So as long as you keep a good eye on it it should live forever! But it can be fun to go for a different Digimon or to try to have raised one of everything so it’s ok if it dies

@@FiveJayGaming thanks for the info! The guide wich comes in the blister says that they can die of hunger, injury or natural causes. I thought What those "natural causes" Could were the age. Im thinking in make some vpet videos in spanish but I dont have enough knowledge , I guess haha. I keep reasearching more info, thanks for your help!

I think that if your Digimon has another evolution above it (that’s not a Jogress) and it doesn’t meet the evolution requirements by the time the window for evolution comes up, your Digimon will simply die of “natural causes,” but I believe it you are at the top-level evolution it can potentially live forever if you take good care of it

@@FiveJayGaming thanks for answering!

@@FiveJayGaming How much it is hard to keep alive an ultimate ?

Good question! No, if you don’t clean up your Digimon’s poop then the only consequence is they get injured once 4 accumulate. If your Digimon gets injured 20 times total (not per evolution stage but total across ALL stages of that Digimon), then your Digimon dies... so make sure to clean up that poop because it could literally kill your Digimon if you’re TOO negligent!

@@FiveJayGaming thanks for the info.

No problem!

That’s correct. As the video states, there’s only 3 “care mistakes” on this device: 1. Not putting a blanket on a sleepy Digimon within 10 mins, 2. Not feeding a Digimon that has no hunger hearts within 10 mins, and 3. not giving protein or training a Digimon that has no strength hearts in 10 mins. Over feeding was referred to in this video as an evolution requirement LIKE care mistakes, but yes they are not one in the same

Well the mistake is that you don’t put a blanket on them when they’re sleepy. It’s like putting them to bed, and by not doing that they fell asleep on the floor! So changing the clock makes them sleepy, then the mistake happens when you ignore them for 10 minutes after that. Once that little symbol disappears you’ve gotten the mistake! Does that help clear it up?

@@FiveJayGaming yes its clear i am really want metalgreymon thanks bro

No problem! Good luck! :)

@@FiveJayGaming i already did everything 3 time mistake 16 training but how long to evolve into greymon?

Oh wait you did 3 care mistakes and you want Greymon? I’m sorry but Greymon requires 2 care mistakes or less :( And with 16 trainings it looks like Meramon is your only option now but you’ll need to get 3 overfeedings or the evolution will fail and you’ll end up with Numemon... if you want to do the overfeedings, I have another video on my channel for that; should be in a playlist called “Niche Corner” or if you search for Digimon

My wife and I had a baby!!! Life has been very different for me, not sure if I’ll be returning to making videos :( But I loved having all you guys with me in the livestreams! I’ll never forget how much fun that was :)

I don’t think so, there’s usually a reason. But as they get older they get harder to take care of, so they poop more often, get hungrier and weaker faster, and if you don’t stay on top of them they may die due to too many care mistakes or too many injuries

Technically over feeding is it’s own thing, not a care mistake. Over feeding is a different stat to take into consideration when evolving; for instance, you might need 2 care mistakes but zero overfeedings. So unfortunately no, you can’t just over feed :(

I’m not sure! Haven’t really kept track. Definitely had some that were weeks old and then I took the batteries out. In theory they should still be there when I put in the batteries again and choose “Load”. I’ve seen some folks max out the age counter and hit 99! How about you?