Pets

Finding pets

After a fight you may hear a noise under the rubble: the monster you beat left its baby hiding. It waits for you. Lift the rubble gently (hold the ring, let go in the gold) to find the baby. Spot on and it's yours; close, and 40% of the time it comes anyway, or it backs off and gives you one more go with a smaller band. Fail and it scurries away. About 1 in 150 kills for a kind you don't have yet, 1 in 300 for one you do. The band gets narrower in the later zones.

Mystery Eggs

Bosses drop Mystery Eggs now and then, in their chests. Set one in the pets' nest (it holds 2; the Bigger Nest upgrade adds room) and it hatches 24 hours later (sooner with Warm Nest). Any kind can come out, the later zones' rarer, and nobody knows which until it cracks.

Tiers and forms

Every pet has a tier, Common to Mythic, shown in its name's colour. Find a baby of a kind you already have and you can feed it to yours: it goes up a tier, for bigger bonuses. It grows into its next form at Rare and again at Legendary.

Starborn

About 1 in 40 new pets, found or hatched, is Starborn: it glows, it has a second trait, and its bonuses are doubled. A Starborn baby is kept as a pet of its own. The Pet Book shows a star for each Starborn kind you've found.

Slots

Each kind of pet has one slot. Own several of a kind (a Starborn one, say) and pick which one is in the slot: that one roams the shop or hunts.

Your shop pet

One pet roams your shop, in plain sight, and gives the shop a small bonus, different for each kind. Tap it once a day for a little XP.

Your hunting pet

One pet hunts beside you, with a bite every 3s and its own move from 2 hearts. It gives you a bonus of its own while it hunts, different for each kind.

Bond and hearts

Pet each one once a day for 2 bond points. Bond builds up to 10 hearts:

Traits

Each pet is born with one trait (Starborn ones have two):

Collars

Collars are worn for looks, one of each colour. Bosses leave one you haven't found now and then.

Red Collar Blue Collar Gold Collar Green Collar Purple Collar White Collar

Rewards for raising them

• Every pet you own adds +2% XP to every skill.
• Raise 12 different kinds and you open a fifth talent slot.

Every pet

Bonuses at Common; each tier adds half the base again, up to ×3.5 at Mythic.

Pet	Found in	From an egg	Hunt bonus	Shop bonus	Fight move
Green Slime	Bramblewood	6.1%	+3% Food healing	+1% more XP in every skill	Sticky Glob
Goblin Scout	Bramblewood	6.1%	+3% Monster gold	+1% better prices	Pickpocket
Thornbloom	Bramblewood	6.1%	+3% Boss sigils	+1% faster processing	Thorn Prick
Bramble Serpent	Bramblewood	6.1%	+3% Boss sigils	+1% faster processing	Venom Fang
Mushroom Cap	Bramblewood	6.1%	+2% Double loot chance	+1% faster recipe mastery	Spore Cloud
Gloom Bat	Gloomhollow Caves	5.1%	+2% Heal per kill	+1% more reputation	Leech
Cave Spider	Gloomhollow Caves	5.1%	+2% Double loot chance	+1% faster recipe mastery	Web Snare
Cave Troll	Gloomhollow Caves	5.1%	+2% Damage	+1% more customers	Crushing Blow
Deep Watcher	Gloomhollow Caves	5.1%	+3% Rare drops	+1% more rare finds	Dread Stare
Rockhide Brute	Gloomhollow Caves	5.1%	+2% Accuracy	+1% chance of double gathers	Charge
Tide Imp	Tidecrypt	4.0%	+2% Max HP	+1% more customers while you're away	Frost Swipe
Spinefish	Tidecrypt	4.0%	+2% Damage	+1% more customers	Spine Volley
Deepfin	Tidecrypt	4.0%	+3% Food healing	+1% more XP in every skill	Tidal Splash
Naga Warden	Tidecrypt	4.0%	+2% Attack speed	+1% faster gathering and processing	War Cry
Brine Lurker	Tidecrypt	4.0%	−2% Damage taken	+1% more visits from King Dennis	Shell Guard
Cinder Imp	Emberpeak	3.0%	+4% Damage to low-HP monsters	+1% more combat XP	Fire Spit
Sunflare	Emberpeak	3.0%	+4% Damage to low-HP monsters	+1% more combat XP	Solar Flare
Magma Serpent	Emberpeak	3.0%	+4% Damage to low-HP monsters	+1% more combat XP	Magma Breath
Cinder Brute	Emberpeak	3.0%	+2% Accuracy	+1% chance of double gathers	Pounce
Magma Golem	Emberpeak	3.0%	−2% Damage taken	+1% more visits from King Dennis	Molten Shell
Rift Shade	The Void Rift	2.0%	+3% Rare drops	+1% more rare finds	Howl
Violet Ooze	The Void Rift	2.0%	+3% Food healing	+1% more XP in every skill	Void Glob
Voidling	The Void Rift	2.0%	+2% Heal per kill	+1% more reputation	Drain
Void Horror	The Void Rift	2.0%	+2% Attack speed	+1% faster gathering and processing	Dread Roar
Rift Gargoyle	The Void Rift	1.0%	+3% Monster gold	+1% better prices	Plunder