Pets
Pets are collectible companions, each bound to one gathering skill. Assign up to 3 pets to mission slots and they generate passive, offline-capable resource income while leveling up over real time. Unlocked via Episode IV — "The Wildwarden's Vale".
The pets
🎁 Getting pets — the Pet Box
Pets and shards come from the Pet Box (gacha), opened for 💎 500 gems or a free Pet Key (a quest/event reward). Each box rolls one of the 9 pets in the box pool (equal odds) and grants 2–8 shards. An active Pet Pass also drops one free box per day. Support pets are not in the box pool — their shards come from quests and events.
⭐ Stars & shards
Spend a pet's shards to raise its star tier (up to 5★). Each star multiplies its income. Stars are the quality axis; level is the progress axis.
| Upgrade | Shards | Income at this tier (lv 1) |
|---|---|---|
| Unlock (0★) → ★ | 10 | 20% of a manual gatherer |
| ★ → ★★ | 20 | 25% of a manual gatherer |
| ★★ → ★★★ | 40 | 30% of a manual gatherer |
| ★★★ → ★★★★ | 60 | 35% of a manual gatherer |
| ★★★★ → ★★★★★ | 100 | 40% of a manual gatherer |
Total 230 shards to take one pet from locked to 5★.
📈 Leveling
Assigned pets level up purely by real time on mission — no clicking. The curve runs to level 99 in about 10 days of assigned time (early levels are quick, the last few slow). Each level adds +2% income, so a level-99 pet earns ~3.0× a level-1 pet, and unlocks higher-tier resources.
A pet can never out-level your level in the skill it works, and it keeps going past 99 if you do — same curve, which doubles every 7 levels (level 120 ≈ 80 days on mission, level 130 ≈ 215 days), up to the hard cap of 999.
💰 Income
A pet's throughput is a fraction of a player actively gathering:
income = 20% × star multiplier × (1 + 2% × (level − 1))
So a fresh 1★ level-1 pet gathers at ~20% of manual speed; a 5★ level-99 pet at roughly 118%. Income accrues offline up to a 24h cap — collect before it fills to keep earning.
🎯 Mission slots & the Pet Pass
You have 3 mission slots:
- Slot 1 — free.
- Slot 2 — unlocked for 💎 1000 gems.
- Slot 3 — requires an active Pet Pass (14 days per activation, stacking up to 180 days). The Pass also grants one free Pet Box per day.
🐾 The Pets skill
Owning and running pets trains the player Pets skill. Pets-XP is time-based, not per-resource: every pet trains the skill at the same rate regardless of which resource it gathers, scaled by the same star × level multipliers as income (~350 XP/hr at 1★ lv 1). The resources a pet produces are loot on top.