My pets
My Pets
The My Pets page is where you review your creatures, their condition, their jobs, and the options available for each one.
Active Pet
Your active pet represents you across much of the site. Active pets can perform colony tasks, take part in outdoor activities, and interact with systems connected to their current role and condition.
Reserve Pets
Reserve pets remain real colony members. They can be assigned jobs, contribute through daily activity, train, breed, become sick, suffer injuries, and die. They are not frozen in a magical waiting room with a vending machine.
See Reserve Pets for the distinction between a personal successor and the broader reserve population.
Vitals and Stats
- Health – A pet's physical survival. Injuries and illness can reduce it.
- Hunger – Must be managed with species-appropriate food.
- Thirst – Must be managed with safe water.
- Energy – Spent on actions, trips, training, and other work.
- Mood – Affects well-being and can suffer under neglect or harsh conditions.
- Strength – Useful for fighting, carrying, building, and physical work.
- Agility – Useful for movement, scouting, dodging, and escape.
- Intellect – Useful for healing, caretaking, building, and decision-making.
Inventory, Equipment, and Appearance
Pets can carry limited supplies and may equip functional gear. Visual dress-up and functional equipment can be handled separately: an item may function without being displayed, display without providing stats, or do both.
Watch for Warnings
A pet's page should be checked before sending them into danger. Hunger, thirst, sickness, injuries, low energy, unsuitable gear, or an overloaded bag can turn a routine trip into a woodland disaster report.
See Also
Echo Note - Ownership safety
My Pets should show pets that actually belong to you. NPC/system pets, Faux-owned records, and other players' pets should not leak into your pet list or become selectable through normal player tools.
If a wanderer is adopted, it should be moved properly into your ownership and removed from the wanderer pool.
~Echo
Echo Note - New pet checks
After adopting or receiving a pet, check age stage, species diet, health, hunger, thirst, energy, mood, bed space, and whether they are actually eligible for the actions you want them to do.
A new pet is not automatically ready to wrestle the map just because they have arrived with a face.
~Echo
Echo Note - Role fit checks
Before assigning a role, check the pet's age, stats, condition, species, pregnancy status, sickness, injury, energy, hunger, thirst, and whether they are already busy. A role label is not a permission slip from the forest.
~Echo