Reserve Pets

The word reserve is used in two connected ways in Feral Rise.

Personal Successor

A player can keep a reserve option ready in case their active pet dies. This helps prevent a colony from immediately collapsing because its owner no longer has a living active pet.

Colony Reserve Role

Pets with the colony role Reserve are living members who have not been assigned a specialist job. They can later become healers, caretakers, builders, scouts, warriors, wetnurses, recruits, or other valid roles as the colony's needs change.

Reserve Does Not Mean Untouchable

Reserve pets still need food, water, shelter, and care. They can train, breed, inherit mutations, become ill, suffer weather effects, and die. They may also be selected for new responsibilities when the colony needs more paws on deck.

Daily Work

Pets assigned specialist jobs may contribute through daily rollover and passive colony systems. Role, stats, condition, supplies, and colony circumstances affect how well they perform.

See Roles Within the Colony and Pet Jobs and Stats.