Roles within the colony
Roles Within the Colony
Roles describe what a pet helps with inside the colony. Roles can affect work, care, defense, travel, repairs, healing, family support, and survival checks.
[h2]Common Roles</h2]
Roles may include:
- Leader - Handles major colony responsibility and some leadership-gated actions.
- Healer - Treats sick or injured pets when eligible and supplied.
- Caretaker - Supports kits, families, nursery care, and vulnerable pets.
- Builder - Repairs, upgrades, bedding, shelter, fortification, and structure work.
- Scout - Explores, learns tiles, finds leads, and supports territory discovery.
- Warrior - Helps with battle, defense, territory danger, and keeper priority.
- Wetnurse - Supports young or vulnerable kits where supported.
- Reserve - Backup pet for succession, defense, or emergency coverage.
- Recruit - A pet not fully settled into a stronger colony job yet.
[h2]Eligibility Matters</h2]
A role only helps if the pet is actually eligible. Pets may be unavailable if they are dead, too young, sleeping, sick, injured, quarantined, pregnant, starving, dehydrated, exhausted, busy elsewhere, or blocked by the specific system.
[h2]Stats and Role Fit</h2]
Stats can help suggest what a pet is good at:
- Strength helps with fighting, hauling, building, and heavy work.
- Agility helps with scouting, dodging, hunting, travel, and quick work.
- Intellect helps with healing, planning, building, learning, and careful tasks.
[h2]Role Handoffs</h2]
Many systems check specific roles:
- Healers for treatment and quarantine support.
- Caretakers and wetnurses for nursery/family support.
- Builders for repairs and upgrades.
- Scouts for map and travel systems.
- Warriors and scouts for Perimeter Keeper priority.
- Elders for safer Elder Hearth roles.
[h2]Changing Roles</h2]
Changing a role can affect what the pet is expected to do. Check condition and age before assigning risky work.
[h2]Related Pages</h2]
Echo Note - Role drills
Role drills can help pets practice for colony jobs, but role fit, stats, age, health, mood, and availability still decide whether a pet is ready for real work.
~Echo