Breeding

Pets come in three ranks: Ordinary, ★ Greater and ♛ Legendary. Breed two in your island's pet pen to make a better one, and hatch eggs in a hatchery.

The Breeding skill page — every level, every item and the xp, in tables.

On this page: Getting started · The pet pen · The hatchery · Pet food · Pets that grow · A breed can fail · Traits · Past 50 · The Kennel

Getting started

Click the pen, put a pair in, and pick one stat from each parent. The baby gets both, so a pair bred for the right stats makes a better one. The pen shows you the baby before you start.
Press Breed. The food goes in right away and the clock runs on its own, logged in or not.
When you collect, you get the baby and both parents back, so the same pair can go right back in. The food and the time are the cost. Stopping early gives the parents back too, but the food is gone.

The pet pen

Put in	Get	Food	Time	Breeding
Ordinary + Ordinary	★ Greater: looks like whichever parent you choose, and carries the one stat you pick from each parent, 25% stronger	30 Greater pet food	12 hours	1
★ Greater + ★ Greater of the same kind	♛ Legendary: its own pet and powers, plus the one stat you pick from each parent	60 Legendary pet food	72 hours	50

Two Greater…	make	Does
Bonepup	♛ Legendary Cerberpup	+14% walk speed · +5% tickets
Pack Rat	♛ Legendary The Hoarder	+7 bag slots
Coin Toad	♛ Legendary Golden Toad	+25% tickets
Lantern Moth	♛ Legendary Moon Moth	+300 hitpoints · 5% less damage
House Cat	♛ Legendary The House Always Wins	+5% walk speed · +2 bag slots · +100 hitpoints · +10% tickets
Coilling	♛ Legendary Coil Wyrm	+14% walk speed · +3 bag slots · +15% work speed
Pocket Owl	♛ Legendary Oracle Owl	+2 bow range · +8% work speed · +8% arrow damage
Mossback Tortoise	♛ Legendary Ancient Shellback	18% less damage · +200 hitpoints
Truffle Pig	♛ Legendary The Truffle Baron	+45% harvests · +5% tickets
Stormling	♛ Legendary Tempest	+20% bites · +8% walk speed
Cinder Salamander	♛ Legendary Magma Drake	80% fewer burns · 20% free smelts
Fortune Ferret	♛ Legendary The Bandit King	+20% pickpocket · +8% tickets
Crystal Crab	♛ Legendary Diamond Crab	+100% gems · +2 bag slots
Mimic	♛ Legendary Grand Mimic	+6 bag slots · a daily present · +5% tickets
Raptor Hatchling	♛ Legendary The Little Tyrant	+16% walk speed · 10% less damage
Pterodactyl Chick	♛ Legendary The Sky King	+15% tickets · +8% walk speed
Snow Owlet	♛ Legendary The Blizzard Owl	+22% bites · +10% tickets
Yeti Cub	♛ Legendary The Abominable	18% less damage · +250 hitpoints · +6% walk speed
Starling	♛ Legendary Supernova	+8% walk speed · +18% gems
Mossboar	♛ Legendary Thornback	+28% extra logs · +15% double fletches · 5% less damage
Snowmane	♛ Legendary The White Mane	+15% double brews · +15% double prints · +100 hitpoints
Skyraptor	♛ Legendary Storm Raptor	+12% spell damage · +8% walk speed
Little Hoodie	♛ Legendary Hoodie Royale	+10% walk speed · 12% less damage · +10% tickets
Rat Prince	♛ Legendary Rat Emperor	14% less damage · +12% work speed · +10% tickets
Sleepwalker	♛ Legendary The Dreamwalker	+200 hitpoints · +12% walk speed · +10% tickets
Mirror Imp	♛ Legendary The Glass Queen	+15% tickets · 15% less damage · +12% walk speed · +1 bow range
War Boar	♛ Legendary The Tuskmarshal	+12% melee damage

The hatchery

Yahsmeena sells a Hatchery. Put it down on your island, click it, and put an egg in with 3 Ordinary pet food. That's it: it hatches when the clock runs out.
About 0.05% of kills drop an egg, and each map has its own. Eggs can be traded and listed on the Exchange.

Breeding	Egg	Hatches in	Into	Does	Found
1	Speckled egg	12 hours	Pocket Owl	+1 bow range · +4% arrow damage	The Yard, The Gloam
1	Star Moth egg	48 hours	Star Moth	+3% walk speed	the Star Tent in Cloudreach
5	Mossy egg	18 hours	Mossback Tortoise	10% less damage	The Gloam, The Lantern Mire
10	Truffle-scented egg	24 hours	Truffle Pig	+25% harvests	The Lantern Mire, The Boneyard
20	Sparking egg	24 hours	Stormling	+10% bites	The Boneyard, Cloudreach
30	Cindered egg	48 hours	Cinder Salamander	50% fewer burns · 10% free smelts	Cloudreach, The Golden Sands, The Thunderhead, The Boardwalk
35	Daredevil egg	36 hours	Stunt Pup	+6% walk speed	Fast Eddie on Thrill Hill (2,500 runner's marks, Agility 85)
40	Velvet egg	48 hours	Fortune Ferret	+10% pickpocket	The Thunderhead, The Carnival, The Wilderness, The Boardwalk
45	Starling egg	48 hours	Starling	+5% walk speed · +10% gems	a Shooting Star (0.017% a swing), or the Star Tent in Cloudreach
50	Raptor egg	60 hours	Raptor Hatchling	+10% walk speed · 4% less damage	The Primeval Valley
55	Snow owl egg	60 hours	Snow Owlet	+10% bites · +4% tickets	The Frozen Reach
60	Pterodactyl egg	72 hours	Pterodactyl Chick	+8% tickets · +3% walk speed	The Primeval Valley
62	Geode egg	72 hours	Crystal Crab	+50% gems	The Carnival, The Vault, The Wilderness, The Deep Wild, The Depths of the Mountain
65	Yeti egg	72 hours	Yeti Cub	8% less damage · +100 hitpoints	The Frozen Reach
70	Gilded egg	120 hours	Mimic	+3 bag slots · a daily present	The Vault, The Trailer Park, The Deep Wild, The Depths of the Mountain
70	Mossboar egg	48 hours	Mossboar	+15% extra logs · +8% double fletches
70	Snowmane egg	48 hours	Snowmane	+8% double brews · +8% double prints
70	Skyraptor egg	48 hours	Skyraptor	+6% spell damage · +4% walk speed

Pet food

There are three kinds, cooked at any campfire. Each can be made from more than one pair of ingredients, so whatever you're carrying from that part of the game will do.
No pet yet? Cook pet food. While you own no pet, hold no egg and have nothing in the pen or hatchery, every batch you cook trains Breeding a little: 15 xp for Ordinary, 40 for Greater, 100 for Legendary. Once you have a pet or an egg, the xp comes from the pen and the hatchery instead.

Cooking	Makes	From
20	3 Ordinary pet food	1 Raw beef, 2 Button cap
20	3 Ordinary pet food	1 Raw chicken, 2 Sulky sporecap
20	3 Ordinary pet food	1 Raw boar, 1 Oyster shelf
50	3 Greater pet food	1 Static pelt, 1 Glowcap
50	3 Greater pet food	1 Scarab shell, 2 Inkcap
50	3 Greater pet food	1 Boar tusk, 2 Blue mould
50	3 Greater pet food	2 Enormous cobweb, 2 Puffball
80	2 Legendary pet food	1 Catalytic converter, 1 Starcap
80	2 Legendary pet food	1 Cobra fang, 1 Black truffle
80	2 Legendary pet food	1 Raw grimscale, 1 Void morel
80	2 Legendary pet food	1 Marrow, 1 Lion's mane

Pets that grow

Every pet has a level, 1 to 50, and earns it by being out with you: 5% of every XP you earn, 15% in its favourite skill (the one its bonus helps). Its bonuses climb to 1.25× at 50, it learns a trait at 15 and 35, and at 50 it's an Elder, with its own look and +5% XP in its favourite skill.

Your Breeding level is how far a pet can grow. Any pet reaches 35. Past it: Ordinary at Breeding 30, ★ Greater at 55, ♛ Legendary at 75. Levels it earns while held still count, and pay when your Breeding catches up.

It grows faster with your Breeding level (+0.5% a level), hand-raised from an egg (+25% until 35), from raised parents (Pedigree: a parent at 35+ adds 25% and 2 starting levels, an Elder parent 50% and 5), and with a treat: any pet food, +50% for 30 minutes.

A pet passes on what it was born with, never what it learned. A pick in the pen reads the parent's own stats, the child starts at level 1 (or its Pedigree head start), and the parents come back exactly as they went in.

A breed can fail

Every pairing in the pen and every egg in the hatchery can fail: 50% at Breeding 1, falling evenly to 10% at 99 (30% at 50). Both say the chance before you start. A pairing that fails gives both parents back, with no new pet. An egg that fails is gone. Either way the food and the time are spent, and Breeding pays half its XP for the try. A pairing takes 30 Greater pet food, 60 Legendary for a Legendary (40 for a hybrid, 80 for a Mythic, 100 for the Chimera). The second parent's picked stat passes at half: the first parent's whole.

Spare pets and eggs go to Nestor in the Yard (from the Kennel, beside him): a pet for 2 to 4 pet food of its rank and some Breeding XP, an egg for 2 Ordinary pet food and some XP. A pet's tickets stop at 25%.

Traits

At 15 and 35 a pet chooses one of two traits its kind offers, plus any its parents chose. From Breeding 65, a Sabretooth fang re-rolls one.

Traits only work on the pet you're wearing. Each kind offers its own pair at each level (its page says which), so the pet you raise decides what you can pick.

Trait	In short	The numbers
Fetch	A drop that won't fit in your bag goes to your bank instead.	Monster drops only, and only when your bag is full: the drop goes to your bank instead of being lost. Tickets aren't fetched. With room in your bag it does nothing.
Forager	Every 10 minutes out, it finds something small: a few tickets, a clover, a teleport scroll.	A find every 10 minutes while it's out and you're online: 80% 15–45 tickets, 10% lucky clover, 10% casino scroll. About 144 tickets an hour, plus the odd clover or scroll. A find is lost if your bag is full.
Guard	It takes 3% of every hit meant for you.	You take 3% less damage from everything. It counts toward the usual cap on damage reduction, like armour and capes.
Cheer	+2% XP in its favourite skill.	+2% XP in its favourite skill or skills (each kind has its own: see its page). An Elder and a Mythic add more on top.
Lucky	+3% chance at a monster's rare drop.	Rare drops are 3% more likely (3% more often, not 3 points more). It counts toward the usual cap on rare-find bonuses.
Homebody	Your pen and hatchery run 10% faster while it's out.	Your pet pen and hatchery finish 10% sooner while it's out. With the Breeder's cape (a quarter faster) the two multiply.

Past 50

Breeding	What
60	A second pen slot.
65	Re-roll a trait with a Sabretooth fang.
70	Hybrids: two Greaters of a listed pair lay a hybrid egg (48 hours, 40 Legendary pet food), each for skills no other pet helps.
85	The hunt's skins: Scaled (3 Wyrm scale) and Snow (3 Yeti pelt), from the Kennel.
90	Mythic: two Legendaries of a kind, both Elders, and 2 Rex tooth (120 hours): its stats a quarter stronger, and more XP in its favourite skill.
95	The hybrids' Legendaries, with Mammoth ivory.
99	The Chimera from two Mythics (168 hours), and the Breeder's cape from Nestor: Your pets grow twice as fast, and your pen and hatchery run a quarter faster.

Two Greater…	lay an egg of	Does
Truffle Pig + Mossback Tortoise	Mossboar	+15% extra logs · +8% double fletches
Yeti Cub + Snow Owlet	Snowmane	+8% double brews · +8% double prints
Raptor Hatchling + Pterodactyl Chick	Skyraptor	+6% spell damage · +4% walk speed

The Kennel

Everything about your pets is in one window: P, the paw button by your bag, or the pet square in Equipment. Their levels, traits and Pedigree, the pen's and hatchery's clocks from anywhere, and every kind you've found. Star up to four for the quick-swap row in Equipment.

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