Pet care, loyalty and bonding

Food and loyalty#

A pet accepts only food matching its preferences. Its owner or a pet friend can feed it while it is alive and controlled. Under the current era’s feeding rules, accepted food restores loyalty to maximum. Loyalty matters because falling loyalty reduces control chance.

Forming a bond#

Bonding is enabled by the current era default. For an ordinary bondable pet, the owner’s first qualifying feeding starts a seven-day bonding period. Feed it again after the period has elapsed to complete the bond. A friend’s feeding cannot start or finish the owner’s bond.

• Your taming must meet the creature’s bonding requirement, unless it has a specific exception or a minimum taming requirement of 29.1 or less.
• Summoned creatures are not bondable.
• Seven days is the standard BaseCreature delay; special creatures can override it.

Veterinary care#

Animal and monster patients use Veterinary and Animal Lore. A veterinary bandage takes two seconds under the current rules, but positive damage to the healer interrupts it. Poison cure ordinarily needs 60.0 in both skills; dead-pet resurrection ordinarily needs 80.0 in both.

• The healer must remain within two tiles.
• If someone else resurrects your pet, the owner or a pet friend must be nearby to receive the resurrection prompt.
• When the owner resurrects their own pet by bandage, the code subtracts 0.1 from each of the pet’s base skills.