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# Pets

Pets are loyal companions that live on your farm, fetch rare resources, and power some of the strongest boosts in the game.

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## 🏠 Getting Started

Build the **Pet House** (5,000 Coins) to adopt your first pet. There are two families of pets:

* **Common pets** — 22 adoptable pets across 7 types: Dogs, Cats, Owls, Horses, Bulls, Hamsters & Penguins
* **Pet NFTs** — unique, tradeable pets (Rams, Dragons, Phoenixes, Griffins, Warthogs, Wolves & Bears) with extra traits and an additional boost category

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## 🍽️ Daily Care

Each pet requests **cooked meals** (easy, medium or hard — harder meals give more XP). Feed and pet them daily to:

* Earn **Pet XP** and level them up
* Build **energy**, which fuels fetching

Neglect a pet for too long and it will sulk until you cheer it up! Friends who visit your farm can also help care for your pets for bonus XP.

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## 🦴 Fetching

Pets **fetch resources** — this is where they shine:

| Pet level | Fetch unlocked                      |
| --------- | ----------------------------------- |
| 1         | Acorns                              |
| 3         | Their category's special resource   |
| 7         | Their secondary category's resource |
| 20        | Fossil Shells                       |

Every pet belongs to boost **categories** (Guardian, Hunter, Voyager, Beast, Moonkin, Snowkin & Forager), and each category fetches its own unique resource — like Chewed Bones, Ribbons, Ruffroot, Wild Grass, Frost Pebbles and Dewberries. Fetching costs energy, so keep those meals coming.

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💡 **Tip:** Fetched pet resources are the ingredients for **Pet Shrines** — powerful 7-day boosts you can renew again and again.
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## 🏡 Pet House Levels

Upgrade the Pet House to hold more pets:

| Level | Common pets | NFT pets |
| ----- | ----------- | -------- |
| 1     | 3           | 1        |
| 2     | 5           | 4        |
| 3     | 7           | 7        |

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## 💎 Pet NFTs

Pet NFTs are unique collectibles that can be **traded on the in-game Marketplace** and withdrawn on-chain (Polygon). New tranches are revealed in waves — check the in-game reveal schedule for trade & withdrawal dates.