Pet

This article is related to the Sisters in Arms DLC.

A pet is a creature the player recieve to help dwarfs in their task of shelter protection. To have them, the player must craft a pet house and place this item anywhere on the map, preferably inside the shelter, near to where monsters will try to break in. The pets are available in all worlds and biomes.

	“	We’ve made two kinds of pets for you that can be called upon to hunt pests, guard the dwarves’ home, and protect their masters. Having a pet also significantly increases your comfort level.	„
		~ DLC Sisters in Arms announcement.

Types

There are 2 types of pets, similar in their behavior, but with small differences in their attributes, which are listed below.

Pet	Damage	Normal speed	Running speed	Health	Obtained by placing a
Frogolisk	0.8	40	80	20	frogolisk house
Owlcat	0.9	50	110	17	owlcat house
Old friend	0.9	50	110	17	house of an old friend

Frogolisk

The frogolisk spawns when a frogolisk house is placed. It's tougher, does less damage and is slower than the owlcat.

Frogolisk
This creature is an incredible mix of a frog and a reptile. It serves the dwarves as a faithful companion and a guardian for their shelter.
Statistics
Attack	0.8
Walking speed	40
Running speed	80
Climbing speed	40
Health	20
Drops
Meat (30% chance)  Leather (30% chance)

Owlcat

The owlcat spawns when a owlcat house is placed. It's faster, does more damage and is more fragile than the frogolisk.

Owlcat
Neither a cat nor an owl – just another pet to help the dwarves in their adventures.
Statistics
Attack	0.9
Walking speed	50
Running speed	110
Climbing speed	50
Health	17
Drops
Meat (30% chance)  Leather (30% chance)

Old friend

The old friend spawns when a house of an old friend is placed. It has the same statistics of the owlcat.

Old friend
Statistics
Attack	0.9
Walking speed	50
Running speed	110
Climbing speed	50
Health	17
Drops
Meat (30% chance)  Leather (30% chance)

Pet house

Pet house
Frogolisk house Owlcat house House of an old friend Imp's house
Statistics
Types	Furniture • Defense
Damage	0.8 if it lodges a frogolisk 0.9 if it lodges an owlcat
Comfort	15
Placeable
Price	15
Tech needed	Advanced Construction
Size	3x1

To have a pet, the player must craft and place a pet house, which is an advanced construction. Each type of pet has its own kind of pet house, and will only sleep if there is an empty house of its type.

Each pet house creates a kind of radius which the animal will try to protect. It's possible though to use it aggressively by replacing the house to near where the enemies are / are spawning (e.g. near the pyramids in the desert world). As a monster enters this radius, the pet will migrate to its new "nest" to defend it. If no enemy approaches, the pet will only migrate when it will try to sleep.

Pet houses have distinct crafting recipes:

• Frogolisk House
• Owlcat House
• Imp's House

The house of an old friend is not craftable.

Maximum number

The amount of pets a player can have is limited by the player's level, being the maximum number of pets half of the player's level, and considering only the integer number. So, if a player is level 6 and has 3 pets, he'll only be allowed a 4th tamed animal leveling up to 8. As the maximum level a player can reach is 20, the highest amount of pets a player can have in the game is 10.

For an easier visualization, here are the quantities.

Player level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Maximum № of pets	0	1	1	2	2	3	3	4	4	5	5	6	6	7	7	8	8	9	9	10

The number of dwarfs has no influence in this count. So if the player loses one or more dwarfs, the maximum number of pets he can have will not be affected.

Behavior

Health

The health of each animal is represented by 3 red^[*] hearts — . When it gets damaged, the heart more on the right will shrink until it disappears. If all hearts are gone, the pet dies.

Death and respawn

Pets respawn like dwarfs, also after a penalty time. But with pets, this penalty time only applies after the 2nd pet dead. This means that, if the player hasn't lost any pet for a while, the next pet dead will respawn immeadiatelly.

Sleep time

Like dwarfs, pets also recover health while sleeping. But here, the player has no control on commanding them to go rest. Pets, unlike the dwarfs, will try to rest whenever they aren't full health, and if there are no hostile creatures around it. If there are enemies around, the pet will fight them until it's very low on HP. The animal then will try to escape, running to its house. If it gets there, it will only rest though if there are no hostile creature near its house.

This is why putting the pet's house outside the shelter, may be considered a bad idea, because, when hurted, the poor creature may not find a way to rest and recover HP, dying more than it would be necessary. It's recommended though to place their houses inside the shelter, to give them a peaceful environment for them to rest, but also to profit from the 15 points of confort each pet house delivers.

Idle time

If a pet has full health and has no ennemy around it's house, it will occasionally approach to one of the dwarfs to interact with him/her. This is only a cosmetic animation.

History

Version	Release	Changes
1.4.014	15 Feb, 2018	* ↑ The hearts representing the pet's health has changed from yellow ( - like in all animals) to red ( - like in all dwarfs).
1.4.013	25 Dec 2017	Increased the delay for a new pet to replace the deceased one.
1.4.002	24 Mar 2017	Fixed: new pets don’t spawn to replace the dead ones.
1.3.004	27 Oct 2016	(Halloween) Introduced: old friend. Add new sounds.
1.3.003	28 Jul 2016	Fixed bug when skins were changing at each game restart.
1.3.001	7 Jul 2016	Pets now bring experience by killing monsters.
1.3.000	5 Jul 2016	(Sisters in Arms DLC) Introduced: frogolisk and owlcat.