Companions, pets and mounts

Every creature you keep is in one window, the menagerie, with three tabs across its top: Companions, Mounts and Pets.

Pressing the key for the tab that is already showing closes the window. Each tab works the same way: a list down the left, and the one you are looking at on the right.

A companion follows you about and picks up your loot. It never fights and nothing can attack it. Press U to see every companion your account owns. Ctrl+U calls your default one out, and pressing it again sends it home.

Rules worth knowing

• Companions belong to your account. Any of your characters can call any of them.
• One companion out at a time. Summoning another sends the first home.
• Summoning one that another of your characters has out takes it from them, bag, gear and all. If that character is online, they are told where it went.
• Log out with a companion beside you and it is beside you again when you come back.
• Remove only works on an empty companion: nothing in its bag and nothing worn. You also need a free slot in your bag for its item, which goes back to level 1 if you adopt it again.

What the companion is carrying. It is the only bag in the game with its own weight limit, and it grows as the companion levels.

Moving things in and out

• Click an item in the companion's bag to take it into yours.
• With the Bag tab showing, right-click an item in your own bag to hand it over, or pick it up and click a cell here.
• Only the companion that is out can be given or asked for anything. A stored one's bag is shown but can't be touched.

How big the bag is

A worn bag adds to both: the Basic Worn Bag, sold by the Companion Manager, adds 5 slots and 50 weight. Head and back pieces can add weight too, and some milestone bonuses add to the companion's weight limit.

What the companion is allowed to pick up. Without a filter it fetches everything it can carry, and a big bag soon fills with things you don't want.

• A group with nothing ticked doesn't filter at all. Ticking nothing anywhere fetches everything.
• Ticking two classes fetches gear for either of them.
• Gold is always fetched, whatever you tick, as long as your purse has room for it.
• A companion another of your characters has out can't have its filter changed.

Every companion starts as an item, one for each kind of animal. Using the item adopts it, and you can do that anywhere.

• An account can keep up to 30 companions. A companion item used when you are full is refused, and stays in your bag.
• A refused adoption (a bad name, a full collection) costs nothing.
• The Companion Manager in Bichon Town, and the managers in other towns, sell companion food and the Basic Worn Bag, and can open the Companions tab for you. They won't serve a player killer.

A companion earns experience every minute it is out, and gets hungrier every minute too. Its bonuses are the reason to keep it fed: a starving companion gives you nothing.

Hunger and food

• Hunger drops by 1 every minute the companion is out. A level 15 companion standing in a town doesn't get hungry.
• When hunger reaches nought, it eats one item from its Food slot. Put a stack there and it looks after itself.
• It eats only when it is empty, so one piece of food fills it to that food's value, never more than its level's most.
• When there is nothing left to eat you are told once, and its bonuses (and those of anything it wears) stop until it is fed.

Levels

• Companions go up to level 15. Each one is worth more experience than the last: 100 for level 2, about 11,600 for each of the last five.
• A companion earns 1 experience a minute. Your account's best other companion speeds it up: a new one earns as many a minute as that companion's level, so a second companion catches up quickly.
• The first companion you raise takes the longest: about 1,160 hours out to reach level 15.
• Its most hunger rises with its level, from 100 at level 1 to 500 at level 15.

Milestone bonuses

At levels 3, 6, 9, 12 and 15 the companion rolls two bonuses and keeps them for good: one for fighting and one for everything else. A roll picks one stat from a line, and the numbers grow with the milestone.

Rolling again

An Elixir of Regret rolls a milestone again. There is one for each milestone level, in three kinds: (Power) rolls the fighting bonus, (Fortune) the other one, and the plain elixir both. They are on the Companion shelf of the Experience Pot.

• Your companion must be out, and must already have reached that milestone. Otherwise the elixir is refused and stays in your bag.

A wizard keeps the monsters they tame. Every one is listed on the Pets tab of the menagerie, to call out, put in its cage, name and set to fight the way you want.

Every class can open the tab, but only a wizard has pets to put in it. The pet's stance only ever narrows your pet mode (Ctrl+A, see Combat, PK and death): with pets told only to move, none of them fights, whatever its stance.

A wizard tames with Electric Shock. A tamed monster is yours for life: it doesn't wander off, it can't be stolen, and it waits in its cage when you log out.

Taming

1. Find a living monster no more than 2 levels above you. Bosses, guards and anything that already belongs to somebody can't be tamed.
2. Cast Electric Shock on it, again and again. Most casts do nothing or only stun it: its name turns brown while it stands still.
3. A cast that fails badly can enrage it instead: its name turns red and for a while it attacks other monsters as well as you. Now and then the shock simply kills it.
4. When it takes, the monster is yours. It comes out beside you if you have room, or goes straight into its cage.

Raising Electric Shock makes it take hold more often. You need a free slot in your roster to tame anything.

The numbers

How pets level

• A pet needs the same experience for a level as a player does.
• Every kill that pays you also pays every pet you have out, alive and in sight of the body, the same amount again. It isn't taken from your share.
• A pet below your level earns two and a half times that, so a pet tamed low soon catches up.
• A pet at your level still earns, but stops one point short of its next level. It goes up the moment you do.
• Pet Experience Scrolls, on the Pets shelf of the Experience Pot, share their experience evenly between the pets you have out.

Out and about

• Summon, Cage, Revive, Release and teams all work anywhere, in town or out of it.
• A pet keeps its health in the cage, and heals there over time. Caging a pet that is about to die saves it.
• A pet more than 24 cells away, or stuck behind something, jumps back to you once it is out of a fight, as long as your pet mode lets it move.
• Wild monsters attack pets, even peaceful ones.
• When you log out or die, your pets go back to their cages unharmed, and the ones that were out come out again when you return.

When a pet falls

• Its body lies where it fell for 5 minutes. A Taoist in your group or guild can bring it back with Resurrection, right there.
• After that it is Fallen: it can't be summoned or join a team until you use a Pet Revival on it from the Pet tab (the game store sells them).
• A pet's death pays nobody and drops nothing.

A team is a named line-up of pets you can call out with one button. Use one for hunting and another for guarding, and swap between them in a second.

• A pet can be in any number of teams. Releasing a pet takes it out of all of them.
• Use team skips a fallen pet and tells you which. Pets come out in slot order.

Horses belong to your account. M gets you on your default horse and off again; Ctrl+M opens the stable, the Mounts tab of the menagerie.

Getting a horse

1. Visit Henry's stables in Bichon Province. He sells all 21 horses for 10,000 gold each.
2. Right-click the horse in your bag. It goes into your stable, for every character on the account. Your first horse becomes your default.
3. Press M to ride. You must be level 15.

The 21 are the Brown, White, Red and Black Horses, the White and Red Unicorns, the Blue Horse, the Blue Dragon, the Dark Horse, and Gold, Iron and Silver Horses in brown, white, red and black. The Blue Dragon and the Dark Horse glow. Every horse is equal: the look is the only difference. A horse you already own is refused and the item kept.

On horseback

• A run is three cells instead of two.
• Riding adds 50 to the weight you can carry.
• You can't swing a weapon from the saddle, and only riding skills work while you ride.
• You can't ride while dead or on a map that doesn't allow horses. Dying or being pushed knocks you off.
• There is no horse armour. Barding you still have can be sold, but it does nothing.