World · How it works
Companions
Dogs, cats, parrots and dragonlings that follow you, sit on command, defend you and come back to a whistle.
In the game
How to get it
Dog: bones (about 1 chance in 3 a bone). Cat: raw fish. Parrot: seeds or berries. Dragonling: cooked meat (rare). Empty-hand right click: sit or follow. L whistles them back.
What it is for
Your dog bites what you fight, your cat hunts ghosts and bats, your parrot warns you when a monster comes within 16 m.
Why it exists
Never alone in the wild. But mind the whistle: it also turns the monsters within 32 m toward you.
The same text the game shows in its progress tree and on the item's sheet (I).
Companions are the tamed animals that walk with you.
Taming them
| Companion | Where | Food | Chance a try |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dog | forests, taigas, plains, snow | a bone | 30 % |
| Cat | plains, forests, jungles | raw fish (salmon, cod, tropical fish) | 33 % |
| Parrot | jungles | seeds or berries | 25 % |
| Dragonling | mountains | cooked meat | 6 % |
Orders
- Right click with an empty hand: sit and stay / follow me.
- A companion that falls more than 24 m behind comes back to you.
- Whistle: press L. Every companion not in a basket stops sitting and comes; one farther than 12 m appears at your side. But every monster within 32 m turns toward you too.
What they do
- The dog defends you: it bites whatever you fight.
- The cat hunts ghosts and bats.
- The parrot bristles and warns you when a monster comes within 16 m.
- The dragonling is a small dragon that breathes fire.
A bed for the dog
Craft a Dog basket, right click your dog, then the basket: it walks there, curls up and stays, deaf to the whistle, until you right click it again.
Family
Tamed dogs breed on meat and tamed cats on raw fish: see Breeding. A Leash leads any of them.
On the progress path
VO3TravelSide quest
A sub-action of the step Animals: tame and ride: not needed to go on, but counted in your progress.
- BeforeVO2 · Leash
- This stepVO3 · Animals: tame and ride
- NextVO4 · Spyglass