Pet Training

Pet Training is done in-game by choosing Pet actions to perform with a "frequency slider" (see #Pet Behavior) and a specialized diet. A pet has to initiate an action on their own for their behavior to be adjusted.

Pet Behavior

Behavior loop

Pets have the following sequence of actions, where any action fulfilling a need is skipped if that need is already met :

Sleep > Drink > Shit > Eat > EatHigh (delicacies) > Atk > Learn > Help > HelpInner > Carry > Train > Free (it's how they play).

When a sequence ends, another follows immediately. Some actions can interrupt the current sequence, most notably sect attacks. Moreover, actions can have conditions attached to them. In particular, training requires a certain amount of fun (depending on the pet's maturity) to not be skipped, and training depletes the entire fun bar of the pet.

In addition, when an action can be fulfilled in several ways the pet will choose among these depending on the behavior frequency adjustments and the conditions attached to some of those - for example the action to "Sleep in its own bed" is not considered if no bed has been built for the pet.

Behavior frequency

Behavior frequency can be adjusted between:

never > rarely > occasionally > sometimes > often

Some actions can't be adjusted and have a fixed chance of happening. Pets have an initial propensity to do certain actions. This matters as it affects their Bless/Curse rating until they are set by the player.

Activity	Type	Base	Huajuan LsDog	Qin Muxue LsFox	Yiming LsPhoenix	Changhai LsDragon	XianxianDLC LsPandaXian	MiaoDLC LsXuanWu
Sleep	Rest	occasionally
Eat according to schedule	Eat	occasionally
Eat feces	Fun	never	often	never	never	never	never	never
Eat Precious Materials	Fun	never	rarely	rarely	often	often		occasionally
Drink Elixir	Fun
Eat Wheat	Eat		rarely	rarely	often	rarely		never
Eat Dried Meat	Eat		often	rarely	rarely	rarely		rarely
Eat Pear	Eat		rarely	rarely	often	rarely		often
Eat Raw Meat	Eat		often	often	rarely	rarely		rarely
Eat Cooked Meat	Eat
Attack Building	Fun	often	often	rarely	occasionally	occasionally		rarely
Attack Clothing	Fun	often	occasionally	rarely	often	occasionally		rarely
Attack Outer Disciple	Attack	often	occasionally	rarely	often	often		rarely
Attack Inner Disciple	Attack	occasionally	occasionally	rarely	often	often		rarely
Attack Visitor	Attack		occasionally	rarely	often	rarely		rarely
Attack Guest	Attack		occasionally	rarely	often	rarely		rarely
Attack unknown Mortal	Attack		occasionally	rarely	often	rarely		rarely
Attack Enemy	Attack		occasionally	rarely	often	rarely		rarely
Defecate on the Spot	Shit		rarely	often	often	often		rarely
Defecate by Plants	Shit		never	often
Defecate by my bed	Shit		never	often
Defecate in Storehouse	Shit		often
Defecate on Bed	Shit		often
Defecate in Field	Shit		often
Take care of Disciple	Carry		often	often	never	never		occasionally
Move Unconscious Outer Disciple	Carry		often	often	rarely	never		occasionally
Move Unconscious Inner Disciple	Carry		often	often	rarely	never		occasionally
Move Unconscious Visitor	Carry		often	often	rarely	never		occasionally
Move Unconscious Enemy	Carry		often	often	rarely	never		occasionally
Move Unconscious Guest	Carry		often	often	rarely	never		occasionally
Move enemy corpse	Carry		often	often	rarely	never		occasionally
Move visitor's corpse	Carry		often	often	rarely	never		occasionally
Move guest's corpse	Carry		often	often	rarely	never		occasionally
Move Outer Disciple's corpse	Carry		often	often	rarely	never		occasionally
Move Inner Disciple's corpse	Carry		often	often	rarely	never		occasionally
Move Unconscious Mortal	Carry		often	often	rarely	never		occasionally
Move Mortal's corpse	Carry		often	often	rarely	never		occasionally
Organize items	Help		often	often	rarely	never		occasionally
Cut wood	Help		often	often	rarely	never		occasionally
Mine	Help		often	often	rarely	never		occasionally
Pilfer items	Help		often	often	rarely	never		occasionally
Butcher	Help		often	often	rarely	never		occasionally
Irrigate	Help
Cure Frostbite	Help
Cure Heatstroke	Help
Cook	Help
Refresh Spell	Help
Furnace Spell	Help
Join in the fun	Help
Play with things	Fun
Hone Qi	Train		rarely	often	rarely	rarely		often
Practice Core	Train		rarely	often	often	rarely
Hone Protection	Train		often	rarely	rarely	rarely		often
Hone Intellect	Train
Practice Spells	Train		rarely	rarely	sometimes	often
Attack Unconscious Outer Disciple	Attack				often
Attack Unconscious Inner Disciple	Attack				often
Attack Unconscious Guest	Attack				often
Attack Unconscious Visitor	Attack				often
Attack Unconscious Mortal	Attack				often
Feed Laxative	Help		often	often	rarely	rarely		rarely
Heal Injury	Help
Enjoy the breeze	Fun
Urinate	Help
Cook	Help
Heal Injury	Help
Urinate	Help
Use Spells on Enemy	Battle	never	never	never	never	often		occasionally
Use Spells on Ally	Battle	never
Feed Euphoria Pill	HighHelp
Feed Sprout Pill	HighHelp
Feed Purity Pill	HighHelp
Feed Spirit Stone	HighHelp
Feed Spirit Crystal	HighHelp		never
Consume Snake Gall	Eat		rarely	rarely	rarely	often
Consume Bear Gall	Eat		rarely	rarely	rarely	often
Consume Red Ginseng	Eat		never	never	rarely	rarely		occasionally
Consume Purple Ganoderma	Eat		never	never	rarely	rarely		occasionally
Consume Ochre Essence	Eat		never	never	often	often		occasionally
Consume Crimson Fruit	Eat		never	never	often	often		occasionally
Eat Prism Lotus	Eat		never	never	often	often		occasionally
Consume Sagacity Fruit	Eat		never	never	often	often		occasionally
Consume Gnarled Vine	Eat		never	never	often	often		occasionally
Consume Life Spring	Eat
Consume Flood Dragon Egg	Eat		never	never	often	never
Consume Phoenix Egg	Eat		never	never	never	often
Consume Dragon Feces	Eat		often	never	never	never	never
Consume Dumpling	Eat
Consume Phoenix Flesh	Eat		never	never	never	often
Consume Dragon Flesh	Eat		never	never	often	never
Consume Primordial Flesh	Eat
Consume Bread	Eat		often	rarely	rarely	rarely
Consume Beast Blood	Eat		rarely	often	rarely	rarely
Consume Earth Flux	Eat		never	never	rarely	rarely
Consume Ice Crystal Powder	Eat		rarely	rarely	rarely	often
Consume Igneocopper Powder	Eat		rarely	rarely	often	rarely
Consume Cinnabar	Eat
Consume Resin Essence	Eat		never	never	occasionally	occasionally
Consume Holy Essence	Eat		never	never	occasionally	occasionally
Consume Evil Essence	Eat		never	never	occasionally	occasionally
Consume Healing Herb	Eat
Consume Purity Leaf	Eat
Consume Spirit Leaf	Eat
Consume Laxative	Eat						never	often
Eat Bamboo Shoots	Eat						often
Eat Bamboos	Eat						often
Eat Something	Eat
Eat Trimerous Essence Pill	Eat		never	never	occasionally	occasionally		often
Eat Soil Essence Powder	Eat		never	never	occasionally	occasionally		often
Eat Qi Fasting Pill	Eat		never	never	occasionally	occasionally		often

Food Nutrition

As part of their behavior loop, pets will try to consume two types of food, regular and high quality (rare items like Earth Flux), one after the other.

Nutrition value

Different types of Food provide different bonuses to Pets, mostly in the form of nutrition. Nutrition is a value attached to one of the pet's 5 main stats (INT, Qi, Core, Protect and Spell) and varying between -100 and 100. It drastically increases the efficiency of the related training and is consumed by that training, whereas having negative nutrition will decrease the stat instead. The nutrition value storage for a particular stat can be accessed in-game as the image shows.

The current storage of nutrition can be seen in-game in the pet panel

It is thus very important to choose food boosting the stats one wishes to train on the pet. For easier management, boosting one stat at a time is also easier.

Food also affects the two secondary stats "Fatness" and "Strength", providing direct bonuses or maluses to those stats each time the pet is fed. If the food is common, the stats are affected by the reducing multiplier explained below in the same way Nutrition values are.

In addition, the WuDang DLC pet  Miao has specific nutrition rules depending on their Bless/Curse attribute.

Food extra effects

The Food need is filled by the consumed food nutrition value as usual. The extra Needs provided by the food, like Leisure for  Amber Fruit or Water for  Simple Meal are ignored.

However, the modifiers applied by the food will apply to the pet. This does not necessarily have an effect on them however, as their needs aren't affected by the same properties as non-pet NPCs. For example, the Amber Fruit's hunger immunity is applied by the property Food Consumption Bonus, but the Food need of the pet doesn't make use of it so they'll have the modifier active without it doing anything.

High Quality food

Whenever the pet eats a High Quality food, they'll get a "Medicine Absorbing" debuff of 1200s (2 in-game days). Moreover, eating any more food of that type during the debuff won't result in any nutrition gain, and the pet behavior is adjusted not to try againbefore the cooldown expires.

In compensation, the nutrition value of the high quality food is always at full strength, and the values are sometimes higher than similar common food.

Name	Intelligence	Core	Spells	Qi	Protection	Fat	Strong
Prism Lotus	-1	0	0	50	0	0	0
Earth Flux	3	3	3	3	3	0	0
Sage Fruit	0	0	0	-5	50	0	0
Crimson Fruit	0	0	50	0	-5	0	0
Gnarled Vine	50	-5	0	0	0	0	0
Ocher Essence	0	50	-5	0	0	0	0
Life Spring	6	0	0	0	0	-10	0
Red Ginseng	0	0	12	0	0	0	-5
Ganoderma	0	0	0	20	0	-5	0
Beast Blood	-1	6	6	0	0	0	0
Snake Gall	0	0	0	0	20	2	0
Bear Gall	0	0	0	0	20	5	0
Wicked Flux	0	0	0	0	0	-10	-10
Frost Powder  Primeval Flesh  Igne Powder  Laxative	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cinnabar	0	0	0	0	0	-3	-3
Resin Essence	0	30	0	-10	0	0	0
Holy Essence	0	0	0	-8	40	0	-3
Evil Essence	0	0	0	40	-8	-3	0
Herb  Purity Leaf  Spirit Leaf	0	0	0	0	0	-1	0
Fitness Pill	0	0	0	0	0	-10	0
Power Pill	0	0	0	0	0	10	0
Soil Essence PowderDLC	0	0	0	12	0	0	0
Qi Fasting PillDLC	-5	0	0	0	0	-5	0
Trimerous Essence PillDLC	0	0	20	0	0	0	0

Common food

Common food do not have a cooldown and can always be eaten. If they have no nutrition value, they always give their full nutrition strength. Otherwise, their nutrition strength is reduced by the following ratio : $\frac{maxWaterNeed - currentWaterNeed}{foodNutritionValue}$, with a maximum of 1 (so no bonus can be acquired that way). The maximum water need of the pet depends on its growth stage, it is 50 at the child stage and 100 otherwise.

Moreover, in the Fat and Physique case, if the bonus is strictly between -1 and 1, it will not apply, which means, as most common food only affect those factors by 1, that you'll only modify those stats when the above factor is at 1. In practice, this means that food's effect on nutrition gets progressively lower as the pet's thirstiness increases, unless the nutrition value of the food is particularly high or 0.

Name	Type	Intelligence	Core	Spells	Qi	Protection	Fat	Strong	Nutrition
Pig Demon Meat	Meat	0	12	0	0	0	1	2	70
Amber Fruit	Fruit	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	40
Li's Dried Amber Fruit	Fruit	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	40
Ginkgo Fruit	Fruit	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	40
Pear	Fruit	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	25
Dried Meat  Boar Meat  Frog Meat  Turtle Meat  Bear Meat  Bull Meat  Rabbit Meat  Chicken Meat  Cat Meat  Tiger Meat  Snake Meat	Meat	0	4	0	0	0	0	1	35
Cloud EelDLC	Meat	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	30
Wolf Meat	Meat	0	8	0	0	0	0	1	70
Night CarpDLC	Meat	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	30
Fish Meat	Meat	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	70
Chicken Egg  Turtle Egg  Snake Egg	Meat	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	35
Wheat	Other	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	25
Mushroom	Mushrooms	0	0	0	3	0	-1	0	25
Lotus Root	Tubers	0	0	6	0	0	0	-1	55
Ginseng	Tubers	0	0	9	0	0	0	-1	55
Lingzhi	Mushrooms	0	0	0	5	0	-1	0	25
Simple Meal	Cooked Food	0	0	0	0	10	1	0	85
Fine Meal	Cooked Food	0	0	0	0	12	1	0	85
Lavish Meal	Cooked Food	0	0	0	0	15	1	0	85
Spoiled Meal  Inedia Pill  Flour  Fasting Pill  Nourish Pill  Bread  Guanyin Clay  Feces  Dragon Feces  Dumpling	Drug/Other	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Flood Dragon Egg	Other	-3	0	40	0	0	0	0	150
Nurturing Phoenix Egg	Other	0	40	0	-3	0	0	0	150
Phoenix Flesh	Other	0	25	-1	0	0	1	2	70
Flood Dragon Flesh	Other	0	-1	25	0	0	1	2	70
Soil EssenceDLC	Tubers	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	60
Golden ClawDLC	Meat	0	12	0	0	0	0	0	30

Stat training

Pets will train a stat whenever their Leisure (Fun) is high enough, and as long as their stats are not already maxed. The point where they start to train depends on their maturity :

• Child Stage : 50 fun needed
• Learning Stage : 100 fun needed (yes it's counterintuitive)
• Mature Stage : 75 fun needed

The activity they choose to train is decided by the player's behavior choices, where non-forbidden activities will be weighted depending on the player's encouragement. Note that the stat being maxed does not prevent the pet to try to train it (they'll then cancel the activity, and do another loop before trying to train again).

The stats are gained in full at the end of a successful training session, not progressively during that session. Depending on the nutrition value for that training, the base boost is :

• Nutrition between -1 and 1 : 0.
• Nutrition < -1 : $\frac{Nutrition}{100} - 0.1$. As Nutrition is negative, this is a decrease in stat.
• Nutrition > 1 : $\frac{Cost}{5} + 0.2$ where Cost is $Max(\frac{Nutrition}{5}, 1)$, and the division on Nutrition is rounded up. This means a minimum base boost of 0.4.

If Nutrition is >1, the nutrition value is reduced by Cost. A multiplier is then applied to the base boost, equal to $\frac{Intelligence}{200}$%, for a maximum boost of 50%. The value is finally rounded down to the nearest decimal and added to the stat. Finally, the entire Leisure of the pet is depleted, no matter its starting value.

Recommendations

• A Pet's idle behavior can be interrupted (default: ALT+S) to train them faster.
• Training Intelligence as the first stat is optimal, given it makes training other stats 50% faster
• Training one stat at a time makes food management easier