Ship Pets?

[funny cat]

Does anyone know how to get new ship pets? im not very far in the game so dont shout at me if it tells me 'oh you know have 17 new ship pets' later on .-.

[Bomoo]

I don't think that's implemented yet. Afraid you're stuck with your racial ship pet for now.

[the_tadosaur]

what does the ship pet actually do anyway? Can you pet it or get it to follow you or anything? Mine won't even chase the ball I bought it!!

...maybe mines just a bit 'special' or something. ;)

[funny cat]

Yeah, i read a beginners guide and found out that every race has a certain pet and depending on your character build your pet varies in colour (or someything like that)

[FDru]

I got a cinnamon ferret. The best possible outcome.

[The Mighty Squatch]

My pet was just there when I logged in. Check your cockpit. Pets also depend on race. Humans get cats, avians get rabbits, apes get ferrets, hylotl get crabs, florans get snakes, glitch get pigs, and nova kids get some sort of jiggly puff space marshmallow.

[MysticMalevolence]

You have to reset your ship, or start a new character. Pets will not spawn on pre-update ships.
They'll be in the bridge as soon as you repair the engines.

[ed]

Originally posted by tadmeister69:

what does the ship pet actually do anyway? Can you pet it or get it to follow you or anything? Mine won't even chase the ball I bought it!!

...maybe mines just a bit 'special' or something. ;)

It seems to vary, possibly affected by hunger/tired hidden stats. Sometimes my purple crab wants to chase the ball, sometimes he doesn't. :) Let your critter chow down a few times and take a nap, then try again.

Originally posted by EvilDylan:

You have to reset your ship, or start a new character. Pets will not spawn on pre-update ships.
They'll be in the bridge as soon as you repair the engines.

All three of my pre-existing characters had pets spawn just fine.

[funny cat]

Yes, i realise. I have a yellow space marshmallow (the best way to describe it CX) and i love it to bits... im more than a little bit attached to it.

[ChaoticGamer]

to change your pet is by chaning your races, by changing it I mean start new characters, human female has cat, the novakid has a weird...energy puff ball dog...dunno the other races has as their pet yet.

[funny cat]

space marshmallow =3

[fishwhiskers]

I'd like to make a note that ship pets' colour are, as of this moment, not controlled by character, character build or player (you). Their generation is random and the only current known way to get a different colour of pet is to keep starting new characters until you acquire the colour you want. You could also get a black cat, no matter your race, by accessing a secret room in the Erchius Mining Facility, but I do believe that was removed with the end of Upbeat Giraffe.

Avian Bunny
Human Cat
Hylotl Crasberry
Glitch Piglett
Floran Snake
Novakid Snugget
Apex Weasel

More Pet info![starbounder.org]

[funny cat]

oh, ok thanks =)

[ed]

Another pet that, like the secret cat, is protected from being RNG'd and looking different every time the game updates is the mushroom creatures (not the actual people that talk funny) from mushroom biomes. You can catch them with the space-pokeballs implemented for "battle pets" and then just set it free in your ship. Battle pet AI is too stupid to use anywhere else IMO.

[funny cat]

how do you get space pokeballs? and how have i not seen a mushroom biome CX where do you find them?

[ed]

The pokeballs are crafted, I don't remember when the capture station (crafting table) became available. And mushroom biomes are...I dunno, around? I think mainly on easy forest type planets but that could just be because I was relaxing and playing a lot of easy planets anyway.