Petpetpet Habitats
Always wanted to have your own Petpetpet community? Now you can with the Petpetpet Habitats game! There’s a lot to do in this game though, so if you need any help or information, this is the right page to help you.
Getting Started
Before you can play the game you need to download it, as well as Adobe Air if you don’t have that installed yet. Unfortunately the game is also quite big and so won’t easily run on older or slower computers.
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The Game Screen
- Your habitat’s level: Your habitat’s level will increase depending on how much your Petpetpets are improving, the amount of infrastructures you have, and several other things. You start with a level 1 habitat, which is still save from enemies. Once you reach level 5 your habitat can be invaded by enemies. You have time enough to get started and to get your Petpetpets ready before you reach level 5.
- Zone selection: There are four zones, and here you can quickly see in which zone you are, as well as quickly move from one zone to another. You can also click on the arrows on the corners and edges of the field to go to the other zones.
- Zoom in/out: Click on the magnifying glass to zoom in or zoom out. This way you can look closely on what your Petpetpets are doing.
- Notifications: Click on this red circle to see all the notifications you’ve gotten. Each time you get a new notification, an exclamation mark will appear in this circle. Make sure to keep track of these notifications as they can be very important.
- Resources: Here you can see the amounts of each resource you have. You need these resources to build or repair your structures, as well as to create items. These resources are what keeps your habitat vital, so make sure to always have some.
- Transfer Bag: If you have too many items of something, or you just want to move several things to your inventory, then you need to use this bag.
- Item Kits: These kits are for all your items. There are 6 different kits, from left to right they are:
- Seeds Kit
- Weapons Kit
- Tools Kit
- First Aid Kit
- Food Kit
- Harvest Items Kit
- Selected Petpetpet / enemy / structure / other things: This part will show you what you have selected. If you have nothing selected, then it’s empty as on the image. It will also show the stats of your Petpetpet, or how strong your enemy is, or how much more building you need to do to complete your structure.
- Information / Items: When you have nothing selected you can see how many Petpetpets and how many structures you have, but also how many enemies currently are in your habitat and the amount of harvest items, foods and first aid items that are in your habitat. These don’t include the items in your kit. When you have selected something you will see different kinds of information here, like the items your Petpetpet is carrying or what your enemy likes to do.
The Petpetpets
 Larnikin |  Mootix |  Pinchit |
Without Petpetpets you wouldn’t even have a Petpetpet Habitat, of course. At the moment there are three different Petpetpets you can have in your habitat: the Larnikin, the Mootix, and the Pinchit. But more Petpetpets may be added later, we can only hope!
- Petpetpet Information: Once you’ve clicked on a Petpetpet, you’ve selected it, and it will appear in the information bubble on the bottom-left of your screen. In this part you can see your Petpetpet then, as well as how healthy it is and how old it is. The 5 circles on the left tell you the age, from newborn (1 coloured circle) to fully mature (5 coloured circles).
If you click on the little diagram in the top-right corner you can see more stats of your Petpetpet. Here you can see your Petpetpet’s level and how much your Petpetpet is trained at Nesting (N), Building (B) and Defending (D). The Nesting stat is for both nesting and tending, while the Building stat is for building, repairing, and crafting. The Defending stat is of course for defending the other Petpetpets against the enemies.
Activities: Your Petpetpets can do multiple things: from keeping themselves healthy by eating, sleeping and healing to improving the habitat by harvesting, building and nesting. They can also fight, create new items, and several other things.
When you click on one of your Petpetpets, a thought bubble will appear. In it you can read what that Petpetpet is doing. This can be sleeping, eating, staring, wandering, building, harvesting, etc… So everytime you want to know what your Petpetpets are doing, you just click on them.
- The more your Petpetpets do, the higher their level and abilities become. And with this they also change colour and sizes! The Petpetpet’s levels can’t drop, but the three abilities can go up and down, although the cumulative percentage won’t drop. For instance, the more your Petpetpet fight against enemies, the higher its Defending stat will become, but the other two stats will go lower.
Several possible sizes and colours your Petpetpets can have.
Status: Occasionally a small icon will appear above one of your Petpetpets. This icon lets you know if your Petpetpet is hungry, tired, ill or hurt. So if you see one of these icons, take notice of it and take care of the Petpetpet in need.
- Equipped Items: You can equip your Petpetpet with weapons and tools to improve its abilities. The weapons help you defeating the enemies much easier, while the tools help you to build or nest faster, to harvest more items, and helping other such activities.
If you equip your Petpetpet with too many items, it will become very slow, although some item combination just speed up your Petpetpet to the extreme. Try out all kinds of combinations to see the effects.
- Naming your Petpetpets: If you want you can also name your Petpetpets. This can help you keeping track of certain Petpetpets, as their looks can change from time to time. You can always change the name whenever you want.
The Items
Probably the most important aspect of this game are the many items in it. Not only do these items serve a purpose in the game, you can also transfer them from and to your inventory! You can get several of the items inside the game from defeating enemies or from your Petpetpets that occasionally create one, but outside the game you can also buy, sell (?) and find them on the site, making this game quite interactive with the site.
The items are divided in six categories, for each category there’s also an item kit where the items will appear in:
- Seeds: These seeds are the beginning of your structures. Plant them and a little seedling will appear. Then once your Petpetpets build further on them, they will grow to a fully mature structure, ready for usage.
 Storage Chamber Seed |
 Acornox Tree Seed |
 Hotel Seed |
 Factory Seed |
 Hospital Seed |
 School Seed |
 Defence Tree Seed |
 Nest Seed |
 Morphing Room Seed |
- Armoury / Weapons: Equip your Petpetpets with one or multiple of these to fight against the enemies.
 Bark Shield |
 Nut shell Helmet |
 Sandy Rock Shard Sword |
 Rock Shard Sword |
 Splintered Twig Spear |
- Tools: Equip your Petpetpet with some of these to improve it skills. Other tools like the Demo Kit are being used by dragging the tool to a structure or something.
 Digging Twig |
 Thorn Nail |
 Protective Leaves |
 Mud Boots |
 Repair Kit |
 Demo Kit |
- First Aid Items: If your Petpetpet needs healing you can either use the Hospital or one of these items. Just drag the item to the Petpetpet that needs healing.
 Leaf Bandage |
 Petpetpet Medicine |
- Food: Your Petpetpets will get hungry, so they often need to eat some of these foods. Just drag them to your habitat and your Petpetpets will go to them. However, if they stay in your habitat too long, they will get rancid, with exception of the Red Acornox. Rancid food will make your Petpetpets get ill, so get rid of the rancid foods.
 Bacon Bit |
 Bit of Nut |
 Bread Crumbs |
 Candy Floss Strands |
 Chunk of Islandberry |
 Crumble of Cheese |
 Ice Chip |
 Kernel of Corn |
 Pea |
 Piece of Honey Comb |
 Red Acornox |
- Resources: These resources are what your Petpetpets can harvest, and need to harvest in order to be able to build the structures. Just drag them to your habitat, and the Petpetpets will be able to harvest them.
 Grass Resource |
 Sand Resource |
 Soil Resource |
 Stone Resource |
 Water Resource |
 Wood Resource |
The Structures
When you just start the game, your habitat will be pretty empty with exception of your Petpetpets. But there are several different structures you can build. When you open your first kit, the Seeds Kit, you will see some seeds in it. Plant these to start building your structures, and the first one you should plant is the Storage Room Seed. Then once you’ve harvested enough resources you can start building other structures.
- The Storage Chamber: As said, the Storage Chamber should be the first structure you build, as it is the only way to storage all your harvested resources needed to build everything else. Without this structure, you can’t get much further.
Harvesting is important!
The Red Acornox Tree: The Red Acornox Tree is the best food resource you can have. This tree will never run out of food, and on top of that, the Red Acornoxes it drops don’t rot so you can let them in the habitat without worrying of them getting rancid and making your Petpetpets ill.
- The Shelter: The Shelter is where your Petpetpets can rest peacefully, and although your Petpetpets can sleep in the open air, they restore health much faster if they’re in the Shelter.
- The Factory: The Factory is where your Petpetpets can mix items to create new ones. These new items are usually stronger and better than the original ones, like the foods tend to not get rancid and heal your Petpetpets more.
Possible combinations:
Bread Crumbs | + | Chunk of Islandberry | = |  Berry Crumble |
Chunk of Islandberry | + | Ice Chip | = |  Drop of Fruit Smoothie |
Ice Chip | + | Kernel of Corn | = |  Drop of Corn Soup |
Ice Chip | + | Pea | = |  Drop of Pea Soup |
Candy Floss Strands | + | Piece of Honey Comb | = |  Tiny Piece of Hard Candy |
- The Hospital: When your Petpetpets get badly hurt in battle, or they got ill by eating rancid food, then the Hospital can heal them. This way you don’t have to worry of running out of First Aid supplies and not being able to heal your Petpetpets anymore.
- The School: In the School your Petpetpets can improve their skills slowly but safely.
- The Defence Tree: The Defence Tree automatically fires at enemies close to it. The ammunition is limited though, so you need to fill it occasionally with more ammo. How to get this ammo is unknown yet though.
- The Nest: If you want to increase your colony of Petpetpets, then the Nest is what you need. Here you can place two Petpetpets of the same species, and hope they’ll lay an egg. This can take quite some time, so make sure their health is (almost) completely full when you put them in there. The reason for this is that if their health is down to 25 they will leave the nest automatically, even if there isn’t an egg yet. Once they did lay an egg they will also leave the nest and you will get a notification. Now you must get as many Petpetpets as you can to tend at the nest. The more there are tending, the faster the egg will hatch.
Tending, tending, tending!
- The Morphing Room: Right now there isn’t much known yet about the Morphing Room. Only Petpetpets that have reached maturity can enter it, but Petpetpets stay newborn in the beta version, so the Morphing Room served no purpose so far.
The Enemies
A Petpetpet’s life is never easy. Your habitat has only started to grow, and then suddenly you’re under attack! There are several different enemies that can attack your habitat at all times, so be prepared.
At the moment there are three different enemies: the Beetlesaur the Dragon Worm, and the Walrus Maggot. Beetlesaurs and Walrus Maggots always attack alone, while Dragon Worms attack in groups of two. It is possible though that while you’re under attack on one enemy, that suddenly another enemy also attacks.
When you select an enemy you can see some information about it. This information can be very important, and tells you what the enemies will attack or go for:
Beetlesaurs like to eat your Petpetpets.
Dragon Worms like to destroy your buildings.
Walrus Maggots like to eat your food.
When one or more enemies attack you need to fight them as soon as they appear, before they destroy everything you worked so hard on. But watch out, if your Petpetpet is too weak, it may get killed by the enemy. Weapons and armoury certainly help your Petpetpets defeating the enemies, but quantity helps too! Fair fights don’t exist: if you think one Petpetpet won’t be able to defeat the enemy, then just drag more Petpetpets to the fighting.
Transferring Items
Transferring items from and to your game is one way to improve your habitat, as well as to get rid of items you don’t need or want in your habitat. You only need to drag the items to your transferbag, and then clicking on the “Transfer Items” button, and they’ll appear in your inventory.
If you have Petpetpet Habitat items in your inventory, they will appear under your usual items and have a different background colour. The items with a lightgreen/lightblue colour are the ones you can transfer to your habitat, while the ones with a lightred/pink background are the ones that already are being transferred to your habitat. While the items are still transferring, you can click on them and cancel the transfer if you want.
