Development Update #10

It's time to send the kids to school!

Puppy Training

Puppy training can now be accessed via the new icon in the Crossroads if you have had a minimum of 5 rollovers on your account. Training is available for puppies that are weaned and younger than adolescents. (Further plans for Adolescent training are underway but won't be here for this update, unfortunately!)

There is a brand new unique quest available to walk you through the steps of this called "Basic Education", that you can access via the Questing Snake. The quest becomes available after you have completed 'The Next Generation' and had a minimum of 5 rollovers on your account. We do recommend taking this quest to get full understanding, but also to gain the Guarana reward at the end!

Puppies can be trained in specific stats once a day. This is done via lessons, which are taught by an adult wolf from your pack. Lessons target a single stat and are either 1, 2 or 3 hours in duration. Up to 4 puppies can join a lesson, and any adult wolf (including your lead wolf) can be the tutor for that lesson. Each lesson takes 20% energy per hour, and wolves will not be able to perform other tasks while training puppies.

1 hour lessons can be taught by any kind of tutor wolf and don't need any items.

2 hour lessons can also be taught by any kind of tutor wolf, but require an item to conduct the lesson.

3 hour lessons must be taught by wolves of a specific role (for example, the lesson called 'Hiding' requires a Pupsitter to teach it!) OR by a wolf with a brand new role... A Mentor wolf!

"Mentor" is a new role that can be set for wolves. This role only becomes available to wolves that are at least 5 years old and level 5. Mentors can conduct all lessons regardless of role requirements thanks to their wealth of life experience.

Mentors do not have any proficiency decay or proficiency at all. This is the only role locked out completely by prior accomplishment and remains permanently available for the rest of the wolf's life. We hope that wolves that start getting older and have had a good career in the pack can be utilised to educate the next generation, without forcing your wolves of other roles to give up their precious time to train puppies.

All tutors receive EXP for training puppies, and there is no buff or debuff for the amount of puppies they train at one time - all lessons regardless of the amount of puppies training in them will give equal EXP. This EXP gain might be especially useful for pupsitters, who only get their EXP gain at rollover each day otherwise. Adult wolves might also gain a couple of stats a day in the stats they are training puppies in as well, if they haven't already gained any that day.

Puppies have a new 'Training' tab on their wolf page. In this tab is a list of all lessons the puppy has completed, and a chart with what stats have been trained and for what length of time. Puppies do not gain these stats straight away. The stats get boosted as soon as they age up into adulthood, but an accurate prediction of how many stats they'll gain can be made via the chart.

1 hour lessons give +3 to the stat, 2 hour lessons give +6, and 3 hour lessons give +9. However, if the tutor's stat isn't at least 50% more than the puppy's stat that's being trained (for example: Strength is trained, and the puppy has 50 STR and the tutor does not have at least 75 STR), then they lose -1 stat boost per hour of the lesson. Additionally, if the tutor's stat is the same or even less than the puppy's, the -1 stat boost becomes a -2 stat boost per hour of a lesson, resulting in +1/+2/+3 instead of +3/+6/+9. Tutor's stats matter!

And finally, there are a total of 22 (1 challenger!) achievements that come with this update. Lead wolves now have access to the 'Role' tab on their page as well, so you can see how many lessons they have taught.

In one of the next upcoming development updates we will be bringing a form of training for Adolescents as well, though this isn't present in today's update.

We hope you have fun training your puppies!

New News Page!

We have revamped the News page to include some new features, as well as a list of most recent news topics.

A new "Dev Update Ticker" runs through the 20 most recent minor updates to the game, whether that's bug fixes or minor adjustments to features.

Beneath the Latest News we now have Polls!  We're kicking off our first ever poll with a question about which wolf base category everyone prefers!

Next to Polls is Site Notices.  We may occasionally issue site notices to let you know about something that's happening in the game.  You can view a history of these notices here, so if you ever log into the game to a notice that says "It's all resolved now!" you can check back on what the problem may have been.

Raffle Studs

Every week a stud will arrive and appeal for help for his pack in the form of items.  In exchange for submitting an item, you enter a raffle to breed one of your wolves to him.  He may have special markings or other features that can only be acquired through breeding with a raffle stud, so it's often really worth breeding to him if you win! Please note that your lead wolf must be at least level 10 in order to enter the raffle!

The raffle will be part of a new weekly Community update that we will be running every Friday.  We have created a raffle stud for this news, and the winners who enter will be pulled on Friday the 25th June as our first test run, hopefully we can iron out any kinks in the system!

The raffles are pulled manually by an admin (though results are chosen at random by a script) so there is no set time to expect winners, but all winners will be notified in their Game Notifications.  And yes - winners!  There will always be a minimum of 20 winners who can breed to the stud, though this will fluctuate depending on how many entries there are.  So definitely keep an eye on your inbox on Fridays! You can find a direct link to the weekly raffle stud through the News tab, he'll be located at the bottom of the page - or, you can click here to see him now!

The stud will be accessible and show the correct heritage, and he will exist for 1 year after the breeding after which point he will be wiped from the game.  This should not affect your heritages.

Each stud will also have a unique name - we have a short list already, but we are taking your suggestions for future stud names!  Head to this topic to contribute your ideas!

A Note Regarding Markings: Raffle studs may come with special, raffle-exclusive markings that are officially released into wolf populations via breeding with these studs. In the future, these raffle-exclusive marking shapes may come in marking combination colours. These combo colours will be unlocked/made available when the second half of a combo pairing is released. For example, "Black Marking A" bred with "Red Marking A" could produce "Auburn Marking A". If "Black Marking A" gets released on January 32nd, 202x, then when "Red Marking A" gets released on February 30th, 202x, "Auburn Marking A" will be made available on that same day.

Minor Changes



Bug Fixes

Oh wow a lot of nice stuff! Thanks for the hard work!

Y the changet2 Puppy Spam from Puppy mill? No dark humor? 🤣 Love new features tho!!

Woo, news!

Nice update!

Ahhhh YAY!

Holy heck guys this looks awesome! Thanks for all the hard work youve put into this!! =D

great update!!!!

edit: misunderstood!

I really like the idea of raffles and how different it is from the other game. Mostly really excited for puppy and adol training! Thanks y'all

This is asking! Thank you so much! ❤️