This guide goes into detail on all aspects of your pack, including your den and territory. Plus, how to customise your pack and your account as a whole!
You can navigate this post quickly by using the table of contents below.
This guide was last updated February 6, 2023.
Recommended Guide Order
Following our recommended beginner's guide order? This guide is the fourth guide on our recommended list.
We recommend starting off with our [Getting Started] guide if you haven't already. After this one, the next guide you should read is our [Crossroads and Commerce] guide.
Find links to all of our other guides and resources in our directory post, linked [here].
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Your pack is where all of your wolves call home. It's totally up to you how you want to represent it!
Pack Name
Your pack name is chosen during the opening sequence of the game.
It can be whatever you'd like, and doesn't even have to have the word "pack" in it! However, pack names must be completely unique. Two players cannot have the same pack names as each other. Additionally, pack names cannot be longer than 25 characters.
If you decide that you need something need, don't worry! You can change your pack name at any time in the Grove, for a small cost of 1 GC!
While you can use plain text for your pack name, many players also choose to use UTF-8 symbols. While these symbols do work on most player's devices, we generally recommend that you do not use them for the following reasons:
They often take up more than one character, limiting how many you can use in a name.
They do not work for all players. Many players may end up seeing your name as just blank squares, rather than the letters you intended.
They are very inaccessible to players using screen-readers, as the screen-reader will read the character's full name (ie. Mathematical Sans-Serif Script T) rather than combining it with the other characters to form a word.
Where possible, we strongly encourage you use plain text in your pack name, rather than Unicode symbols.
Pack Biome Location
Also chosen during the opening sequence of the game is your pack's biome!
Your pack's biome affects many aspects of the game. However, between the first three starting biomes, the biggest differences will be aesthetic! When choosing your first biome between Grasslands, Deciduous Forest, and Mountains, we recommend going with what sounds the best to you, and not worrying about which is best for gameplay.
Later on, as you're discovered more biomes, you'll see further the differences they present when moved to. Below is a list of everything that is affected by your pack's home biome.
Raccoon Wares stock: each biome has exclusive decorations and backgrounds.
Hunting difficulty: More difficult biomes are much harder to hunt in and require higher-stat wolves to succeed.
Fishing possibilities: Each biome has a collection of fish which can only be found in that biome.
Site-wide visuals: Moving biomes changes visuals across the whole site - the raccoon in the shop, hunting backgrounds, exploring background, and fishing backgrounds!
Weather patterns: Some biomes have weather patterns not available in other biomes. For example, in can snow during the Summer in the Mountains, but not in the Desert.
Moving Your Pack
Regret your choice of biome, or just want a change of pace?
After you've fully discovered the three starting biomes (Deciduous Forest, Grasslands, and Mountains), you will unlock the ability to move your pack to a different biome.
Moving your territory is accessible through the Questing page. You can only move your pack to a biome that you've completely discovered (it will be explorable by your lead wolf). Upon requesting to move territory, the questing snake will give a quest to slay a certain number of wolves in that specific biome before he will help you move your territory.
Unlike with rescouting, this ability is not achievement-based, meaning you will have to fully rescout the starter biomes again before you are able to move your pack after your previous lead retires.
The amount of wolves that must be slain can be calculated by dividing your total adult wolf count (excluding your lead wolf) by four, rounding up, and adding two to that amount. Your adult wolf count is the number outlined in the image below.
For example, if I have 37 adult wolves, I can divide and round up this number to get 10, then add 2 to get 12. I would need to defeat 12 wolves in order to move a pack with 37 adult wolves.
Territory moving quests can also be rushed with Golden Cones at a rate of 1 GC per wolf that needs to be slain.
You can take the biome-moving quest as many times as you would like, even multiple times in one day. If you do not complete the quest within 5 days, it will expire and you must restart it if you still want to move.
Your Den page is your home base! This is where all of your wolves are stored, and where you can interact with and find out more information about them.
Lead and Featured Wolves
At the top of the page, you'll notice your lead wolf panel.
Here, you'll be able to see your lead wolf and featured wolf at a quick glance, as well as information about your pack.
Here, you can choose to Remove your featured wolf if you'd like. To change the titles in front of these two wolves' names, scroll down to the bottom of your Den page!
Your Territory Biome is the biome your pack is currently located in.
Cave Slots refers to how many caves you have created. The maximum is always ten, and there's not currently a way to get any more caves than ten.
Pack Adults and Pack Pups keep track of how many wolves are currently in your pack. Note that your lead wolf is not included in the Pack Adults count. The amount of pups that you can have is always 5x the amount of adults you can have.
The maximum amount of Pack Adult slots you can have is 200, with 5000 Pack Pup slots.
Finally, Immortal Slots refers to how many immortal wolves you have. Immortal slots can be purchased with GC and you can use Jellyfishes to fill those slots with immortal wolves. The maximum amount of immortal wolf slots you can have is 20.
Caves
On your Den page, all of your wolves can be organized into Caves.
You unlock the ability to build caves after completing the Not Just for Bears quest on the Questing page.
After you've completed the quest, scroll down to the bottom of your Den page to find the cave-building panel.
Building a cave requires three materials: Large Branches, Large Leafs, and Large Rocks. These materials can be found while Exploring. Feel free to use our Explore Encounter reference to keep an eye out for encounters which have a chance of dropping them!
The amount of materials required increases with how many caves you have. The first cave you build requires no materials as it is a part of the tutorial. Each subsequent cave adds 5 of each material.
Below is a list of the required materials for each cave. In order to build all ten caves, you will need 225 of each material.
Cave 1: 0 Large Branches, 0 Large Leaves, and 0 Large Rocks (built during the tutorial) Cave 2: 5 Large Branches, 5 Large Leaves, and 5 Large Rocks Cave 3: 10 Large Branches, 10 Large Leaves, and 10 Large Rocks Cave 4: 15 Large Branches, 15 Large Leaves, and 15 Large Rocks Cave 5: 20 Large Branches, 20 Large Leaves, and 20 Large Rocks Cave 6: 25 Large Branches, 25 Large Leaves, and 25 Large Rocks Cave 7: 30 Large Branches, 30 Large Leaves, and 30 Large Rocks Cave 8: 35 Large Branches, 35 Large Leaves, and 35 Large Rocks Cave 9: 40 Large Branches, 40 Large Leaves, and 40 Large Rocks Cave 10: 45 Large Branches, 45 Large Leaves, and 45 Large Rocks
If you want to destroy a cave you no longer use, you can do so on the cave's page. Click on the Manage button in the cave's panel.
Then, click Destroy Cave at the bottom of the page
Destroying a cave does not give you your materials back. You do not get any benefit from destroying a cave.
If the cave has wolves in it when you destroy it, they will be moved to your Unsorted section.
Unsorted
When wolves first enter your pack, they are placed into your Unsorted section by default.
"Unsorted" is not a cave, just a holding place. Wolves can only be moved out of the Unsorted section, not back into it.
If you do not have any unsorted wolves, the Unsorted section will not be visible on your Den page.
Quarantine Caves
Through playing, you may notice some players referring to certain caves as "Quarantine Caves". This term relates to the passing of illnesses between wolves in caves.
A wolf in one cave cannot pass their contagious illness onto a wolf in a different cave. Because of this, many players create a designated Quarantine Cave to temporarily place their ill wolves into so that they will not spread their illness to other wolves if the player does not have time to cure them before rollover.
Unsorted wolves are not quarantined, since they are not technically in a cave. If a wolf in your Unsorted section has a contagious illness, they will be able to pass their illness to any other wolf in your pack. This is one of the reasons that keeping wolves unsorted is not recommended.
Organizing Caves
There are many method that you can use to keep your caves and your wolves organized!
Within each cave, you can decide how the wolves will be sorted. Using the dropdown in each cave panel, you could sort the wolves by name, level, age, stats, footnote, or role.
Your caves themselves are sorted alphabetically within your Den. Caves which come first alphabetically will appear higher up on your page. However, there are some ways to get around this order.
Many players chose to put numerals in front of their cave names to place them in the order they choose. If you don't want to put a number in front of your cave name, however, you could also use the spacing method.
The spacing method is detailed in this forum topic. In short, the more spaces in front of your cave's name, the higher it will appear in the cave list. When you save the name, the spaces are hidden, so this is a good way to sort your caves without any visible adjustements!
Territory Slots
In order to add more wolves to your pack, you will need to upgrade your Territory Slots.
You can view how many territory slots you currently have next to Pack Adults at the top of your Den page.
In order to get more territory slots, you will need to purchase them with SC or GC. This can be done at the bottom of your Den page.
The cost of each territory slot increases every time you buy one. You will get up to 5 slots for free from completing tutorial quests. After this, the sixth slot costs 130 SC, and each subsequent slot costs 25 SC more.
At Slot 52, the currency required to upgrade switches to GC. There is not a way to obtain slots 1 - 51 with GC, just as there's not a way to obtain slots 52 - 200 with SC.
The table below lists the prices for every territory slot as well as how much currency is required to purchase all 200. You can also view the table here.
Additional Benefits of Buying Territory Slots
Besides just being able to house more wolves, upgrading your territory slots also unlocks a few other abilities!
The more territory slots you have, the more pups you will be able to give to the Enclave each day. The amount of pups you can leave is equal to 1/4 your territory size, rounded up. So, if you have 150 territory slots, you will be able to leave 38 pups at the Enclave each day.
Territory size is also what affects how many pair bond breedings you will be able to make each month. If you have less than 10 territory, you will only be able to breed your pairbonds twice a month. At 10 slots, you will unlock an additional breeding. Then, every 10 slots, you'll get one more breeding, for a total of 22 breedings once you have 200 territory slots.
Finally, having more territory slots will allow you to send out more hunting parties at one time. At 25 slots, you will be able to send out 2 hunting parties at the same time, with 3 hunting simultaneous hunting parties unlocking at 50 slots and 4 unlocking at 75 slots.
Immortal Slots
In addition to normal territory slots, you may also choose to purchase Immortal Slots.
You can purchase Immortal Wolf slots at the bottom of your Den page. These slots always cost GC and become more expensive the more slots you buy. These slots allow you to store an immortal wolf in your pack. However, in order to immortalize a wolf, you also need to buy a Jellyfish for 10 GC from the [Grove].
The price for an immortal slot increases by 10 GC each time you buy one. The first slot costs 10 GC, the fifth slot costs 60 GC, and so on.
The maximum amount of Immortal Slots (and therefore immortal wolves) you can have is 20.
I have an immortal slot and a jellyfish, why can't I immortalize this wolf?
A: If a wolf is not showing up in the dropdown list, it could be for a variety of reasons. Pups must not be protected by a pupsitter, can't be in a trade, and can't be currently training. Lead wolves cannot be immortalized under any circumstances and adult wolves cannot be immortalized if they gave birth recently or if they currently have a role. Wolves also cannot be in pair bonds if they are to be immortalized. If they still aren't showing up after this, make a [Help] board post to see if anyone else has any ideas, or create a [Bugbox report].
In addition to your general Den page, there are a couple pages you can use to view wolves and your pack at a glance!
These pages are both accessible from your Den page, by click on the corresponding button underneath your lead wolf panel.
Pack Overview
Your Pack Overview is where you can view your entire pack at a glance.
The page is sorted alphabetically by cave. Within each cave, you can sort your wolves by their individual information!
This page is great for quickly checking if you have any more hungry wolves, or if any of your wolves are close to leveling up. Through the Role column, you can also quickly see which of your wolves don't have roles.
Pack Dynasty
Once a wolf has died or been retired, they will be moved to your Dynasty. This is where you can store records of your previous wolves.
Immediately after a wolf dies, their records will appear in the "Unsorted" section of your dynasty. If they were a lead wolf, they will be in the Former Leaders tab, while every other wolf will be in the Pack Members tab. Wolves will keep all of their decor when they move to your dynasty, and you must remove it manually if you want to reuse it.
If you have enough dynasty slots, you can press the green plus button next to the record to store it permanently. If you do not store the record, it will be permanently deleted after 5 rollovers. There is not a way to restore a record which has expired.
You can view your total dynasty slots in the top right of the page. If you do not have enough dynasty slots to store a record, you must spend GC to purchase more. The maximum dynasty slots you can have is 400.
Wolves in your dynasty can be decorated and edited like living wolves, but they cannot have footnotes.
There are multiple ways that you can customise your den page display. You can find all of the display options at the bottom of your Den page.
Cave Display
Through the use of the Cave Display options, you can alter how your caves and the wolves inside them are displayed. Changing this option will chance every den that you view. So, if you set it to Card Display, your den will display cards for you, and your friend's den will also display cards when you look at it. This could be different from how your friend is choosing to view their own den.
The default option, and what visitors will see your den as when viewing while logged out, is Standard listing with headshots. In this option, each of your wolves has their own row in your cave panels, and their headshots are visible on the lefthand side of the row.
Nursing pups will be displayed as smaller headshots underneath their mother.
Another similar option is Standard listing without headshots. This view mode is the same as the previous, however the portraits on the lefthand side of the screen are removed.
A final cave view option is Cards listing. With this option, rather than being in rows, your wolves will each have their own separate card.
Their headshots will be much larger and their information will be displayed vertically rather than horizontally. Nursing pups will display as smaller headshots to the right of their mother.
Den Notices
Underneath the Cave Display options, you can enable a den notice for whenever you have puppies at risk.
Enabling this option will allow a red banner to appear at the top of your Den page whenever you have any puppies who are not at 100% survival chance. Clicking on the banner will quickly bring you to the Puppies At Risk page.
If are of your pups are fully protected, the banner will disappear.
HTML and CSS
HTML and CSS are the ultimate way to fully customize your Den and Profile pages!
Den/Profile HTML
HTML is the simpler option. This refers to any text or coding that you add directly into the text editor at the bottom of your page.
You could add colored tables to sort information into, headers and titles to organize sets of text, and more!
CSS/stylesheets are what allow complete customization of your page. When you see someone with unique colors, fun fonts, or more custom elements on their page, they're using CSS to achieve this!
However, if you're not bothered to make one yourself, there are also many ways to get CSS for your Den and Profile pages which hardly require any work on your end! The Layout and CSS Sales section of the forums is where you can find free and paid CSS that you can use for your pages anytime!
Your Profile page is the hub for you - the player! Here, you can find information about your friends, achievements, and more. When visiting another user's profile page, many more options are presented as well!
Your Information
The first panel on your profile page is all about you!
Here, you can quickly see when you first joined that game, when you were most recently active, and your profile picture if you have one!
Profile Badges
Many players will also have badges next to their names when looking at their Profile page. Each of these badges has a different meaning which you can parse from hovering over the badge.
All profile badges and their associated meaning are listed below.
Admin: this user works for the game in an official capacity
These badges were rewarded to all players who participated in Wolvden's closed beta, with the specific badge correlating with the team they were randomly placed on: Alligators, Bears, Whitetails, Elk, Pronghorns, Porcupines, or Beavers.
Friends and Groups
The next sections of your Profile page are your Friends and Groups.
There are a couple ways you can add someone as a friend, and you can have as many or as few friends as you'd like! Friends don't offer any gameplay advantage, and are just for fun.
Visiting the Friends page, you can add a friend by entering their ID in the Add Friends section. Alternatively, you could visit their Profile page and click the Add Friend button.
The Groups section keeps track of all of the groups you've joined. You can find Groups to join on the Groups page!
You can hide both of these panels from other players in the settings at the bottom of the page.
Achievements and Wishlist
Your Achievements and Wishlist can be accessed using the buttons underneath the Groups panel.
Achievements
Your Achievements page keeps track of all game achievements you've obtained, or have yet to obtain! These are sorted into categories based on the achievement's subject matter. There is no rewards for completing every achievement besides a sense of accomplishment!
In addition to all of the achievements visible on the page, there are also some hidden achievements that you can find by completing some especially unique tasks throughout the game.
Everyone is able to view your Achievements page, and there isn't currently a way to hide it.
Wishlist
Your Wishlist is where you can keep track of items you want to obtain!
You can add items to your Wishlist from the Item Catalogue. Click on the item you want, and then the Add to Wishlist button.
Once an item has been added, you can edit the entry on your Wishlist page. Here, you can add an optional note or delete the item from your list altogether.
Everyone can see your wishlist and the notes that you add to each item.
Profile Settings
At the bottom of your Profile page is all of your account settings. Many of these settings are important to keep in mind!
At the top, you can change your password, manage your devices, or check your user log. All of these options can also be accessed from the dropdown menu on your display name at the top of the page.
Underneath this are your important account settings. You can change your member name, what other players will see when interacting with you, as well as the email address associated with your account.
The Tag URL section is where you can add a profile picture. Paste an image link into this field in order to add one! There are a few requirements that profile pictures must follow: they must be 150 x 150 px or smaller, and they must be a direct image link ending in .png, .jpeg, or another image format.
This section is also where you can adjust the site theme between dark and light modes.
The remaining options relate to account privacy. You can choose to block certain incoming friend request, messages, and group invites, or add restrictions to these instead.
Underneath these account settings are a set of checkboxes which affect some more aspects of your account and the site as a whole.
Turning off site animations will remove any optional animations from site features. Hiding the featured wolf inset portrait will remove your featured wolf from the lead wolf panel on the sidebar.
Hiding HTML or CSS on other players' pages can help with loading speeds and consistency while viewing. Disabling CSS means that you won't be able to see any custom CSS added by other players, and every player den/profile page will appear as the generic site colors.
Hiding the "Current Quests" sidebar widget will remove the widget listing out daily quests you haven't finished yet. Note that this option will only hide the daily quests panel and not the Melvin's Missions panel.
This checkbox panel is where you can hide the Groups and Friends sections of your Profile page. If these are hidden, only you will be able to view them. They will not appear to any other user nor any logged-out viewer.
The remaining checkbox allows you to enable Traveling Wolves, an optional additional role that allows you to send travelers to others, or receive travelers yourself. You can learn more about Traveling Wolves here.
Other Users' Profiles
When visiting another user's profile page, a few additional options are presented.
At the bottom of their player panel, you can quickly send them a message or gift. You can also add them as a friend here! The final option is blocking them, so they can't interact with you.
When visiting another player's Wishlist, you'll find another quick gifting button!
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