Food

Food Items are random drops available upon reaching level 3 and can also be purchased from the Market with gems and are sometimes received from use of the Enchanted Armoire. Upon collection or purchase, these items can be found under the Food category of the player's inventory. They are used to raise pets into mounts.

Feeding Your Pet
You can feed a food item to the pet of your choice via the Pets tab of your Inventory (direct link). First, click on the food and then click on a pet.

Under each pet is a Food Bar, which fills by a certain amount each time the pet is fed. Foods preferred by a particular pet will make the Food Bar fill faster (10% per item) than other foods (4% per item). Pets begin with 10% in their Food Bar when they are hatched, so it takes 9 preferred foods to grow a pet into a mount. In stark contrast, it takes 23 non-preferred foods for a pet to grow into a mount.

When the growth bar reaches 100%, the pet becomes a mount and is shown in a ghostly form in the pet stable and cannot be displayed with your avatar until it has been re-hatched. It appears instead in the Mounts section of your stable in its new form and can be ridden.

NOTE: The growth bar does not fill correctly when using Internet Explorer, even though the pets have been fed.

Hatching a second pet of the same type replaces the ghostly pet image with a full-color image. You may now display a matching pet and mount with your avatar. The re-hatched pet cannot be fed since you already have a mount of this type.

An alternate (and quicker) method to change a pet into a mount is to use a saddle.

Achievements and Badges
The following Achievements or Badges apply to v1 (Gen1) pets only. Quest pets are not counted.

Beast Master: earned by hatching each species pet with each type of hatching potion.

Mount Master: earned by raising all pets into Mounts.

Triad Bingo: This is awarded to members who have hatched all pets, raised those into mounts, and then re-hatched those pets a second time.

Types of Food
There are ten types of food that can be fed to pets. Each type can be bought for 1 gem and can be sold for 1 gold.

During certain special events, the standard types of food are temporarily replaced with more festive versions (refer to Special Event Food below).

Food Preferences
Each pet that is hatched from a standard potion has a preference for a certain food. When fed with their preferred food, pets will turn into mounts much faster than with non-preferred food. Pets hatched from magic hatching potions (such as the spooky potions) prefer all types of food in any combination.

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Take a look at the colors. Show/Hide the food preferences table. SPOILER ALERT

Food Images
The food images were updated on February 22, 2014. The table below shows the images before and after.

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Special Event Food
During some special events, normal food items are replaced with rare food items. The rare items have different names and images but are obtained and used in the same way as the normal items. Food has also been a rare quest reward, for example in The Dread Drag'on of Dilatory quest.

Winter Wonderland
As part of the Habitica birthday celebrations at the end of each Winter Wonderland special event, every player was given a full set of 10 pieces of cake. Each piece of cake was a different type and corresponded to a different breed of pet. All food drops during this period gave players cake instead of the usual food items.

Show/Hide the birthday cake table. SPOILER ALERT

Fall Festival
As part of the Fall Festival, all food drops gave players candy instead of the usual food items. Each piece of candy was a different type and corresponded to a different breed of pet.

Show/Hide the Candy table SPOILER ALERT