Most pets in Habitica have food preferences. Feeding a pet its preferred type of food will cause it to grow into a mount more quickly than feeding it a non-preferred type of food.
Mechanics
A green food bar appears under a pet that has not already been hatched and grown before. This bar tracks a pet's growth towards becoming a mount.
- When hatched, a pet starts with 10% of the bar filled.
- The bar increases by a certain amount each time the pet is fed. Preferred foods fill the Food Bar much faster (10% per item) than non-preferred foods (4% per item).
- It takes 9 preferred foods or 23 non-preferred foods for a pet to grow into a mount.
Specific Preferred Foods
Each pet that is hatched from a standard potion has a preference for a certain food. As described above, when fed with their preferred food, pets will turn into mounts much faster than with non-preferred food.
Take a look at the colors of the pet and food.
The pet's food preference depends on which hatching potion was used on its egg.
Hatching Potions | Food Preference | Cake Preference | Candy Preference | Pie Preference | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Base | Meat | Basic Cake | Basic Candy | Basic Apple Pie | |||||
White | Milk | Cream Cake | Vanilla Candy | Vanilla Pudding Pie | |||||
Desert | Potato | Sand Cake | Sand Candy | Desert Dessert Pie | |||||
Red | Strawberry | Strawberry Cake | Cinnamon Candy | Red Cherry Pie | |||||
Shade | Chocolate | Chocolate Cake | Chocolate Candy | Dark Chocolate Pie | |||||
Skeleton | Fish | Bare Bones Cake | Bare Bones Candy | Bone Marrow Pot Pie | |||||
Zombie | Rotten Meat | Rotten Cake | Rotten Candy | Rotten Pie | |||||
Cotton Candy Pink | Pink Cotton Candy | Candy Pink Cake | Sour Pink Candy | Pink Rhubarb Pie | |||||
Cotton Candy Blue | Blue Cotton Candy | Candy Blue Cake | Sour Blue Candy | Blueberry Pie | |||||
Golden | Honey | Honey Cake | Honey Candy | Golden Banana Cream Pie |
Pets hatched with magic hatching potions enjoy all types of food.