Region 01 — The Forest · Launch Region
Six monsters, one per rarity. Every guardian you fight is guarding an egg you can hatch, and the pet inside is the key to the next tier up. The same stats run both jobs: the fight, and the friend.
The ladder is a chain. A monster of one rarity is the key to the next: bring a pet of the tier below, or don't bother showing up. The first egg is free. Every egg after that is earned.
Pet needed: none
Pet needed: Uncommon
Pet needed: Common
Pet needed: Rare
Pet needed: Epic
Pet needed: Legendary
Wear the guardian down to 35% HP, then you can try the Grab. Not before. The fight is the lock, the grab is the key turning.
Every failed grab enrages the guardian: it hits 12% harder from then on. Greedy hands get punished.
Tossing bait (Distract) adds 10% to your grab chance, up to three times. Cheap insurance, if you stocked it.
Two normal hits, a visible wind-up, then a heavy hit at 2.2x damage. Guard on the wind-up turn and the heavy hit loses more than half its teeth.
Each monster carries one ability on a 3-turn cooldown, plus a twist that makes its guardian fight feel different from the rest. Pet stats are the average at hatch; every pet rolls about 8% either way, so no two are identical.
A round, moss-backed lizard with leaf ears and a tuft of grass on its head. The tutorial guardian: it only attacks, never winds up, and its egg sits in plain view in a hollow log.
Hits for 2x attack and stuns the target for one turn.
None. You can take this egg with no pet at all.
A wide frog-like creature with its eyes on top of its head and pale spots down its sides. It nests in a forest pond.
Hits for 1.4x attack and heals the pet for 25% of its max HP.
It dives under the water every few turns and cannot be hit for one turn, then comes up healed.
A fox with an orange coat, cream-tipped ears and a tail that burns like a torch. It nests in a charred clearing.
One big hit for 3x attack.
It sets the ground around the nest on fire, and the fire hurts you each turn unless your pet is a Water type.
A heavy boar with a bark-brown hide, a ridge of wooden spikes down its back and short tusks.
Cuts the next hit by 70% and reflects 1.5x attack back at the attacker.
When it curls up, your plain strikes bounce back and hurt you. Use pet abilities, or wait for it to uncurl.
A tall blue stag with antlers like branches and a pale mist trailing from its shoulders.
Heals the pet for 30% of its max HP and weakens the target by 25% for 3 turns.
Mist hides the nest and lowers your grab chance by 10% until a Fire pet burns it off.
A green forest dragon with broad leaf-veined wings, gold markings and a pair of root-like horns. Its nest is wrapped in the roots of the oldest tree in the forest.
Hits for 3.5x attack and stuns the target for one turn.
Roots pin you in place for a turn whenever it is enraged, and the egg can only be grabbed on the turn after its heavy hit, when its wings are down.
Four types, one clean wheel. Every type beats one and loses to one, so there is no safe pick, only the right pick for the nest in front of you.
Water beats Fire. Fire beats Nature. Nature beats Sand. Sand beats Water. Bring the counter and the fight tilts hard.
Fight uphill and your hits land soft. Worse: a guardian whose type counters yours hits harder in return.
Each map leans on one type, so moving between maps teaches the chart by playing it. A pet also fights at +10% attack on its home terrain's arena map, and −10% on the terrain that counters it.
Desert, Reef and Volcano follow the Forest, each built around one type. Names in full color are already in the playable prototype; the rest are placeholders to rename or replace.
| Terrain | Type | Uncommon | Common | Rare | Epic | Legendary | Mythic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Desert | Sand | Dune Scarab | Dust Gecko | Sand Lynx | Glass Scorpion | Mirage Sphinx | Dune Wyrm |
| Reef | Water | Tide Crab | Coral Eel | Glowfin Ray | Reef Snapper | Moon Jelly King | Tide Leviathan |
| Volcano | Fire | Ember Pup | Slag Beetle | Lava Hound | Basalt Ram | Magma Newt | Sunscar Phoenix |
Mutations come later, but the data leaves room for them now: each pet stores its mutation as one extra field, applied on top of its base stats.
| Mutation | What it changes | How you get it |
|---|---|---|
| Overgrown | +20% HP, slower ability cooldown | Feed a pet 3 duplicates of its own species |
| Crystal | Ability damage +30%, HP −10% | Carry the pet through a rare event map |
| Shadow | 15% crit chance, takes 10% more damage | Win 10 arena battles with the pet |
| Gilded | +10% to all stats, gold look | Tiny chance on any hatch |
| Hybrid | Gains a second type, and a second weakness | Fuse two pets of different types |
Once the six forest monsters are confirmed, the roster becomes a data table the game reads, so adding a monster later means adding one entry.
-- ReplicatedStorage/Monsters (ModuleScript) return { Mossling = { Rarity = "Uncommon", Type = "Nature", HatchSeconds = 180, Pet = { HP = 60, Attack = 8, Ability = "VineSnare" }, Guardian = { HP = 90, Attack = 9 }, }, -- Puddlehop, Cinderfox, Thornback, Rainbark Stag, Worldroot Drake -- follow the same shape }
Confirm or change the six monsters, their types and abilities.
Build the forest map with six nests, one per guardian.
Script the guardian fight and the grab.
Add egg hatching with a saved finish time, so eggs keep hatching while the player is offline.
Add the pet inventory and the arena.