Pet Activities

Hide and Seek Game

How It Works:

• While in forest, choose "Play Hide and Seek" — your pet immediately darts off and hides in one of six spots: Bushes, Trees, Rock, Grove of Elms, Brambles, or Big Oak Tree
• Hiding spot is picked at random and stored in the hidelocation pref
• All six options are presented on a single screen — "You only have one chance!" — you pick one, no wandering between separate locations
• Costs 1 petturn to play (the petshop module's own petturns resource — a distinct currency from the forest turns you use to fight monsters)

Finding Your Pet:

• Guess right: your pet jumps out immediately and rewards you with a small attention boost
• Guess wrong: your pet still emerges (annoyed) from wherever it was actually hiding, and instead you might find nothing, a stray gold coin, or a startled woodland critter at the spot you checked
• One guess per game — there's no repeated searching within a single round

Random Forest Events

Pet Finds Food (50% chance when event triggers):

• Pet darts into bush, emerges with food packet
• If inventory space (petfood < maxfood): Add food to inventory
• If no space: Pet devours food (+50 hunger)

Pet Finds Toy (50% chance):

• Pet finds beat-up old toy
• If inventory space (pettoys < maxtoys): Add toy to inventory, +100 attention
• If no space: Pretend to keep toy, secretly kick it aside

Event Weight: 50 (moderately common forest event)

Pet Commentary (Village)

If allowcomments = 1 and in correct location, pet randomly posts commentary:

7 Random Commentary Types:

• "laughs as [pet] growls at [random player]"
• "chuckles as [pet] bites [random player]"
• "comments that [pet] is better looking than [random player]"
• "brags about owning a [pet type]"
• "is bored and sics [pet] on [random player]"
• "says [random player] just stepped in [pet type] poop"
• "sneaks up on [random player] and scares them with [pet]"

Automatically posted to village commentary with random player selected as "victim".

Pet Messages in Different Contexts

Battle Messages:

• Dragon fight: "[Pet] seems visibly nervous at the sight of the Dark Lord!"
• PVP: "[Pet] waits to one side while you do battle with a fellow warrior."
• Graveyard: "[Pet] seems paralyzed at the sight of the undead fiend before you."
• Forest: Custom battlemsg from pet database

Newday Message: Custom newdaymsg from pet database

Village Messages (random 1-3):

• Custom villagemsg from database
• "[Pet] looks about in a state of boredom."
• "Students give [Pet] a smile as they pass on by."

Gardens Messages (random 1-5):

• "[Pet] plays among the flowers."
• "[Pet] tries to chase down a fairy but fails!"
• "[Pet] makes a meal out of a poor fairy!"
• "Your pet flushes out a small white rabbit from the flower patches and gives chase."
• Custom gardenmsg from database

Inn Messages (random 1-3):

• "[Pet] seems somewhat unnerved by all the noise."
• "[Pet] eats something off the dirty floor."
• "[Pet] draws a few bemused glances from the patrons and [lover]." (25% chance: +1 charm!)

Forest Messages (random 1-3):

• "[Pet] looks about the forest with some apprehension."
• "[Pet] seems to hear something in the distance."
• "[Pet] takes off to a nearby bush for a bathroom break."

Pet Stats Warnings

Village Descriptions:

• If hunger < 100: "Attention! Your pet is starving!" + quick-feed link
• If attention < 50 (and not starving): "[Pet] is looking bored. Maybe you should play with them or buy toys?"
• Otherwise: Random pet message or boredom message

Requirements

• Pet Shop module
• Pet Editor module
• Must own a pet (haspet = 1)

Strategy

Hide and Seek: Only play if you have spare petturns and want to interact with pet — it's a separate resource pool from forest turns, so playing doesn't cost you a fight. No mechanical benefit beyond a minor attention boost on a correct guess.

Forest Events: Free food/toys when they trigger. Always beneficial.

Commentary: Passive system, no player action needed. Adds flavor to village.

Inn Charm Bonus: 25% chance of +1 charm when pet draws glances at inn. Visit inn regularly if you want charm boosts.

Pet Maintenance: Keep pet fed (hunger > 100) and entertained (attention > 50) to avoid starvation warnings.