Pets

Pets have been part of Dimraeth since July 2023. A pet follows you into the world, can be set to fight alongside you, has to be fed, and arrives with a randomly generated name until you give it a better one. Nine unique pets with different abilities are listed among the content arriving with the Early Access build.

Almost everything documented about pets comes from development patch notes rather than a design post. Patch notes prove a feature was built; they do not describe how it behaves in the shipping build, and pets in particular have been rebuilt more than once.

The Pet HUD

Pets are controlled from a dedicated heads up display element added in October 2023, alongside animated pet avatars. It carries three stance toggles and a feed button.

Pets are greyed out on the display when they are not in the same scene as their owner, which makes the HUD a presence indicator as well as a control panel.

Feeding

Pet food was added as a distinct item type in October 2023, and the feed action was restricted to pets within range in the same release. As of 2026-09-12, no first party source has explained what happens if a pet goes unfed, whether hunger applies to pets the way it applies to the player, or what pet food is made from.

Names and Avatars

A new pet generates a random name and keeps it until it is changed, a behaviour added in October 2023. Pets have animated avatars in the interface, and the parrot pet is named specifically in those notes as having an animated avatar, which makes the parrot the one pet identified by species anywhere in the first party material available as of 2026-09-12.

Pet Slots and the Pet Courier

Patch notes reference pet slots and a pet courier system, the latter updated in July 2025. As of 2026-09-12 the developers have not explained what the courier does, how many pet slots a character has, whether pets can be swapped in the field, or how a pet is acquired in the first place.

Pet Abilities

Spells were added to pets in May 2025, and the nine pets arriving with Early Access are described as having different abilities. That is the whole of the public record. As of 2026-09-12, no individual pet ability has been named, no ability is tied to a named pet, and there is no statement on whether pet abilities scale with your character or with the pet itself. How pet spells relate to the wider magic system on Spells and Magic has not been explained.

A System Rebuilt More Than Once

Pets are one of the clearest examples of a Dimraeth system being built, set aside, and built again. Reading the dated entries in order matters, because a single entry taken alone gives the wrong impression of when pets arrived.

The Nine Early Access Pets

The Early Access announcement lists nine unique pets with different abilities. These are additions to a system that has existed since 2023, not the first pets in the game, and the nine is the only hard count of pets anywhere in first party material. As of 2026-09-12, none of the nine has been named, illustrated individually, or given a stated ability.

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