Field guide
Observe from cover, learn what an animal eats and approach without frightening it. Food, patience and repeated encounters build trust. Once bonded, up to two animal companions can travel with you into the field.
Use the species notes below to understand an animal’s needs and territory before trying to earn its trust.
Pair animals at camp and follow their lineage across generations. Inherited traits shape size, colour, horns and living light, so breeding changes the body you see.
This is part of a living ecosystem: animals also need food, habitat and protection from predators. Explore the world and survival systems, or check the free PC demo.
Canid · Pack predator
A pack hunter of the woodland edge whose living light brightens as it closes in.
Ancient Woodlands
Rodent · Dam builder
A small striped forager that dams the woodland streams, and changes the land around it.
Ancient Woodlands
Primate · Troop primate
A territorial troop primate with real tactics, tools and a long memory for how you treated it.
The Rainforest
Primate · Canopy glider
A colony glider of the canopy whose furred membrane carries the colony’s light signals.
The Rainforest
Amphibian · Indicator species
A translucent amphibian you can see the skeleton through, and a sign of clean water.
Ancient Woodlands · Tidal Marshes
Avian · Wading stealth hunter
A patient wading hunter of the reed beds, motionless until it isn’t.
Tidal Marshes
Ungulate · Cliff browser, territorial guardian
A cliff-climbing browser that guards its ledges, with horns grown by its genes.
Windcarved Highlands
Ungulate · Rooting herbivore, burrower
An armoured, rooting herbivore that tunnels through the forest floor in small herds.
Ancient Woodlands
Rodent · Small grazer, prey
A quick, wary woodland grazer that keeps much of the valley fed.
Ancient Woodlands
Radial · Ambush hunter
A many-legged ambush hunter that waits dark and still in the trees above the water.
Ancient Woodlands · The Rainforest