Last updated: Release 12.1.0

The Pet Yard is a place to maintain and upgrade your [pets](/wiki/pets) which can be accessed via the pet portal in the nexus or vault. There are several components within the pet yard which each serve a unique purpose.

The Pet Yard

##The Yard (Hatching and Following) Once you have an Egg, you’re going to need to hatch it. Conditions in the Realm are rather rough and much too treacherous for your beloved new Pet. Luckily, you have the Pet Yard! Wizards and Warriors alike have worked hard to carve out the safest places in the Nexus to raise your Pets. Now you can access this personal haven through a portal in your Vault. As soon as you enter the Pet Yard, any Eggs in your Inventory will be available for hatching. Hatch your Egg by double-clicking or shift-clicking, and you will soon find your new companion wandering about! Walk up to your new friend to Interact with it. When you are standing near your Pet, you can command it to *Follow* you, or if a Pet is already following you, command it to *Unfollow* you. The Pet Yard will hold all of the creatures you find in your adventures, however, you can only have one Pet follow you at a time. When you want to switch between Pets, simply walk up to the Pet you want and use the *Follow* command at the bottom right corner of your screen.

After you have commanded your Pet to *Follow* you, it will do so to the ends of the Realm, (wherever that may be...), using its Abilities to assist you on your adventures. ##Yard Caretaker The yard caretaker is the person in charge of taking care of your pets while you are gone. He won't feed them or upgrade them just protect them. He will also help you explain things about the Pet yard, so if you need more help I would recommend you to visit him. He is also in charge of the upgrading of the yard. By Upgrading your pets you can now have the ability to have more powerful pets as uncommon then rare and etc.

####Upgrading the Pet Yard The Yard Caretaker can upgrade your pet yard so that you can raise more powerful pets. You can feed a common pet to upgrade its abilities in the starting pet yard, but the pet yard must be upgraded in order to fuse and feed higher rarity pets.

Example of an Uncommon Pet Yard!

##Feed Power The feed power, as already mention, is the power an item has to power a pet. To power/feed the pet you must go to the Pet Yard, found in the Nexus or Vault, and use the computer to feed them. When you open the Feed Tab, a menu will appear in your screen. In one of the boxes you will have a pet (if you click the pet you can change what pet to feed) and in the other box will be blank. Drag one of your items into the empty box and click the Feed button! Feeding a pet will cost you either 10 fame or 5 Gold!

Example of the Feeding Menu!

Example of how to open the Fuse or Feed menus

**Unlocking Abilities:** At the common level, the 1st ability is unlocked and its maxed stat cap is level 30. At the uncommon level, the 2nd ability is unlocked and the stat cap increases to level 50. At the rare level, the maxed stat cap is increased to level 70. Only then at the Legendary level is the 3rd ability unlocked and the maxed stat cap is increased to level 90. At the Divine level, the maxed stat cap is increased to level 100. ##Fusing Fuse 2 pets means that you are going to put the 2 pets together. In other words you will exchange 2 pets for 1 more powerful pet. **Pet fusing is described in detail on the [Pet Fusing wiki page](/wiki/pet-fusing).**

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