Drone
A small brass automaton from the factory bound to the crafting table, and the only pet that keeps it running: faster crafts, quicker mastery and cheaper recipes.
Slots, prestige by prestige
You do not pick bonuses off a list: the game draws three at random and you keep one. And a slot only opens every other prestige, the odd ones offer a swap instead, trading one held bonus for another.
On every slot won, the game draws 3 bonuses out of 10 and lets you keep one: the other 9 go back into the pool. A companion with a pool of 11 draws the same 3, out of 10 bonuses left aside. At prestige 10 the pet holds 6 of 10: four will always stay out.
What each bonus is worth
Every bonus starts at a ceiling and reaches a higher one at prestige 10. Two of these bonuses hit a hard cap that prestige does not move. Two of them are never reached.
Workshop 3
- Crafting table craft & mastery XP 25% 37,5% +12,5 pts
- Crafting speed 15% 22,5% +7,5 pts
- Crafting table material saving 15% 22,5% +7,5 pts
Exploration 3
- Exploration XP 25% 37,5% +12,5 pts
- Loot Quantity 20% 30% +10 pts
- Rare Drop Chance 15% 22,5% +7,5 pts
Care 2
- Care XP 30% 39% +9 pts
- Feed Efficiency 30% 39% +9 pts
Endurance 2
- Hunger Endurance 25% 32,5% Hard cap 50% +7,5 pts
- Thirst Endurance 25% 32,5% Hard cap 50% +7,5 pts
None of these figures is a given: they are max-level values, and a companion below that only gets a share of them, in proportion to the ground already covered. A prestige resets XP to zero and pushes the max level from 50 to 60, but the bonus does not fall back with the level: it restarts at the ceiling it had reached and climbs from there to the new one. It takes 265 500 XP to reach that new ceiling, against 183 750 for the first climb.
What it does in the dungeon
Guardian. Equipped, it goes down with you, ripostes when you guard a hit and softens a lethal blow.
Its strength follows its level, its prestige and its gauges. A companion that is starving, parched or away exploring stays at the entrance.
The dungeon, step by stepIts four looks, and how you get them
four looks in all, three of them granted at prestige.
Drone
DEFAULT
Worn from the catch
Coral Drone
PRESTIGE 1
Granted at prestige 1
Synthwave Drone
PRESTIGE 5
Granted at prestige 5
Obsidian Drone
PRESTIGE 10
Granted at prestige 10
Every look carries its own sprites across the 8 animation states: idle, playing, walking, eating, drinking, sleeping, sad, happy.
Where to meet it
One area, a window of ten levels, and that is all: past level 25, the door shuts and does not reopen.
Weight is not a percentage: it is a share in the draw of the factory. And the factory only draws two species, on exactly the same level window: the cat comes up 3 times more often.
Compare the windows and weights of all fourteen companions → Companions concept page