Food

Food Items are random drops available upon reaching level 3. They are also purchasable from the Market with gems, and can be received from use of the Enchanted Armoire, or as quest rewards and check-in prizes. Upon collection or purchase, these items can be found under the Food category of the player's inventory or in a box in the Pets tab. Food items are used to raise pets into mounts.

Feeding Your Pet

Feeding Pets — A Shade Wolf about to be fed a chocolate bar.

You can feed a food item to the pet of your choice from the stable's Quick Inventory action drawer (direct link), which contains all food and saddles stored in your item inventory. First, click on the food and then click on a pet. When you select a food item, it turns light purple and a second image of the item will follow your pointer around the screen. Place the pointer over the pet you wish to feed and click.

Under each pet is a Food Bar, which fills by a certain amount each time the pet is fed. See Food Preferences for information on how quickly the Food Bar fills up based on the type of food a pet is fed.

HabitRPG-Pets-Growth-Bar — The Food Bar shows the progress toward becoming a full grown mount. Pictured are an unfed Zombie Fox pet, a Pink Fox that has been given some food, a Blue Fox that has been raised to a Mount, and a re-hatched Golden Fox pet.

When the growth bar reaches 100%, the pet becomes a mount and disappears from your pet stable. It can be replaced by hatching another egg of the same type. Pets that have been raised to mounts but not rehatched are shaded grey. After a pet becomes a mount, it still continues to count towards the Beast Master achievement.

Hatching a second pet of the same type replaces the ghostly pet image with a full-color image. You may now display a matching pet and mount with your avatar. The re-hatched pet does not have a food bar and cannot be fed since you already have a mount of this type.

An alternate (and quicker) method to change a pet into a mount is to use a saddle, which is available in the Market for the price of 5 gems or as a daily check-in prize.

Types of Food

There are ten types of food that can be fed to pets. Each type can be bought for 1 gem and can be sold for 1 gold in the Market. Different types of pets may prefer different types of food.

Food Type	Image
Meat	File:Meat-0.png
Milk	File:Milk-0.png
Potato	File:Potato2.png
Strawberry	File:Strawberry2.png
Chocolate	File:Chocolate.png
Fish	File:Fish.png
Rotten Meat	File:Rotten meat.png
Pink Cotton Candy	File:Pink candy.png
Blue Cotton Candy	File:Blue candy.png
Honey	File:Honey-0.png

During certain special events, the standard types of food are temporarily replaced with more festive versions (refer to Special Event Food below).

The food images were updated on February 22, 2014. The table below shows the images before and after.

Food Type	Original Image	New Image
Meat	File:Meat.png	File:Meat-0.png
Milk	File:Milk.png	File:Milk-0.png
Potato	File:Potato.png	File:Potato2.png
Strawberry	File:Strawberry.png	File:Strawberry2.png
Chocolate	File:Choco.png	File:Chocolate.png
Fish	File:Deadfish.png	File:Fish.png
Rotten Meat	File:Rottenmeat.png	File:Rotten meat.png
Pink Cotton Candy	File:Pinkcottoncandy.png	File:Pink candy.png
Blue Cotton Candy	File:Bluecottoncandy.png	File:Blue candy.png
Honey	File:Honey.png	File:Honey-0.png

Special Event Food

During some special events, normal food items are replaced with rare food items. The rare items have different names and images from, but are obtained and used in the same way as, the normal items.

Cake

During the annual Habitica birthday celebrations at the end of each Winter Wonderland special event, every player is given a full set of 10 pieces of cake. Each piece of cake is of a different type and corresponds to each type of normal food. All food drops during this period give players cake instead of the usual food items.

On Habitica Naming Day, every player is given a full set of 10 pieces of cake.

Normal Food Type		Cake Equivalent
Meat	File:Meat-0.png	Basic Cake	File:Cake01.png
Milk	File:Milk-0.png	Cream Cake	File:Cake04.png
Potato	File:Potato2.png	Sand Cake	File:Cake03.png
Strawberry	File:Strawberry2.png	Strawberry Cake	File:Cake02.png
Chocolate	File:Chocolate.png	Chocolate Cake	File:Cake05.png
Fish	File:Fish.png	Bare Bones Cake	File:Cake07.png
Rotten Meat	File:Rotten meat.png	Rotten Cake	File:Cake06.png
Pink Cotton Candy	File:Pink candy.png	Candy Pink Cake	File:Cake08.png
Blue Cotton Candy	File:Blue candy.png	Candy Blue Cake	File:Cake09.png
Honey	File:Honey-0.png	Honey Cake	File:Cake10.png

Candy

During every Fall Festival, all food drops give players candy instead of the usual food items. There are 10 types of candy, each of which corresponds to a different type of normal food. In 2016, all players were given a full set of candy (one piece of each type) on Halloween.

Normal Food Type		Candy Equivalent
Meat	File:Meat-0.png	Basic Candy	File:Basic Candy.png
Milk	File:Milk-0.png	Vanilla Candy	File:Vanilla Candy.png
Potato	File:Potato2.png	Sand Candy	File:Sand Candy.png
Strawberry	File:Strawberry2.png	Cinnamon Candy	File:Cinnamon Candy.png
Chocolate	File:Chocolate.png	Chocolate Candy	File:Chocolate Candy.png
Fish	File:Fish.png	Bare Bones Candy	File:BareBones Candy.png
Rotten Meat	File:Rotten meat.png	Rotten Candy	File:Rotten Candy.png
Pink Cotton Candy	File:Pink candy.png	Sour Pink Candy	File:SourPink Candy.png
Blue Cotton Candy	File:Blue candy.png	Sour Blue Candy	File:SourBlue Candy.png
Honey	File:Honey-0.png	Honey Candy	File:Honey Candy.png