Food Preferences

Most pets in Habitica have food preferences. Feeding a pet its preferred type of food will cause it to grow into a mount more quickly than feeding it a non-preferred type of food.

MechanicsEdit

HabitRPG-Pets-Growth-Bar — A pet's Food Bar shows its progress toward becoming a full grown mount. Pictured are two Lion pets without Food Bars (a re-hatched White Lion pet and a Shade Lion recently raised to a mount) and Base, Desert and Red Lion pets with Food Bars.

The Food Bar appears under every pet that has not yet grown into a mount and tracks its progress towards doing so. After being hatched for the first time, a pet starts with 10% of the bar filled. The bar fills by a certain amount each time the pet is fed. Preferred foods fill the Food Bar much faster (10% per item) than non-preferred foods (4% per item). Therefore, it takes 9 preferred foods or 23 non-preferred foods for a pet to grow into a mount.

Specific Preferred FoodsEdit

Each pet that is hatched from a standard potion has a preference for a certain food. As described above, when fed with their preferred food, pets will turn into mounts much faster than with non-preferred food.

Take a look at the colors of the pet and food.

The pet's food preference depends on which hatching potion was used on its egg.

	Food Preference	Cake Preference	Candy Preference
Base	Meat	Basic Cake	Basic Candy
White	Milk	Cream Cake	Vanilla Candy
Desert	Potato	Sand Cake	Sand Candy
Red	Strawberry	Strawberry Cake	Cinnamon Candy
Shade	Chocolate	Chocolate Cake	Chocolate Candy
Skeleton	Fish	Bare Bones Cake	Bare Bones Candy
Zombie	Rotten Meat	Rotten Cake	Rotten Candy
Cotton Candy Pink	Pink Cotton Candy	Candy Pink Cake	Sour Pink Candy
Cotton Candy Blue	Blue Cotton Candy	Candy Blue Cake	Sour Blue Candy
Golden	Honey	Honey Cake	Honey Candy