The Pet Pavilion - hatch, train, and race your pets to help you along your journey of Wizard101
Have you had a chance to visit the new Pet Pavilion just off the Ravenwood Commons?
Everyone can participate, however you must be at least level 7 to enter the Pet Pavilion. If you are at least level 7 please talk to Merle Ambrose for more information.
The Pet Pavilion is a wondrous place where pets can be trained, hatched, and can even race against each other. Pets are capable of an amazing variety of tasks. The Pet Pavilion is the ideal place to learn about them!
Everyone can participate, however you must be at least level 7 to enter the Pet Pavilion. If you are at least level 7 please talk to Merle Ambrose for more information.
The Pet Pavilion is a wondrous place where pets can be trained, hatched, and can even race against each other. Pets are capable of an amazing variety of tasks. The Pet Pavilion is the ideal place to learn about them!
Hatching Pets
Wizards can combine two of their existing Adult Pets to create a new egg!
In the Hatchery, Doctor Purreau is an expert in pet hatching. Speak to him and he’ll explain the astonishing ways your pets can grow and change.
Your pet must be an Adult before it can participate in Hatching. If you are hatching your pet with a pet you cannot equip, you will not get a pet you cannot equip as a result. You have a high chance of getting an offspring of your current pet and you have a small chance of getting a rare hybrid of the two pets.
You will not receive a pet from hatching that you cannot equip.
When you get a pet it will be an egg. You will need to wait for it to hatch before you can equip it. You can see how long you have to wait for a pet to hatch by moving your mouse over its name in your backpack.
After your pet egg hatches it will be a Baby pet. It can gain experience to increase its rank to Teen, Adult, Ancient and Epic.
Your pet gains experience from playing pet training games in the Pet Pavilion. The Pet Pavilion can be found through a tunnel from the Wizard City Commons, close to Prospector Zeke.
You can play the four pet training games by using the minigame sigils around the Pet Pavilion: Pet Cannon Game, Pet Maze Game, Pet Drop Game, and Pet Dance Game.
You need Energy to play pet training games. The Energy globe is next to your Health and Mana globes. You can also see your Energy by pressing C to look at your character in the Spellbook.
In the Hatchery, Doctor Purreau is an expert in pet hatching. Speak to him and he’ll explain the astonishing ways your pets can grow and change.
Your pet must be an Adult before it can participate in Hatching. If you are hatching your pet with a pet you cannot equip, you will not get a pet you cannot equip as a result. You have a high chance of getting an offspring of your current pet and you have a small chance of getting a rare hybrid of the two pets.
You will not receive a pet from hatching that you cannot equip.
When you get a pet it will be an egg. You will need to wait for it to hatch before you can equip it. You can see how long you have to wait for a pet to hatch by moving your mouse over its name in your backpack.
After your pet egg hatches it will be a Baby pet. It can gain experience to increase its rank to Teen, Adult, Ancient and Epic.
Your pet gains experience from playing pet training games in the Pet Pavilion. The Pet Pavilion can be found through a tunnel from the Wizard City Commons, close to Prospector Zeke.
You can play the four pet training games by using the minigame sigils around the Pet Pavilion: Pet Cannon Game, Pet Maze Game, Pet Drop Game, and Pet Dance Game.
You need Energy to play pet training games. The Energy globe is next to your Health and Mana globes. You can also see your Energy by pressing C to look at your character in the Spellbook.
Screenshots of the Hatching Process
Your Pet's Pedigree
Your pet's Pedigree Score represents its potential which is how rare and powerful the Talents and Powers are that it can obtain. The higher its Pedigree, the better. The second number represents how much of your pet's Pedigree it has already obtained.
The Pet Derby
Once your pet has become a teen, it can participate in the Pet Derby! All the work you've been doing with your pets in the Mini-games will help them in the Pet Derby.
All pets in the Pet Derby race around a track for two laps, and must overcome and by-pass obstacles to the best of their abilities. Pets can even create obstacles for other pets!
Your pet gains morale by overcoming obstacles. You can spend that morale to cheer your pet and make it go faster, so spend it wisely! Just like Player vs Player, there are two types of Pet Derbies, Practice and Ranked.
All pets in the Pet Derby race around a track for two laps, and must overcome and by-pass obstacles to the best of their abilities. Pets can even create obstacles for other pets!
Your pet gains morale by overcoming obstacles. You can spend that morale to cheer your pet and make it go faster, so spend it wisely! Just like Player vs Player, there are two types of Pet Derbies, Practice and Ranked.
Pet Derby Instructions and Screenshots
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The Practice Pet Derby is a good way to learn the course and obstacles for each different track, and see which track is best suited for your pet. Practice Derby races are classed by Easy, Medium, Hard and Epic. You can create a new match, Quick Join a match that has already been created or choose the match you want to join and click the Join button.
In the Ranked Pet Derby, your pet will race against other pets, with prizes such as Arena Tickets or gold. The last place pet receives gold, while the other pets receive Arena Tickets.
Your pets Wins & Losses are measured on your character sheet and your pet will gain ranking in the Pet Derby based on its performance. Just like Ranked PvP, this is free to current Members. Free to Play and Crowns players can purchase individual races, or day passes.
Pets are matched with other pets of similar ages, and up to four pets can race at a time. You will see the crossed swords icon in the upper right corner of your screen when your pet is in the queue for a Pet Derby race. When the race is ready, you will see a screen appear that will allow you to go to the arena.
Your pet can use its powers to gain advantages, or to cause problems for other pets in the race.
In the Ranked Pet Derby, your pet will race against other pets, with prizes such as Arena Tickets or gold. The last place pet receives gold, while the other pets receive Arena Tickets.
Your pets Wins & Losses are measured on your character sheet and your pet will gain ranking in the Pet Derby based on its performance. Just like Ranked PvP, this is free to current Members. Free to Play and Crowns players can purchase individual races, or day passes.
Pets are matched with other pets of similar ages, and up to four pets can race at a time. You will see the crossed swords icon in the upper right corner of your screen when your pet is in the queue for a Pet Derby race. When the race is ready, you will see a screen appear that will allow you to go to the arena.
Your pet can use its powers to gain advantages, or to cause problems for other pets in the race.
Derby Questions Answered...
Why should I run in the Derby?
The goal of the Pet Derby is to come in first, steering your pet past obstacles and using your pet's Derby Powers against other pets.
How do I race in the Derby?
This is a race! You must cheer your pet on to victory. Players should cheer to move faster in the race. Cheering costs morale and the morale cost varies by terrain type (i.e. Water, Clay, Grass, Dirt, and Cobblestone). All speed boosts are temporary increases to speed and will fade over time. To regain morale, go through jump and duck obstacles. Failing to jump/duck over an obstacle will remove a speed boost. Barriers reduce speed by a fixed value. Players cannot cheer in Mud, and it will slow you down over time.
Use powers to affect other racers by dropping obstacles, effecting stats, debuffs and so forth. All powers have a cool down before they can be used again. Obstacles dropped through powers (i.e. barriers, oil slicks, etc.) are permanent additions to the track.
Stars provide a number of effects depending on strength which include speed boosts and debuff immunities.
Use the following keys on your keyboard to move in a Derby race.
Space – Jump/Duck
Up Arrow or W– Cheer
Left/Right Arrow or A/D – Lane Change
Down Arrow or S– Slow Down
Number Keys 1-4 – Activate Respective Power
When should I jump?
To know when to jump over or under an obstacle in the Derby, there are Jump pads! The Jump pads tell you the spot to press the space bar for the best chance of clearing the obstacle ahead!