Pet Natures

Overview

Every regular and limited pet is born with a nature. A nature belongs to that individual pet, not its species: two rabbits can have different natures, which is what makes a second or a tenth copy worth a look. A nature makes the pet +15% better at one job and −10% worse at another. 1 of the 13 natures raise and lower the same job, so they do nothing at all.

Natures never touch the board. They only matter when a pet is put to work: on an expedition, at a Ball Factory machine, or in the Hoard. Elusive pets have no nature (they count as ×1 everywhere).

The four jobs

	Job	What the nature changes	Where
	MINING	Dig power on expeditions	Expeditions
	FORGE	Work speed at a Ball Factory machine	Ball Factory
	CHESTS	Its own share of hoard chest speed	Hoard chests
	GATES	Damage to the hoard gate	Hoard gates

• MINING multiplies the pet's dig power when it is in an expedition crew.
• FORGE multiplies the pet's work speed at a Ball Factory machine. (It used to be the furnace's smelting stat; when the furnace was removed the job moved to the factory and the natures kept their names.)
• CHESTS and GATES split the Hoard in two: a pet standing in the Hoard deals its chest damage and its gate damage separately, and each reads its own side of the nature.

The nature grid

The natures form a 4 × 4 grid: the row is the job a nature raises, the column the job it lowers. A nature on the diagonal would raise and lower the same job, so the diagonal holds just one nature, Steady, which does nothing.

The nature grid

	lowers MINING	lowers FORGE	lowers CHESTS	lowers GATES
raises MINING	Steady no bias	Earthy	Diligent	Cautious
raises FORGE	Fiery	—	Crafty	Patient
raises CHESTS	Greedy	Nimble	—	Sneaky
raises GATES	Feisty	Rowdy	Valiant	—

Every nature

All 13 natures

Nature	Raises	Lowers	In-game line	Description
Steady	—	—	NO BIAS	Even-tempered. No better or worse at any job.
Earthy	MINING +15%	FORGE −10%	+15% MINING · −10% FORGE	Happiest in the dirt. Wilts in the heat of the factory forge.
Diligent	MINING +15%	CHESTS −10%	+15% MINING · −10% CHESTS	Digs all day and never stops to rummage for loot.
Cautious	MINING +15%	GATES −10%	+15% MINING · −10% GATES	Tunnels around trouble rather than through it.
Fiery	FORGE +15%	MINING −10%	+15% FORGE · −10% MINING	Burns hot at the forge and sulks in the dark tunnels.
Crafty	FORGE +15%	CHESTS −10%	+15% FORGE · −10% CHESTS	Would rather make treasure than crack it open.
Patient	FORGE +15%	GATES −10%	+15% FORGE · −10% GATES	Tends the factory forge for hours. Has no stomach for a siege.
Greedy	CHESTS +15%	MINING −10%	+15% CHESTS · −10% MINING	Goes straight for the loot and hates honest digging.
Nimble	CHESTS +15%	FORGE −10%	+15% CHESTS · −10% FORGE	Quick paws on a lock, clumsy at the factory forge.
Sneaky	CHESTS +15%	GATES −10%	+15% CHESTS · −10% GATES	Picks locks, not fights.
Feisty	GATES +15%	MINING −10%	+15% GATES · −10% MINING	Picks a fight with any wall and refuses to dig.
Rowdy	GATES +15%	FORGE −10%	+15% GATES · −10% FORGE	Loud, strong and far too restless to work a forge.
Valiant	GATES +15%	CHESTS −10%	+15% GATES · −10% CHESTS	Charges the gate and ignores the gold.

Picking a nature for a job

For any one job, 3 natures help, 3 hurt, and the rest do nothing. Since a pet only ever works one job at a time, the lowered job costs you nothing as long as you never put the pet there — a Fiery pet is simply a great factory worker, not a flawed miner.

How natures are rolled

• Every new pet rolls one at random, each nature equally likely (7.69%) — from the Pet Crates (the reveal shows it), shop bundles, fossil revivals and every other source.
• Pets that existed before natures were added were each given a random nature automatically.
• Three more no-bias natures (Earnest, Mellow and Humble) were retired on 27 September 2026. A pet that had one now shows Steady - the same thing, no bias - and new pets never roll them.
• Fusion: the fused pet keeps the nature of the first pet you pick — never a random one. The forge shows it under NATURE YOU'LL GET as soon as you pick, and the first pet's card wears a NATURE KEPT tag; tap it out and pick another first to change it.
• Trading: a traded pet keeps its nature, along with its stars, purple stars, shininess, evolution and items.
• Levelling, evolving and amplifying never change a nature.

You can see a pet's nature on its inventory card and pet page, on the crate reveal, and as a job tag in the Hoard roster and the expedition and factory pet pickers.

Work power

A nature multiplies a pet's work power, the one number the Hoard and expeditions both start from:

The Ball Factory reads the same work power, pinned so the best pet works at 105% of a machine's old pace, before the FORGE nature multiplies the total.

One pet, one job

A pet can only be in one place at a time among the board and its jobs. A pet working in one of them is left out of the others' pet pickers, and if you try to assign it anyway the game tells you where it is busy. Free it first — unequip it, collect or recall its crew, or take it off the bench. The Hoard is the exception: it is its own screen and can use any pet you own, wherever else it is working (CHESTS GATES).

	Place	The pet is busy while…	Nature job
	The board	it is on any world's board team (a pet slot on the board you are playing, or the team another world keeps for you)	none — natures never affect the board
	An expedition	its cart is underground — until the crew is collected or recalled	MINING
	A Ball Factory machine	it is on a machine's bench — until you take it off	FORGE

• The rule is per individual pet. A second copy of the same species is a different pet and can work somewhere else (although one expedition crew may only hold one of each species).
• A pet that is working anywhere also cannot be traded until it is free.
• A pet on another world's board team counts as on the board too — take it off that world's team to free it for a job.
• Live modes you take pets into — a Boss Raid party, an Evolution trial — also block trading while they run.