Food Preferences

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Most pets in Habitica have food preferences. Feeding a pet its preferred type of food will cause a pet to grow into a mount using less food than if it were fed a non-preferred type.

Mechanics

These pets' displays show their growth status using a Food Bar (from left to right: unfed, partially fed, fed to a mount, and re-hatched).

A pet that has not already been hatched and grown before displays a green food bar under the pet image. This bar tracks a pet's growth towards becoming a mount. Once you have the mount version of a pet, the re-hatched pet does not display a food bar because it cannot be grown into a second mount.

• Pets start with 10% of the bar filled after being hatched.
• The bar increases 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).
• It takes 9 preferred foods or 23 non-preferred foods for a pet to grow into a mount. (You can feed a pet both preferred and non-preferred foods, so it will take at most 23 food to raise a pet to a mount.)

Specific Preferred Foods

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.

Show/Hide a hint about food preferences.

Take a look at the colors of the pet and food, at least on pets other than the Base pet...

Show/Hide the food preferences table.

The pet's food preference depends on which hatching potion was used on its egg. For example, a base potion would make the animal like meat and basic foods (cake, candy, and pie), but a white hatching potion would make them like white foods like milk, cream cake, vanilla, etc. See the chart below:

Hatching Potions		Food Preference		Cake Preference		Candy Preference		Pie Preference
	Base	Meat		Basic Cake		Basic Candy		Basic Apple Pie
	White	Milk		Cream Cake		Vanilla Candy		Vanilla Pudding Pie
	Desert	Potato		Sand Cake		Sand Candy		Desert Dessert Pie
	Red	Strawberry		Strawberry Cake		Cinnamon Candy		Red Cherry Pie
	Shade	Chocolate		Chocolate Cake		Chocolate Candy		Dark Chocolate Pie
	Skeleton	Fish		Bare Bones Cake		Bare Bones Candy		Bone Marrow Pot Pie
	Zombie	Rotten Meat		Rotten Cake		Rotten Candy		Rotten Pie
	Cotton Candy Pink	Pink Cotton Candy		Candy Pink Cake		Sour Pink Candy		Pink Rhubarb Pie
	Cotton Candy Blue	Blue Cotton Candy		Candy Blue Cake		Sour Blue Candy		Blueberry Pie
	Golden	Honey		Honey Cake		Honey Candy		Golden Banana Cream Pie

A notification indicating that a pet was fed its preferred food (in the case of a magic potion pet, any food)

Pets hatched with magic hatching potions prefer any type of food, making it easier to raise them into mounts.