Getting started

In PetPals you are a pet: you design it, dress it, and it lives in your own house that you decorate. Out on Main Street there are shops, the Pond for fishing, the Arcade's minigames, and other players to meet. You can also hatch and raise little pets of your own, the petlings.

Mr Mayor's card on your home screen gives you five little jobs that teach the basics:

Then: “First day done!”, with 150 coins and a peek at tomorrow's gift. Your pet and how to care for it: Pet care.

On each of the next days you come back, Mr Mayor has one job that opens up another part of the game, with a reward:

• Day 2: Treasure hunt! Dig for treasure (how).
• Day 3: Garden time! Plant the carrot seed he gives you (how).
• Day 4: Gone fishing! Catch a fish at the Pond (how).
• Day 5: Game time! Play a game at the Arcade (how).
• Day 6: Daily goals! Claim a daily goal (how).
• Day 7: Visit me! Visit Mr Mayor's house for his plushie, 1,000 coins and 5 treats.

A missed day just pauses the week. All the rewards are listed in Daily rewards.

• Top bar: your coins and treats, the heart bar (your pet's food) and the XP bar with your next level's gift.
• Chest (everything you own) and Dress up (your wardrobe).
• Calendar: your daily goals. Shovel: treasure hunting. Friends: your friends list. Paw: your petling book.
• Rooms: your house map. Save (the floppy disk): keeps your room and outfit.
• A red dot on a button means something is waiting: goals to claim, new things in your chest, friend requests, shovels to use.

Tap the door at home for the destination list: one tap to Main Street, the shops, the Pond, the Arcade, the Stadium or the bank. Or walk along Main Street and step into any building. More in Shops & selling.

• Make your daily routine: goals, saying hi to friends, a bath and a meal for your pet.
• Hatch your first petling in the Nest: it's free!
• Plant your garden and go fishing to earn coins.
• Decorate your house, and save!

All about petlingsThe Nest, free eggs, hatching odds, your team and the album.→Home & decoratingEvery kind of room, decorating tools, saving and photos.→FishingBait, reeling, special baits and the exact catch odds.→Daily rewardsLogin gifts, daily goals, the weekly box and welcome back gifts.→