Wildaria Pets — Taming, Riding and Elemental Abilities

Wildaria pets are the centre of the game. The store page says you tame any animal with the lasso mini-game to gain a companion that you can level up, ride into battle and fight alongside, and it adds that pets even have elemental pet abilities. One system covers progression, combat and travel, which is why taming early matters more than any other early decision.

How Taming Works

Taming runs through the lasso mini-game, and the store page describes it as working on any animal rather than on a curated roster. That is the whole documented method: no bait system, no level gate and no rarity tier is mentioned. The phrasing matters, because "any animal" is a scope claim from the developer, not a list of confirmed species.

• Method: the lasso mini-game.
• Scope: any animal, per the store page.
• Result: a companion you can level, ride and fight with.
• Special trait: elemental pet abilities.

Levelling, Riding and Fighting Alongside

Once tamed, a pet has three documented functions. You level it up, you ride it into battle, and it fights alongside you. The store page groups these into a single sentence, which suggests they are intended as one continuous system rather than separate menus, though the exact mechanics are not published.

Riding is the function that changes the most about how the game plays. The world is endless and procedurally generated, so distance is a real cost, and a rideable pet is the documented answer to covering ground between biomes, camps, villages and ruins. Levelling is what keeps the pet useful in a fight, and fighting alongside it means your damage is not yours alone.

Elemental Pet Abilities in Combat

The elemental layer is what makes pets a combat system rather than a stat stick. The store page says pets have elemental pet abilities, and separately that you combat enemies with special elemental abilities and behaviours. Both sides of a fight therefore carry an element, and the store page's combat description, fast-paced with different weapon types, dash-dodging and a charged or mana-based ability system, is the toolkit you use to play around that.

Pet function	What the store page documents
Taming	Lasso mini-game, works on any animal
Levelling	Level the companion up
Riding	Ride it into battle and across the world
Fighting	Fights alongside you in combat
Abilities	Elemental pet abilities

No numbers accompany any of this. There is no published damage table, no element chart, no levelling curve and no pet stat block, so any guide claiming a specific elemental advantage is extrapolating rather than quoting the developer. Treat the elemental layer as a documented design fact and its details as not documented yet.

The gaps around pets are worth stating plainly too, because pets are the system players ask about most. There is no tameable species list, no party size or pet slot limit, no confirmation of whether pets can be swapped or released, no breeding or evolution system mentioned, and no pet-specific items or food documented.

• Tameable species list: not documented.
• Party size or slot limit: not documented.
• Swapping or releasing pets: not documented.
• Breeding or evolution: not documented.
• Pet gear or food items: not documented.

Two of the 27 Steam achievements, Starter Pet and Companion Champion, are named after this system, which confirms the developer treats pets as a progression track in their own right. Wildaria is in Early Access as of October 8, 2026, so the pet system is one of the areas most likely to change. For how pets fit into the wider loop, see the gameplay overview, and for when to tame, the beginner guide.