Creature Handling Context 6
Pet Growth Rate
I think I read somewhere that all babies come in at 1/10 of their adult HAM. They then grow at 1/10 per 12 hour period from taming... so it takes 5 days from taming to reach maturity.
Correct Ter but it seems they only grow at the 12 hour point if you are logged in otherwise it is 24 hours. Also if you don't log in for 3 days your pet will not grow you have to actually log in for the pet to grow.
krowa - the current HAM and difficulty level are not proportional as you tried to understand them. The HAM starts as 10% of full grown and increases in 10% spurts (or should) until full grown. The difficulty level changes, but it doesn't grow by 1 for each cycle.
Albino - sorry to tell you, but they do not grow regardless of being logged in. 2 weeks ago I had a mountain dewback, grand wrix, and greater sludge panther that were about 50% grown and did not increase a single point in HAM when I returned from vacation 10 days later. And since I only log in once a day, I only get a 10% increase per day.
From what I've seen, pets will grow 10% every twelve hours if you have logged in recently. Logging in once a day gets me one cycle. I think there were times that I was logged in for 6 or more hours straight that I might have grown by 2 cycles, but don't quote me on that.
Unless the devs have changed it without telling us (not like they ever do that) pets grow once every 12 hours IF you are logged in. So the fastest way to get them to grow is to log in at least once every 12 hours.
It doesn't matter if you call them, feed them or anything else. It is all based on you logging in once every 12 hours. Some people think that means they have to log in 12 hours from when they tamed the pet. That's not true either. You don't have to log in exactly 12 hours from when you tame them. You just need to log in once sometime during every 12 hour period after you tame
