In areas of high mana concentration, so-called mini rift events form. At these neuralgic points Bestia materialise and enter the respective world. Bestia therefore spawn on the map on their own, and they do so more often where the mana concentration is higher.

Which species spawns is decided by the surrounding environment: every Bestia has an affinity for certain biomes and spawns with the corresponding probability in each of them.

Catching Bestias link

To catch a Bestia you need a Magic Bestia Trap. These are manufactured with the Craftsman’s Carpentry skill and empowered with Mana Dust. Four tiers exist, each one better than the last at holding a high-level Bestia.

The base catch chance depends only on the trap tier and the target’s level:

The Lv. 101+ column continues the Lv. 61 - 100 column without a jump: at exactly Lv. 100 the penalty term is zero.

On top of the base chance, every bonus below contributes percentage points:

The HP bonus scales linearly with how far the target has been worn down, reaching its full +30 when the Bestia is at 1% HP:

Everything is then summed and clamped once:

A result of 0% means the Bestia cannot be caught with that setup at all — the player has to bring a better trap, better skills or better buffs. The 95% ceiling means even a perfect setup can always fail.

Because the Lv. 101+ penalty is steep, the level at which catching becomes hopeless is set by how much bonus a player can assemble. Both rows below assume the target has been worn down to 1% HP:

Bestia above Lv. 100 are meant to be rare and Bestia above Lv. 120 close to legendary — but they always stay reachable for a master who has actually specialised in catching them.

Attacks link

In Bestia, there are two main types of magical actions:

1. Skills – Learned by a Bestia Master. Skills have levels and can be upgraded in a skill tree as the Master levels up. These are controlled by the player using skill points. See Bestia Master for the full skill tree.
2. Attacks – Learned by a Bestia as it levels up, at fixed, predefined levels. These can be battle-related or utility magic.

Each skill or attack is characterized by its level and elemental aspect.

Some magical actions are both at once. Many offensive spells—the elemental bolts, for example—exist as a Master skill and as a Bestia attack. A Master learns such a spell in their skill tree and raises its power by investing skill points, while a Bestia learns the very same spell as an attack at a fixed level and is locked to the strength of that level. In short: the Master keeps levelling the spell up, whereas a Bestia’s version never grows beyond the level it was learned at.

Bestias can learn attacks in two ways:

1. Level Up – Each Bestia has an internal list of attacks it will learn as it gains levels. The same attack may be learned at different levels by different Bestias.
2. Spell Scrolls – Players can inscribe attacks onto spell scrolls with the Sage’s Spell Inscription skill (or find them as loot). These spells can be used directly from the scroll or taught to a Bestia.

General guidelines when Bestia are learning attacks from level ups:

• From Lv. 1–100, a Bestia should learn about 20 attacks.
• Around 15 attacks are learned between Lv. 1–70, and the last 5 (the most powerful ones) between Lv. 71–100.

An overview of the attacks themselves lives on the Attack List page.

Breeding link

Bestia can be bred in order to improve their status values and to pass powerful attacks down a bloodline. To breed a pair, the following criteria must be met:

• A male and a female are required.
• Both must be of the same kind (humanoid, formless, etc.).
• Both must be at least Lv. 10.

Both parents are placed into a Breeder, a structure that has to be built and placed on the map. After a waiting time derived from both parents’ levels an egg is produced:

This is the same as \(25 \cdot \bar{L}^{2.6}\) with \(\bar{L} = \sqrt{lv_1 \cdot lv_2}\), the geometric mean of the two parents’ levels — so an unevenly matched pair breeds at the pace of its average.

The egg then has to hatch, which takes a much shorter, slightly randomised time:

Both timers are given in real time, not Bestia time:

Breeder upgrades, feed, buffs, items and a Forester’s Bloodline Study skill shorten both timers. A well-equipped setup typically reaches a 30 - 40% reduction, and the total reduction is capped at 50%.

There is no cooldown on the breeder. The moment an egg is produced the same pair can immediately start the next attempt — the breeding time itself is the only limit on how fast a bloodline can be pushed forward.

The offspring is always of the female’s species and hatches at Lv. 1, so every generation has to be raised to Lv. 10 again before it can breed in turn.

Individual Value Evolution link

A Bestia has nine individual values: one for each of the six status values (INT, WIL, STR, VIT, DEX, AGI) and one each for HP, Mana and Stamina — the ivHp, ivMana and ivSta terms in the status based value formulas. Each one ranges from 0 to 100.

The offspring’s IVs are rolled per IV, independently:

1. Seed — three of the nine IVs are drawn at random as dominant. For a dominant IV the seed is the higher of the two parents’ values; for the remaining six the seed is taken from one randomly chosen parent.
2. Variance — roll once per IV: with 70% the seed is raised by 10%, with 20% it stays as it is, and with 10% it is lowered by 10%.
3. Clamp — round to the nearest integer and clamp into [0, 100].

A dominant IV therefore drifts upward by about 6% per generation on average (0.7 · 1.1 + 0.2 · 1.0 + 0.1 · 0.9 = 1.06), so a line seeded around IV 50 needs roughly a dozen generations to approach the cap of 100. Because only three IVs are dominant per clutch, the player has to decide which stats a bloodline is being bred for rather than improving everything at once. A Forester with Bloodline Study Lv. 4 draws a fourth dominant IV, which is the only way to widen that choice.

How much is an IV actually worth? The answer is defined once, on the Status Values page, and follows directly from the status value formula:

  statusValue = (baseValue + individualValue) * level / 100 + effortValue
  

The IV is scaled by level, so it is nearly irrelevant on a fresh Lv. 1 hatchling and worth its full value at Lv. 100. A perfect IV of 100 instead of 0 is worth +50 to that status value at Lv. 50 and +100 at Lv. 100. This is what makes breeding a long-term investment: the payoff only materialises once the offspring has been levelled.

Learnable Attacks link

Breeding can give the offspring up to three inherited attacks on top of the ~20 attacks its species learns naturally. Only the father passes attacks on; the mother decides the species.

The player influences the outcome on three levels.

1. Season — which attacks are eligible link

Only attacks whose learn level falls inside the current Bestia season’s band are eligible:

A season lasts one real-time month, and a Bestia knows about 20 attacks spread over Lv. 1 - 100, so a band typically leaves about five of the father’s attacks eligible. Waiting for the right season is the coarse, free control.

2. Priming — which eligible attacks are attempted link

Before breeding starts the player may load up to three spell scrolls of eligible father attacks into the breeder. Those become the candidates, and the scrolls are consumed when breeding begins. Since scrolls are produced with the Sage’s Spell Inscription skill, directed breeding costs real resources and pulls a second profession into the loop.

If nothing is primed, up to three eligible attacks are drawn at random instead — undirected breeding still works, it just gives up the control.

3. Investment — how likely each candidate is to land link

Each candidate rolls independently. All terms are percentage points:

A father can only pass on an attack he has learned, so the middle term is never negative. It rewards levelling a stud well past the attack you actually want from him: the chance runs from 30% for a father who has only just learned the attack up to 70% for one who is 30 levels past it and backed by Beastfriend Lv. 5.

A successful roll resolves like this:

• The offspring’s species cannot learn the attack naturally → it is added as an inherited attack, learnable at the level the father learned it. This is the valuable case, and the only way to get an attack onto a species with no natural access to it.
• The offspring can learn it naturally, but later than the father did → its learn level is pulled down to the father’s.
• The offspring already learns it at the same level or earlier → no effect.

On top of that, each transferred attack has a 30% chance to be learned one further level earlier.

Experience link

The primary way to gain experience is fighting enemy Bestia. More pacifistic players can earn experience through skill use and interaction with the world instead. To keep combat the fastest route without making the alternatives pointless, skill-based experience is deliberately pegged at roughly half of what defeating a Bestia of the same level yields, and it is additionally rate-limited by materials, resource node respawns and crafting times.

The experience a Bestia needs for its next level grows cubically, so every route gets slower as the level rises:

The kill counts are before any of the modifiers below, which in practice cut them down considerably.

Killing Enemies link

When an enemy is defeated the base experience of the kill is:

where lv is the level of the defeated entity. The following modifiers are then summed and applied once to that base:

The +20% per additional Bestia grows the pool before it is split, so bringing more Bestia into a fight is not a straight loss for each of them — but it is still less per head than soloing the same enemy.

After the killing blow is delivered, the resulting pool is distributed among the damage dealers in proportion to the damage each of them contributed. For every receiver it is then resolved where the experience actually goes — into a guild, for example — and otherwise it is credited to the Bestia itself.

Environment Interaction link

Experience is also earned by working with the world rather than fighting it:

Gathering and crafting sit at about half of 4 * lv + 5, the base experience for defeating a Bestia of the same level. A Craftsman or Miner therefore progresses at roughly half the pace of a fighter — a genuine route, just a slower one.

Travel experience is deliberately tiny: at Lv. 50 a single level would take almost 14,000 km on foot. It is a top-up for players who are out exploring anyway, never a progression route of its own.

Death Penalty link

A Bestia Master cannot die. Instead they are reborn on the spot with a temporary malus that reduces all of their status values by 15% for 15 minutes.

A Bestia or Master that is defeated loses 1% of its current experience points. Carried items are protected by a spell which tries to teleport them back to a secure storage shortly after death — but remember: spells can be dispelled.

In every case, carried items suffer a durability penalty.

Hard Mode link

A player can opt into Hard Mode for a +3% experience and +3% loot bonus. In exchange, dying costs 5% of current experience instead of 1%, and carried items are not protected by the teleport spell.

Toggling Hard Mode carries a 15 minute real-time cooldown, which exists to stop players from flicking the mode off the moment a situation turns dicey. Two exceptions keep that cooldown from becoming a trap:

• Inside a safe zone the mode can be toggled freely, with no cooldown at all. Committing to the risk should be a decision made before heading out, not something a player gets locked out of while standing at a workbench.
• Immediately after a death the mode may be switched once regardless of the cooldown, which then restarts from that switch. The penalty for the death that just happened has already been paid, so there is nothing to dodge.

Permanent Death link

Bestia, unlike their Master, can be lost for good. A killing blow is fatal in the permanent sense when its overkill damage — the damage dealt in excess of the Bestia’s remaining HP — is at least equal to the Bestia’s maximum HP.

This keeps the risk legible: a Bestia is only ever permanently lost to something that could have killed it twice over. Being badly outmatched by a boss, or ambushed at full HP by something far stronger, is genuinely dangerous, while ordinary attrition in a fair fight is not.