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    Baby Growth and Feeding

    What it is

    Use matching family feed to shorten a baby’s growth time. Feeding is optional because babies also grow naturally.

    Food matches a family rather than an individual pet name. Mineral Feed is for Terravore, Bloom Feed for Verdant, Tidal Feed for Tidecaller, and Cinder Feed for Forgeheart. A hybrid accepts the feed of either parent family. Adult pets in your collection do not use this baby-feeding control, and unhatched eggs cannot eat.

    Quick facts

    • Feeds to immediate adulthood: 10 feeds
    • Advancement per feed: 10%
    • Food per trader purchase: 1 feed
    • Common natural growth: 2 days
    • Rare natural growth: 6 days
    • Trader food percentage: 0.2%
    • Trader minimum food price: 15,000 coins
    • Uncommon natural growth: 4 days
    Physical Incubator: a baby is selected for feeding or collection.
    ▶ Bladewraith Baby▶ Selected for Feed / ClaimStage: BabyRarity: UncommonFeeds: [feeds]/10Example state · bracketed values depend on your game.Click the HoneycombChoose an egg for slot 2.Click the honeycomb between these arrows.Insert Egg · Slot 2Click to selectClick to choose a pet egg.Keep eggs in your inventory.Click the HoneycombChoose an egg for slot 2.Click the honeycomb between these arrows.Click the HoneycombChoose an egg for slot 3.Click the honeycomb between these arrows.Insert Egg · Slot 3Click to selectClick to choose a pet egg.Keep eggs in your inventory.Click the HoneycombChoose an egg for slot 3.Click the honeycomb between these arrows.Baby[▉░░░░░░░░░] [progress]%Time left: [time remaining]Example state · bracketed values depend on your game.No ProgressInsert a signed egg above.No ProgressInsert a signed egg above.Insert an EggClick an empty slot above.Choose an egg from your inventory.Only matching biome families can incubate.FeedSelected slot: 1Feeds: [feeds]/10Ten feeds finish growth immediately.Without food, growth takes much longer.Click to choose matching family food.Example state · bracketed values depend on your game.ClaimSelected slot: 1✘ That pet is still growing.Saves this pet to the owner's Pet Delivery.Claim when growth is complete.Example state · bracketed values depend on your game.CloseClose the physical incubator.
    Physical Incubator: a baby is selected for feeding or collectionHover an item, focus it with the keyboard, or tap for its in-game tooltip. Bracketed values vary with your game.
    Bladewraith Baby tooltip showing stage, Uncommon rarity and feed count.
    ▶ Bladewraith Baby▶ Selected for Feed / ClaimStage: BabyRarity: UncommonFeeds: [feeds]/10Example state · bracketed values depend on your game.
    Bladewraith Baby tooltip showing stage, Uncommon rarity and feed countHover an item, focus it with the keyboard, or tap for its in-game tooltip. Bracketed values vary with your game.

    Pictures show a captured example. Your pets, rewards and timers can change.

    More in-game pictures (4)
    Feed control before feeding: select matching family food for the baby.
    FeedSelected slot: 1Feeds: [feeds]/10Ten feeds finish growth immediately.Without food, growth takes much longer.Click to choose matching family food.Example state · bracketed values depend on your game.
    Feed control before feeding: select matching family food for the babyHover an item, focus it with the keyboard, or tap for its in-game tooltip. Bracketed values vary with your game.
    Whetstone Feed: food for a Bladewraith baby.
    Whetstone Feed[in-game value][in-game value]
    Whetstone Feed: food for a Bladewraith babyHover an item, focus it with the keyboard, or tap for its in-game tooltip. Bracketed values vary with your game.
    Baby growth progress: a captured example with time remaining.
    Baby[▉░░░░░░░░░] [progress]%Time left: [time remaining]Example state · bracketed values depend on your game.
    Baby growth progress: a captured example with time remainingHover an item, focus it with the keyboard, or tap for its in-game tooltip. Bracketed values vary with your game.
    Feed control after four feeds in this captured example.
    FeedSelected slot: 1Feeds: [feeds]/10Ten feeds finish growth immediately.Without food, growth takes much longer.Click to choose matching family food.Example state · bracketed values depend on your game.
    Feed control after four feeds in this captured exampleHover an item, focus it with the keyboard, or tap for its in-game tooltip. Bracketed values vary with your game.

    How to start

    Visit your physical incubator and select the baby you want to grow. Click Feed to choose matching family food from your inventory. An empty cursor opens Select Pet Food. A suitable food item on your cursor can be used directly. The picker displays carried family feed and consumes the item you select. It does not sell food.

    Buy family feed from Eldrin the Beastkeeper when the daily food offer matches the baby. Inspect the family label and coin quote before buying. The trader allows a purchase only when you have not already used your daily purchase allowance, and another player can buy the shared offer first. Purchases go through Pet Delivery, so collect purchased feed before trying to give it to a baby. Keep the selected nursery slot consistent when switching between collecting delivery and feeding.

    Steps

    A short inspection prevents buying the wrong family food or feeding the wrong selected slot.

    1. Open Physical Incubator at your placed block.
    2. Select the hatched baby and read its family, rarity, timer, and feed count.
    3. If you have no suitable feed, visit Eldrin and inspect the food family and coin price.
    4. Buy the matching available offer if you still have your daily trader purchase.
    5. Collect your purchase from Pet Delivery and return to the nursery.
    6. Select the baby again, click Feed, and choose its family food from Select Pet Food.
    7. Collect the completed adult through the nursery completion control and Pet Delivery.

    Reference

    The trader food price is the larger of its minimum and its percentage of the server economy, rounded to whole coins. That price is attached to the daily food offer rather than the baby’s rarity. Food accelerates the baby timer, while the initial egg timer remains separate.

    RuleAmount or requirement
    Feeds to immediate adulthood10 feeds
    Advancement per feed10%
    Food per trader purchase1 feed
    Common natural growth2 days
    Rare natural growth6 days
    Trader food percentage0.2%
    Trader minimum food price15,000 coins
    Uncommon natural growth4 days
    Epic natural growth8 days

    Food by family

    Choose the named feed for your baby’s family. A hybrid accepts either parent family’s feed, so compare its parent families with this table before using today’s trader purchase.

    Family: Terravore. Feed name: Mineral Feed. Compatibility: Matching base family or hybrid parent.

    Family: Duskdigger. Feed name: Grit Feed. Compatibility: Matching base family or hybrid parent.

    Family: Verdant. Feed name: Bloom Feed. Compatibility: Matching base family or hybrid parent.

    Family: Timberkin. Feed name: Sapwood Feed. Compatibility: Matching base family or hybrid parent.

    Family: Tidecaller. Feed name: Tidal Feed. Compatibility: Matching base family or hybrid parent.

    Family: Bladewraith. Feed name: Whetstone Feed. Compatibility: Matching base family or hybrid parent.

    Family: Cleaver. Feed name: Ironbark Feed. Compatibility: Matching base family or hybrid parent.

    Family: Ironfist. Feed name: Fury Feed. Compatibility: Matching base family or hybrid parent.

    Family: Skypiercer. Feed name: Windseed Feed. Compatibility: Matching base family or hybrid parent.

    Family: Boltwarden. Feed name: Boltcore Feed. Compatibility: Matching base family or hybrid parent.

    Family: Abyssal. Feed name: Deepbrine Feed. Compatibility: Matching base family or hybrid parent.

    Family: Quakebringer. Feed name: Ballast Feed. Compatibility: Matching base family or hybrid parent.

    Family: Lancer. Feed name: Reachroot Feed. Compatibility: Matching base family or hybrid parent.

    Family: Beastbond. Feed name: Wildmeat Feed. Compatibility: Matching base family or hybrid parent.

    Family: Windstep. Feed name: Zephyr Feed. Compatibility: Matching base family or hybrid parent.

    Family: Forgeheart. Feed name: Cinder Feed. Compatibility: Matching base family or hybrid parent.

    Family: Scrapper. Feed name: Scrapmeal Feed. Compatibility: Matching base family or hybrid parent.

    Family: Emberkin. Feed name: Emberseed Feed. Compatibility: Matching base family or hybrid parent.

    Family: Brewmancer. Feed name: Elixir Feed. Compatibility: Matching base family or hybrid parent.

    When feeding or buying fails

    The slot must contain a baby below its feed limit. Empty slots, eggs, adults, and babies already at the feed limit cannot accept another feed. Wrong-family food is rejected with the expected family identified. Ordinary edible Minecraft items are not family pet feed. If the selected baby changes while the operation runs, refresh the nursery and try against the current baby.

    Eldrin needs the server economy to accept a purchase. Insufficient funds, a changed price, a sold offer, or an already used daily purchase stops that purchase. If you cannot buy feed, natural growth continues without it. Feeding is an acceleration option rather than an upkeep requirement. A purchased feed item waiting in Pet Delivery is not yet available in your carried inventory.

    Worked example

    Pebble Whelp belongs to Terravore, whose babies use Mineral Feed.

    A fresh Common baby has 2 days of natural growth. Each matching feed subtracts a tenth of that full duration, and 10 feeds finish a fresh baby immediately. Suppose Eldrin offers the right family feed: compare his food percentage, 0.2%, with the 15,000-coin minimum and use the displayed higher quote. A successful purchase gives 1 feed. The daily trader limit means you cannot buy a full instant-growth set by repeatedly clicking today’s offer.

    If the baby has already spent part of its natural growth time in the incubator, fewer feeds can finish it. The timer never goes earlier than the present, so the final useful feed makes the adult available immediately. Do not buy a complete feeding set without checking the progress already earned by waiting.

    Limits and rules

    The feed limit belongs to each baby, not to the physical block. Another baby in another slot keeps its own count and deadline. The game does not require a daily feeding schedule: elapsed time and each successful feed both count toward adulthood. Closing the interface leaves the growth clock running.

    Hybrids inherit food compatibility from either parent family. You do not need a separate hybrid-only food purchase. Trader food is family-specific and its price is an economy quote, while nursery compatibility checks the family. Read the food family and baby family together before buying. A matching family is the essential feeding requirement. An expensive price does not turn incompatible feed into a suitable food.

    Your questions

    Will my baby die without food?

    The nursery grows babies with a timer. Food accelerates that timer. This feeding path does not impose starvation.

    Why is Feed unavailable?

    Select a baby. Empty slots, eggs, and adults cannot be fed.

    Why is this food the wrong type?

    Its family must match the baby, or either parent family for a hybrid.

    Do I always need the full feed count?

    No. Natural elapsed time plus fewer feeds can already finish growth.

    Why did my purchase not appear on the cursor?

    The purchase is saved to Pet Delivery. Collect it into your inventory first.

    What happens if I cannot pay?

    The trader purchase stops. You can keep waiting for natural growth or use suitable feed you already own.

    Does feeding reduce the egg timer?

    No. Only the baby growth stage accepts family food.

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