Habitarium

Professor Milton Clodbottle has quite the interesting invention. Using his "Habitariums," you can raise your own petpetpets and watch them work, grow, and even interact with your friends' Habitariums. If you do it right, you can build up quite the money-making machine!

Note: Habitariums undergo a daily maintenance period from 2 - 4am NST. During this time you will not be able to access your game.

Choosing Your Habitarium

Habitariums come in three different layouts. Depending on how you want to arrange your Habitarium decorations and structures, you might want to consider each layout. You can choose between Seedling Grove, Blossom Meadow, and Puddle Lake. Click the images below for a preview of what each layout type looks like when you start.

Once you have selected your Habitarium layout, you can continue on to the official Tutorial. make sure to pay attention to the Professor, he gives you a lot of tips on how to keep your P3's happy and busy!

The Petpetpets and their Professions

Species

In your Habitariums, there are three kinds of petpetpets (also known as P3s): the Mootix, the Larnikin and the Pinchit (displayed in order below). Other than looks, there is no difference between the species, and they will all perform the same tasks based on their job type. Like all bugs, though, these petpetpets only have a short lifespan. Don't fret, however; if you lose all of your petpetpets, the kindly Professor will give you a Nester so that you can start anew. You can also save eggs and hatch them later, if you need to take a prolonged break.

Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work we go! Click on the P3 for the IDB entry!

Jobs

Along with their species, P3s have one other element that has a big effect on what they do - their job class. There are three job classes, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. If a trait is bolded, it means that multiple classes can do this, but this class is best at it.

• Nesters
  • The only kind that lays eggs
  • Have comparatively low HP
  • Can gather supplies
  • Can fight off invaders
• Workers
  • Can repair buildings
  • Can gather supplies
  • Can fight off invaders
• Soldiers
  • Can fight off invaders
  • Can repair buildings
  • Can go on raids
  • Will seek out and fight invaders automatically

Jobs are not affected by species, and cannot be changed.

Your Screen

Another busy day...

Above is a screenshot of a Habitarium. By number, here are the things that you see.

1. This is your level meter. This tells you what level you're at, and how much experience points (XP) you need in order to reach the next level.
2. These bubbles are your options. Click these to zoom in, zoom out, turn the sound on or off, turn the music on or off, open the Habitarium FAQ, or take a photo of your Habitarium.
3. These bubbles are your resources. Hover over each bubble to see how much of that resource you have.
4. This is your magnifying glass. This gives you information about the selected item, and gives you options of things to do with that object.
5. These are your friends. If your Neofriends have Habitariums, they will show up here.
6. The brown bag is your inventory and the blue bag is the Shop. Open your inventory to view your items, and open the Shop to buy more.

Things to Do

Within your Habitarium, there are many things to do to make life better for your little petpetpets. Some of these things may take time to complete, however, so it's recommended that you have another window or tab open while your petpetpets do their work.

Nesting

By placing a Nester petpetpet on a nest, that petpetpet will start to lay an egg. Once the egg is laid, it will need to be incubated for a short period of time. However, after the egg has been cared for properly, you can do a number of things with it. First, you can hatch the egg by clicking the center "hatch" button located at the bottom of the petpetpet viewer. This will hatch the egg and give you a new member for your Habitarium. However, you might not have enough room for another petpetpet. If this happens, you will be forced to harvest the egg by clicking the "harvest" button located at the bottom left of your magnifying glass. This simply places the egg in your bag so that you can hatch it later. Finally, if you don't want the egg your petpetpet has laid, you can click the button at the bottom right of your magnifying glass and discard it.

Mama knows best!

Gathering

To buy things from the shop, you need resources. Handily enough, both Workers and Nesters can help you with that. To make your petpetpets gather a specific resource, place them near the resource tile that yields the resource you want. After a bit of scurrying around, your petpetpets will start to gather that resource. Not sure what resource yields what? Not to worry. Just check the table below to find out! (Keep in mind that of these six, wood, mud, and stone are the resources that you will need the most of.)

Resources

	The bog will give you mud.
	The water pump will give you water.
	The trees will give you wood.
	The flower will give you pollen.
	The rock will give you stone.
	The grass will give you grass.

Your petpetpets can 'hold' 350 units of each resource amongst themselves (presumably they all have pockets). Beyond that you will need to build a storage facility in which to store the resources you gather. A level 1 storage building can hold 2500 units of each resource. Upgrading these buildings will increase their capacity to 3500 units at level 2, and 4500 units when maxed out at level 3. More about upgrading later.

Fighting

Sometimes pests - or even your friends' Soldiers! - will get into your Habitarium trying to steal supplies! Don't worry though, your petpetpets will all band together to push out the intruders. If your petpetpets don't seem to notice the intruders, simply drop one next to the unwanted parasite, and they'll join the battle.

Occasionally you may come across a glitch where it seems your petpetpets don't recognise a particular pest invasion, and instead of fighting them off they just stand around with question marks above their heads. In these cases, in order to get them to "recognise" the threat, move your petpetpet to a square which is enclosed on all sides (you can do this with decorative items for this specific purpose) and your petpetpet will somehow magically attack the pest even if there is a large distance between them. (Thanks to little_kitty13 for letting us know about this!)

Building

You can buy buildings from the Shop, but there is a little construction required. To build the buildings you buy, all you need to do is place Worker or Soldier petpetpets next to the materials. Your bugs will get to work and, when the green bar is full, you'll have one fully functional building.

Abracadabra, alakazam!

Leveling Up

Leveling up your Habitarium to the maximum of level 50 can be quite the task. In the earlier levels, only a small amount of XP is needed to reach the next level. However, in the later levels, you will need quite a bit more XP. So, to make things a little easier, here is a list of XP earning tasks.

• Defeating an invader - 30XP
• Discard an egg - 200XP
• Hatching an egg - 30XP
• Help out a friend - 50XP
• Have a petpetpet reach the end of it's life cycle - 50/100/150XP depending on that petpetpet's longevity
• Gather a resource - 1XP per resource gathered
• Finish a building - 200 XP
• Upgrading a building - 300 XP
• Repair a building - 5XP per level of decay

Also, by leveling up your Habitarium, you can earn items, an increased maximum population, and more space in which to place those spiffy decorations. To see all of this, check the table below:

Level Up Gains

Level	Space?	Population	NP	Other
1	N/A	10	N/A	N/A
2	Increased	10	200	Egg, House, and Decoration given
3	Stays the same	13	400	None
4	Stays the same	13	600	Egg given
5	Stays the same	13	1000	Random item given
6	Increased	13	1250	Egg given
7	Stays the same	16	1500	Random item given
8	Stays the same	16	1650	Egg given
9	Stays the same	16	2000	Random item given
10	Increased	16	2250	Egg given, shorter raid time
11	Stays the same	19	2750	Random item given
12	Stays the same	19	3250	Egg given
13	Stays the same	19	3750	Random item given
14	Increased	19	4250	Egg given
15	Stays the same	22	4750	Random item given
16	Stays the same	22	5250	Egg given
17	Stays the same	22	5750	Random item given
18	Increased	22	6250	Egg given
19	Stays the same	25	6750	Random item given, shorter raid time
20	Stays the same	25	7500	Egg given
21	Stays the same	25	8000	Random item given
22	Increased	25	8500	Egg given
23	Stays the same	28	9000	Random item given
24	Stays the same	28	9500	Egg given
25	Stays the same	28	10000	Random item given
26	Increased	28	10500	Egg given
27	Stays the same	31	11000	Random item given
28	Stays the same	31	11500	Egg given
29	Stays the same	31	12000	Random item given
30	Increased	31	12500	Egg given, shorter raid time
31	Stays the same	34	13250	Random item given
32	Stays the same	34	13750	Egg given
33	Stays the same	34	14250	Random item given
34	Increased	34	14750	Egg given, up to 8 Soldier p3s can be sent on raids
35	Stays the same	37	15250	Random item given
36	Stays the same	37	15750	Egg given
37	Stays the same	37	16250	Random item given
38	Increased	37	16750	Egg given
39	Stays the same	40	17250	Random item given
40	Stays the same	40	17750	Egg given, shorter raid time
41	Stays the same	40	18250	Random item given
42	Increased	40	18750	Egg given
43	Stays the same	43	19250	Random item given
44	Stays the same	43	19750	Egg given, up to 9 Soldier p3s can be sent on raids
45	Stays the same	43	20000	Random item given
46	Increased	43	20250	Egg given
47	Stays the Same	46	20750	Random item given
48	Stays the Same	46	21250	Egg given
49	Stays the Same	46	21750	Random item given
50	Increased	46	22250	Egg given, shorter raid time

Level 50

Currently there is a level cap in place which prevents you from leveling up beyond level 50. Once you reach this point the experience bar at the top of your Habitarium will be replaced with a purple bar that yields 500 np every time you fill it.

A number of players have reached this point and then set up their Habitarium so it continues running in the background while they do other things or even leave it running all night to amass a large quantity of gems. We strongly advise against this. This behaviour falls into a grey area as far as The Neopets Team and their rules for playing the site are concerned; leaving the game running could be interpreted as letting the computer play the game for you, which is frowned upon. As such some players have experienced a "lock out" when returning to their game if it has been left running with a number of gems on the screen.

Lock Outs

Being "locked out" of your Habitarium means that when you try to load it you get stuck at the little "loading" wheel and your game won't actually load. People mostly experience this at level 50, but it can happen at any time. Factors which seem to increase the likelihood of being locked out include hoarding large quantities of items, refreshing whilst there are a number of purple gems on the screen, and leaving your Habitarium running for extended periods of time.

If you do get locked out there are ways of resetting your Habitarium, although none of them are particularly simple. Your best chance at fixing the problem would be to seek help on the Habiatarium Neoboard; there are a number of users there who have experienced with this glitch who can talk you through what to do next.

The Shop

Who doesn't love shopping? Well, even if you don't there are tons of useful items in the Habitarium Shop. The categories of items are as follows:

• Buildings
• Supplies
• Ink (Ink Droppers and Ink Bottles)
• Decorations

Check here for a list of all items and their functions. Also note that some items that need NC to be purchased.

I hope you brought your grocery list...

Upgrade

When you get to certain levels, you can start to upgrade your petpetpets and your structures. The more you upgrade, the more advantageous your petpetpets and structures will be.

At level 11, you can upgrade petpetpets, which helps them to do their jobs better by giving them increased health, food, and rest counts. This way, your petpetpets can go much longer doing their jobs before they need to rest or eat.

Upgrading structures will make them more useful. At level thirteen, you can upgrade your houses, which will then be able to hold two more petpetpets (from a maximum of three to a maximum of five). At level seventeen, you can upgrade your nests, which will then have shorter incubation times (the blue bar will fill up faster). Finally, at level 21, you can upgrade your storage, which will then be able to hold more resources, exactly 3500 of each resource, to be precise.

Upgrading will cost you resources, however, so check the table below to see how much of each resource you'll need.

Upgrading Structures

Level Needed	Structure	Resources Required
11	Level 2 Petpetpets	25 pollen, 50 water, and 25 grass
13	Level 2 House (5 p3s)	950 wood, 600 mud, and 1300 stone
17	Level 2 Nest	800 wood, 850 mud, and 1050 stone
21	Level 2 Storage (3500 units)	3400 wood, 1250 mud, and 1800 stone
25	Level 2 Hospital (3 p3s)	3900 wood, 2100 mud, and 4800 stone
29	Level 2 Barracks (5 p3s)	2800 wood, 4150 mud, and 6200 stone
31	Level 3 Petpetpets	30 pollen, 60 water, and 30 grass
36	Level 3 House (7 p3s)	1150 wood, 850 mud, and 2200 stone
40	Level 3 Nest	900 wood, 950 mud, and 1300 stone
44	Level 3 Storage (4500 units)	3800 wood, 1300 mud, and 1850 stone
48	Level 3 Hospital (4 P3's)	4400 wood, 2100 mud, and 5250 stone

Looks like this could use an upgrade, too... Or a replacement...

Interacting with Neofriends

As well as take care of your own Habitarium, you can also interact with your Neofriends' Habitariums. Although, it's up to you you'd like to be kind or tricky.

Gifting

Using the gifting option, you can exchange gifts between friends. To give an item to a friend, click on the present icon below their username at the bottom of the screen. From there, you can simply drag and drop the item you wish to give them into the empty bubble. Keep in mind that you cannot transfer items purchased with Neocash to other users.

Raiding

If you're feeling particularly treacherous, you can raid your friends' Habitariums by clicking the sword icon below their username. This will send out your soldier petpetpets to take resources from their tiles. However, be warned! If your friend has a good number of petpetpets, it will be extremely difficult to gain any resources without a good number of soldiers to counter. In the end, if you don't think that your petpetpets will be able to gather resources without being killed by you friend first, it is not a good idea to go on a raid.

Helping Out

Helping out is one of the most useful functions of being able to interact with friends. Once you click the hammer icon below their username, you will be presented with the three options below.

• Take Care of a Petpetpet: This option will restore the health, rest, and hunger of one of your Neofriend's petpetpets.
• Repair a Building: This option will remove one level of decay from one of your Neofriend's buildings.
• Repair all Resource Tiles: This option will repair your Neofriend's resource tiles so that their petpetpets can gather a maximum yield.

And Now It's Your Turn

As you can see, good old Professor Milton Clodbottle made Habitariums a little intensive. But, so long as you take care good care of your petpetpets, you can level up quickly and gain quite a few Neopoints by doing so.

Happy Habitaring!

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