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Guides and references
Every guide, reference page, and policy document on Starforge Pets, grouped by what you're trying to do. Nothing here duplicates the pages it links to: each one stays the one place that explains its own system.
Getting started
- Captain's Handbook: a guided, self-paced tour of every system, with milestones that pay a small reward for trying them. Sign in or register to open it.
- Captain Progress: Captain levels, capacity unlocks, and Legacy Echo claims.
Play the frontier
- Factions and Faction Buildings: choose an order, use its expedition strengths, and contribute to shared works.
- Squads: save the companion loadouts used for expeditions and Incursions.
- Your Crew, Celestial Forge, Mutation Workshop, and Marking Studio: care for companions, breed them, and customize their coats.
- Stud Market: request or offer cross-owner breeding.
- Star Map & Expeditions: dispatch a squad, track its timer, and collect the haul.
- Daily Wheel: Sparky's free daily spin and streak.
- Tactical Incursions: the active, turn-by-turn dice run; see the full Incursion guide for rules and hazards.
Currencies & economy
- The Currencies of Starforge: what Glimmer, Stardust, Prisms, Legacy Echoes, and Star-Steel are each for, how to earn more of each, and where they get spent.
Companions & breeding
- Starlight Nesting: How It Works: starting a Nest, species odds, marking inheritance, and the Stardust add-ons.
- Passive Traits: every trait a companion can carry, what it actually does, and how to re-roll one.
- Mutations: every overlay mutation, how blend modes change their look, and how to get or remove one.
- Pet Experience & Leveling: where XP comes from, Rested XP, Echoing, and how much experience each level costs.
The deeps
- Tactical Incursions: How They Work: the dice loop, Pathfinder vs. Blind, faction perks, and every Void-named system explained separately.
Craft, collect & customize
- Inventory: the materials, apparel and specialty items you hold. (What each one does is in the Item Codex, under Reference below.)
- Crafting: browse recipes, then make apparel and other published recipes at the Workbench.
- Dressing Room and Wardrobe: equip apparel, arrange layers, and manage what each companion wears.
- Vistas: discover expedition backdrops and manage your Vista collection.
Exchange & earn
- NPC Shops, NPC Requests, and Weekly Raffle: buy published stock, turn in requests, and enter the weekly drawing.
- Trading, Marketplace, and User Shops: transfer eligible value, buy or list companions, and trade items between Captains.
- Buy Prisms: see the current availability of the premium-currency purchase flow.
Community & account activity
- Messages and Campfire: private Comms Relay conversations and the shared live room.
- Friends and Forum: manage mutual connections and participate in community discussions.
- Notifications: review attention items and activity from the rest of the game.
- Site News and Command Log: follow announcements and your account's recent activity.
- Pet Directory: browse the public companion collection.
Reference
- Item Codex: what every item does and where the frontier says it comes from.
- Frontier Census: a public tally of Captains, companions, Fractures, faction populations, and shared works.
- Known Characters: the people behind the Wheel, the workbench, and the shops, with a link straight to their surface.
- BBCode Formatting Guide: every formatting tag available in bios, messages, forum posts, and news comments.
The world
- The Frontier: the in-world lore, the Awakened, the three orders, and what's actually down in the deeps.
- About Us: who made Starforge Pets and why.
Policies & safety
- Community Guidelines: how we expect Captains to treat each other, and how to report a problem.
- Terms of Service: the rules of using the Service.
- Privacy Policy: what information we collect and how it's used.
- Alpha Agreement: what to expect while the game is still in Alpha.