EtherPets

A little pet that follows you around WEBFISHING: a wolf, a fox, a cat or a raccoon, in colours you pick. It keeps up with you at any speed, waits beside you, and settles down when you stand still for a while. Works on any server.

This mod was created with the assistance of AI.

The pets

• Wolf: trots after you, lies down beside you when you sit, gives a happy whine when petted and answers your bark with a short howl.
• Cat: hops into your lap and curls up when you sit, purrs when petted and meows back at you.
• Fox: slim, with a long snout, big ears and a bushy tail. It walks after you, and when you sit it pounces up onto your head and curls up there.
• Raccoon: doesn't walk, it rolls after you in little somersaults. When you sit it climbs up and drapes itself over your head. It chatters when petted and when you bark.

Using it

Press P or click the paw button (drag it anywhere, it remembers where) to open the pet menu:

• Wolf / fox / cat / raccoon buttons pick your pet.
• Show my pet turns it on and off.
• Answer when I bark: your pet answers your bark or meow (modded species too). Wait sets how long it waits before answering again, from 15 seconds to 10 minutes.
• Size from 50% to 150%.
• Ready-made looks for each pet, plus a colour picker for every part: fur, back, belly, muzzle, paws, tail tip, ear backs, eyes, eye shine, nose, mouth, inner ears and tongue (the raccoon's mask, face, front legs and tail rings, the cat's whiskers).
• Type a name and press Save to keep a palette (up to 12). The palette's name floats above your pet. Palettes work on any kind of pet.

Petting

Walk up to any pet and use the game's interact key on Pet <name>. It comes over and you lean down and stroke its head, sized to fit your character, even a very small one.

Fetch

You get a Tennis Ball in your inventory. Put it on your hotbar, hold it, and click to throw it where you're looking: hold the mouse button longer (a bar shows how hard, and a dotted arc shows where it will land) and aim higher to throw further. It bounces off walls and rolls to a stop, your pet races after it, picks it up in its mouth, brings it back and drops it at your feet with a happy wiggle and a happy whine, purr or trill. If it was in your lap or on your head, it hops down first. A ball it can't reach (in the sea, off a cliff) is let go after a while and it comes back without it.

The ball can't be sold, mailed or renamed, and it is never written into your save file, so uninstalling the mod later can't break your inventory.

Multiplayer

Your pet is shared through the Steam lobby, so everyone with EtherPets sees it exactly as you made it, and can pet it, and sees it fetch your ball. Players without the mod don't see pets, and nothing changes for them.