Lordrush Pet Guide: How to Unlock, Upgrade, and Use Pets

To unlock pets in Lordrush, reach the required Town Center milestone, clear the surrounding fog, and rebuild the dedicated pet facility on your base grid. Once unlocked, focus your initial pet food and promotion materials on a single companion until it reaches its first major promotion plateau and unlocks additional skill slots.

How Pets Work and How to Unlock Them

Pets act as account-wide modifiers rather than standalone combat units that take direct damage in battle. While housed in your fortress's pet habitat, they provide global bonuses to march capacity, unit attack and health, training times, construction speed, and resource gathering yields.

Follow these steps to access the pet system:

Upgrade your Town Center until you reach the prerequisite progression tier.
Clear the fog around the designated pet building on your base grid.
Reconstruct the pet facility to open your roster and complete the introductory tutorial tasks for your starter companion.

Pet Upgrade Requirements and Material Sources

Advancing a pet requires three separate upgrade paths, each using distinct materials that do not draw from your standard troop or construction resource reserves.

Upgrade Type	Required Resource	Primary Effect	Where to Get Materials
Base Leveling	Specialized Pet Food	Increases flat stats and raises ability level caps	Daily mission milestones, world map beast hunts, PvE rallies, and alliance or event shops
Star Promotion	Pet Shards / Beast Tokens	Multiplies percentage bonuses and unlocks dormant skill slots	Pet summons, high-level event chests, and elite PvE milestones
Skill Leveling	Skill Manuals / Pet Books	Increases the strength of active and passive skills	Not specified in the source material

Because pet food and promotion tokens are limited early on, avoid spreading resources evenly across your roster or leaving multiple companions at partial star tiers. Funnel your specialized pet food into one primary pet to raise its skill caps, and push that main pet to its 2-star threshold first to unlock full milestone bonuses. Save universal beast tokens for rare or combat-focused pets rather than spending them on early economic companions.

Managing Passive Bonuses and Active Skills

Every pet provides a mix of passive stat modifiers and active abilities:

Passive Modifiers: These remain active automatically as long as the pet is housed in your sanctuary. They provide constant baseline effects, such as faster troop training, unit attack boosts, and gathering speed increases, without requiring manual input.
Active Abilities: These require manual activation and run on cooldown timers. Depending on the pet, active skills can instantly finish a block of construction time, temporarily boost world map gathering speed, or increase rally damage for a limited window.

Because active abilities have cooldowns, time them around your fortress schedule:

Activate construction-reduction skills right before starting high-tier Town Center or Academy upgrades.
Trigger gathering speed buffs before sending marches to high-tier resource nodes overnight.
Engage march and damage buffs immediately before joining alliance rallies against major event bosses, such as the Bear Hunt, or entering open-field and garrison battles.

Choosing Which Pets to Prioritize

Match your upgrade priority to your current stage of fortress development:

Early Fortress Growth: If your bottleneck is reaching Town Center milestones, use economic pets with gathering acceleration or building cost discounts to speed up base development.
Mid-Game Warfare and Rallies: Once your focus shifts to alliance conflicts, open-field skirmishes, and garrison defense, invest your universal tokens, shards, and skill books into combat pets that boost unit attack, health, damage, and march speed. Check your active pet perks before launching a rally to make sure your military buffs are engaged.