Arcane101 Pets: What They Are, How to Get One, and What They Do

Pets are one of Arcane101's advertised core activities — the developer lists raising one right alongside riding mounts, trading with other players, and resting in the AFK World. Here is what that means in practice: where a pet comes from, and what yours does once it has hatched.

What a pet is in Arcane101

A pet in Arcane101 is a companion creature you hatch and then raise. It belongs to the same feature pairing as mounts, and the developer's description draws the line between the two explicitly: "Hatch pets that fight alongside you and ride mounts." The pet is the partner that fights next to you in battle; the mount is the one you ride.

The current store description compresses the feature into a list of standing activities — "Raise a pet, ride a mount, trade with other players, or rest in the AFK World between fights" — which sets a practical expectation: a pet is not a one-off quest reward but something you keep and raise as one of the game's regular activities. That shorter current wording only says "Raise a pet," though. The fighting-alongside part comes from the earlier versions of that same description, preserved in the game's change history through November 9, 2026 — so the developer has described hatched pets as combat companions, and the current listing simply summarizes the feature as raising one.

How you get a pet

You get a pet by hatching one. The game's own wording is consistent on that starting point: the feature description says players hatch pets, and the game reinforces it with a dedicated badge whose requirement is written as exactly "Hatch a pet." After the hatch, the current description picks the story back up — raising the pet is the activity, sitting in the same list as riding mounts, trading with other players, and resting in the AFK World between fights.

What a pet does for you

The developer's description gives hatched pets a combat role — pets that "fight alongside you" — wording preserved in the game's change history through November 9, 2026, while the current listing summarizes the feature as "Raise a pet." That is a different role from the one the description gives mounts: the two share billing as "Pets & Mounts," but they are separate features with separate jobs. The pet is the battle partner; the mount is the ride. As that description frames it, hatching a pet adds a fighting companion to your side of Arcane101's card battles, while a mount is about riding rather than fighting.

The Companion badge

Hatching your first pet is a recognized milestone: Arcane101 awards a badge called Companion for hatching a pet. The badge was added on October 13, 2026, and roughly 28,000 players had already earned it within about a month of being added — a third-party badge tracker counted about 28.12K total awards, including about 7,700 in a single 24-hour window.

Those figures are point-in-time counts from a tracker rather than official Roblox statistics, and the tracker itself notes that its award-rate numbers are estimates. The useful signal is the scale rather than the decimals: hatching a pet is a normal, mainstream part of playing Arcane101, not an obscure secret.

Where pets fit with everything else

The developer's description groups raising a pet with riding mounts, trading, and the AFK World — side systems you grow alongside the main game rather than steps in it. If you are sorting out your first hours, the beginner guide covers how those systems fit together, and the mounts guide covers the riding half of the pets-and-mounts pairing. Once your pet is hatched — and, per that description, fighting next to you — the combat guide explains the turn-based spell battles it joins.