Neopet

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This article is about the Neopet species. For other uses of "Neopet" or "Neopets", see Neopets (disambiguation).

A Neopet is a virtual pet users raise and play with on Neopets. There are many different Neopets, and come in many shapes, sizes, and species, but they are all considered Neopets. As of 2010, there are currently 54 different species.

Neopet care

For a user to care for a Neopet, they must make sure they are fed, happy, and free of diseases.

Mood

A Neopets mood, being happy or sad, is changed by user actions around the website. There are ten levels of happiness, from least to most happy:

• Depressed
• Very unhappy
• Miserable
• Unhappy
• Content
• Happy
• Cheerful
• Extremely happy
• Joyful
• Delighted!

There are numerous ways to change a Neopets happiness, such as playing with a toy, grooming them, riding the Roo Island Merry Go Round or eating a Happy Negg. To see the Neopets current happiness level, a user can go to the Quick Reference page. If a Neopet happens to be sick when this is done, however, its happiness will be lowered.

The only known effect of happiness occurs from a rare random event when a user's Neopet is unhappy. Should the Neopet be unhappy when it occurs, its colour turns to blue if really sad, or red if angry, and green if really sick.

While a Neopet's happiness doesn't effect gameplay and doesn't need to be changed, it's generally considered mean not to keep a Neopet happy.

Hunger

Just like real life creatures, Neopets become hungry over time, and must be fed to become full again. Neopets can be any of the following levels of fullness:

• Dying
• Starving
• Famished
• Very hungry
• Hungry
• Not hungry
• Fine
• Satiated
• Full up
• Very full
• Bloated
• Very bloated

Neopets can be fed with any food item, of which will lower its hunger (though it can sometimes be in the same state of hunger even when fed, which is random). Food is acquired with the Neopoints users gather. Should a user not have enough Neopoints to buy food for their Neopet, they can go to the soup kitchen which will feed a users Neopets if they have under 3000 NP (including their bank account). They can also gather food by going to Dailies, visit the Healing Springs which will sometimes make a users active Neopet bloated, or complete an Earth Faerie Faerie Quest which will make a random Neopet bloated. Also, Jetsam can eat Aquatic Petpets and Grarrls and Skeiths can eat any non-food items, allowing a user to save Neopoints and other food items while feeding them items they don't want.

Unlike a Neopet's mood, hunger has a direct affect on how Neopets is played, because Neopets who are hungry (or not hungry, if it shows up red) cannot fight in the battledome. However, despite the name of the most desperate hunger level, dying, a Neopet cannot actually die of hunger.

Losing a Neopet

The only way a user could lose their Neopet is if the owner abandons the pet themselves at the Neopian Pound or if the Neopets Team deletes the Neopet if its name contains profanity or is otherwise against the rules.

Neopet lookup

Besides the species and colour of the Neopet, there are many other characteristics which can show the difference between each of them. Among all the statistics a Neopet can have, there are also those which can be raised in the Training School for use in the Battledome. Outside of the Battledome, these stats don't have much use, but as of late The Neopets Team have implemented a few of them into puzzle plots.

Statistics

Age - Told in days and hours.

Level - Shows the level of the Neopet.

Owner - Displays the username of the Neopets owner along with the name associated with the username.

Gender - Shows the gender of the Neopet.

Height - Shows the height of the neopet in centimeters (cm).

Weight - Shows the weight of the Neopet in pounds (lbs.).

Hit Points - Shows the hit point value of the Neopet.

Strength - Shows the strength.

Defence - Shows the defence.

Movement - Shows the movement, or speed of the Neopet.

Intelligence - Shows the intelligence.

Fishing Skill - Shows the fishing skill of the Neopet, used and raised in Underwater Fishing.

Employment Agency - Shows the number of jobs completed, failed and the rank of the Neopet in the game Employment Agency.

Battledome - Shows the total number of fights the pet has been in and also how many of those were won, lost, and drawn.

Personality

Located below the owner's name are two sentences describing the general nature of the Neopet: what they like to do most (e.g. gathering food, making friends) and how they typically react when meeting others (e.g. smile sweetly, run away). These attributes are selected during the pet creation process and do not have any real effect on the pet.

When the site was revamped in April 27, 2007, pets that were created before this date all had their personalities set to gathering food and acting friendly while those that were created after show what their creator chose instead. TNT did acknowledge this glitch but have not fixed it yet.

Pet Spotlight

First started on August 29, 2000, the Pet Spotlight is one of the many competitions run on the Neopets website. Users submit a short story or description (limited to 500 - 2500 words) of their Neopet of choice accompanied by a self-created drawing of the pet. Trophies for the spotlight began to be handed out on October 17, 2000 and are displayed on the pet's lookup.

Site Spotlight

The Site Spotlight is a regular competition on the Neopets website where players can submit petpages that they created on a variety of topics and receive a trophy in return if their submission is selected. Site content may range anywhere from profiles of their pet to guides for various Neopian-related topics such as Faeries, games, or morphing potions.

The Site Spotlight started on August 29, 2000 and trophies began to be handed out two months later on October 17, 2000. Due to a decline in popularity, the last Site Spotlight will be selected on August 11, 2010.

Trivia

• A user's Neopet would send its user an e-mail wishing them a happy birthday when the time came after January 27, 2000.
• Level 181 is the minimum level a Neopet must have to receive the rank "Too High to Count".
• Users could rate the look of another user's Neopet via a five star rating from their Neopets Lookup as of September 12, 2007.
• Users were given the option to send photos of their Neopet to another user on September 21, 2007.
• Since site update from Neopets 2.0 and Neopet Customisation, Neopets were unable to show emotions and other battledome poses as they were used to. This changed with an update on December 21, 2007, and a Neopet's facial expressions could show when they are happy, sad, angry, or sick.
• The most popular Neopet is the Shoyru.

See also

• Category - Neopet Species
• Pet-based Competitions: Beauty Contest, Book Awards, Customisation Spotlight, Gourmet Club

External links

• Create-A-Neopet Page, Quick Reference for users Neopets, The Neopian Pound, Top Neopets, All Neopets, Site Spotlight, Pet Spotlight
• NeoDeck: Neopet Version Two
• Neopets TCG: Neopet v2
• Help File: Neopet FAQ, Changing Your Neopets Appearance FAQ, Training Your Neopet FAQ, Gaining Abilities and Levels, How do I restore my Neopets back up to full hit points if they are bloated?, Can my Neopets get jobs?, How do you know how strong, fast or healthy your Neopet is?, How do you name your Neopet's Petpet?, How do I create my Neopets webpage?, Can you change your Neopets username?, How do I find out when my Neopet's special day is?, What are Hit Points?, How do I dress my Neopet for the Beauty Contest?, My Neopet is bloated and it won't take the Flat-u-less pills, what do I do?, Where is 'send a pet to a friend'?, Why do I sometimes see my pet floating on her pet description?, My pet is bored of games, what can I do?, My pet is a mutant, how do I get my old pet back?, Can my Neopet wear clothes?, Can I heal my Neopet for free?, How do I work on making the web page for my Neopet look better and different?, Does every neopet get its own day to honour it?, Can you really feed toys and dubloons to pets?, How do I increase my Neopets Health?, Can I see all the Neopets?, My pet wont eat certain foods!, My pet is bloated, what does this mean?, Can I start an Adoption Agency?, Someone sent me a Neopet, where is it?
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• Site Spotlight: Get Delighted Guide