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Mounts are obtained through an early quest that is available to players in starting areas.[1]

We kind of want mounts to be ubiquitous for people.[4]Peter Pilone

Summoning mounts

Animal husbandry mounts are summoned via an item that is obtainable from a stable (husbandry stall). De-summoning the mount returns the item back to the player's inventory.[5]

Land mounts

Land mounts (Ground mounts) are tier 1[7] mounts that are obtained through an early quest that is available to players in starting areas.[8]

Mount list

Flying mounts

Dragons (sometimes referred to as Wyrms or Wyrmlings) are able to be used as mounts, others will serve as NPCs: Some will be bosses or monsters that players can fight.[13]

We reserved it to very very few people per server, which is also going to make it a lot more meaningful when those flying dragons come into play for certain events.[15]Steven Sharif

Artwork

Gliding mounts

Alpha-2 Thundering Bolt Beast gliding in-game footage.[20]

This is the gliding distance that you can develop a little bit with these gliding mounts. So there's some some good amount of distance traveled.[20]Steven Sharif

Gliding mounts are tier 2[7] winged mounts that jump/glide/hover close to the ground.[21] Unlike royal (tier 3) mounts, gliding mounts are not capable of true flight by default.[15]

Mount list

Aquatic mounts

Aquatic mounts are Tier A mounts[26] that may be obtained from taming underwater creatures.[27]

  • Aquatic mounts are faster in water and slower on land.[28]
  • Aquatic mounts will be able to fully traverse naval areas and water areas.[29]
An intrepid explorer could choose to traverse on his tide snapper alone.[29]Sarah Flanagan
Mounts will have skills that relate to fishing in some way shape or form, least the water mounts. Whether that be getting out to a particular area, whether it be like some type of fish finding or chumming the area. There could even be benefits while fishing in the water while mounted, like, you're on the back of your turtle out there just sitting in the water casting your rod, or your line.[30]Steven Sharif

Mount list

Crowdfunding mounts

Kickstarter/Summer crowdfunding mount rewards are obtained and utilized by applicable backers in the following way:[8]

  1. Basic mounts are obtained through an early quest that is available to all players in starting areas.
  2. Players assign cosmetic skins to a character on their account from the account management page.
  3. The skin can then be applied to change the appearance of the mount that was earned in game.
    • This does not remove the skin itself. It can be applied again to any other applicable mount in the future.
    • Players may remove the skin from a character and assign it to another character on their account.
    • Skins can only ever be active on one character and one mount.

The Dawnbreaker mount skin is used in a similar fashion as described, but is only applicable to a certain class of mounts. Aquatic mount skins, like the Tidesnapper, are also used in a similar fashion, but are only applicable to the aquatic class of mounts.[8]

Mount list

Racial mounts

Characters are able to obtain racial mounts via a quest in that race's starting area.[32][33]

Each starting area will have a different quest line that will yield a different type of starting mount. But by default you don't just choose human and here you get a horse, so to speak. Because you can be a human in our game and choose to start in a different racial area- at a different Divine Gateway- and as such then you could follow the quest line that gives you the Orc mount.[32]Steven Sharif

Group mounts

Multi-passenger group mounts were unlocked during the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign.[34]

Temporary mounts

Temporary mounts that drop from bosses will age and eventually die.[35]

Naming mounts

Mounts are able to be named by players.[36]

Mounted combat

Certain mounts will have combat abilities.[37]

  • Players can't use their class skills while mounted.
  • Mounts can be killed by players, but can be resurrected.[38]

Animal husbandry

Screenshot of Dawnbreaker variant achievable through the Animal husbandry profession. 3D model by Jessica Jennings.[39]

Those variations that were present with the Dawnbreaker: those are examples of how Animal Husbandry surfaces subtle changes- from subtle to extreme. Those were more subtle; those are wing variations, those were fur variations, color variations, eye color variations. All of that stuff gets represented as part of the Animal husbandry system and it's cool to see what's available for players to experiment with.[40]

Rare Flailrunner[41] mount that can only be obtained via breeding two tamable creatures through the animal husbandry profession.[42]

Animal husbandry is meant to be a pretty diverse profession: One that has a significant importance because players in MMOs love their mounts and we wanted to do something unique in that regard.[43]Steven Sharif

Animal husbandry is a profession within the processing artisan class.[44][45][46]

Many animals that can be tamed and bred through the animal husbandry profession can be found in herds across the lands of Verra. These herds represent a gatherable resource, of sorts, that masters of the animal husbandry profession may then use to discover lesser-known species variants with untold powers and abilities. Mounts play a large role in Ashes of Creation, and animals like the horse are an early gateway into the unlimited possibilities that await those skilled in the arts of husbandry.[48]

Breeding mechanics

Gryphon concept art.[55]

These are some concept iterations of exactly how the animal husbandry profession's going to work as you create the offspring of different combinations of animals and you find and discover types of mounts. For example this Gryphon: You will have the ability to open up an in-game character customization screen for the animals; and you'll be able to use certain dials to touch different aesthetic aspects of the actual animal's features: On its wings, on its head, its beak, its armor that's going to be present; the claws and talons. You will be able to actually make a unique representation of this mount, so you're just not a cookie cutter like everybody else.[56]Steven Sharif

Animal husbandry will have discoverable blends of breeding.[45][57]

  • Pets, Mounts, Livestock, and Beasts of burden can be captured and tamed to breed the best version of that species.[45][49]
    • Geographical location may be relevant for the creation of certain types of breeds.[45]
    Creatures will have a wide variety of traits and characteristics, strengths and weaknesses, within their species. The best version of a species will need to be blended from creatures from many places across Verra... For example, the best horse would need speed from desert horses, the coat and the health from tundra steeds, and the size and strength of ones that might be in the riverlands.[45]Steven Sharif
  • Royal mounts (such as Dragons) are dropped as eggs that can be cultivated by Animal husbandry artisans with a high enough stable upgrade on their freehold.[16]
    • These mounts are not breedable.[58]
  • Mounts that are bred through animal husbandry may be sold at auction.[59]
    • These mounts can also be applied as certificates toward the construction of caravans.[59]
  • There will be a cap on the number of times an animal can be bred. This is defined by the type, quality, and purpose of the animal.[60]

Once an animal is born, there are stages of development to raise that animal from birth to adulthood. Animal husbandry practitioners will be able to specialise their focus into raising and training creatures to maximise the quality of the creature in adulthood.[45][61]

  • Youngling stage: For mammals this relates to baby animals. For lizards (reptiles) this is an egg stage.[61]

Once these creatures are actually born there is an element of raising the creature. So animals need to be raised from birth to adulthood and trained for the intended purposes, either as a mount, a pet, a beast of burden, or livestock. Animal husbandry feeds a lot of these different aspects; and you'll be able to specialize your focus as an 'animal husbandrist', if that's a word, to one of those particular ends. Players have a multitude of activities to perform like feeding, cleaning the creatures, taking them out for practice rides, training them to fight monsters, etc. This period is very important however- the training period- because it will have the greatest influence on the resulting quality of the genetically determined stats and abilities of the creature once they reach adulthood. So basically as you're discovering these different genetic paths when pairing different animals, and the offspring is born, it will have a window of where a stat block will land. But where it lands will be determined by the training phase by raising the creature up- and that's going to be an important aspect.[45]Steven Sharif

There may be a user interface rather than recipes for the animal husbandry system that records successes and failures of breeding attempts.[62]

I'm not sure that there are going to be recipes per-se. Instead what we're thinking about with the husbandry system is going to be a user interface panel that gives a record of your successes and failures with certain types of breeding attempts; and then from there, if you choose to share that information with other individuals you can of course. But it's not something that's going to be streamlined through an interface that we would use for the player.[62]Steven Sharif

There is a compendium of acceptable parameters for breeding[63], which isn't going to be known until players discover it.[59][64] This discovery may be different for different players.[64]

  • Animals have a unique ID that is tied to the husbandry chart (compendium) that takes into account possible combinations between animals.[59] There will be odd combinations, but there will be limits to what is possible.[64]
  • Discovery of certain breeding habits and different quests may grant access to slots in the compendium.[64]
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A modified character creation system allows customization of Summoner pets and Animal husbandry.[56][61]

  • Changes at the Youngling stage affect the appearance of the animal at adulthood.[61]
  • During the Youngling stage there may also be quests for specific types of cosmetic features.[61]

There's definitely going to be odd combinations, whether it's a butterflyger, giraffealope I don't know, but there will be definitely caps that are present.[64]Steven Sharif

See also

References

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