Skilling pets

Skilling pets are pets released on 22 August 2016 that are obtained from non-combat skill training. There is currently a total of nineteen skilling pets, one for each non-combat skill. In an update planned for 2017, skilling pets for combat skills will be released.

While training, the player has a chance to receive a pet as a drop. Free to play players may obtain pets from free to play skills. Skilling pets display the player's experience in the associated skill when they are examined. It is possible to override Summoning familiars with skilling pets.

There are Server-wide Announcements for players receiving pets. Additionally, players are able to unlock the title for obtaining 5 skilling pets and the  title for obtaining all 19 skilling pets. Unlocking the title for owning all pets has a global broadcast.

Mechanics/obtaining
The pets may be obtained at any level, but having a higher skill level increases the chance of receiving a pet, in addition to an increased chance with virtual levels, up to 120 (or 150 for Invention), and a further increase at 200 million experience. Pet drop chances are also increased by the amount of experience awarded at once; the more experience granted per action, the greater the chance of gaining a pet. The chance is not affected by experience boosters.

For gathering and support skills (Agility, Divination, Firemaking, Fishing, Hunter, Mining, Slayer, Thieving, and Woodcutting), the chance to get a pet occurs alongside the chance to gather a resource; so the resource's level and success chance does not affect the chance of getting a pet.

For production skills, mostly artisan skills (Construction, Cooking, Crafting, Dungeoneering, Farming, Fletching, Herblore, Invention, Runecrafting, and Smithing), the chance to get a pet is affected by size of experience drops, excluding any possible bonus experience.

The following items and training methods will not provide any chance of receiving a pet:


 * Use of protean items
 * D&Ds/Minigames
 * XP lamps/stars
 * Silverhawk boots

The Voice of Seren boosts don't increase the chance of obtaining a skilling pet. However, players can get a pet while training in a clan citadel, as well as using portables, skillchompas, and crystallise.

If the player's inventory is full, the unlock item will be sent into their bank instead. If the bank is full, it will be delivered to the player as soon as there is space in either of those places.

Pet amount statistics
The statistics for the amount of obtained pets as shown during the data stream and the amounts of obtained pets before and after Double XP Weekend September 2016.

Totals
As of 26 September 2016:
 * 2 players have the highest number of pets so far, 14.
 * 18 players have found 10 pets.
 * 433 players have earned 5 or more pets thus unlocking the 'Jack of Trades' title.
 * 40,504 players have earned at least 1 or more pets.

Trivia

 * Skilling pets were developed as they were rated the third most desired update in the RuneScape 2017 survey of potential future content.
 * Training Dungeoneering in a dungeon will only give the chance to receive the Dungeoneering pet - no other skills inside the dungeon will give their respective pets.