Skilling pets are pets released on 22 August 2016 that are obtained from non-combat skill training. There are 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.[1]
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. When the player receives a pet, they get a message, along with a world announcement:
While skilling, you find [Pet], the [Skill] pet. It has been added to your inventory.
or
While skilling, you find [Pet], the [Skill] pet. However, you do not have enough inventory space, so it has been sent to your bank.
News: [Player] has received [Pet], the [Skill] pet drop!
When a player has received and inspected their fifth skilling pet, they unlock the [[Jack of Trades|[Name], Jack of Trades]] title, along with a world announcement. When a player has received and inspected all 19 skilling pets, they unlock the [[Jack of all Trades|[Name], Jack of all Trades]] title, along with 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. Virtual levelling option doesn't have to be enabled in order to get the increased pet chance from virtual levels.
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. Size of experience drop and pet chance ratio is linear, meaning that doing 100 actions that give 1 experience have the same pet chance as doing 1 action that gives 100 experience.
The following items and training methods do not provide any chance of receiving a pet:[2]
- Use of protean items
- D&Ds/Minigames
- XP lamps/stars
- Silverhawk boots
- Elite training dummies
Any form of experience boost (below) does not increase the chance of obtaining a skilling pet:
- portable skilling stations
- experience-boosting sets
- bonus experience
- Voice of Seren experience boost
Players can get a pet while training in a Clan Citadel, as well as using portable skilling stations, skillchompas, and Crystallise.[3]
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.
Types of pets
Pet number statistics
The statistics for the number of obtained pets as shown during the data stream[4], the numbers of obtained pets before and after Double XP Weekend September 2016[5], and also for 20 April 2017.
| Skill | Pet | 30 August 2016 | 23 September 2016 | 26 September 2016 | 20 April 2017 |
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| Agility | Dojo Mojo | 293 | 1,104 | 1,487 | 9,627 |
| Construction | Baby Yaga's House | 12 | 239 | 1,133 | 4,262 |
| Cooking | Ramsay | 129 | 1,141 | 1,731 | 13,114 |
| Crafting | Gemi | 28 | 728 | 1,699 | 10,112 |
| Divination | Willow | 1,226 | 4,161 | 4,771 | 30,810 |
| Dungeoneering | Gordie | 271 | 1,318 | 1,698 | 10,322 |
| Farming | Brains | 769 | 2,818 | 3,464 | 21,503 |
| Firemaking | Bernie | 309 | 1,236 | 1,586 | 13,728 |
| Fishing | Bubbles | 2,466 | 7,989 | 8,756 | 37,391 |
| Fletching | Flo | 22 | 1,137 | 2,871 | 13,871 |
| Herblore | Herbert | 70 | 829 | 2,650 | 10,759 |
| Hunter | Ace | 178 | 659 | 845 | 6,381 |
| Invention | Malcolm | 395 | 2,610 | 3,341 | 19,560 |
| Mining | Rocky | 532 | 3,324 | 3,757 | 28,671 |
| Runecrafting | Rue | 337 | 1,122 | 1,333 | 8,926 |
| Slayer | Crabbe | 327 | 2,678 | 3,158 | 22,364 |
| Smithing | Smithy | 104 | 1,158 | 2,523 | 13,906 |
| Thieving | Ralph | 560 | 1,995 | 2,322 | 11,551 |
| Woodcutting | Woody | 1,073 | 4,208 | 4,690 | 28,917 |
Totals
As of 20 April 2017, the stats were:
- 15,065 players have earned 5 or more pets thus unlocking the Jack of Trades title.
- 150 players have earned all 19 pets thus unlocking the Jack of all Trades title.
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.
- The first player to unlock all 19 pets and receive the Jack of all Trades title was Mr Blob on 15 October 2016.
- The first Ironman player to unlock all 19 pets and receive the Jack of all Trades title was B08 on 20 February 2017.
- The pet unlock items cannot be fed to a baby troll.
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