Companions and merging

Walking with a beast, the family traits it gives you, and merging into your beast with its moves and signature ability.

Any beast you own can walk with you as your companion. Once it is an adult, you can merge with it: you become the beast, move its way and fight with its ability.

Your companion

Pick a companion on its page in /beasts. You have one at a time on each island, at any stage, a Legendary included. Walking with you is only for show: a working beast keeps its habitat slot and its production, and a beast from the Reserve still makes nothing.

An adult companion gives you its family trait while you stand on your own island or a co-op island you belong to, but not in the Haven. /beasts companion hide hides other players' companions for you.

Family traits

Family	Trait	Effect
Meadow	Swiftness	Run faster: Speed I
Ember	Heat Shield	Fire and lava can't burn you
Tide	Tidecaller	Breathe underwater and swim faster
Highland	Surefooted	Take no fall damage
Canopy	Treewalker	Hold jump against leaves to climb them
Nexavyr	All five	Every effect above

While merged you have your beast's family trait everywhere.

Merging

Merging opens with your first breeding. Your companion has to be an adult walking with you; /merge merges you and separates you again. It works on any island, in the Haven and in arenas. You need it in trials from tier III, against Wild Titans and Nexavyr, and in duels.

While merged

You walk 20% faster and can jump again in the air. Veylark, Vortula, Kavrune and Nexavyr jump twice.
Each beast moves its own way. Pouncers leap forward: Volshar, Scorvane, Torvail and Brambrax. Gliders fall slowly while you hold jump after an air jump: Bumbrel, Veylark, Myralume, Scorvane, Thalune, Nacril, Vortula, Torvail, Elytril, Nemorak and Nexavyr. Slammers dive with an attack in the air, take no fall damage and knock creatures back: Volshar, Tembrix, Dolmorr, Brambrax, Nemorak and Nexavyr.
A strike deals 4 damage with 3 blocks of reach every 0.6 seconds, times your beast's Power.
You can't place or break blocks, but doors, chests and menus still work. You keep your own health.
Merged attacks only hit creatures, never players, except your opponent in a duel.

Dying, leaving the server, switching islands, changing your companion or riding something separates you.

Signature abilities

Damage is before the Power multiplier, in half-hearts.

Beast	Ability	What it does	Cooldown
Bumbrel	Pollen Burst	Leaps and slams down: 6 damage within 2.5 blocks, and a pollen cloud that slows for 3 s	8 s
Veylark	Gale Dash	Dashes 8 blocks on a gust: 5 damage and knockback along the path	8 s
Myralume	Lumen Flare	A flash: 4 damage within 4 blocks, makes creatures glow for 6 s and blinds them for 2 s	10 s
Scorvane	Ember Sting	Tail strike with 4.5 blocks of reach: 5 damage and 5 s of fire	6 s
Tembrix	Cinder Shell	Resistance II for 4 s and a ring of flame: 3 damage and 3 s of fire within 3 blocks	12 s
Volshar	Magma Burrow	Burrows, then erupts under the nearest creature within 8 blocks: 7 damage and 3 s of fire	10 s
Nacril	Bubble Barrage	Five bubbles forward, 12 blocks: 2 damage each	8 s
Vortula	Whirlpool	A whirlpool 6 blocks ahead pulls creatures in for 3 s: 1.5 damage every half second	12 s
Thalune	Tidal Slick	A wave in a 5-block cone: 4 damage and Slowness III for 3 s	8 s
Dolmorr	Rockfall	A stomp: 7 damage within 3 blocks, throwing creatures up	10 s
Kavrune	Slate Slam	Springs high and slams down: 5 damage within 2 blocks	7 s
Torvail	Crystal Lance	Shards pierce a 10-block line: 6 damage each	9 s
Brambrax	Thorn Charge	Charges up to 6 blocks: 7 damage and heavy knockback to the first creature, Resistance I for 3 s	9 s
Elytril	Moonveil	Moon dust within 4 blocks weakens and slows creatures for 4 s, and Elytril turns invisible for 2 s. No damage	12 s
Nemorak	Heartwood Heave	Swings its hanging head 3 blocks ahead: 6 damage and the creature flies up, Resistance I for 3 s	8 s
Nexavyr	Prismatic Breath	Breathes a 6-block cone for 1.5 s: 2 damage every quarter second and 3 s of fire	14 s