User Guide PlantPet 3.0
PlantPets are interactive, breedable plants for Second Life. They grow over time, respond to care, and can reward attentive owners with transferable baby seeds. This guide explains the essentials of planting, care, breeding, and maintenance.
Quick summary: Keep your PlantPet watered, collect seeds when they are ready, and use boosters only when you want to shorten the time to the next seed.
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Introduction
PlantPets began as a Second Life project focused on growing, interactive, breedable plants. Today, the collection includes hundreds of PlantPets, including roses, orchids, hibiscus varieties, and many other species.
All visible plant parts are rezzed above the pot. For older sculpt-based plants and regular prim plants, this helps preserve land resources because those plant parts are temporary. Newer mesh plants are also designed to remain practical in land impact terms. If needed, temporary rezzing can be turned off while the PlantPet continues to function for breeding.
Each PlantPet can produce a limited number of seeds before becoming vintage. Some very old PlantPets are vintage as soon as they are planted. A vintage PlantPet can be made breedable again with a magic booster, available at the PlantPets Main Store.
- Common PlantPets can produce 7 seeds.
- Seasonal PlantPets can produce 11 seeds.
- Rare PlantPets can produce 14 seeds.
- Limited PlantPets can produce 77 seeds.
- Ultra Limited PlantPets can produce 11 seeds.
PlantPets marked as elite can produce twice as many seeds. For example, a rare elite PlantPet can produce 28 seeds, while a limited elite PlantPet can produce 154 seeds.
A PlantPet normally produces one baby seed every 52 days. If temporary rezzing is turned off with Hide, the time to the next seed increases by 25%. If either happiness or health drops below 50%, seed production pauses until both recover.
Keeping a PlantPet healthy is simple. As long as its moisture stays above 40%, happiness remains stable, and health can recover as needed. On Regular speed, watering about once a week is usually enough. Fast speed grows the PlantPet much more quickly, but it also consumes water faster.
When taken into inventory, a PlantPet is paused. Its values do not change while stored, and it resumes from the same state when rezzed again.
All PlantPet seeds are transferable. When a seed is planted, it delivers the actual potted PlantPet, which is not transferable.
Getting Started
If you have received a PlantPet seed and want to start growing it, follow these three simple steps:
- Rez the seed. Touch it, choose Grow, read the PlantPets Terms, and then press I Agree. The seed will deliver the potted PlantPet.
- Rez the PlantPet. Place the potted PlantPet on your land and touch it to start it.
- Open the control menu. Touch the pot, vase, bowl, stand, or other container to access the menu. The most important button is Water, which raises the PlantPet’s moisture to 100%.
As a simple rule of thumb, watering your PlantPet about once a week is enough to keep it breeding under normal conditions.
Boosters
Boosters reduce the number of days remaining until the next baby seed, regardless of the PlantPet’s current happiness or health. They are available at the PlantPets Main Store.
Each booster unit is worth one day of reduction. Some boosters contain more than one unit, and all units are applied at the same time. However, only one booster can be applied to a PlantPet within a 24-hour period, regardless of its size.
To use a booster, rez it near the PlantPet, check Boost in the PlantPet menu, and then touch the booster. The PlantPet will confirm the application in chat.
Important: If several nearby PlantPets have Boost enabled, the booster may be applied to one of them at random.
Breeding
In most cases, a PlantPet can produce baby seeds from its own or related species. The result depends on the genes of the parent PlantPet, which you can view in the PlantPets Catalog.
The strength of each gene indicates how likely it is to be passed on. When a baby seed is generated, the breeding system selects the genes that will definitely be inherited and then chooses a PlantPet at random from the pool of PlantPets that match those genes.
To receive a ready baby seed, the owner must press Collect Seed on the parent PlantPet.
- Common – Appears as a baby seed more often and can normally be sold at the PlantPets Main Store without time limit.
- Seasonal – Appears less often and is more likely than common or limited PlantPets to produce a seasonal or rare baby seed.
- Rare – Appears less often and is also more likely than common or limited PlantPets to produce a seasonal or rare baby seed.
- Limited – Available for a limited time or in limited quantities. Limited PlantPets do not come as baby seeds of non-limited PlantPets.
PlantPets marked as elite also give a random-capacity booster with each baby seed. Only a small proportion of all PlantPets are elite.
Re-potting
If the pot is not the root prim of your PlantPet, you can unlink it and replace it with another pot if you wish.
If the pot is the root prim, you can still customise its appearance by editing it, for example by making it transparent or resizing it.
When linking a new pot or decorative base, make sure the original root prim remains the root prim after linking.
Moisture Meter
Some PlantPets include a moisture meter, often in the form of a tiny prim placed in the soil, or another visual device that reflects the moisture level.
In most cases, the meter changes colour to show the moisture range: blue for high moisture, green for medium moisture, and yellow for low moisture.
The moisture meter itself is only a visual aid. If it is a separate prim, you may unlink and remove it without affecting the PlantPet’s core functions.
Customer Support
If you have questions or need help with a PlantPet, the PlantPets team will be happy to assist.
To contact support, collect a customer support ticket at the PlantPets Main Store, rez it, and follow the instructions provided to submit your request.