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key: mechanic/rpg-grind--pet-training
type: mechanic
id: rpg-grind--pet-training
lang: en
title: Pet training
summary: >-
  A pet develops commands, behavior or useful abilities through repeated
  practice.
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  - RPG grinding
  - 'Companions, pets and mounts'
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  - id: source-8a5e630efed6e70b
    title: Final Fantasy XIV
    url: 'https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/uiguide/faq/faq-chocobo/chocobo_skill.html'
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  preview:
    updatedAt: '2026-10-22'
    title: Pet training
    description: >-
      A pet develops commands, behavior or useful abilities through repeated
      practice.
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      width: 896
      height: 1040
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      rights: >-
        Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Official game guide or
        publisher-distributed screenshot; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT
        and CC BY 4.0.
      caption: Skill points develop the companion’s role
      alt: Skill points develop the companion’s role
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provenance: >-
  Original editorial RPG grind taxonomy authored for gamemechanics.pro on
  2026-10-20 and expanded to cover activities, progression goals, reward rules
  and constraints. All original thirty family/branch/variant identities are
  preserved. Official developer and publisher sources support only the
  specifically described released-game observations; design variants and
  scenarios are hypothetical.
license: CC-BY-4.0
codeLicense: MIT
attribution: gamemechanics.pro contributors
catalogKey: catalog/rpg-grind
---
# Pet training

id: rpg-grind--pet-training
type: mechanic
key: mechanic/rpg-grind--pet-training
lang: en
status: active
url: https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/rpg-grind--pet-training/

A pet develops commands, behavior or useful abilities through repeated practice.

## At a glance

![Skill points develop the companion’s role](https://gamemechanics.pro/images/mechanics/rpg-ffxiv-chocobo-skills-13.webp)

[Final Fantasy XIV](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/uiguide/faq/faq-chocobo/chocobo_skill.html) · Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Official game guide or publisher-distributed screenshot; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.

1. Defender, Healer and Attacker branches define specialisations

- Distinguish learned behaviour, new commands and stat increases.

- [Final Fantasy XIV](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/uiguide/faq/faq-chocobo/chocobo_skill.html)

## How it works

A pet develops commands, behavior or useful abilities through repeated practice.

## Variants

### Variants

<a id="pet-training-options"></a>

- Repeat exercises to learn commands. <a id="pet-training-option-1"></a>
- Use a pet ability in suitable situations. <a id="pet-training-option-2"></a>
- Develop a pet specialization instead of generic power. <a id="pet-training-option-3"></a>

## Design example

A fox learns to find herbs as the player guides it through training trails.

## Context and limits

A systematic RPG grind reference: 110 mechanics and 330 variants in 18 sections. Four layers answer different questions: what the player repeats, what develops, how rewards arrive and what constrains the loop. It covers single-player RPGs, ARPGs, MMORPGs and adjacent management and accumulation systems. Every mechanic has an explanation, variants and a hypothetical example; coverage, combinations and verified game observations follow the catalog.

## Connected materials


## Sources and provenance

Original editorial RPG grind taxonomy authored for gamemechanics.pro on 2026-10-20 and expanded to cover activities, progression goals, reward rules and constraints. All original thirty family/branch/variant identities are preserved. Official developer and publisher sources support only the specifically described released-game observations; design variants and scenarios are hypothetical.

- [Final Fantasy XIV](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/uiguide/faq/faq-chocobo/chocobo_skill.html) (id: source-8a5e630efed6e70b)

CC-BY-4.0 · gamemechanics.pro contributors