Explore

Related articles: Pet Capture, Battle Equipment, Fauna Safari, Adventure

Exploring is one of the primary activities you can do on Aywas. There are currently nine different areas to explore, each with a different variety of Pets and Monsters.

Explore Areas
* Note: BP is for the random amounts found on the ground, not monster drops. Ranges given are approximate, and individual events may be slightly above or below the listed values.

There are nine regular explore areas, each representing a different environment/area and an associated City. Normally only the Bridge area will be available from the beginning - currently all areas are open because this is the only way in which all pets can access the Holiday Forest. It's unknown if this will be changed back in the near future or not. More advanced areas have higher level monsters, pets, greater random BP awards, and yield more Experience.

Upon Mastering each area, the corresponding city is unlocked with a special activity, such as Fishing or Mining. Currently only four of the nine areas have an activity available, and most of them are only partially functional. The last area visited in Explore changes the current background of both the active pet and site.

Events
There are seven basic events while Exploring - Pet and Monster encounters, Treasure Chests, Merchants, find Blue Paws, Take a Break or Nothing. All events seem to happen fairly regularly, though battles are the most common. Each time you click "Continue Exploring" your active pet will lose one Energy, gain one point of Health

Treasure Chests

Treasure Chests are always locked, and require a Treasure Chest Key to open. Treasure Chest Keys can only be used once - after that, they disappear. Each one holds one random item chosen from the possible monster drops of the area.

Merchants

Merchants will appear occasionally, offering an item for 200-2,200 BP - but they won't tell you what the item is before you buy it. The Discount Card can be used for a 25% discount on Merchant fees. The very rare Invisible Item Seer will actually show you what item they are carrying before deciding to buy it. A Pet equipped with a Money Lighter will not encounter any Merchants. Find Blue Paws

You'll regularly stumble across free money while Exploring - how much is tied to the Area you are exploring. The Bridge gives less than 100 BP, while finds of 500 BP are not uncommon in the Rain Forest.

Take a Break

This event will restore a percentage of your Active Pet's Health, Energy and 4 AU to each of their moves.

Nothing

Sometimes you'll get the message "No events to report." - which means just that, nothing special happens.

Battles

Both Monsters and Pets can be fought while Exploring, and this is the fastest way to level up your active pet. Each area has correspondingly higher level pets, from Lv. 1 at the Bridge to over Lv.80 in the Rain Forest. Fights are the same regardless if it's a monster or a pet being fought, though pets have the additional option of "Attempt Capture", and monsters do not. All of the Active Pet's Abilities will be shown on the battle screen, along with the two opponents, their current Health and Level. The opponent's Rarity will be shown after its name. The Battle Log on the right side of the screen describes in detail what happened during the previous rounds. Status Effects are shown above the Health bar. At the bottom of the battle screen will be Attempt Capture (pets only), Use Item and Retreat.

Retreat flees from the battle, though it is not always successful. Attempt Capture may take many tries, and works better if the pet is low on Health

Quests & Area Mastery
A Quest requires your active pet to defeat a certain quota of Monsters. Quests will never require you to defeat a specific Pet. Each quest is area specific, thus you can conceivably have an active quest for every regular Explore area if desired. To obtain a quest, click on the Quest Status button at the bottom of the Explore window after choosing a location to visit. An NPC will request that you slay a certain type of Monster to fulfil the quest requirements. The number requested varies from 4 to 56, depending on the number of previously completed quests. If the NPC gives you a difficult to find Monster, you can give up your quest and immediately try again for an easier to find type. Not all Explore areas have quests available - the Holiday Forest, Haunted Forest, Mysterious Factory and Arctic do not feature Quests.

There are fifteen levels to each Explore Area - you can easily see what level you are on in the title, which will say Exploring (Area) Lv.#. Area Levels are tied to the Active pet doing the exploring - thus if you defeat the Bridge with Pet A, and then switch Pet B to your active, it will begin back at Bridge Lv. 1. Each area only has to be mastered by one pet in your Lair in order to access the Fauna Safari for that area. There is no quota for Lv. 15; completing the Level 14 quest Masters the area and allows access to that area's City.