Lost Ark: Pet / Mount - how to get it? Lost Ark guide, walkthrough
On this page of the guide, you will read about how to get a Pet and a Mount in Lost Ark.
Last update: 22 February 2022
In Lost Ark, you can ride a Mount and have a Pet as your companion. This page explains whether you have to purchase them, as well as when and after which tasks you will unlock them.
You can get both a pet and a mount by completing the main quests in Lost Ark. This is a key argument as to why you should initially focus on completing the main quests in the game.
Note - you can buy various pets in the in-game store, but you don't have to, as any player can obtain the default mount and pet for free.
To get a Pet, you must complete the main story quest called Demons in Prideholme. You will start the next quest - Learning About Pets - at the inn. To get the Mount, you need to work a little longer and complete the mission: Town Where Light Lingers.
"Use" your pets by right-clicking their icons in the inventory, which will assign them to the correct windows. Now, by opening the Ctrl V panel for Mounts and Ctrl P for Pets, you can move their icons to the Quick Access panel so you can summon them with a button (Pets only need to be summoned once).
While mounts are used for travelling the world faster (thet can't be used in buildings/dungeons), pets have an additional function:
- They collect items dropped by defeated enemies for you,
- They add a passive bonus (by default that's 5% to Health and 10% to Critical Hits),
- They expand your inventory (you will see a tab with a dog head icon in the inventory window). Every item that you don't have room for in your inventory will be moved to the "second inventory",
- Animals can be crew members on expedition ships, thus raising the adaptation profile.
The default free animal is a Bunny. Other pets, like cats, have to be purchased through the in-game store or through the Founder's Pack.