Pets

Pets are your soldiers

In Clash Front, a soldier stack IS a pet species deployment. Your line troops carry the element of the pet they are. Weather, terrain, and biome all matter. Own the NFT, summon anywhere — at a premium.

The canon rule

Pet = soldier. There is no separate "pet layer" hovering next to your infantry — the infantry is pet species. A stack of INFANTRY is a stack of a specific pet-species infantry. The stack inherits the species' element. Weather affinity swings the whole stack.

Owner ruling 2026-07-17. Masters/heroes remain element-free (they benefit indirectly through their squads).

Two roles: workers and soldiers

Workers — four roles

Assign pets to a territory + pick a role:

MINE — gold, wood, iron, stone, rare metals into the parcel's stockpile
FARM — food into the parcel's foodStock
CRAFT — at a Workshop, converts stockpile materials to equipped arms + fortification upgrades
GUARD — defensive contribution when raided

Yield scales with species affinity for the biome. Pets don't die from being workers; a raider that beats down your workers just puts them in KO recovery. They walk home.

Soldiers (GUARD / FIGHT)

Assigned to guard or drafted into an army. Guards fight raiders on their own; drafted stacks join marching armies. Same species, different role. NFT pets are passive homesteads: they farm yield, never defend, and a walk-on take-over returns them home unharmed.

Drafting by land type — and the NFT summon

The species you can draft on a given parcel is normally tied to that land's biome. Volcanic land drafts Fire; ice-shelf drafts Ice; forest drafts Leaf; underworld drafts Phantom; and so on. The land dictates the roster.

NFT owners break the rule. If you own the NFT for a pet species, you can summon that species anywhere, on ANY land — at a premium (higher CT cost vs the free biome-native draft). This is the mythic-blueprint model: the NFT is the spawn-RIGHT for its class, not any single pet instance.

Example: you're attacking a volcanic UW3 parcel. The defender's biome-native draft is Fire and Dragon pets — advantageous on that ground. You own the Water/Ice NFT. You summon a stack of Ice pets on the attack. Ice vs Fire = huge type advantage; weather says heatwave gives Fire +15% and Ice −15%, but terrain flips: volcanic gives Fire +20% and Ice −20%. You paid the summon premium and still won the composition war — because you had the blueprint for the counter.

Elements

Element vocabulary (MOBA-canon, reconciled 2026-07-17):

Element	Notes
Fire · Ice · Dragon	Classic three. Fire is heatwave/volcanic; Ice is snow/frozen; Dragon is heatwave-boosted.
Water	Rain boost, storm neutral, heatwave weakened.
Lightning	Storm ×1.2 (biggest single swing). Storms are its native day.
Earth	Rain weakens (mud drag), otherwise stable.
Leaf	Forest terrain +10%. Fire weakens Leaf.
Flyer	Wind boost, storm weakens (thunder strike risk).
Phantom	Fog boost. Underworld ambient +10%. Mystic weakens it.
Telepath	Fog boost. Cerebral casters, weather-sensitive.
Mystic	Fog weakens (line-of-sight rituals). Underworld ambient −10%.
Combat · Insect · Iron · Rock · Toxin · Neutral	Weather-NEUTRAL — no swing either way. Reliable in bad weather.

Full weather × element matrix and terrain overrides on the weather page.

Populace, draft cap, DNA

The bigger your territory's populace, the bigger the draft — more soldiers per raise, cheaper per soldier. Populace grows with enrichment: the landowner spends CT to enrich the parcel, prosperity climbs, more people move in, and every pet species linked to that biome gets population migration rolls ("a general arrives" flavor).

DNA fragments drop from great battles + enriched-land yields. Enough fragments craft a new pet NFT of that species. This is how the world grows its blueprint pool over time.

Enrichment mechanics and populace-driven drafting are canon and specified — implementation is on the roadmap. See roadmap.

Evolution — the elite gate

Every pet species has a Form. Form 1 is the base; Form 2, 3, and 4 are evolutions.

Form 1 (any pet) — deployable as LINE units in your armies. Populace-drafted, cheap, always available.
Form 2+ (evolved species) — the only path to ELITE units. Requires a crafted arm from your Workshop + gold + fur + the evolved pet species. Form 1 pets are line-only forever, no shortcut.
Mythic rarity — neither line nor elite. Special reinforcement mechanic — see Masters page.

This is why evolved-pet NFT blueprints are premium value. It's why wild-spawn evolution becomes a real strategic reason to enrich frontier land — the wild eventually spawns the evolved forms you need for your elites. It's why boss lairs feed the DNA-fragment economy.

Fur — what pets give you passively

Every worker pet passively yields fur per game-day into the parcel's stockpile. Fur is the campaign-gear material — the cloaks, insulated harnesses, and outdoor kit needed to hire elites or summon pets outside the 3D map. Warm-blooded species (Fire, Ice, Dragon, Flyer, mammalian) shed the most; cold-blooded / synthetic species (Iron, Rock, Insect, Toxin, Ships) shed nothing.

Fur is renewable — pets are never lost from being sheared (canon: Palworld model). Species-by-species yield rates + summon costs live in the reference tables.

The rules of the pet layer, plain

Pet = soldier stack. Element is the species'.
Pets in NFT form are BLUEPRINTS = spawn rights. Not bodies.
NFT holders can summon anywhere at a premium.
Pet bodies (populace, workers, line, spawns) are uncapped commodity — the NFT count is what's limited.
Pets never die permanently. Beaten pets KO and walk home to recover.
Draft cost scales down with parcel populace + enrichment.
Every worker pet passively sheds fur — the campaign-gear material for hiring elites.