Official Wolvden Art of an Explore encounter.
Exploring with a lead wolf is the easiest way for them to gain experience, collect items, and find new wolves for their pack. Exploring is also required to complete many quests. While exploring, one can run into various encounters in which one may be given options that can provide different benefits or drawbacks. Some encounters do not provide any options and just act as flavor text. Explore encounters vary with biomes and time of day. Things that can be received via explore encounters are:
- Amusement items
- Food
- Decor
- HP can be restored or lost
- Energy can be restored or lost
- Hunger can be restored or lost
- Illnesses can be contracted
Energy[]
Energy is the resource that is most commonly consumed while exploring. It is not regenerated on rollover or leveling up, but does restore by 10% for pack leaders (and 5% for pack members) every 7.5 minutes. Pregnant lead wolves will only restore 8% energy every 7.5 minutes. Certain illnesses will also slow your wolf's regeneration by half until it is cured.
It will take an hour and 15 minutes for a non-pregnant, healthy pack leader to fully regenerate all their energy (and 2.5 hours for any other pack member to do the same).
Non-Optional Encounters[]
While exploring, different situations (encounters) will occur with every step. These encounters are sometimes only text, and have no additional effect, or they can cause different things to happen to one's lead wolf. Different things that can happen are as follows:
- Lead wolf loses or restores HP
- Lead wolf loses or restores energy
- Lead wolf loses or restores hunger