A slugpup is a player that is controlled by AI, and are usually half the size of a player.

Slugpups come in 2 different color variants, and 3 different body shapes.

Colors

Light slugpups - Slugpups that are usually the color white, but come in many other colors, however their eyes are limited to only black or grey.
Dark slugpups - Slugpups that are very dark in color, usually black with a slight tint of color. sometimes they can be normal dark greens though, varying in darkness. their eyes are always a white color.
Red/purple/orange slugpups - the rarest 3 colors. they can be dark or light. can be easily obtained by getting a pup version of spearmaster, hunter, or artificer with beastmaster despite being rare.

Body shapes

Chubby slugpups - usually these slugpups are seen more often, and look cute and chubby.
Skinny slugpups - slightly skinny chubby slugpups. they seem to stand up straighter. maybe. i don't know much about these.

the third slugpup body type:
Gourmand ending spoilers!

Adult/teenage slugpups - the rarest slugpup type. seen in gourmands ending when gourmand automatically walks to the slugtree to activate the ending cutscene


Slugpups have many personalities influencing what their interests are as well. these personalities do not influence their appearance, so knowledge of personality is always based off of how much you spend time with slugpups. personalities can be looked up in the rain world wiki, i am too lazy to include it all.

Here is a personality test i call: the fruit test.

Feed your pup a fruit and see how it reacts.

closing eyes and shaking: the pup is likely very active. probably likes to slay lizards.
jumping rapidly: the pup is likely not as active, and does not like eating alive creatures.
no reaction: the pup isn't heavily influenced by one personality trait. what they do may be unexpected.

Also, here is a small brief thing about personalities:

Energetic slugpups:
they jump rapidly when the player holds their hand and stays idle for too long. they also like to hold valuable objects, like pearls or vulture masks, and like to bother the player in any way they can, however sometimes may save the player from threats. fun fact: they also love killing iterator brains. they also often hold things that are part of iterators. little killers!

Low Energy pups:
these pups have a too low energy value to be considered Energetic. they often close their eyes and crouch when idle, and often don't follow slugcat much.

Brave Pups:
these pups like war and revenge. like little artificers. they also love playing with other pups... do they play something like "chase the lizard"? i don't really know.

Low Bravery pups:
these pups would rather run and hide than fight

Nervous pups:
these pups try to be ready for any lizard or vulture that might attack them, but don't actually pick up weapons.. only.. sporepuffs and batnip? they don't really like to hang out with other pups.

Dominant pups:
these pups are strong leaders and play with other pups.

Aggressive pups:
These pups love weapons. they love holding weapons. they also attack lizards that get too close for self defense. these are my favorite pups, they have the most personality!

There are a few things you need to do:

1. First, enable/buy downpour
   
2. Next, unlock and play gourmand's campaign by beating survivor or monk, or enabling unlock all slugcats in downpour remix
   
3. Then, finish gourmand's food bar that is located above your food pips.
   
4. Now, visit five pebbles and go to outer expanse's journeys end subregion. there should be a long room with some adult slugpups. go to your left until you reach the slugtree cave. this can also be done by cheats.
   
5. after that, play as hunter, survivor, or restart gourmand. i recomend you play as survivor.
   
6. and finally Sleep at a shelter. keep checking every shelter in the region every cycle until you find a slugpup. use wheres slugpup to be notified if a slugpup spawned if wanted.

There is an unlock slugpups spoiler in downpour remix. start at step 5 if you did the unlock from there.

when you have your slugpup adopt it by holding its hand to comfort it so it wont run away. if it still feels scared, hold grab while holding its hand to put it on your back, and drop them somewhere with food. grab some food and give it to them to show your friendly. if the slugpup still does not trust you, carry them to a shelter and sleep with them. the next cycle when picking them up or giving them food they should trust you.

if you have a lizard companion, the slugpup will panic, or even be eaten, so if you sleep with a lizard in a shelter, always hold the slugpup's hand so the lizard cannot eat. when you wake up, spam grab so you will pick up the slugpup so that the lizard cannot grab them.

Outskirts - due to lack of enemies and easily accessible shelters, it is the best place to look for a pup!

industrial - although not as good as outskirts, it is also very good, note that shelters are harder to get to.

garbage wastes - full of scavengers, its not the best, and slugpup death is likely if you have low reputation with scavengers, care must be taken when looking for children here.

Everyone gets nervous when they meet someone new. slugpups are always nervous. comfort them by picking them up. spend the next few cycles with them giving them items and feeding them foods and learning their interests. give them items they like and feed them favorite foods to raise your friendship.

if you get grabbed by a lizard on your first cycles with a slugpup, do not expect them to save you. give up, and calmly try again. it will be hard to get a successful cycle with your slugpup.

saving a slugpup from a lizard is a must do. slugpups don't want to die as much as you, even though they make stupid life threatening moves.


Food reactions
Closed eyes - after eating certain foods slugpups will shake slightly and close their eyes. this means they hate the food.
staring blankly - after eating certain foods slugpups might do nothing. this means they like it, but are not too fond of it.
Getting stunned - it usually means the flavor is too disgusting or too amazing. keep an eye out for an extra reaction to know if it was amazing or way too disgusting. if they dont have an extra reaction, it may mean the flavor was just too strong for their taste buds. if you get the same stun reaction without an extra reaction, then the food is bad for your pup, and yourself.
shaking body - this reaction occurs only when a pup eats drugs (mushrooms). avoid feeding them this. only adults should have this.
jumping a lot - this reaction means they loved the food. you should keep feeding them the food that caused this reaction. if the pup jumps unusually low, then you just fed them a bouncing watermelon from a certain mod from the workshop! yahoo!


never drop your slugpup on your first cycles together. your slugpup might not follow you or get lost, run away, or get eaten. you should only trust your slugpup to be able to walk on your late cycles together.

During your mid cycles together, its time to stop being annoyed by the little pup and have some time away from each other.

tell your slugpup to stay where they are by holding down and jumping in place. they should be waiting for you. this can be used for when you have to do some sort of life threatening thing, and want to keep your pup safe, or want some alone time.

jump rapidly in place to affectionately say a command that tells your slugpup to follow you and play together. this makes slugpups want to hold items more and stay closer to you. doing this command daily can help your pup stay closer and safer.

jumping while holding up tells your slugpup you hate them or don't want them to play with you. only do this if you don't want a pup to be constantly annoying you. this basically tells the slugpup you don't love them and wish they got eaten by a red lizard. never do this unless you hate your pup very much. (jokes aside, it just clears all active commands, and makes your pup act untamed)


remember to check your pup daily if leaving them alone. keep an eye on their food bar that is above your food bar. if it blinks red, then they are grabbed by a lizard, but are still alive. if it is pale and grey, then your pup is dead. you don't know what killed it if your away, so whats the point? kill yourself.

No, don't be a bad parent artificer leaving pups behind. we mean DO SOME REVENGE!

if something killed your slugpup, kill whatever killed your slugpup, and if you want your pup back, kill yourself.

ESPECIALLY scavengers. they don't kill for hunger. they are bloodthirsty.

During your late cycles with your slugpup, you can trust them with anything.

you can let your pup follow you around, but you will have to pick them up for complex obstacles.
your pup can rescue you from lizards if your not dead
you can use your pup to hold items for you


after bonding with your first pup, why not look for another? eh?

Hibernate and check every shelter in the region.... every cycle. maybe you will find another.

note that without the use of mods you can only have 2 pups.


Nervous

Nervous slugpups appear to be anxious around other pups, and may stay away from them. if you pup is nervous, THROW THEM IN THE GRINDER! just kidding, theres nothing you can do about it.


Dominant

these pups stay closer to other pups. thats all. i bet they constantly bother Nervous slugpups.

Its not over yet! mess around with your pups and be a bad parent!

Attempt to throw your pups into the jaws of a predator!
feed your pup mushrooms!
STAB YOUR PUP TO DEATH
leave them behind without leaving anything to help them for survival!


there's more ways to be bad to pups than to be good to pups...

Note that its kind of impossible to tame slugpups in arena that are very picky on what slugcat adopts them.

i find this annoying.

i just wanted to point that out.

To get the mother, sleep with slugpups for around 5 cycles i think. its an easy achievement if you have a slugpup. lizard eggs on the lizard egg mod count too.

at some point, you need to ascend. or you cannot bring your pup somewhere no matter how hard you try.

you will have to leave your pups behind. leave anything you have with them at a nearby shelter. this could help them while you leave to do what you wish.

none yet.





this is where i put in stuff that does not fit in any of the sections

i heard pups barely spawn as survivor or gourmand or hunter, but they only spawn when hunter has only 2 cycles left.





comment if that has happened to you. i never really get that.

i would be very grateful if you told me any missing data or suggestions!

if you would like to share what slugpups you had, feel free!




i have had a bunch!

Cocoa the brown slugpup (yes they can be brown)
Choco (new name for Cocoa)
Chocolate-Full (another new name for Cocoa)
magenta tundra pup (i named them technomaster bc they looked like em)
lil seeker the light yellow hunter pup (not very cute. looks like a little demon.)
pastel colored rivboy (currently dead.)
a mint colored pup i thought was a lizard (i call them lizard)
a darkish green pup that looked fat (i called them Chonky)
Snoozers (he sleeps)
Speeders (he runs)
The Endless Hole (name is an inside joke, basically a lil survivor who wants chaos)
Artificer pup????? (i did not really "encounter" them, lets just say i created them)
Sluppy (chaotic killer child)
Pepper (awesome dark green child)
A yellow lizard named gorbo- wait thats not a pup!

i look forward to seeing your pup encounters, too!