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Another gorgeous wolf, who seems to be in our Desert biome.  Our biomes feature diverse, interesting locations.  Can anyone guess where this is?

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How Lead Wolves Work

In Wolvden, you will play the role of a lead wolf, which will be the one wolf in charge of the pack - the “head” if you will. This wolf will be the wolf you use to explore with, and is meant to be your character. It is the wolf you’ll see on the sidebar, the wolf you’ll participate in events with, and the wolf you battle with.

This wolf does not have to be male. You are perfectly able to have your lead wolf be a female if you prefer!

So how does breeding work? In the beginning of development we tossed around a lot of ideas for how best to balance realism with enjoyable gameplay. The first idea was to have a mated pair - so a male and female that could only breed together and everyone else in the pack were almost ‘pack helpers’. The problems with this were fairly high - it meant that studding was no longer an option, and forced players into a playstyle where they had to have a male and female always. The next idea involved the possibility that breeding pairs were still a thing - but they could be changed out fairly often. This provided a few more problems - studding would be tricky, breeding would be severely limited by how often you could switch out your pair, it would mean constantly pairing and unpairing wolves, and female leads would be at a significant disadvantage compared to male leads as they would not be able to produce the same number of puppies a lead male could, assuming he had a lot of females in his pack.

In the end, we decided on this:

There is a single breeding male within every pack that chooses to have one. To breed within your pack, you must first designate a breeding male to be the ‘stud’ if you will, which is locked in as its own role, and carries its own retirement process. The breeding male can be bred to any female in the pack, and can also stud out to other players’ wolves if you choose to do so. The lead wolf - even if male - does not necessarily have to be the breeding male. The game does not force you to have a breeding male at any time - only if you wish to breed within your pack. So in theory, it would be perfectly possible to have an entire pack of females and to still produce pups by using outside studs. The flexibility this offers means numerous options for roleplay and doesn’t force a player down one particular route with what they want to do with their pack.

Can the lead male be the breeding male as well? Yes, this is perfectly possible.

What sort of retirement process does a breeding male have? Breeding males are locked into their role until they die once it has been set. You will not be able to chase off or kill a breeding male. If you wish to retire your breeding male early, there is a ‘castrate’ option which means he will be released into the pack as a normal member, but will be unable to be the breeding male again… Obviously. ;)

What about retirement for lead wolves? The same applies to lead wolves - they are locked into the role until they die. This, again, can be bypassed by retiring them early if you choose, but the wolf will die and be sent to your dynasty.

What happens when you retire a lead wolf? Your leader will be sent to the dynasty and die (or will already be there, if it died of old age). You will then be taken to a ‘Choose Heir’ page which will show you all possible wolves that could take on the leader role. You can choose one of these (including the breeding male, if applicable) to take over the helm or choose to reroll, which will give you the same limited customisation options to generate a new wolf entirely.

What happens when your breeding male retires, or you castrate him? Nothing. The game doesn’t force you to pick another breeding male, and you are able to play the whole game without ever choosing one again. You just won’t be able to breed within your pack and will have to use outside studs if you want to produce more pups.

But I really wanted to have two leaders? This can easily be simulated. On the pack page, the lead wolf is featured at the top of the page. There is also an option to pick a ‘featured wolf’ to appear alongside them. The title of the “featured wolf” and “pack leader” can be adjusted to different options - you could call them the ‘Queen’, ‘King’, ‘Mate’, or whatever you choose to be a better fit for the roleplay of your pack. By default, it will just be called a ‘Featured Wolf’ and ‘Pack Leader’. Users who do not wish to make much use of the RP elements of this feature could even use it to feature a particular wolf they have for sale. *Please note, the image displayed is of an early mockup for demonstration purposes.*

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hey if you don’t support nonbinary people then please don’t follow me. thanks.

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apologies for not being active on here! I got rather burnt out on lioden and am really just waiting in the wings for wolvden. I’m undecided if I’ll post wolvden shenanigans on here when the time comes or make a separate blog, but I know there’s still time to think about it.

Thanks for sticking around everyone! c:

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I see that silver foot there, staff.

Unreleased primal variation I suppose.

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big shoutout to march for reminding me that I’m very bad at side scrolling games

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Think I have my next King fully planned out or my main account!

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Loving the Valentines event, where I bodyslam lions away from my girls.

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a very nice first batch of breeding with my new king! hopefully there’s a patches cub in there 👀

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M’lion

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I just had a great idea

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holding a small end of january raffle! ends february 5th, tickets are 25sb

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Bad LD idea: If you lose the fight to the cannibal lion encounter your king actually dies & gets eaten and you have to reroll