Ride A Pet Beginner Guide
Quick answer: find eggs around the map, hatch them in your pen, keep the pets, and use faster pets to reach rarer eggs before other players.
First session path
- Spawn and look around — eggs are scattered across the map; start with whatever egg is near your ranch.
- Collect and hatch — put eggs in your pen to hatch. Every egg also has a documented hatch chance for its rare pets (see pets).
- Keep your best pet — faster pets earn more money per second and reach rare eggs first; do not sell your only good pet.
- Find the Gears Shop — it sits at the centre of the ranch area, where you can buy radars.
- Save for a small radar — the Advanced Radar ($50, tracks Rare Eggs) is cheap and teaches you how egg tracking works.
What upgrades matter first
The verified progression facts are: radars point to eggs of one rarity for 5 minutes (single use), and rebirths give +1x money and an extra pet slot each. For a new player:
- Money upgrades in your ranch scale your pet income, which compounds before and after each rebirth.
- Luck (bought from the board inside your ranch) is reset on rebirth — spend it before you reset.
- Do not buy expensive radars early: save for the ones that match the egg rarity you can actually reach.
Common mistakes
- Selling your rare pet by accident — rebirth pets (Horse, Fox, Unicorn, Phoenix, Kitsune, Dragon) are required later; check the rebirth list before selling.
- Hoarding cash while ignoring mutations — weather events are the biggest speed and value jump in the game; during an event, put high-rarity eggs in your pen and ride the pet you want mutated.
- Chasing the Blackhole Egg before you are fast enough — it spawns in set locations (see egg locations) but a ground pet will struggle to reach them in time; use your fastest flying pet (the Phoenix is ideal).
What to do next
Once you understand the loop, pick a bottleneck: not fast enough → get faster; not enough cash → money guide; cannot find better eggs → eggs and radars; ready to reset → rebirth.
FAQ
Common questions about this topic.
What is the first thing I should do in Ride A Pet?
Find an egg near your ranch, hatch it, and keep the fastest pet you get. Then buy the cheap Advanced Radar at the Gears Shop to learn egg tracking.
How do I get eggs?
Eggs spawn across the map at set rarity groups. You can find them by exploring and, more reliably, by activating a radar of the matching rarity — it points to the best egg of that rarity for 5 minutes.
What happens when I rebirth?
You lose all cash and luck, and you gain +1x money multiplier and +1 pet slot per rebirth (plus ranch skins). There are 7 rebirths.
Can I get a mutated pet as a beginner?
Yes — during weather events, eggs on the map and pets in your pen (or the one you are riding) can catch a mutation. It is the fastest way to make an early pet earn more.
Should I sell my pets?
Be careful: specific pets are needed for rebirths (Horse, Fox, Unicorn, Phoenix, Kitsune, Dragon). Keep at least one of each so you do not have to re-hatch them.