Animal Care
Early Access welcomes 25+ animal species to your lodge in Pebble Town. Learn their habits, meet three daily needs, and keep every guest safe and content during their stay.
What Is Animal Care?
Pawsome Resort is built around a simple promise: animals from around the world stop at your lodge for a few days, and you make sure they leave happy. You are not exploring dungeons or grinding combat—you are running a cozy animal hotel where every species has different habits and space needs.
Early Access ships with 25+ species (the free demo has 20+). Guests arrive steadily: you register them, build or assign outdoor habitats, stock food and water, sweep mess, and calm moods when happiness drops. Miss a need and income suffers—content guests finish their stay and keep money flowing.
This page is the animal-focused guide. For lodge layout and income, see the Hotel page. For crops and kitchen supplies, see Farming. For pens and furniture, see Build.
From Official Sources
The passages below are quoted from developer and store pages. Wording may change before version 1.0—use them as a baseline for what animal care is meant to feel like.
"Feed, love, and care for a wide range of animals, from fluffy cats to exotic wild ones. Keep them happy and healthy during their stay at your animal hotel!"
"Manage your own animal hotel and take care of over 25 different animal species. Build and decorate both indoor office space and outdoor animal habitats. Handle daily needs like hunger, cleanliness, and happiness for each guest."
"Design rooms and custom habitats for a wide variety of animals, from cats to crocodiles. Grow your own crops, care for your adorable guests, and build friendships with the townspeople."
Guest Types
See featured guests arrow_forwardNot every animal plays the same. Steam trailers and store pages show lazy cats and grunting pigs alongside crocodiles, tigers, horses, pandas, and gorillas. Grouping guests by temperament and space needs helps you plan habitats before check-in—not after a messy surprise.
Familiar Guests
Lazy cats, grunting pigs, and other everyday companions. They are often your first check-ins and teach you the care loop.
Great for learningWild & Exotic
Crocodiles, tigers, and other striking visitors from trailers and store art. Plan habitats and cleaning time before they arrive.
Plan aheadLarge Guests
Horses, pandas, gorillas, and other animals that need roomy outdoor pens. Build space early to avoid rushed layouts.
Needs spaceThree Daily Needs
Steam's Early Access description names three needs every guest shares: hunger, cleanliness, and happiness. Think of them as a daily checklist—when all three stay healthy, your hotel runs smoothly and guest stays pay out.
Meals & Water
Prepare tasty food and fresh water for each guest. Grow crops, try kitchen recipes, and restock before a busy day.
Clean Habitats
Tidy outdoor pens and indoor spaces. Mess builds up during stays—regular cleaning keeps the cleanliness need in check.
Calm Moods
Watch happiness and soothe guests when spirits drop. Content animals stay through their visit and keep your income steady.
Feed before moods dip. Farm crops and kitchen recipes help you stay ahead.
Sweep habitats during your daily rounds—messy pens drag down this need fast.
Comfort guests when you see their mood fall—check them before leaving for quests.
Meals tie into farming. You are not buying abstract "pet food" from a magic shop—you grow crops, craft in the kitchen, and carry supplies to habitats. Stock up before afternoon story quests pull you across Pebble Town.
Cleaning is part of the fantasy. Check-in, habitat setup, food and water prep, and sweeping mess are all normal—filth is expected, not a failure state. Build cleaning into your route instead of treating it as an emergency.
Happiness is your income guardrail. Soothing a dropping mood is cheaper than losing a half-finished stay. Check guests before you ride the scooter to the vet, the field, or a witch-related quest.
A Typical Guest Stay
The stay loop is straightforward: owners drop off animals for a short visit, you host them, they leave when happy. Here is how that usually plays out in the demo and Early Access.
Arrival and registration
A new guest books in. You confirm the species, note any special space needs, and make sure a pen or habitat is ready. Accepting animals before you have room is how busy days turn into chaos.
Habitat and supplies
Outdoor habitats are the star—official pages emphasize custom pens for each kind of animal. Place food and water access nearby, keep paths clear for your scooter, and separate loud or messy species from calm ones when you can.
Daily care rounds
Each in-game day, walk your guests in order: feed the hungry, sweep dirty pens, comfort anyone whose mood is falling. Early Access has you doing this yourself—there is no staff hire system yet, so batch errands and do not overbook.
Checkout and payout
A satisfied guest completes their stay and pays you. That income funds the next habitat, furniture, seeds, or quest supplies. Reinvest in care tools before chasing decorations—pretty resorts still need functioning kitchens and clean pens.
Featured Guests
These animals show up in Steam trailers and on the Pixel Puffs homepage. Labels here are descriptive handles—they help you plan care even if in-game names differ slightly.
"From lazy cats and grunting pigs to cool crocodiles, all kinds of wonderful animals will rest at your lodge. Build dedicated habitats, prepare delicious food, and soothe their emotions so they feel safe and happy during their stay."
Lazy Cat
Often an early guest. A gentle way to learn the daily care rhythm.
Cats often show up while you are still learning the loop—they still need all three daily needs every day, so treat them as practice, not a free pass.
Gentle Panda
Calm but needs a quiet, roomy habitat away from noisy pens.
Demo coverage lists gentle pandas among signature species—give them space and peace; they are a stress test for habitat zoning, not raw difficulty.
Cool Crocodile
Exotic flair for your resort—expect messier habitats and extra cleaning time.
Steam's "cats to crocodiles" pitch is literal—exotic guests sell the fantasy but punish rushed builds. Plan cleaning time the day they arrive.
Majestic Horse
Needs a large outdoor pen—build space before check-in, not after.
Trailers showcase horses alongside gorillas as large-habitat guests—if your map feels cramped, expand pens before booking the next exotic visitor.
Species roster at launch
Early Access launches with 25+ species, each with distinct habits per Steam. The developers plan frequent updates during roughly one year of Early Access—more animals, systems, and story content are on the roadmap. The free demo is a smaller slice (20+ species) but uses the same care rules.
Do not expect a complete illustrated bestiary here yet. As the community confirms in-game names and quirks, this page will grow. For now, treat species as roles—familiar, exotic, large—and prepare habitats accordingly.
When the Resort Gets Busy
The same tipping point hits most hosts: one or two guests feel relaxing, but feeding, cleaning, farming, and story quests stack fast once the roster grows. That is intentional cozy-busy design—not a broken difficulty curve.
The map is large enough that running back and forth hurts. Use your scooter between office, habitats, fields, and town, and cluster prep stations near where animals eat. If moods are dropping, pause side quests—guest income is the engine that funds everything else.
There is no villager staff system in current builds; you handle care personally. Pace new arrivals until the three daily needs feel automatic. Future updates may add systems, but Early Access rewards players who build routines early.
Care Routine Tips
Small habits that save time every in-game day once guests start arriving.
Scan hunger, cleanliness, and happiness before quests or farming runs.
Build or upgrade outdoor pens for a new species before you accept the stay.
Grow crops and craft kitchen items so feeding does not interrupt your day. See the Farming guide for supply tips.
When feeding, cleaning, and comfort feel automatic for current guests—not before.
Quick Answers
How many animals are in the game?
Early Access launches with 25+ species; more animals are planned through frequent updates.
How is this different from the Hotel page?
The Hotel page covers lodge layout, income, and growth. This page focuses on species types and daily care habits.
Where do I get food for guests?
Grow crops on your farm and craft meals in the kitchen. The free demo has 20+ species; Early Access adds more with frequent updates.
Need habitat help?
See Build for furniture placement and habitat setup.