Befriending

This article contains spoilers for Paleo Pines.*Continue reading at your own risk and watch out for falling archaeopteryx!*
In Paleo Pines, dinos are not pets or servants, they are friends. They can not be tamed because they are not domesticatable. They can only be befriended, and as friends, they can come and go as they please.

So long as the player takes time to love and care for their dino friends, providing for their wants and needs, these dinos will stay. Should the player neglect their dino friends, like mistreated friends, they will leave.

## Befriending Mechanics

**Befriending** is the process of gaining the trust of a dino by communicating with it, soothing it, feeding it, and eventually giving it a Poppin.

**Step 1.** In order to befriend a dino met in the wild, the player must first get their attention with the Flute. This is done by equipping the flute from the inventory, facing the dino you wish to befriend, and using:

**Step 2.** The dino will emote with a question mark (?) if getting their attention was successful, and the player will enter the '**Friend Song**' mode.

**Step 3.** In the Friend Song mode, the dino will begin singing notes. The player must repeat the notes the dino plays in order. If the note was played correctly, the dino will step closer to the player.

Notes come in twelve types: Four colored notes, and three lengths. Tapping the appropriate colour will give a short note and let a small bubble out of the flute. Holding the appropriate color down longer will give longer notes.

**Step 4.** After the friend song is correctly played for the dino, a meter will appear on the bottom right of the screen, indicating the trust level of the dino. By feeding or soothing a dino, you can move the needle of the meter until it reaches the dark green section. At that point, the player must give the dino a Poppin of their preferred flavour in order to fully gain their trust and make them a friend.

The player will be prompted to pet their new friend, sealing the deal. The dino will now follow the player around the wild until told to stop with the flut. If the player loses them, they will appear on the ranch when the player arrives there.

## Poppin Quest Line (Spoilers)

Before the player can befriend a dino the first time, they will need to speak to Mari on the second playable day of the game, after getting the flute. The flute is unusable before this point other than to give Lucky commands. Mari will teach you how to tame a Gallimimus and give you Crunchy Poppins which are required to do so.

### Juicy Poppin

If you attempt to befriend a Styracosaurus with a Crunchy Poppin, it will fail and you will be prompted to speak with Pippin about different poppin flavours. The player will then have to speak with Pippin in Pebble Plaza, and ask them to make a Juicy Poppin. This, however, does not unlock all flavours of poppin.

### That Onion-y Something

The following day, if the player speaks to Pippin again, they will request 10 Spring Onions as a quest. The day after the onions are delivered, the player will be able to request a new poppin flavour each day.

### Requesting Other Flavours

Every time the player requests a new poppin flavour, Pippin will give three poppins of the requested flavour and the poppin will be available for purchase thereafter.

## Tips and Tricks

If the player is having difficulty befriending a dino, feeding the dino a food that is not their favorite flavour will make the trust meter needle go haywire before landing on a random place. This can sometimes cause the needle to land directly on the dark green section, or close enough to it to soothe or feed the dino to the dark green section.